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Hawkins sums up my feelings pretty well.

With legos!

Yeah, I have no idea what all that is, but it looks cool. And it’s Legos!

The Convoy 88 is specially hilarious.

via Inoperable Terran

Low-fat diet, not helping so much. Pass the potato chips.

NASA decides to go to the moon within the next decade. Not because it’s easy, but because it is hard.

Regardless of their little feud, it’s a good idea.

Crazy people with nuclear weapons make people nervous. Who knew?

Apparently it’s illegal to call someone names, if the names are of a racial manner.

Because creating giant robots to aid humanity is always a good idea.

All you need to know.

Some groundhog songs to get you through the day.

Censorship doesn’t work, but we’ll help you try.

The rest of Europe is getting in on the act and reprinting the cartoon that so offended Muslims. More here. Somewhere Thomas Nast is smiling.

I had no idea that until 5 minutes ago that you could send a telegram in these modern days stop so I guess the end of it all isn’t so bad stop

♪A fisking, a fisking….♪ Okay, it’s not actually a fisking, per se, but it is all about Fisk’s errors.

France jumps into the middle of the Danish-Islam row. This ought to be fun.

A couple of Egyptian officials are asking Hamas to honor past peace deals and quit calling for Israel’s immediate demise. Wonder what’s in it for Egypt, but still, it’s a positive.

Greenspan goes out in style.

Invaluable help in your Star Wars vs. Star Trek debates.

via Fark

Only 20 years to live it up before the end is nigh.

Bush doing better in the ratings. No film at eleven.

American’s savings rate is now a negative number. That is amazing to me.

Major company makes profit. Film at eleven.

The Enterprise home theater. So rad.

I’m pretty sure Despair has the trademark. Cingular could be in for a fight over the patent on emoticons. Oh, and Cingular is a bunch of morans for even trying.

The internet allows people to say what they are really thinking without any annoying social inhibitions. Now we see the real you, jerk.

Happy Birthday, Trogdor. If I had known, I would have baked a cake.

While I’m discussing my health, FitDay is a handy thing for tracking your food consumption and composition and activities. So far today, 834 calories: 49% carbs, 23% protien, %28 fat.

Okay, I get a cold once in a while but the only things I take are Ricola (Reeeeeecooolaaaaa, to stop the coughing), Theraflu (soothing to go to sleep), Nyquil (knocks me out so I can sleep), and Sudafed (not actually for treating any symptoms but because it makes me so happy I can get through the day) or their generic knock-offs.

All of that just to tell you I don’t buy cough medicine so the fact that they don’t work doesn’t bother me at all.

Google bows to its Chinese overlords roundup.

Joel Stein on Hugh Hewitt’s show, explaining how he knows nothing about the military, but that wasn’t his point.

The government wants Google to turn over all searches for an unspecified week. Google said no. I bow to our Google overlords.

Cheaper by the Dozen 2 is beating Brokeback Mountain in sales. Clearly, Steve Martin knows what Americans want to see.

The old spy rock trick.

Kerry adds his two cents over at Daily Kos. You can tell it’s a slow news day, since this is news.

Protest robots. Yeah, that’s a good idea.

Until they become sentient, realize they’re dupes and go on a killing spree.

There ought to be a law against this sort of thing.

Hillary thinks the administration should be dealing more strongly with Iran. Which, of course, would be condemned as war-mongering by an imperialist president if he actually mentioned Iran, even if it’s just sanctions.

VDH on what is wrong with the US in the Middle East.

Work, work, work. Perhaps I’ll be posting some later.

What’s missing from this article? Any study indicating that you learn less online versus actually showing up.

William Shatner’s kidney stone bought by??? Yes, of course, Golden Palace.

Coolio pong clock for sale now. With video.

The Top Ten ways Congress is like a plantation.

But talk is cheap and buying votes isn’t.

Scrappleface has the scoop. The rich, chocolatey scoop.

“Ever since I saw the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I’ve thought, ‘That’s New Orleans’,� Mayor Nagin said. “and I thought, ‘I’m Willy Wonka’. �

UPDATE: You can get the tshirt.

Scientists want to create human-rabbit embryos to grow stem cells. Unnatural, yes. Possible boon to science, yes. Wrong, I don’t know.

The new Intel Macs may be able to boot XP after all.

Kim Jong Il missing? I find it unlikely.

It’s like a Scooby Doo episode, without Scooby.

Which makes it Doo. Let’s just move on…

Video of a lion cub and its adopted mother.

