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Oh Mighty Isis! I admit it, I found this because of a link on riothero's weblog, but the memory of Isis (who looked a lot like Catherine Zeta Jones, only without Michael Douglas' lipprints all over her) was just too good to keep to myself.
posted by CrazyUncleJoe at 8:41 PM PST - 1 comments

Windows Me??? wow, is that the lamest product name ever? previously, my vote was for "the webster" (which dell smartly re-named). who are the ad wizards who came up with this one?
posted by mmanning at 5:12 PM PST - 5 comments

Gary Bauer has quit! Was Dan Savage the straw that broke the camel's back?
posted by mathowie at 5:05 PM PST - 2 comments

Just when you think people can't get any stupider, they go and believe something like this. If you thought the "Christopher Reeve walking" ad was real, you need to turn off your TV and pick up a book. Oh, and please don't have any offspring either (just trying to help speed the process of evolution a bit :).
posted by mathowie at 5:01 PM PST - 1 comments

Life imitates art in the second anti-Blockbuster screed here. Of course, this won't make sense unless you've seen "Fight Club," as our esteemed columnists apparently haven't.
posted by luke at 4:05 PM PST - 1 comments

alt.callahans is the usenet group we were talking about, Matt. How could you go wrong with lines like this?
Setting a bag of Susie B's on the bar, Freddie winks at Mike. "A round for the house, if you please, kind sir. It would be hard to come up with a better toast than the one just raised, so I'll just add a wish for you all." You truly can't go home again. or can you?
posted by CrazyUncleJoe at 2:24 PM PST - 3 comments

Remember the movie "The Day After?" Back in the Cold War days, we were all worried about someday being vaporized by a nuclear blast. Well now, in this post-Cold War era you can relive those wonderful memories with PBS' Nuclear Blast Mapper. I popped in the coordinates for MetaFilter's server location, set the bomb to a 25 megaton blast and this is the result. Think about that the next time you hear a country gets their first nuclear weapons.
posted by mathowie at 2:14 PM PST - 5 comments

Whatever Likesilver is plotting, rest assured it'll kick a little ass.
posted by tdecius at 12:07 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment

Love the Liberator? Sure, we all do. But how much do you really know about Simón Bolívar, founder of a good six or seven South American countries? There are a few good quick biographies here, here, and here. The best site, by far, is the Virtual Library of Simón Bolívar, which not only has detailed scholarly articles but a number of Bolívar's own writings. Stop by and meet el Libertador again for the first time.
posted by tdecius at 12:06 PM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment