Not So Fast

I like the idea of getting rid of one beuraucracy before starting another one that does the same thing.

Words cannot express how wrong this is. I don’t have anything against Walmart, I shop there ocassionally, but that is out of control.

Alton Brown has something to say concerning his.

Ben Stein.

Michelle’s side of the story. Remind me not to go into politics or journalism.

Professors fired for refusing to grade based on effort, not performance. If I had been graded on effort, I would have gotten worse grades.

The New York Times is getting hammered by everyone for their coverage of the Swiftboat Vets (scroll around for more links).

It’s nice to see that in America, everyone gets treated the same.

Likek’s is just all around fascinating today, what with the napkins and all, but he strikes gold in his Alan Keyes = Richard Daystrom comment.

Get Fuzzy bring teh funny.

Please extinguish all rabbits before entering buildings.

via Inoperable Terran

Teleportation technology is improving.

Notice how I didn’t use “beam me up” in the title. I’m so proud of myself.

Cats and their owners dining together.

Spongebob Squarepants trailer.

A woman who has been blind since her teens has seen her children and grandchildren for the first time after having a tiny shard of her tooth implanted in her eye.

Who thought, “We need to reinforce this optic nerve. I know, let’s use tooth roots!”?

In Death Valley. That’s not something you see every day.

Kelsey has grand plans that somehow involve me.

Instead go read Lilek’s “uh-oh moment”. I can go days without spending a penny. Mostly because I have to. He’s dead on about the nasty 70s fashion though.

That is the question. Whether tis nobler of mind to suffer the slings and arrows of SP1 or to upgrade to SP2.

Sounds like the beginnings of psychohistory to me.

*psychohistory

What he says.

Of interest only to those who care about the lives of other bloggers.

I guess I’ll hold off on getting that plasma TV for now.

Kerry slips up. Good thing he didn’t say that in October when everyone will be paying attention.

From Mickey Kaus, via Instapundit.

Joe is only 35? I would have sworn he was 45, at least. My world is shattering around me.

Some think they have found a cave where John the Baptist did baptisms.

John, a contemporary of Jesus who also preached a message of redemption, is one of the most important figures in Christianity. The discovery, if confirmed, would be among the most significant breakthroughs for biblical scholars in memory.

a) John preached a message of repentance. And b) finding those Dead Sea Scrolls happened sooo long ago everyone forgot about it apparently.

via Drudge Report

Lt. Governor Kerry’s executive order.

I’m still scarred from trying to use scissors in elemetary school.

Julia Child died. I don’t remember her show, but the SNL skit was great.

Mission Impossible 3?! Is there no mercy in the world? That Lords of Dogtown might be good though.

Moveonplease.org

Scientific proof that Twinkies are forever.

1.5 gig MP3 player. Also this from The Register.

Still too expensive though. Get the price around $150, guys.

La Shawn and the Conservative Brotherhood get an article in NRO. Yo.

The holodeck is one step closer to reality.

via Slashdot

It’s doing well in government.

But it’s not doing so well with Rumsfeld.

Bush’s new CIA chief ‘will focus on spies’

Isn’t that why we have a CIA?

The state of online newspaper registration sucks.

Clearly confusing me with someone else–possibly a journalist–I just got an email inviting me to the 2004 Northwest Journalism Conference. I don’t think I’ll go though, fun as that could be.

I expect a retraction email citing a seating shortage soon.

The power of blogs.

via Instapundit

Maybe I’m out of the loop, but today sure has been a slow news day. Here’s a bunny with a pancake on it’s head to make up for it.

Message laden DNA.

via Fark

It’s going to be another slow day kids. Spammers are killing me and will be stopped. Yes, I know. I could lovingly hand code this and there wouldn’t be spam problems, but I’m just not that smart. And then company will probably keep me away the rest of the day. My bad.

HOPE 2004 is today.

All you locals should come out to the fairgrounds. I’ll be the girl behind the soundboard. So yes, it will be all my fault. No, I don’t feel any pressure about that at all.

Okay, c’mon admit it, this is just funny.

“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we,” Bush said on Thursday.

Just give them what they ask for, I’m waiting!

I expect the calls to be rolling in any minute now.

It seems blondes are passe and brunettes are boring. What advertisers want on magazine covers and billboards are beauties with red locks, pale skin and, dare I say it, freckles.

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The modelling industry, however, is clearly struggling to keep up with demand. At Storm model agency in London only 17 of their 160 UK models are redheads.

An interesting article on the Turkey/Russia/Iraq triangle by someone who, I think, misunderestimates Bush.

via The Corner

The lawyers are already legalizing space.

