“This Video Of President Bush, Speaking This Morning, Presented Entirely Without Comment, Except That You Should Watch For The Part Where He Pants Like A Dog Toward The End.” (Philadelphia Weekly via Just Between Strangers)
Daily Archives: 13 Apr 06
Read It? Watched It? Swap It
“…[I]f consumers were asked to place all of their CD’s and DVD’s, for example, in three piles — those they love, those they like well enough to keep and those they would be happy to have taken away — the piles would most likely be equal. Any system that helps people easily trade away what they do not want for what they do want is ‘a beautiful synchronicity,’ Mr. Silverstein said in an interview.” (New York Times )
Google Gulp
Quench Your Thirst for Knowledge: “Think a DNA scanner embedded in the lip of your bottle reading all 3 gigabytes of your base pair genetic data in a fraction of a second, fine-tuning your individual hormonal cocktail in real time using our patented Auto-Drink™ technology, and slamming a truckload of electrolytic neurotransmitter smart-drug stimulants past the blood-brain barrier to achieve maximum optimization of your soon-to-be-grateful cerebral cortex. Plus, it’s low in carbs! And with flavors ranging from Beta Carroty to Glutamate Grape, you’ll never run out of ways to quench your thirst for knowledge.”
Freebie Finder
“…an automated free stuff aggregator. I’ve designed it to collect free stuff offers from top freebie sites, while filtering out scams and referral pyramids. This site is in beta, and so your suggestions are always welcome. Listed below are the most recent offers found, with their sources to the right. Remember to bookmark the site, it updates every few hours! (A lot of people have been asking: yes, I have plans to add an RSS feed shortly! Check back soon.)”
Caveat emptor: you get what you pay for. IMHO, most free offers are not worth the effort.
Hit-and-Miss List
If you’re in this directory, forget shopping: “You know this is happening at the airports, where security pulls some guy out of the boarding line. You’ve heard about the feds being on the lookout for money launderers in high-stakes financial transactions. But a car dealership? Hey, how about the 7-Eleven? You might be surprised!” — Don Oldenburg (Washington Post op-ed via Book of Joe)
DEA Agent Who Shot Self In Foot Sues Uncle Sam
“A Drug Enforcement Administration agent who stars in a popular online video that shows him shooting himself in the foot during a weapons demonstration for Florida children is suing over the tape’s release, claiming that his career has been crippled and he’s become a laughingstock due to the embarrassing clip’s distribution.” (Smoking Gun)
Technorati tags: DEA laughingstock humiliation video
Hell Is Other People’s Music
“‘Hell,’ said Jean-Paul Sartre, ‘is other people.’ I’d qualify that slightly. People are fine; it’s their music that’s hell.” — Momus (Wired)
Why the Ground is Brown
“From space, Earth looks blue and green. But put your nose to the ground, and you’ll probably see just brown. Where does the brown ground come from?” (LiveScience)
As profound a question as why the sky is blue, although it didn’t occur to us to ask until the ’70’s when we could see the whole earth from space.
R.I.P. Rev. William Sloane Coffin
Civil Rights and Antiwar Inspiration Dies at 81: “The Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr., a civil rights and antiwar campaigner who sought to inspire and encourage an idealistic and rebellious generation of college students in the 1960’s from his position as chaplain of Yale University, then reveled in the role of lightning rod thrust upon him by officials and conservatives who thought him and his style of dissent dangerous, died yesterday at his home in Strafford, Vt. He was 81.” (New York Times )
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Judges Set Hurdles for Lethal Injection
“Judges in several states have started to put up potentially insurmountable roadblocks to the use of lethal injections to execute condemned inmates.
Their decisions are based on new evidence suggesting that prisoners have endured agonizing executions. In response, judges are insisting that doctors take an active role in supervising executions, even though the American Medical Association’s code of ethics prohibits that.” (New York Times)
Related:
Spinning Hope on Incarceration Station: “Death row, home to 83 men, is where KLSP-FM (91.7), which prison officials say is the nation’s only licensed prison radio station, finds its most dedicated audience and inspiration for its core mission: spreading the word of Jesus (and an occasional message from the warden) to men doomed to die behind bars.” (New York Times )
