Ace of Spades HQ

Amazon.com Widgets

Now Available!
The Deplorable Gourmet
A Horde-sourced Cookbook
[All profits go to charity]

Top Headlines

The Michelin Man logo began as a creepy Cthuluesque abomination

Some Invisible Man costumes (which I hope aren't just AI):
An invisible man with a missing body (I assume the real person is *behind* the costume;
A kid in the same kind of costume, put together by his mom;
another invisible man;
and another great Invisible Man costume, my favorite.

Email confirmed as once used by the Muskily Heterosexual James Talarico found in leak of emails of Fling.com sex dating site:

An email address that James Talarico's attorneys confirmed belonged to and was at one time used by the Texas Democratic U.S. Senate candidate appears in a database search result associated with the adult dating website Fling.com's 2011 data breach. A Fling.com account was created with Talarico's email address just before Talarico began teaching sixth graders.

The result lists the username "mohawk787" and an account creation timestamp of December 26, 2010, at 20:56:49. The profile's interests field lists "FETISH," "GROUPSEX," "SEXUAL RELATIONS," "ONLINE FLIRTING," and "OTHER."

Townhall shared the information described in this article with the Talarico campaign and requested comment Friday morning, and in response, a mere 35 minutes later, received a four-page, detailed letter from legal counsel for Talarico that addressed some, but not all of the information described in this report.

"Well I can't believe the trans-child-obsessed Confirmed Bachelor James Talarico is into group fetish shit," said noted void phantom Doctor Nullity, The Man Who Never Existed

I'm not the guy who noted this, I saw it on X (Razib Khan maybe), but The Bulwark could be "audience capture". It might have started as the Frum / 90s-Kristol / NRO classic Eisenhower Republicanism. But nobody was reading the Bulwark except leftists.

Tallyrand has a quote on this, "I am their leader so I must follow them".

Same goes for David French, Christianity Today, and the "Anxious Bench" side of Patheos. They may have started out Christian. But it wasn't Christians signing their checks.

Posted by: 88C+u at

Some researchers think the enigmatic and unreadable cipher of the Voynich Manuscript has resisted decipherment because the pages were bound in the wrong order, and putting them in the right order might allow them to finally break the code
But as of now: No Joy
It occurs to me that a key step in breaking the Zodiac 340 cipher was putting the three parts of it in the correct order.

Flashback: "trans man" Lawyer freaks out after a judge denies "his" motion. He's ultimately arrested. "He" makes so much drama he was just recruited to develop a new CW show.
I'm just wondering if this flighty high-calorie pyrsyn is also in the news today for other reasons....
Update: No, it's not. Zee/Zem says they's name is like "Rob Hopkins" or something.
Story here, courtesy of The Blade

Buck Throckmorton on The Continuing Crisis (American Spectator) podcast discusses prediction markets.
[CBD]

Forgotten 80s Mystery Click

[Song title]
Don't breathe down my neck, no
I got no trophies on display
I sign them away
I mean what the heck
All of your promises
Don't fill me with pride no
I just wanna get out on the floor
And do the Cuban slide, slide, slide, slide

From Anonosaurus Wrecks:

@NBCNews

Although Brazil's presidential election took place more than 4,000 miles away, the baseless conspiracy theory that it was stolen raced through the American right-wing media.

Podcast: The Brazil and Israel elections, the evil left, and more!

John Kass retires
He's great. He'll be missed.

Lieutenant Chekov surrenders the helm at age 90

SpaceX launch scheduled for 6:28 Eastern/3:28 Pacific
Via Joyenz

Podcast: Corporate GOP is scum, Paris is burning, Omar is not a political prosecution, elections! and Slotkin says the quiet part out loud!

Supreme Court to hear arguments on 160-year-ban on home distilleries
It's about time they took on an important case! [CBD]

We call on France to exercise restraint when dispersing the freedom fighters on the streets of Paris. These brave warriors for justice must receive immediate humanitarian aid, and their safety must be guaranteed in accordance with international law. Failure to comply will leave us no choice but to bring a case before the ICJ, in close cooperation with that renowned champion of human rights, Afghanistan.

