Estd. 2002. Politics, tech, startups, media, law, history, philosophy
Eminem’s recent interview from Rolling Stone Magazine reveals us interesting details about his relatives and his relationship with his beloved daughter Hailie Jade, who will be 9 on Christmas day this year.
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It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to use for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realise that it has passed away before we knew it was passing.
Seneca, On the Shortness of Life. C 5BC – AD 65
To all the people who were worried about Eminem leaving the rap game after the release of the « Encore » album, I got some good news: Eminem is determined to keep on rapping as long as possible:
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Bush has taken 34 and Kerry has taken 3 college votes. Virginia is too close to call.
Slate has published exit polls, and it looks like John Kerry is leading. Slashdot cover the story of the publication of these secret polls.
Foxnews, Sky news and BBC news are all reporting stories on how weblogs are likely to be the first news souces for many people during the election. You know things are really bad when this happens:
C:>ping www.instapundit.com
Pinging instapundit.com [63.247.138.238] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.Ping statistics for 63.247.138.238:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
I’m averaging several hundred thousand pageviews per hour right now. Forgive this site, and many others across the web, if we flake out every so often.
It’s not a fun time to be a web server.
And it’ll only get worse as results start streaming in.
Update:
Dan Drezner’s blog is down.
Samizdata is down.
Wonkette is down.
Kevin Drum is reporting:
A lot of blogs are hard to reach today. I don’t think it’s a DOS attack or anything like that, it’s just very heavy traffic. Mine is running about double its highest ever, for example.
Update:
Glenn Reynolds reports:
TRAFFIC PROBLEMS: It’s really high, and it’s causing intermittent outages. The swell folks at Hosting Matters are working on it. If the site goes down completely, I’ll post on the backup site.
Update:
Wonkette (on a weblog only occassionally working) reports:
:01am is reporting that several “conservative” blogs (perhaps properly warbloggers) are/were down or have suffered denial of service attacks. Great idea! Because everyone knows how quiet and reserved bloggers are. . . Is Instamartyr.com taken?
Blogs down [601am.com]
UPDATE: Retaliation or just bizarro-world Unabomberism? TPM also down. Thought it could be that Josh’s massive intellect just finally burned through the wires.
UPDATE UPDATE: Everyone’s down: Atrios, Little Green Footballs, Daily Kos. . . it’s an indiscriminate evil who knows know political boundaries. Kind of like herpes. Really: It’s Hosting Matters that appears to be problem. . .
601am reports:
Blogs down
Hearing reports that a number of “conservative” bloggers are down: “Powerline, Malkin, VodkaPundit, Captain’s Quarters”
Buzzmachine (not conservative), and other seem down. And my day job has seen 100% spike in last hour in traffic. Something is going on.
Update: just spoke with my host and we are indeed under dos… there goes free speech.
November 2, 2004 01:44 PM
I would be surprised if someone was DOSing right wing blogs, alot of weblogs on both side of the spectrum are down thanks to huge traffic.
Were I a US citizen, my vote would be going to, you guessed it – John F. Kerry. Early indications are a big turnout. An interesting few days to come no doubt. And I am having serious difficulty getting into the BBC news website – not often that happens.
I downloaded Firefox PR1 the other day, and as much as I liked the previous versions, this version surpasses them all. Not only to I have the option of tabbed browsing, popup blocker built in and assorted other handy things, but a built in RSS detector and aggregator now too. Go get it.
What an interesting story. Rumours were circulating in Dubai when I was leaving there earlier this month that the Ruler of the UAE, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, had died. The news of his death was apparently being kept secret for some reason. Today his death was officially announced, but the authorities are saying he, in fact, died today.
Bush’s opponent likes Eminem’s song Mosh. John Kerry expressed it publicly while asked by MTV about the recent song:
MTV-“Last time we talked, in March, you said that it’s important to listen to hip-hop because it gives you a sense of what’s going on in the street. Have you heard the new Eminem song that’s been out?”