Moe Lane

Obviously, you couldn’t really do Adobe Photoshop on the Wii, but some kind of paint splatter game would be entertaining, assuming that it doesn’t already exist.

In related news, here’s an interview with the guy doing Epic Mickey.  Sounds like it’s going to be fun.

Well, actually it’s from a Beltway Special sent to Jane Hamsher by Jesse Lee. For those who don’t know, Lee’s job is to collect the urine of Rahm Emanuel, dump it on the Left blogosphere, and then tell them that it was actually precipitation. He admirably does his job here:

The quote in question displays a disdain for bloggers, and while I’ll unequivocally give my word that I do not hear this sentiment from virtually anywhere inside the White House, this is difficult to disprove one way or another.

You can actually see the semantic content of that sentence drain away if you keep watching it for long enough.

Moe Lane

PS: This is one time where throwing gasoline on the fire seems… superfluous.  I mean, what can I say that hasn’t been said already?  Except that possibly some left-bloggers should be kicking themselves right now over their slavish attacks of such a libertarian-friendly group as the Tea Parties.

Oops?

Crossposted to RedState.

Well, uglier (Via Hot Air Headlines). This should surprise nobody, of course – with emphasis on ‘should,’ because it invariably will surprise somebody who should have really known better.

On the bright side, it’s always helpful when one’s opponents admit that they’re afraid.

Crossposted to RedState.

Rep. Jeff Flake (R, AZ) spent a week on an uninhabited tropical island this summer doing survival-type activities: the Hill has the story and his journal.  It’s pretty interesting stuff; while his week was almost without incident, this sort of thing isn’t exactly easy to do, and Rep. Flake wasn’t bad at writing about it.

I think that this trip will gather a little more notice than Flake really expects, if only for the photo:

Certainly the writer of the Hill article approved: it’s not every day that the phrase “tanned and sculpted torso” appears in that publication.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

How worried is the White House that it doesn’t have any Republican support for its health care rationing bill?

WASHINGTON (Oct 11) – The Democratic National Committee is canceling a television ad touting GOP support for health care reform after protests from one of the Republicans mentioned, former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole.

[snip]

Dole told ABC News on Sunday that he objected to the ad’s criticism of the current Republican leadership.

“I just didn’t think it was fair, when I’ve tried to be helpful in encouraging a bipartisan solution, for the DNC to run an ad that I interpreted and I know others did as a backhanded comment about Republicans,” Dole said.

This worried. Also, desperate: after all, while I have nothing against former Senator Dole I’m also not that interested in his position on health care. If the President wants the GOP to sign off on his health care proposals, there are plenty of current Republican elected officials for him to court. The complication that most of them have been repeatedly rebuffed by this administration for months (and are thus legitimately disbelieving of the administration’s motives) is a complication of the administration’s own making, and is their complication to resolve. The White House can start by apologizing to Rep. Boehner and the rest of the House leadership for shutting them out for six months. (more…)

The Wild Rover, Dropkick Murphys

And they wonder why the English were so happy to see as many of my ancestors leave Ireland as could possibly make the trip.

OK, you read this article and tell me whether or not I summarized it accurately:

(PhysOrg.com) — Physicists at Yale University have made the first definitive measurements of “persistent current,” a small but perpetual electric current that flows naturally through tiny rings of metal wire even without an external power source.

The team used nanoscale cantilevers, an entirely novel approach, to indirectly measure the current through changes in the magnetic force it produces as it flows through the ring. “They’re essentially little floppy diving boards with the rings sitting on top,” said team leader Jack Harris, associate professor of physics and applied physics at Yale. The findings appear in the October 9 issue of Science.

The counterintuitive current is the result of a quantum mechanical effect that influences how electrons travel through metals, and arises from the same kind of motion that allows the electrons inside an atom to orbit the nucleus forever. “These are ordinary, non-superconducting metal rings, which we typically think of as resistors,” Harris said. “Yet these currents will flow forever, even in the absence of an applied voltage.”

As to what they’re going to do with this shiny new ability… well, that’s up to the people with the robes and pointy hats. But with any luck at all we’ll get a blaster pistol out of it, or something.

Via Fark Geek.

Well, maybe it’s a supernatural event – and then again, maybe it’s not.

Either way, it’s probably best if you don’t stand underneath it.

• On the one hand, I’m not really impressed by the general tone you get over there.  I derive some mild amusement out of deleting the goofier comments, but it’s a bit of a drag.
• On the other hand, no comments means less traffic on that site, and YouTube makes its money off of on-site advertising, right?  Or does YouTube not make money?  Anyway, it seems vaguely like freeloading.
• On the gripping hand, it’s not like I’m getting anything like value-added coming from that direction anyway.

It’s interesting: my general indifference is more or less fighting with my ingrained tendencies towards sadism on this one.  Which is odd, because typically with me sadism wins: I suspect that it’s because the hate mail that gets generated via that avenue is, well, lame…

It being Sunday, we shall replace Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters with Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season. The latter is a bit of a departure for me – I don’t do sports books – and I’m still reading it.

Good, though.

What? You don’t have an internal soundtrack? Weird.

From Patton, of course.  Which still has to be George C. Scott’s greatest role ever.

The I-like-to-write-about-what-the-President-who-lives-in-my-head-tells-me brigade is growing:

• Tom Friedman (via AoSHQ) writes a speech where the President accepts it on behalf of the US military.
• Peggy Noonan (via Just One Minute) likes the idea, too.
• And, of course, there was Chris Buckley’s nonsense from yesterday*.

Apparently none of them actually read what the President has already said on the subject.  Which is to say: he’s happy enough to praise the military, in their place.  Which is distinctly behind advocates for climate change.

Moe Lane

*(“How is this different than what Mickey Kaus wrote? – ed.” Two reasons: first, Mickey was writing advice, and advice that he already knew was going to be rejected out of hand.  Second, I don’t mess with Mickey if I can possibly help it. – ML”)

PS: Yes, I’d like to stop writing about this, too.

Crossposted to RedState.