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Hilarious Huffington Post piece: what Republicans see when they look at the NY Times
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Talking to Americans
This is who you really really are, America.
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a code beyond DNA
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link roundup
Top 10 places to find royalty free, public domain, stock photos
Stephen Hawking in the news: “It is important for the human race to spread out into space for the survival of the species… Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.” – He’s also working on a children’s book a la Harry Potter, sans magic. Dude!
Footage of meteoroid hitting the moon.
Court orders Bob Taft (Governor- OH) to disclose potentially scandalous records. Corrupt Bob must give up. What a loser.
Aussie lyrebird is like a freaking dictaphone of nature! I’ve heard wild stories about this bird, but hear it imitate – perfectly! – a buzzing chainsaw, and two different camera shutters!
After the Rodney King riots in South Central, the city gave residents a plot of land in good faith. How nice! They’ve since turned it into the largest urban farm in America! Unfortunately, it is at this very moment under corporate and police attack. It seems the land was dubiously sold out from under The People to developers. Shame, shame, shame! This is outrageous, and reeks of the kind of “indian-giving” that white people are most famous for.
Don’t even try to cancel AOL. They’ll just give you the runaround and, erm, ask for your father. WTF.
Sexy ro-bots having sexy sex.
An even weirder video: “dancing” Japanese girls teaching defensive English. I guess. Don’t make fun of them.
EFF‘s The Corruptibles!
I can see it now: “But sir! Nobody told us we couldn’t torture & humiliate suspected enemy combatants!”
Pentagon to omit Geneva ban from new army manual: report – Yahoo! News
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – New policies on prisoners being drawn up by the Pentagon will reportedly omit a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that explicitly bans “humiliating and degrading treatment.”Citing unidentified but knowledgeable military officials, the Los Angeles Times said the step would mark a further, potentially permanent, shift by the US government away from strict adherence to international human rights standards.
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religion, and weird science
Onward, Christian soldiers: Sick, twisted revenge-fantasy that is the Left Behind series to be made into sick, twisted revenge-fantasy videogame. Violence! Killing heathens (Jews, Buddhists, Muslems, pro-choicers, non-radical-right type Christians, profaners, etc.)! Now YOU can be the vehicle for God’s Final Holocaust!
Microbes from outer space rained down on India. No shit. Alien life forms! Well, maybe.
New animal species found in Israel! At least 8 new sightless animal species found in Israel cave: 4 land, 4 water (2 fresh and 2 seawater). The giant cave, scientists believe, has been entirely closed off for millions of years, allowing the independent evolution of these strange species.
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Breaking robot/chicken news!
No matter how much you want to believe otherwise, you’re just not ever going to believe these startling, floor-dropping-out-from-under-you news stories of Ro-bots*, and of chickens. Science to the rescue?! I think not, good sir! If only we could turn back the hands of time toward yesterday, when things were so more… innocenter.
The tables have finally turned! Humans can now control The Ro-bots via thoughts! Never again will a Ro-bot control my thoughts, or control me with its thoughts! And i’m kinda glad about that, i guess, but i think that by some measure, i will miss the old days.
This just in: Egg came first after all. I really do wish i didn’t have to keep continually using this next phrase, but it certainly is warranted in this case: Sorry, chicken.
* or, as Holly calls these metal demons, “Ro-bits”
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You may have a case of the humans!
Three Legged Legs – “Humans!”
A hilarious and depressing short animation about the scourge upon Earth that is humanity.
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More war in the Middle East?
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Things Creationists Hate
Things Creationists Hate
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link roundup
Korea unveil’s world’s 2nd (life-like) android. I had no idea there was another, but there is: it’s Japanese.
Best Buy invaded by faux blueshirts! Hail Eris!
Security guards and managers started talking to each other frantically on their walkie-talkies and headsets. “Thomas Crown Affair! Thomas Crown Affair!,” one employee shouted. They were worried that were using our fake uniforms to stage some type of elaborate heist. “I want every available employee out on the floor RIGHT NOW!”
Student kicked out of private university for – get this – being gay! Honestly, wtf?!
This revolving kitchen is a serious space-saver. How awesome is that?
Superhero underwear fetish spoof! Female superheroes have always been objectified as so much T&A… now male superheroes can be fluffy C&B models!