-- Israel War Room
[CBD]

Forgotten 80s Mystery Click: Garrett's Sus iPod Edition
Everybody wants you
Everybody wants your love
I'd just like to make you mine, all mine
Just imagine he's singing that to a dude.
BTW I thought this was a completely different band from Garrett's Sus iPod, the Bay City Rollers.

TJM discusses the history of Hammer Films

Podcast: The Nobel Peace Prize farce, Ilhan Omar in hot water, Talarico's disappearance, Guilfoyle is a crook, Should Nidal's execution be streamed, Bugs Bunny, and more!

Recent Comments

[/i]SpeakingOf: "Both times... no real results... and the lose the ..."

OrangeEnt: "I was counting on that five grand.... ..."

LASue: "I think the dems lost 12-13 governor positions in ..."

OrangeEnt: "Looks like it was a day for perverts and foreigner ..."

a dude in MI: "might as well pass some bills, lost anyways ya tur ..."

Skip: "That was a horrible night ..."

gop: "bein in charge is hard, YO! ..."

Arbalest: " 1064 Romeo13 [i]Dems won't fix anything... t ..."

tcn in AK: "God alone knows what the election results will be ..."

OrangeEnt: "Huh? Voter ID passed. Oh, but so did kill your chi ..."

NCKate: "Maybe Fetterman crosses the aisle. ..."

LASue: "Obama's midterm cost the dems 64 house seats Ho ..."

Bloggers in Arms

Some Humorous Asides

Kaboom!

Thanksgivingmanship: How to Deal With Your Spoiled Stupid Leftist Adultbrat Relatives Who Have Spent Three Months Reading Slate and Vox Learning How to Deal With You

You're Fired! Donald Trump Grills the 2004 Democrat Candidates and Operatives on Their Election Loss
Bizarrely I had a perfect Donald Trump voice going in 2004 and then literally never used it again, even when he was running for president.

A Eulogy In Advance for Former Lincoln Project Associate and Noted Twitter Pestilence Tom Nichols

Special Guest Blogger Rich "Psycho" Giamboni: If You Touch My Sandwich One More Time, I Will Fvcking Kill You

Special Guest Blogger Rich "Psycho" Giamboni: I Must Eat Jim Acosta

Special Guest Blogger Tom Friedman: We Need to Talk About What My Egyptian Cab Driver Told Me About Globalization Shortly Before He Began to Murder Me

Special Guest Blogger Bernard Henri-Levy: I rise in defense of my very good friend Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Note: Later events actually proved Dominique Strauss-Kahn completely innocent. The piece is still funny though -- if you pretend, for five minutes, that he was guilty.

The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon

A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates

Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree

Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility

The Dowd-O-Matic!

The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)


