On This Day: May 17

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This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on May 17, 2020). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.

Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 24 posts previously published on May 17th

  • 2023
  • 2020
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on May 17, 2020). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.📚 twenty-three of 2020: Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ... Read more ➡
    • Plague Puzzle Four This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on May 17, 2020). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.Monday Friday Saturday Sunday Tuesday Thursday ➡
    • On This Day: May 17 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from May 17 ➡
  • 2018
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on May 17, 2018). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.“A Republican lawmaker on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee ... Read more ➡
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on May 17, 2018). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.Mystery fruit flavor! We’re thinking it’ll probably be durian. ➡
    • Sometimes people use 'respect' to mean 'treating someone like a person' and sometimes they use 'respect' to mean 'treating someone like an authority' ➡
  • 2017
    • First Full Star Trek: Discovery Trailer First thoughts (copied from a Facebook post, with minor edits): I'm looking forward to seeing more! ➡
    • Linkdump for April 27th through May 17th An automatically generated list of links that caught my eye between April 27th and May 17th. • The Case of the Stolen Source Code • JSON Feed: Announcing JSON Feed • Let's discuss the Linguistic & Pragmatic use of the ["N-word"] • The neural network writes the episode list for next season’s Dr. Who • What we really need is an adaptation of the original 1740 The Beauty and the Beast ➡
  • 2016
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on May 17, 2016). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.Staying out of the way while glass workers replace a large ... Read more ➡
  • 2014
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on May 17, 2014). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.Waiting for Prairie to pick me up after the final #nwc37 ... Read more ➡
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on May 17, 2014). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.The second of two particularly nice roses from the #nwc37 post-con ... Read more ➡
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on May 17, 2014). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.One of two particularly nice roses from the #nwc37 post-con onions ... Read more ➡
  • 2007
  • 2006
  • 2005
    • AdSense for Feeds Looks like the inevitable intrusion of advertising into RSS feeds just gained a major player, as Google's Adsense for Feeds program has just been announced. ➡
  • 2004
    • Surf like it’s 1994! This may be the last CSS-related post for a while — though I'm considering a writeup of how I implemented the stylesheet switcher into my TypePad setup, so there may be more yet to come. We'll see. In the meantime… ➡
    • Shades of Gattaca More and more, I think that in the coming years, the movie Gattaca may be seen as far more prescient than it was recognized as at the time it came out. ➡
    • Nick Berg conspiracy? Those of you who've read this site for a while may know that I have something of a fascination for conspiracy theories. Sometimes they interest me because they're so patently ludicrous, sometimes because they're convincing enough to be nearly frightenting, and sometimes they end up somewhere in between. ➡
    • Powell on Meet the Press Here's something you don't see in today's political arena very often these days. Colin Powell was on Meet the Press Sunday night, when one of his staffers attempted to cut off the interview in the midst of one of Tim Russert's questions. Powell was not pleased, going so far as to rebuke the staffer on-air, and had the camera brought back in order to finish the interview. ➡
    • Manly Pink #2 There's now a second pink-toned stylesheet available for your viewing pleasure, courtesy of Shari Hes (who actually sent it to me last week, but it needed a few slight tweaks to get it to behave under Internet Explorer). ➡
  • 2003
    • Good Dean article Tough Guy, Howard Dean is the ultimate muscular Democrat. He's not afraid to take on George W. Bush, and in the process Dean is reminding Dems what it feels like to have a spine. But can he win? ➡
  • 2002