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And they will have economical cars there.

I’m almost this good at DDR.

Nah.

Lileks sums up why the Catholic church shouldn’t change with passing fancies admirably well.

Imagine being the coach of these morans.

People have steadily grown fatter since the food pyramid debuted in 1992.

I think not.

3d display.

Can’t we all just get along?

The flying cars are here.

via Flying Space Monkey, who already has his rocket pack.

Ratzinger is the new pope. What a great name, it’s a classic Disney villian sort of name. It’s a shame it has to change. Benedict is close though.

UPDATE: Make your own pope hat.

The “Save Enterprise” campaign is over.

Canada to join the league of modern nations.

Remember to look up.

According to this test, I am:

does not make friends easily, secretive, introverted, reclusive, observer, dislikes leadership, somewhat socially awkward, does not like to stand out, dislikes large parties, values solitude, solitary, avoidant, ambivalent about fitting in, not dominant, unassertive, suspicious, prudent, unadventurous, worrying, weird, intellectual, frequently second guesses self

Fairly accurate.

via Pete

About Michael John Bolton, but Mark Steyn is always funny.

Works best when everyone is civil.

Two-fold question:

“Would you make a good Pope and, if so, out of what?”

An H2G2 preview. I can’t watch it from behind our firewall, so I’m posting the link here so I can find it when I get home. You guys are on your own.

In more than half of Nike’s factories, the report said, employees worked more than 60 hours a day.

Impressive. Get to work, slackers.

via Fark

They’re out to get you!

But I’m shopping for rackmount cases. No doubt I’ll have stuff to post later.

Open the door and see all the Lego people.

via The Corner

It was the Romans that introduced the rabbit to Britain.

I’d never make it as a royal. My wardrobe is way too limited to deal with that kind of pressure.

Autographed picture of Jesus.

It is to laugh.

Oh, c’mon. Like you haven’t done that in front of your computer.

/yes, I know it’s ancient

Vinyl, CDs, old and busted. New hotness: the iPod DJ mixer.

Chance of super-intelligent robots in the next 70 years: High

Danger score: 8

I, for one, welcome our super-volcanic, climate-changing, nuclear-war-causing, cosmic-rayed, robot terrrorist overlords.

via Instapundit

It’s Tax Time. Frank J. has the important facts.

* The best way to avoid taxes is to lie in a ditch and curl up into a fetal position. It’s only two days until taxes are due, though, so it’s probably too late to find a good ditch that isn’t already taken.

Ah, springtime.

We are not in the middle of or even headed toward, IMHO, a Great Awakening. When porn shops close down because everyone is at church, then you have a Great Awakening.

Americans are not, for the most part, offended by references to God, or by things like prayers at football games.

But Americans really don’t like busybodies telling them what to do.

Amen.

It’s true. I’ve followed his advice and remained happily obscure. Well, not number 4,7 and 8, but close enough.

via Evangelical Oupost

I feel better

Homeschooling Stats.

Since the contents of the iPods is all the rage, here’s my list. Of course I have 256meg flash based player, so not as many songs and they change fairly regularly. Last week it was Calvary Chapel Radio Conference—not that great for exercising, in case you’re wondering. The key to the songs is they have a nice 10 minute mile beat or they make me laugh instead of grimacing in pain.
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Inch by inch, step by step.

I don’t think MIT is assigning enough homework.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Mark Steyn

Fortunately for Bush, if anyone at the CIA launched a plot to kill him, they’d probably take out G. W. Bish, who runs a feed store in Idaho.

…

Even before the latest budget-bloating ”reforms,” the U.S. government was spending $30 billion annually on intelligence, and in return its intelligence agencies got everything wrong. British and French intelligence also get a lot of things wrong, but they get them wrong on far smaller budgets.

Because it’s there and freaking cool not in the top three? I call shenanigans.

We now know what’s on the President’s iPod.

“No one should psychoanalyze the song selection,” McKinnon said. “It’s music to get over the next hill.”

That doesn’t stop the International Herald Tribune.

If it’s cloned, shouldn’t it be exactly identical? Perhaps that word does not mean what I think it means.

The 15 year old world’s largest thermometer is news today.

Instead of watching paint dry I’m typing this. Vanilla Bean (pale yellow) in the kitchen, in case you are wondering. Take that Albert Gonzalez!

I hope you like the hedges. Don’t be expecting me to trim those freaking things again anytime soon.