Advertise Here! Intermarkets' Privacy Policy Support Donate to Ace of Spades HQ! Contact Ace: aceofspadeshq at gee mail.com Buck: buck.throckmorton at protonmail.com CBD: cbd at cutjibnewsletter.com Doof: doof2112 at proton.me joe mannix: mannix2024 at proton.me MisHum: petmorons at gee mail.com J.J. Sefton: sefton at cutjibnewsletter.com Recent Entries Daily Tech News 4 November 2026 Election Night ONT DDHQ Projects Democrats Will Take the House Election Results Thread The Door to Nowhere Cafe More Election Rumors and Innuendoes Hillary Clinton's Chief Conspiracy Theorist Marc Elias Receives DOJ Letter Informing Him He Is a CRIMINAL TARGET 20 Other Democrat Criminals Targeted Election Day News Deranged Alcoholic Femcel Hillary Clinton and the High-Calorie Cretins of The View Say That Trump Will #Hack the Election Using Mind Control Ilhan Nur Said Elmi Wrote, In Her Certficate for Her Marriage to Her Brother, That Her Given Name Was "Elmi" Absent Friends Captain Whitebread 2026 Jon Ekdahl 2026 Jay Guevara 2025 Jim Sunk New Dawn 2025 Jewells45 2025 Bandersnatch 2024 GnuBreed 2024 Captain Hate 2023 moon_over_vermont 2023 westminsterdogshow 2023 Ann Wilson(Empire1) 2022 Dave In Texas 2022 Jesse in D.C. 2022 OregonMuse 2022 redc1c4 2021 Tami 2021 Chavez the Hugo 2020 Ibguy 2020 Rickl 2019 Joffen 2014 AoSHQ Writers Group A site for members of the Horde to post their stories seeking beta readers, editing help, brainstorming, and story ideas. Also to share links to potential publishing outlets, writing help sites, and videos posting tips to get published. Contact OrangeEnt for info: maildrop62 at proton dot me Cutting The Cord And Email Security Cutting The Cord [Joe Mannix (not a cop)] Cutting The Cord: It's Easier Than You Think [Blaster] Private Email and Secure Signatures [Hogmartin] Moron Meet-Ups Texas MoMe 2026: 10/16/2026-10/17/2026 Corsicana,TX Contact Ben Had for info	« Open Source Confusion \| Main \| National Guardsman Offers Advice On How To Kill... American Soldiers » November 17, 2005 Open Source Respectability? One good thing about the project is that it has attracted MSM attention, and therefore some additional general-public attention as well -- raising the profile of blogs, even for blogs not part of the OSM network, or whatever it is. That's a good thing, I think. Advertisers are people, and people make decisions for dubious reasons all the time. Hollywood is more likely to make a movie out of a book, for example -- even if it's a bad book, that no executive has actually bothered to read -- because there is a reassurance in holding that book in their hands. It's something concrete. It's real. It's not just a "premise" or a "concept" or even a spec script. They can carry that book -- that little signifier, that 300 page reifier -- and show it to investors and say, "This is the thing we're making a movie about. This real thing, which you can touch and feel and even smell, if you like smelling books." (And, frankly, who doesn't?) Similarly, major advertisers, who have been reluctant to advertise on blogs despite the fact that the cost-per-eyeball is far lower than the CPM for placing ads in magazines and on TV -- might now see that there's a "real business" out there called blogs and decide that OSM -- with its investors, its incorporation, its editorial board, etc. -- now signifies a certain reassuring amount of professionalism and take-it-seriously-ism. That little intangible could be the key to the whole deal's success or failure. Advertisers have known about blogs for years, of course, and some corporations have even set up their own blogs. But will OSM reassure them further that this is a real thing? Will OSM let them finally smell it? posted by Ace at 05:35 PM Comments At the risk of facing a dreaded Protein Wisdom smack-down and being compared to Ann Althouse on PMS, I'm just gonna go ahead and say that having a joke post on the front page under "Best of the Blogs" isn't really the best way to convey "respectability". Posted by: sandy burger on November 17, 2005 05:45 PM Hey Ace, Don't sell your stock in Val-U-Rite just yet there, hotshot. Posted by: sentinel on November 17, 2005 06:02 PM The one thing that seems to be missing in your book to movie analogy is "they". Who is they? In the movie business "they" are producers. They take the book and sell the concept to the studios, backers, etc. Networks, magazines, newspapers....they have whole departments who do nothing but demographic studies of their audience to sell the concept to advertisers. Who's gonna do this for blogs? These things aren't gonna sell themselves. You are "they". It's not their job to see it. It's your job to show them. Another small problem. Internet advertising to date in a word, sucks. It is uninteresting and usually more annoying than intriguing. This isn't a newspaper and its not TV. Its the only truly interactive and real time medium out there where advertisers can talk directly to