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Quotes on the London bombing here.

I need my headphones to match my endtable.

My consciousness is raised. After all, I’m awake aren’t I? That ought to help the revolution tremendously.

Make sure to read Joe’s comment.

Early roundup of the London bombing blogging.

Lileks fisks a scene from Reptilicus.

Like I hate Real Player, there’s a Real Alternative.

With all the obesity you’d think a little meth would be welcome in America.

Mostly, I don’t want my fingernails pulled out when someone wants my information and I don’t want to give it to them.

The weirdos that are blogging. Well, I guess you would if you looked around enough, but that’s beside the point right now.

The frighteningly named Yak Shaving Razor is up.

Sunshine is back in style again. Just in time too, I got a awesome farmer tan yesterday.

NY Times on newspapers attempts to blog or engage bloggers. Spokesman gets a mention but not a link. Eh well.

And speaking of the NY Times, sixth place.

We’re taking the war to them instead of waiting for them to come to us.

UPDATE: Well, not everyone is happy about it.

National Review has their summer reading lists out, so naturally I have to let you know what I want to read this summer. In no particular order:

1. Cryptonomicon. by Neal Stephenson. The Diamond Age : Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, which I recently finished, was fantastic.

2. On the Good Life by Cicero. Trying to fill in the gaps in my education.

3. A History of Christianity by Paul Johnson. I really liked his A History of the American People.

4. Temple of the Winds by Terry Goodkind. Stupid book three ends right as the war is revving up. Must find out how it ends.

5. In the Ocean of the Night by Gregory Benford. Hopefully this will be good. I’ve been looking for a good science fiction series.

6. Something on Baroque Art.

I’m sure there will be others, but that’s all I got so far.

Red state, blue state.

Remind me again why we care what Mexico puts on its stamps?

People I don’t know nominating other people I don’t know for the Supreme Court.

Music from clouds and other deep analog vs. digital music thoughts.

That’s a big fish.

“Is it being done to somehow force public broadcasting into some kind of retreat?” asked Ms. Rehm, who has been host of “The Diane Rehm Show,” a news and interview program, on public radio for 25 years. “Is it done to frighten people to somehow alert them to the fact that they are being watched?”

So, it comes as a surprise to you that people are listening to your program and possibly paying attention?

Well, they all are, but it’s worse with the glowing red eyes.

A horchata cupcake. That is genius.

John Hawkins interviews Mark Steyn.

I hate burning CDs.

Great morning, thanks for asking. How’s yours?

UPDATE: 9:56 and still burning. Oh yeah!

FURTHER UPDATE: 10:31. Done at last, done at last, thank God Almighty I’m done at last. Till next week.

Old Faithful is there for you.

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And idiots are entitled to representation in Congress too.

But, the government should have been cracking down hard on passport fraud about, oh, 4 years ago.

On the other hand:

Mr. Johnson, who was the special agent in charge of the Miami field office of the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security from 2002 to 2004, said the department placed too much emphasis on rapidly processing passport applications.

I appreciate the speed with which they deal with applications. Why can’t they be fast and careful? I know, I know, that would cost money.

Kyoto ended up costing New Zealand big bucks, and it seems New Zealand isn’t alone. Since yesterday’s high was 61 degrees here at the end of June, I have to admit global warming seems to be on the wane. Thanks guys.

I AM SOMEBODY!

I’m pretty sure I should be insulted by the article, but it’s sorta unclear on whether I am “in with the mediocre” or “a handful of well-written and entertaining”, and I think they missed the point of Spokesman’s linkage to the local blogs. I could be wrong though, I’m not in on Spokesman’s master plan. But I personally could never replace a columnist. I’ve pretty much reached my word limit here.

So, to sum up, w00t, linkage; not a columnist.

How about a “The Government took my land for private developers and all I got was this lousy t-shirt” t-shirt. Please take the idea and run.

Why doesn’t Pakistan have overland internets? I bet India would share if they would promise to stop bombing them.

I usually have 10 or so tabs open in Firefox at any given time. So I click on something and go read something else while it loads. Then I get distracted by what’s on that page, rinse, repeat, and that leads me to wonder why on earth I have this page open.

Here’s one way to get a girlfriend. Points for straightforwardness and ingenuity. I can’t wait to see the copycats.

Jonah makes fun of that Al-Gore-saved-my-faith-in-America-because-he-picked-up-my-keys story. There is possibly a larger point to the article also.

Why is this an issue? Find something better to do with your time in Congress.

There’s always more nifty stuff to get. It’s not that I devote a lot of time to dealing with my Roomba, but to have it fully automated, that would be even better.

The old pandemic could kill lots of people and we aren’t prepared thing is back.

See also: last month.

Rats cut New Zealand off from civilization.

Ah, eminent domain

Looks like the Supreme Court has ticked everyone off.

A list of what conservatives don’t believe, despite what you may have read.

Call center worker caught selling thousands of customer personal details.

