An even larger annotated ZyNOS CI command reference. Once you start looking, as always, the information just floods over you.

It isn't the official document, but at least it's accessible. Netgear (among other manufacturers) licenses ZyXEL's embedded OS for their router hardware. It includes a command-line interface which is otherwise undocumented. I tried spelunking around ZyXEL's website looking for it and got bupkis, squared. Luckily for me, a quick Google search turned up a useful annotated cheat sheet. Even with these clues, by the way, ZyXEL's website is less than spectactularly useful.

BWA-hahahahaha! Read it and laugh-slash-weep at our lost opportunities. As always, I have a rant prepared, but it doesn't really add anything to this except lots more words plus some invective.

While delightedly trolling through Mark Steyn's catalog, just recently discovered thanks to Tim Blair, I found his takedown of 'Bowling for Columbine'. So far it appears that only Lee actually thought this film was thoughtful and provoking. I haven't seen it yet, but I'm thinking the right environment might be with the DVD in the player, Lee fuming on the couch next to me, and the remote control with the pause button on it firmly in my hand.

Hooray! Mark Steyn's writings are finally collected online! An immediate entry into the ol' blogroll.

I'm still stuffed from eating plain ol' turkey with lots of goodies. I can't imagine even trying to light into a turducken, although by next week I may be recovered enough.

Time magazine's Best Inventions of 2002. Found via Amish Tech Support.

I swear to <diety/>, this isn't even English. Faugh! Lee, you're going to have to explain and explain and explain a lot before I get it, I'm afraid.

From The Volokh Conspiracy:

FIVE BLIND ELEPHANTS (AUTHOR UNKNOWN): Five blind elephants want to find out what men are like. Each touches a man with its foot, and all agree: Men are wet, sticky, and flat.

Steven Den Beste writes about the new rice strain engineered at Cornell and goes into some depth about the expected political fallout from its (almost assured) superiority over laboriously slowly cross-bred rice.

Before I had children, I hated all kids. Really. Now that I have two of my own, however, I love my own children and I don't always want to throttle other people's children anymore. Consequently, I enjoyed reading this bit about Tony Woodlief's son. A short sample:

I'm going to give Eli a nickname: Catfish. Set him down on the floor, and he will commence to picking up anything in sight and putting it into his mouth. Occasionally he'll crawl over to his mother's favorite rug and yack up a hairball or a dried pea or something. He's very cheerful about all of it. He's a total bottom feeder. I'm worried he will become a lawyer.

"Henry Kissinger should never have been defrosted," sez me. These two agree, and state their cases with commendable depth and detail.

There are some here that are a bit grisly, but the FReepers have pictures from the bombing in Kenya. It seems that the stakes are certainly being raised: explosive car bombs, SAM attacks on civilian jet airliners, continued jubilation from Islamic fundie nations. Perhaps we ought to do something about it, whaddaya think?

Once again, rational self-interest trumps well-intentioned socialism. At some point, won't we (as a colleciton of humans) run out of people who haven't yet learned this? Please?

I'm working my way through John Scalzi's back catalog of "Whatever" columns, when I found this gem of distilled hatred:

The chances of you being qualified to do anything else that doesn't involve answering to a Wal-Mart department manager named Earl, who makes $10.50 an hour shoving Chinese-made shoes into the racks and who hankers to move out of his doublewide and into a house with a real cement foundation, are impressively slim. If you're not ready to play until the grounds crew is ready to shoot out the lights with a BB gun so they can leave, then you shouldn't be playing baseball, period.

From Agenda Bender, "A Textbook Case" covers quite well a pair of worthy targets: hate crime and God-botherers.

You can't even spread the good news of God's disapproval of his life and love to a homosexual in his own home anymore without risking martyrdom. Yes the case "easily meets their definition of a hate crime." Textbook case. Haters marauding around their own livingrooms bashing innocent old ladies who just dropped by to tell them how far from God's grace they've fallen. Exactly the circumstances hate crime laws were written for.

Just a bit of whining, but every time I look at Tony Pierce's blog I am forcefully reminded that there isn't any talent whatsoever in the stupid camera and all the blame is mine mine mine. His work is so astoundingly much better than my pitiful snaps that I just get depressed. I'm also thinking that maybe I should start carrying my stupid camera with me and just shoot more stuff so that eventually I might be able to take a really good picture (instead of the ocasional "not entirely crappy" record I'm working with now). Hooray for wallowing in self-pity!