So dull the government can’t be bothered to use its powers to investigate my records without my knowledge or consent. At least for now.

Captain Picard’s remains found.

via Fark

I want a Hello Kitty camcorder! Pink! My favorite!

Essay grading program.

They are actually dismantling a government program! They have raised my hope for smaller, cheaper government again. I’m sure they’ll just squash it like a mindless bug soon enough, but hey.

Robots are our friends.

Unless your name is Sarah Connor.

Why does DDR introduce 1/8 notes AND top/right/left bottom/left/right steps at the same time. My extreme whiteness cannot handle that much at once.

Congress considering extending Daylight Savings Time.

Actually, I could use a tire pressure warning. Darn things keep getting low when I’m not looking. Sure, I could go get new tires that would hold air for more than a week, but I really wanted Sledgehammer season 1.

Scientists dig halfway to China.

You know, he’s called Cookie Monster for a reason.

Living in the Wild, Wild West.

With ninjas.

Sony has the patents.

Anyone else thing Talabani is an unfortunate name for the new Iraqi President?

FreeAfterRebate. Note the coolio .info. Where’d that come from?

Napoleon Dynamite is worthy of a recognition by the state legislature.

Everyone needs one of these.

Really, some things should stay in the cartoon world. Are we going to have a live-action Spongebob movie in 30 years?

Clearly the Japanese didn’t pay enough attention to Empire Strikes Back.

Nice. Art is so uplifting.

What happens when you ban blogs from a topic in one country.

Canada’s Liberal party dropped Kyoto from their budget.

Finally The Aquabats are coming out with a new album.

I can’t tell if it’s an April Fool’s Joke or not.

The first black pope job has already been taken. So have the second and the third.

Carry on with the insightful analysis of the situation.

We are Borg.

Criminalizing indecency? Seriously, relax d00d.

When asked how he intended to criminalize the violations, Sensenbrenner repeated his assertion that it was the best way to penalize people who violate the statute but avoid “penalizing people who are not violating the law.”

How odd that rather than fixing the current problem he wants to create a whole new one. What kind of logic is that? Congressional logic obviously.

Anyone that has watched an near-future scifi movie knows this is the result of biometric identification.

These aren’t the black holes you are looking for.

via Slashdot

Nothing personal, but could we move on? Thanks.

I didn’t see my name on the list.

Preach it!

Looking for a new game to play? Killer Bunnies is great fun.

Now that’s funny.

RightWing Duck pretty much nails what I think about how the Minuteman project will work

Nothing happened.

Due to my lack of social skills, I seldom answer back with a “how are you” when people ask me and it tends to create an awkward pause in the conversation. Now the problem is solved.

There’s:

Fark. Refresh. Read the comments. Wipe hands on pants.

Homestarrunner

Google Gulp

Space Daily “With the press left looking like stunned bunnies, the President took to the podium before dropping today’s bombshell…”

Astronomy Picture of the Day

The Solar Death Ray. With cool animated gif!

Well, I never!

And for those that regularly cuss, what do you do when something really bad happens? You have no where to escalate to. If you use the f-word to describe a cup of coffee—and I have heard people do that—what do you say when you spill that hot coffee on your pants? Save the cuss words for when you really need them. Not that you care what I think. Jerks.

Is it pronounced controver-shul or cotrover-see-al? I don’t know.

If it’s not all over the place… The problem is, whether this is true or not, it’s not so far-fetched.

Spokane gets a new prophet. And if you want to be a prophet, remember Deutronomy 18. Don’t mess up.

Celebrate diversity. And anarchy. (Warning: NSFW pics)

You know, they could have fixed this before it got out of hand.

Is fish really brain food?

UPDATE: Just ask google. Okay, the parents were right on that one.

The Koran says US will be destroyed in 2007, according to this guy.

via Best of the Web

Hydrogen gets all excited. Something to watch out for.

Americans don’t pay all they owe the IRS. Apparently, when you are forcibly taking someone’s money they will do all they can to hold on to it. Who knew?

NASA and the future.

That hurt. The check I sent to the Idaho State Tax Commission just cleared.

I guess I can’t be a juror in Colorado.

Is it so bad that we don’t know most of the Senators? Hasn’t the government done enough already? Is it so bad that they aren’t in our faces doing dumb things?

Don’t deliberately antagonize the country that millions of your fellow countrymen are counting on for illegal income. Just a thought.

Perhaps I am really conspiratorially minded, but these numbers don’t surprise me at all.

