Entries Tagged as 'Uncategorized'

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Drug Runners Ruin Submarines for the Rest of Us

A coke-filled submarine
First:  If you do not read the bloggings of Michael Chertoff and friends over at the Department of Homeland Security it is your duty as a terrified American citizen to point your RSS feeder there now. (Also, comments are enabled, which presents the exciting possibility of an Osama Bin Laden-Geroge W. Bush flame [...]

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Stuff People Like

So, famous and controversial blog Stuff White People Like becomes a book tomorrow.  I had actually never seen the site before tonight!  I think it is minimally funny but maximally ripe for parodying.  Let me be the last person on the Internet ever to make a joke about SWPL.
The World of Today presents an original [...]

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Stock Tip

Free financial advice, in 17 seconds.
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Letter from Prague: What I’ve been up to lately

(Source: Wikipedia)
Note: I am in Prague, Czech Republic for the summer. This is the second in a series of letters from me, to the Internet.

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Contextless fact of the day

“Last month, before six months of winter darkness descended over Antarctica’s McMurdo Station, the research base received a delivery of about 16,500 condoms.”
-Livescience

Monday, July 7th, 2008

RIP Jesse Helms: opposite day every day

Not Jesse Helms

When I first read last week that conservative politician Jesse Helms was dead, I felt sad that the former governor of Minnesota and ex-WWF wrestler had passed on after providing me so many years of delight both in and out of the ring.  When I read that he was 89, I was surprised [...]

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

The world needs more terrible movies about global warming

A new scientific paper suggests plasma TVs contribute to global warming via the gas used to manufacture them.  The easiest way to counteract this problem would be to make a series of terrible movies about the dangers of global warming, in the vein of 2007’s The Day After Tomorrow.  People will watch the terrible movie [...]

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

So I’m reading this article about a billionaire.

So I’m reading this article today in the NYT about Leona Helmsley, the billionaire real-estate mogul who bequeathed $12 million to her Pomeranian when she died last year.  I hooked up a mind-reading device, and here is a real-time transcript of what is actually going through my brain as I read the article:
Alright, gonna [...]

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Sodomy!

Punished for poking?
Titillating news from Malaysia (the country that managed to steal its flag from both America and Turkey”):
Anwar Ibrahim, the leader of the Malaysia’s main opposition party, has been accused of “coalition-building” on the “wrong side of the Parliamentary aisle,” if you know what I mean.  You don’t know what I mean?  Oh.  Well, [...]

Friday, June 27th, 2008

The Right To Bear Arms on Your Head

Constitutional!
Do you know an object or person that might benefit from being shot at by you with a gun?  If so, you’re in luck:  Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Americans have the right to own guns (though the court will decide who and what they can shoot with those guns on a case-by-case [...]