New scientific study says that users of the internet develop a voracious hunger for information that cause them to visit the library more often, both to use the computers and to check out books.
Whee, people might actually start reading again… and not cheesy tabloids either. Go us!
So, in addition to having insane supporters who re-enact the boston tea party, have fundraisers on the 5th of November, and break single-day fundraising records…
That’s just freakin’ awesome.
… is giving your child an mp3 player loaded with “pornography, graphic war images and explicit songs about drug use”. The parents say the mp3 player was sold to them from a wal-mart in Sparta as new, but appears to be used, which violates wal-mart’s policies.
Leonidas was unavailable for comment.
Christmas-time being a celebration of warm fuzzy puppies and goodwill toward man, my family, of course, went to see Sweeney Todd today.
As a film, it wasn’t that amazing, but as a Tim Burton musical featuring Johnny Depp, Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham Carter, and Sasha Baren Cohen, about a dark-souled barber who slits customers’ throats (one of the newspaper reviews said something like “come for the excellent acting, stay for the arterial sprays”) because he’s angry at the world; as that it delivered.
Christmas carols for the mentally disturbed
# Schizophrenia — Do You Hear What I Hear?
# Multiple Personality Disorder — We Three Kings Disoriented Are
# Dementia — I Think I’ll be Home for Christmas
# Narcissistic — Hark the Herald Angels Sing About Me
# Manic — Deck the Halls and Walls and House and Lawn and Streets and Stores and Office and Town and Cars and Buses and Trucks and Trees and…..
# Paranoid — Santa Claus is Coming to Town to Get Me
# Borderline Personality Disorder — Thoughts of Roasting on an Open Fire
# Personality Disorder — You Better Watch Out, I’m Gonna Cry, I’m Gonna Pout, Maybe I’ll Tell You Why
# Attention Deficit Disorder — Silent night, Holy cow! Look at the Froggy - can I have a chocolate, why is France so far away?
# Obsessive Compulsive Disorder — Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells
Bad customer service makes Baby Jesus cry. Ken Jennings blog continues to be hilarious.
You hear that QoS? I know I told you about this blog once, and here it is again, since you don’t remember.
I don’t know what laws this breaks, but getting put on Interpol’s lists can only be considered a feature.
Drive Someone Insane with Postcards - (eBay item 320196148761 end time Dec-23-07 10:03:28 PST)
You are bidding on a rare chance to traumatize a treasured friend or relative with baffling, mind-numbing, mystery correspondence from abroad.Here is the arrangement:
I will be spending the Christmas holiday in Poland in a tiny village that has one church with no bell because angry Germans stole it. Aside from vodka, there is not a lot for me to do.
During the course of my holiday I will send three postcards to one person of your choosing.
These postcards will be rant-ravingly insane, yet they will be peppered with unmistakable personal details about the addressee. Details you will provide me.
The postcards will not be coherently signed, leaving your mark confused, guessing wildly, crying out in anguish.
“How do I know this person? And how does he know I had a ferret named Goliath?”
Your beloved friend or relative will try in vain to figure out who it is. Best of all, it can’t possibly be you because you’ll have the perfect alibi: you’re not in Poland. You’re home, wherever that is, doing whatever it is you do when not driving your friends loopy with international prankery.
Your target will rack their brains in the shower. At dinner. During long drives. At work. On the golf course.
“Who did I tell about the time I got fired by a note on my chair?” they’ll ponder, “And where the hell is Szczeczinek?”
But wait, there’s more.
To add to the sheer confusion and genuine discomfort, one missive will be on an original promotional postcard announcing the 1995 television premiere of Central Park West on CBS.
Another will be a postcard celebrating Atlanta’s disastrous hosting of the 1996 summer Olympic games.
Your mark will be at a complete loss, desperate for answers, debating contacting people he or she hasn’t talked to in years.
“I know this will sound weird,” they’ll say, “but by any chance were you in Eastern Europe ranting about cantaloupe… twelve years ago… right before some show with Mariel Hemingway debuted?”
