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What the....? Where's the punchline? I don't get it. Why, that's just plain disgusting! I can't *even* believe my eyes. Channeling the spirit of B1FF in the early morning. o<
posted by Settle at 11:46 PM PST - 49 comments

Oriana Fallaci of Milan's "Corriere della Sera" wants people to stop denying that European anti-Semitism doesn't exist. Will other European journalists follow suit?
posted by Stumpy McGee at 9:58 PM PST - 36 comments

Salute to 4:20 as it ends here in Atlanta! Viva the Gothic Trailer Park! Enjoy!
posted by oh posey at 8:58 PM PST - 4 comments

As late as July 4, the US State Department described Malaysia's Internal Security Act, which allows for indefinite detention without trial as preventing people from "exercising internationally recognised rights of free speech, political expression and assembly" and therefore (more diplomatically-speaking) a cause for concern. Yet when it was recently used to detain those connected to terrorism, Bush decides to invite the Prime Minister of Malaysia to thank him for a 'stirring response' in combating terrorism. Eh?
posted by timyang at 8:18 PM PST - 4 comments

As another April 20th leaves us behind, try not to remember it for Hitler's birthday and all the screwed up events it's inspired. Instead, remember it as the day President Jimmy Carter was almost viciously mauled by a bloodthirsty Swamp Rabbit.
posted by alana at 7:46 PM PST - 6 comments

THESE PAGES ARE EMBARGOED UNTIL REAGAN'S DEATH. Like looking into the future, Scripps Howard News Service has produced a 12 page newspaper insert that serves as a touching tribute to Ronald Reagan. Promise not to read any of it until he's really dead, okay?
posted by mathowie at 5:07 PM PST - 45 comments

Update on earlier thread where two men were arrested for handing out anti-Mormon literature in a Salt Lake City plaza.
posted by aaronshaf at 2:27 PM PST - 8 comments

I found this poem by Ani Difranco re September 11 at Backwash. It hits the spot for me.
posted by Fat Buddha at 2:17 PM PST - 42 comments

The iToilet. Oh, it's not like you weren't expecting it. I'm surprised it took this long, actually.
posted by Su at 2:09 PM PST - 15 comments

The Name-O-Meter: How's Your Name Been Doing Since 1900? How does it rank in the Top 1000? Is its popularity waning or increasing? Disappointed either way? Look up what your name means to help find out why.[From Parenting.com, via top-ranking Nutcote. More Inside.]
posted by MiguelCardoso at 2:05 PM PST - 40 comments

Alice in Chains' lead singer dead at 34. Apparently he died several days ago and was just discovered last night. Identity was confirmed today. No cause of death is known yet.
posted by monkey-mind at 1:58 PM PST - 10 comments

Quake hits northeastern US and Canada
The Irish Times reports that an earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale rocked southern Quebec and Ontario today, as well as parts of the northeastern United States. Did any MeFi'ers feel it?
posted by tomcosgrave at 11:28 AM PST - 23 comments

Remember Lobster Boy? Looks like his performance art / engineering project met a sadly premature end when his house was dismantled for being a fire hazard. Now we may never know what the point was -- or if there was ever a point at all.
posted by brownpau at 11:16 AM PST - 3 comments

Social engineering! Gender labelling! Corporate self-aggrandizement! It's all here in a nice variety of formats on the Internet Moving Images Archive. 'Educational' films spanning several decades in all of their cheezy glory. Now, if only I could find 'Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land.'
posted by umberto at 10:53 AM PST - 5 comments

incriminati
oh no! my parents are coming over. help me to hide the incrimination stuff by dragging and dropping it into the right places.

thanks to jim for the link.
posted by bwg at 9:29 AM PST - 10 comments

Sheriff's Deputy turned TV Bailiff Rusty Burrell has died. I had no idea he was involved in the Charles Manson & Patty Hearst trials.
posted by Argyle at 9:04 AM PST - 7 comments

The Agitator prepares for a big day today. "My first anarcho-enviromentalist-anticapitalist protest. I sprang awake at 6:30am." Per Google, this is only the second thread in which an agitator has appeared.
posted by sheauga at 6:40 AM PST - 16 comments

Darts. Highly addictive. The first to reach zero wins, but for the last point, the dart must land in a double points zone. (Flash required)
posted by riffola at 5:58 AM PST - 14 comments

K10k.net has relaunched. That is all.
posted by Down10 at 2:07 AM PST - 60 comments

Say it ain't so - heard this on the radio. I heard a brief thing on the radio that said a body found in Seattle's University District might be Alice In Chains singer Layne Staley. Down in a hole - forever?
posted by Lynsey at 12:28 AM PST - 26 comments