Posted 50 days ago
freedom is a red hot ball of iron that you can neither swallow nor spit out
in Freedom of Speech
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in Freedom of Speech
Posted 51 days ago
I'm a big fan of Judy Blume. _Forever_ was a great novel.
in Grapes Of Wrath' And The Politics of Book Burning
Posted 54 days ago
A bit of international politics. Seems like everything is about energy these days ..
in What's Happening in Bolivia & Venezuela
Posted 57 days ago
Did you ever have one of those dreams where you wake up one day, and it's the day of the big final exam, and you haven't studied, and you forgot to drop the class, and so you go to take the exam anyway, and you don't know any of the answers, and ...
in McCain seeks to delay debate
Posted 58 days ago
Thank goodness Whole Foods is now carrying this.
in Baby Nasal Aspirator - Nosefrida
Posted 59 days ago
as one commenter said, "He was trying to use up his minutes."
in California Train Crash victim’s cell phone made numerous calls to Family after his death
Posted 60 days ago
and, as is noted in the story and elsewhere, the legislation attempts to put its own powers beyond judicial review: "Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency."
in Financial Crisis Legislation May Give Government Veto Power over Management Decisions at Financial Institutions
Posted 60 days ago
Very cool! You might consider creating a Babbledog cause for the WSPA! Then download a cause widget and put it on your web pages, to show that you support WSPA at Babbledog.
in World animal week 2008
Posted 62 days ago
what a long, strange campaign it's been
in Members of the Dead to play fundraiser for Obama (AP)
Posted 65 days ago
Pimco TR is one of those rock-solid funds that makes up double-digit shares of the retirement portfolios of a lot of people who are nearing retirement age. I hope the total exposure to AIG and similar "can't fail" corporate paper is relatively small.
in Conservative Bond Funds Watch Nervously As Credit Swap Spreads Widen
Posted 66 days ago
wow, looks like a great read. should make us look a little more kindly upon the Demosthenes in our lives .. better to be reviled than forgotten!
in Review: Philip II of Macedonia by Ian Worthington
Posted 66 days ago
Pretty spooky.
in "Beat The Clock" : Traders Race to Unwind Lehman Derivative Exposures, Prevent Global Financial Meltdown
Posted 73 days ago
I had never heard of Fairhope, Alabama. The name is not an accident, apparently. The history is actually pretty interesting. This little place must have had 112 uninterrupted years of Angry Letters to the Editor and Worst Mayor in History and Time for a New Vision and the like.
in Tim Kant and Dean Mosher to face one another in Fairhope, Alabama runoff
Posted 74 days ago
Interesting, citing Kurdish PKK as agents of Russia to close the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline (as they did, in the week immediately preceding the Russian invasion of Georgia).
in Window on Eurasia: Moscow Wins a Major Victory on Pipelines
Posted 74 days ago
Watching the press conference, what I'm struck by is the undertone of fear. I hear voices quivering as they work to get out the harsh words that the markets have to digest by tomorrow morning.
in US Treasury Nationalizes Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae
Posted 82 days ago
Bad timing for the Republican Convention. You can't reschedule a convention, and you can't reschedule a hurricane. This media disaster is predicted to strengthen rapidly in the warm waters of the blogosphere. Take shelter now -- if you can find any!
in Time To Evacuate New Orleans Again | Jeff Masters
Posted 83 days ago
McCain seems to have made a choice based on pretty shallow, cynical considerations. Hint: it's not a sophisticated media strategy if the person on the street can tell they're being manipulated, and doesn't like it.
in Sarah Palin, Alaska's GILF - CafePress
Posted 84 days ago
Wow, what a loss. I loved the Anthology when it came out -- it transformed my understanding of the Beatles, which I had thought was pretty complete up to that point. It's a great legacy.
in Beatles pay tribute to Beatles Anthology producer Chips Chipperfield
Posted 86 days ago
Many people have noted: if you use a lot of coupons, you'll end up eating a lot of worthless food, since those are the kinds of mass market brands that put muscle behind coupon promotions. Coupons for organics and healthy food are pretty hard to come by.