Robertson’s latest inane remarks have made Israel mad at him. Israel won’t allow Robertson’sHoly Land theme park atrocity now. I don’t see a down side.

UPDATE: And now he’s apologizing. That doesn’t seem insincere or anything.

More Alito than you could ever want.

How can the ‘verse go on? Okay, a sequel would be really cool anyway.

UPDATE: I feel I should emphasize, HE KILLED WASH!

Soon your film camera will be a collectible antique.

It’s like it’s just the flu!

What the GOP does need is a House majority leader with integrity and a passionate, fiery commitment to righting the wayward ship.”.

Who has a better chance, do you think?

I don’t quite see a reason to get riled up about this. They’re not being sneaky about it. Is Amazon.com malware too then?

Preemptive fashion advice, unless you’re a babushka.

Wendy’s video here.

The Idiotarian of the Year.

I don’t see how there could have been any competition.

Human skin bound books not as uncommon as I would hope.

From the Ebay song. It’s been a good day. Cause I bought it on Ebay…

Don’t kiss the chickens. Duh.

The real line of succession in the Executive branch.

The best blonde joke evar.

Tim Blair has some awesome quotes from 2005 arranged by month. Just keep scrolling.

* “If I’d have known how freakin’ ugly they were, I would never have gotten so concerned about their endangerment.�—Stephen Green meets a condor

* “Every minute in the world a woman is raped, and she has no one to blame but herself.�—Sheikh Feiz Muhammad at a Town Hall meeting in Sydney

* “I didn’t actually say they were Eichmann, I said they were little Eichmanns.�—Ward Churchill clears things up regarding the 9/11 dead

I grabbed a sugar-free Sobe today, cause it was the flavor I wanted. Here’s the downer, the crap they use to make it sugar-free tastes stronger than the flavor.

WordPress 2.0 is out. I haven’t tried it yet cause I’m waiting for my host to make it automagically available for me, but you can get it if you want.

So, it seems George Bush hates the elderly, not the poor and blacks. Eh well.

Scrappleface says it so well, and so much better than I did:

“God disciplines American Christians for their willful ignorance of the Scriptures by having me embarrass them every 60 days or so with another ridiculous remark.�

You know what would be awesome? No, of course not, but I’ll tell you. If the bank would let me create virtual savings accounts within my savings account. That way I could designate certain portions of my savings for, say, car repair or home improvement or electronical gadgets without having to try to keep track in my head.

And don’t tell me about software I can buy to do that kind of stuff. Unless it integrated with my online banking and popped up there in my browser there’s no way I’m expending the effort to do that.

My coworker’s getting interviewed by KREM 2 News even as I type. Maybe my vehicle will be in the background.

Of course, it’s about some government handout that they don’t want to stop, so maybe I should have been shouting, NO FREE CAR SEATS WITH MY TAXES or something.

On the current Anglo primacy in fighting wars.

A FURTHER asset of the Anglo countries is that they approach war more confidently than their potential rivals. That partly reflects their favorable geopolitical situation. No Anglo country shares a common border with a threatening neighbor. Britain, Australia and New Zealand are islands, while the United States abuts only much weaker Canada and Mexico. So the Anglos often can wait to fight opponents until they are likely to prevail. The same cannot be said of France, Germany or Russia, still less the hapless east European countries sandwiched between Germany and Russia.

via The Corner

Gilding the lily, but with style.

The world began in 1968, and owes nothing to what came before; if we wish to combat the regrettable enthusiasms of some other cultures whose animus appears religious, we should deconsecrate the cathedrals in order to set an example and light the way. Religion is the enemy to the transnational progressives, because religion holds up laws and codes and rules the wise burghers of Belgium cannot amend.

Also:

It goes without saying that selling anti-Christian iconography to European fashionistas is a brave an act as reducing the food pellet allotment to your pet hamster; a true act of bravery would be yanking the dead wildebeest out of a lion’s mouth. Or selling jeans that have the international cross-and-bar NO symbol over the crescent of Islam.

Earliest Darwin Award winner video I know of. (Direct video link)

Woman weds dolphin.

I guessed right. No Google PC.

Yet.

An article on student disengagement has this happy thought:

Surveys of undergraduates like “Your First College Year,” conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles and the Policy Center on the First Year of College at Brevard College, show troublingly high levels of “academic disengagement.” Students say that they feel bored in class, submit assignments that underexercise their talents, and do minimal homework.

Mark Steyn on the decline and fall of Western Civilization.

It would make my not buying the new, useless Coldplay CD more meaningful.

I was going to mention something along these lines, but Ace said it better.

