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Are Conservative Republicans Now America's Permanent Ruling Class?
comment posted at 4:45 PM on Jan-18-06
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You are the President. It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
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"Epigenetics : the lives of your grandparents – the air they breathed, the food they ate, even the things they saw – can directly affect you, decades later, despite your never experiencing these things yourself. This work is at the forefront of a paradigm shift in scientific thinking, in which the environment can impact our health for generations to come."
comment posted at 9:53 PM on Jan-17-06

Baby, I'm gonna make you happy tonight. ...yeah, turn the lights down low. Turn the lights down low. It helps me feel like I'm in a spaceship!
comment posted at 10:07 PM on Jan-16-06

The United States of Islam The glories of the New Global Caliphate are extolled on this incredible new site.
comment posted at 5:46 PM on Jan-16-06

The Internet Is For Porn is a song from the Broadway comedy Avenue Q (an adult version of Sesame Street) that I found myself humming for quite a while after watching this homemade machinima video using World of Warcraft characters. (warning first link goes to a Google Video with audio).
comment posted at 4:14 PM on Jan-14-06

Shock and gore. The people behind "the world's goriest website", why they do it, and what it says about us.
comment posted at 4:20 PM on Jan-14-06

So by 2006, tattoos and piercings are so mainstream that it's hard for a genuine bad-ass to stand out anymore. While some options still exist, for my money nothing beats embedding a set of brass knuckles directly under your skin.
comment posted at 7:03 PM on Jan-13-06
comment posted at 7:49 PM on Jan-13-06

Voters in the US state of Minnesota may find a self-proclaimed vampire on the ballot for the office this year when Jonathon "The Impaler" Sharkey of the Vampyres, Witches and Pagans Party announces his plan to run for Governor, expected later today. Acknowledging that "politics is a cut-throat business", Sharkey has let voters know that whilst he is a Satanist, he dosen't hate Jesus, "just God, the Father."
comment posted at 12:00 AM on Jan-13-06

NewsFlashFilter: Hundreds killed in Hajj stampede in what is known as the Stoning of the Devil ritual earlier today. Sadly, this type of tragedy at a Muslim hajj is quite common given the huge crowds.
comment posted at 9:10 PM on Jan-12-06

Dell to partner with AMD.
comment posted at 5:03 PM on Jan-10-06

The David Foster Wallace Bibliography (in BibTex format) is ridiculously complete. The site also includes a zip file of DFW's essays and mp3s of a round table discussion. [via]
comment posted at 9:25 PM on Jan-11-06

Flickr set of people seeing Goatse photo for the first time : I would not have so blatantly copied this link from Boing Boing but this Flickr set is just way too funny to pass up.
comment posted at 3:40 AM on Jan-11-06
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10 reasons not to accept a diamond. Something to think about if you are tieing the knot. I'm sure this list doesn't make these folks very happy - more reason to spread the word.
comment posted at 11:47 PM on Jan-9-06
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Kintaro Walks Japan A Google Video featuring an American who walks from Kyushu to Hokkaido in the hopes of learning about Japanese Culture and finding his father's birthplace. (Running time ~ 1hr)
comment posted at 11:48 PM on Jan-9-06
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comment posted at 3:52 AM on Jan-11-06

pwned! Old lady vs. man in a Mercedes. (Google video)
comment posted at 11:50 PM on Jan-9-06

Quake done Chopped. Courtesy of Speed Demos Archive. From those obsessive FPSers at Quake done Quick, this is a complete runthrough of the original Quake 7 years in the making, dispatching all enemies but zombies with only the axe. If you have Quake you can get the demo files here, otherwise you'll have to download the huge .avi from archive.org (main link). If you're interested in other QdQ movies - or simply shorter ones, may I recommend QdQ With a Vengeance (12:23 on Nightmare, avi here) as a fantastic introduction, Scourge Done Slick (an expansion, considered the best - avi here) or find others at Machinima.com.
comment posted at 5:49 PM on Jan-7-06

Intoducing: Google Music. (Links go to examples. Two more. )
comment posted at 5:46 AM on Jan-6-06

Jon Stewart to host 2006 Academy Awards. "As a performer, I'm truly honored to be hosting the show,' Stewart says. "As an avid watcher of the Oscars, I can't help but be a little disappointed with the choice.'
comment posted at 6:36 PM on Jan-5-06

The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own
comment posted at 3:50 PM on Jan-5-06

“I Have The Feeling About 60% Of What You Say Is Crap.” David Letterman, the usually apolitical host who's generally much more concerned with making his guests look good, loses it when guest Bill O'Reilly takes Cindy Sheehan to task on his show. You may remember O'Reilly having a similarly awkward encounter with Jon Stewart earlier this year.
comment posted at 5:23 PM on Jan-4-06
comment posted at 6:17 AM on Jan-5-06

ExtraTasty, Please Hope Me! I'm throwing a party, but I've little more than vodka, a marshmallow and some cocoa. No problem! The idea is simple enough. Search by tags, by beverages or just enter the current contents of your bar to discover user-submitted combinations and cocktails. The offerings are a little paltry right now (only three entries for vermouth?), but I'm confident that further exposure to the right crowd will result in a massive alcoholic corpus not seen since the Potent Potables section of The Library At Alexandria fell into ruin. (A new idea from the people who brought you Threadless T-shirts.)
comment posted at 12:26 AM on Jan-5-06

