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Tue, 1 Jan 2008 11:24:40Fri, 4 Jan 2008 08:37:10
- https://krampf.com/experiments/Science_Experiment37.html
Emergency Glasses.
- https://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ali_eteraz/2007/12/copyright_allah.html
Copyright Allah.
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2008/01/100_things_we_didnt_know_last_3.shtml
100 things.
- https://www.1wit.com/clips/chicken.gif
Another "animal owns child" video classic.
- https://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-braindoping20dec20,0,5741092,full.story
The next frontier is brain doping.
- https://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/12/sleep_deprivation
"On the other hand, you'd have to be a fool to advocate taking
this and reducing sleep as much as possible."
- https://alanbecker.deviantart.com/art/Animator-vs-Animation-34244097
Animator vs. Animation
- https://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/?filmID=14
A documentary.
[Warning: Sound]
- https://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_byrne?currentPage=all
What is called the music business today, however, is not the
business of producing music. At some point it became the
business of selling CDs in plastic cases, and that business will
soon be over.
- https://nymag.com/news/features/42391/
Add unpaid interns to any part of this system and you are almost
guaranteed a f**ckup somewhere along the line.
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/10490
Hey, it's a living.
- https://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=126969
300,000 plastic bricks.
- https://www.herorat.org/
- https://www.apopo.org/newsite/content/index.htm
Vapor detection technology.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp86C6yGI60
What's more, I don't want to know.
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- https://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyid=2008-01-02T135006Z_01_L28567798_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-CANCER-COLON-FAMILY-DC.XML
This is cool.
Mon, 7 Jan 2008 14:59:10Wed, 9 Jan 2008 09:33:55Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:00:40Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:39:04Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:49:45Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:57:40Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:25:17
- https://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=204553512&adid=17070&dcaid=17070
IPod and Grill are two words you don't normally associate with
each other.
- https://www.tweebiscuit.net/2008/01/12/three-philosophies/
Three philosophies.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWn0lxRNqos
You Suck at Photoshop.
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=Uk6t_tdOkwo
Guess we haven't thought it through.
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- https://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080121/caffeine_miscarriage_080121/20080122?hub=Health
- https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/31/health/main326816.shtml
Drink coffee, go to jail.
- https://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/01/22/roe_v_wade_anniversary/
Roe, 35 years later.
- https://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120104351064608025-mQ2Ys_gTPpgzoqE_2V7UK527Ly4_20090122.html
... claiming it would "protect our residents and the integrity
of our economy."
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/dining/23coff.html
He's invested time.
He's invested interest.
He is ready.
- https://peloton69.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/jesus.jpg
- https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/princesspetulance/blasphemysablast.jpg
If you laugh, you'll go to hell.
[Warning: Adult Content]
- https://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23101654-5006007,00.html
"We were stunned, absolutely stunned, and also very puzzled,"
said Dr Stormon, who reported the novel case in the New England
Journal of Medicine.
- https://www.apa.org/journals/releases/dev441102.pdf
Compared with heterosexual married participants, both types of
same-sex couples reported greater relationship quality,
compatibility, and intimacy and lower levels of conflict.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7206270.stm
"I am sorry but I have a hard time buying the fact that a trader
was able to set up a 'secret trade' of 4.9 billion without
anybody finding out," said Ion-Marc Valhi at Amas Bank.
Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:46:46Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:49:27Fri, 1 Feb 2008 08:53:53
- https://www.cracked.com/article_15852_5-retro-commercials-companies-would-like-you-forget.html
If you never understood that whole feminist movement, that ad
should provide a little context. "That's pretty harsh!" "Well,
so's your coffee."
- https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200711/multitasking
The subjects' brains coped with the additional task by shifting
responsibility from the hippocampus -- which stores and recalls
information -- to the striatum, which takes care of rote,
repetitive activities. Thanks to this switch, the subjects
managed to sort the cards just as well with the musical
distraction -- but they had a much harder time remembering what,
exactly, they'd been sorting once the experiment was over.
- https://www.petercallesen.com/
- https://www.langorigami.com/
- https://www.origamitessellations.com/2007/05/08/laser-cut-art-book-by-olafur-eliasson/
Paper art.
- https://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/01/the-last-empire.html
A fourth of the country is now desert. More than three-fourths
of its forests have disappeared. Acid rain falls on a third of
China's landmass, tainting soil, water, and food. Excessive use
of groundwater has caused land to sink in at least 96 Chinese
cities, producing an estimated $12.9 billion in economic losses
in Shanghai alone. Each year, uncontrollable underground fires,
sometimes triggered by lightning and mining accidents, consume
200 million tons of coal, contributing massively to global
warming. A miasma of lead, mercury, sulfur dioxide, and other
elements of coal-burning and car exhaust hovers over most
Chinese cities; of the world's 20 most polluted cities, 16 are
Chinese.
- https://producten.hema.nl/
When web designers are forced to write (yet another!) boring
product website.
- https://techdirt.com/articles/20080124/16382062.shtml
At 12:01am Tuesday morning, it filed three separate lawsuits
against just about everyone you can think of, including Apple,
Nokia, RIM, Sprint, AT&T, HP, Motorola, Helio, HTC, Sony
Ericsson, UTStarcomm, Samsung and a bunch of others.
- https://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/01/29/richardsons_choice.html
Obama could have just thrown me under the bus. So I said,
'Obama, that was good of you to do that.'"
- https://www.mnh.si.edu/exhibits/natures_best_2007/gallery/photographerandgoliathgrouper.html
- https://www.swisseduc.ch/stromboli/perm/turkey/pamukkale-en.html?id=4
Experience Nature Through the Art of Photography
- https://action.defenders.org/site/PageServer?pagename=savewolves_learnmore
Over the past 3 years, Alaska has engaged in a barbaric annual
aerial wolf kill whereby wolves are tracked and gunned down by
aircraft.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/sci_nat_enl_1201709846/html/1.stm
The female rhino survived for 35 hours after being shot twice
and having her horn sawn off at Kazrianga National Park in India.
[Warning: Adult Content, Graphic Violence]
- https://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/16-02/ff_stasi?currentPage=all
"Destroying paper is shit work," says government archivist
Stephan Wolf. "After two days your joints hurt. They ripped for
two months."
- https://img128.imageshack.us/img128/210/imag0016bwr2.jpg
When art majors get it wrong.
Wed, 6 Feb 2008 08:41:17Fri, 8 Feb 2008 10:12:06Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:55:37Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:40:53
- https://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/02/eleven-dimensio.html
On the other hand, if they do prove the existence of mini-black
holes and string theory with nothing but an eight-meter radio
antenna, it'll be the greatest discovery of our lifetimes and
we'll allow them to tattoo "Told you so" right on our foreheads.
- https://community.livejournal.com/wow_ladies/838090.html
Logistics, real life dinnertime and raiding schedules
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av9bJ_6VSGc
Ouch.
[Warning: Sound, 00:52]
- https://nymag.com/news/features/43893/
"It's a developmental milestone," Talwar has concluded.
- https://www.thebulletin.org/columns/hugh-gusterson/20080205.html
Speaking anonymously because of the issue's sensitivity, senior
Pentagon officials said it is Washington's role to give, not
receive, advice on nuclear weapons safety and surety issues.
- https://gizmodo.com/356090/inferno-speaker-blaster-makes-you-vomit
Dr. Goldman told us that they "don't do home applications
because of the potential headaches that this may bring from law
enforcement agencies and customers."
- https://www.purpleslinky.com/Offbeat-/All-Time-Wildest-Texas-Holdem-Hands.83037
Just the good hands.
- https://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/the-ultimate-valentine-card-full-frontal-gorilla-love/index.html?hp&scp=1-b&sq=gorilla+frontal+&st=nyt
Her name is Leah, and even before this magic moment she was
famous for her innovation.
- https://www.samueladams.com/promotions/HopSharing/Default.aspx
We're not asking questions, so let your conscience be your
guide.
https://www.angryflower.com/itsits.gif
This one's STUPIDLY SIMPLE, people!!!
Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:50:29Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:33:02Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:29:19Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:21:16Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:24:45Thu, 6 Mar 2008 09:05:42
- https://www.ironicsans.com/2008/02/idea_a_new_typography_term.html
It seemed like a good idea on paper.
- https://www.themanifest-station.com/
Holy Hocum, Batman!
- https://www.netflixprize.com//rules
Serious money demands a serious bar.
- https://www.research.att.com/~volinsky/netflix/
And a really, really, heavy prize.
- https://stat-computing.org/newsletter/v182.pdf
That evening, the fifth and sixth place teams united (averaging
their previous best submissions, perhaps) to take second place
at 8.07%. Later that evening, both BellKor and a new team --
created by the union of the second and third place teams -- both
submitted entries (within 71 seconds of each other), resulting
a virtual tie at 8.38%! Because each team is only permitted one
submission per 24 hour period, the leader-board remained quiet
until late on October 1. In the last hour, both teams submitted
their final predictions, and BellKor (now reconstituted as
KorBell) posted8.43% improvement to win the progress prize.
- https://consumerist.com/362926/do-coat-hangers-sound-as-good-monster-cables
Of course, a coat hanger doesn't have a Monster Cable lifetime
warranty, so if your coat hanger breaks, you'll have to go out
and buy another coat hanger.
- https://www.cracked.com/article_15974_7-insane-conspiracies-that-actually-happened.html
But hey, at least the US learned a very important lesson about
overthrowing the governments of unfriendly Middle Eastern
countries.
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=8qqtn30mqf
Wallride across a cliff
[Warning: Sound]
- https://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=t4qj4snqk7
Urban and freestyle trail
[Warning: Sound]
- https://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=x0rw93ngxn
How fast is a Formula 1?
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- https://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=agr01q2e27
Run, Jump, Escape
[Warning: Sound]
- https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cdd_1203701257
Why you should never exceed VNE (Velocity Not to Exceed)
- https://www.potato2008.org/
Year of the Spud
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/opinion/04herbert.html?ex=1362286800&en=d00653ea9b2ea682&ei=5124&partner=digg&exprod=digg
The $2 Trillion Nightmare.
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=PpzkHhgcZG4&feature=related
Free Hugs
[Warning: Sound]
Fri, 7 Mar 2008 08:44:05
- https://futureboy.blogs.fsb.cnn.com/2008/03/04/futur-garcon-un-secrets-of-frances-internet-billionaire/
"We're like Apple without the cool design," he says.
- https://futurismic.com/2008/03/04/asimovs-three-laws-of-weigh-ins/
The Three Laws of Weigh-Ins
- https://dinnerinthesky.com/dinnerinthesky.php
Excuse me, waiter. Where are the rest rooms?
- https://www.cracked.com/article_15959_5-books-that-can-actually-make-you-stupider.html
Obviously the "it's the same color so it should do the same
thing" school of medicine isn't very popular, but that's just
because Big Pharma doesn't want the little man to know that a
bag of Skittles can cure AIDS.
- https://xkcd.com/393/
We'll miss you, Gary.
