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Saturday, January 24, 2004 |
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Dept. of Guess Who's Coming For Dinner?
Spirit has company. Let's hope it goes better than most family reunions, after all Spirit is already spouting gibberish, just like my Uncle Vern after a couple of cocktails. |
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In Death Watch for Stranger, Becoming a Friend to the End. A new program in New York trains "doulas," volunteers that befriend those fated to die in solitude. By N. R. Kleinfield. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
It's nice to know that true compassion has not faded from America. |
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McDonald's diet makes you sick as hell. Lorin sez, "Documentary maker subsists on McDonalds 'food' 3 meals per day for 30 days, gets sick as hell."
Within a few days of beginning his drive-through diet, Spurlock, 33, was vomiting out the window of his car, and doctors who examined him were shocked at how rapidly Spurlock's entire body deteriorated.
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(Thanks, Lorin!) [Boing Boing Blog] |
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Dept. of High Spirits
NASA engineers are now questioning their decision to pack a fifth of "good luck Jack Daniels" along with the inebriated rover.
On Friday afternoon, when the Spirit should have been sleeping, it sent a large burst of data, mostly gibberish, to the Mars Odyssey as it passed overhead.
It also demanded a turkey pot pie and a six of Coors Light from the satellite. Mars Odyssey refused comment, and would only shake its high-gain antenna in shame and disapproval. |
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Dept. of Because You're Worth It
Well, at least now Goths have something to be genuinely depressed about. |
Gabriel to launch musicians' union. Rock legends Peter Gabriel and Brian Eno will launch a musicians' union to help artists in the digital age. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]Hello Mudda.
What a terrible name. And the reasoning seems to be a bit fuzzy- is this a union created to protect workers from customers? It's not really clear. |
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The CIA revolt against the White House. Former intelligence official Larry C. Johnson blasts the Bush administration's "outright pattern of bullying" in a candid interview with Salon. [Salon.com]
Man, even I know you don't screw with the spooks. |
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Friday, January 23, 2004 |
Bob Keeshan, Who Played Captain Kangaroo on TV, Is Dead at 76. Bob Keeshan, who gently entertained and educated generations of children as television's walrus-mustachioed Captain Kangaroo, died Friday at 76. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]Ping Pong balls of sadness fall.
Thanks for being my TV pal when I was a wee thing. |
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Thursday, January 22, 2004 |
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Dept. of ...and now for something you'll really like Battlestar Galactica gets 6 more. Rumor has it that the Sci-Fi Network miniseries "Battlestar Galactica" will go on for six more episodes. Link, and link to previous BoingBoing post. [Boing Boing Blog]
YEAH!!!! |
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Dept. of Flying In The Face Of Hypocrisy
Click the photo to make it BiG. |
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Dept. of The Union Is In A State
"The Emperor has no clothes!"
The war-leader card was Bush's only proven winner: Keeping Americans in a state of more or less permanent fear, and more or less permanent war, had bailed out what looked until 9/11 like a presidency headed for disaster. As long as he was sending American troops off to fight evildoers somewhere, Bush -- who before the terror attacks came across as a sharp-elbowed, ill-educated frat boy whose sole mission in life was to roll over for corporate America -- suddenly morphed into a kind of combo pack of FDR and Churchill.
It should be noted that he rolled over for corporate America faster than Lassie in heat. |
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Dept, of CommunityGroove
GarageBand-using musicians can upload MP3s of their creating and GB Planet provides hosting and MP3 streaming audio. Be sure to check out the GarageBand Planet Forums.
Now go on over there and listen to my stuff- I gotta climb the charts! |
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Dept. of I Must Be Crazy To Have Prices THIS LOW!
Be like me, and wear it without fear.
Only available at: |
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Dept. of "I Still Live, Deja Thoris!"
So maybe it wasn't a thunderstorm, after all.
The vehicle has entered a fault mode and Nasa is now devising a strategy for getting back in contact with Spirit.
EEK! |
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Ladies and gentlemen, The Godfather of Vermont Soul, The Hardest Working Man in Politics: Howard Dean! Link from Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precedent: I have a scream.
WAHHHHH!!!! |
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Dept. of Rainy Days And Mondays
That's the weather on EARTH, not Mars. |
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Gay Marriage Poll Gets Annulled. The conservative American Family Association hoped an online poll would sway legislators against gay marriages, but a funny thing happened on the way to the altar. By Daniel Terdiman. [Wired News] The people have spoken and the message is clear:
As of Jan. 19, 60 percent of respondents -- more than 508,000 voters -- said, "I favor legalization of homosexual marriage." With an additional 7.89 percent -- or 66,732 voters -- replying, "I favor a 'civil union' with the full benefits of marriage except for the name," the AFA's chosen position, "I oppose legalization of homosexual marriage and 'civil unions,'" was being defeated by a 2-1 ratio. When the AFA realized that it couldn't cook the numbers into a hateful enough broth, they stewed in their own juices and backed down on their promise to take the poll's results to Congress.
Gee, conservatives not keeping a promise? Will wonders never cease? |
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Dept. of Notification Mortification
w00t!
Now I can know ASAP when the latest teenpop crapola arrives at iTunes! |
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Dept. of Laundry
"Ring THIS around your collar, infidel collaborator!" one of the masked gunmen was not heard saying.
Iraqi police and hospital officials said gunmen attacked the Iraqi women's minibus at about 1600 local time (1300 GMT) on Wednesday, as they were driven to work at the US base near the town of Habbaniay.
OK, now how many of you, when you first read the headline, thought this was going to be a story about U.S. troops killing their laundresses by accident? |
Bird flu fears hit Thai exports. Japan suspends imports of Thai poultry, as Bangkok investigates three suspected cases of bird flu in humans. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition]
You can love your chickens, just don't looove your chickens. |
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Tuesday, January 20, 2004 |
Scooter is in this shot three different times.12:46:22 AM  leave/read comments []
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Monday, January 19, 2004 |
 Which America Hating Minority Are You? Take More Robert & Tim Quizzes Watch Robert & Tim Cartoons 8:51:28 PM leave/read comments []
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David E's Fablog- MLK
Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam
Substitute "Iraq" for "Vietnam" in the speech, it's chilling. |
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Sunday, January 18, 2004 |
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Dept. of Testing
Lickit (MP3 2.4MB)
Now if I could only come up with suitably cockrockingly insipid lyrics. |
More messing around with the Adrenalinn II:|
Dept. of Hey, It Works, Don't It?
In a related story, Mussolini makes trains run on time. |
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OK, another Adrenalinn II/GarageBand experiment: The drums and guitar are recorded and the other instruments are manipulated loops. Yo. Chill, y'all.
Oh, the drum track was recorded live and then looped in GarageBand. Hella cool feature. |
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