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So, now we know who Deep Throat is. This changes EVERYTHING!

I’m no fair-trade idiot, but how bad must working conditions be if they violate Chinese law?

Exactly what I was going to say. Well, except for the fair-trade idiot part.

Rumors of the next Star Trek movie. I knew they couldn’t stop.

If you aren’t quite ready to get back to work today.

All you wanted to know on the EU referendum vote and more.

So relaxing.

Long, but interesting.

Hillary won’t be running for President.

Remember? Of course, intentions change.

7-Up is giving away a trip to space. I haven’t had Cherry 7-Up since high school. I think I’ll go give it a try.

Sad, and hilarious! Don’t let the kids see it. They’ll either cry or go try it.

What is crazy, really?

They’re going to let the market sort it out. Why can’t they all just get along?

I’m no ecologist or oceanographer, but wouldn’t sucking all that cold water off the bottom of the ocean on a large scale change the overall temperature of the ocean, thereby contributing to whatever ecological disasters warmer oceans cause?

Monday, May 30th will be the first annual running of the I Work On Sundays 5k. No t-shirts for finishers, no water stations, no first aid, no timing chips, no cheering crowds, no organization at all. The course will start in front of 24 Hour Fitness, go down 3rd and follow the Centennial Trail east and loop back. Probably 8AM-ish.

For more information, please use your imagination.

The Future Nerds of America held their annual competition.

From Reason.

I look forward to McCain proposals on the allowable curvature of hockey sticks in the NHL, the length of NBA shorts, and the type of shoelaces in the NFL. Finally, a man who knows what’s important and gets things done!

I hope he goes for the long gangsta style basketball shorts. Those 70’s short shorts were appalling.

I want to try these.

Voyager has left the Solar System.

I understand why glasses are so expensive, since they’re made out of those rarest of substances, wire and glass.

Also, plastic. I’ve been debating getting new glasses lately myself but my old ones aren’t quite broken enough yet to justify the expense.

Scientists discover sarcasm.

Well, I’m switching computers today. Wish me luck.

UPDATE: Ridiculously easy except for the part where the driver to get on the internet was missing, making it impossible to get on the internet to get it.

Or, how I spent my day and learned to love nails in the roadway.

First off, changing tires is no big thing. I had a Volkswagen, I would take tires on and off every 3000 or so miles, except in winter when it was worth the money to let the professional deal with adjusting the valves and/or brakes. But here’s the thing. Even with aluminum rims, SUV tires* are mucho heavier. And I admit I haven’t been doing my situps lately. So, my back was a little sore. But then, Monday is my long run day in my running schedule, due to the vagueries of my job. It would have been far more enjoyable if it hadn’t felt like my spine was slowly grinding into my pelvic bone.

There’s a lesson in there somewhere for you.

*nails in two tires. By the grace of God only one went flat. The other was just a slow leak.

Scholars unsure if the resurrection of Jesus actually happened. It’s not even Easter. Why is ABC running this?

Since I only have a ton of yardwork to do tomorrow, I’m debating switching over to WordPress. But then, why mess with something that works fine? It’s not like I have bandwidth issues. I can’t decide.

More from the Eurovision competition.

Yeah, the repercussions of that went so well last time, do it again!

He said: “This was one of the methods they used, throwing the Koran, my Koran, on the floor in my cell.”

Oh noes! It’s a book! You can get another copy.

Time to bring back the Alien and Sedition Acts.

UPDATE: More

Nerds aren’t as socially inept as we might hope.

Frankly, Spacemonkey explains it better than everyone else.

We gotta get monitors like these.

via this appalling post. part I of the appalling post.

Congress has voted to replace the coolio color-code terror warnings with something more specific to be determined at a later date.

Hugh Hewitt vs. Terry Moran. Fantastic stuff.

via Inoperable Terran.

While the rioters and the instigators are to blame, printing the story wasn’t a genius move either, kids.

Since I’m on a roll here—a crusty sourdough roll with a piece of roast beef in it and some potato chips on the side—more on being fat.

Isn’t that like chemistry at Julliard?

Rove is a freaking genius!

Shoes control television time based on amount of exercise.