When you’re in the dark and you want to see,
You need uh… Electricity, Electricity
Flip that switch and what do you get?
You get uh… Electricity, Electricity
Every room can now be lit
With just uh… Electricity, Electricity

Thanks for turning it back on Avista.

Since none of you slackers mentioned it, I am forced to bring it up myself. Two whole years already, which is like one year and 11 months more than I expected. Now as we go boldly into year three I foresee more lame links and bad pop culture allusions in every post.

“In-Souls”.

Who would want soap made from a prime minister’s liposuctioned fat? Not the kitty cats.

via Inoperable Terran

The top 100 movie quotes of all time.

My favorite: “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here” (Casablanca, 1942).
The one I use the most: “It wasn’t me!” (Rocketman, 1997).

Jon Stewart.

The aftermath: My electricty is still out. Good thing the sun comes up at 4:00am and doesn’t go down until after 9:00pm. All those hurricane lamps I have finally came in handy. My driveway has pine branches all over it, which will, in a couple days, annoy my neighbors, and one of my pear trees is no longer perpendicular. I thought for sure one of those last big gusts would take the tree, the arbor, and the other tree out, but they stood firm. And by firm I mean leaned over 45 degrees, but didn’t fall. Phew.

You can adopt a blog.

Mark Steyn

The world divides into those who feel the atrocities at Gitmo “must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime — Pol Pot or others” (in the widely quoted words of Senator Dick Durbin), and the rest of us, for whom the more we hear the specifics of the “atrocities” the funnier they are. They bear the same relation to the gulags (15-30 million dead), the Nazi camps (nine million dead) and the killing fields of Cambodia (two million dead) as Mel Brooks‚ “Springtime For Hitler” does to the original.

With sharks! I like how the credits are as long as the preview.

via Evangelical Outpost

The new growth market.

I have long known about Total Commander and heard how it’s the greatest thing EVAR. I didn’t understand the hype until just now when I needed to rename 90 files and it took about 10 seconds. That’s just fantastic.

House of Representatives votes to halve UN dues. Now if they would just cut the other half.

Find out what it means to Kim Jong Il.

Lady managed to burn her house down twice in three days. Or maybe that’s gifted.

I like Jon Stewart, but his Michael Jackson thing was great.

via Huffington Post

They crack me up.

DDR in the classroom to combat obesity? Make them take a lap.

Release Gitmo prisoners recaptured or killed in Iraq.

Seriously. All I got was a lousy $15 internal card.

About freaking time.

This is what makes the internet great. A page devoted to nothing but rice pudding recipes. Before the internet how could I have possibly found such a thing, I ask you.

Old keeps getting older.

According to these guys I’m going to live to be 92. Sounds like 30 years of retirement for me. All you kids better get to work paying taxes, I’m going to be needing some social services.

The Metropolitian Museum of Art website. Cool timelines and pictures and stuff.

I’m sure the granola zombies won’t touch this stuff and demand wholesome organic brains.

Those wacky Canadians think Bush and bin Laden are almost equally dangerous. Of course, they also believe that putting gravy and cheese on french fries is a good idea.

Colorado vs. Minnesota.

Can China survive communist?

Is China freer today because of the growth of their economy? Will this put Microsoft in a position later to demand a crackdown on piracy? I’m inclined to think so.

First off, whose idea was this survey?

And you are?

VDH

Or ask me. They’re making it up too.

I just don’t find this all that encouraging:

Segue to Laura Bush at White House Correspondents Dinner: “I was the librarian who spent 12 hours a day in the library and yet somehow I met George.”

MacGyver’s boss died. He should have used duct tape.

The whales do.

The State Police are here now demostrating, um, how to measure skid marks or something like that, to the Jr. Highers, so this is sorta relevant. We never had stuff like this when I was in Jr. High.

via Fark

Carnival of Tomorrow

Maybe no one cares about the Michael Jackson trial. We can dream.

I got my new The Aquabats album! I’ll live blog a review as soon as I get back from my run. Stay tuned.

Oooh! Two free trading cards! Collect them all! Song titles by Yahoo!

1. Now Stand Back For Your Own Safety! I feel safe.
2. Fashion Zombies! Classic Aquabats. Nice synth. Heh. Looking for love in all the wrong places.
3. Stuck in a Movie! – I miss the brass. Was that you in the Soviet submarine?
4. Tiger Rider vs. The Time Sprinkler! – Um, scary. I don’t get what you are trying to say to me through this song. Ride the lightning?
5. Nerd Alert! – Mario! The revolution has begun.
6. Plastic Lips! – Society places too much emphasis on the perfection of the human form, to the point that we lose our humanity. Deep. I’m going to say that was straight up punk, not really ska.
7. Look At Me (I’m A Winner)! – Um, mocking construction workers that listen to 94.5 isn’t a good idea guys. Catchy though. Also not even close to ska.
8. Hot Sumer Nights (Won’t Last Forever)! Ah, back to the love story ska. World’s stupidest boy loses girl and she moves to Alaska to study glacier patterns along with her identical sister and identical cousin and Francine.
9. Meltdown – Meh.
10. Mechanical Ape! – the Mojo Jojo of music.

