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Madeleine Begun Kane, Humor Columnist,
Notables Webl0g , Political Commentary,
Humor, Song Parodies, January 1-March
31, 2005

Madeleine Begun Kane, Humor Columnist,
Notables Webl0g , Political Commentary,
Humor, Song Parodies, January 1-March
31, 2005 03/31/2005 06:59 AM
enjoy this song parody .. Madeleine Begun Kane .. ode to delay

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Political Humor Boomerangs

Political Humor Boomerangs 04/10/2004 06:01 PM

Via Wonkette, here's a slightly unfair but powerful re joinder to President Bush's jokes about weapons of mass destruction. Media is in the hands of everyone, and people are going to use it to hold powerful people -- including media people, such as the Washington correspondents who found Bush's performance so hilarious -- to account.

MSNBC - Political Humor

MSNBC - Political Humor 09/25/2004 09:10 AM

2003 Political Dot-Comedy Awards - Best
Humor of 2003

2003 Political Dot-Comedy Awards - Best
Humor of 2003 12/26/2003 05:24 AM
Nominate the Internet Weekly for the 2003 Political Dot-Comedy Awards! .. in one or both categories here

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Madeleine Begun Kane, Humor Columnist,
Notables Webl0g , Political Commentary
with Sardonic Twist, October through
December 2004, including Sore Loser
Limerick

Madeleine Begun Kane, Humor Columnist,
Notables Webl0g , Political Commentary
with Sardonic Twist, October through
December 2004, including Sore Loser
Limerick 12/19/2004 03:52 PM
speaking of awards and voting .. Mad Kane

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Home network complexity challenges
customer satisfactionStudy finds that
installation complexity – quantified by
“help desk” calls – reduces both
satisfaction with and brand loyalty to
home networking products and services

Home network complexity challenges
customer satisfactionStudy finds that
installation complexity – quantified by
“help desk” calls – reduces both
satisfaction with and brand loyalty to
home networking products and services 09/04/2004 02:40 AM
Customer satisfaction and brand loyalty regarding home networking equipment are related directly to product ease of installation and operation, according to Parks Associates’ Primary Perspectives: Complexity and Customer Satisfaction in the Networked Home.The study finds that satisfaction declines precipitously – as much as 25% – if a customer is required to make two or more service calls to install and operate home network equipment. Progress has been made in simplifying these products through standard device drivers and graphics-based installation wizards, but in order to secure long-term success in this market, developers and providers should continue devising new ways to reduce the complexity of home networking solutions. [PRWEB Sep 4, 2004]

Madeleine Begun Kane, Humor Columnist,
Humor Columns About Cars, Politics,
Privacy, Work, Marriage, Technology,
Money, Law, Music, Computers & Dubya's
Dayly Diary

Madeleine Begun Kane, Humor Columnist,
Humor Columns About Cars, Politics,
Privacy, Work, Marriage, Technology,
Money, Law, Music, Computers & Dubya's
Dayly Diary 12/26/2003 04:15 PM
"Carnival of the Vanities." - www.madkane.com .. MadKane.com political humor as a whole .. Mad Kane’s Notables Weblog .. Madeleine Begun Kane .. entries .. Madkane

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CSS-D Finds New Home at evolt.org

CSS-D Finds New Home at evolt.org 12/16/2002 04:03 AM
The incredibly popular, active, and valuable mailing list devoted to Cascading Style Sheets, CSS-Discuss (css-d), has moved its hosting to evolt.org. After some brief list overlap, and a lot of server tweaking, the list opened its doors to its new home Monday, December 9.

Man Finds Human Leg in Funeral Home Bag
(AP)

Man Finds Human Leg in Funeral Home Bag
(AP) 02/01/2005 09:23 PM
AP - A man expecting to find his recently deceased father's belongings opened a plastic bag sent to him by a funeral home and discovered an amputated human leg.

Pet Owner Finds Cat 50 Miles From Home
(AP)

Pet Owner Finds Cat 50 Miles From Home
(AP) 01/23/2004 02:22 PM
AP - A Charlo woman did a double-take when she saw the Missoulian newspaper.

Report on Sept. 11 finds home on Net

Report on Sept. 11 finds home on Net 07/22/2004 02:41 PM
Net surfers looking to read the document in its entirety have no further to go than the Internet to find sites posting all 585 pages.

FBI Finds Explosives in Nichols' Old
Home (AP)

FBI Finds Explosives in Nichols' Old
Home (AP) 04/01/2005 05:10 PM
AP - FBI agents searching the former home of convicted Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols found explosive materials, including blasting caps, that appear to date before the deadly 1995 attack, agency officials said Friday.

