Tag: links

Neo-metro-emo-pomo-bozo-slomo

  1. This seems like Bad Idea Jeans: Let’s go koala hugging, kids! Even the Holy Father himself looks like he just realized this was a very, very bad move.
  2. According to Automotive Digest’s summary of WSJ and LATimes articles (registration required, BugMeNot works), gasoline demand dropped 4% last week. Yes, four percent in one week. 52 oil and gas platforms are missing, 49.6% of combined oil & gas production in the Gulf is offline, crude oil futures are up 48% year-to-date, and 20% of US refining capacity is shut down or at reduced capacity.
  3. do_not_lick pointed out a case of life imitating The Onion.
  4. The water in NOLA is full of sewage bacteria, lead, and heavy metals. Best sentence: “Tests by aircraft of the city’s air, which has a strong stench even from a couple hundred feet up, indicated no potential health issues.”
  5. September 11 Memorial burns out eyes of aged veterans with death rays.
  6. ParanoidWatch: They’re using UAVs for rescue operations in NOLA. How long until they’re flying over every city, 24/7?
  7. Lost dolphins from a Missisippi aquarium were found huddled together in the Gulf, probably squeaking “holy fucking SHIT that was intense!” at each other.
  8. I wish some of these failed 90s trends had happened.

They told me you’d be an unusual patient, Mr. Trout.

  1. From Antarctica, delicious snow rolls!
  2. Napoleon Dynamite versus Bill Gates: FIGHT! Does anyone have this video?
  3. Google’s directions to Italian Webmasters have a “hungarian phrasebook sketch” problem of sorts.
  4. Abused children are highly attuned to anger, even when it does not involve them. I have this problem, and interestingly my therapist says that some of the unavoidable nonsense that happened when I was an infant produces symptoms similar to those of children who have been seriously abused.
  5. Area men sign up for Katrina cleanup, end up slaves. Wow! It’s like the “selling knives in the parking lot” scam but with more hepatitis and tetanus! Bonus points for “BMS Catastrophe, Inc.”

We don’t need another Nero

  1. Many thanks to explosivo for showing me Pandora. It’s a make-your-own radio station that learns your preferences. It reminds me of the late lamented Firefly in its uncanny ability to find music you like given a set of known favorites. Very cool.
  2. I hope against hope that Joshua Clark’s “reporting” from NOLA (as reported by fengi is some kind of satire. But it’s probably not.
  3. KILL THE CLAW!
  4. Via cruel.com the amazing news that abortion is often the result of failed sodomy. No idea what the mechanism is here, even after reading the article. I should have paid more attention in my Freedom Science classes.
  5. Photoshop contest: If goths ruled the world. (via The Null Device.
  6. Prostitutes decide to become marketers; punch line not necessary.
  7. Just what we needed, burning bullets (via New Scientist and defensetechblog).
  8. We will have now have shorter, stupider “reader-friendly” editions of the great books that idiots don’t read anyway!

The librarian of Babel

  1. Think you got away with murder? You may not have, even 30 years later, if your victim’s sister remains unconvinced. Michael Lebrun found this out the hard way. Don’t mess with Mary Lou Taylor.
  2. So, like, there were biological warfare labs in New Orleans and it’s not clear what’s up with all the, um, anthrax and stuff.
  3. Enjoy literary output of Turkmenbashi of all Turkmen. NOW!
  4. American terrorism, 1972, San Diego. I never knew about this until I met the daughter of one of the terrorists.

IF YOU CAN READ THIS I FELL OFF THE BITCH

  1. For chrissakes, don’t tell them they’re going to Utah, Sam!
  2. Eccentric cone-shaped 19th century English monument is inevitably painted like a huge breast after almost 200 years.
  3. Yahoo! may well have helped jail a dissident in China. Do you Yahoo?
  4. I refuse to link to the special edition Harry Potter iPod. Refuse, I say. REFUSE!
  5. I’m shocked.. SHOCKED that the oil companies have been caught doing what anyone can see they do to manipulate prices.
  6. Neato, a Flickr book for $16 or poster for $10 from these guys.
  7. Defense Tech shows how the Dutch dealt with their own flood prone country. Meanwhile our Strangeloves are testing every oppressive technology they have on NOLA locals. Hello, Spain 1936.