Weirdness
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Funny notions
Funny convergences: I came across this
Blair’s Law – the ongoing process by which the world’s multiple idiocies are becoming one giant, useless force.
which was part of post that included Ku Klux Klan wins approval to protest Iraq war seemingly, though not explicitly, arguing that the war is bad for white people.
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Sign ranting
Check out the short rants on a roadside sign in Pennsylvania.
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Not dead
And I did make it to Alabama, just not all the way back under my own power (though I did make it back, thanks Mike and Erin!).
More details later.
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Sunday round up
- Cool Outlook tool – with mapping
- Flash + AJAX – could be cool, it seem to duplicate Atlas and Ruby on Rails, but could still be useful
- Hansel Minutes – for good taste in code
- A good description of government
The federal government is like a fence around a farm. The fence raises no crops of wheat and no fields of corn. It only protects the farmer while he raises his crops, he giving a good portion of his time to keep the fence in repair. Just so we give a good share of our taxes to keep the great government fence in repair. I beg of you to keep this thought in mind that government has not a dollar to give any man not a bed, not a cow or calf. Nothing but protection while you are at work for yourself. Government has nothing to give anybody.
- Photoshop Plug Ins!
- I think Blurb will be the publisher of my first photo book.
- An interesting history of the John Birch Society
- Online Diagrams! Finally.
- Brain Scanners? I remember this from a GI Joe comic in 1984.
- Possibly a real electric car. I’ll let you know when I find out more.
- Atlas the ever shrill goes to a protest. The interesting point is the mixture of text, photos and video on the page.
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A surprising question, coming from me…
Where is a good place to buy cookware? I’ve felt like getting back into that lately.
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Quick Sunday night round up
- Drones over Los Angeles
- Unusual, but proven business ideas
- Smart Traffic Systems, in Georgia no less.
- Photographing Urban Landscapes
- A poll of the Muslim countries, one thing that jumped out was
One of the more surprising findings in the poll was that solid majorities in Indonesia (65 percent), Turkey (59 percent), Egypt (59 percent) and Jordan (53 percent) said they do not believe the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States were carried out by groups of Arabs.
which is scary, scary stuff.
- MSNBC has a nice catch-all page on Islam in Europe.
- Wikipedia entry of the day: Charles Martel
- Wildcats in Buckhead
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We all knew it would come to this
Granted, this lawsuit is happening in England, but still.
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After having a £4,000 boob job sales girl Sabrina Pace is suing her boss for looking at her breasts too much.
Sabrina, 26, went from an attractive B-cup to a whopping DD size after her boyfriend forked out for the enlargement op.
Despite opting to pump up her cleavage to glamour girl proportions, the pretty brunette says the attention her new chest was attracting at work was sexual harassment.
Jury selection on that case must be a strange process. On the other hand, maybe there’s more of a market for the conversation poncho than I thought.
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Quick Monday round up
- Interesting stats on tattoos (and the people who love them)
- Weddings are costly, asymmetrical boondogles everywhere.
- An inspiring story of a woman donating a kidney to a good friend.
- Creating a 1099 Misc form for blackmail seems about right.
- An interesting chart about the progressivity of the tax code under Bush. One little known fact is that he has actually made taxation MORE progressive, not less, mostly by removing millions of people from the tax rolls. No supply-sider he.
- Dear NSA. Not as good as Postsecret, but similar.
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What’s wrong with German people?
You would think that this article German cannibal jailed for life for ‘ultimate kick’ couldn’t get any stranger after the opening paragraphs of
A self-confessed German cannibal has been jailed for life after a court here found him guilty of murder for killing and partly eating an allegedly willing victim he had met on the Internet.
ADVERTISEMENTThe court in the western German city of Frankfurt found that Armin Meiwes, known as the “cannibal of Rotenburg,” killed his victim to satisfy his sexual urges.
Meiwes, 44, immediately said that he would appeal the sentence, signaling another round in a long legal process that has laid bare a hitherto secret market in cannibalism.
but it really does get stranger from there.
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Anniversaries of no consequence
- I recently went three and a half weeks without rebooting my workstation, which is possibly an all time record for me. (I usually average two weeks).
- It has been 12 years since I’ve seen a doctor. Three more years and I’m a common-law Christian Scientist!