And speaking of diet and exercise, I’m going to go to Taco Bell for lunch now.

Is there any behavior that can’t be classified as an illness?

She concludes that one way of tackling the problem would be for obesity to be reclassified as an illness, and for people to understand that it’s a type of addiction, not greed.

In some cases obesity is caused by illness or physical problems, but other than those relatively few cases it is a behavior problem that some self-control would fix. Or Release: Weightloss that Works*.

*I have no idea if it works. Catchy jingle though.

How can a public school taking government dollars, ban a government organization?

The BBC is testing on-demand TV over the internet. Do it here.

via Slashdot

Al Qaeda, in a show of strength and continued relevance, calls Condoleeza Rice names.

“The crusaders’ hag (Rice) came to sully the land of the caliphate…and wants the participation of apostates and secularists claiming to be Sunnis,” the group led by Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said in the statement posted on Tuesday on a Web site used by Islamists on Tuesday.

via Fark

HuffingtonPost.com has shown improvement over the last week. Interesting, infuriating and in-um-spiring, yeah that’s the ticket, inspiring* stuff over there.

*ymmv

The Great Nerd Riot of 2005.

Other nerds expressed their outrage by rioting at a nearby Star Trek convention, shouting such slogans as “Star Wars is the one true Space Saga!”, “There is no Star but Star Wars!”, “Death to Federation Infidels”, and “Jedi Akbar!” while pummeling helpless Trekkies with plastic light sabers.

Biometric identification will all end in tears.

While some of this is appalling,

22% say the government should be allowed to censor the press

some is blindingly obvious,

43% of the public says the press has too much freedom, while only 3% of journalists agree

via Tim Blair

Questions for those horrified by the Koran flushing.

To what San Francisco will regulate. Who knew?

XM on my cellphone would be cool.

It can’t be worse than the BBC version. Chronicles of Narnia preview. Good luck.

I know you don’t have anything better to do.

Obviously a slow news day in Melbourne, but this quote is awesome:

“We treated him on the scene for minor breathing difficulties but he was fine and then we scooted out and helped save the rest of Melbourne,” she said.

From exploding iPods or Godzilla or what?

via Slashdot

Cousin Marriage.

Cox and Forkum. It’s the mustache.

John goes from Apostle to Deity.

The suit states Byrne applied for vanity plates for his Ford pickup, submitting these three possibilities: “JOHN316,” “JN316” and “JN36TN.” The state rejected his request because it “refers to deity.”

John Cleese and Aardman’s together. I don’t see how it can’t be great.

via Fark

While I could see cellphones taking the place of flash-based players, I don’t think they are going to knock the bigger iPods out. Who wants to transfer 40 or 60 gigs everytime they get a new phone?

This will end with people eyeballs being stolen.

Huffingtontoast.com. I’m a sucker for a parody too.

Lileks goes off on the boomers. I’m just a sucker for that.

VDH

A society that cannot distinguish between the critical and the trivial of history predictably will also believe that a Scott Peterson deserves as much attention as the simultaneous siege of Fallujah, or that a presidential press conference should be preempted for Paris Hilton or Donald Trump.

Which is worse? The comment spam that dumps 1000 identical comments at once or the ones that trickle in one at time, all different? I can’t decide.

Ice cream man beats up mouthy customer.

The teen’s mother said she’s satisfied with the verdict, but complained that her son is now self-conscious about his weight.

That’s a shame. Maybe he could work out or something. Possibly take some sort of self defense class.

“I don’t know you! That’s my purse!”

19-inch “Laptop”.

Google = AOL?

Right Wing News put out 25 advices for successful blogging. Tim Blair improves on it.

Need one that looks like a Landspeeder?

I want to be able to store my mp3s on it though.

How much will GoldenPalace.com pay for me to walk around advertising for them?

Hmm. I find myself apathetic about what these people think concerning all those things they are talking about.

Bug in Mouth.

Classic stuff.

You know, you don’t have to do busy work. You guys could just go home and stop doing stupid stuff.

Star Wars review.

In Lego. God looks a little upset though.

Why continuity is so important in scifi.