German superhero Robin Hoods steal gourmet food to give to the poor!
“The Not Your Soldier Project gives youth the tools we need to stop the military invasion of our schools and our communities.”
Creationism dismissed as ‘a kind of paganism’ by Vatican’s astronomer.
Remix My Life in the Bush of Ghosts tracks!
The Skeletor Show. Yup. The Skeletor Show.
Terrorist video game mod is a hoax. Who knew? Anyone with half a brain, that’s who.
I gotta say: Doug McIntyre, this talk radio host, has said what needed to be said. It’s now time for Republicans to flee like rats, appropriately enough, from the sinking ship of George W. Bush, the worst president in American history (and perhaps the worst “leader” of all time).
“I believe that George W. Bush has taken us down a terrible road. I don’t believe the Democrats are offering an alternative. That means we’re on our own to save this magnificent country. The United States of America is a gift to the world, but it has been badly abused and it’s rightful owners, We the People, had better step up to the plate and reclaim it before the damage becomes irreparable.”
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something wicked this way comes
With talk like this going around, don’t let it surprise you when George W. Bush drops a fucking “nucular” warhead on Iran’s collective face.
From the article:
“If the U.S. ventured into any aggression on Iran, Iran will retaliate by damaging U.S. interests worldwide twice as much as the U.S. may inflict on Iran,” [Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei said in a speech to a workers’ assembly, according to the official news agency IRNA.
But what really worries me is that
[t]he recent statements are “a war of words,” said Gary G. Sick, a professor of Middle East policy at Columbia University and longtime monitor of Iranian politics. “Neither side has anything to gain by an attack on the other, but there is a chance of an accident triggering something and that’s what makes the situation so dangerous.”
Just like the bad old Cold War days… only this time, it’s not the U.S.S.R. – it’s Iran, who’s back is got by none other than Russia.
Nice one, Iran. Talking shit to a loose cannon is like playing baseball with a grenade: nobody is going to win, and many spectators are going to be hurt very badly.
Pretty much what i’ve been saying for many years now: we need a new governmental paradigm; one that respects and builds upon the principles of America’s great Constitution and Bill of Rights… but one which is inherently more participatory and, for lack of a better phrase, “open-source.”
Mitch Kapor: A Movement for Fundamental Political Change
I love America, much more so than those idiots who strangle her with her own reigns… but something must be done to improve the whole culture of politics in this nation i live in. Something should be done to build us up past this new millenium, to make us a future-compatible society in which change is seen as good, but is never effected simply for its own sake (or, it goes without saying, for ill). Progress means growth. Lack of progress leads to stagnation, and that is where the greatest civilizations have all tended to fail.
I urge you to read this, and to think about its meaning, and what you can do to further the goal of improving our world.
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USAF ignores FOIA requests
Freedom Of Information Act requests are apparently not worth much to the US Air Force. “Too little, too late,” says Federal Judge of USAF’s new (and, erm… unfunded) web-based request-tracking system.
[U.S. District Judge Rosemary] Collyer found that the Air Force had no defense – or essentially conceded – that it had failed to respond to requests under the Freedom of Information Act for up to 18 years in at least one case. The Air Force also ignored appeals of its denials of access to records for up to nine years, she said. …In a 12-page opinion, Collyer chastised the Air Force for its “dismal record” in responding to requests by the [National Security Archive], whose collection of documents is used by historians, academics and other researchers interested in national security.
I got this in my MySpace inbox the other day. It made me feel terrific. The best compliment i think i’ve ever gotten.
my name is [DL] i am the younger brother of [SL]…now [SW], but i just wanted to say that you wrote a poem and i found a copy of it it started out “each life a letter under an indigo envelope”, anyways i just wanted to say that was one of the greatest poems i ever read in my life, and by the time [SL/SW] told me you wrote it you were already gone to florida i think. anyways, good talking to you i always wanted to tell you that. i actually used that poem for a class in college and we had to memorize a poem and resite it, i picked that one. i hope you are still writing and i hope life and your travels have treated you well.
[DL]
Shame, i don’t even remember the pome. (SL/SW is a girl i used to hang around a whole lot back in The Day, during the grunge explosion and my pizza-slangin’, pot-smokin’, free-wheelin’ heyday. DL is her younger brother. I always liked him, he was a real fun guy.)