in Thrift
Posted 90 days ago
"Self-proclaimed "greatest prank evar" required 18 months, $390 million in prep work"
in Obama Names Rick Astley as Running Mate
Posted 90 days ago
Yahoo! Buzz has really come out of nowhere and garnered an impressive mass audience, compared to the others mentioned
in Yahoo opens Digg rival to all publishers
Posted Aug 21, 2008
xavier: I agree with you totally: bullfighting is deeply offensive.
in Lithuanian basketball players or bull fighters…
Posted Aug 20, 2008
Looks like you're an accessory to thoughtcrime, citizen. Please step away from the keyboard and sit comfortably. Representatives of the state will be by shortly to begin your reeducation.
in MBTA Court Documents from the "Subway Hack"
Posted Aug 19, 2008
except for the painful landing-on-the-ground portion of the exercise
in Kite Surfing Tropical Storm Fay
Posted Aug 19, 2008
they may sit forever in the courts of boston .. they're the kids who never returned
in MIT student defends MBTA hacking research
Posted Aug 10, 2008
"Bla bla bla Georgia mumble Iran bla bla Nucular bla bla. It's miller time!"
in Cheeky George Bush works up a sweat getting to know the women's volleyball team
Posted Aug 08, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_PuAqRQLKA .. some fine, fine character acting by Morgan Freeman and Rita Moreno
in Electric Company typography
Posted Aug 07, 2008
now that I see the 'bus rage' advertising connection, I have to wonder whether this wasn't a viral PR buy gone wrong. or right, depending on your definition of brand engagement and awareness.
in Greyhound scraps ads after Canada bus beheading
Posted Aug 04, 2008
Interesting. Going by their positions during the primary, you'd think that picking Hillary would be a move toward the center (not as much as picking a pro-life VP, but ... :) ) But I think the risk of galvanizing the far right and reviving their enthusiasm for McCain would be too high a price to pay.
in Picking 'Genuinely Pro-Life' Running Mate Would Be 'Revolutionary Decision' By Obama, Opinion Piece Says
Posted Aug 01, 2008
This is exactly what I said when I established "breezy kilt thursdays" and nobody took me seriously.
in Shorts Crack the Code
Posted Jul 31, 2008
http://www.balmex.com .. no contest
in What's the best diaper rash cream if you have reeeeeaaally bad diaper rash?
Posted Jul 28, 2008
As has been noted elsewhere, WTF is this doing in the Style and Leisure section? C'mon, New York Times.
in Blogging’s Glass Ceiling - NYTimes.com
Posted Jul 28, 2008
It's still true, though, what the Rain Man said: "Quantas never crash."
in Qantas emergency landing could have been caused by spilled coffee
Posted Jul 27, 2008
Aaaaaand.... Google walks away. So frustrating!
in Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For “Around $200 Million”
Posted Jul 24, 2008
"Kobierowski was taken to Rhode Island Hospital where he was put in the detoxification unit and sedated." SEDATED?! You have to ask if that was strictly necessary.
in RI cops arrest man with .491 blood alcohol level
Posted Jul 18, 2008
genius.
in Law Blog - WSJ.com : Covington Partner Demonstrates Treatment of Detainees
Posted Jul 14, 2008
is it just me, or does the trefoil CPF logo make anyone a little nervous? :) it seems like an inappropriate visual joke to be carrying through security
in Checkpoint friendly laptop bags will soon be a reality
Posted Jul 13, 2008
Tanned, rested, and ready! And better qualified than any body.
in Nixon's Head 4 President in 08
Posted Jul 10, 2008
A classic essay about fake money.
in Why the global financial system is about to collapse
Posted Jul 10, 2008
People watch golf on TV because people put golf on TV. If people put cockroach races on TV, people would watch that too. And they would wear teeny tiny nike swooshes on their carapaces.
in Woods will become world's first billionaire athlete by 2010
Posted Jul 10, 2008
Bloomberg does a better job than anyone at filtering and presenting this kind of news. I hope the recent shakeups in their news organization don't change that.
in Spying on the World's Largest Power Utility
Posted Jul 10, 2008
If you're into constitutional theory, this paper and the recent supreme court decision about habeas corpus rights at gitmo make good reading. Sovereignty is a slippery thing. Good thing we're not about building global empires any more!
in Eleven Months and a Hundred Yards Short of Citizenship
Posted Jul 09, 2008
2008 isn't over yet, but "Thriller" is still a safe choice ;)
in Geeky list time: Pick an album for every year you've been alive | The A.V. Club
Posted Jun 30, 2008
They clearly didn't get Frank Oz to reprise the voice of Yoda. That kills it for me, right there.
