1. How much music do I have?
Quick guess is 800 CDs- I have filled a 440 cd cabinet and still have another box in storage. Most were bought 10 years ago. I’ve been really lame of late.
2. What was the last CD I bought?
On the recommendation of DFF Ulrich Schnauss. As I [...]
Dammit, I’ve been deliberately infected with a blogmeme. OK, here we go:
1. How much music do I have?
Probably between 300-400 CDs (it occurs to me that I haven’t listened to most of them in years), plus a bunch of stuff I’ve snagged from various MP3 blogs. And a ton of analog tapes of Brian Cleary’s [...]
After I read this post, the accompanying pictures brought home an issue that has been bothering me for a while.
Why the hell do cops need to dress up like US special forces?
While many countries (Italy comes to mind) have police that are actual military units, countries like the UK and the US used to go [...]
Alex Singleton’s new and very focused blog puts TJIC’s lifties-posting to shame.
Ha!
RCMP investigate an Edmonton Police Service attempt to frame a journalist critical of the coming panopticon:
Diotte cited statistics that showed speed cameras raised a lot of money for police butled to an increase, not a decrease, in accidents. “In 2001 alone, city police issued 194,500 speeding tickets,” Diotte wrote. “Photo radar and red-light cameras raise [...]
Interesting tidbit, via Joe’s Darblog, speculating about Google’s possible moves in the browser market.
Couldn’t have said it better:
Meanwhile, back in the real world, the storm is exhausted, meteorologically and politically. Power has been restored to the whole of Mississippi (much quicker than in Euro-style big-government Quebec during the 1998 ice storm, incidentally), the Big Easy is being pumped free of water far ahead of anybody’s expectations, and, as [...]
More Euro-wanking:
Hamburgers and coke, yes you already knew
But do you also know the cause of the general decay?
Short-sighted thinking, loud talking
Sticking to one-liners forever
Down with America! Down with the jerks from America
Down with America! [...]
Down with American colonialism
Down with that ugly, biting English
All the Anglo-Saxon pretence, arrogance
Yes, a hot pick up their ass
And that is [...]
From the transcript at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Judge, look, I want to try to cut through some stuff here, if I can. I said yesterday this shouldn’t be a game of Gotcha, you know. We shouldn’t be playing a game. The folks have a right to know what you think. You’re there for life. They don’t [...]
Via Jane Galt, finally a list of good questions for Judge Roberts:
If you knew to an absolute moral certainty that you could capture and consume a live infant without being caught, how many do you suppose you could eat in a weekend?
Have you ever been spanked erotically by someone who was not your current legal [...]
Gaiman writes, McKean directs. Limited release, Sept. 30. Something to keep an eye out for, maybe?
In Arkansas:
The time-consuming and methodical motion of searching for arrowheads on farmland and in riverbeds seems to appeal to methamphetamine addicts, a sheriff says.
White County Sheriff Pat Garrett said that after more than 100 search warrants, he has come to expect arrowheads, many thousands of years old, when he storms the home of suspected meth [...]
The new shows in the fall lineups…
At first (and second and third) glance they all suck donkey dick. I will however be watching CBS’s “Threshold” because of some of its stars. 1. Little person Peter Dinklage, 2. STNG’s Brent Spiner and most importantly 3. Carla Gugino, who I have always had a thing [...]
More from Russia:
Cattle-breeders in Russia’s Urals will feed cows with confiscated marijuana over the cold winter months, Novye Izvestia daily reported.
Drug workers said they adopted the unusual form of animal husbandry after they were forced to destroy the sunflowers and maize crops that the 40 tonnes of marijuana had been planted among.
“There is simply no [...]
Free-market-hating politicians (are there any other kind?) want to nationalize Russia’s young hotties (article quoted here in its entirety):
To mark International Beauty Day Nikolai Kurianovich, a State Duma deputy with the nationalist LDPR party, suggested introducing a ban on foreign travel for Russian girls under 21, Itar-Tass news agency reported.
In his opinion, young Russian girls [...]
Argh! I missed this. Hopefully they’ll re-run it. And look who’s on the show:
Tomorrow night at 9, actor Peter Weller will appear at the Colosseum and other monuments of ancient Rome in the History Channel documentary “Rome: Engineering an Empire.” The former RoboCop is one of the experts sharing his knowledge in this superb two-hour [...]
Big brother is watching you.
My new vision of the future: an uptight and patronizing “please stay on topic” email, stamping on a human face, forever. Yawn. Wake me up when he graduates to being an obnoxious and overbearing facist – so I can congratulate him. ;-)
For any of you (cough! jmd! cough!) born in the wrong century, check out these absolutely outstanding Howard Pyle pirate illustrations (note the original scans are large, if you likey the detail). Pyle taught Wyeth, among other notables.
(the obligatory) Harr!
(via)
Bill Whittle (via just about everyone):
It’s always such a pleasure to have Germans enlighten us on the best way to move large groups of sick, downtrodden people by rail.
Ha!
From Sabrina (Billy Wilder, 1954):
Linus Larrabee: After all, this is the 20th century, Father.
Oliver Larrabee: Twentieth century? Why, I could pick a century out of a hat, blindfolded, and come up with a better one.
The 21st isn’t off to such a great start, either.