my father’s transation of the Rilke poem

Welp, looks like it’s not so fun being the semi-voluntary construction workers who build Dubai.

rsync to s3. commercial product.

Nicholas’s out-of-control world: the parade of prostitutes, the spiking of clients’ drinks with Ecstasy, and the secret lair he built underneath the Orange County mansion he shared with his wife and kids.

As a final test, the living goddess must spend a night alone in a room among the heads of ritually slaughtered goats and buffaloes without showing fear. (At age 3)

bacon tiara instructions.

The memo title says it all: Zippy Cheats and Tricks.

desk with LOTS OF GEARS!

lamps made of pasta and other delights

Let’s all use grilled cheese sandwiches as the bun for our burgers, and then die.

short news feature on the Inland Empire’s foreclosures and the people who empty out the foreclosed houses

What would happen if an ambitious publisher swiped the style and tropes of the Archie comics franchise, but added a stong urban flava and made the stale gags even less amusing than the source material? Well,

ancient and wonderful cheap L.A. restaurant; french dip.

If a false entry in a database leads to a unconstitutional police search that reveals illegal drugs, does the government get to hold it against you?

Not only was he a drug dealer but he was ENCRYPTING BLACKBERRYs! Throw away the key.

mapping the subprime crisis over the years

2:35 "thank you satan" (praising him for about 30 seconds)and throughout the audio you can here multiple voices saying it as well.

recycling old microchips and selling them as new or different chips entirely

cool little free papercraft instructions

For as long as anyone could remember, there had always been two server rooms: the Cool Room and the Hot Room.

"Putting your money where our mouth is."

wat

EXEMPTION FROM EXCISE TAX FOR CERTAIN WOODEN ARROWS DESIGNED FOR USE BY CHILDREN is my favorite setaside in the bailout bill.

postapocalyptoriffic t-shirt design!

"In my office, we don’t buy our clients beanie babies or Star Wars collectibles or 1964 Ferrari 275GTBs. We purchase stocks and ETFs and bonds and preferreds for them."

INTO CENTAURS? WANNA BE ONE?

"It was not our intention, but it was our misfortune to be in close quarters with John McCain for almost a week."  A very bad vacation with John McCain.

…chasing children, urinating on a porch, and blocking traffic… all while wearing a cow suit.

Our local nutcase congressman, the model for Bob Roberts, impersonates a woman to get the REAL TRUTH about the RFK assassination.

The sausage art is now popular in Russia. They have made some major masterpieces out of sausages and wurst and put on display so that anyone can eat them.

17 year old O.C. girls turn Garageband afternoon into pop act. Yikes.

German country music.

The Ostern (Eastern) or Red Western was the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries' take on the Western movie.

Wonderful overlooked comic.

The Palm Pistol is an ergonomically innovative single shot double action only defensive firearm. Assuming it's ever made or ever legal, sure.

Economists working at the United States Department of Treasury and top Wall Street banks announced the historic discovery of a very large subprime number, the biggest yet seen.