The Hall of Fire

Nice idea, Voronwë! :) Do you mean lines that jump out at you for the insight they provide or also just because they are beautiful? Let's make it easy and say either. :) (As to your quote - I tried to make an interpretative comment and started twice, but noticed while writing that I wasn't hitting ...

You're so special, you get a special gift.

There is another, to my mind even more bizarre example of this type of thing that I read about recently, about an author that didn't even really exist. Here is an article about it that can explain better then I can To Be Or Not to Be: Does It Even Matter? Edward B. Colby Who is JT Leroy? A criticall...

I'm starting this thread purely and simply because this line that Gandalf says to Pippin after learning that Frodo has taken Gollum as his guide leapt out at me on my current reading of LOTR, and I wanted to comment on it, but I couldn't think of any other way to do so: Let us remember that a traito...

Hi Jude.

I just experiencing a real life corollary to that rule. This morning Beth asked me to please clean the master bathroom upstairs, "including thoroughly cleaning the tiles." Now a few of you will recall me saying in the past that cleaning the grout between the tiles in the shower is about my...

I do like it, and I do agree that it sorta sums life up tersely and wittily.

Sorta.

Thanks for posting that, vison. I have changed the thread title to reflect the more broad subject that I had in mind (of which the Google case was only one example). As information becomes more and more voluminous, how this issue gets addressed will be a critical issue in determining the course of t...

Welcome, Jude! Great to see you here!

I can't help but think that if the Clinton administration had made similar requests, some accommodation would have been made. Could be. But of course, that statement could reflect on both Google and the Bush administration. In any event, there are some really interesting legal issues here that I ha...

Whistler, I'm glad to see you participate in this thread. I think your point if worth taking into consideration. But I doubt that Google is taking this frankly risky action purely out of a desire to spite the Bush administration. I don't think that it can be disputed that there are important privacy...

As expected, Google's stock has experienced its largest drop since it went public since the news became public. They really are putting ethics above profits. I hope (and expect) that they hold on. Since the request was made in civil case in which Google is not a party, the steps that the government ...

It has been very interesting to watch Google develop from a small start-up in 1998 (when I first started using it on a tip from a friend, before the company even officially existed) to the international powerhouse that it is today. It is refreshing to see the young business fearlessly take on the Mi...

Then he took me for walks and pointed at everything in his mad biologist way. Beth does that kind of thing, too, Prim (she does watershed restoration). I remember one time several years ago, we were taking a hike with a friend at Fall Creek State Park (a very rustic and beautiful park near us) afte...

That is a treat.

I just saw that. Didn't realize there were rumors of his return. But then, out here we had Ken Macha replacing himself as the manager of the A's a couple of weeks after he quit/was fired.

Well, there is some more that I could say about this (isn't there always ), but we probably have had enough naval-gazing. So, getting back on track, and in Hobby's honor:

See? You should contribute more.