Stories like that—about boring, conventional people with their petty love affairs and their tawdry sex antics, people whom one could not trust when the chips were down and an Imperial Battle Droid were attacking your spaceship!—are relatively easy to keep consistent.

via Reason

Advice for the Democrats.

What’s worse than snakes? Snakes with legs.

Okay, the new projector is installed. The day can start.

UPDATE: Apparently I didn’t miss much being busy this morning.

Happy Cinco de Mayo, amigos. I think I’ll have burritos and watch some Speedy Gonzalez cartoons to celebrate.

So, if I market it right, I could be making meeelions.

via Instapundit

Interesting article on the battle between the giants.

via Slashdot

When it’s your morality being pushed on the Christians, that’s progress and enlightenment. When Christians are doing the pushing, it’s Jihad and theocracy.

There’s oil in Utah.

By MSNBC.

By Nike. I want ones with little swooshes on them. Have I mentioned lately it’s a great time in history to be alive?

They might consider appointing someone to comment on blogs.

Do as he says, not as he does

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Incomplete, lacking, shallow. I don’t know, something felt wrong. It seemed sort of mish-mashed together. Like they took too much out. Which isn’t to say I didn’t enjoy it, it was a good time, I’ll buy the DVD, but it could have been better.

Zaphod and his accent drove me nuts, annoying every time he had a line. Marvin was great, but when Marvin is the best of the characters, something has gone horribly awry. The Trillian and Arthur love story: blech. The opening was good, but I really wanted the “far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun”. Eh, well. Enjoyable for fans; everyone else, skip it, says I.

Orson Scott Card on Star Trek.

via Inoperable Terran

We need a war or something. Okay, an incipent war where no one gets hurt but everyone gets to talk about it for a week or two would probably be better.

Is it so hard to figure out religious voters?

You have to be smarter than the software.

A day in the life of the Samurai Appliance repair man.

I would have made them play live. For the cameras.

Found photographs.

And when they ask why the nation of the United States of America fell, the historians will point to this and say, “This, this was the beginning of the end.”

Why do the Dutch hate Apple? Afterall, a nice Dutch Apple Pie is a thing of beauty.

Which Food Network chef are you?
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How Democrats can compete

If there’s anything more painful than watching a politician or pundit pretending to be 17, it’s watching him pretend he believes in a force greater than himself.

It’s War! War, I say!

RWN quote of the day. Nice.

Well, smart people wouldn’t use those uncomfortable white earplugs that come with the iPod, but there’s money in a case that makes the iPod look like a Radio Shack player of some sort.

83814 doesn’t seem to be on the list.

But the Time Travelers Convention is next month.

So I should hold off rewiring my house then?

A giant pogo stick, how cool is that?

Well, not $300 worth of cool, but hey.

Don’t read this right before lunch.

UPDATE: Or dinner.

RWN interviews Byron York.

Now I don’t feel nearly as secure that I’ll be getting an actual kilo when I’m buying kilos.

Now we see the wisdom in using pounds.

Now.

On Cassini.

I just like the word svelte.

via Instapundit

Render unto Caesar…

This friendly reminder brought to you by the Sierra Leone tax authority.

So, is there any poisonous plants that looks like asparagus? Cause I think I have three of them. Well, two now. I tasted one and it was mild, sweet and not very fiberous at all. But the previous owners didn’t plant edible things as a rule and I don’t want to go around cooking up deadly plants.

Mostly it’s just me talking though. But my point, and I do have one, is: Silent speakers. Sounds like something Bose will use.

via Fark

It has something to do with chemicals.

Caffeine blocks a brain chemical called adenosine, which prompts feelings of drowsiness, Greene reports in the April 21 issue of Neuron.

I’m going to go get another cup of coffee.

I always track any wheresgeorge bills I get. They are always from Hayden or Spokane or something boring like that. Finally I got one from far away. Murrieta, Ca. It’s a good day.

On Cookie Monster and being.

And why should we care what a former Secretary of State who’s a little bitter at his former boss thinks?

H2G2: A review.

Hugh Hewitt and Mark Steyn discussing the new pope.

via Inoperable Terran

I really think so.