in "Star Wars: Clone Wars," trailer 2
Posted Jun 30, 2008
or stealing the dead themselves. or killing people while stealing from them. I think someone hasn't really worked out the full matrix of behaviors here.
in Economic Slump Leads to Resurgence of Grave Robbing
Posted Jun 30, 2008
Second runner-up in the "netflix alternative business plans" competition.
in Rent-a-Dildo.com - How It Works
Posted Jun 29, 2008
backstory: http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2008/06/moon-over-a-rui.html
in Wil Wheaton's Hawaii Vacation photos
Posted Jun 29, 2008
http://www.shedworking.co.uk/index.html
in Build your next home office in a shed
Posted Jun 27, 2008
I guess this is why so many great Canadian comedians have felt obliged to come south of the border to enjoy freedom of speech, eh? Also to make money and avoid freezing to death.
in Comic faces human rights hearing in B.C. after lesbian jokes
Posted Jun 27, 2008
the good news: you can live forever. the bad news: we all have to grow a really long beard.
in Aubrey de Grey: Why we age and how we can avoid it
Posted Jun 27, 2008
obama photographed wearing iconic white earbuds == "powerful brand synergy"
in Barack Obama and his iPod: Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen
Posted Jun 27, 2008
I love the idea that google's aggregate data is a more accurate guide to what the public believes and does than you can get by asking the public what it believes and does. The slippery slope toward a government panopticon just got a little more slippery.
in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Orgy : Sexual hypocrisy and the Internet.
Posted Jun 27, 2008
pretty trivial. the regime's engineers have a lot of experience building large concrete edifices :)
in N. Korea destroys nuclear reactor tower
Posted Jun 26, 2008
nice concept, not taken far enough. I'd like to see a book that comes with, say, a sampling of beverages to be enjoyed with each chapter. or maybe a collection of unusual hats. you would wear the appropriate hats as you worked your way through the book. readers would recognize each other on the street. "oh look, three more chapter sevens."
in Neal Stephenson's new book, Anathem, will come with a CD of music.
Posted Jun 24, 2008
"To keep the Nutraloaf test authentic, I mandated that my guests eat with their hands; plus, after sneaking in that taste of Illinois earlier in the day, I was worried someone might stab me if I let them use utensils." heh
in Taste-Testing Nutraloaf : The prison food that just might be unconstitutionally bad.
Posted Jun 23, 2008
Tragedy at the racetrack .. a sport that kills drivers nearly every year, and yet the drivers and fans keep coming back, for all the reasons that xViPiR cited when he posted this video.
in YouTube - Scott Kalitta Fatal Crash 6/21/08
Posted Jun 22, 2008
Cool! I love interactive fiction. It's sad when a literary form is completely dissed because it's not commercially viable.
in 1up.com's Top 5 Introductory Interactive Fiction Games
Posted Jun 21, 2008
in case you havent heard, the dot com industry is very hot right now and its only getting hotter in the future. also, its not like people are going to stop using the telephone, eh? everyone needs a telephone. it's safe as houses.
in Canadian court lets pension fund buy Bell Canada
Posted Jun 20, 2008
The Babbledog team would like some of these. Thanks in advance.
in Lollyphile: the best & most interesting candy in the world!
Posted Jun 20, 2008
Yahoo's imminent demise has become a true internet meme. This one just keeps getting louder.
in Yahoo Reorg Details
Posted Jun 19, 2008
corbou in lego .. ok, fine, whatever. you wanna impress me, i want to see Gaudi work executed in lego.
in LEGO replica of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye
Posted Jun 18, 2008
watching movies with a font fondler is a terrible experience anyway. it's as if they have typographic tourette's. you're sitting through a quiet scene, and the camera pans across a document, and they snort and yell out "Caslon! CASLON!?"
in Mark Simonson notes that the period typography in the Indiana Jones...
Posted Jun 18, 2008
just elected to congress from maine. hasn't been there enough to learn bad habits.
in Why Obama should pick Hillary Clinton as veep
Posted Jun 17, 2008
just for symmetry
in bSocial Networks Market Lodge Create personalized online stores on social networks
Posted Jun 17, 2008
Seems like a lot of people went out and bought them a big ole television.
in Crazy ways people are spending their stimulus checks
Posted Jun 17, 2008
"A political party built around victimhood will stop at nothing to sabotage its chances of actually achieving its goals." --anon
in Delegate to Democrat Convention: I’m Voting for McCain!
