From The Toronto Star, March 8, 2006:

Troops to get java fix, Timbits
Tim Hortons to open in Kandahar

HAMILTON--Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan are getting their wish -- Tim Hortons will be serving double-doubles and doughnuts soon enough.

Those of you who've been around for a while know that every so often (when the madness strikes), I slap up another index entry for this journal (alas, despite my recent posting pace that resembles a tortoise climbing a greased glass ramp, probably not as fast as I write the damned things, although I tend to index 'em 25 at a time). I'm currently working on Index Entry #3 (50-75), but it's going to take me a while, since some of the posts in the queue involve lots of keywords, lots of links, and

In light of the recent disturbing developments in South Dakota and Missouri, I'd like to update my previous entry where I shamelessly grabbed Katha Pollitt's article on emergency contr

Just what I always wanted!

(Hat tip to Perfessor Multigeek, but I did come up with the "pure...satisfaction" part.)

To quote Rustin, "I don't need to explain this. All I need to say is, 'It's desktop fusion,' and we're done." It's real, and at RPI and UCLA, no less. The RPI press release even has a picture, which you all should see.

For those of you who didn't notice, Perfessor Multigeek has a new JE up for the first time since the fire.

Hey there, I've just posted more party pictures on LJ, so you can see more of Tomble, if you want to. We just e-mailed SolemnDragon, as well, so it's been a regular Slashdotfest around here Chez Geek.

I was just informed that I shouldn't write what I was going to write originally, because it was "too cheesy," so I'm going to write something else. The problem is, I barely know how to say what I want to say.

Of course, secrets are no fun unless people know there's something you aren't telling them.

Great news! Rustin is back online. He hasn't returned to /. yet because, as he says, once he does, he'll be "dooooomed!", but he has once again graced cyberspace with his scintillating presence.

Click here, and then submit your best caption in comments. Prize(s) to be determined later!

Holy crap! They accepted my submission for the Ask Slashdot story in which I intend to pick the entire Slashdot community's brains for marketing programme related activities.

Well, that's never happened before! I haven't been so pleased to be wrong in quite a while!

I've decided I want to buy my business some Google AdWords, as they're an easily-controllable expenditure that might actually pay off. At the very least, they might get me some more site traffic. Anyhow, in case my article submission gets rejected (they always do), I'm throwing the question out to the Fan Club:

Focus on the Family says: Don't be homosexual, fondle our balls!

Focus on the Family has announced their plan to distribute 5000 "stress balls" during Thursday's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, each decorated with the URL of their website, a website devoted to "cures" for being gay. These balls are to be thrown into the crowd by FOTF flunkies.

2 large cloves of garlic, minced fine
1 2.5x2.5 cm piece of ginger, minced fine
Handful of fresh Thai basil leaves, shredded
1 small red hot pepper (Thai "demon pepper" type), chopped, with as few or as many of the seeds removed as you like OR 1 small spoonful chili-garlic sauce (sambal oelek, not Sriracha)
fresh ground black pepper, to taste
1 stalk lemongrass, chopped fine

I'm rereading Robert Silverberg's peculiar novelization of Isaac Asimov's story "The Positronic Man," which I think appeared (also) as "The Bicentennial Man." An interesting subplot to the book is the protagonist's struggle to achieve legal recognition as a person in the broadest possible sense, although the protagonist is a robot known as "Andrew Martin." Andrew Martin, however, is a very unusual, capable robot, with quite humanlike capabilities -- and he wants to be considered human by legal