February 2009
January 2009
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“Hello gals of Mumbai and beyond… I am looking for an obnoxious girlfriend for...”
– Personal ad from Craigslist, Mumbai (via bunkercomplex)
WatchThis is me today. Home from work but too sick to enjoy it.
(Alert: a little pottymouth talk, O no.)
WatchThis realistic dialog is so helpful!
Create your own Star Trek adventure →
It’s easy and fun! Here.
“Science is not a monument of received Truth but something that people do to look...”
– Dennis Overbye (via 2050ad)
WatchDoctor Who, Benny Hill, and Eminem. Why hasn’t anybody put them together before this?
WatchThe letter outgoing President Bush left for his successor.
No hits on Google →
Randall Munro at the xkcd blag writes:
After a hectic few months, I finally have some projects that are in the early stages. But since nothing is worth posting about yet, here instead is a list of phrases that (at the time of this posting) turn up no hits on Google:
“ate a violin”
“driver-side bidet”
“unlike normal furries,”
“Sarah, plain and tall and a cyborg”
“people are too civil on the...
You know what Jane Austen needed to add to Pride... →
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen’s beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the...
Candy Wars →
A new game, Prohibition 3: Candy Wars, has been approved by Apple for resale on AppStore.
In Prohibition 3: Candy Wars you play a candy dealer in New York City in the summer of 2040 during the height of candy prohibition — a few years earlier, due to an obesity pandemic the United States Congress declared sugar was a highly addictive substance and banned the sale and manufacture of all...
How bad is the crash?
Photo gallery: Enormous stocks of unsold vehicles around the world
At guardian.co.uk
A lesser man would use a snow shovel
This is how Tony of Tony’s Subs, Walla Walla WA, clears his parking lot.
Virgin Airlines: the world's best passenger... →
Here we reproduce a complaint letter sent to Sir Richard Branson, which is currently being emailed globally and is considered by many to be the world’s funniest passenger complaint letter.
At telegraph.co.uk
Obama administration digs into Gitmo legal cases... →
The Washington Post says:
President Obama’s plans to expeditiously determine the fates of about 245 terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and quickly close the military prison there were set back last week when incoming legal and national security officials — barred until the inauguration from examining classified material on the detainees — discovered that there were no comprehensive...
“If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means;...”
– Epictetus.
Sadly, Epictetus was not on staff at any of the 2008 political campaigns.
How the bailout works
Young Chuck in Montana bought a horse from a farmer for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the horse the next day.
The next day he drove up and said, “Sorry son, but I have some bad news — the horse died.”
Chuck replied, “Well, then just give me my hundred dollars back.”
The farmer said, “Can’t do that. I went and spent it already.”
“Okay then,...
Why is this cow laughing?
At the end of World War I, a French cheesemaker named Léon Bel had a lot of leftover comté, gruyere, and emmental cheeses and decided to melt them down to create a new type of cheese.
In 1921, Bel saw a traveling meat truck nicknamed “Wachkyrie,” after “Valkyries,” the creatures in Norse mythology that determine the victors in the...
Limbaugh fears freedom of information
On Wednesday, President Obama issued his first set of executive orders. One of these orders instructs “federal agencies to handle requests for information from the public and press under the Freedom of Information Act [FOIA] with an eye toward disclosure, not refusal.” The order reportedly returns to “pre-Bush administration policies” regarding FOIA.
In response to the “new standard of openness,”...
Pensionbook →
It’s the future of Facebook.
The NYTimes publishes an Op-Ed by Libyan leader... →
Obama gets two more things right
Obama orders CIA prisons, Guantanamo shut
President also orders that all interrogations must follow Army manual: msnbc.com
Obama overturns “executive privilege” secrecy on Bush’s records
Executive order at whitehouse.gov
