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Remember wacky American commentator Ann Coulter, she of Newsnight fame? Well, apparently her brand of right-wing lunacy knows no bounds:

Ms. COULTER: I think that sort of rampant promiscuity does show some level of latent homosexuality.

DEUTSCH: OK, I think you need to say that again. That Bill Clinton, you think on some level, has — is a latent homosexual, is that what you’re saying?

Ms. COULTER: Yeah. I mean, not sort of just completely anonymous — I don’t know if you read the Starr report, the rest of us were glued to it, I have many passages memorized. No, there was more plot and dialogue in a porno movie.

Read the transcript from Wonkette to get the full effect. Warning: may contain nuts.

(Via Crooks and Liars, which also reports her more succinct comment about Clinton’s VP: “Al Gore — total fag”.)

Yes, my chickadees, I know you’ve been champing at the bit for the latest Library of Congress/Dewey Decimal System subject mappings, so here, my gift to you, is a veritable smorgasbord. Tuck in. These numbers come from here, here, here, here and here.

• Rhyming number: Barbadian Canadians – 305.896972981071
• Most Victorian number: Baker Street Irregulars (Fictitious characters) – 823.914
• Hang on, it’s on the tip of my tongue…: Amnesiacs – 616.852320092
• New word for your vocabulary: Krumping – 793.3
• “A voice in my head told me to do it”: Mental illness in the Bible – 220.83622
• Monsters in the next series of Doctor Who: Active food packaging – 664.09
• Most boring number: Cavity wall insulation – 693.832
• Most boring number: Micro-drilling – 621.952
• Been there, done that: Low-income college students – 378.19826942
• Erm, the German Embassy: 21-23 Belgrave Square (London, England) – 725.17
• Most fun number: Alton Towers (England) – 791.06842514
• Most hairy number: Beards in literature – 808.803559
• Another new word for your vocabulary: Washint – 788.35
• Most pointless number: Electric engineers’ spouses – 621.3092
• Careful now: Christmas trees–Fires and fire prevention – 363.379
• Most Scottish number: Balamory (Scotland : Imaginary place) – 791.4572
• Most obscure illness number: Pseudoxanthoma elasticum – 616.5
• Really young professionals: Child psychoanalysts – 618.928917092
• Josiah Bartlet and David Palmer don’t qualify, sadly: Presidents in motion pictures – 791.43658
• Although they do do this (only one digit different): International relations on television – 791.45658
• Long tunnel: Mont Blanc Tunnel (France and Italy) – 624.1920944584
• Long number: Hurricane Katrina, 2005 – 551.5520916364090511

The mind boggles why “Electric engineers’ spouses” would be a useful subject term. Still, it only takes one book about them to require the classification…

Dr Dave of Spam Karma fame warns of a potential security risk:

If you are running WordPress as your blogging platform and if you have been trusting enough to leave User registration enabled for guests, DISABLE IT IMMEDIATELY (in wp-admin >> options: make sure “Anyone can register” is not checked).

Additionally, delete or disable ANY guest account already created by people you are not sure about.

Leaving it open and letting people sign-up for guest accounts on your WordPress blog could lead to incredibly nasty stuff happening if anybody so desired. And trust me I am not exaggerating this. So don’t wait a second to disable this option and please relay the message.

He has taken some flak for this (as it’s not, AFAIK, backed up by the official WordPress folk) and I’m not making a recommendation one way or the other (I already had that option off), but any readers who do allow users to register on their WordPress blog should have a read and make up their own minds.

Update: A new version of WordPress has been released which apparently resolves this security issue.