Swedish Pirate Party Wins a Seat in the European Union
Yes, yes, not that kind of pirate; besides, they’d call themselves the Swedish Viking Party if they were. That just means that I can safely make “Bork bork bork
Moe Lane
*I can’t make Bjork
Crossposted to RedState.
Crimson and Clover
What? It’s not like her policy positions actually affect her guitar playing.
As you may remember, I had a choice between two Cthulhu indy films, and based on reader input I went with The Call of Cthulhu: The Celebrated Story by H.P. Lovecraft
I suspect that I had ended up choosing… wisely. It’s clever in its format; it works well as a silent, black-and-white short movie – better than it would as a bloated SF extravaganza. The music was well chosen, the plot is surprisingly close to the original, and while it did not scare the devil out of me it would have been hard to, seeing as I know the story so well by now. I do wonder how an impressionable nine year old would approach this movie. Or possibly a twelve year old.
The HPLHS website is here – and, spookily, they have just now decided to explain to the world what the heck is going on with their new project. Well, old project.
Something to look forward to.
And so we say goodbye to Victory of Eagles (Temeraire)
Dun dun DUN!!!!!
For now I am trapped within it. Curse you, Ace of Spades HQ. I cannot spend the next three days reading that site.
Moe Lane
PS: AoSHQ linked to the “Spock’s Brain” review: I personally would have gone with “And the Children Shall Lead.” Either way, I can’t imagine why Agony Booth thought advertising the complete third season of Star Trek DVDs would work. The whole shebang
To quote Cool Hand Luke
‘Global warming is baloney’ signs put the heat on Burger King
A row between the fast food giant Burger King and one of its major franchise owners has erupted over roadside signs proclaiming “global warming is baloney”.
The franchisee, a Memphis-based company called the Mirabile Investment Corporation (MIC) that owns more than 40 Burger Kings across Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi, has described Burger King as acting “kinda like cockroaches” over the controversy. MIC says it does not believe Burger King has the authority to make it take the signs down.
The Guardian shoved in as many cooking allusions as it could – which they shouldn’t have, but it’s forgivable – but the, ah, meat of the matter is that the Burger King spokesman says that they have the right to shut down this kind of signage on the part of its franchisees, and that the franchisee has agreed to take down the signs; while the franchise spokesman says that Burger King doesn’t have the right to shut down these signs, and that Burger King can… deal with it. The word ‘cockroaches’ was used in the latter’s response, as was an explicitly cheerful willingness to drag it out in court for the next ten years.
[[John]] McNelis added: “The [restaurant] management team can put the message up there if they want to. It is private property and here in the US we do have some rights. Notwithstanding a franchise agreement, I could load a Brinks vehicle with [rights] I’ve got so many of them. By the time the Burger King lawyers work out how to make that stick we’d be in the year 2020.”
Which is why I figure that somebody’s getting fired. You usually don’t have people in marketing making statements that are that direct unless they’re either sure that they won’t get fired, or that they’re sure that they will…
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
I’m flattered that Little Miss Attila thinks so highly of this site, but even if I thought that this list of the supposed top 100 political blogs made any coherent sense, ML still wouldn’t be on it. I’m not going to pretend that I don’t have some influence in this field; I’m a major contributor and site moderator for RedState, which is one of the top 100 political blogs. But RS isn’t ML.
Not that I take the aforementioned list seriously, anyway. If I understand this correctly, the rankings are chosen via a combination of: a). outbound links from RSS feeds and b). Wikio’s internal rankings of the blogs in question, modified by ‘freshness.’ Translation: if you get linked to a lot by blogs with high Wikio ranks whose RSS feeds allow HTML, you’re well on your way to being one of Wikio’s top 100 bloggers. If not, well, Wikio will be happy to encourage you to behaviors that will enhance your Wikio score.
Personally, I would be worried if ML was on this list: the traffic for this site is about what I’d expect from the linkages that I get. If I got enough links from high-ranked blogs to put me on the top 100 list, but wasn’t getting their traffic, I’d be forced to conclude that none of the readers from those sites were actually clicking through; they were just reading the summaries/excerpts and moving on. I don’t mind that so much from the Other Side – I more or less disagree with RS McCain’s Rule 4; starting a fight with a Left-sphere blogger is almost never worth the usually miniscule traffic – but it’d be alarming coming from mine.
All that being said: I have no idea why Politico isn’t on that list. By Wikio’s own rules – flawed as they might be – it should be in the top ten.