Scientists have decided, for now, that Archaeopteryx could fly.

It’s sad when announcing you aren’t planning to sue people is news.

UPDATE: In related news…

FURTHER UPDATE: Link fixed. Thanks, Pete.

I say, drug deal gone bad. And I don’t know if I want to live in a country where ice cream men can’t illegally carry concealed weapons.

It is not a normal or legal thing, anywhere in the country to carry a handgun without a permit while selling ice cream,” said Sgt. Eric Holtzclaw, a spokesman with the Enid Police Department.

via Fark

So, you’re telling me that people with mortgages are in debt? And as the interest rates increase they have to pay more? Holy Cow!

Right Wing News has the answers.

That being said, isn’t the real question: “Why the hell is soccer so popular?”

Most people seem to think it’s because all you need is a ball and a few sticks to put in place for a goal to get a game going. Personally, I think it has to do with the fact that socialism helps turn people into zombies who enjoy dull, slow paced, effeminate games that may as well have been designed by the sort of knock-kneed milksops who think dodgeball is too competitive of a game for children to play.

It’ll never happen.

Evangelical Outpost has a good post on, oddly enough, evangelical christians. Yeah, I was shocked too.

/I keed, I keed. I love EO

Jeffery is taking on the evil corporation. Well, one of them, at least.

Okay, I read the beginning of this and thought they were talking about women. I couldn’t figure out what they had them under observation for.

Surprisingly, Sudan has decided to ignore the UN.

At least Bush knows what he isn’t.

via Instapundit

Have I mentioned recently that I love my Roomba?

Zell Miller: coming out the closet.

via Inoperable Terran

Yah! Ernie alert. Bert gets so boring, mostly because Bert is boring. Although, I greatly enjoyed the W song.

UPDATE: Back to Bert, darn. I mean, good and all, but I like Ernie. And it’s not like he’s Elmo, that would be bad.

If a sniffer dog sniffs too much, tragedy ensues.

Perhaps he should use Dr. Seuss books or something.

“We caution people not to write about bombs because if they’re going on vacation, their travel plans will be disrupted,” she said.

The celebration will have to wait until the US government announces it officially though.

Alton should be posting photos today. Stay tuned to find out if he comes through.

Hmm, the guy makes $175,000 a year and he can’t afford to put his kids through college? Are there no student loans? No grants?

via Fark

Andrew Sullivan seems to have upset some people.

A “senior Al Qaeda figure” was arrested Sunday in Pakistan.

I’m sure it was done just to make Kerry look bad.

It’s Wil’s birthday. Dang, he’s only 4 months older than me.

/I thought Wesley was cool

Why hasn’t the price of gas budged from $1.98 for, like, the last month? Shouldn’t it be going down to something reasonable, say $1.22, since the crisis is over?

UPDATE: Oh. And oh.

Yes, the chilito is gone, the green sauce is gone, the Dr. Pepper is gone, tacos cost a dollar. Taco Bell is deliberately trying to lose my business. But then again, the Burrito Especial is pretty darn good. And the empanadas are great.

via Lileks

It’s all his fault.

The Return of the King extended version (scroll down) has 50 more minutes of Tolkieny goodness. Woohoo!

When Dan Rather says you’re dull, you might as well just give up and go home.

The New York Times is a liberal newspaper.

via Pete

Iran’s nuclear weapons are no longer guarenteed fresh.

A useless teaser for Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is available.

So a quick glance through my links shows me that Jeffery is on probation for paying taxes for some guy named Will from Camelot. Joe Carter is an ugly 18th century pamphleteer. Tony hates school children and still has a painful color scheme (not everyone has 20/20 vision you know). Instapundit like a book so much he read it twice. Michelle Malkin loves The Day After Tomorrow and has started golfing because of it. And I clearly don’t want to read the news and would rather make up lies about these people.

I’m glad that Instapundit is keeping up on the important part of the presidential campaign.

Available now.

Is it just me or are the Nigerians always panicking about something? On the other hand, there’s plenty of people around here that won’t use the 666 phone numbers.

Google has set their IPO price.

None of the cool kids are using IE anymore.

It scares me that some people can’t tell the difference between human lives and animal lives.

Vlasak, who likens animal experimentation to the Nazis’ treatment of the Jews, said he stood by his claim that: ‘I don’t think you’d have to kill too many [researchers]. I think for five lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human lives.

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Three months ago, he told a US television audience that violence was a ‘morally justifiable solution’. Earlier this month, he gave a speech in Virginia in which he said: ‘It won’t ruin our movement if someone gets killed in an animal rights action. It’s going to happen sooner or later.’