Posted Jun 16, 2008
The miniature golf industry obviously failed to deliver enough lobbying dollars to avoid getting their very own line-item.
in Suggested changes for the Americans with Disabilities Act
Posted Jun 16, 2008
any PR firm who would take this idiot's money in an attempt to boost his visibility to McCain's search team should be taken out behind the barn and killed with a dull axe.
in Brownback: We Depend on Dads
Posted Jun 16, 2008
I got a really cool pair of shorts with a big pocket for my blackberry. My kids all donated blood plasma for six months to save up to buy them, so it counts as a thoughtful gesture. (No, they didn't. I'm joking.)
in What's the best thing to do for Dad on Father's Day?
Posted Jun 13, 2008
I love this press release! It's so authentic! And it makes me hungry!
in McDonald's(R) USA Gives Moms Unprecedented Access to Learn How Chicken McNuggets(R) Are Made
Posted Jun 12, 2008
At first, I thought the Democrat National Convention was being moved from Denver. Wow, thought I, that's change we can believe in! Still, pretty impressive demonstration of executive-leadership-not-washington-politics-as-usual meme-fu.
in Obama moves DNC operations to Chicago
Posted Jun 11, 2008
The grandfather of great american beers only manages to pull a 4% rating (out of 100%).
in Pabst Blue Ribbon [ratebeer.com]
Posted Jun 11, 2008
"As far as the power grid analogy, one of the “Cloud Customers” on the panel, Carolyn Lawson, Chief Information Officer for the California Public Utilities Commission, made a funny quip in her talk about how it might not be the most appropriate and convincing analogy given some of the recent history of California’s power grid." heh
in Enterprise Web 2.0 Conference
Posted Jun 09, 2008
tiny monkey says: ralph wiggum '08! he's younger than mccain, and he can beat obama by a nose.
in May Day Contest: Caption This Photo
Posted Jun 09, 2008
Kinda flat. And apparently the price of sugar and grease is going up.
in Krispy Kreme Doughnut Earnings: Whadya think?
Posted Jun 08, 2008
Neat. Resveratrol may work by draining the body of excess minerals like copper and calcium, triggering the genetic response. So you might be trading longer life for, say, brittle bones and impaired nerve regeneration. What to do!
in Red Wine Straight from Fountain of Youth
Posted Jun 07, 2008
For context, $1.4B is also the average market capitalization of the companies in the Russel 2000 index. Can I make it a little more concrete? Imagine blowing up every Krispy Kreme donut store in America. Six times. Ok, you're getting up towards $1.4B in damages. Please, nobody actually do that.
in B2 Stealth Bomber Crashes Video
Posted Jun 06, 2008
may the best $100 hamburger win!
in Death of the $100 Hamburger (by Jeremy Zawodny)
Posted Jun 06, 2008
"Charity shops are not being charitable nowadays: many are too choosy & turn down slightly soiled items.This is unacceptable & I have ceased to support them on that account."--ian cheese"
in spEak You’re bRanes
Posted Jun 05, 2008
Time to digg asylum's homage to revision3's nod to asylum's bacon pictures? Is the bubble over yet? Can I have some bacon?
in Asylum Gives Props to Rev3 Giving a Shout-Out to Asylum's Collection of Bacon Pictures
Posted Jun 05, 2008
Suddenly this becomes a really interesting experiment. If the Alexa numbers start to break Instapundit's way in the coming weeks, it'll almost certainly be an artifact of this recruitment.
in Left-right asymmetry in the online world?
