Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

Save me!

Someone in the office is playing ABBA's Dancing Queen...

HELP!!! I cannot take any more of this suffering!

Fortune.com

Small-Scale Heroics

Dave Winer's getting a lot of kudos from all over the place for his coverage of the 9/11 attacks. He deserves them too. I didn't like it when he refused to link to Amazon's Red Cross donation page, but it's true Dave... so I guess that comes with the package.

Whales once lived on land???

AFP: Whales once lived on land (double take!)

Four American men removed from flight

CNN.com: Four American men removed from flight

RANT: The actual title of this article says "Arab-American" but I won't use that terminology. American of Arab descent, maybe. But these people are American first.

This is absolutely intolerable. If some people were uncomfortable THEY should have been escorted off the plane and put on a new one.

NWA does not deserve a PENNY from the US Government. If they get money then the Gov't is funding bigotry and hatred towards their own people. If you are as upset about this as I am, I implore you to write to your Congressman, Senator, and Northwest Airlines to make your feelings known.

Update: it's more widespread, there have been at least 5 incidents like this lately. In one the pilots bailed out of the planes on ropes and left the passengers stranded on the plane sitting on the tarmac.

PM not offended by U.S. ’snub’

CNEWS: PM not offended by U.S. 'snub'

I agree with Whitaker when he says "Canada's kind of a blank spot to [Bush]". A few weeks ago he said the USA had no more important trading partner than... Mexico. No offense to Mexico, but give me a break.

At this point Canadians are used to being ignored by the current administration.

Game stopped as speech shown

Here's evidence from the masses that the USA is united, resolved. Wow.

NHL pre-season game stopped as Bush's speech shown