December 23rd, 2003
2:06:29 am
Tech
Finally, somebody invented a USB Menorah. [via Slashdot] The site has detailed schematics and instructions to build the software and hardware yourself. Looks pretty inexpensive too. That should go over well; he’s got my attention. “It can correctly calculate the dates of Hannukah for at least the next few thousand years (or any historical date back to 2 B.C.E.). As well as ‘lighting’ the candles based on when the sunsets…”
This looks way better than my null modem mezuzzah. Personally, I’m hoping they’ll come out with a Wi-Fi lulav in time for next Sukkot.
December 18th, 2003
11:25:48 pm
Politics
This is a very recent update to a very old issue, brought to our attention by our old friend, BCSS (the update, not the issue). Silly, silly, silly. Naturally, it’d have to be my first entry on the House of Representatives that puts me over the top on those elementary school Internet filters. If this isn’t entertainment enough, there’s so much more out there. Check it.
To amend section 1464 of title 18, United States Code, to provide for the punishment of certain profane broadcasts, and for other purposes. (Introduced in House)
108th CONGRESS
1st Session
H.R. 3687
To amend section 1464 of title 18, United States Code, to provide for the punishment of certain profane broadcasts, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
December 8, 2003
Mr. OSE (for himself and Mr. SMITH of Texas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend section 1464 of title 18, United States Code, to provide for the punishment of certain profane broadcasts, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1464 of title 18, United States Code, is amended–
(1) by inserting `(a)’ before `Whoever’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
`(b) As used in this section, the term `profane’, used with respect to language, includes the words `shit’, `piss’, `fuck’, `cunt’, `asshole’, and the phrases `cock sucker’, `mother fucker’, and `ass hole’, compound use (including hyphenated compounds) of such words and phrases with each other or with other words or phrases, and other grammatical forms of such words and phrases (including verb, adjective, gerund, participle, and infinitive forms).’.
A swell showing tonight at The New Yorker‘s “Fiction Live” at Joe’s Pub. Hope Davis read “Friendly Skies” by T. Coraghessan Boyle. T. really raised the stakes with this one, and Ms. Davis showed how much a real actor can add to a piece. (Plenty.) Brian F. O’Byrne read “The Dinner,” a piece by Roddy Doyle that was way funnier than it should have been, given that it’s been done before. Neither the author’s awareness of that fact nor the quality of the performance could have hurt much. Prolly good directing also. Oh yeah, some guy from some TV show was there too.
And the fiction editor was totally checking me out.
Database: Columbia University Libraries
Search Request: Keyword = christmas and carol and conducted
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How to combat anti-Semitism in America; the six prize winning essays in the…
Title: How to combat anti-Semitism in America; the six prize winning essays in the contest conducted by Opinion-a journal of life and letters.
Physical Description: 91p. 18cm.
Publisher/ Date: New York, Jewish Opinion Publishing Corporation, 1937.
LC Subjects: Jews–United States.
Antisemitism.
Material Type: Book
Location: BUTLER STACKS
Call Number: 893.19 H83
Status: No information available
I don’t care what the Colombians say. “The Simpsons” is not funnier in Spanish.
I have been described as “indefegable” by the always-adorable, malapropic AB. Not sure what that means. At best, it’s something like “undeserving of a link.”
Also, did you guys notice they took down (most of) that ugly chain-link fence around the Central Park Reservoir? It’s been replaced by a shorter, friendlier cast-iron-type thing. That’ll make my daily jogs all the more pleasant. Awesome.