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/07/fort_sam_google/
Terrorists wishing to attack Fort Sam Houston will in future,
therefore, have to rely on their own intelligence-gathering
resources, backed by nothing more than handy US military maps
(pdf) of the facility, and hi-res satellite imagery of the base
on Google Maps and Google Earth.
- https://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2008/03/06/i_dont_multitask.html
Reading the Wikipedia summary lobotomizes the interestingness
so that the movie becomes structured white noise.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/health/04mind.html?ex=1362286800&en=e5226d206b64aea9&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
Their behavior was totally determined by their expectations of
how they would behave.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwzVLP2NcqI
Obamamania!
- https://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1719872,00.html
If asked to serve on a jury deliberating a violation of state or
federal drug laws, we will vote to acquit, regardless of the
evidence presented.
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:40:34Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:30:05Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:50:40Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:13:25Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:55:55Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:55:55Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:23:07Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:22:44Tue, 1 Apr 2008 09:10:12
- https://www.craigslist.org/about/best/nyc/485967082.html
Other than the fact our child will be bright, text-based and
sarcastic, we will otherwise be a normal family.
- https://www.nisnews.nl/public/080308_2.htm
In Amsterdam's Vondelpark, owners of dogs let off the leash can
be fined, but sex will shortly be permitted.
[Warning: Adult Content]
- https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/issues/2008/March/SecurityBeat.htm#Science
"I cannot guarantee I'm going to be a great help to Homeland
Security," Niven said earlier.
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/29/craigslist_for_hire/
- https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/web/620559733.html
There are ways to hand out pink slips, and ways to hand out pink
slips.
- https://www.wftv.com/news/15735444/detail.html#
- https://www.godspeaks.com/AboutTheBillboards.asp
Fighting it out in public.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtsqr9v70Lc
Hey! Watch this!
[Warning: Sound]
- https://www.salon.com/books/int/2008/03/31/Nim_Chimpsky/
He would just look at pictures of his New York City family, and
himself, over and over again.
- https://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136912-c,scamshoaxes/article.html
The best of the fakes.
- https://emailfromgrandma.com/2008/03/30/who-needs-a-truck/
Who needs a truck?
- https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/01/BAJ8VTF35.DTL
So much for the "Kiss of Life".
Thu, 3 Apr 2008 08:33:37
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=D0qn8Dvxs3M
Mom appears remakably blase about the whole thing.
- https://svextra.com/blogs/gmsv/2008/04/no_food_no_beverages_no_texting_amazon.html
No food, no beverages, no texting Amazon.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K1qV0zQ83A
100 mpg.
[Warning: Sound]
- https://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1008271
Until recently, most Comcast systems passed all HD as is from
the content provider, without any added compression or quality
reduction. In response to competitive pressures from DirecTV and
Verizon FiOS, Comcast recently decided to sacrifice some quality
to improve quantity. By early April, most Comcast systems will
recompress and degrade their HD, much like DirecTV and Dish
Network do on their MPEG-2 channels. This creates room for new
HD channels without the need to eliminate a significant number
of analog channels.
- https://www.cracked.com/article_16073_7-ballsiest-sports-cheats-ever.html
In fact, accounts of the first races say competitors used
everything from nails and broken glass on the road, to itching
powder in the opposing riders' shorts to get an edge. At one
point an angry mob randomly attacked some riders and had to be
driven away with gunfire. Yes, bicycle racing was about a
thousand times more awesome back then.
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=74335
The mobile home.
- https://www.handsolomobile.com/?CMP=EMC-bdemail
Battery: based on your health and family DNA
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lNFRLrP014
Music: Culture may not translate correctly, but that's not
always a bad thing.
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- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TAtNjdQ9fM
Music: It feels so good!
[Warning: Sound]
- https://craftydaisies.com/2007/04/17/so-thats-how-it-works/
To be honest, I've always wondered.
- https://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2008/04/google-putting-up-fence-and-gate-to.html
It's not a company, it's a cult, and frankly I can appreciate
that because we're a cult too and the fact is that cults are
easier to run than companies. But you're running a cult of
children. And not just any children. You've got children of the
corn type children.
[Warning: Adult Language]
Mon, 7 Apr 2008 09:54:54Wed, 9 Apr 2008 13:39:31Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:30:45Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:17:56Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:12:19
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVL7QY0S8A
Distinguished law scholar Elizabeth Warren teaches contract law,
bankruptcy, and commercial law at Harvard Law School. She is an
outspoken critic of America's credit economy, which she has
linked to the continuing rise in bankruptcy among the
middle-class.
[The talk starts at minute 6.]
- https://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN1331282920080413
Some 1,250 people grilled the beef and about 20,000 spectators
cried with joy when a Guinness judge confirmed the barbecue
record had been broken.
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-weiner/mccain-family-recipes-lif_b_96666.html
Some people still haven't figured out how search engines work.
- https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/india_lost_girls
In Punjab state, researchers found rural areas with just 500
girls for every 1,000 boys, and communities of high-caste
urbanites with just 300 girls per 1,000.
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/13/wvirgin113.xml
Elsewhere in India, the birth of a boy is celebrated with
dowries paid by the bride's family, one of the reasons given for
the high abortion rate for female foetuses. But in the villages
around Bharatpur there is a shortage of girls to marry, and the
custom is for the boy's family to pay the girl's family a large
lump sum before the wedding can take place.
- https://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/03/19/i-come-by-it-honestly/
We set the bar high in my family.
- https://www.photobasement.com/i-cant-even-begin-to-imagine-the-pain/
Probably the same family.
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://spectrum.ieee.org/apr08/6095
In the 1960s, the expected market availability for chips was
between 20 and 25 years; now it's between two and five.
- https://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/03/30/blood-on-the-ice/#more-487
I was at a fight the other night when a hockey game broke out.
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/now-we-have-the-technology-that-can-make-a-cloned-child-808625.html
"At this point there are no laws or regulations for this kind
of thing and the bizarre thing is that the Catholic Church and
other traditional stem-cell opponents think this technology is
great when in reality it could in the end become one of their
biggest nightmares."
- https://www.physorg.com/news127399170.html
Predictably Irrational
- https://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/15/the-stupidest-business-decisions-in-history/
It's always fun to review other people's mistakes.
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:00:00Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:50:14Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:37:09
- https://2x3x7.blogspot.com/2008/04/juliet.html
Verona. The house of Capulet. Young Juliet is in love with
Paris. Paris is in love with her. They are to be married - Paris
has asked for and received her father's consent.
- https://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-jacoby20apr20,0,2950321.story
"You and I ought not to die, before we have explained ourselves
to each other," Adams wrote Jefferson in 1815.
- https://praxeology.net/blog/2008/04/17/ooh-a-tough-one/
Ooh, a tough one.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXBL6bzAR4
When you have three cats, you start to get to be that guy who
has "all those cats".
- https://gizmodo.com/382026/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two-people-puts-three-more-in-jail
The local press has pointed out that the faulty localization of
cellphones in Turkey is causing "serious problems" when it comes
to certain "delicate words" in Turkish, and they are calling to
enhance localization of technology to avoid these mistakes.
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html
The fisherman then has to check that an animal is fully
"insensible" before slicing open the arteries near its flippers,
allowing the creature to "bleed out" before it can be skinned.
[Warning: Graphic Violence]
- https://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2008/04/a-young-friend.html
Since my friend, while out on patrol, regularly came across the
corpses of tortured and murdered Iraqi civilians, he wondered
if the Secretary of State was dissembling or deluded.
- https://www.esquire.com/print-this/chuck-klostermans-america/klosterman-0408
I suspect that if Shawn Fanning had pioneered a safe, socially
acceptable way to electronically shoplift from Target in 1997,
people would have jumped on that bandwagon instead.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/us/politics/22age.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1208869534-tWJn4gW+5xs25LguZ9SnvQ
"This is classic generational politics," said Gordon F. De Jong,
a demographer at Pennsylvania State University. "Their
identification with one candidate or the other has to do with
the time when voters were socialized."
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/magazine/20wwln-lede-t.html
- https://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/04/22/michael_pollan_garden/index.html
Have you looked into the eyes of a climate scientist recently?
They look really scared.
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:17:30
- https://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/04/21/vile_state_of_internet_discourse/index.html
English-language online haters better get busy -- a new standard
is being set.
- https://xpda.com/junkmail?issue=200
More Junkmail from Bob!
- https://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/04/21/malthus_revisited/index.html
Malthus is in the air.
- https://www.sportingo.com/Motorsport/a7864_Time-clip-Formula-wings-then-well-really-see-Lewis-Hamilton-flying
The massive aerofoils that produce so much downforce that it is
theoretically possible to drive an F1 car on the ceiling are the
fundamental problem facing Formula 1 today.
- https://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL2290323220080422?sp=true
It's 2008, if you wanted to check.
- https://business.theage.com.au/japans-hunger-becomes-a-dire-warning-for-other-nations/20080420-27ey.html?page=1
Guns, or, well, guns.
- https://nysun.com/news/food-rationing-confronts-breadbasket-world
- https://wcbstv.com/topstories/rice.prices.costco.2.707121.html
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/23/sams-club-costco-limit-ri_n_98340.html
"You should be able to buy something like rice. This is
ridiculous."
- https://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2008/04/dont_drink_the_water.html
Don't drink the water.
- https://nymag.com/health/features/46213/
Admittedly, there's something counterintuitive about the idea
that less padding on your foot equals less shock on your body.
But that's only if we continue to think of our feet as lifeless
blocks of flesh that hold us upright.
- https://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/21/080421fa_fact_paumgarten?currentPage=all
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_bMhNI_TY8
Loading up an empty elevator car with discarded Christmas trees,
pressing the button for the top floor, then throwing in a match,
so that by the time the car reaches the top it is ablaze with
heat so intense that the alloy (called babbitt) connecting the
cables to the car melts, and the car, a fireball now, plunges
into the pit: this practice, apparently popular in New York City
housing projects, is inadvisable.
- https://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_wozniak
Philosopher William James once wrote that mental life is controlled
by noticing. Climbing out of the sea and onto the windy beach,
my skin purple and my mind in a reverie provoked by shock, I
find myself thinking of a checklist Wozniak wrote a few years
ago describing how to become a genius. His advice was
straightforward yet strangely terrible: You must clarify your
goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve
health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and
never resist sleep when tired.
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:14:43
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/24/nogc124.xml
According to insiders, the graphic was already proudly etched
on mousemats and pens before it was unveiled for employees, who
spotted the clanger within seconds.
- https://ciphergoth.livejournal.com/241854.html
The logo of Instituto de Estudos Orientais, the Brazilian Institute
of Oriental Studies, is a stylized pagoda sillhouetted against the
setting sun.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lucent_sign.jpg
After the logo was compared in the media to the ring a coffee
mug leaves on paper, a Dilbert comic strip showed Dogbert as an
overpaid consultant designing a new company logo; he takes a
piece of paper that his coffee cup was sitting on and calls it
the "Brown Ring of Quality".
- https://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/04/25/teen_virgins/index.html
Well, if you thought we had it bad -- imagine being Miley Cyrus.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/opinion/27rich.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin
The best deal for Mr. McCain would be for Mr. Bush to disappear
into the witness protection program.