Sept. 11 report finds a home online

Sept. 11 report finds a home online 07/22/2004 04:22 PM
ZDNet Jul 22 2004 8:20PM GMT

Navman finds high-tech home

Navman finds high-tech home 03/22/2005 07:09 PM
stuff.co.nz Mar 22 2005 10:52PM GMT

Silicon Insider: Fanaticism Finds a Home
on the Web

Silicon Insider: Fanaticism Finds a Home
on the Web 08/12/2004 08:07 AM
ABCNEWS.com Aug 12 2004 12:40PM GMT

Martha Stewart Living finds new home

Martha Stewart Living finds new home 06/16/2004 02:46 PM

Customer Service Finds a Home on the
Internet

Customer Service Finds a Home on the
Internet 06/29/2004 02:19 AM
ProvideSupport.com has announced the release of its online customer service package, giving online businesses and website owners the ability to provide live customer support to online visitors. [PRWEB Jun 29, 2004]

Death of the search engine? - Arelis
finds a new home

Death of the search engine? - Arelis
finds a new home 01/04/2005 04:14 AM
It was only a matter of time before an effective tactic was developed to gain widespread competitive advantage from the increasing reliance placed upon links and link text by the major search engines. [PRWEB Jan 4, 2005]

A Las Vegas Juvenile Judge Finds His
Test Case at Home

A Las Vegas Juvenile Judge Finds His
Test Case at Home 05/31/2004 11:42 PM
Judge Gerald W. Hardcastle blames himself for his daughter's problems, but he also blames the influence of Las Vegas.

Data Center Markup Language finds home
in OASIS

Data Center Markup Language finds home
in OASIS 08/30/2004 05:17 PM
A proposed standard to enable integration, automation and better management of data center components this week will begin development under the direction of a new standards body - the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.

PHP Humor ... No that's *Not* a Joke
Itself

PHP Humor ... No that's *Not* a Joke
Itself 03/21/2003 09:12 AM

PHP Humor ...  No that's *Not* a Joke Itself

PHP-Con is doing humorous interviews with some of the speakers to promote the event.  Here's the one with John Coggeshall:

When was your first PHP?

John Coggeshall: Sitting in a darkened smoke filled room... I was almost out of money but a friend of mine told me she [PHP] was good for a trick or two and didn't charge much.

His comments on Perl, Java, and Visual Basic are really good.  You can read more of this over at the PHP- Con site.

Programming Humor

Programming Humor 06/05/2004 05:52 AM

Code Humor Challenge: Some pretty funny examples of developers trying to be funny. People are submitting hundreds of comments of funny code they wrote and tried to get (or succeeded in getting) into production.

One of my previous employers had, for historical reasons, the requirement that all class names be prefixed with "Mc" (McUser, McCheckbox, etc.). I created the class McNugget, complete with methods like McNugget.dip(McNugget.BBQ_SAUCE).

This one's pretty good too:

Disco = Uncool

Do Until Disco = Cool

if Year gt 1970 And Year lt 1978 then

GetDownAndDance
Disco = Cool

Else

MockDiscoDancers

End if

Loop

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My warped humor........

My warped humor........ 03/13/2003 10:24 AM
I seriously can not stand arrogant flashy people. They live excessively for no reason but to show off and say...

slinging some humor your way

slinging some humor your way 11/17/2003 05:27 PM
A DJ friend of mine made me a mix this weekend that he's been working on. I was listening to...

Humor alert

Humor alert 01/07/2004 06:50 PM
The other day, I wrote a post saying weblogs are ruining Google. I hate to do this, I hate to explain a joke, but it seems there's been too much confusion. No, weblogs are not ruining Google. I was kidding because, see, this is what people do: they search for something on Google, a weblog is one of top responses, and then they piss and moan about weblogs ruining Google, etc. Do I need to resort to writing "J/K" next to all silly posts?

The other funny thing -- at least to me -- is that both times I used the expression "text wrap" in my query, rather than the more common "word wrap." So it extra made sense that Google would return my post to me. And funnier still was the fact that I'd forgotten I'd already looked for a text wrap plugin for Eclipse months ago. So you see the levels of humor here? Did you ever suspect megnut posts had so much depth to them?

A sense of humor?

