Archive for June, 2007

Japanese Fart Distribution Analysis

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

The very end of this video seems to explain how to best avoid being immersed in your own fart cloud.  But then I don’t speak Japanese.  Could be about cooking, for all I know.

Very Cool Modest Mouse “Fan Video”

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

OK, I am not, at this juncture a Modest Mouse fan, but I do have one of their albums in my iTunes cart. It’s been sitting there for a couple of months, but I haven’t clicked “Buy” yet, for some reason. My point is, this post isn’t about Modest Mouse, but rather about [...]

Reverse Borat/Albanian Glory

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

So now America wonders WTF is wrong with Albania. Eugene Robinson discusses Shrubbo’s “fleeting glory.”[WashingtonPost]
That was a wonderful reverse-Borat moment Sunday, with the joyous townspeople of Fushe Kruje yelling “Bushie! Bushie!” and Albania’s prime minister gushing over the “greatest and most distinguished guest we have ever had in all times.” The crowd pressed [...]

Hypocrite of the month

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Yay, it’s a great new “regular” feature for my blog! I considered “Hypocrite of the Week,” but decided that was too ambitious. I put “regular” in quotes because it’s more likely to be “Hypocrite of the Time Intervening Since the Last Time I Highlighted a Hypocrite.” But I figure with today’s news [...]

U.S Military is Arming Sunni Insurgents

Monday, June 11th, 2007

The U.S. military has confirmed that it is arming Sunni insurgent factions to try to contain al-Qaida in Mesopotamia, according to a report in Monday’s New York Times by veteran Iraq correspondent John Burns.
“With the four-month-old increase in American troops showing only modest success in curbing insurgent attacks, American commanders are turning to another strategy [...]

Pentagon sought to build “Gay Bomb”

Monday, June 11th, 2007

The US military investigated building a “gay bomb”, which would make enemy soldiers “sexually irresistible” to each other, government papers say. Other weapons that never saw the light of day include one to make soldiers obvious by their bad breath.[BBC]
Christ. I think even Ted Stevens could have found something better to do with $7.5 [...]

Man Finds Narnia-like Wormhole Under Sink

Monday, June 11th, 2007

No shit. He traveled into the future and took a picture of himself with his cellphone. Seriously, if his future self had an iPhone, I woulda believed it.

Does “Organic” Really Mean Organic?

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

I think most of us know the answer to that question. But this article posted recently at [CommonDreams] highlights a fairly egregious example of what amounts to criminal “oversight” by our government when it comes to the organic classification of food products.
A deadline of midnight Friday to come up with a new list of [...]

Sweet! $20 credit for me at iTunes Store!

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

Thanks to Get Free iTunes Store Downloads!:
The winner of the first “Link & Win” contest is Todd, with his [incredibly cool] site ruptured structure! Congratulations!
(from: Link & Win Contest #1 Winner and Contest #2)
If you have an iPod, bookmark their site. Since I first posted about it I have found a few other [...]

Porno Webmaster Associated with Creation Museum

Friday, June 8th, 2007

In a video shown at a new museum purporting to demonstrate how God created the universe, actor Eric Linden portrays Adam breathing life’s first breath.A jaunt around the Internet shows Linden posing alongside a drag queen on an explicit Web site he owned called Bedroom Acrobat, the Associated Press reports. The Web site allows its [...]

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