I wish I’d seen this before the ATM ate my bank card the other day.
Monthly Archives: March 2006
H for Hysteric
March 23, 2006 – 4:33 pm
TJIC fisks an overwrought review of V for Vendetta:
Douglas Kern has done a decent job of arguing that - for example - Saddam Hussein wasn’t the real fascist; the Iraqi Kurds who fought against him were the real fascists. After all, they killed government employees, they had an “endless sense of grievance” (just because family [...]
Found image
March 22, 2006 – 11:55 pm
From constantwhining. Some other nice photos there, though you’ll have to wade through some cool but vaguely disturbing illustrations to get to them.
Monkey vs. Robot
March 22, 2006 – 11:08 pm
There are apparently some amateur videos set to James Kochalka Superstar’s masterpiece on YouTube.
I’m amused.
(via a long, unreproducable seriers of links)
UPDATE:
Coincidentally, his song Hockey Monkey (more or less from memory):
all the scientists are runnin’ around
they’re looking for the monkey
but he can’t be found
’cause he’s down at the lake
playin’ hockey with the kids
and it’s one-two-three
the kids [...]
Tired of the quagmire
March 22, 2006 – 5:18 pm
Poll Finds 86 Percent Of Americans Don’t Want To Have A Country Anymore:
Among the 86 percent of poll respondents who were in favor of discontinuing the nation, the most frequently cited reasons were a lack of significant results from the current democratic process (36 percent), dissatisfaction with customer service (28 percent), and exhaustion (22 percent).
“I [...]
Handyman at work, don’t mind the garlic
March 22, 2006 – 3:56 pm
No one could make this up:
A 75-year-old grandad has become a porn star in Russia after wandering into a porn movie audition by mistake, Ananova said Wednesday.
David Bozdoganov wandered into the Gorodcki production company studios after mistaking posters for new erotic actors as an advert for a muscle man show.
Director Alexander Plahov said: “We were [...]
Charges against Industrial revolution dropped, police on lookout for comet
March 22, 2006 – 3:47 pm
This is interesting:
According to Vladimir Shaidurov of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the global warming of the past 100 years could be due to atmospheric changes that are not connected to human emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of natural gas and oil.
Shaidurov explains that there was a slight decrease in temperature until the [...]
Snakebot
March 22, 2006 – 3:10 pm
Pretty damn cool:
Powered by a lithium-ion battery, the ACM-R5 is a radio-controlled amphibious robot designed to move like its real world counterpart. It can slither or swim underwater for 30 minutes on a full charge. Inside, you’ll find an intricate sensor system (attitude/torque), small-sized camera, and a 32bit micro controller.
Go see the video!
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OK, OK - I admit that Ellis can be funny
March 22, 2006 – 2:13 pm
LOL!
Check out the others (by clicking on the typewriter text in the table cells).
Oh no! What are you going to do about it?
March 22, 2006 – 2:08 pm
Adventures in parenting, economics edition. There’s some applicability to dog owning, so here’s a little Friday Dog Blogging (if you don’t actually know me, I assure you it’s a few days early, rather than a few days late):
Case study #4: A parent friend of mine was told at a parent teacher conference: “Mr. Jones, your [...]
Central planning & unintended consequences
March 22, 2006 – 11:02 am
Wendy McElroy guesses at Toyota’s possible motivation for taking a loss on each of their hybrids:
Now, the U.S. FedGov’s EPA measures “fuel economy” via a performance metric called “Corporate Average Fuel Economy,” or “CAFE” for short. The EPA computes this metric by simply adding up the MPGs of all the “passenger vehicles” (cars, vans, SUVs, [...]
Zing!
March 20, 2006 – 12:39 am
Cry havoc and let slip the letters of Boudreaux:
5 December 2004
Editor, The New York Times
229 W. 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036-3959
To the Editor:
Many more red-staters than blue-staters believe the Biblical account of creation. But blue-staters embrace their own version of creationism. For example, yesterday Robert Rubin and Michael Rubinger alleged in your pages that fairness [...]
From outright falsehood to accepted truth in record time
March 17, 2006 – 6:32 pm
I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve watched some pundit/show host/other idiot on TV tell me something counterfactual about history that I actually witnessed myself (at some remove, of course), and now this little gem:
“President Bush sketched an expansive vision last night of what he expects to accomplish by a war in Iraq. Instead [...]
More idiocy
March 17, 2006 – 3:37 pm
I have no idea which links I followed from where to get here, but:
Back then, I was willing to give the administration the benefit of the doubt. All the heavy rhetoric seemed to be part of an overall strategy to intimidate Saddam Hussein to give up his weapons of mass destruction. The threat of force [...]
Om Mani Padme Drone
March 17, 2006 – 1:52 pm
My Buddha Machine arrived Wednesday night and has been droning at me pretty much nonstop since. For the first day I used it, I was irritated that it apparently had been built without an off switch and that I had to unplug it when I didn’t want it on anymore. Then I remembered that back [...]
Must be a typo
March 17, 2006 – 11:39 am
So, the Pentagon has started releasing untranslated documents from Saddam’s archives to the blogosphere. Iraq the Model has translated an interesting one:
In the name of God the merciful the compassionate
Presidency of the Republic
Intelligence Service
2/913/5th directorate
Sir: Director General of the 5th directorate
Subject: Information
Our Afghani source #002 (info on him in paper slip ‘1′) has informed us [...]
Lucy in the sky….
March 16, 2006 – 1:12 pm
I have an interest in astronomy. For several years I try and get out now and then to stargaze. My tool during these episodes: a good pair of binoculars. I have thought about buying a telescope- thanks to China there are some very good ones, very cheap, but I decided to [...]
Spam names of the week…
March 15, 2006 – 12:31 pm
Due to a busy work schedule I have neglected my duties, but here we go:
3. Bonsais T. Preview
2. Laval H. Rewriting
and the grand prize winner:
Musa Ebarb.
Sounds like the name of a new Hamas spokesman or something.
On a quick note, the best name I got this week in an email was not spam. One of [...]
Global warming idiots
March 14, 2006 – 2:49 pm
“Profiteering from the Arctic Thaw”, from Spiegel Online:
Global warming isn’t necessarily the catastrophe it’s made out to be — at least not for multinational oil companies. Shrinking ice caps would reveal the Arctic’s massive energy sources and shorten tanker routes by thousands of miles.
[...]
The Arctic is a giant treasure trove for energy multinationals. A quarter [...]