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Posted Sep 18, 2008

it really seems like the population is now helpless. most of us have to admit that we did not complain during the joy ride. but if we knew (understood?) the consequences, maybe we would have asked to pull over before hurtling over the cliff.
in Bailout Fails to Stem Global Stock Slump

Posted Sep 16, 2008

ummmm...there are some, ah...overloaded signs there.
in Geek Gang Signs

Posted Sep 15, 2008

"What individual investors should not do right now is panic." Hmmm, comforting, I am sure.
in Investor accounts safe at Lehman, Merrill, regulators assure

Posted Sep 10, 2008

wow, they must really dislike the bulgarians. even as 10-year olds, we wouldn't run up the score like that.
in Slovakia's women's ice hockey pummels Bulgaria 82-0

Posted Aug 30, 2008

GILF is more accurate. Otherwise a better term might be PRNVPILF as she is still just the presumptive republican nominee for vice president. I forget what the ILF stands for...Latin or something.
in Sarah Palin, Alaska's GILF - CafePress

Posted Aug 28, 2008

Very cool. Doesn't show the dog stinkhorn that grew in my yard, but I get the idea!
in Fungal Time Lapses

Posted Aug 27, 2008

that, by the way, by Kurt Vonnegut from In These Times
in Libraries

Posted Aug 19, 2008

i wish him a speedy and complete recovery so i can watch it again and laugh. i have just been a little luckier for all the times i have done mind numbingly stupid things---both not to get seriously hurt and not to be on video.
in Kite Surfing Tropical Storm Fay

Posted Aug 19, 2008

"p.s. If this slips into the hands of the media, I will promise to continue federal faith-based giving programs when I am President."
in Obama '08

Posted Aug 19, 2008

Thankfully, the authenticity of the beer buzz manages to survive.
in BEER

Posted Aug 13, 2008

that quote from his girlfriend, moss girl, was really inappropriate.
in The unbelievable 'Tree Man' and his bark-like skin. He is being treated and getting better!! Amazing!

Posted Aug 13, 2008

the shame runs deep, but it runs superficial too
in Cheeky George Bush works up a sweat getting to know the women's volleyball team

Posted Jul 31, 2008

If i am reading that correctly, California is about to fall into the sea.
in Map of Misery

Posted Jul 31, 2008

Baking soda in bath (no soap), as much time as possible not wearing a diaper (messes may happen), Burt's Bees or the like with a clean diaper until rash is gone and a little Calendula oil to keep it away.

in What's the best diaper rash cream if you have reeeeeaaally bad diaper rash?

Posted Jul 24, 2008

"Shed your ignorance" "No snake-oil" "Paper of the common serpent"
in Valley News newspaper misspells name on front page

Posted Jul 23, 2008

that's like ted williams hitting .400! luckily they won't need to cryo-freeze this guy's head, it is well pickled already.
in RI cops arrest man with .491 blood alcohol level

Posted Jul 11, 2008

and i've been sitting in the same one all week! bummer.
in Man breaks record by sitting in 39,250 seats

Posted Jul 10, 2008

next to shovels and crowbars?
in Wisconsin law bans sex with dead bodies

Posted Jul 10, 2008

but it says it right there on the internet!
in Teenager finds baby bat in her bra

Posted Jul 10, 2008

I mean, "billions of euros", that's like a gazillion dollars!
in Spying on the World's Largest Power Utility

Posted Jul 08, 2008

with all due respect to vonnegut, i do like the semicolon. let's give kv (who is in heaven now) the benefit of the doubt and assume that his mind was hobbled by age when he said that "hermaphrodite transvestites" serve no purpose.
in Has modern life killed the semicolon? - By Paul Collins - Slate Magazine

Posted Jul 08, 2008

i am solving a constraint program to minimize the number of compilation albums needed to cover with no overlap the years in question. still running.
in Geeky list time: Pick an album for every year you've been alive | The A.V. Club

Posted Jul 07, 2008

it has been a slippery slope since then
in Happy 80 year anniversary to the greatest invention: Sliced Bread.

