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  1. Reading an article about the Iraq war in The Economist today, I aw in an interview with a U.S. officer that the euphemism “force” for “killing people” has now been replaced with the euphemism for “force”: “kinetics”. Please make a note of it.
  2. My cat is hungry all the time, yet barfs a lot. She’s seriously like a dog now in that every time I get up she assumes it’s food time. I’m thinking we’re not feeding her enough, but I don’t want her to get fat again. Worry.
  3. In Nightmare Come to Life news, Floridians with soft contact lenses are getting EYE FUNGUS INFECTIONS AAA AA AAIIIIIIGGH.
  4. Check out the world champion of fast drawing!
  5. In the latest Grim Meathook News, the CDC’s Morbidity & Mortality Report documents the Worst Reeboks Ever. Yeesh.
  6. Soon you’ll be able to get the awesome Google Earth in your car.
  7. The headline of the day is: MAN CONVICTED FOR SHOOTING ROBOT MOOSE.
  8. Fans of the over-the-top crazy soap Passions will be delighted with their new website. I think this is the first time I’ve seen the Crack House font since Diablo.
  9. If you wonder whether the government is going to get your weblogs, consult this list of subpoena’d ISPs and sites.

Like passing a needle through the eye of a camel

  1. Ursi linked me to 249 WAYS TO ENJOY TOAST, and really who can argue with the beauty of toast?
  2. Flood Maps is a Google mashup that shows you what your coastline would look like if the water got higher. Here’s my neighborhood after a 7m increase: BLUB BLUB. Bye bye Huntington, all of old Newport, etc.
  3. In other climate news, Maciej Ceglowski reports on huge fucking glaciers totally fucking collapsing with a fucking gigantic crashing noise. Fuck!
  4. I am playing with Platial and so far I really like it. It’s a mapping site where you can annotate locations with your tags and photos and share them.

Do not, repeat do not put another dime in the jukebox at this time.

  1. The always reliable Exploding Aardvark pointed me today to the best rock video ever made: Bring Me The Head Of Rooster Alfredo, by Kill Lizzie. Wow. (Quicktime)
  2. Via The Null Device, a darkly hilarious list of intellectual property craziness. My favorite: A French director had to pay $1,300 after a character in his film whistled the communist anthem, “The Internationale,” without permission.
  3. New frontiers in advertising: The popcorn machines have been replaced with the Bread of Life.
  4. Now that we’re facing the most serious challenges to infectious disease management ever, it’s a great time to cut the funding of the Centers for Disease Control.
  5. Oh bother! It’s Apocalypse Pooh. (iFilm, insane)
  6. If you’re both morbid and bored (borbid?), I suggest browsing Wikipedia’s excellent List of Unusual Deaths.

D.A.R.E. TO KEEP KIDS OFF RUGS

  1. SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! GO TO CHURCH!
  2. Our nation’s funeral directors are ready for the moment when terror strikes. Eager, even. Let’s roll in our graves, America! (Folks we couldn’t make this shit up if we tried. Evelyn Waugh is dead, too.)
  3. This person makes collages entirely constructed of wine labels!
  4. AREA ROOSTER CALLS UPON GOD, IS SAVED. I want this Islamic Chicken to fight that goat what has Dale Earnhardt’s number on it.
  5. It’s a bag for sleeping! A bag for walking! A walking sleeping bag!!
  6. Today’s phrase, courtesy WFMU, is PAT ROBERTSON’S AGE-DEFYING PANCAKES

There is a disease called pseudopseudohyperparathyroidism and it is not hyphenated.

  1. Hey Stuart! Carlos has some competition. WFMU presents some serious puppet speedmetal action. This is seriously the most metal thing I’ve seen in forever.
  2. Via robotwisdom, this scopitone video circa 1965 suggests that some mixture of martinis and curare was a recreational drug then. Holy cow. More of the same at scopitones.com also.
  3. Let’s sprinkle tiny spy sensors all over the place! It’ll be cool!
  4. It had to happen. After all, the Clash have action figures now. This kind of marketing is stupid and contagious.
  5. As Bob Trout would say: “I was in the Navy. No boats. Lots of guns and helicopters.”
  6. What’s funnier than an increasingly oppressive, authoritarian society? I’ll tell you what! Banning high school students from doing a play written to criticize the last oppressive, authoritarian mess we had 50 years ago, that’s what! An iron curtain has fallen over Fulton, Missouri…
  7. I’m not sure, but it looks like Tom Stoppard has had some kind of disabling stroke.

BED, BATH, AND BEELZEBUB

  1. If you’re still recovering from the Romance Hunk Paper Towel Experience, you might want to put in the bite block before clicking to visit the Cleaning Hunk, brought to you by Xtra-Pine.
  2. Engineering details, video, theory, and much more about pool & billiards available at this University of Colorado Engineering website. Really neat stuff.
  3. THREE MINUTE ROBOT FREE-FOR-ALL! (video, via robotwisdom)
  4. Nat King Cole sings L.O.V.E. in Japanese!
  5. Preserve this authentic Nazi church, please!
  6. Hey vegemitelover and joyfulagitator, get a load of this virtual clay modeling thing.