Killing people to save animals is “morally justifiable”? I’m surprised he didn’t spontaneously combust from the contradiction.

Australia says it won’t cave in to terrorists demands.

Steyn on the blame game and Berger’s Pants. Which would be a good name for a band, btw.

A review of the summer movies.

You just know someone is going to sue all computer/electronic storage device makers out of business. Brilliant piece of legislation guys.

“We’re going to do this, we’re going to get this done,” Hatch said. Piracy has been “a doggone catastrophe to these artists.”

Yeah, I see musicians and actors panhandling on corners everywhere. And stores don’t even carry CDs anymore, they just aren’t worth it.

See, someone’s thinking here. Attack the media, they’ll be horrified that anyone would attack them, thereby guarenteeing a doubling of media exposure.

In an, ahem, sad turn of events LaShawn Barber has left Blogger for greener pastures. Finally her sidebar shows up for me.

An inflatable church. Just what everyone needs.

via Fark

And a Public Service Announcement. The Syrian Band was really a band, although I suppose they could be terrorists on the side. And the PSA is: don’t act odd on airplanes. Stay in your seat, eat your peanuts and keep quiet. Otherwise it makes people nervous and causes a lot of trouble.

Someone followed through on my request for a head-to-head competition between Heinz and W Ketchup.

Panorama of the Moon.

via Lileks who makes this excellent point:

It’s maddening: if we’d not only kept going back but figured out a way to stay, can you imagine the video we’d have today? I know I’d keep a window open in the corner displaying a 24/7 feed from the moonbase cargo bay, or the landing pad.

I bet I could do that.

I’d give you an example, but I don’t need the Secret Service calling me up. That would be awkward to explain to the boss.

I fully expected the International Whaling Commission to endorse more violent, and hopefully painful methods, of killing whales.

The International Whaling Commission has approved a proposal calling for the use of more humane ways endorsed by animal rights activists for killing whales used for scientific research.

Save the Smurf campaign. Personally, I say, good riddance. Never liked them anyway.

Krispy Kreme wants to bribe you for your friendship with a free liquid-donut drink.

Threatening to behead hostages unless their countries withdraw from Iraq. Of course, none of the countries have people in Iraq, but that’s a minor technicality.

The Church of Spongebob.

What a world to wake up to today.

via Fark

Michael Jackson (news) wants “a celebrity exception to the First Amendment” which will keep much of his child molestation case secret, a media lawyer argued in a motion filed Tuesday.

So does he want to be exempt from the whole thing or just the part that’s inconvienent to him?

Garry Kasparov on Bobby Fisher. I have no gift for strategy. We need the man in black.

Nature vs. Nurture

I don’t know which way this will go.

Why, why, why don’t they ever want to try these things out in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho?

More on the Syrian band practice.

Genius food show person and chock full of common sense.

We choose to value our nourishment so little that we entrust it to strangers. We hand our lives over to big companies and then drag them to court when the deal goes bad. This is insanity.

Maybe I should go back to school.

Apple also said that this fall Duke University will give iPods to all incoming freshman. Duke will hand out approximately 1,800 iPods that will be pre-loaded with Duke-related content and will allow students to download supplementary university material in addition to being able to play music.

Next up on the Axis of Evil hit parade: Iran.

I noticed USA Today had a front page article on Iran this morning.

Dick Clark will survive the coming nuclear holocaust.

“Like the roach, you could cut off his head or stop his heart and he would go on introducing new musical acts.

That’s quality reporting.

A review. Also, the nerds have their say. I’m still going to go see it. And I’ll hate myself afterwards.

Okay, I won’t hate myself. I might feel a twinge of disappointment though.

This story is all the latest in the blogosphere. And I bet things like this happen more often than we would be comfortable knowing. Which, in part I’m sure, is why we don’t hear about it.

Here’s Instapundit, Michelle Malkin, and Lilek’s takes.

UPDATE: Anecdotal evidence supporting my “let’s not scare the nice people” theory.

Ugh. They had me until the soy lattes. Unless you are allergic to milk, there’s no reason to drink that nasty stuff.

And other exciting things over at IMAO.

Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL are getting together to cooperate on instant messaging at the end of the year. Or you can do it today with Gaim.

Apparently black holes are leaking.

Jonah has a point.

Get Fuzzy brings teh funny.

Uproar is building over Bush not releasing the prewar intelligence summaries. Okay, it’ll build, there will be great public outcry, Bush will stand firm, the NY Times will run editorials, Reuters will have inflammatory headlines, Bush will stand firm, there will be more public outcry, and just when everyone gets bored with it, Bush will release the summaries.