Tuesday, December 16, 2003


Dept. of Not Feeling Yourself

A picture named drugsaddam.jpg Saddam must have been drugged before capture, says daughter Saddam Hussain must have been drugged before he was captured by US forces, the ousted dictator's eldest daughter, Raghad, told Al Arabiya TV yesterday. [Gulf News]

Now, does that look like a man on drugs?

No way. A crazy-ass wino, sure! That homeless guy who pees on your neighbor's mums, hell yeah! But on DRUGS?

"How do you believe they can capture him if they didn't drug him? I don't doubt it, I'm sure that they couldn't (have captured him otherwise)," she said, speaking by telephone from Jordan, where she was granted asylum after the US-led war to oust Saddam.

"Saddam Hussain is still my father. Every honourable person, and every person who knows him or knew him ... knows that the person on the television was a drugged Saddam Hussain," she said.

Well, yeah. He does.

Shoot, if I was living in a hole, hiding from U.S. Special Forces, I'd sure as hell be doing some drugs. POWERFUL drugs. None of that Robotripping crap, like those kids in Korea. Nope. I'd go for the good stuff.

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Dept. of Tourism, High

A picture named spacefleet.jpg Report: Space Adventures sells two seats on future Soyuz missions. Space tourism company Space Adventures has sold seats on two future Soyuz flights to the... [spacetoday.net]

Well, SOMEONE'S going to get a ride into space.

The report, which quoted Space Adventures CEO Eric Anderson, said that two unidentified Americans have agreed to spend $20 million each for the flights. One of the tourists will fly on a mission in the third quarter of 2004, while the other will fly sometime in 2005. ird quarter of 2004, while the other will fly sometime in 2005. No details about the tourists were provided other than that one of them is a 38-year-old male Manhattan real estate developer.

Bastard.

And here I am, still waiting for my frickin' jetpack.

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Dept. of I Did It For Daddy

Saddam should die, says Bush. President Bush calls for Saddam Hussein to face the death penalty. [Guardian Unlimited]

George Dubya Boosh finds yet another way to piss off our allies and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, by insisting on death for the man who tried to kill his daddy.

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Dept. of Siege Engines

Oh hell. I want one.

Either that, or I'd like Adam to teach me to make a crossbow.

Wrist-mounted catapault watch. The Catapault Watch fires BBs and similar projectiles from your wrist. Link (Thanks, Samari Chop!)
[Boing Boing Blog]


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Dept. of Home Improvement

A picture named surrealhouse.jpg Victorian Queen When Linda Blacketer bought her 1865 Victorian, she knew it needed TLC. "Fixer" didn't even begin to describe it. The previous owner was a reclusive S&M practitioner who sold off bits of the house to pay the mortgage. [SF Gate]

And you thought your house was a nightmare!

Talk about triumph over adversity.

The former owner, an eccentric single white man who had lived there in semiseclusion for 10 years, didn't help sell the place. To pay the mortgage, he'd sold off pieces of the house -- doorknobs, faucets, fireplace bricks -- at local flea markets. He'd placed cheap wooden lattice over all the windows as a nearly useless security measure and lived with a single toilet and no shower or bath -- and, as an S/M practitioner, he had left various hooks and accoutrements in the ceiling of his bedroom.

To top it off, all the restoration was done over 25 years on a nurse's salary.

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Dept. of Small Wonders

A picture named jupiterday.jpg Space Weather clues us in to a daytime planet spotting:

DAYTIME JUPITER: Jupiter is bright enough to see in broad daylight--if you know where to look. Today you can find it using the moon as a "landmark." The quarter moon and Jupiter are only a few degrees apart. Scan around the moon with a pair of binoculars, and you might be surprised to see Jupiter pop out of the bright blue background.

Remember folks, you're looking at the MOON, not the SUN.

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