Zebulon

Rufus Wainwright plays a brand-new song here on French radio.

(Don't forget to buy his new CD and DVD next week! Support him so he keeps making wonderful music!)

Unsane in the membrane

Allan Odgaard:

Seems the infamous Logitech Control Center is back to wreak havoc.

They released a 2.4 update on the 20th of November and a week later a “mate error” thread surfaced on the mailing list, I have received a dozen support emails about the problem, and if you look at the comments for LCC at VersionTracker or MacUpdate, you’ll find that a lot of users are reporting problems with this update.

The real killer

This thrills my anagram-loving side:

Similarly, anagram aficionados Francis Heaney and Guy Jacobson pointed out that similarly incriminating anagrams could be derived from Wallace's own book. When Harper's Magazine excerpted Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend, Heaney and Jacobson wrote in response that its first two sentences:

This is my story of Jack the Ripper, the man behind Britain's worst unsolved murders. It is a story that points to the unlikeliest of suspects: a man who wrote children's stories. That man is Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, author of such beloved books as Alice in Wonderland.

are an anagram of:

The truth is this: I, Richard Wallace, stabbed and killed a muted Nicole Brown in cold blood, severing her throat with my trusty shiv's strokes. I set up Orenthal James Simpson, who is utterly innocent of this murder. P.S. I also wrote Shakespeare's sonnets, and a lot of Francis Bacon's works too.

Intellectual cleanup on aisle seven

To Unnamed Coworker 1: This is not a valid argument for the existence of WMD stockpiles in 2003 pre-war Iraq:

Let me ask you this... if Iraq got rid of their WMDs before the war, then where did they go?

To Unnamed Coworker 2: While I commend you for finally finding citations for the strange claims you make, it's quite a leap from "suspicious trucks" to "piles of anthrax ready to be handed over to Al-Qaeda". This is what we invaded Iraq for? Lame.