A sense of humor? 04/25/2004 09:39 AM

The NY Times reviews Eats, Shoots & Leaves, a book about punctuation that's recently come across the Atlantic after receiving rave reviews in the UK. In what's surely a sly joke to the Sunday Book Review reader, the Times entitled the article, ' Eats, Shoots & Leaves': Punctuation and It's Discontents. At least I hope it's a joke.

Time for Some Humor

Time for Some Humor 03/14/2005 05:09 PM

Of all the places to have this information, Microsoft was the last on my list. Even then, even that they have it, the funniest part is how seriously they take it.

A parent's primer to computer slang
Strange New Gaming Worlds Online
MSN:Teens' online lingo leaves parents baffled

Chatological Humor

Chatological Humor 10/29/2003 12:11 AM
Amusing irrelevancy: if you ask Google's Translation Tool to translate "gruppenfuhrer" into English, it notes the comparative ending and lower case initial ...

More Couch Humor

More Couch Humor 02/08/2003 08:33 PM
I stumbed across two more funny pieces at The Avocado Couch. The first one, A note to the obnoxiously self-absorbed is one of the best rants I've read in a long, long time. It goes all out. The second one,...

Hungarian humor

Hungarian humor 09/14/2004 03:12 PM
Pestiside is a blog by an American living in Hungary. Talk about snarky. And talk about funny. I believe, in fact, that this is what's known as a wickedly funny site. (Thanks, Ethan, for the link.)...

Geek humor at its best

Geek humor at its best 07/14/2004 12:04 AM
The House With Too Many Perpundiculars

"his sense of humor"

"his sense of humor" 12/15/2003 10:29 PM

Neurology of humor

Neurology of humor 06/21/2004 12:35 PM
Cognitive neuroscientists at Dartmouth College have shown that the part of your brain that "gets" a joke is not the same as the region that deems it funny or not. To test their hypothesis, the researchers conducted functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) on subjects while they watched Seinfeld and The Simpsons. From a Scientific American report on the study:

"The investigators found that instances of humor detection lit up the left inferior frontal and posterior temporal cortices--the left side of the brain. Humor appreciation, in contrast, led to spikes in activity in the emotional areas deeper inside--specifically, in the bilateral regions of the insular cortex and the amygdala... Past research has shown the left inferior frontal cortex to be involved in reconciling ambiguous meanings with prior knowledge. And ambiguity, incongruity and surprise are key elements in many jokes."

Still, the results are preliminary. When SciAm asked an outside psychologist for his expert opinion on the research, he commented: "If some people don't find The Simpsons funny, it's premature to say that they have a defective frontal lobe." Of course, he's wrong. Link

Code Humor Challenge

Code Humor Challenge 06/01/2004 02:14 PM
The goal is to get a humorous piece of code into a production environment. Any kind of humor is acceptable...anything that might make a future developer smile. The code must actually be used by the application.

If Ahnuld has a sense of humor...

If Ahnuld has a sense of humor... 10/29/2003 12:12 AM
...as one of his first acts as governor he'll create a state telecommunications agency called "SkyNet."...

I Find Solace in Humor. You?

I Find Solace in Humor. You? 09/22/2004 08:32 AM
The Glorious Revolution: A Look Back, by Jeff Greenfield (CNN), is one of 16 What if Bush Wins? essays in the September edition of The Washington Monthly.

"Humor: Dan Rahter 'Don't You Know Who I
Am?""

"Humor: Dan Rahter 'Don't You Know Who I
Am?"" 09/13/2004 09:47 PM

AmEx vs. rec.humor.funny

AmEx vs. rec.humor.funny 04/14/2004 09:19 AM

10ccs of Humor Stat

10ccs of Humor Stat 01/23/2003 10:59 AM
A Big SplashUnfortunately, I don't think this whole splash screen manager idea will work for Safari. You see, oddly enough, we made it a
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Military-Travel.net Provides Low Hotel
Rates, Rebates For Military Personnel,
Families

Military-Travel.net Provides Low Hotel
Rates, Rebates For Military Personnel,
Families 05/31/2004 07:05 PM
Said Charles Kessler, president, "There are no restrictions on the number of times an individual can reserve rooms through the Military-Travel.net site, and the hotel accommodations can be used whether traveling on official military business, leave, vacations or other personal matters." Reservations can be made for short and long stays at the guaranteed lowest rates possible and with the additional 5% rebate in effect.

What are Those Military Contractors
Doing in Iraq? How Can Torturing and
Implementation of Our Military Policy be
Outsourced? 5/10

What are Those Military Contractors
Doing in Iraq? How Can Torturing and
Implementation of Our Military Policy be
Outsourced? 5/10 05/10/2004 03:03 AM
John Israel .. commentary

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Iraqi 'Secret Surrender' Negotiations
Have Begun With Key Iraqi Military
Officials In Hopes Some Military Units
Will Not Fight Under Way (Ehr --
Secret?)