Posted Jun 03, 2008
i blame it on global warming
in Penguins steal amazing victory from Detroit in triple overtime
Posted Jun 03, 2008
Unless your chocolate tastes exactly mirror those of the other people who share your household, you are still likely to find half-bitten maple cremes at the bottom of the box.
in Only Sheep Enjoy Whitman's Samplers
Posted Jun 03, 2008
Fifteen easy steps... sigh
in Your Privacy Is An Illusion: Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan private pics exposed by Yahoo hack
Posted Jun 02, 2008
The proof itself is kinda elegant. For a congressman :)
in President James Garfield's Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
Posted Jun 01, 2008
All of the suggestions Earl gives are spot-on. Simple due diligence.
in Renesys Blog: Securing the Root
Posted Jun 01, 2008
She had ultrasounds at regular checkups, according to the article. Either they need a new (slightly less blind) ultrasonographer, or they need a less gullible news editorial staff. It's a small town, maybe they're the same guy!
in Miracle Baby
Posted May 30, 2008
My favorite of the rules is #8, designed to frustrate homeschoolers (who dominate the bee, obviously): "The speller must not bypass or circumvent normal school activity to study for spelling bees. The Scripps National Spelling Bee defines normal school activity as adherence to at least four courses of study other than language arts, spelling, Latin, Greek, vocabulary, and etymology for at least four hours per weekday for 34 of the 38 weeks between September 1, 2007, and May 24, 2008."
in Bettors Guide to the Spelling Bee
Posted May 29, 2008
It's called "regression to the mean," Tiger. Sorry 'bout that!
in Tiger Woods' Daughter a Bitter, Bitter Disappointment
Posted May 28, 2008
The money quote from this article is "I bet that workers in this industry are fairly mobile too."
in Would a Porn Tax Hurt Sales? - Freakonomics
Posted May 28, 2008
I love moon pies. Not the banana flavor, though. Chocolate.
in Guns don't Kill people, Moon Pies well they don't either.
Posted May 27, 2008
as in, a single, immense work of body art, so large that it exists across the bodies of tens of thousands of military men. multiple generations of british soldiers, each bearing a small piece of the complete work
in RoyalTournament.org
Posted May 23, 2008
"Anybody saying the rulers nay risks being tasered and gassed, beaten and jailed, demonized and prosecuted. Folks, that whole bunch in Minneapolis is not worth one Ron Paulian fingernail, let alone a busted skull. Watch the sickening festival on TV, unless you are a delegate or alternate. Even then, you have to be careful. Your enemies are fascists."
in Crashing the Party in Minneapolis
Posted May 22, 2008
the guy who came in second is claiming that he actually had the majority of the popular vote. the supreme court has been notified. this ain't over yet.
in David Cook wins American Idol
Posted May 21, 2008
Are you talking about the second dot com bubble? :)
in Facebook Is A Privacy Virus
Posted May 21, 2008
This is a nice narrative but I think HRC's triangulation side-step to the right (when she thought she was facing McCain in November) will make it hard for her to become the New Voice of Liberalism in the Senate. Stranger reinventions have happened .. this is America after all.
in Rex Nutting: Is Hillary Clinton the new Ted Kennedy?
Posted May 21, 2008
illegal interception of private communications by an agent of the state .. hmmmmmm ...
in If you're going to sell weed in high-school...
Posted May 21, 2008
"If you pick and choose which tenets of a religion apply to you, is it still a religion?" A universal question.
in A Jihad for Love: A Jihad for Love
Posted May 21, 2008
if his tongue has a point, it would actually be interesting.
in You Know What You Can Do With That Tongue? Make Some Art With It!
Posted May 19, 2008
Hey, you don't want to be the last kid on the block running his own copy of L root! :)
in Identity Theft Hits the Root Name Servers
Posted May 19, 2008
I didn't ask any other country's OK before I did it .. now that I know, I'll be sure to ask first. How rude of me
in Obama: An End to All-You-Can-Eat?
Posted May 18, 2008
don't they have ants in canada? seems like insects should be able to reduce most any size mammal to clean bones in a matter of days to months.
in Blue whale, buried since 1987, exhumed in eastern Canada for move to Vancouver museum
Posted May 16, 2008
It will be interesting to see how they develop the case. A lot of uncharted territory here, a lot of precedents to be set (for better or for worse).
in Mother indicted for MySpace hoax
Posted May 16, 2008
Look on the bright side: she didn't commit suicide.
in Spitzer Still Free, But Hooker Booker Faces 25 Years [Justice]
Posted May 16, 2008
Campaign staff line up to perform their own dental x-rays after Blue Cross premium check bounces
in Jay's Caption of the Week Contest
Posted May 16, 2008
It would be good for New Hampshire if these folks succeeded in rolling back Massachusett's income tax -- for one thing, many NH folks are driving south in order to make a living and end up paying it anyway. For another, Massachusetts would have to massively increase their sales taxes to compensate -- and we don't have one of those either. More money to our border stores. Finally, it would create a great attraction for high-wage people from all over to migrate to Greater Boston instead of, say, New York (the city so nice they tax you two or three times for the privilege of living there).
in Activists push to repeal Massachusetts state income tax
Posted May 16, 2008
This is intriguing, if true. By reciting the entire Quran, of course, you're going to recite this Surah, which is worth reciting a third of the Quran. Deep recursion.
in Reward of reciting Surah Ikhlaas 3 times equal to whole Quran?