- https://www.eyesonobama.com/blog/content/id_15141/title_Even-When-Shes-Winning-Shes-Losing/
Bayh's assertion is misleading by his inclusion of factors that
deceivingly (and intentionally, of course) skew the numbers in
favor of Clinton.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7359513.stm
It is a paradox. Along with the guns there is a tranquillity and
civility about American life of which most British people can
only dream.
- https://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html
She heard this story and she shook her head and said, "Where do
people find the time?" That was her question. And I just kind
of snapped. And I said, "No one who works in TV gets to ask that
question. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the
cognitive surplus you've been masking for 50 years."
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOLnakRap70
Could you believe that?
- https://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/
Scrabbling for Legal Rationalism: No Copyright for Games
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDS6UQpssSg
Happy birthday, Rick!
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080424/REVIEWS/997793961/1001
Long after "Deception" should have been over, the "twists" keep
on coming. Most memorable is a transition from a closeup of a
plastic wind-up duckie to a long shot of a seagull. That one I
did not see coming.
- https://www.motorcyclemojo.com/articles/the-uno/
The Uno.
Fri, 2 May 2008 08:27:23
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7376919.stm
Yeah, just in time. Good luck with that.
- https://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1438490562
El Caminito delRey (The King's pathway) is a walkway, now fallen
into disrepair, pinned along the steep walls of a narrow gorge
in El Chorro, near lora in Mlaga , Spain . The walkway has gone
many years without maintenance, and is in a highly deteriorated
and dangerous state. It is only one meter in width, andover a
700-meter fall, and over time it has also lost its handrail.
Some parts of the walkway have completely collapsed and have
been replaced by a beam and a metallic wire on the wall. Many
people have lost their lives on the walkway in recent years.
After four people died in two accidents in 1999 and 2000, the
local government closed the entrances. However, adventurous
tourists still find their way into the walkway.
[Note: switch to full screen display when viewing the video.]
- https://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=science-2-point-0&print=true
Open Science
- https://www.sexyandfunny.com/_oddity_media/img_disp/img48037a6563223.jpg
That poster would sell well.
- https://brain.lis.uiuc.edu:2323/opencms/export/sites/default/dhq/vol/001/2/000009.html
The research expedition to the real Colossal Cave in Mammoth
Cave National Park confirms that the map of Will Crowther's
original "Adventure" closely follows the geography of the real
cave.
- https://www.pornfortheblind.org/
- https://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/sexdrive/2008/04/sexdrive_0411
Porn for the blind. No, really.
[Warning: Adult Content, Strong Sexual Content]
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7370903.stm
Big whoops.
- https://www.scientificblogging.com/the_science_of_love/lesbian_bed_death_explained
How we react to the chemicals coming off another person's skin
seems to be related to our sexual orientation.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_1mxZdF2TY
Catchy tune.
- https://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/05/01/freedom_of_conscience/index.html
The "Freedom of Conscience Act".
Wed, 7 May 2008 11:39:08
- https://i25.tinypic.com/33fc8ic.jpg
Aaaaaahhhhh.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Du5oBtohw
Sweet, sweet seduction.
- https://fantamorph.com/newtour02.htm
The Mona Lisa nod.
- https://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/05/02/love_guru_and_the_hindu_right/index.html
- https://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/005171.html
Making the movie, "The Love Guru": 2nd region of Hell for 1000 years.
- https://www.ledgerdelaware.com/articles/2008/05/01/news/news.24.txt
Wanna be a prison guard?
- https://www.craigslist.org/about/best/all/
"I don't know which is more bizarre - the thought that writing
things like this has become a fiction art form, or that things
like this are real."
[Warning: Adult Content, Adult Language]
- https://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=5PsnxDQvQpw
My parents are really nice people.
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/05/06/name_changing_grooms/index.html
Yeah, I'd want to lose "Dick Broadhead", too.
- https://www.gamesforthebrain.com/
You didn't want to get anything done today, anyway.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/opinion/02wray.html
AUSTRIA, that lovely little Alpine republic on the banks of the
Danube, has a new and deeply lamentable claim to international
notoriety: As of this past weekend, we officially lead the free
world in the abduction and confinement of young girls in
soundproof, subterranean apartments.
- https://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=79533
"Wizardry?" he asked.
- https://www.metacafe.com/watch/631734/disappearing_toothpick_tutorial/
How to perform wizardry.
Mon, 12 May 2008 09:49:48Wed, 14 May 2008 15:54:17
- https://www.throughthetube.com/2008/05/11/taking-the-piss/
This is a bit like evaporating a lake to get a glass of water.
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://i25.tinypic.com/350ukiw.jpg
Every state should FAQ that one.
- https://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2008/05/07/the-35-million-shadow-yacht/
"You can do things with a primary vessel and a shadow boat that
you could never do with one large boat."
- https://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3380875
Class.
- https://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-op-mckibben11-2008may11,0,2392815.story
The abstract attached to it argued -- and I have never read
stronger language in a scientific paper -- that "if humanity
wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which
civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted,
paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that
CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most
350 ppm."
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/world/middleeast/12saudi.html
Nader picked Sarah, though she is not the oldest, in part, he
said, because he actually saw her face when she was a child and
recalled that she was pretty.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/world/middleeast/13girls.html
With the phone, everyone can agree that is forbidden, because
Islam forbids a stranger to hear your voice. Online he only sees
your writing, so that's slightly more open to interpretation.
- https://www.thingsyoungerthanmccain.com
Plutonium is younger than John McCain.
- https://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cobb/stories/2008/05/13/mulligans_0514.html
Norman acknowledged the imagery's Jim Crow roots but said he
sees nothing wrong with depicting a prominent African-American
as a monkey
- https://www.cartoonbrew.com/cartoon-culture/spongebob-rectal-thermometer
Sticking it to the competition.
- https://www.apa.org/monitor/2008/05/marriage.html#chart
Seams in hose often crooked!
Sun, 18 May 2008 08:44:13
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/13/korean_fleshies_beat_robo_soldiers/
Samsung's engineers have felt it necessary to equip the droid's
gun mount with an anti-theft alarm, which doesn't speak volumes
for their confidence in its surveillance capability.
- https://users.skynet.be/fa926657/crash-vliegschool.htm
Learn to fly here!
- https://hop.perl.plover.com/cover.html
Quilting Perl.
- https://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080516030635.1rpb8k3h&show_article=1
Pythons pray on cats, dogs, hares, foxes, squirrels, raccoons,
alligators and slow retirees.
- https://watchismo.blogspot.com/2008/05/multiple-timing-disorder.html
- https://www.tmiyakawadesign.com/fractal-1.html
Some interesting design ideas.
- https://www.englishrussia.com/?p=1830
Since then, it's been burning for 35 years.
- https://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2008/05/15/we_travel_in_tribes.html
We travel in tribes.
- https://lifehacker.com/391067/fedora-9-puts-your-desktop-on-a-usb-drive
Linux on a stick.
- https://www.periodico26.cu/english/coverage/us-closes051308.html
Yeah... Cuba... that's our big problem.
- https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/05/undressing_a_woman_using_a_large_digging_machine_crazy_construction_worker_foreplay-2.html
Q: How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
A: Practice, man, practice.
[Warning: Adult Content]
Tue, 20 May 2008 12:52:16
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/18/mass-killings-in-south-ko_n_102322.html
Every country should have a "Truth and Reconciliation"
commission.
- https://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,,2280111,00.html
Then, one sleepless night (the steroids also triggered insomnia)
my testicles shrunk. Testicular atrophy is the most well-known
side-effect of steroid abuse. It's an inherent irony: here you
are trying to turn yourself into an ber-man while part of the
most obvious manifestation of your manhood dwindles before your
eyes
- https://www.blinkenlights.de/arcade/games.en.html
Dial in a game.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/technology/18digi.html
In 2000, Mr. Ballmer credited Mr. Gates for noting that no company
in the computer business had ever stayed on top through what Mr.
Gates called "a major paradigm shift". The two men wanted Microsoft
to be the first company to achieve that goal. An interesting
challenge, but some problems are of a size that dwarf the abilities
of multibillionaire mortals.
- https://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/19/backyard-beekeeping.html
Having a bee in your ear is about the most terrifying thing that
can happen to you.
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z56/LinkRJH/wrong-convention.jpg
Ooops.
- https://cgi.ebay.com/Taxidermy-Deer-Butt-Bottle-Opener_W0QQitemZ180244622960QQihZ008QQcategoryZ71124QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
You know you are a redneck when...
- https://www.divinecaroline.com/article/22323/49668-redneck-refined--deer-butt-art
- https://assquatch.com/
If you are into deer hunting....
- https://intellectualwhores.com/beethoventheory.html
Julie: "Hello, Mr. Beethoven, what's that?"
Beethoven: "Oh, just a little piece I'm working on. And please,
call me Ludwig."
Julie(nervously): "It's beautiful. What's is it called?"
Beethoven: "I was thinking of calling it 'Fur Julie'"
Julie(blushing madly): "Oh Beethoven,really....?"
Beethoven: "Absolutely. Here let me show you the first notes.
Come sit next to me..."
[Warning: Adult Content, Adult Language]
- https://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080518/REVIEWS/969461084
I can say that if you liked the other Indiana Jones movies,
you will like this one, and that if you did not, there is no
talking to you.
- https://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/19/the-most-curious-thing/index.html
It's the clue. It's a fairly subtle clue that most people don't
attend to. But it's the only reliable clue that the muscle
called the orbicularis oculi pars lateralis isn't activated.
It's an involuntary muscle. It only gets activated in nearly all
people when there's genuine enjoyment.
Tue, 20 May 2008 12:52:16
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/18/mass-killings-in-south-ko_n_102322.html
Every country should have a "Truth and Reconciliation"
commission.
- https://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,,2280111,00.html
Then, one sleepless night (the steroids also triggered insomnia)
my testicles shrunk. Testicular atrophy is the most well-known
side-effect of steroid abuse. It's an inherent irony: here you
are trying to turn yourself into an ber-man while part of the
most obvious manifestation of your manhood dwindles before your
eyes
- https://www.blinkenlights.de/arcade/games.en.html
Dial in a game.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/technology/18digi.html
In 2000, Mr. Ballmer credited Mr. Gates for noting that no company
in the computer business had ever stayed on top through what Mr.
Gates called "a major paradigm shift". The two men wanted Microsoft
to be the first company to achieve that goal. An interesting
challenge, but some problems are of a size that dwarf the abilities
of multibillionaire mortals.
- https://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/19/backyard-beekeeping.html
Having a bee in your ear is about the most terrifying thing that
can happen to you.
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z56/LinkRJH/wrong-convention.jpg
Ooops.
- https://cgi.ebay.com/Taxidermy-Deer-Butt-Bottle-Opener_W0QQitemZ180244622960QQihZ008QQcategoryZ71124QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
You know you are a redneck when...
- https://www.divinecaroline.com/article/22323/49668-redneck-refined--deer-butt-art
- https://assquatch.com/
If you are into deer hunting....
- https://intellectualwhores.com/beethoventheory.html
Julie: "Hello, Mr. Beethoven, what's that?"