…but Sunday’s coming!

Happy Easter everyone!

The whole Ebola family of viruses scare me. I shouldn’t have watched Outbreak.

But Gardner found there was no solid legal way to entrust money to a pet.

You don’t say! Know why? They’re animals. They have no need of money. They don’t have opposable thumbs to hold the money. Or to go to pets.com to buy that fabulous new sweater they’ve been dying to get. Try giving the money to a human being. If you can’t think of one to give it to, let me know, I can think of a few.

The Pez MP3 player is about to become a reality. What a great country to live in.

Like a Roomba, but for the street.

The Inlander does a survey every year, but I’ll give you my, and therefore the correct, answers, skipping the ones that I have no idea about:

Best Barista: Me. I make it just how I like it almost every time
Best Dentist: Dr. Shini – 20 minutes—from the time I walked in the door to when I walked out—to fill a cavity, also, the only one I’ve been to in the area.
Best Elected Official: Larry Craig, cause his office said they would treat bloggers like journalists
Best Artist: Thomas Kinkade. Kidding. Art past the baroque period, not so interesting to me.
Best Radio Station: tie: 88.7 KZAG; 97.3 KKRS
Best Radio Team: The Breakfast Boys
Best Delivery Person: Ed, our UPS guy that brings us fun things
Best George W. Bush Impersonator: Lee Lorenz, they nailed this one he does look just like Dubya, only shorter.
Best Cheap Family Fun Ft. Sherman/City Park
Best New Way to Burn Calories: Dance Dance Revolution. New to me anyway
Best Place to Hike: Tubbs Hill
Best Place for Rock Climbing: Post Falls park, actually the only place I’ve done it.
Best Stretch of Centennial Trail McQuen Field to Northwest Blvd
Best Health Club 24 Hour Fitness, only one I’ve belonged to actually
Best Neighborhood Walk: Government Way/Foster St. especially in the fall
Best Movie Theatre: AMC Downtown
Best Drive Thru Espresso: Java the Hut
Best Espresso: Cafe Cistin
Best Bakery/Locally-Owned Espresso Shop: Java on Sherman
Best Breakfast: Old European
Best Dessert: The Onion, deep-fried Oreo’s. Oh yeah!
Best Seafood: Momijis, mmm sushi
Best Steakhouse Wolf Lodge, hands down
Best Cheap Eats: Taco Bell
Best Mexican: La Cabana, carne asada burrito with guacamole
Best Burger: Roger’s. I miss Cy’s, those were great.
Best Italian: hmm, Costco lasagna?
Best Asian: Momiji’s
Best Sandwich: Schlotzky’s
Best Pizza: Pizza Pipeline
Best Late Night Dining: Denny’s
Best Burrito: La Cabana
Best Gorcery Store: Safeway on Government
Best Record Store: Long Ear
Best Hardware Store: Lowe’s
Best New Business: Cafe Doma
Best Secondhand Store Value Village
Best Bank: BofA, only place I’ve used
Best Bookstore: Barnes and Noble, but for the atmosphere, I never buy stuff there, that’s what the internet is for.
Best Store the Inland Northwest Needs: Rubio’s Fish Tacos

Tony’s List. And he is always right!

Compromise on the BluRay vs. HDDVD?

I guess this means I didn’t win the trip to space. Maybe prices will drop in my lifetime so I can afford it.

Skydiver’s death still a mystery.

Last night I had to got to do sound for this dance recital. This is the result of trying to get 3-5 year olds to do anything as a group.

ABC doesn’t know or won’t say where the “Republican” memo about Shiavo came from. So no more beating that horse in your debates. Carry on.

Since I’m in a watching mood, here’s the greatest Strongbad Email evar.

Spasmodic (direct link).

Time Warner pays $300 million in settlement over securities fraud.

Speaking of cybernetic implants and eugenics… A book review. I might pick it up, with all my spare cash I have lying around right now. Well, maybe the library will get it in. Oh, wait I have late fees. Hmmm.

via Instapundit

The Manolo, he is deep.

Remember the flu shot shortage? It’s over.

Forcing everyone to work part time isn’t the way to improve the economy. Huh. Who would have thunk it?

Al Jazeera is going to start broadcasting in English. Good idea. Assuming the translations are accurate of course.

pResident Hitlerburton W. Chimpowitz. The article, not so interesting or original, but the nickname was funny.

Eugene Volokh has some thought-provoking stuff on crime and punishment.