Posted Jun 30, 2008

saves time walking to the restroom at the office too. i just empty it at the end of the month. also, since i started using it, i am seldom interrupted by visitors.
in The Brown Corporation

Posted Jun 27, 2008

the really bad news is everybody else can live forever too
in Aubrey de Grey: Why we age and how we can avoid it

Posted Jun 27, 2008

i predict that 0% are killed in 92 countries. i can't speak to the barbaric others.
in Artificial brain predicts death-row executions

Posted Jun 26, 2008

Of course, if you are frugal, you can save money by regurgitating it yourself.
in Weasel Coffee

Posted Jun 26, 2008

from my own backyard: Yikes!
in phallic fungus--i'm going completely off men

Posted Jun 16, 2008

fantastic! what a c...razy motha...er's son.
in Why isn't the media reporting the fact that John McCain called his wife the c-word?

Posted Jun 16, 2008

By the way, happy Todd Appreciation Day.
in What's the best thing to do for Dad on Father's Day?

Posted Jun 12, 2008

when i look at that photo, i hear a little, "bloop", from my sound-effects homunculus.
in Human Ovulation Caught on Camera

Posted Jun 11, 2008

todd: even with a lot if air travel?
in Compute your carbon footprint

Posted Jun 09, 2008

Particularly along with Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming, by Van Roy and Haridi.
in Tutorial of Oz

Posted Jun 07, 2008

That is one of the best sports fight photos I have ever seen. It is almost cartoonish.
in Rays Pound Coco Crisp

Posted Jun 05, 2008

those bacon strips are totally real, too. definitely.
in Asylum Gives Props to Rev3 Giving a Shout-Out to Asylum's Collection of Bacon Pictures

Posted Jun 02, 2008

I think he used to many elitist math terms. McCain 08!
in President James Garfield's Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem

Posted May 21, 2008

But country music fans prefer to stand by their man ...or woman.
Just 1.5 per cent of them had more than one sex partner in the five years.

... and 2.5% had any at all!

in Classical music fans smoke the most dope

Posted May 21, 2008

Here Come the ABCs. "Go, go, go, go for G!"
in They Might Be Giants in Time Magazine

Posted May 21, 2008

I think it is really sad how marijuana is starting to creep in to the rock and roll scene. Even sinking its claws into a genius like David Bowie. One has to wonder, can the genre survive?
in David Bowie Mugshot

Posted May 20, 2008

"The bookstore will be carrying extra smut in the days leading up to the outage. Please plan ahead."
in Internet Downtime Scheduled

Posted May 15, 2008

I don't know but this is great:

"When we started this process, my opponent was 70 years old. Right now, in the middle of these primaries, he's 71 years old. By the time we meet in September to choose our nominee, he'll be 72.

"There's a pattern emerging here."

in Huckabee reenters the race?!?!

Posted May 06, 2008

i am going to wait week and buy a $500 bill with it.
in Crazy ways people are spending their stimulus checks

Posted May 01, 2008

morning breath!
in May Day Contest: Caption This Photo

Posted Apr 30, 2008

one evolutionary advantage to wearing shoes might be avoiding tetanus. but now that i've had my shot, i'm a barefootin' with impunity.
in How We're Wrecking Our Feet With Every Step We Take

Posted Apr 30, 2008

mccain looks like that alien who puts on the dead body in 'men in black'. definitely a winner.
in President McCain

Posted Apr 29, 2008

todd: i think the technique they used with the dog is called, "raw meat"
in Pointalism or Photoism

Posted Apr 26, 2008

Whatever else, that is an endearing photo.
in Ballmer: You want XP, we'll keep XP

Posted Apr 26, 2008

thanks for the help
in Menstrual blood - a valuable source of multipotential stem cells?

Posted Apr 24, 2008

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan has a lovely chapter about tulips and the Dutch tulip craze.
in Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1 - The Richter Scales

Posted Apr 24, 2008

"Reviewer harshes book's buzz."
in It's Just a Plant

Posted Apr 18, 2008

good enough for me
in Robert Reich's Blog

Posted Apr 11, 2008

"pipe tobacco" and "urine" are conspicuously absent. drink up!
in Beer Flavor Wheel

Posted Apr 02, 2008

i once arm wrestled a guy with no torso. i won easily.
in Dustin Carter

Posted Mar 25, 2008

The idea of hiking in those conditions in the dark for that long is nightmarish. Good for them, though. I guess.
in Russian team first to reach the North Pole in Winter

Posted Mar 17, 2008

There are many days when the role of a zombie would not be a stretch for me at all.
in how many restaurants serve brains, anyway?