Beethoven: "Oh, just a little piece I'm working on. And please,
call me Ludwig."
Julie(nervously): "It's beautiful. What's is it called?"
Beethoven: "I was thinking of calling it 'Fur Julie'"
Julie(blushing madly): "Oh Beethoven,really....?"
Beethoven: "Absolutely. Here let me show you the first notes.
Come sit next to me..."
[Warning: Adult Content, Adult Language]
- https://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080518/REVIEWS/969461084
I can say that if you liked the other Indiana Jones movies,
you will like this one, and that if you did not, there is no
talking to you.
- https://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/19/the-most-curious-thing/index.html
It's the clue. It's a fairly subtle clue that most people don't
attend to. But it's the only reliable clue that the muscle
called the orbicularis oculi pars lateralis isn't activated.
It's an involuntary muscle. It only gets activated in nearly all
people when there's genuine enjoyment.
Fri, 23 May 2008 09:55:18Mon, 26 May 2008 12:22:47
- https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/20797485/chinas_allseeing_eye/print
This is how this Golden Shield will work: Chinese citizens will
be watched around the clock through networked CCTV cameras and
remote monitoring of computers. They will be listened to on
their phone calls, monitored by digital voice-recognition
technologies. Their Internet access will be aggressively limited
through the country's notorious system of online controls known
as the "Great Firewall." Their movements will be tracked through
national ID cards with scannable computer chips and photos that
are instantly uploaded to police databases and linked to their
holder's personal data. This is the most important element of
all: linking all these tools together in a massive, searchable
database of names, photos, residency information, work history
and biometric data. When Golden Shield is finished, there will
be a photo in those databases for every person in China: 1.3
billion faces.
- https://www.newsnet5.com/health/16363548/detail.html
"I know God has something in store for me, another purpose. I
don't know what it is but I'm sure he'll tell me," she said.
- https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1183
Girl years.
- https://www.tribune.com.ng/22052008/news/news2.html
Meow for me!
- https://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2008/05/this-garage-sale-held-pursuant-to-the-ruling-in-vernor-v-autodesk.html
- https://williampatry.blogspot.com/2008/05/first-sale-victory-in-vernor.html
First Sale doctrine for software.
- https://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/05/minn-team-gives.html
Words fail me.
- https://biggestdrawingintheworld.com/drawing.aspx
Insanely cool, or really stupid?
- https://pixdaus.com/pics/1211679034i6aXlrc.jpg
Never give up.
- https://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/may/24/30gtteacher-lets-students-vote-out-classmate-5/
By a 14 to 2 margin, the students voted Alex -- who is in the
process of being diagnosed with autism -- out of the class.
- https://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/05/the_superior_eyes_of_shrimp.php
The superior eyes of shrimp.
Tue, 27 May 2008 12:35:39
- https://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/22/142132/498/133/520573
Race and Obama in Kentucky, reported by Al Jazeera.
- https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3012/2522544597_6a5ff3e122_o.jpg
Photo O' The Day
- https://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/05/18/the_freedom_to_say_no/?page=full
Pinker gathers data from the journal Science and a variety of
sources that show that in countries where women have the most
freedom to choose their careers, the gender divide is the most
pronounced.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7419969.stm
Anyone finding the package has been asked to contact customs
officials.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/business/media/26link.html
Sudo make me a sandwich.
- https://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/002838.php
I relied pretty heavily on the first line of Jim Corbett's book
Goatwalking, which stated definitively that "Two milk goats can
provide all the nutrients a human being needs, with the
exception of Vitamin C and a few common trace elements."
- https://nottotallyrad.blogspot.com/2008/05/radiology-party-tricks.html
Radiologists Gone Wild
- https://maps.google.com/maps?q=s+oakley+ave+chicago+il&ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ll=41.787697,-87.686691&spn=0.010785,0.020084&z=14&layer=c&cbll=41.776747,-87.681011&panoid=R4fqWJEJkVCRco2uu3GK9Q&cbp=1,241.19153282558486,,1,11.544534208760151&source=embed
Street view.
- https://qntm.org/?admin
"It is my considered suggestion that we don't attempt to mess
with these settings."
- https://thekneeslider.com/archives/2008/05/09/mtt-y2k-turbine-motorcycle-for-sale/
"Like the hand of God grabbing you on the butt and throwing you
forward."
Sat, 31 May 2008 09:53:14Tue, 3 Jun 2008 07:44:38
"If they took porn off the Internet, I'm pretty sure there would only
be one website left and it would be called 'Bring Back the Porn.'"
-- Dr. Cox on Scrubs
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
- https://www.dailymotion.com/RaindanceTV/video/x5hjjm_worlds-shortest-film-festival-part_shortfilms
An entire film festival, in just 10 minutes.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/12/AR2008041201739_pf.html
"Keep in mind," he said, "the last time we did a team-building
exercise outside, we did an egg toss."
- https://sagetechcorp.com/Main%20Menu/Projects/Sniper/Sniper.html
Sagetech Corporation introduces UAV Sniper, a highly accurate
unmanned combat air vehicle armed with a 50-caliber sniper
weapon system.
- https://gawker.com/tag/Cheesecake-Video/?i=5012045&t=a-wonderful-new-youtube-trend
OK, I didn't see that one coming.
- https://www.vanityfair.com/archives/features/proust
Take the Questionnaire.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/opinion/01opclassic.html
"... absolutely trustworthy. But watch what you say, he's a
writer.''
- https://www.sadtrombone.com/
Another in a series.
- https://www.snotr.com/video/1073
Gaming is meaningless to me now.
[Warning: Adult Content]
- https://www.youvebeenleftbehind.com/index-3.html
There won't be any bodies, so probate court will take 7 years
to clear your assets to your next of Kin.
- https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20190469,00.html
"Our theory," he says, "is that our audience is too stoned to
leave the house."
Wed, 4 Jun 2008 11:33:38
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/fashion/01rich.html?ei=5087&em=&en=d3fe3d03622d334b&ex=1212552000&pagewanted=all
"The number one concern that they have is the state of the
financial market," she said. "There definitely is a correlation
between the stock market and weight gain."
- https://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2008/05/30/how-to-write-about-mixed-martial-arts-a-guide-for-the-mainstrea/
Know the best fighters, the most famous fighters, and the
difference.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/world/asia/03china.html
And do not even think about smuggling opium into China.
- https://www.livescience.com/strangenews/080602-foresee-future.html
Seeing the future.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJGmwLqonLk
The Unhuggables.
- https://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/02/europe/dry.php
"They can complain as much as they want but if there's no more
water, there's no more water."
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/health/research/04aging.html
... a mere four, five-ounce glasses of wine starts getting close
to the amount of resveratrol they found effective.
- https://www.theage.com.au/opinion/through-a-lens-darkly-20080601-2kgo.html
... and, two, a great deal of nonsense will be talked by a great
many people.
- https://www.cracked.com/article_16335_7-innocent-gestures-that-can-get-you-killed-overseas.html
The most famous incident of a misapplied "OK" sign was, in fact,
Nixon's visit to Brazil in the '50s. While alighting from the
aircraft, he lifted both hands to the cameras and
double-fingered the entire nation. Nixon went on to greet the
Brazilian Prime minister with a savage kick to the testicles,
and concluded his visit by urinating from the window of a moving
limousine.
[Warning: Adult Content, Adult Language]
- https://www.cracked.com/article_16275_9-most-devastating-insults-from-around-world.html
Bulgarian cursing is based on a hybrid of nature references and
non sequiturs. Most of the good ones read like Tourette's
syndrome Mad Libs. They still embrace common baselines, but the
modifiers around it are what really shine.
[Warning: Adult Content, Adult Language]
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/31/AR2008053101998_pf.html
After all those coffee mugs and framed copies, can anyone really
own "Footprints in the Sand"?
Thu, 5 Jun 2008 20:20:10
- https://www.koaa.com/aaaa_top_stories/x1331638508
"The highest temperature we got at the surface of the soil with
the sun shining on it was 800 degrees, which is pretty darn
significant.
- https://scienceblogs.com/loom/2008/06/02/a_new_step_in_evolution.php
The question is actually murkier than it seems, because the
traditional concept of species doesn't fit bacteria very
comfortably.
- https://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/upgrades/how-to-fit-1tb-of-data-on-one-tiny-thumbdrive-153126
PMC.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/books/04garner.html
Thus he suggested beginning with Milton -- "My own choice would
tend to include the final scene of 'Paradise Lost,'" he wrote,
"with what is probably the most poignant moment in all our
literature coming at lines 624-6" -- before running through
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Eric Ambler and, finally, a poulticelike
application of light comedies by P. G. Wodehouse and Peter De
Vries.
- https://wuntvor.mirror.waffleimages.com/files/44/44cb4b91287cfcd8111d471867502a3cac861ab0.jpg
Without comment.
- https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,553070,00.html
Phallus-kissers are rewarded with ash-streaks on their face,
which presumably absolves them from having to go through the
procedure again, unless of course they would like to.
- https://www.space-invaders.com/rubikubism.html
What to do with your extra cubes.
- https://flickr.com/photos/superamit/2548414871/in/photostream/
Surprise!!
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/revealed-secret-plan-to-keep-iraq-under-us-control-840512.html
... and legal immunity for all American soldiers and contractors.
- https://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/flash/politics/20080603_MARGINS_GRAPHIC/margins.swf
- https://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/06/05/us/politics/0605-nat-PRIMARIES.jpg
Political graphics.
Sun, 8 Jun 2008 10:30:18Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:34:46
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/07/AR2008060702125.html
Marketing to the food-sensitive has become so widespread that
the Girl Scouts now sell three kinds of milk-free cookies,
Anheuser-Busch has a gluten-free beer and Kellogg's makes
Pop-Tarts in nut-free factories.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/fashion/08nights.html
"This is something no one else would give him," she said in
an interview. "It didn't cost a lot of money. It was highly
memorable. It met all the criteria for a really great gift."
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/opinion/11dowd.html
"Michelle," as one political observer puts it, "is a target-rich
environment."
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/science/10auct.html
The party, known as the Enlightenment, is still going strong.
- https://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/cartesian-blogging-part-two/
I had a choice: re-enact what Dale Holt said or what I knew to
be the truth. Presumably, I could have chosen either. One
re-enactment would be faithful to what Holt believed was the
truth (to the interview), the other would be faithful to what I
knew was the truth (the underlying reality).
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2099885/Rupert-Everett-apologises-for-calling-soldiers-%27wimps%27.html
"I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how
you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!"
- https://blog.longnow.org/2008/06/09/the-million-dollar-long-bet/
But to a great extent their efforts are self-neutralizing, and
their IQ will not overcome the costs they impose on investors.
- https://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23852245-38198,00.html
"Is it prurient? I don't know what to tell you," he said. "I
think it's odd and interesting. It's part of life."
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/index.php?term=pto-20080420-000003&print=1
... among sheep, for instance. It arises naturally and does not
seem to be a matter of aloof rams or overbearing ewes.
- https://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/06/11/hymenoplasty/index.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/world/europe/11virgin.html
Re-setting the odometer to zero.
Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:34:46
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/07/AR2008060702125.html
Marketing to the food-sensitive has become so widespread that
the Girl Scouts now sell three kinds of milk-free cookies,
Anheuser-Busch has a gluten-free beer and Kellogg's makes
Pop-Tarts in nut-free factories.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/fashion/08nights.html
"This is something no one else would give him," she said in
an interview. "It didn't cost a lot of money. It was highly
memorable. It met all the criteria for a really great gift."
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/opinion/11dowd.html
"Michelle," as one political observer puts it, "is a target-rich
environment."
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/science/10auct.html
The party, known as the Enlightenment, is still going strong.
- https://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/cartesian-blogging-part-two/
I had a choice: re-enact what Dale Holt said or what I knew to
be the truth. Presumably, I could have chosen either. One
re-enactment would be faithful to what Holt believed was the
truth (to the interview), the other would be faithful to what I
knew was the truth (the underlying reality).
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2099885/Rupert-Everett-apologises-for-calling-soldiers-%27wimps%27.html
"I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how
you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!"
- https://blog.longnow.org/2008/06/09/the-million-dollar-long-bet/
But to a great extent their efforts are self-neutralizing, and
their IQ will not overcome the costs they impose on investors.
- https://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23852245-38198,00.html
"Is it prurient? I don't know what to tell you," he said. "I
think it's odd and interesting. It's part of life."
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/index.php?term=pto-20080420-000003&print=1
... among sheep, for instance. It arises naturally and does not
seem to be a matter of aloof rams or overbearing ewes.
- https://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/06/11/hymenoplasty/index.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/world/europe/11virgin.html
Re-setting the odometer to zero.
Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:36:39
- https://www.snopes.com/science/cookegg.asp
Yet another retraction -- someone got me again.
- https://www.news.com.au/technology/gallery/0,25793,5031914-5007151-1,00.html
The best of Google Street View.
- https://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome
RepRap achieved self-replication at 14:00 hours UTC on 29 May
2008 at Bath University in the UK.
- https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/110868.php
New York, New York.
It's a helluva town.
- https://www.slate.com/id/2193482
"By the way," he adds, "I like Google's product. I wish there
were another company out there that didn't make me sick to my
stomach."
- https://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/247044188.html
I still shudder when I see a pair of testicles on a dog though,
so watch out.
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/540076210.html
Oddly enough, it's still available.
[Warning: Adult Content]
- https://www.isitchristmas.com
Check back later.
feed://www.isitchristmas.com/rss.xml
The RSS feed.
- https://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/06/12/king_of_beer_mergers/index.html
Give me Sierra Nevada, or give me death!
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpzEF0D2xfE
Cheese Rolling comes but a year.
- https://www.enduserblog.com/2008/06/denon-releases.html
Though, I must admit, I do appreciate the crisp highs and
thundering lows.
Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:42:49Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:28:15Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:23:05
- https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25258522/
"We were actually happy for them to view the thong, but what
they wanted to do and we weren't comfortable with, we were not
going to relinquish that item to them altogether," he told
Vieira. "They wanted us to ship it to them so that they could
do their own analysis ... this a piece of evidence. That is not
something we're going to do."
- https://crankyflier.com/2008/06/18/oleary-wants-to-offer-blowjobs-on-airplanes/
Now THAT's a value proposition.
[Warning: Sex]
- https://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/06/19/telecom/index.html
- https://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2008/06/we-modeled-it-after-the-very-successful-little-big-horn-compromise.html
Protection of Persons Assisting the Government
- https://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/141343.asp
One of America's unsung heros.
- https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=964
Virtually every major newspaper in the United States carried the
announcement on their front page, and on the floor of the US
Senate, David Pryor observed the event as "a meaningful moment
in US history."
- https://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/06/19/gay_fixes/index.html
- https://www.christiancentury.org/article.lasso?id=3113
"If a biological basis is found, and if a prenatal test is then
developed, and if a successful treatment to reverse the sexual
orientation to heterosexual is ever developed, we would support
its use as we should unapologetically support the use of any
appropriate means to avoid sexual temptation and the inevitable
effects of sin," Mohler wrote.
- https://copyranter.blogspot.com/2008/06/there-are-lot-of-fishdicks-in-sea.html
Explore... just protect yourself.
[Warning: Nudity, Sex]
- https://www.waspknife.com/about.php
That's just nasty.
- https://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1601/764981/1822287/321896384.jpg
Sometimes life hands you lemons.
- https://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?source=hptextfeature&story_id=11579107
Observing the endowment effect in three primate species suggests
it does, indeed, have deep evolutionary roots.
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:23:08Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:20:26Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:23:07Tue, 1 Jul 2008 20:42:37Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:44:27
- https://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/07/03/immigrants_and_the_baby_bust/index.html
Either you accept that you are going to wither away and die,
secure in your cherished cultural identity, but not reproducing
enough to survive, or you open up your arms and embrace the
stranger, and forge some new, synthetic, syncretic identity that
may not be the same as what came before, but is healthy enough
to flourish.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/magazine/29Birth-t.html
In 2003 Falivena let it be known he would pay 10,000 euros
(about $15,000) for every woman -- local or immigrant, married
or single -- who would give birth to and rear a child in the
village.
- https://marriedtothesea.com/051508/survival-of-the-spitefullest.gif
Mostly through spite.
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://online.wsj.com/article/SB121487292883417859.html
Earlier this year, Abu Dhabi businessman Saeed Khouri made
headlines and the Guinness Book of World Records when he paid
$14 million for the tag simply sporting a "1."
- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1027178/Easy-pi-Astrophysicist-solves-riddle-Britains-complex-crop-circle.html
The tenth digit has even been correctly rounded up.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfIH-Bn_fbE
When two great tastes...
- https://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=MTL9663#LargeImage
... that taste great together!
- https://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?aid=9377&context=va
- https://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/29/us.iran/index.html
Just keep digging!
- https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=18075
Unlike the water in a sink or a bathtub, the water level in
Earths oceans is not the same everywhere; sea level varies with
location and time.
- https://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23943950-5001021,00.html
"I wasn't sure what I was going to do when I jumped in," he said.
- https://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1815509,00.html
He is, of course, more physically active than most retirees, but
that's because he's kept his part-time job -- as a porn star.
[Warning: Adult Content]
- https://www.baltimoresun.com/business/investing/bal-bz.ml.laptops29jun29,0,3324276.story
Gosh, I guess I don't need my laptop for the next two weeks.
Tue, 8 Jul 2008 20:24:18Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:15:19
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/10/bush-gaffes-his-way-towar_n_111961.html
Biggest idiot, maybe -- I didn't know about the pollution.
- https://sidt.gpsworld.com/gpssidt/Latest+News/National-Space-Symposium-Day-3-OCX-and-GPS-III/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/525875
"Just plug into a standard cigarette lighter with 12 V for
power," says the web page, "and it will automatically protect
you from any GPS tracking on and within your vehicle.
- https://www.wftv.com/news/16798008/detail.html
The Diocese is dispatching a nun to UCF's campus to oversee the
next mass, protect the Eucharist and in hopes Cook will return
it.
- https://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/10/arlington-whistleblower-fired/
The Pentagon seems determined to keep the media away from the
realities of war.
- https://www.formula1.com/news/features/2008/7/8015.html
Both involved multiple specialists simultaneously carrying out
numerous, complex tasks -- tasks that frequently involved
complex interfaces, and which all had to be completed quickly
and accurately.
- https://img80.imageshack.us/img80/8964/lockcupkr9.jpg
Nothing says "I trust you" like a copy of your key.
- https://www.banksy.co.uk/indoors/02.html
That's just silly, where's the solar panel and laser gun?
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-bergmann/the-week-that-should-have_b_111983.html
And what a week it was!
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/nyregion/10towns.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
"They think we're a cult," said Jeff Currivan, 17. "People think
we should be home playing 'Grand Theft Auto.'"
- https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25607064/
... who continue to live in Toyota City where the company is
based.
- https://kensingtonvictoria.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/image002.jpg
Vets said Hilda the Hippo had a gag reflex which caused her to
swallow.
- https://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/hippoeatsdwarf.asp
Yeah, but so what?
Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:27:17Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:29:38Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:35:16Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:47:33
- https://www.noiseaddicts.com/?p=16
In case you were wondering, there *is* an audio example.
- https://bushleague.tv/2008/07/10/holy-shit-waffle-house-wedding-time/
Awesomely southern.
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://www.bhigr.com/store/product.php?productid=46&cat=2
Whether you want your skeleton walking, stalking, attacking,
running, jumping or looking your visitors right in the eye, we
welcome your input, so long as the pose requested is natural and
anatomically possible.
- https://www.latimes.com/news/custom/scimedemail/la-me-dna20-2008jul20,0,1850019.story
The FBI laboratory, which administers the national DNA database
system, tried to stop distribution of Troyer's results and began
an aggressive behind-the-scenes campaign to block similar
searches elsewhere, even those ordered by courts, a Times
investigation found.
- https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080708/ap_en_mo/faked_fight_nights
"We had a contract for cage fighting. We were deceived."
- https://www.eppendorf.com/int/hawkpopup.php?contentid=13
Pipetting all those well plates puts your thumbs into overdrive.
- https://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/07/cow-burps-climate.php
Happy cow.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/science/22angi.html?ex=1217390400&en=b45a6ee22963380a&ei=5070&emc=eta1
Imagine you are standing in front of a bathroom mirror; how big
do you think the image of your face is on the surface? And what
would happen to the size of that image if you were to step
steadily backward, away from the glass?
- https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-07/prehistoric-explosions-wiped-out-ocean-life—-and-created-petroleum
If only we could get it to happen again.
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/21/monckton_aps/
But what is it about the piece that is so terrible, that like
Medusa, it could make men go blind?
Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:22:21Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:00:40Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:20:08
- https://www.misscellania.com/miss-cellania/2008/6/19/the-turtle-man.html
Snapperlicious!
- https://online.wsj.com/article/SB121755336096303089.html
Focusing on the important stuff.
- https://www.ripten.com/2008/07/03/vagina-hero-exclusive-first-look/
Might as well stop faking the funk and try to teach them boys
something useful.
[Warning: Adult Language, Strong Sexual Content]
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/08/science/space/08moon.html
The Keepers of the Moon
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/08/science/space/08merc.html
Flyby of Mercury
- https://www.todaysbigthing.com/2008/04/16
Ninja Bear.
- https://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/christian.asp
Snopes verifies it, it must be true.
- https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,568482,00.html
Every party needs a pooper, that's why we invited you!
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/28/fosset_claims/
The truth is out there.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/nyregion/30about.html
When Official Truth Collides With Cheap Digital Technology
- https://www.tuccille.com/blog/2008/07/eight-reasons-even-innocent-shouldnt.html
It is unlawful for any person ... to import, export, transport,
sell, receive, acquire, or purchase any fish or wildlife or
plant taken, possessed, transported, or sold in violation of any
law, treaty, or regulation of the United States or in violation
of any Indian tribal law or regulation of any State or any
foreign law.