consumers, and here's the cool part, consumers can immediately talk back. Stop using repurposed traditional advertising and use the tools you now have. Stop thinking sticky eyeballs. Your not selling to vulture capitalists. Start proving to advertisers who your audience is and help them come up with creative ways to present their products in a more appealing way. You want val-u-rite hangovers and asian hookers your gonna have to do more than just be a good blogger. Posted by: JackStraw on November 17, 2005 06:47 PM Having looked around the so-called "blogosphere" a bit, I've concluded that the best thing about OSM is all the bad blood it's stirring up among bloggers. Wow! Sorry to sound like the jerk I really am, but it's funny watching them all fight amongst themselves. I'm reminded of a comment Dave made on this blog once: It used to be about the music, man! Posted by: sandy burger on November 18, 2005 02:58 AM Mmmm i would love to see Michelle Malkin get into a cat fight with another hot blogger. Posted by: isayalotofthings on November 18, 2005 04:07 AM Post a comment Name: Email Address: URL: Comments: Remember info?	Now Available! The Deplorable Gourmet A Horde-sourced Cookbook [All profits go to charity] Top Headlines The Michelin Man logo began as a creepy Cthuluesque abomination TJM defends the musical Some Invisible Man costumes (which I hope aren't just AI): An invisible man with a missing body (I assume the real person is behind the costume; A kid in the same kind of costume, put together by his mom; another invisible man; and another great Invisible Man costume, my favorite. Email confirmed as once used by the Muskily Heterosexual James Talarico found in leak of emails of Fling.com sex dating site: An email address that James Talarico's attorneys confirmed belonged to and was at one time used by the Texas Democratic U.S. Senate candidate appears in a database search result associated with the adult dating website Fling.com's 2011 data breach. A Fling.com account was created with Talarico's email address just before Talarico began teaching sixth graders. The result lists the username "mohawk787" and an account creation timestamp of December 26, 2010, at 20:56:49. The profile's interests field lists "FETISH," "GROUPSEX," "SEXUAL RELATIONS," "ONLINE FLIRTING," and "OTHER." Townhall shared the information described in this article with the Talarico campaign and requested comment Friday morning, and in response, a mere 35 minutes later, received a four-page, detailed letter from legal counsel for Talarico that addressed some, but not all of the information described in this report. "Well I can't believe the trans-child-obsessed Confirmed Bachelor James Talarico is into group fetish shit," said noted void phantom Doctor Nullity, The Man Who Never Existed I'm not the guy who noted this, I saw it on X (Razib Khan maybe), but The Bulwark could be "audience capture". It might have started as the Frum / 90s-Kristol / NRO classic Eisenhower Republicanism. But nobody was reading the Bulwark except leftists. Tallyrand has a quote on this, "I am their leader so I must follow them". Same goes for David French, Christianity Today, and the "Anxious Bench" side of Patheos. They may have started out Christian. But it wasn't Christians signing their checks. Posted by: 88C+u at Some researchers think the enigmatic and unreadable cipher of the Voynich Manuscript has resisted decipherment because the pages were bound in the wrong order, and putting them in the right order might allow them to finally break the code But as of now: No Joy It occurs to me that a key step in breaking the Zodiac 340 cipher was putting the three parts of it in the correct order. Flashback: "trans man" Lawyer freaks out after a judge denies "his" motion. He's ultimately arrested. "He" makes so much drama he was just recruited to develop a new CW show. I'm just wondering if this flighty high-calorie pyrsyn is also in the news today for other reasons.... Update: No, it's not. Zee/Zem says they's name is like "Rob Hopkins" or something. Story here, courtesy of The Blade Buck Throckmorton on The Continuing Crisis (American Spectator) podcast discusses prediction markets. [CBD] Forgotten 80s Mystery Click [Song title] Don't breathe down my neck, no I got no trophies on display I sign them away I mean what the heck All of your promises Don't fill me with pride no I just wanna get out on the floor And do the Cuban slide, slide, slide, slide From Anonosaurus Wrecks: @NBCNews Although Brazil's presidential election took place more than 4,000 miles away, the baseless conspiracy theory that it was stolen raced through the American right-wing media. Podcast: The Brazil and Israel elections, the evil left, and more! John Kass retires He's great. He'll be missed. Lieutenant Chekov surrenders the helm at age 90 SpaceX launch scheduled for 6:28 Eastern/3:28 Pacific Via Joyenz Podcast: Corporate GOP is scum, Paris is burning, Omar