Iraqi 'Secret Surrender' Negotiations
Have Begun With Key Iraqi Military
Officials In Hopes Some Military Units
Will Not Fight Under Way (Ehr --
Secret?) 03/13/2003 10:21 AM

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The military gets it

The military gets it 05/10/2004 04:09 PM
For a look at how the professional military views the Abu Ghraib outrages, see the The Army Times, the unofficial voice of the Army, which today called for the relief of Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and chairman of the Joint Chiefs Meyers: There is no excuse for the behavior displayed by soldiers in the now-infamous pictures and an even more damning report by Army Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba. Every soldier involved should be ashamed. But while responsibility begins with the six soldiers facing criminal charges, it extends all the way up the chain of command to the highest reaches of the military hierarchy and its civilian leadership. The entire affair is a failure of leadership from start to finish. From the moment they are captured, prisoners are hooded, shackled and isolated. The message to the troops: Anything goes... Army commanders in Iraq bear responsibility for running a prison where there was no legal adviser to the commander, and no ultimate responsibility taken for the care and treatment of the prisoners. Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, also shares in the shame. Myers asked “60 Minutes II” to hold off reporting news of the scandal because it could put U.S. troops at risk. But when the report was aired, a week later, Myers still hadn’t read Taguba’s report, which had been completed in March. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld also failed to read the report until after the scandal broke in the media. ... This was not just a failure of leadership at the local command level. This was a failure that ran straight to the top. Accountability here is essential — even if that means relieving top leaders from duty in a time of war. The Army gets it, but Bush still doesn't. The fish rots from the head....

Military.com

Military.com 04/24/2004 10:20 AM
Liquid Body Armor

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"military records"

"military records" 04/25/2004 03:19 PM

Military Offensive

Military Offensive 05/17/2004 12:04 PM
There ought to be a way to record the collective blood pressure of webloggers, tracking moments of calm reflection along with days when it spikes so high that emergency rooms should be put on high alert. (05-15)

Military Medicine

Military Medicine 06/16/2004 04:50 PM
The Textbooks of Military Medicine. An engrossing collection of pdf versions of textbooks used to train military medics. My favorite one is the one on War Psychiatry, which includes summaries of studies that have been done on veterans of WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, and another section on POWs and their phychiatric reactions (perhaps it might explain some things about Kerry or McCain?). Other topics include Medical Aspects of Harsh Environments (Vol. 1), Medi cal Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare, and Medical Consequences of Nuclear Warfare (<-- pdf file).

Partisan military, what do they know.

Partisan military, what do they know. 09/01/2004 05:05 PM
Air Force confirms Bush wore award he never earned. Following the earlier revelation that George W. Bush was photographed wearing military ribbons he never earned, arguments were made against the charge, in some cases based on the political leaning of the source. The Air Force Personnel Center and the Air Force Historical Research Center both state that Bush never recieved the award displayed in the photograph. The Un iform Code of Military Justice states that this is an act punishable by six months confinment and a discharge from the service. (via OW)

Military To Jam GPS Signals

Military To Jam GPS Signals 06/14/2004 03:33 AM
If you're out on a boat on the east coast this week, don't expect to rely on your GPS navigation system. It appears that the government isn't just interested in jamming mobile phones for military reasons - but are now testing systems to jam GPS signals along the east coast as well. They've been trying to get the message out, but it's likely that some people out on their boats may find themselves a bit less sure of where they are. Of course, it was partly because of this very threat of US jamming of GPS signals that Europe has been working on their own satellite location system, Galileo - which will be independent of military control. This also might mean that any jamming by the US of GPS won't much matter once Galileo is up and running.

New military hardware

New military hardware 01/09/2004 09:57 PM
Pink Tank

U.S. Military May Run Out Of Money

U.S. Military May Run Out Of Money 02/12/2004 09:57 AM
That big, big military spending increase? Courtesy of Our Fearless Leader, guess where none of it is going .. U.S. Military May Run Out Of Money .. after the presidential election .. Read article

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UK military bans iPods

UK military bans iPods 07/13/2004 12:01 PM
In the line of fire

IBM to Build Supercomputer for U.S.
Military

IBM to Build Supercomputer for U.S.
Military 07/27/2004 11:22 AM

A military draft in 2006?

