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comment posted at 5:54 PM on Sep-18-08

Gore invented the Internet. McCain invented the Blackberry. Why politicians lie.
comment posted at 3:47 PM on Sep-16-08

Cartoon Banned by the Mormon Church (slyt)
comment posted at 9:49 AM on Sep-15-08

At a casino in Fresno, California, a poker player goes bust. Unwilling to leave the game, he reaches into his pockets for more money, and coming up empty, he seeks to gamble with the only equity he's carrying about his person. He bets the pot. (SLYT)
comment posted at 12:39 AM on Sep-14-08

She's an Ardent Democrat And boy, did she let her feelings be known through her work. Here's her website(NSFW).
comment posted at 9:52 AM on Sep-13-08

You may have heard about Google's new Chrome browser (previously). Did you know that where it really shines right now is on speed, especially with rendering JavaScript? vs Firefox, IE, Safari. vs Opera. video vs Firefox. and also vs IE, Firefox on tests other than JS handling. Not bad for being in beta, at version 0.2.
comment posted at 8:23 AM on Sep-11-08

Remember that disheartening map that cataloged the ratio of unmarried men to women per city, wherein the East coast was Single Lady Central and the West coast was a Boystown? Now there's an interactive version where you can adjust for age range, which dramatically affects the results. [VIA PROJECTS]
comment posted at 12:54 PM on Sep-10-08

Despite not being physically attracted to other people, Paul Cox, 24, explains how he and his wife found love and happiness as an asexual couple.
comment posted at 8:55 AM on Sep-9-08

The Cornell Evolution Project, which polls prominent evolutionary scientists about their religious beliefs, is part of a PhD thesis by evolutionary paleontologist and UCLA lecturer Greg Graffin. Mr. Graffin is also the lead singer of a band named Bad Religion, whose influential album Suffer turns 20 years old this week.
comment posted at 12:43 AM on Sep-7-08

(SLYTP-filter) What choreography goes best with Igor Stravinsky's "Dance of the Young Girls" from his Rite of Spring?
comment posted at 1:45 PM on Sep-6-08

Welcome to the October Surprise. The Dutch intelligence service, the AIVD, has called off an operation aimed at infiltrating and sabotaging Iran's weapons industry due to an assessment that a US attack on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program is imminent, according to a report in the country's De Telegraaf (dutch) newspaper on Friday.
comment posted at 6:10 PM on Sep-1-08

Sarah Palin's Daughter is Pregnant McCain knew before picking her, deciding that it did not disqualify the 44-year-old governor in any way.
comment posted at 9:40 AM on Sep-1-08

Do not click. This is fishing for your email address, probably for spam. It's also the first link listed in any search for Barack Obama on google. There is no opt-out link on this page, like there is, in blue letters on a blue background, tucked away in the lower right hand corner of the main page of www.barackobama.com. Compare this to the forthright and accessible, if odious and contemptable, www.johnmccain.com Are Democratic Party webmasters and spinmeisters so ignorant of web browsing habits? Or is there something else going on? It's Midnight on the east coast, and Obama's acceptance speech is nowhere to be found online, despite Gore's speech being almost instantaneously available from any number of news organs. If it show up five minutes from now, that's still hours too late to be credible. Something smells wrong. If this gets deleted, blame me rather than the admins. I'm not the tin-foil hat type, but, well, damn. I listened to Kain, Richardson, Stevie Wonder and Gore before I had to go live life for a few hours, hoping to see/hear an Obama oratory clinic laid down online later... and now, when it is later, there is none to be found online. Oh, wait, there are transcripts, that's almost as good... Forget Denmark, something smells rotten here. Pretty damn scary.
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comment posted at 9:42 PM on Aug-28-08

Our editorial slant is big tent right-of-center -- as open-minded about what we publish as The New Republic, The New Yorker or The New York Times Magazine, but on the center-right rather than the center-left. A new conservative online magazine and community, Culture11, quietly debuted on Wednesday.
comment posted at 11:32 PM on Aug-27-08

Why I had to recognise Georgia’s breakaway regions, by Dmitry Medvedev.
comment posted at 5:47 PM on Aug-27-08

Emily is considered to be one of the first animations to have overleapt a long-standing barrier known as 'uncanny valley' (watch the video) - from the team who, in part, brought you GTA4.
comment posted at 4:37 PM on Aug-19-08

