Flicker Fusion

Twelve hours after launch, a passionate and vitriol-filled flame war erupts amongst web protocol nazis about exacly which 300-series HTTP header should be used to redirect from the old /profile.php?id=500012896 URLs to the new system. Mark Pilgrim writes an overwrought essay on the topic, and 300 Ubuntu users on netbooks use their free hand to Digg the post. For these nerds, “The Facebook Debacle” refers to the improper headers used on the redirects, instead of the few minutes of difficulty in registering names.

Twelve hours after launch, a passionate and vitriol-filled flame war erupts amongst web protocol nazis about exacly which 300-series HTTP header should be used to redirect from the old /profile.php?id=500012896 URLs to the new system. Mark Pilgrim writes an overwrought essay on the topic, and 300 Ubuntu users on netbooks use their free hand to Digg the post. For these nerds, “The Facebook Debacle” refers to the improper headers used on the redirects, instead of the few minutes of difficulty in registering names.

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Anil peers into the near future of Facebook usernames.

This man is still one of the best there is at … whatever it is this is.

Saying the greatest threat to the country is not a recession or terrorist attack but liberal media bias, Rep. Lamar Smith on Friday filed papers in the House to create the Media Fairness Caucus. Smith said the caucus, consisting of roughly a dozen lawmakers, would point out liberal bias in mainstream media stories and pressure news organizations to be accurate, objective and fair. In an interview on the Fox News Channel, Smith, R-San Antonio, said he didn’t want to “be radical, but to me, the greatest threat to America is not necessarily a recession or even another terrorist attack. “The greatest threat to America is a liberal media bias, and I think that because if the American people don’t know the facts, they can’t make good decisions and if the American people can’t make good decisions, then our democracy is threatened,” Smith said. Smith also thanked the Fox network for being “the only balanced coverage out there, and it’s much appreciated by a lot of us.”

Saying the greatest threat to the country is not a recession or terrorist attack but liberal media bias, Rep. Lamar Smith on Friday filed papers in the House to create the Media Fairness Caucus.

Smith said the caucus, consisting of roughly a dozen lawmakers, would point out liberal bias in mainstream media stories and pressure news organizations to be accurate, objective and fair.

In an interview on the Fox News Channel, Smith, R-San Antonio, said he didn’t want to “be radical, but to me, the greatest threat to America is not necessarily a recession or even another terrorist attack.

“The greatest threat to America is a liberal media bias, and I think that because if the American people don’t know the facts, they can’t make good decisions and if the American people can’t make good decisions, then our democracy is threatened,” Smith said.

Smith also thanked the Fox network for being “the only balanced coverage out there, and it’s much appreciated by a lot of us.”

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The rest is at mysanantonio.com.

Simon was smart enough not to wade in to this cesspool of idiocy and I think, perhaps, I’ll pour myself another scotch and follow his lead.

Sadly, if you fell into a black hole, it would not spit you out at some other time. It wouldn’t spit you out at all — it would gobble you up and grow slightly more corpulent in the process. If the black hole were big enough, you might not even notice when you crossed the point of no return defined by the event horizon. But once you got close to the center of the hole, tidal forces would tug at you — gently at first, but eventually tearing you apart. The technical term is spaghettification. Not a recommended strategy for would-be time adventurers.

Sadly, if you fell into a black hole, it would not spit you out at some other time. It wouldn’t spit you out at all — it would gobble you up and grow slightly more corpulent in the process. If the black hole were big enough, you might not even notice when you crossed the point of no return defined by the event horizon. But once you got close to the center of the hole, tidal forces would tug at you — gently at first, but eventually tearing you apart. The technical term is spaghettification. Not a recommended strategy for would-be time adventurers.

—Black holes are not time machines. And other rules for time travelers.

A White House spokesman had no immediate response Sunday to Grassley’s twitter commentary.

A White House spokesman had no immediate response Sunday to Grassley’s twitter commentary.

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As if that weren’t sign enough of the apocalypse, the tweet in question was “Pres Obama you got nerve while u sightseeing in Paris to tell us ‘time to deliver’ on health care. We still on skedul/even workinWKEND.”

It would seem that the compactness of Twitter has forced the infantile nature of political discourse out into the open.

Fox is developing “I Married a Stranger,” a matrimonial reality series in which brides-to-be don’t meet their husbands until they exchange vows.

Fox is developing “I Married a Stranger,” a matrimonial reality series in which brides-to-be don’t meet their husbands until they exchange vows.

—Of course, arranged marriages are perfectly acceptable amongst proponents of traditional marriage. Just so long as it isn’t two dudes meeting each other for the first time and forming a lifelong bond of matrimony, America’s cool with it.

Recent church shootings, including the killing Sunday of a late-term abortion provider in Kansas, which he condemned, highlight the need to promote safe gun ownership.

Recent church shootings, including the killing Sunday of a late-term abortion provider in Kansas, which he condemned, highlight the need to promote safe gun ownership.

—Ken Pagano, pastor of Kentucky’s New Bethel Church, inviting his congregation to bring their firearms to church later this month to celebrate the Fourth of July and the Second Amendment.