Personally, I like organic milk, I think it tastes better than inorganic milk, but mostly I think organic farming is a bit silly and I certainly wouldn’t force it on anyone. I couldn’t afford to eat that way myself.

Explosion on the moon cause by meteor? Riiiight. Battling aliens is more like it.

Google has burned me before doing things I thought it would never do, but a Google computer?

Dave Barry’s 2005 review.

The top viral videos of 2005. That gamer one still makes me laugh every time.

The banished word list.

So, my desk and office are clean, at the same time, for now. I give it a month before it reverts to it’s previous state. I think that’s plenty of change for the new year.

Okay, my real resolution is to go to the gym at least 4 days a week for 6 weeks straight. <princessbride>Think it’ll work? It’ll take a miracle.</princessbride>

Also, don’t forget about the Leap Second. Don’t spend it all in one place.

Putting Jesus back into nachos.

Looks more like a parasite from Halo to me.

For your pre-Christmas Friday fun.

Since it’s a Chesterton kind of week.

Everybody, calm down. Stop and smell the nutmeg. Christmas has staying power.

Of course, I think nutmeg is an abomination, but you get the idea.

Is it so hard for watchmakers to make a snappy women’s analog watch with an alarm? Preferably under $100?

Kill the Trees!

Indiana/Idaho same difference.

A few attendees heckled Sen. Larry Craig (R., Ind.), a member of the policy committee when he was talking about Social Security personal accounts.

Noooooooo!

Mod chips for your Xbox 360 will be out soon.

Some nice links about the New York City strike.

Don’t let them catch you at it though. And this is where the looking for Chesterton quote came in.

What has health to do with care? Health has to do with carelessness. In special and abnormal cases it is necessary to have care. When we are peculiarly unhealthy it may be necessary to be careful in order to be healthy. But even then we are only trying to be healthy in order to be careless….

For all the fundamental functions of a healthy man ought emphatically to be performed with pleasure and for pleasure; they emphatically ought not to be performed with precaution or for precaution. A man ought to eat because he has a good appetite to satisfy, and emphatically not because he has a body to sustain. A man ought to take exercise not because he is too fat, but because he loves foils or horses or high mountains, and loves them for their own sake.

Yeah, it all ties together in my mind.

I was looking for something else entirely and came across this:

This is certainly, I think, what makes a certain sort of anti-patriot irritating to healthy citizens. I do not speak (of course) of the anti-patriotism which only irritates feverish stockbrokers and gushing actresses; that is only patriotism speaking plainly. A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it. But there is an anti-patriot who honestly angers honest men, and the explanation of him is, I think, what I have suggested: he is the uncandid candid friend; the man who says, “I am sorry to say we are ruined,” and is not sorry at all.

Carry on.

Hapland 2 for your amusement.

And the walkthrough, for when it’s not so amusing anymore.

Critics say this is a health and economic burden the US cannot sustain – and one that the country has been slow to wake up to.

Here’s the beauty of the situation; if we can’t sustain it, we’ll be back to a thin country again. Problem solved.

For now. Nothing like friends you bought.

Nothing to see here, move along. These aren’t the studies you’re looking for.

Maker of the hypocrite ichthyus worried about the consequences of his design.

via BOTW

Dry hacking cough, fever, sinusy trouble, general malaise, stabbing pain in my shoulder from sleeping on it wrong == zombie-like behavoir == little to no posting.

It just occured to me, I could take the little red happy pills in the medical cabinet. They’re for completely different symptoms, but they are fun. I’d have to walk downstairs though. Tough choice.

Dumb things people have wanted to name their kids. Complete with snarky comments.

Sesame Street isn’t edgy enough for the French. Apparently they are confused about the age group it’s aimed at.

Looks like the Iraq elections are going well.

US ranked 6th in the world in jailed journalists. I’m not feeling a lot of guilt or shame for my country about this.

Alaska has a lot of ‘splaining to do. The man is clearly not capable of logical thought, how did he get elected?

Yes, I realize there’s not a lot of correlation between intelligence and elected officials, but this guy is especially lame.

The Lileks roundup. I love these things.

via Inoperable Terran

Quanta to manufacture the $100 laptops.

The last thing I need to do is further anthropomorphize my Roomba.

Scrappleface on Bubble Boy.

Wrong, but a quality headline.

And so funny.

Political Correctness from the Right starting to become an issue on college campuses.

The sweet smell in Manhattan is making people nervous. I say they’re testing the delivery system for some airborne bioweapon.

Forget the wood burning stove, I’m going with corn.

The UN in action.