Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in Tom Scudder's LiveJournal:

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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
9:38 am	Two people on my friends list have already posted this Borowitz Report: Goldman Sachs in Talks to Acquire Treasury Department Goldman recently celebrated record earnings by roasting a suckling pig over a bonfire of hundred-dollar bills. (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, July 13th, 2009
2:51 pm	Noted Prepress Arcana, a page of What Not To Do if you're trying to get something professionally printed. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
1:48 pm	Wikipedia: not yet flawless Check out the entry for Target Date Funds (article behind the cut for posterity's sake) ( Read more... ) (15 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, June 19th, 2009
10:25 am	On Iran Doug Muir has some good analysis of what kinds of governments fall to popular protests, and what kinds don't, as applied to the case of Iran. Short version: if the Iranian government still has the loyalty of its armed forces, to the point that they will be willing to fire on civilians, itwill remain in power. And it appears that it does retain that loyalty. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
12:17 pm	Also ganked from nihilistic-kid Find the slight error in this work of non-fiction: Dickens himself took a swing at the mystery genre with his 1870 novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and perhaps laid the groundwork for some of our greatest film mysteries, particularly some of the open-ended films of Alfred Hitchcock. Drood, you see, is left unresolved, the case unfinished, allowing (perhaps forcing) readers to imagine the ending, constructing a resolution that fits the facts as they interpreted them. It was a risky literary trick and few save Dickens could have pulled it off. (hint) From this thread, which contains much of hilarity. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
9:09 am	Uighur Guantanamo detainees to go to Palau New York Times: The United States has won an agreement to transfer up to 17 Chinese Muslims from the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to Palau, a sparsely populated archipelago in the North Pacific, according to a statement released by Palau to The Associated Press on Wednesday. The president of Palau, Johnson Toribiong, said his government had “agreed to accommodate the United States of America’s request” to “temporarily resettle” the detainees, members of the Uighur ethnic group, “subject to periodic review.” Palau, the president said, would be “honored and proud” to take them in a “humanitarian gesture.” Given that nobody actually thinks they'd done anything wrong, I'd rather have seen them resettled in the US, but at least we aren't holding them prisoner any more for being politically inconvenient. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 8th, 2009
9:11 am	james_nicoll is right. This is evil. Not "killing 6 million Jews" evil, but still - people are going to be unneccesarily scared by this, and all as a marketing stunt. So, peoples: Don't go see 2012. (There was no way in hell I'd ever go see it anyway, so this is a pretty empty gesture. But still.) I like fake-media stuff like this, normally. I loved the fake Galaxy Quest fan page and the Watchmen clips, and so on. But none of them were going to cause anyone who believed they were real pain beyond mild embarassment at finding out they'd been fooled. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, June 5th, 2009
8:38 am	Grilled Cheese G-rated relationship advice. Via unfogged. (Comment on this)
Friday, May 29th, 2009
2:15 pm	Jughead That is all. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
4:20 pm	Teh Funny Star Trek - Virtual Girlfriend Edition Basically, it's an edition of the Star Trek DVD box set where as well as the usual commmentary track extras, you can select an option where a female voice periodically asks "Who's that? Why is he a baddie this time?... (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
7:36 am	Blast from the past Can you find the Spam? (Comment on this)
Monday, May 11th, 2009
3:15 pm	via tx_cronopio: right-wing protestors taking PR lessons from PETA, protest Obama commencement speech at Notre Dame with foetus and lynching photos. (Comment on this)
Friday, May 8th, 2009
4:13 pm	Also Be careful when googling for people's photos that you get the right one. Particularly if you run a major newspaper. Extra-particularly if you're illustrating a story about a wanted murderer. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
3:04 pm	Freaky (sings: "There once was a fellow named Oedipus Rex / you might have heard about his odd complex...") (1 Comment |Comment on this)
2:38 pm	Why I won't ever transition to dreamwidth Blocked at work, in the way facebook is, but livejournal isn't. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
8:56 am	Huh-huh, huh-huh, he said "pen". First off, I heartily denounce this firing of US Army Arabic linguists for being gay. That said, this sentence made me laugh, and probably not the way the quoted person intended: According to Belkin, a soon-to-be-released study by a group of experts in military law will show that “President Obama does, in fact, have stroke-of-the-pen authority to suspend gay discharges.” (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
11:02 am	Vanilla Thunder watch Richard Dawkins on the value of naked contempt as a conversational gambit. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
9:47 am	Awesome Ron Paul's son is named Rand. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
12:38 pm	RIP Dom DeLuise. Bizarre part of my job - I end up going to legacy.com a fair amount to check for obituaries of recently deceased Elks, and so I see their front page with notable recent obits. And so I now know that Dom DeLuise <kibology>(famous for his role as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McKoy on Star Trek)</kibology> just died. How sad. (Comment on this)
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
10:34 am	Upcoming nuptials Right, so I'm getting married on Sept. 5, barring catastrophe. (2 Comments |Comment on this)