- https://tv.winelibrary.com/
Wine labels, label design and branding.
Mon, 4 Aug 2008 07:44:02Tue, 5 Aug 2008 13:43:38Sat, 9 Aug 2008 09:52:16
- https://pixdaus.com/single.php?id=69421&frm=krsn
No shoes, no shirt, no service.
- https://www.iloveegg.com/egg_english.htm
Popular and perfect!
[Warning: Sound]
- https://www.leftmind.net/random/linuxbloat.jpg
Shirt bloat.
- https://www.cracked.com/blog/2008/08/07/5-scientific-theories-head-explode/
Well, according to some math we have no interest in going into,
the size of the "actual" universe is so large that if the
universe we just described (the impossibly, mind-bogglingly
large one) were the size of a quarter, the actual universe would
be the size of the Earth.
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2008/08/bill-maher-hate.html
"Gay, muslim activist; that is a very rare job description."
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/06/us/06computer.html
"There are no Cobol programmers around anymore," Mr. Farber
said. "They retired centuries ago."
- https://www.northcoastjournal.com/calendar/events/world-famous-lipizzaner-stallions/
Happily, the rest of us can enjoy these fabulous equine athletes
with a clean conscience.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7545002.stm
"... a verdict of misadventure."
- https://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2008/08/papa-johns-crop-circle.html
Papa John's Crop Circle
- https://www.observer.com/2008/style/zen-small-talk
While they attain satori, make your escape.
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:42:00
- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1042702/Time-Warp-Wives-Meet-women-really-live-past.html
A different time.
- https://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/08/09/tape-top-cia-official-confesses-to-911-iraq-war-forgery-came-from-white-house
- https://rawstory.com/news/2008/Tape_Top_CIA_officer_confesses_order_0808.html
It appears the facts aren't yet clear.
- https://www.bythefault.com/2008/08/10/someone-missed-a-science-class/
I have to categorize this in the science category because I
don't have a dumbass category.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7554293.stm
Elderly joggers were half as likely to die prematurely from
conditions like cancer than non-runners.
- https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VwNG__y550g/SKFK42qBAbI/AAAAAAAAAAM/U2fClD_3NaE/s1600-h/piracyua6.jpg
Yeah, I so want to see this poster.
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://whereisbob.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/bobs-other-job/
Bob's Other Job
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/magazine/20Carr-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Eventually we both went to treatment, and our kids went into foster
care. I sobered up; Anna did, too, until she didn't; and I obtained
physical custody of the twins, Erin and Meagan. As a power trio, we
worked our way off welfare. I married somebody grand, we had a baby
and professionally, one thing led to another, and I ended up working
at The New York Times.
- https://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/08/09/the-shepard-scale-an-amazing-auditory-illusion/
The Shepard Scale.
- https://inventorspot.com/articles/girls_get_anime_look_with_extrawide_contact_lenses_16872
Get the anime look.
- https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26092954/
"I am already roasted on one side and, if thou wouldst have me
well cooked, it is time to turn me on the other."
Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:26:41
- https://xkcd.com/
Someone is clearly doing their job horribly wrong.
- https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article4521060.ece
As a result, he won in frustration and didn't go as fast as he wished;
he could have broken the world record by a lot more. Can you understand
the irritation of that?
- https://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/theremoteisland/archive/2008/08/14/today-in-lawsuits-mystery-loves-monopoly.aspx
Going all Wal-mart on Mom-and-Pop seduction classes.
- https://www.newsweek.com/id/151758
Children with the genetic variant are unable to learn from mistakes.
No matter how many tests they blow by partying the night before, the
lesson just doesn't sink in.
- https://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/08/14/rush_on_elizabeth/index.html
... at some point you've got to exhibit maturity and restraint.
And I do that constantly.
[Warning: Adult Content]
- https://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26182276/
"Virgin hair can be waxed so successfully that growth can be
permanently stopped in just 2 to 6 sessions. Save your child a
lifetime of waxing ... and put the money in the bank for her
college education instead!"
- https://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/videos.jhtml?videoId=179077
Just because 12 states decided to legalize the medical use of
marijuana doesn't make it legal.
- https://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/08/focus_on_the_family_prays_for.php
But if God decides... and it's always up to God to decide...
- https://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080813/sc_livescience/thepillmakeswomenpickbadmates
Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes are involved in
immune response and other functions, and the best mates are
those that have different MHC smells than you.
- https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/13/DD44129360.DTL
If you're not offended by at least one aspect of this film, then
you're probably not getting out enough.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/movies/13trop.html
Rather, the true targets of this extreme comedy's free-flowing contempt
are the stars, makers, brokers, miscellaneous supplicants and even
die-hard fans of the movies, who are all portrayed as challenged in
some fashion: intellectually, ethically, aesthetically, sartorially,
chemically, longitudinally, you name it.
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:24:34Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:50:16
- https://www.5min.com/Video/How-To-Surf-On-A-River-34733548
Man, but that looks like fun.
- https://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080813/METRO/808130360/&imw=Y
The agent did say that the buyer agreed to pay the full list
price, and planned to pay cash.
- https://www.salon.com/mwt/vital_signs/2008/07/16/residents/index.html
Let's fix this mess.
- https://www.usgo.org/index.php?%23_id=4602
- https://senseis.xmp.net/?MoGo
"It's like a machine."
- https://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/08/20/itunes_china_and_tibet/index.html
- https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/apple-itunes-store-is-blocked-in-china-internet-users-say/
China, Tibet and iTunes
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLiX5d3rC6”o
- https://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2008/08/quoted-863.html
Not perfect, but very, very, good.
- https://www.dickbuscharchitects.com/
Judge's ruling: change your name, change your logo.
[Warning: Adult Content]
- https://www.vimeo.com/1513129
Photo-shopping video.
- https://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/09/soil/mann-text
It's all about the dirt.
- https://www.cracked.com/article_16554_5-most-baffling-sex-scenes-in-history-fanfiction.html
Of course, something unexplained goes horribly wrong, and he
ends up crash-landing on Middle-Earth. He's found and nursed
back to health by Lord Elrond. Hilarity ensues.
[Warning: Adult Content, Sex]
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:05:46Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:15:16
- https://web.me.com/syl/Sylweb/Chip.html
Cuteness overload.
- https://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202424084848
Citing the doctrine of In re Patterson, 920 P.2d 450 (Kan. App.
1996), that "no child, no matter how wealthy the parents, needs
to be provided [with] more than three ponies."
- https://www.motivatedphotos.com/?id=1296
Me, too.
- https://www.livescience.com/health/080829-earwax-removal.html
"Don't put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear."
- https://jesuspan.com/
For this food we are about to receive...
- https://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20080826/cm_uc_crpbux/op_337160
But, then, these folks never seem to think anything through.
- https://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/serpentine07/images/Tegmark1000.jpg
Thanks for clarifying that.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hereford/worcs/7585098.stm
... and it is not our policy to allow staff to change the
password without the customer's permission.
- https://thedailywtf.com/Articles/When-In-Doubt,-Choose-C.aspx?re
Ya got trouble, my friend, right here,
I say, trouble right here in River City.
- https://www.potpourrigift.com/itemdy00.asp?T1=R85103#zoom
Christmas comes but once a year.
- https://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/08/27/monsantos_bane/index.html
But just as many scientists have long predicted, monocrop
agriculture in combination with reliance on just one herbicide
turned out to be the most effective way to develop super-weeds
that would spit in Roundup's face that farmers could have
devised.
Mon, 1 Sep 2008 13:07:36Thu, 4 Sep 2008 14:43:30
- https://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/03/security-guards-beat.html
I think he used that nightstick just one too many times.
[Warning: Adult Content]
- https://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086&title=Sarah-Palin-Gender-Card
Karl Rove bitterly divided on the experience issue.
[Warning: Adult Language, Political]
- https://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/cc_insider/2008/09/best-fucking-ne.html
The devastation in St. Paul.
[Warning: Adult Language, Political]
- https://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=73821
"This is a huge victory for the people of Texas and, I think,
for people across the country for academic freedom."
- https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1220
Yeah, that would do it.
[Warning: Adult Content]
- https://notalwaysright.com/dads-gotta-love-em/1129
"Because the calmer you are, the angrier they get, and it's
REALLY funny."
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7586000/7586683.stm
Diaries.
- https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26444860/?from=ET
"It's a mark of distinction that says you've reached the
pinnacle of your career."
- https://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/01/pakistan
Our tribal custom.
- https://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=16027
"I don't think his appeal will work, so if he is executed, we
will ship the body to Germany, deep freeze it there and turn it
into fish food," Evaristti told The Art Newspaper.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/31/AR2008083101759.html?nav=rss_health
It turns out that about 8 percent of the human genome is made
up of viruses that once attacked our ancestors. The viruses
lost. What remains are the molecular equivalents of mounted
trophies, insects preserved in genomic amber, DNA fossils.
Mon, 8 Sep 2008 08:46:55Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:18:07
- https://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/tech_talk/2008/08/switzerlands_nerdcore_scene.html
Backup dancers:
Prefer anonymity
- https://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html
LHC webcams.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/us/politics/09etiquette.html
As the nuns used to say before school dances, "Leave room for
the Holy Ghost."
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/us/09salvia.html?hp=&pagewanted=all
"They're not really taking it as a tool to explore their inner
psyche," said Daniel J. Siebert, a Californian who pioneered the
production of salvia extracts. "They're just taking it to get
messed up."
- https://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/textbookdisclaimers/wackononsense.pdf
Pushing peas up the hill with your nose.
- https://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/
Bookmark the site, and check back often!
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anxkrm9uEJk
It's like a really bad Disney movie.
- https://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202424413938
83 percent of the nearly 1,500 lawyers responding found costs,
not the merits of a case, the deciding factor in settling.
- https://xkcd.com/474/
This could be our last night on earth.
- https://www.pplbucket.com/
Get the people in the bucket!
- https://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2008/09/near-fatal-united-nosedive-started-with-an-unexpected-jerk.html
"The fact that this happened with a major corporation like United
based on one headline coming across Bloomberg, that you'd get this
kind of knee-jerk reaction, there's something wrong with the trading
mechanism," Lehmann said.
Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:39:16
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/13/AR2008091302284_pf.html
"The analysis is flawed, in fact facially flawed," Comey said. "No
lawyer reading that could reasonably rely on it."
Gonzales said nothing. Addington stood by the window, over Cheney's
shoulder. He had heard a bellyful.
"Well, I'm a lawyer and I did," Addington said, glaring at Comey.
"No good lawyer," Comey said.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/14/AR2008091401974_pf.html
"I think you should know that Director Mueller is going to
resign today," Comey said.
Bush raised his eyebrows. He shifted in his chair. He could not
hide it, or did not try. He was gobsmacked.
- https://yarp2.motivatedphotos.com/autocdn/motivatedphotos/https://yarp.motivatedphotos.com/uploads/2008/6/29/633502992923684568-priorities.jpg
I don't want to be right.
- https://www.leviton.com/OA_HTML/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?item=68465&minisite=10026
Wow. And duh.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaBvOFye09I
I would never sell the last copy of anything.