"Room With A Screw: My 45-day quest to convince a craigslist scammer to write me a poem-- and how she lost her mind and tried to become my friend"
comment posted at 5:04 PM on Aug-16-08

"In a nutshell, a PT merely arranges his or her paperwork in such a way that all governments consider him a tourist. A person who is just "Passing Through". The advantage is that being thought of by government officials as a person who is merely "Parked Temporarily", a PT is not subjected to taxes, military service, lawsuits, or persecution for partaking in innocent but forbidden pursuits or pleasures."
comment posted at 8:05 AM on Aug-16-08

Rise of the rat-brained robots. [Via]
comment posted at 9:32 PM on Aug-15-08

Jerome Robert Corsi, Ph.D. has struck again. You may know him as the former Constitution Party presidential nominee, author of such gems as The Late Great U.S.A.: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada and Showdown with Nuclear Iran: Radical Islam's Messianic Mission to Destroy Israel and Cripple the United States, or perhaps as columnist for WorldNetDaily, which, two days after September 11th, opined the following nuggets in one fantastic article:

• "Muslims might not be irrational when they consider America to be akin to Satan"
• "Is New York the head of the 'Great Satan'? All that is evil in the world can be found in New York: MTV, the United Nations, the U.N. abortion programs, the Council on Foreign Relations, New Age Church of St. John the Divine, Wall Street greed, Madison Avenue manipulation and of course more confirmed AIDS cases than the rest of America combined. Let's remember the filthy sodomite gay parade last summer in New York. Let's remember all the New York politicians falling all over themselves to praise this sick spectacle."
• "And let's not forget that New Yorkers elected--by a landslide--the openly Marxist, treasonous and abortion-mongering, occultic Hillary to a Senate seat."

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comment posted at 11:24 AM on Aug-13-08

Reports are coming in of up to 150 armoured vehicles entering South Ossetia.
comment posted at 8:30 AM on Aug-8-08

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice surprised New Zealand during her visit by calling us allies, despite our long history of disagreement over certain issues. The Auckland Student Association's shameless plug for self promotion has prompted a response.
comment posted at 8:44 PM on Jul-26-08

What Bush and Batman have in common. "A cry for help goes out from a city beleaguered by violence and fear: A beam of light flashed into the night sky, the dark symbol of a bat projected onto the surface of the racing clouds . . .Oh, wait a minute. That's not a bat, actually. In fact, when you trace the outline with your finger, it looks kind of like . . . a "W."
comment posted at 7:54 AM on Jul-25-08

Bicycles are the most efficient mode of transportation; walking is a distant second, followed by crowded vans and motorcycles, with everything else being relatively equal. This may change soon. WSJ online jokingly tests a new plug-in electric bike versus a standard racing model.
comment posted at 6:11 PM on Jul-19-08

[NSFW] Birds do it. Bees do it. People do it too. And some of them are crazy enough to do it underwater.
comment posted at 9:13 AM on Jul-19-08

Scott Peterson has a blog. Laci Mom not happy.
comment posted at 7:30 AM on Jul-18-08

The Department of Homeland Security has expressed interest [PDFs] in forcing all commercial airline passengers to wear a taser bracelet that can be used to incapacitate anyone on an airline. This video, from the company that will produce the bracelets, explains how the bracelet would be put on the passenger at the point that they clear security, and would not be removed until they leave secure areas. It would take the place of boarding passes, carry personal and biometric information about the passengers, track and monitor every passenger via GPS and shock the wearer on command, immobilizing him or her for several minutes. DHS official, Paul S. Ruwaldt of the Science and Technology Directorate, office of Research and Development is also excited about the possiblility of using it as an interrogation tool at airports. Ah freedom, who knew it smelled like burning flesh?
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Lillian Ladele, a Christian registrar, has won her discrimination case after refusing to conduct same sex civil partnerships. " Islington Council cared too much about the "rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual" community, the panel ruled. "
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comment posted at 12:51 PM on Jul-11-08

As the gay marriage fight unfolds in California, some gays (and others) are fighting back: one gourp is boycotting a rich hotel owner, others are standing apart and one is suing the Bible (who gets subpoenaed for that one?). Meanwhile, a key opponent to gay marriage keeps its doors open (and its ballot committee going) despite being suspended. They say they're working on it, but no changes yet.
comment posted at 6:03 PM on Jul-10-08

