Not So Fast

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.

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Interesting article on the battle between the giants.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I really think so.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.