It keeps getting better and better. Not only did al-Zarqawi survive having two 500 lb bombs dropped on him long enough to realize we got him, but an unnamed witness claims he lived long enough for US soldiers to beat the shit out of him:
The witness, who lived near the scene of the bombing, claimed [...]
Meteorite hits Norway:
As Wednesday morning dawned, northern Norway was hit with an impact comparable to the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima.
Peter Bruvold witnessed the meteorite streaking across the night sky.
The map shows the meteorite’s direction of fall (the arrow) and the possible impact area over Troms and Finnmark counties.
At around 2:05 a.m. on Wednesday, residents [...]
From an interview with Saudi cleric Nasser bin Sliman Al-Omar:
Nasser bin Sliman Al-Omar: With regard to the World Cup… Let me ask you, brother Muhammad… May Allah protect your daughter and sons, but imagine that you are about to undergo a surgical operation, and they tell you the doctor is late because he is watching [...]
You can listen to Natural VLF Radio Phenomena here. Wacky.
(via)
Deadwood starts on Sunday!
Warren’s observation:
I am back at work after the five weeks of my annual leave. Thank you to all my readers who, in despite of my leave-taking note of Saturday, April 29th, nevertheless emailed to inquire whether I’d been fired, had fallen gravely ill, or been assassinated.
To my colleagues who could not be present, let me [...]
Just tell the Islamists you only buy it for the articles.
(via, which treats the subject in a much more mature way than either I or the Telegraph)
Whoops!
Apple iPod owners love their sleek machines. That’s when they work. When they don’t, they enter a twilight world where they discover their prized music player is considered by its manufacturer as nothing more than a throwaway item.
Apparently their life expectancy is only a year.
The other night I sat through that really, really (really!) bad Star Wars movie. Watching Cgi-Wan Kenobi ride around on that iguana-with-feathers thing, it struck me that it’s about time for someone with a little talent to make a good ERB movie.
(Frazetta image from this gallery, I think)
If you’re me, all that’s necessary is:
Lift (light) weights for ten minutes
Pedal on the bike for five minutes
Lame!
Next up: sticking to it, for the first time in almost ten years.
It makes people do crazy thing for attention under the guise of “Science”
The Monkey Chow Diet
The best part is that women are sending sexually explicit pictures to motivate him. A man who is giving the world daily poop updates…..
This is a great going out of business sale. Everything must go!
Damn- I really have to move to New Hampshire.
Several co-workers just returned back from the ASCO conference in Atlanta. Due to my frequent whining, they know better than to return without bringing back offerings to the god er..good schwag. As somone who worked in high tech for many years and collected his fair share of junk, it all pales in comparison [...]
If TJIC hasn’t been providing you with your USRDA of Doctorow-mocking lately, well… revitalize yourself:
(SCENE: a strip mall Radio Shack with a single Radio Shack EMPLOYEE standing behind the sales counter. CORY DOCTOROW enters.)
SFX: electronic doorbell goes “Dooo-weee!”
CORY DOCTOROW: Hmmph. I certainly hope that doorbell isn’t keeping private records of who enters and exits the [...]
From my favorite source of the funny:
Russian police are investigating a case of a boss who chained his subordinate naked to a tree in the forest to punish him for badly done work.
LOL!
You see people riding around in their $70K SUVs. I personally would buy one of these and pocket $5K (actually you would probably have to use it for fuel). Talk about a statement.
Another tempting purchase offered by the same broker is the ex-minesweeper “Belefonte” from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
Apparently Jim Henson was more of a maniac than anyone of my generation was aware…