Mmm. Smoothie break. My recipe: 3 heaping tablespoons of frozen orange juice concentrate, handful of frozen fruit, today blueberries, vanilla flavored powdered health powder (1/2 tsp of vanila extract works too), enough water or milk to let it flow. I tried adding a couple of coffee beans today. Didn’t work, too gritty. Maybe if I grind them first.

11. Demolition Rickshaw! Heh. This is hilarious. Fury of the Aquabats worthy.
12. Waterslides! – Um, was that Sting? Wow, that was different.
13. Awesome Forces! – New theme song eh? The average ordinary superhuman punishers of evil rock and roll band! Nice.

Better than The Aquabats vs. The Floating Eyeball of Death and Myths, Legends and Other Amazing Adventures 2. Better produced than The Return of the Aquabats, but not as clever. And it can’t touch The Fury of the Aquabats which just plain rocks. It’s most like Floating Eyeball of Death, I think. I give it 3 1/2 out of 5 on the first listen.

UPDATE: Upon futher listening, to give the catchiness a chance to catch, I’m going to give it a 4/5.

Do they want us to send scotch tape or something?

via i am always right

Nooooooo.

Goes to the guy that keeps a mamba as a pet!

Clay nanobuilders coming soon.

Worth it just for the style.

Brown is black!

Putting the work into work.

Jesus understands what you are going through.

via Fark

Actually, I don’t give the UN a thought from one week to the next. Even if I’m thinking about worldwide political problems, as I do so often. Matter of fact, I’ve solved all the world’s problems. In my head. In case I ever TAKE OVER THE WORLD (direct audio link)!

I have no idea what this is all about.

The CDC can let the Department of Agriculture solve the unhealthy school lunch part of the obesity problem.

Create panic concering school lunches. Parents make kids lunches. Problem solved.

The CDC, which stands for Center for Disease Control, is studying obesity in West Virginia. Shouldn’t they be searching for a Ebola cure or something?

Americans are more neurotic than ever.

Everyone wants their money back.

New Sharp awesomeness.

Scrappleface has been on a roll lately. You should go read it.

Wanna see more Hawaiian floweredy shirts in one place than you thought possible? Calvary Chapel’s Pastors Conference.

Marathon course was a mile too long. How could they not notice? That’s like an extra 10 minutes of running. Or, six if you are, you know, good.

via Fark

Iran harbors terrorists!

Some perspective.

via Instapundit, who has more.

Ben Stein isn’t too happy with Mark Felt.

Ah. I love those days when it’s lunchtime before I get to my actual work instead of putting out fires. And by love I mean have turned into a seething mass of irritation.

That’s going to be great! Three movies at the movie theatre in one year. Whew, my life is a whirlwind of thrills!

If life is just going too well for you, think about a Chicken Flu pandemic.

I may not agree with much he says, but Ted Turner is right.

“I would like to see us to return to a little more international coverage on the domestic feed and a little more environmental coverage, and, maybe, maybe a little less of the pervert of the day,” he said in a speech to CNN employees outside the old Atlanta mansion where the network first aired.

Maybe not so much about the environment, but the pervert of the day thing has to go.

Free Doughnuts at Krispy Kreme tomorrow! Mmmm, doughnuts!

via Fark

Spelling Bee contestant knocked out by toughest word evar.

I thought they were plums when I grabbed them at the grocery store. And they taste just like a plum. The flesh is a little redder than a plums, but other than that, I don’t get the apricot influence. Perhaps more research is needed.

UPDATE: Okay, the second one definitely had apricoty texture. Still tasted plum-like though.

All the important stuff from the bigwig conservative sites on one page.

So handy.

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Use your cellphone to test for color blindness. These people need jobs.

Putting the work in gaming. I see Tai-Bo for Playstation on the horizon.

To infinity and beyond!

If beans on toast for breakfast is what it takes to be smart, just call me Dumbo. The backup is “wholemeal toast with Marmite”. Yeah, that’s so much better.

This is interesting:

“Just make sure you avoid junk food, and especially highly processed goodies such as cakes, pastries and biscuits, which contain trans-fatty acids.These not only pile on the pounds, but are implicated in a slew of serious mental disorders, from dyslexia and ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) to autism.”

via EO

I’m sure this wasn’t a secret to those whom this sort of thing is important to, but why did the Times run this?

Behind a surprisingly thin cover of rural hideaways, front companies and shell corporations that share officers who appear to exist only on paper, the C.I.A. has rapidly expanded its air operations since 2001 as it has pursued and questioned terrorism suspects around the world.

via Lileks

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Okay, be forthright if you must, but not so obviously.

Computers that can adjust their hardware. Smart, very smart.