Posted May 15, 2008
Everything old is new again! (McCain's campaign song)
in Huckabee reenters the race?!?!
Posted May 15, 2008
Truly amazing and inspiring demonstration of democratic principals. For a country recovering from a devastating cyclone, where hundreds of thousands of people are dead or missing, and the infrastructure wiped out, to achieve better than 99% voter participation is just literally incredible. You go, Burma!
in Myanmar new constitution ratified - People's Daily Online
Posted May 15, 2008
Just when people say the greatest days of our species are behind us .. someone proves him wrong.
in A Bra For Your Bum
Posted May 14, 2008
jessica: if you mix a shirley temple with a guinness, you are, in fact, approximating moxie.
in Meet NHPR's Brady Carlson during WebNOB, Tuesday (5/13), Jillian's in Manchester, 6-8 p
Posted May 13, 2008
oh oh oh it hurts. so painful.
in T Mobile: Listen To The Most Pointless Customer Service Call Ever
Posted May 13, 2008
However, she was eaten shortly after the camera crew left.
in West Virginia Voters Speak Out
Posted May 12, 2008
Can anyone doubt at this point that we love in a dictatorship!!? The terrorists have truly won.
in Florida Man Ticketed For Wearing Speedo On Beach
Posted May 10, 2008
After you sign the petition, you should also wear the sticker to show your support.
in Urgent Call for Action -- Tell the Bush Administration to Protect the Polar Bear
Posted May 10, 2008
Boston! Lilacs! Morris dancing! REFRESHMENTS! What's not to love.
in Arnold Arboretum - Lilac Sunday
Posted May 10, 2008
Stickers? Did someone say STICKERS?
in Suicide Cult Phase Reached By Clinton Campaign
Posted May 09, 2008
"As an aid to workers in Myanmar, Direct Relief International has released this KML file showing all of the Myanmar Ministry of Health facilities (over 700 sites) using data from the WHO 2002 Global Health Atlas survey. They used the spreadsheet mapper tool to make the collection."
in Many Visualizations of Myanmar Disaster for Google Earth
Posted May 09, 2008
Here's a great followup on this thread, noting how close he came, relative to the other polling. Score one for the methodology! http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/mp_20080507_8254.php
in Electoral Projections Done Right: North Carolina Prediction: Obama by Double Digits
Posted May 09, 2008
Google is also supporting this via Google Checkout, quick and easy: http://www.google.com/myanmarcyclone/
in Support UNICEF's Emergency Programs in Myanmar
Posted May 09, 2008
Some day soon, you'll get email from Chevrolet because your tire pressure is low on the driver's side rear. "Just trying to keep you safe, as a valued customer! Here's a $10 coupon for a rotation and inspection." Thanks OnStar.
in ELCO Chevrolet acquires Moore Automotive Cadillac franchise
Posted May 09, 2008
See also: http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080509/FRONTPAGE/805090316
in How do you fix a broken school district?
Posted May 09, 2008
I'm powerfully tempted to trigger Godwin's Law to end this thread.
in Meatless Like Me : Vegetarian Myths, Debunked
Posted May 08, 2008
"Sure, I can get you more interviews, but you have to stop referring to your ex-coworkers as 'flying monkeys.'"
in Come up with a caption!!
Posted May 07, 2008
"Howard Dean: (yelling and hitting the cage repeatedly) 'ELLO CAMPAIGN!!!!! Testing! Testing! Testing! Testing! This is your Three AM alarm call!"
in Look, matey, I know a dead campaign when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
Posted May 07, 2008
that's just the moment at which the photos were taken, dude
in Best tattoo ever.
