Harvard Magazine published this article about the movie "Super Size Me. I'm going to see the movie tonight after I stop at McDonalds. Yum!
A 12 month price chart of Portland's gas prices paints a sad picture for SUV owners in gas prices.
nelson laugh
Ha ha!
/nelson laugh
I ride public transportation and cackle every day at all the poor saps stuck in traffic and paying $2.43 per gallon for gas.
Check out Pocket Bush with your speakers on.
You can rest easy--I'm back from my 5 day radical sabbadical with a story of chimpanzee virgin birth in the holy land!
What if Jesus returned as a chimp? What if he returned as twin chimps?
Why does the military feel so compelled to bomb wedding parties back to the stone age in the middle east?
It finally happened, as promised: Andy Kaufman Returns 20 years after faking his death. Read his blog.
Gas stations are getting greedy. This one demands, literally, an arm and a leg.
Register now and ready for the draft, because it's coming soon. You will be asked questions about your physical, mental, and moral fitness. You'll be offered three post-mortem preference options as well:
PACKAGE 1: Fed-Ex Overnight, flag-draped casket & formal military funeral (ALL CAMERAS PROHIBITED)
PACKAGE 2: UPS 3rd Day Air, pine box, personal-style Presidential form letter, spot on FOX
PACKAGE 3: Parcel Post Freight, Old Glory-emblazoned Hefty bag, sparkler, used Toby Keith CD
The matter of the Geneva Conventions continues to rear its ugly head, confounding the Allies in their efforts to free the Iraqi people from Saddam Hussein. It seems that the conventions call for the occupying forces to keep a tally of the civilians they accidentally kill. The Allies are hesitant to do this, probably because by conservative estimates they have liberated and then killed somewhere between 9,000 and 11,000 men, women and children.
Hey, we freed them. What do they want from us?
This week's edition of The New Yorker: Fact is continuing the stinging, painful indictment of Rummy and the defense department. Basically, Rumsfeld and even Dubya knew exactly what was going on at Abu Ghraib and didn't lift a finger to stop it. Why? Because they specifically authorized it. We can kiss the Geneva Conventions goodbye in WWIII thanks to them. Good job, guys.
Check out these Bento Pictures featuring the likes of Hello Kitty, the Powerpuff Girls, and more. Yum.
I really could've used this simple breakdown of the RSA Algorithm. It's far easier to digest than the explanation given by Thomas Cormen's Introduction to Algorithms.
MovableType 3.0 is coming, and it will cost you. I've been a MovableType user for almost a year, and a blogger for three, but I'm not getting worked up like the many irate users planning to dump the publishing system soon. I'm perfectly happy with the feature set I've got with 2.whatever, and if I want something else I can roll with the ample supply of alternatives.
A recently published MSNBC article revealing that the White House would stop at nothing in their fight against terrorsim--unless it gets in the way of the pre-emptive strike on Iraq. Outstanding leadership, George. Really.
We can deduce that the White House let Abu Musab al-Zarqawi slip through their fingers. He's the man credited with this gruesome slaying. Doesn't that make them responsible? Why isn't this in the headlines?
Kurt Vonnegut is still alive, and at 81 years old
he's still kicking, too. I can only hope I'm as mentally acute at his age.
I want a pair of CD mixing turntables so bad I'm inclined to have a firstborn child just to trade it in for a pair. Yum.
Just in case you were wondering if there was a way to record 7 of your favorite shows at once...you can. You can also record absurd amounts of video, because Sony's new PVR has 1TB of storage!
I thought I knew kung fu...until I witnessed the 1000 styles of Rumsfeld!!!
I must retreat to my fortress of solitude to train.
The Qarcade will deliver you from the ravages of on-the-job productivity.
You're welcome.
del.icio.us has presented me with another winner this fine afternoon: Infinite cat project is a never ending chain of a cat looking at a cat looking at a cat looking at a cat looking at a cat looking at a cat looking at a cat looking at a cat looking at a cat looking at a cat looking at a cat looking at a cat looking at a cat looking at a cat looking at a cat looking at a cat...
I'm going to start my own infinite page, infinite snake project. Watch for it.
Famous publisher Larry Flynt is sponsoring a day of prayer for Fox News pundit Bill O'Reilly. Be there.
Oliver the humanzee is the missing link is the search for the true monkey butlers. This truth I hold to be self evident. His show on the Discovery channel was replayed last night, and continues to freak out the establishment. One of my colleagues, a UO biology major, insists that human/chimp mating could produce viable offspring, citing lion/tiger ('Liger'), horse/donkey ('mule') , and dolphin/porpoise ('dorpoise') as compelling evidence. I'm sold on the idea, not just because I desperately want to believe it, but because it's definitely possible. Plus I discovered in the past that writing about Oliver makes my site blow up crazy with mad hits from people who watched the Discovery channel show.
Lets face it: Oliver should be cloned, and his monkey butler skills should be spread around the world. Someone should make a 'real ultimate power' page about him, because he's sooooooooooo sweet that I want to crap my pants.
Ok, I've really gone too far with this post and should probably stop.
UPDATE: Don't force me to create my own special REAL ULTIMEATE POWER site dedicated to Oliver the humanzee!
I can relate to the creator of this site, an ongoing saga of a rat hunter and his enemies, because I've gone through a similar experience with our house's rodent population. However, I feel he's being wasteful by failing to complete the circle of life. He should buy a snake to feed the carcasses to.
Confirming my suspicions: states that voted for Bush in 2004 were teh stupid. Only 2 states with agerage IQs of 100 went to Bush.
There's nothing quite like a good nailgun accident story to brighten up your day.
I've noticed that all the news articles which describe what happened at Abu Ghraib stop short of calling it torture. They all call it 'abuse'. Boing Boing points out, with this highly relevant link to a UN document ratified by the US and 70 other countries.
1. For the purposes of this Convention, the term "torture" means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions.Posted by Barry at 05:49 PM | | Comments (0)
It's good to know that we live in a free country where the government can't censor what we see and hear just because it makes them look bad. However, it's unfortunate that big business does the government's censorship all by itself. Go freedom of speech.
Goodbye, toothbrush! British researchers say they can grow new teeth using stem cell technology which means I don't have to worry about my teeth rotting out. Growing new teeth will be as easy as getting a shot!