- https://www.noiseaddicts.com/2008/09/biggest-record-collection-in-the-world-paul-mawhinney/
It's for sale (again).
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091100802.html
Miracle Lite.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/world/asia/15brainscan.html?pagewanted=all
The fact that an advanced and sophisticated democratic society
such as India would actually convict persons based on an unproven
technology is even more incredible.
- https://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/SgjIIQsOtha6yb~kiotJQ2~
That's a big dot.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muLIPWjks_M
Ninja cat.
- https://www.flickr.com/photos/30331723@N04/2857574803/sizes/o/
Hey, sweetie, how was your day?
- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1055764/Islamic-sharia-courts-Britain-legally-binding.html?ITO=1490
'The Act allows disputes to be resolved using alternatives like
tribunals. This method is called alternative dispute resolution,
which for Muslims is what the sharia courts are.'
Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:42:24Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:40:51Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:47:14
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/26/dude_wheres_my_cow/
Animal magnetism.
- https://www.typobuddy.com/blog/index.php/2008/09/22/the-worlds-most-expensive-typos/
Grammer mutters.
- https://type.salsen.com/
I helped a friend to space out some letters in a headline he'd
designed, and just yesterday he helped me with some printing
margins. It just goes to show you, one good kern deserves a
gutter.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/opinion/31kristof.html
Very often, one goose would bravely step away from the panicked
flock and walk tremulously toward me. It would be the mate of
the one I had caught, male or female, and it would step right
up to me, protesting pitifully. It would be frightened out of
its wits, but still determined to stand with and comfort its
lover.
- https://www.duluthtrading.com/store/department/mens/mens2/mens_shirts/95587.aspx?src=T28WE343
Isn't it about time you gave it a try?
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/business/worldbusiness/23krona.html
The Swedish way.
- https://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d7ac8494-880f-11dd-b114-0000779fd18c.html
While we concede there are additional opportunities in this
episode of crisis and uncertainty, we have concluded that those
opportunities are far outweighed by the risks attendant in the
use of the over-the-counter derivatives market.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/business/22lobby.html
"The real question is, Who wouldn"t want to be included in the
package?"
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4_MsrsKzMM
Oh liver!
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKSO7m3-MH8
Another in our ongoing series of really (really!) bad ideas.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/science/12magic.html?pagewanted=all
- https://www.nature.com/nrn/journal/vaop/ncurrent/pdf/nrn2473.pdf
First, do no harm. Frightening neighborhood parents, however,
is allowed.
- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1029013/The-great-ocean-migration--thousands-majestic-stingrays-swim-new-seas.html
The great ocean migration.
- https://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2008/09/the-sensor-array-indicates-youll-probably-want-fries-with-that.html
We know what you want.
Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:46:25Sat, 4 Oct 2008 16:15:21
- https://www.fredvanlente.com/cthulhutract/pages/
Why we're here.
- https://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/09/19/belgian_psa/index.html
Catchy tune.
[Warning: Adult Content, Sex]
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/magazine/28WWLN-Q4-t.html
Read the book by Antonia Fraser called "The Warrior Queens." You will
see that no woman ruler has been successful if she has been an advocate
for women at large. Not one, ever. It's the Thatcher model, which is,
"All women should stay home and take care of their babies except me."
- https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/487471.html
This week's settlement marks the third time since 2002 the
college has agreed to pay students disgruntled over their
educations.
- https://www.thegreatschlep.com/site/index.html
If they vote for Barack Obama, they're going to get another visit
this year.
[Warning: Adult Language, Political]
- https://crystalheadvodka.com/
For Dan, Ghostbusters was more than "just another movie".
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz-gDAiti6I
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xXbkte0TWY
A mountain in the ocean.
- https://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN0226624920081002
Use Skype, go to jail.
- https://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10057580-83.html
What does "largely unaware" mean, exactly?
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/business/03sec.html
- https://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/10/03/fire_chris_cox/index.html
Turns out McCain was right -- Cox should be fired.
- https://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/10/03/california_credit_crunch/index.html
Credit crisis, California-style.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/opinion/03brooks.html
She ran not only against Washington, but the whole East Coast,
just to be safe.
[Warning: Political]
Mon, 6 Oct 2008 09:44:35
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7651231.stm
Can see-through gauze be far behind?
- https://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/memories.html
... trashing an average of 15 foreclosed homes a day.
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/04/jewish-modesty-patrols-so_n_131960.html
Islam and Judaism search for common ground.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7636021.stm
Not only do some Haredi newspapers refuse to publish ads with
non-kosher phone numbers, but parents are worried their children
will be blacklisted by the shadchan, or matchmaker, if their
numbers are not kosher.
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/05/pope-slams-modern-societi_n_132076.html
... of a certain modern culture.
- https://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/11/bush-iran-assholes/
Guidance and strategy in one pithy phrase.
- https://seekingalpha.com/article/98477-iceland-when-too-big-to-fail-becomes-too-big-to-rescue
They couldn't anticipate that when a tiny country bails out a
bank whose assets vastly exceed the country's own GDP, then the
sovereign itself loses much creditworthiness.
- https://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/05/iceland.creditcrunch
... bankrupting a people for whom the past eight years have
been, for most of them and by their own admission, one long
party.
- https://ovablastic.blogspot.com/2008/10/land-slide.html
Like a forest of Ents.
- https://www.crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/obama-extends-online-lead-new-iphone-app
In a nutshell, Call Friends turns the iPhone into your own
mobile, personal phone bank, letting you call and track the
support of the people you know in the states that matter most.
- https://www.ratemyturban.com/
Please help keep this site FUN, CLEAN, and REAL.
- https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/04/MNNP138DLP.DTL&tsp=1
"The sooner we're done with all you people, the better."
- https://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=1219&u_sid=10450923
"Sometimes you have to walk off the sidewalk if you want new
experiences."
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:27:20Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:08:28
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAg5KjnAhuU
Why the Internet was invented.
- https://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/10/11/child_porn/index.html
You can get into serious trouble for taking pictures of
yourself, if you're under 18. (And fans of "Pansy Kidd"
Middle School will find another improbable school name.)
[Warning: Sex]
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/whore-miles-plan-for-dutch-prostitutes-who-behave-952479.html
Uh, "street miles"?
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/opinion/10brooks.html
It took talent for Republicans to lose the banking community.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101002267.html
It's a Wonderful Life" debuted in 1946, more than a decade after
Franklin D. Roosevelt's National Housing Act kicked off a
half-century of federal policymaking aimed at making it
dramatically easier for working-class Americans to buy and keep
their homes.
- https://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081011/NEWS/810110328
"I put my heart and soul into it, but if I kept that stuff, it
wasn't gonna go anyplace."
- https://www.nybooks.com/articles/21800
Living without God isn't easy. But its very difficulty offers
one other consolation -- that there is a certain honor, or
perhaps just a grim satisfaction, in facing up to our condition
without despair and without wishful thinking -- with good humor,
but without God.
- https://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/10/10/charles-lewis-a-town-where-voting-for-barack-obama-is-a-sin.aspx
"It's Catholic guilt conscience. And Catholic guilt conscience
is a terrible thing."
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/3179465/Hanged-for-being-a-Christian-in-Iran.html
He had converted from Islam to Christianity in 1960, when he was
13 years old. Thirty years later, he was hanged by the Iranian
authorities for that decision.
- https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2008/oct/03/sarah.palin.debate.feminism
It was an appalling display. The only reason it was not widely
described as such is that too many American pundits don't even
try to judge the truth, wisdom or reasonableness of the
political rhetoric they are paid to pronounce upon. Instead,
they imagine themselves as interpreters of a mythical mass of
"average Americans" who they both venerate and despise.
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:23:06
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7665747.stm
But was he taking requests?
- https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3091/2461745299_4852221ec5_b.jpg
A tat for the whole family.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/world/asia/13india.html
Even more religions finding common ground.
- https://2parse.com/?p=1192
11 things, with good links.
- https://online.wsj.com/article/SB122367645363324303.html
In 1906, for example, perhaps America's then most famous
musician, John Phillip Sousa, warned Congress about the
inevitable loss that the spread of these "infernal machines" --
the record player -- would cause.
- https://upsidedowndogs.com/
No, really. Why the Internet was invented.
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-14/sorry-dad-i-was-fired)
Since my Obama endorsement, Kathleen and I have become BFFs and
now trade incoming hate-mails.
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1851144,00.html
We should have held this election a year ago.
- https://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3646982
There's a new benchmark.
- https://www.myspace.com/letsmaketragedyhappen
Heavy metal meets the Bee Gees.
Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:04:38
- https://sadguysontradingfloors.tumblr.com/page/3
As advertised.
- https://www.money.co.uk/article/1001726-latest-big-brother-proposal-no-new-mobile-phone-without-a-passport.htm
Putting a stop to the communications "revolution".
- https://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2008/10/five_keys_to_guarding_a_woman.php
Hopefully she'll ignore your advances and, desperate to show you
she's no piece of meat, pick up her intensity level, resulting
in erratic shots, clumsy turnovers, and yet another restraining
order.
- https://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/103513/the_war_on_pot_is_a_war_on_young_people
For the young people in the audience, the war on pot smokers is
really a war on you.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07kO9TtHYzQ
Terry Tate approved this message.
- https://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/moneyhappy/115184;_ylt=AhRcL.DxcQnRgk7doGtgSKFO7sMF
People believed that through geographic diversification you can
diversify risk.
- https://www.cnbc.com/id/27239479
There are far too many people for me to sincerely thank for my
success. However, I do not want to sound like a Hollywood actor
accepting an award. The money was reward enough.
- https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27228287/
"Why five hours? I've asked repeatedly, and that's what they say
it will take," Brooks said. "We're talking about 5 terabytes of
compressed data. I don't know what a terabyte is. I just know it's
a heckuva lot."
[Warning: Political]
- https://www.injesus.com/index.php?module=message&task=view&MID=CB007FA2&GroupID=2A004N9G
Please, we need your help!
- https://www.injesus.com/index.php?module=message&task=view&MID=8B007FBP&GroupID=2A004N9G
"We knew there has been lots of warfare because when we get home
we are tired and need a nap."
- https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2265/2109854947_beb0ff0ac9_o.jpg
Kind of like one of those desktop toys...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeknTzuHxnw
A man is shot, we have guns, and you want to go get other people?
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkgMbU-we1o
It's real fast, and then you stop, OK?
[Warning: Adult Content, Strong Sexual Content]
Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:06:23
- https://blog.oneplusinfinity.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/fit_670.jpg
Passing along just one pumpkin carving.
- https://yeswecarve.com/
Yes we carve.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsgBtOVzHKI
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnzB_IHGyjg
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNOghidK2TY
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvqwm6RbxcQ
Richard Feynman: Take the world from another point of view (parts 1-4)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk8TVopOBGE
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp6Lpe1Fqqc
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhvLh3BxLBU
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br_PJY-LZTw
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taEw97brZis
Richard Feynman: The pleasure of finding things out (parts 1-5)
- https://www.nature.com/news/2008/081022/full/news.2008.1185.html
- https://www.nature.com/nature/videoarchive/x-rays/
"We don't want to scare people from using Scotch tape in everyday
life," Escobar adds.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/science/28xray.html
Office supply physics.
