Wikipedia's accounts seems more authoritative than IMDB's, stating that the series launched in March 2001, and was cancelled in early 2002. A petition to bring Zim back asserts that the cancellation was announced January 17, 2002, which is confirmed by a contemporaneous Aintitcool.com news report. In any case, only a season and a half worth of episodes were produced, so I'm not sure I understand your quibbling.

boy, you completely misread me.

i think zim is great, and i thought kayla's mashup was cool. otherwise i wouldn't have posted about it at all.

what continues to astonish me about the culture that we live in is how swedish animators and vocal impressionists get mixed in with commercial ringtone companies and cancelled animated series and teenagers on youtube. it's one glorious mashup, and i'm all for it. i'm sorry my enthusiasm got interpreted as snark.

but it's true, isn't it, that everything these days, no matter good or bad, gets a cult following?

Ok, I read that Washington Post piece:

"Despite our disagreements, I have always shared Kuo's view that liberals who care about the poor should be less squeamish about building stronger alliances between government and religiously based social action work. Government can do things the religious and community groups can't, but the religious and community groups can do things government can't."

You can count me down as one of those liberals who are squeamish about stronger alliances between government and _anything_ religious-based.

You know, the enemy of your enemy is not always your friend. Conservatives mobilizing the power of religion have done untold damage to this country over the last six years.

Having now taken time to read the interview of David Kuo on Salon today, I'd just like to add that I wrote what I wrote before learning that Kuo was a former speechwriter for Ralph Reed and Pat Robertson.

He sounds contrite in his interview with Salon. He should be.

Aha! A search-and-replace I ran at the last minute to fix the spelling of cachaca so that it included the right funky character, ended up changing the TED url too. It's fixed now.

looks like copyedit fixed that before I got to it.

i've updated the story and i'll post the link here as well

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116173235311802693.html?mod=hps_us_editors_picks

I was confused by the date at the top of the PDF which was Sept 6, and didn't realize until now that the PDF actually puts together articles from several different issues.

learn something new every day. the lesson: never take the easy joke about windmills. a turbine blade will slice your head off.

we were just catching that.

my apologies.

i am a bit addled by the last 24 hours.

Thanks, removed him from the list of incumbents.

The lack of songbirds is noted in eucalyptus forests in California, because the local fauna did not evolve along with the gum trees. Different story in Australia, naturally...

I had no idea there were so many Michigan grads lurking around here -- including a coresident of my dorm! I was in Kelsey House, jlooney -- where were you?

I'll swap that back in when I get a chance. When I posted, the site was down for some unknown reason, so I had to use the google cached version...

Those are some good insights, jesse. I'm going to link to your letter from the original post. But I'd be interested in your take on Brown's analysis, because from his interpretation the law does seem to remedy some serious shortcomings -- for example, employers will often refuse to sign or offer labor contracts to workers, and then use the _absence_ of a contract as proof that they are not legally obligated to pay the worker what they owe him/her...

...have some issues. I actually have an appointment with the opthalmologist in January that I think will result in a stronger prescription. But it's probably just normal aging stuff.

In any case, reading these flattering responses already reminds me of a gaping omission in my anniversary: a heartfelt thank you to all of you. It's not just the quality of the responses, which, in my mind, keep getting better and better as we all put our heads together and try to figure this stuff out.

But frankly, there's nothing a writer appreciates more than being read. And given the state of web metrics, I know exactly how much I am being read. And the numbers keep rising, which encourages me to engage even more. It's a virtuous cycle, with no end in sight.

good catch, i'll fix!

i would love to give each and every one of you a Big Fat Editor's Choice Star....

...but it would be unseemly.

Sorry, everyone, an editing error based on a misinterpretation of a line in the story led to the description of Popeye as an immigrant. It was incorrect, we regret the error, and it's been fixed. Thanks for helping us see the error of our ways.

... or at least some of them, are reviewed in detail in the summary of research into organic yield that I linked to in the story:

http://nature.berkeley.edu/~christos/espm118/articles/organic_feed_world.pdf?

hardly an impartial umpire, but a start.

Nuttree is right -- Madison started curbside recycling in 1968, -- Berkeley's first program didn't start until 1973. I'll update the piece.

thanks

i knew that!

thanks, fixed.

dirty little secret -- Salon's bloggers write their own headlines. i am abashed. I took four years of Latin in high school.

I think, Serai, if you followed any of the links to the press coverage of Kiva or looked around the site itself, your worries about the trustworthiness of the operation would be assuaged. It's not just the silicon valley blue-chip board directors and advisers -- the loan applicants also appear to go through a pretty thorough vetting process.

is linked to from my original piece.

just sayin'