Posted Mar 12, 2008

Ah yes, the ancient question: "Who would you rather spark up with, Ginger or Mary Ann?"
in "Gilligan, I baked you some brownies"

Posted Mar 11, 2008

Miles Kington++
Very funny stuff.
in 40 thousand coat hangers

Posted Mar 11, 2008

It *is* a very biblical approach, recommended by science textbooks in a number of States.
in Jellyfish in the Chesapeake

Posted Mar 11, 2008

Whoa. I don't know if that is funny or creepy. In any case, it doesn't fit my laptop.
in French Maid Skirt PC Case is Otaku Heaven

Posted Mar 10, 2008

as is that hour of sleep i lost sunday morning.
in Ben Franklin's Satirical Call for "Daylight Saving" in 1784

Posted Mar 10, 2008

agreed, he should have left the hookers and their johns alone. hoisted with his own petard, i guess.
in Spitzer Is Linked to Prostitution Ring

Posted Mar 10, 2008

I like it---useful and it affords a touch of Semitic aesthetic to a typography.
in Interrocolon: candidate for a new punctuation mark

Posted Mar 09, 2008

From a visionary, this could be really cool. (Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_babel.)
in The future architecture of libraries

Posted Mar 09, 2008

That is pretty damn funny. Just the effort for something so very, very silly.
in FUH2 | F*ck You And Your H2

Posted Mar 06, 2008

It should be noted that Brett Favre was a *great* quarterback.
in Failed His Final Saving Throw

Posted Mar 06, 2008

yeah, i walked into a lamppost once. i think i was twelve---just walking along with 2 friends and staring at my feet. they did not even notice, which was a great relief at the time.

anyway, just look at me; i'm fine! and i have avoided all subsequent lampposts.
in Padded lampposts for distracted texters being tested in London

Posted Mar 05, 2008

In the interest of full disclosure, the hamantashen baked by that cookie's supporters were delectable.
in Hotka for the Latke

Posted Feb 29, 2008

smckenzie23: right on. let's get us some fatback.

signed,
former-vegetarian-but-religion-drove-me-to-it
in Bacon makes everything better

Posted Feb 29, 2008

"Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfucker. "
--Jules (Pulp Fiction)
in How The Muskrat Became A Fish

Posted Feb 29, 2008

So "Bush hate" is a gateway hate to worse crimes? I am not sure I follow.
in The Passion of the Obama @ AMERICAN DIGEST

Posted Feb 28, 2008

As I was reading the quote I was thinking, "worst? really?" and then came to your comment.

In any case, when will people realize that technology is a bad for everyone. Never mind EZpass, email or cell phones; If there were no cars, and no TV, spouses might just stick with fooling around with each other.
in More adultery discovered by EZpass; inappropriate use of data?

Posted Feb 28, 2008

Frighteningly resonant.
in garfield minus garfield

Posted Feb 28, 2008

A step in the right direction to address this problem. And you don't have to be a whale to be annoyed. You almost cannot walk down the street without seeing a damn plastic bag flapping in a tree branch.
in Banish the bags: 2lbs of Plastic Bags in Whale's Stomach

Posted Feb 27, 2008

Well, I would rather he does not win, and this makes the case that he will not. But if he does, it makes the case that it won't be so awful.
in Top Ten Reasons John McCain Should Not Become President

Posted Feb 27, 2008

Stephen Colbert is a genius.
in McCain Limerick

Posted Feb 27, 2008

This seems so unsurprising.
in Soft Drink Sweetener Linked to Diabetes in Kids

Posted Feb 27, 2008

Funny source for political news, not that there's anything wrong with that...
in Former rival Chris Dodd endorses Obama

Posted Feb 26, 2008

(that, of course, in homage to Airplane!.)
in Bush-McCain McCaption Contest

Posted Feb 26, 2008

I love the denouement starting on slide 36.
in How Subprime (doesn't) Work - A Google Docs Presentation

Posted Feb 25, 2008

Sorry, buddy, I have a patent on 1+2+3 as described above except where you say "insane" I say "wacky". Be prepared to pay over!
in Apple, Starbucks sued over iTunes promotion cards

Posted Feb 24, 2008

Joking about Voldemort is one thing, but fooling with He-who-can't-be-named is not a good idea.
in Cheney Voldemort '08

Posted Feb 23, 2008

I love that. Almost inspirational. Actually, no--it is inspirational. Live or just die.
in Learning to Smoke

Posted Feb 21, 2008

an suv is like that tentacle thing in spiderman 2. makes you nuts.
in Car Talk: It may be best to unload SUV that brings out your inner beast

Posted Feb 21, 2008

Finally gets a chance to make use of evening Latin classes!
in And that name, Coco, what is the origin?