Posted May 07, 2008
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120995103004666569.html
in Dartmouth Prof Sues Students For Being Mean to Her
Posted May 06, 2008
she's vanished down the memory hole
in Salon Mothers Who Think | Different hero, different war
Posted May 06, 2008
I would have to dig out the mixer, which I never use. I don't have the musclepower to turn out good meringue without one, sadly.
in Meringues: Coconut Meringue Cake | Submitted By: Carol
Posted May 06, 2008
Laptops must be intelligence-gathering target number one. doesn't anyone out there know how to use encrypted filesystems?
in Interpol Confirms Authenticity Of Raul Reyes's Computer Files
Posted May 06, 2008
I plan to race through the streets of manchester, new hampshire yelling WOOOOOOO with dollar bills in my fists and falling out of my coat pockets, like in the cartoons
in Find Out The Date You'll Get Your Stimulus Refund
Posted May 06, 2008
¡sʞuɐɥʇ ˙sʎɐp ǝsǝɥʇ ɟo ǝuo uoıʇɐzılɐuoıʇɐuɹǝʇuı uɐılɐɹʇsnɐ oʇ ʇǝƃ oʇ ʇuɐǝɯ pɐɥ ı
in ˙uʍop ǝpısdn ʇxǝʇ ɹnoʎ dılɟ oʇ ǝʇıs looɔ ɐ sı ǝɹǝɥ
Posted May 05, 2008
Prepare for the beatification of Mister Splashypants, Stephen Colbert, and that kid who wants us to leave Brittney alone.
in Foreign Policy: The Top 100 Public Intellectuals
Posted May 05, 2008
this thread has been deleted. But there's more over here. And anyone who wants more can always click the box in their profile that says "I hereby agree that I am at least 18 years of age, and that I am willing to receive adult related content."
in NO PORN! -> Redtube.com hacked!
Posted May 05, 2008
http://thepage.time.com/2008/05/03/you-cant-make-this-up/
in Filly Eight Belles breaks down after 2nd-place Derby finish
Posted May 05, 2008
Yahoo! closed Friday at $28.67. Before Microsoft announced its initial interest, it was trading around $19. Ballmer's final offer was $33. Where do you think it closes today?
in Breaking: Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Bid; Walks Away From Deal
Posted May 05, 2008
Say what you will, it's excellent positioning for HRC, and makes a good deal of sense as such. Economists have been on shakier and shakier ground in recent years. They have the misfortune to aspire to be scientists that practice their art on the evening news, in a domain that regular people hold near and dear. Their predictive powers are notoriously poor, because they're always constructing models to accurately model the past. And they only deliver bad news these days! Slapping the economists in the face is a low-risk strategy for putting daylight between yourself and the elitist chablis-sippers in a hurry.
in Clinton – Economic Reality is Elitist
Posted May 02, 2008
The makers of porn will have to be very careful to obscure the fact that the actors are drinking a Coke or driving a Mercedes. It would be terrible if the audience were inspired to drink a Coke, and thereby fooled into objectifying the people on screen in the "wrong way."
in Scandinavian split on sexist ads
Posted May 01, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLNLYL24qUA&feature=related at 2:25. god bless alton brown.
in Deep fried turkey troubles
Posted May 01, 2008
and so is john mccain, apparently. http://www.npr.org/blogs/news/2008/05/senate_mcain_is_absolutely_pos_1.html?ft=1
in Pammie USA
Posted May 01, 2008
I paid $4.05 in Greenwich, CT the other day.
in Gas at $5.00 in the U.S. - betting pool open
Posted Apr 30, 2008
On the other hand, some people are taking good advantage of that fact. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiq_xdooaSw
in How We're Wrecking Our Feet With Every Step We Take
Posted Apr 29, 2008
http://insureblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/finally-transparency-cash.html
in Patients Can Get $100 to Reveal Hospital Bills
Posted Apr 29, 2008
I would have to get some face-tightening plastic surgery before opening it up on the open road, lest my jowls flap and obstruct my vision (see the top gear video at the end of that story for a somewhat unsettling visual demonstration)
in Ariel Atom (want it want it want it)
Posted Apr 28, 2008
I paid $4 at the pump today, for the first time ever. It felt odd, remote. I remembered what it felt like so that I could tell the grandkids what it was like. I was wearing a blue sweater that day. It was raining.
in Good for You, Bad for the Economy
Posted Apr 26, 2008
er, I know it's kool-aide, but I want another cup.
in Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody
Posted Apr 26, 2008
A little creative paperwork, and the workplace will absorb the worst of it.
in Downgrading guests to attendees
Posted Apr 26, 2008
I wonder what the oddsmakers in vegas are giving for this scenario. Intriguing!
in Should Obama drop out now to ensure a win in 2012?
