Ruse You Can Bruise for December 2003

Thu Dec 04 2003 12:49:

1: Knock knock!
2: Who's there?
1: Leonard!
2: Leonard who?
1: Leonard still posts more by himself than all six of the guest blog authors!
2: Oh. Yeah, you're right.
1: We should probably get on that.

Thu Dec 04 2003 17:04 Greetings, Cenobytes:

Listen to me. Listen to me carefully. There has got to be a way to combine Tron and Hellraiser.

Get to it.

Fri Dec 05 2003 03:39 I was going to post this in the comments but it just wouldn't feel as important:

Via Leonard's entry below, maybe the best headline ever:

Panda Arrives in Tokyo on International Love Quest

"Shuan Shuan appeared subdued when she appeared at Narita Airport after a 16-hour flight from Mexico for a rendezvous with 18-year-old stud Ling Ling at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo."

Now that's news!

Fri Dec 05 2003 05:09:

Not only does this week's PvP storyline relate to RPG System Design Month, it's totally meta.

Sat Dec 06 2003 08:32 so much so that I googled to make sure it wasn't posted here before:

discrete math<-- leonardr

Mon Dec 08 2003 12:55 Metabrainwane:

Tea Box Designer:	Here, have a quote from Indira Gandhi!
Sumana:	Indira Gandhi?! The heck? Indira Gandhi was a dictator!
TBD:	We prefer to attend to the beauty of words outside their historical context, as a way of achieving...
S:	Who declared martial law to avoid being removed for corruption!
TBD:	Achieving a mood of proper appreciation for our product, which--
S:	And whose regime included censorship, arrest of dissenters, and forced sterilization drives!
TBD:	But, but GANDHI.
S:	No.
TBD:	... I... Gandhi?

Thu Dec 11 2003 10:11 Ambiguous Headline Watch:

Singer Bobby Brown Charged With Battery

I picture him with alligator clips attached to bolts on his neck, or maybe walking around in circles to make sure he doesn't run low again.

Thu Dec 11 2003 18:00 Finally:

Leonard got to meet Wesley Clark!

I finally got the chance to shake Clark's hand and tell him what I've wanted to tell him since day one: how proud I am to work for him.

Mon Dec 15 2003 10:00:

Tired of the fragile, burglarphobic life of the jeweller? Thinking you could be more effective as a B2B goldsmith's note-engraver, but unable to find skilled partners you can trust? Or exploit? Do you wish you could break out the fountain pen and retire to an easy life of signing your name to pretend money, while the job for which you spent years training is done at no cost and with greater cachet by a creature with no recognizable brain? At last, via Kevan, there's an all-natural solution that fits your needs: outsource your work to bugs!

Tue Dec 16 2003 14:43 I Want One For Econ:

A Non-Philosopher's Guide to Philosophical Terms, humorous. Via Matthew Yglesias.

Wed Dec 17 2003 13:12 Mola Mola Watch:

Something is Highly Damp In the State of Denmark

Fri Dec 19 2003 09:51 All Creatures, Extinct And Icky:

I am not the only person to have suspected that Leonard secretly authored these awesome dinosaur comics.

Steve Schultz of Tokyo Damage Report visits the Meguro Parasite Museum.

Mon Dec 29 2003 07:13:


Growth in US Internet Users Now Much Slower

GeoCities, Everquest Announce Plans to Collapse Under Own Weight

Tue Dec 30 2003 10:58 Technically, Uncle Pedro got to this first:

We Didn't Smacko Jacko, Say Calif. Cops

Ruse You Can Bruise for 2003 December