Posted Feb 21, 2008

It is a good thing. Fill the mouth of the beast with enough chewy idealists and eventually it will [please finish this metaphor.]
in Lawrence Lessig to change politics as usual (or not)

Posted Feb 21, 2008

And at 11:07EST in Western MA, the moon looked eerily like Evil Chuck!
in Where did the moon go?

Posted Feb 21, 2008

Not so much the "watching other people climb them" but, yeah, the other stuff a lot.
in Mountains!

Posted Feb 20, 2008

Ellsbury!
in Decision 2008: Jacoby Ellsbury vs. Coco Crisp

Posted Feb 20, 2008

Just when you get excited about testing your twisted app, you read, "who's up for making an async version to work with Twisted?" Nuts.
in Automate/Test web sites with Zope's testbrowser

Posted Feb 20, 2008

Unless they live in Hawaii.
in Obama and McCain score big wins in Wisconsin

Posted Feb 20, 2008

Cocaine for kids.
in PIXIE STICKS ARE AWESOME!

Posted Feb 19, 2008

I feel no particular animosity toward the woman--maybe toward her political duplicity---but this picture is damn funny.
in Just a Little Closer

Posted Feb 19, 2008

Good thing he wasn't drunk in Singapore.
in Briton Dishonors Latvia; Is Prison Too Good?

Posted Feb 19, 2008

thejuice: right there with you and add Vinatieri's snow-bowl kicks (and Superbowl winner) and Flutie's hail mary!
in Will Schilling pitch this year and if so will he be a factor?

Posted Feb 19, 2008

(continued) the slaugherhouse, you'll never be the same.)
in What a day to be a vegetarian!

Posted Feb 18, 2008

todd: drink more *then* look in the mirror.
in Craft Beer

Posted Feb 18, 2008

Yeah, but i do like the symmetry with append. I predict it will end up in the OED.
in "Prepend"

Posted Feb 18, 2008

Hillary tries that, she looks like she washed down 15 no-doze with espresso; McCain just ends up looking insane.
in Clinton, Obama prepare for battle in Wisconsin (Reuters)

Posted Feb 18, 2008

Ludicrous, when you try to square with "one person, one vote". With voting machines, super delegates, and the Supreme Court, what is the true value of 1 vote anyway?
in Obama surge stuns Democrats

Posted Feb 16, 2008

cthier: are you nuts? (wait, relax, and meet me at oscon!)
in PyCon

Posted Feb 14, 2008

Our anniversary is in just a few days, so i get out of Valentine's day completely! Well, except for my mom, of course.
in Fall in love with Babbledog!

Posted Feb 13, 2008

Hey, I know of this bar...
in Looking for midgets (little people)

Posted Feb 08, 2008

But maybe it should be.
in Java ME Is Not Dead, Says Gosling

Posted Feb 04, 2008

this is why sports are so captivating and compelling. if you are a sports fan in general and not just a pats fan, you can take comfort in that the giants were the better team.
in Super Bowl XLII Patriots Vs. Giants Phoenix, AZ 2/3/2008

Posted Jan 29, 2008

You won't need to pump---it will find the path of least resistance and fill those holes all by itself.
in Crazy idea for stopping rise of sea levels: pump water inland, bury it in dead aquifers

Posted Jan 22, 2008

do you think all this panic has anything to do with tom brady in a walking cast?
in LIVE MARKET DISCUSSION: Tuesday, January 22

Posted Jan 21, 2008

reminds me of the only redeeming element of shrek 2, the puss in boots character.
in Big Sad Eyes

Posted Jan 21, 2008

Plus, doesn't a piece of your soul fly out when you sneeze? Gross---I do not want *that* back!
in Health Tip: What's Involved in a Sneeze

Posted Jan 17, 2008

It is too bad the notions of local and neighbor don't really have a place in this kind of "community".
in Lessons on Building a Community from Etsy

Posted Jan 16, 2008

Those legs look delicious!
in You too can have your very own knitted frog disection!

Posted by David S.

1 Response Undecided...WTF?

I love listening to David Sedaris read his essays. This one is, like most of his, fantastic with or without the voice.

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Posted Oct 22, 2008

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