From the Jimmy Kimmel Show.

Remember this Dana Carvey bit on Saturday Night Live from 1996?

Ed Brayton’s detailed dissection of the Sternberg affair (see Ed’s post here and Steve Reuland’s here) has been responded to by Krauze at the Telic Thoughts intelligent design blog, including a response by Richard Sternberg. Ed Brayton responds quite ably.

This was allegedly an internal Kodak video that was so popular with employees it has been “released for external viewing.” I’m sure I have some Rochester, NY readers who can confirm. It definitely shows a company willing to acknowledge and poke fun at its past mistakes. (Hat tip to Dave Palmer on the SKEPTIC mailing list.)

This looks like it might actually be a fun game. (Via Bruce Schneier’s blog.)

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Washington Post, Sunday, December 24, 2006; B06 The largest employer in the world announced on Dec. 15 that it lost about $450 billion in fiscal 2006. Its auditor found that its financial statements were unreliable and that its controls were inadequate for the 10th straight year. On top of that, the entity's total liabilities and unfunded commitments rose to about $50 trillion, up from $20 trillion in just six years. ...

Which Historical Lunatic Are You? From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey. Like John Wilkins and Afarensis, I got matched with Joshua Norton. I was glad to make this match, since I’ve actually been interested enough in him as a historical figure to read his biography (and you can find some references to him on my discord.org web page).

By Einzige… - Grab the nearest book… - Name the book and the author… Florence King, Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady (I just finished reading it a few days ago). - Turn to page 123… - Go to the fifth sentence on the page… - Copy out the next three sentences and post to your blog… I might have been attending an expensive private academy instead of a public school; there were only eight of us in the class–the minimum for forming a class–and all of us were girls. We began each class with a pep rally. “Mesdemoiselles, levez-vous!” the teacher would say, and we would rise and sing “La Marseillaise”.[I’ve dropped the “tag three more folks” part…]

Looks like the FCC had a hard day before the U.S. Court of Appeals defending its arbitrary indecency standards, and Susan Crawford points out an example of just how absurd those standards have become in the era of YouTube. UPDATE (June 4, 2007): The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has issued its decision in Fox Television Stations v. the FCC, and the FCC has decisively lost. Adam Thierer points out how the case could pave the way for completely removing the FCC’s authority to regulate content for indecency. Susan Crawford reports on the content of the decision in the form of a letter to the FCC. UPDATE (April 28, 2009): The U.S. Supreme Court has reversed the 2nd Circuit in a 5-4 ruling.