A Cry for Help

I was looking through my spam folder before junking it, and I noticed a new request from someone to add me to their Friendster list. I signed up maybe a year ago, because I sign up for almost everything, but I subsequently forgot all about it. When I got my password sent to me, there [...]

The Great Indian Casino Debate is heating up in Rhode Island. The Narragansetts, “advised” by the major gambling venture Harrah’s, are renewing their call to be allowed to build a resort casino in West Warwick. Backers of the project talk about tons of new jobs, millions in new revenues for the state and [...]

Apparently the only thing you need to know about anything bad Americans might do in Iraq is “we’re not as bad as Saddam/Osama/al Qaida.” Since we’re now on the terrorist morality scale, I think we should prove that we’re at least up to snuff on the macho front, lest the terrorists say “at least we’re [...]

Want a reality check? Steve’s got one for you.

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Perhaps you’ve noticed a lack of posts here on Iraq lately. That’s kind of weird, as I’ve been a critic of this war and especially the administration. The past month, though, has gotten me so incredibly sick about the situation that I have trouble getting my thoughts organized coherently for a post. [...]

So Cotuit gave me a list of links to add to the URBlog, and two things stood out. First, go here. Now go here. Poor EP… that’s just sad.
And another bad city website, WarwickRI.com, has morphed into an honest-to-god good web resource! I can only assume it’s due to hiring an “e-government specialist,” but hot [...]

Tonight was the last night of Survivor All-Stars, which, as I predicted I might, I lost interest in after our favorite naked gay Rhode Islander got kicked off. Anyway, I hope none of you saw it. I need to take a shower now for even witnessing the crap that was the live final vote tally. [...]

I just spent the past couple hours (ok, all day) working on the design of my Urban planning blog, the RI+URBlog. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while, especially since not everyone who reads A Cry for Help is as into that kind of stuff as I am. I also wanted to [...]

Alan Shawn Feinstein delivered to me today the most sacred of all of his possessions - his precious collection of almighty and everlasting sea creechiz (established in nointeen sixty noin). While many do not recognize their value, ASF and I have a special connection.

The most important items in the museum are:
Cank (the rock), sacred [...]

Ever see the episode of West Wing where Leo calls up the NY Times crossword department to tell them they misspelled Qaddafi? Someone should get on the horn to the online crossword people to tell them #20 across is obviously wrong. edogg brings this to my attention:

Tsk tsk.

This is cool, via the indispensible Friday Shotgun Full of Links.
“The Rasterbator is a web service which creates huge rasterized pictures out of relatively small image files. The pictures can be assembled into extremely cool looking posters up to 5 meters in size!” Check out what other people have done with it.
I want to point [...]