When you decide to end the torment is completely up to you. If you can, I recommend owning up on 1 April 2008 - giving you nearly half a year of joy and a George Clooney-esque level of prankage. If you can’t hold it in that long, I totally understand.
(via GP)
This has been around for a while I think, but I hadn’t seen it before: Documentary on the old negro space program (comes with special bonus: inane youtube comments!)
The iPod speaker that comes with built-in tuna - Technology - smh.com.au
A TINY fish tank that doubles as a music speaker has sparked outrage among animal activists and aquarists.The iPond - up to 15 times smaller than the recommended tank size for the fish it contains - is proving a hit with Christmas shoppers.
One Sydney store has sold out of the $70 device and other outlets are reporting brisk sales.
But the RSPCA has called on the device to be banned because it is too small to provide fish with adequate oxygen supplies and a clean environment.
So, naturally:
So one of the anime blogs I read sometimes is Riuva (nsfw), because the guy who runs it is pretty cool. He used to post a lot of stuff about anime figurines. Now he is studying to become Azuma Kazuma a food scientist. The result? Entries about the science of cooking steak interposed with random anime girl pictures.
Ron Paul supporters break their own fund-raising record, re-enact Boston Tea Party.
As of 10 last night, the supporters said, they had raked in about $5.2 million, surpassing the record $4.2 million they raised on Nov. 5.
Most of the donations were made over the Internet in what the supporters called a “money bomb” timed to coincide with the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. The last fund-raising blitz, which took in 40,000 donations, was timed to coincide with Guy Fawkes Day, which commemorates a British mercenary who tried unsuccessfully to kill King James I on Nov. 5, 1605.
He’s still crazy. And I still don’t think he has a prayer. But damn if I’m not watching with terrible amusement.
I went to Starbucks the other day, even though I hate their coffee. My car was in the shop, and they had free wi-fi. Their cunning plan to lure people who originally had no plans of buying anything worked. I ended up buying one of these things, a travel mug with a coffee press built into it.
It’s apparently not a new idea, but it’s new to me, and I think it’s brilliant. I usually only drink about one travel mug worth of coffee at a time anyway, and it’s less work than brewing a pot in a drip machine, which I somehow still manage to have trouble with.
magine the government seizes a suspect’s hard drive and finds encrypted files inside. Can the government force the suspect to enter in his encryption passphrase so the government can view the decrypted files? Or does the Fifth Amendment privilege give the suspect a legal right not to enter in the passphrase? On November 29, Magistrate Judge Jerome Niedermeier in Vermont handed down the first opinion to squarely address the issue: In re Boucher. Judge Niedermeier ruled that the defendant did have a Fifth Amendment privilege in such circumstances. This is a hard issue, but I tend to think Judge Niedermeier was wrong given the specific facts of this case.
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Given that this post might be of interest to a non-lawyer crowd, I should add an important point that will be obvious to the lawyers but not obvious to the computer crowd: This opinion does not really settle the legal issue. It’s only an opinion by one judge, and that judge isn’t even a “real” federal District Court judge. The opinion is only the decision of one Magistrate Judge, who is sort of an assistant judge in the federal system. If you want to make an analogy to science, this is like one professor’s hypothesis rather than an experimental or theoretical proof. So while it’s the first case on the issue, it may be wrong (as I tend to think it is) and probably won’t be the final word either way.
Terry Pratchett has Alzheimer’s. For those of you playing our home game, this counts as suck.
Obama, Under the Clinton Microscope - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog
From: Bob Nash
To:
Sent: Sun Dec 09
Subject: BARACKHOW ARE YOU ?? I AM FIGHTING HARD >
SECOND ARE YOU PEERSONALLYAWARE OF TH EWORK BARACK DID ON THE SOUTH
SIDE WITH COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION S , ETC ./. BOBWHAT DI DHE DO AFORE HOW LONG AND WITH WHO ??
PLS TELL BOB HELLO BOB
Bob J Nash
Deputy Campaign Manager
Hillary Clinton for President Exploratory Committee
4420 N. Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22203
I know people have been saying the level of political discourse in this country has been coarsening, but I didn’t realize it was LOLCAT bad.
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