What if Al Gore really had won? J. M. Kearns crafts a new, imaginative Bush conspiracy in his new short story, "The Eagle Has Landed."
comment posted at 6:08 PM on Jul-10-08

Obama votes to grant telecom companies immunity for illegal wiretapping and "refines" his stance against Iraq to consider indefinite, undefined or vaguely defined occupation. One remarks about Obama's recent move to the right with a new campaign logo. Obama denies any change in policy.
comment posted at 4:50 PM on Jul-9-08

According to Ilechukwu, an epidemic of penis theft swept Nigeria between 1975 and 1977. Then there seemed to be a lull until 1990, when the stealing resurged. “Men could be seen in the streets of Lagos holding on to their genitalia either openly or discreetly with their hand in their pockets,” Ilechukwu wrote. “Women were also seen holding on to their breasts directly or discreetly, by crossing the hands across the chest. . . . Vigilance and anticipatory aggression were thought to be good prophylaxes. This led to further breakdown of law and order.” In a typical incident, someone would suddenly yell: Thief! My genitals are gone! Then a culprit would be identified, apprehended, and, often, killed.
comment posted at 9:53 PM on Jul-8-08

Bat. shit. insane. Words fail me. This part almost makes sense, but that's about it.
comment posted at 1:01 PM on Jul-8-08

"Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was in Denver, CO, today for a town hall meeting. The event, at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, was billed as 'open to the public.' Yet Carole Kreck, a 61-year-old librarian carrying a 'McCain=Bush' sign, was taken away by police [on orders from McCain's security detail] for trespassing. A police officer told Kreck:

'You have two choices. You can keep your sign here and receive a ticket for trespassing, or you can remove the sign and stay in line and attend this town hall meeting.'

Kreck received a ticket for trespassing and her court date is July 23."^*. Video of Kreck's encounter with the police.
comment posted at 8:16 PM on Jul-7-08

While the Darwin awards look away ... cluster ballooning is taking off. More and more people are taking to the sky with a cluster of helium balloons and a lawn chair.
comment posted at 10:10 PM on Jul-5-08

How to Photograph Fireworks
comment posted at 9:50 AM on Jul-4-08

Prospect/Foreign Policy release their list of the world's top public intellectuals(full list). Number 1? The Islamic scholar Fethullah Gulen.

The rest of the top 10? The microfinancier Muhammad Yunus, the cleric Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, the writer Orhan Pamuk, the politician Aitzaz Ahsan, the evangelist Amr Khaled, the philosopher Abdolkarim Soroush, the philosopher Tariq Ramadan, the cultural theorist Mahmood Mamdani and activist Shirin Ebadi. Sense a theme? Yes, all Muslims.
This is a striking turnabout from the 2005 poll topped by Chomsky, Eco and Dawkins.
What happened? Prospect Magazine explains. The Turkish newspaper Zaman weighs in. The UK's Independent is outraged. Fethulah Gulen defends himself.
comment posted at 10:38 AM on Jul-3-08
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Bush Stimulates The Porn Industry With His Economic Package When President Bush announced his economic stimulus in January, he bragged that his package was “large enough to have an impact" and would “boost” the economy. It sure has led to “higher consumer spending”, but not where Bush had probably hoped. The adult pornography industry reports that has seen a huge uptick in business thanks to Bush’s package. According to a press release from the Adult Internet Market Research Company. A case of tax relief translating into a venti latte with full release?
comment posted at 9:21 AM on Jul-3-08
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FOX News gets a little goofy with their copy of Photoshop and caricatures two columnists. Will the NYT respond? No, Times Culture Editor Sam Sifton says, "it is fighting with a pig, everyone gets dirty and the pig likes it." (Which is actually a response in and of itself, so I presume the pig-fighting's begun.)
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Canada allows for legal abortions, thanks to Dr. Henry Morgentaler, who yesterday received the Order of Canada. He was instrumental in the fight against the abortion provision in the Criminal Code of Canada; the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that said provision was unconstitutional, as it violated a woman's right under section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to "security of person." Morgantaler served time in prison for his trouble but was eventually acquitted. That he received the Order of Canada has of course enraged anti-abortion groups, and has deeply annoyed some pundits.
comment posted at 4:52 PM on Jul-2-08