A military draft in 2006? 04/01/2005 05:27 PM
One reason you may soon hear the words "Iraq" and "Vietnam" again being uttered in the same breath: the return of the draft.

A look at U.S. military deaths in Iraq

A look at U.S. military deaths in Iraq 06/10/2004 09:37 AM

US military will stay in Georgia

US military will stay in Georgia 01/18/2004 10:21 AM
US officials say their military presence in Georgia will now become permanent, in a move likely to annoy Russia.

draft military exodus

draft military exodus 05/30/2004 01:30 AM
According to this article: The military may see a "mass exodus that will reach the hemorrhage point by mid-2005." Just in time for the re turn of the draft. (links via Buzzflash)

Military Stressed Over Coke Can GPS

Military Stressed Over Coke Can GPS 07/02/2004 08:22 AM

Militar y frets over Coke's phones, GPS: The military is asking soldiers to "examine their Coke cans" before bringing them into meetings. Pepsi is about to take a huge leap in the military market.

There's a new security threat at some of the nation's military bases, and it looks uncannily like a can of Coke.

Specially rigged Coke cans, part of a promotion, contain cell phones and global positioning chips. That has officials at some installations worried that the cans could be used to eavesdrop, and they are instituting protective measures.

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I.B.M. to Build Supercomputer for U.S.
Military

I.B.M. to Build Supercomputer for U.S.
Military 07/28/2004 01:29 PM
I.B.M. has been selected to build a supercomputer for the U.S. Department of Defense that would be used by the military for war simulation, weather forecasting and other applications.

U.S. Military Uses Caution in Najaf (AP)

U.S. Military Uses Caution in Najaf (AP) 06/11/2004 05:03 AM
AP - U.S. troops held off intervening when Shiite gunmen loyal to a radical cleric ranksacked an Iraqi police station in the holy city of Najaf, saying the fighting was too close to Shiite shrines and the situation was unclear. Coalition forces came under fire in another Shiite city south of Baghdad.

Wounded military personnel need our
help!

Wounded military personnel need our
help! 12/25/2004 05:00 PM
The Civil Air Patrol

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Internet Addiction Gets Your Out Of The
Military?

Internet Addiction Gets Your Out Of The
Military? 08/03/2004 12:32 PM
Many stories about "internet addiction" have been based on some random psychologist who was mostly trying to drum up some new (and potentially lucrative) business. However, people continue to take it seriously. The latest, amazingly enough, is that the Finnish military is letting people get out of military service if they're addicted to the internet. Apparently "young men miss their computers too much to cope with their compulsory six months in the forces." However, the Commander-Captain of conscription doesn't seem to have much of a problem with young men staying home and playing games instead of serving their country: "For people who play (Internet) games all night and don't have any friends, don't have any hobbies, to come into the army is a very big shock." Of course, they're not completely out of it: "They get sent home for three years and after that they have to come back and we ask if they are OK ... they will have had time to grow up." I wonder if the cases of "internet addiction" will increase, now that kids know they can skip out on service and play games instead.

U.S. military tribunal to try 3 suspects

U.S. military tribunal to try 3 suspects 06/29/2004 03:36 PM

Bush and Military History

Bush and Military History 07/25/2004 01:56 PM

Atrios: A Bit Confused . Tell me again why the liberal media doesn't care that Bush lies about his military service? Tell me again why the military doesn't care that Bush lies about his military service?

Good questions.

U.S. Military to Take Over Halliburton
Oil Role

U.S. Military to Take Over Halliburton
Oil Role 12/31/2003 06:13 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 31 2003 3:31PM ET

UK military denies ban on iPods

UK military denies ban on iPods 07/13/2004 01:44 PM
The MOD has denied reports that it has banned Apple's iPod due to fears it could be used to steal files.

U.S. Looks at More Help for Iraq
Military -- NY Times

U.S. Looks at More Help for Iraq
Military -- NY Times 01/04/2005 01:59 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 4 2005 6:44AM GMT

Telemedicine on Rise in U.S. Military
(AP)

Telemedicine on Rise in U.S. Military
(AP) 05/09/2004 05:21 PM
AP - The use of telemedicine, in which doctors practice from afar using everything from telephone consultations to remote-controlled surgical tools, is rapidly expanding as the military upgrades medical care.

U.S. May Add Advisers to Aid Iraq's
Military

U.S. May Add Advisers to Aid Iraq's
Military 01/03/2005 11:55 PM
The top commander in Iraq is reviewing a proposal to add hundreds of U.S. military advisers to work directly with Iraqi units.

Political humor finds home on Web