Posted Apr 25, 2008
Any space junkies (like myself) in the Concord NH area shouldn't miss this one.
in Tonight at the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium
Posted Apr 25, 2008
I always go to these movies with a friend, to make sure someone turns my brain back on afterward.
in Bruce Willis is Shooting a Scifi Movie Right Now in Woburn...
Posted Apr 25, 2008
Time to take the cotton our of your ears, perhaps.
in Ballmer: You want XP, we'll keep XP
Posted Apr 23, 2008
reading this article made me wish for a modern-day sequel to "A Confederacy of Dunces." it reads like an excerpt.
in Drunk Darth Vader's Jedi assault
Posted Apr 23, 2008
so far so good it's playing out just as they predict in the video.
in How Hillary can still win
Posted Apr 23, 2008
Now I really feel like making up t-shirts that say "far-left, atheist, elite, pansy Godless snob fraud."
in Andrew Sullivan: Karl Rove Wins the Pennsylvania Primary
Posted Apr 23, 2008
all we know is the number of people who changed party. but the "republicans for hillary" explanation seems plausible as an explanation. so too, to some extent, would "independents for obama." so we can't be sure without better numbers.
in Competitive race in Pennsylvania - CNN.com
Posted Apr 22, 2008
ah, wonkette.
in Five Easy Steps To Predicting Pennsylvania [Pennsylvania Analysis]
Posted Apr 22, 2008
the results won'y be in for .. well, for hours. when do the polls close? 7pm?
in Pennsylvania Registered Dems: By The Numbers
Posted Apr 20, 2008
interesting. anyone else sense this? I guess you don't ask a columnist or PR person what the "right" level of buzz should be. Perhaps the previous level was, in fact, "too much?"
in John Dvorak's Second Opinion: Tech-sector buzz goes silent
Posted Apr 20, 2008
iceberg's descendants hail new discovery; ancestor "completely vindicated"in sinking mystery
in Titanic was a riveting disaster
Posted Apr 20, 2008
wow, wonder who's rolling up sleeper cells
in Man found in Lady Bird Lake was teacher, FBI target
Posted Apr 18, 2008
there's a connection here to the man who had a knife in his back and didn't know it, but I can't figure out what it is
in Robert Reich's Blog
Posted Apr 18, 2008
that may have been what caused the earthquake? http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D904CC980&show_article=1
in That's it! - Economist decides to stop covering Clinton campaign.
Posted Apr 18, 2008
I know, taking the bus is miserable.
in you know, i think you've got a knife in your back.
Posted Apr 18, 2008
fake confirmed by the Yale Office of Public Affairs. http://www.yale.edu/opa
in Senior Project: "I better get an A, is all I'm saying"
Posted Apr 16, 2008
Interesting perspective collision here. Government suit-and-tie intellectuals construct policy targets and add rules to auction to try to bring about the intended results. Google sees the wink-wink, nudge-nudge that's been built into the system, identifies the minimally painful way to exploit the backdoor left by policy wonks, exploits it for the greater good, walks away happy. All happy? Maybe. Someone out there might have paid more (a lot more) and that lost money belongs to the taxpayers. By setting it free, maybe we all gain more than we lost. But then why have an auction at all?
in Google "gamed" spectrum auction? Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Posted Apr 16, 2008
this seems like a real grass-roots cause that people might consider supporting. I wonder what percentage of the electorate orders enough online to get angry about it...
in Tax-free Internet shopping days could be numbered
Posted Apr 16, 2008
overblown. pfft. you know, I know another man who started making zombie movies, and ended up changing the free world. that man's name .. is Nelson Mandela. And now you know ..... the rest ... of the story.
in "The greatest technology in the history of humanity is community."
Posted Apr 15, 2008
I plan to enjoy nutter butters while I can, since apparently I'm going to spend my golden years trapping squirrels and digging up all those root vegetables.
in Alternate sources of food: advice for dealing with a severe food crisis