Archives may or may not be working again, but Tim Blair, in a post from November 26 at 10:03am (drat the lack of working links!!!) points to an open letter from my new favorite Australian politician. Extra hooray for the P.M. for getting it exactly right: the guilt lies entirely on the scumbags who set the explosives.

Blogger archive postings don't seem to be working quite right, so just scroll down to the bit entitled "Unequivocal Good News" and read. The short summary is that researchers at Cornell have engineered a new strain of rice that is significantly more drought resistant, can grow in salt water, and can live in weather that's 10 degrees cooler. What's more, they didn't patent it but have released it into the public domain. Hooray for Cornell!

National Geographic has posted a quiz of (duh) geographic trivia. Can you do better than the high school students who can't find their own state on a U.S. map? I scored 19 of 20 because I didn't know which was the most populous religion.

John Scalzi starts with a quick pass on Discover magazine's cover story on the Big Bang and winds up explaining why science isn't a religion. Excellent article. (Found via The World Wide Rant)

Not a joke: "My TiVo Thinks I'm Gay" declares Mike Bender in this WSJ article. (Found via Jim Treacher)

Woo-hoo! A lawyerly can of whoop-ass is hereby opened upon the MLDEF.

Brink Lindsey comments on Bush's proposal to eliminate tariffs on industrial goods. Period. Zero percent tariff. Apparently, all those car commercials ("Zero down, zero payments, zero interest ... please take our cars. We're dying here!!!!!!") are having a larger impact than previously suspected.

Hmmm ... it couldn't be because the game is afoot, could it?

In fact, read the whole damned thing. It's just amazingly ugly.

Wow. This just gets more surreal the longer I look at it. This was taken during the riots in Nigeria about the Miss World contest. (Found via Agenda Bender found via Colby Cosh)

You damned Skippy! Raising our children is the most important job we have, and trying to foist that responsibility off on non-accountable factory mandarins is just lunacy. I have a rant prepared, if anyone cares.

Hooray! The poor man's Telezapper!!! Woo-hoo!

BWA-hahahahahahaha! Oh my aching sides! (found via The World Wide Rant)

Ummmmmmm. Weird.

Apparently, the impending war with Iraq didn't derail the War on Terrorism at all. Good. I'm glad to hear it. Let's keep the pressure on, shall we?

I read this, and I re-read it, and although each of the individual words are recognizable, when you arrange them in that order they don't make any sense. Cricket is just bizarre, and more evidence that there's nothing as insane as a "normal" Englishman (unless it's an Australian).

Tim Blair posts the definitive "What Would Jesus Drive" quiz: Tim Blair. As usual, Blogger links not working, so just scroll down until you find it, entitled "TAKE THE "WHAT WOULD JESUS DRIVE" MULTI-CHOICE THEOLOGICAL AUTOMOTIVE QUIZ CHALLENGE!"

Yet another quiz. It appears that I'm a "five". Is that good?


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As the article is entitled: Will It Work? I know that we have some very bright people working on weapons systems, but dayum! This sounds like quite the "steel on target" delivery package (assuming it works).

As an aside, I've been saying for some time now (thanks to Virginia Postrel) that enough important base inventions have been made already; most of the low-hanging fruit now will be in nailing together two disparate bases and making them work. Examples of this nailing include: TiVo (machine-readable schedule information plus content-based searching plus recording), Roomba (miniaturized electronics plus acceptable pathfinding plus drudge labor), and SABR (miniaturized electronics (again) plus cheap accurate laser rangefinding plus accurate timing plus ordnance equals boom).

For reasons which I never really explored, I don't play much chess nor do I expect ever to do so (rather more intricate wargames being my poison of choice in my younger days, and now RTS games on the computer). From PejmanPundit comes a pointer to OMEGA CHESS - The Next Evolution of Chess!. Sounds interesting enough, especially considering that real-life (not computer) games rarely have sequels.

Ummmm ... maybe I misunderstood something. I thought the purpose of U.N. inspectors in Iraq was to determine if there were any WMDs or WMD programs. Apparently, I was wrong because Hans Blix' anonymous aide says that their job is not to provoke, harm, or humiliate. So, if Iraq says they have no WMDs and no WMD programs at all, then how do you avoid provoking them? By not looking? I have to assume this farce will end shortly after December 8th, or I'll be holding my nose and voting Democrat next presidential election.

The American Prospect, not usually considered a bastion of right-wing conspiracy, lights into Michael Moore for his racial blindness and other non-factualism (is that a word?) in "Bowling for Columbine".

James Lileks, again: hates Pizza Hut: check; thinks George Lucas is a soulless marketing robot: check; loves "Monsters, Inc.": check.