is not a political prosecution, elections! and Slotkin says the quiet part out loud! Supreme Court to hear arguments on 160-year-ban on home distilleries It's about time they took on an important case! [CBD] We call on France to exercise restraint when dispersing the freedom fighters on the streets of Paris. These brave warriors for justice must receive immediate humanitarian aid, and their safety must be guaranteed in accordance with international law. Failure to comply will leave us no choice but to bring a case before the ICJ, in close cooperation with that renowned champion of human rights, Afghanistan. -- Israel War Room [CBD] Forgotten 80s Mystery Click: Garrett's Sus iPod Edition Everybody wants you Everybody wants your love I'd just like to make you mine, all mine Just imagine he's singing that to a dude. BTW I thought this was a completely different band from Garrett's Sus iPod, the Bay City Rollers. TJM discusses the history of Hammer Films Podcast: The Nobel Peace Prize farce, Ilhan Omar in hot water, Talarico's disappearance, Guilfoyle is a crook, Should Nidal's execution be streamed, Bugs Bunny, and more! Recent Comments [/i]SpeakingOf: "Both times... no real results... and the lose the ..." OrangeEnt: "I was counting on that five grand.... ..." LASue: "I think the dems lost 12-13 governor positions in ..." OrangeEnt: "Looks like it was a day for perverts and foreigner ..." a dude in MI: "might as well pass some bills, lost anyways ya tur ..." Skip: "That was a horrible night ..." gop: "bein in charge is hard, YO! ..." Arbalest: " 1064 Romeo13 [i]Dems won't fix anything... t ..." tcn in AK: "God alone knows what the election results will be ..." OrangeEnt: "Huh? Voter ID passed. Oh, but so did kill your chi ..." NCKate: "Maybe Fetterman crosses the aisle. ..." LASue: "Obama's midterm cost the dems 64 house seats Ho ..." Bloggers in Arms RI Red's Blog! Behind The Black CutJibNewsletter The Pipeline Second City Cop Talk Of The Town with Steve Noxon Belmont Club Chicago Boyz Cold Fury Da Goddess Daily Pundit Dawn Eden Day by Day (Cartoon) EduWonk Enter Stage Right The Epoch Times Grim's Hall Victor Davis Hanson Hugh Hewitt IMAO Instapundit JihadWatch Kausfiles Lileks/The Bleat Memeorandum (Metablog) Outside the Beltway Patterico's Pontifications The People's Cube Powerline RedState Reliapundit Viking Pundit WizBang Some Humorous Asides Kaboom! Thanksgivingmanship: How to Deal With Your Spoiled Stupid Leftist Adultbrat Relatives Who Have Spent Three Months Reading Slate and Vox Learning How to Deal With You You're Fired! Donald Trump Grills the 2004 Democrat Candidates and Operatives on Their Election Loss Bizarrely I had a perfect Donald Trump voice going in 2004 and then literally never used it again, even when he was running for president. A Eulogy In Advance for Former Lincoln Project Associate and Noted Twitter Pestilence Tom Nichols Special Guest Blogger Rich "Psycho" Giamboni: If You Touch My Sandwich One More Time, I Will Fvcking Kill You Special Guest Blogger Rich "Psycho" Giamboni: I Must Eat Jim Acosta Special Guest Blogger Tom Friedman: We Need to Talk About What My Egyptian Cab Driver Told Me About Globalization Shortly Before He Began to Murder Me Special Guest Blogger Bernard Henri-Levy: I rise in defense of my very good friend Dominique Strauss-Kahn Note: Later events actually proved Dominique Strauss-Kahn completely innocent. The piece is still funny though -- if you pretend, for five minutes, that he was guilty. The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility The Dowd-O-Matic! The Donkey ("The Raven" parody) Archives November 2026 October 2026 September 2026 August 2026 July 2026 June 2026 May 2026 April 2026 March 2026 February 2026 January 2026 December 2025 November 2025 October 2025 September 2025 August 2025 July 2025 June 2025 May 2025 April 2025 March 2025 February 2025 January 2025 December 2024 November 2024 October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 July 2024 June 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024 February 2024 January 2024 December 2023 November 2023 October 2023 September 2023 August 2023 July 2023 June 2023 May 2023 April 2023 March 2023 February 2023 January 2023 December 2022 November 2022 October 2022 September 2022 August 2022 July 2022 June 2022 May 2022 April 2022 March 2022 February 2022 January 2022 December 2021 November 2021 October 2021 September 2021 August 2021 July 2021 June 2021 May 2021 April 2021 March 2021 February 2021 January 2021 December 2020 November 2020 October 2020 September 2020 August 2020 July 2020 June 2020 May 2020 April 2020 March 2020 February 2020 January 2020 December 2019 November 2019 October 2019 September 2019 August 2019 July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 January 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 December 0000 Syndicate this site (XML) Powered by Movable Type 2.64

Open Source Respectability?