Archive for the 'Miscellaneous' Category

FusionCharts!!

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Just found this little web app, and wanted to test it out. It was all I could come with on short notice….hehe….I included puppies as a baseline. Oh, yeah, and my hate is just a little on the extra-high side today for Hannity, after watching the Hitchens vid.[FusionCharts]

Dildos in Lubbock

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

“The owner of a lingerie shop where undercover officers arrested a store employee earlier this month could also face charges in connection with sexual devices that police recently confiscated from the store, Lubbock’s police chief said Tuesday………Four undercover officers served a search warrant at Somethin’ Sexy lingerie shop on Slide Road on May 4. An [...]

Wake up and smell the activists

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

“The German authorities are compiling a database of human scents to track down possible violent protesters at the G8 summit in June. The method, once used by East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, involves collecting scent samples in advance from selected targets.” [BBCNews]
Before I read they were collecting scents in advance, I thought [...]

“If you give Falwell an enema…”

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

“…you could bury him in a matchbox.”
Hitchens on Hannity & Colmes. I just gave you the best line to save you from watching a 10-minute video. Which is worth watching, if you happen to have 10 minutes. Hitchens isn’t one to pull punches, is he?

Don’t brush with Mr. Cool

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Because anti-freeze is bad for you!
Two Chinese companies are under investigation for shipping contaminated toothpaste.
“Authorities in the Dominican Republic said they seized 36,000 tubes of toothpaste suspected of containing diethylene glycol, an industrial solvent and prime ingredient in some antifreeze. Included were tubes of toothpaste marketed for children with bubble gum and strawberry flavors sold [...]

Parthenogenesis, baybeee!

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

And the newly born Jesus shark was killed by a sting-ray. Just like Steve Irwin.
Fucking sting-rays. [BBC]

Robot Camel Jockeys

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

This is not a new story, and I find references on Wired and Gizmodo going back a couple of years. But NPR just covered it this morning, and it was the first I had heard about it.
“Camel racing is an ancient sport that remains highly popular among the Arabs of the Persian Gulf, but [...]

Sumptin’ for the ladies

Monday, May 21st, 2007

All the other blogs are talking about this blog, so I figured I should, too?
“To put it simply, Jezebel is a blog for women that will attempt to take all the essentially meaningless but sweet stuff directed our way and give it a little more meaning, while taking more the serious stuff and making it [...]

Raisin’ ‘em Right

Monday, May 21st, 2007

The soldier son of talk radio relationship counselor Laura Schlessinger is under investigation for a graphic personal Web page that one Army official has called “repulsive.” The MySpace page, publicly available until Friday when it disappeared from the Internet, included cartoon depictions of rape, murder, torture and child molestation; photographs of soldiers with guns in [...]

Astronauts to discover group love

Monday, May 21st, 2007

Will our quest for newer planets bring about the next sexual revolution?
“They can observe and experiment with sex without possession, partnership without monogamy, sexual pleasure without expectation of roses or breakfast.
They can discover group love, bond with a special someone, or both. They can try letting go of jealousy and fear, figure out [...]

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