- https://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/naps/
Naps make you smarter, healthier, safer.
- https://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/new-york-times-nyt-running-on-fumes
Suffice it to say there's not a lot of clearance here.
- https://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/10/glowing_cat_may_shed_light_on.html
"You can't lose that cat at night," said C. Earle Pope, the
center's senior scientist.
- https://www.slate.com/id/2202431/pagenum/all/
The planet is about to suffer for your love.
- https://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-trainum24-2008oct24,0,7918545.story
I've been a police officer for 25 years, and I never understood
why someone would admit to a crime he or she didn't commit.
Until I secured a false confession in a murder case.
- https://www.cracked.com/article_16708_6-your-favorite-things-that-are-secretly-making-you-fat.html
So you're sitting there, eating chips with one hand and moving
the mouse with the other. Have you had four handfuls, or five?
How full was the bag when you started? Don't ask your stomach,
it's retarded. And your brain is too busy handling the sensory
information provided by that .gif of the dramatic hamster to
care.
- https://www.iftheworldcouldvote.com/
McCain leads Macedonia with 88%.
[Warning: Political]
- https://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/10/24/palin_2012/index.html
"One part practiced folksy, one part sassy, and a little dash of
high school bitchy."
[Warning: Political]
- https://jonswift.blogspot.com/2008/10/great-moments-in-election-year-blogging.html
"You know, just because the thing I saw wasn't there doesn't
mean there wasn't something there that I didn't see."
[Warning: Political]
- https://focusfamaction.edgeboss.net/download/focusfamaction/pdfs/10-22-08_2012letter.pdf
Now in October of 2012, after seeing what has happened in the
last four years, I don't think I can still answer, "Yes," to
that question. We are not "the land of the free and the home of
the brave." Many of our freedoms have been taken away by a
liberal Supreme Court and a majority of Democrats in both the
House and the Senate, and hardly any brave citizen dares to
resist the new government policies any more.
[Warning: Political]
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:43:23
When I got home late last night, the wife told me take her someplace
expensive for dinner. So, I took her to a gas station. That's when the
fight started.
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I retired recently, and went to the Social Security office to apply for
benefits. When the woman behind the counter wanted to verify my age I
realized I'd left my wallet at home. I told the woman I would have to
come back later.
"Unbutton your shirt," she said. So I opened my shirt revealing
silver hair.
"That's proof enough for me," she said, and she processed my Social
Security application.
When I got home, I told my wife what happened. She said, "You
should have dropped your pants. You could have gotten disability, too."
That's when the fight started.
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My wife and I were at my high school reunion, when she noticed me
staring at an obviously drunk woman sitting alone at a table.
"Do you know her?" my wife asked.
"Yes," I sighed. "She's an old girlfriend. She started drinking
after we split up years ago, and people say she hasn't been sober
since."
"My God!" whispered my wife. "Who would think a person could
celebrate for that long?" That's when the fight started.
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I rear-ended a car this morning. We pulled onto the side of the road,
and the other driver got out of his car. Yeah, well I couldn't believe
it -- he was a DWARF!
He stormed over to my car, looked up at me, and shouted, "I AM NOT
HAPPY!"
Well, as you can imagine, I was pretty rattled, and I looked down
at him and said, "Well, then which one are you?" That's when the fight
started....
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- https://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Receptionist-Test.aspx
The Receptionist Test
- https://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=34225
Wing Suit jumping.
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/3246178/Australia-bans-word-drought-as-too-upsetting-for-farmers.html
Lack of focus appears to be a worldwide problem.
- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/10/23/opinion/20081024-endorse.html
Endorsements through the ages.
News: https://www.fijilive.com/news_new/index.php/news/show_news/9635
First person description: https://www.stuff.co.nz/4728317a6011.html
"My name is Captain Maurice and I'm your rescuer this morning."
- https://www.break.com/index/unbelievable-mccain-vs-obama-dance-off.html
Obama vs. McCain Dance-off
- https://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/54795.html
The gloves come off.
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/07/18/ealeopard118.xml
Crocodile v. Leopard
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/09/29/eaheron129.xml
Heron v. Rabbit
"When the heron was quite close to the rabbit you could feel the tension.
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/10/09/eamouse109.xml
Snake vs. Mouse
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/earth/2522622/Seal-catches-and-eats-duck.html?image=5
Seal vs. Duck
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/10/22/easpider122.xml
Bird vs. Spider
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/11/17/eashark117.xml
Shark vs. Seal
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/opinion/28wang.html
Of course, undecided voters aren't suffering from brain damage,
it's just that their brains may require an especially long
amount of time to develop confidence in or awareness of a
choice.
- https://www.whatwecouldhavedonewiththemoney.com/
Pave the entire interstate highway system with gold.
Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:40:54Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:18:04Sat, 1 Nov 2008 21:37:48Mon, 3 Nov 2008 10:35:28Fri, 7 Nov 2008 08:42:54
- https://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ieCBemBbV0IeKPZg_SScPTs6wjHAD948VDVG0
And you thought jogging home after a vasectomy was tough.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_Sting_Pain_Index
Caustic & burning. Distinctly bitter aftertaste. Like spilling
a beaker of hydrochloric acid on a paper cut.
- https://www.autosport.com/news/grapevine.php/id/71881
She diligently worked through the paperwork, and when she
transferred in Washington on Wednesday was asked to present
her visa.
- https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3279/3006416363_95ef8de914_o.jpg
Sharing is important.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/06/AR2008110603948.html
A black history of the White House.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/nyregion/03erie.html
I've got a mule, and her name is Sal,
Fifteen years on the Erie Canal.
She's a good old worker and a good old pal,
Fifteen years on the Erie Canal.
We've hauled some barges in our day
Filled with lumber, coal and hay
And every inch of the way I know
From Albany to Buffalo
- https://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1856020,00.html
He said the girl "was unaware she was being dropped off."
- https://www.newsweek.com/id/167582/page/1
What I'm thinking in my head is, 'Well, the truth is, Brian, we
can't solve global warming because I f---ing changed light bulbs
in my house. It's because of something collective'."
[Warning: Poltical]
- https://kurlander.blogspot.com/2008/11/was-it-over-when-germans-bombed-pearl.html
The things that really matter are our faith and our families.
And not even Chairman O can take those away from us.
- https://www.blackfive.net/main/2008/11/back-in-the-uss.html
I went with Chuck Z today to his favorite local gun shop and
where last week there were dozens of AK and variants for sale,
today there were half as many and a line to buy.
- https://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/nov/05/after-future-present-and-past/
So take today and rest. I can't blame you. In the mean time I
will stand watch on the front. I will fight the fight while you
re-energize. I'll still be here when you come back. And when you
do come back, you can stand on either hand and continue to keep
this bridge with me. I'll rest when I'm dead. At RedState, we
fight on.
- https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3215/2943837100_12212916b5.jpg
The taste you've been waiting for.
[Warning: Poltiical]
- https://forums.nonewbs.com/showthread.php?t=78276
Times have changed, Romeo.
Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:39:46Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:58:47Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:35:53Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:45:56Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:38:56
- https://mfrost.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/10/30/goatvi3.jpg
Happy goat.
- https://photography.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/Content/crossing-crevasse-902611x-xl.jpg
Don't be such a wuss.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/science/20mammoth.html?_r=1&em=&pagewanted=all
"The big issue would be whether enough people felt that a
chimp-Neanderthal hybrid would be acceptable, and that would be
broadly discussed before anyone started to work on it."
[Planet of the Apes!]
- https://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24685021-401,00.html
Wash your hands, OK?
- https://laweekly.blogs.com/joshuah_bearman/yootoob/
The most horrible day of my life.
- https://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/26/japan.bears/index.html
Ooops.
- https://newamericanpatriot.dailykos.com/
I'm not feeling the love.
- https://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2008/0811.homans.html
How to find out what we still don't know.
- https://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/11/20/guantanamo/index.html
- https://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/11/26/torture/index.html
Not feeling like one of the "good guys".
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/19/john-mccain-jackson-brown_n_144943.html
I feel so dirty... so used...
[Warning: Political]
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/billy-kimball/obamas-expected-to-have-s_b_145104.html
Say it ain't so!
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i2QWh2CIxk
"For one, you need a little bit of levity in this job."
[Warning: Adult Content]
- https://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/11/19/shelby_and_the_bailout/index.html
In other words, Shelby isn't opposed to car companies that are
stupidly committing and recommitting to SUVs. Rather, he's just
opposed to car companies that make SUVs with union labor.
- https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/WallStreet/story?id=6285739&page=1
Symbolism can matter.
- https://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20081120/pl_bloomberg/am5z0hbbrp0u
Representative Peter Roskam, an Illinois Republican, challenged
Wagoner and Mulally to forgo pay for a year, saying he
understood Nardelli was agreeable to the idea.
Mulally said, "I think I'm OK where I am."
Mulally received $21.7 million for 2007, including $2
million in salary.
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/3465179/How-old-is-old-enough-to-decide-whether-to-live-or-die.html
"Mum, I just wish people would stop trying to save me."
Mon, 1 Dec 2008 07:08:58Fri, 5 Dec 2008 11:12:07Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:59:28Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:22:28
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlLC1Iy1UkE
In a world that needs heroes...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY
Speaking of heroes, Matt is still dancing.
[Click on "watch in HD"]
- https://rileytv.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/i-heart-nerdswow/
I knew exactly what was going down when I first smelled the damn
garlic and cheese downstairs. My boyfriend is romancing me at
7 o'clock so that by 10:30 I'll be knocked out, giving him the
opportunity to morph into Illidan and retreat to the Ironforge,
to engage in some creature-on-creature combat with thousands of
his fellow nerds from around the globe.
- https://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1357/109/18/5710098/n5710098_41595615_3316.jpg
Don't be that person.
- https://i34.tinypic.com/2hchhc2.jpg
I think he's going for the neck.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/opinion/17kenney.html?_r=1
The only problem with this form of insult is that the thrower
then has to retrieve the pants, as he or she had been wearing
them.
- https://donklephant.com/2008/12/11/kop-busters/
And suddenly the police have to account for why they entered an
empty residence with two Christmas trees and a glow lamp, and
how they knew about it in the first place.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/fashion/30love.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all
There is nothing so intimate as the sounds of sex, which are a
shared secret between lovers, part of the glue that binds them
together. We have our regular speaking voices, and then we have
our sexual voices. While these voices may be odd, disturbing,
even disorienting, especially if overheard, they serve a special
purpose: to bring us close.
[Warning: Adult Content]
- https://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/12/09/kit_naylor/index.html
While I sometimes calculate that I have a better chance of being
clobbered on the head with a piece of falling asteroid than I
do of ever making love again, I also count my blessings.
[Warning: Adult Content]
- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1093823/Pictured-Schoolboy-archer-survives-friend-shoots-arrow-eye.html
Don't say that Mom didn't warn you.
- https://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16637319
Celebrate your own beauty.
[Warning: Adult Content]
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