Microsoft takes down chinese language blog critical of Beijing This was on the global (.com) site not a .cn site. Meaning this policy affects all Chinese speakers all over the world, including in the US. Interestingly, the pressure seems to have been commercial, as a commercial Chinese blogging company took Microsoft to task for allowing the commentary. Is globalization exporting censorship?
comment posted at 6:45 PM on Jan-3-06
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comment posted at 10:43 PM on Jan-3-06

Patch Windows now. The Windows Metafile exploits are beginning to look like one of the worst-ever Windows malware epidemics. It is a true drive-by exploit - infection with a whole raft of insidious malware just by looking at a web page with IE, or reading an email or IM with an image (depending on the program you use). It will really explode tomorrow when all the business PCs go back online, because as of now there is no good prevention with firewalls, anti-virus or IDS. The SANS Internet Storm Center handlers have been the most up to date source of information (first link above). The DSL Reports thread has good signal-to-noise. Insight and advice actually comes close to outweighing the usual microsoft-bashing in the latest /. thread on it. But Ilfak Guilfanov has outdone everyone with an unofficial patch (source included - admire the code - he is expertly patching a closed-source binary).
comment posted at 10:39 PM on Jan-1-06
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Hello, my name is Kentucky Friedcruelty.com.
comment posted at 6:56 AM on Dec-31-05

Chemistry Comes Alive has sample videos of chemistry experiments, some violent and some not.
comment posted at 9:27 PM on Dec-30-05

A Disturbance in the Blogosphere: Publishing the UK/US/Uzbekistan Torture Memo. Braving arrest, bloggers have broken the UK’s law of silence with the truth about torture. Bloggers are mass publishing the leaked UK/US/Uzbekistan Torture Memos. The memos are from the correspondences of Craig Murray who was the United Kingdom's ambassador to Uzbekistan. These memos are evidence and a memorandum of record outlining the rendition and torture of US-arrested prisoners in Uzbekistan. From Craig Murray's Memo: 12. On the usefulness of the material obtained, this is irrelevant. Article 2 of the [UN] Convention, to which we are a party, could not be plainer: "No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture." 13. Nonetheless, I repeat that this material is useless – we are selling our souls for dross. It is in fact positively harmful.
comment posted at 4:23 AM on Dec-30-05
comment posted at 6:16 AM on Dec-30-05

"Hi, Mom? Hi, I'm just calling to say I'm on my way to Baghdad." In which a Floridian teen decides he wants to see what's going on in Iraq. So he, you know, goes. "It was mid-afternoon Tuesday, after his second night in Baghdad, that he sought out editors at The Associated Press and announced he was in Iraq to do research and humanitarian work. AP staffers had never seen an unaccompanied teenage American walk into their war zone office. ("I would have been less surprised if little green men had walked in," said editor Patrick Quinn.)"
comment posted at 5:38 PM on Dec-29-05

The Kids are Alright, Dammit. Reason's Nick Gillespie weighs-in on the 2005 Modern Language Association annual convention. "...faced with a choice between a sort of bitter righteousness and increasing irrelevance on the one hand and engaging students with more fair-minded argumentation and open-ended discussion, some academics are choosing the latter. That's certainly good news for kids stuck in freshman composition classes, those dreary required classes which are often little more than clumsy attempts at political indoctrination."
comment posted at 8:12 PM on Dec-28-05

Secret Tutorials Internet is the mother of all invents. This site compiles some of the most peculiar, useful, wonderful, stupid and useless tutorials. Tons of creativity.
comment posted at 5:13 AM on Dec-28-05

Won'tcha do us all a favor and start ripping those CDs at a higher quality if you're going to share. Thanks.
comment posted at 1:15 AM on Dec-28-05
comment posted at 8:03 PM on Dec-28-05

Bored dork with truck, goofing around. Hilarity ensues. I know I shouldn't laugh, but after watching this over and over again, I still can't stop snickering. [jackass-style google video called "redneck surfing", 16 seconds long via Jalopnik]
comment posted at 3:05 AM on Dec-28-05

Psychiatry: an Industry of Death. That's the name of Hollywood's newest museum, kicked off in style by Lisa Marie Presley, Priscilla Presley, Giovanni Ribisi, Jenna Elfman and other celebs. It's sponsored by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a "psychiatric watchdog group" sponsored by guess who.
comment posted at 11:54 PM on Dec-27-05

Online Community Vonity seems to be a new kind of online community which allows members to have their own homepage, post photos, send voice messages and call friends or family over the computer. Members can also call other members for information since everybody is an expert in some area. Also, members can get paid for giving information at their own leisure.
comment posted at 4:17 PM on Dec-27-05

The Agency That Could Be Big Brother [when this guy talks about NSA, he is authoritative] "DEEP in a remote, fog-layered hollow near Sugar Grove, W.Va., hidden by fortress-like mountains, sits the country's largest eavesdropping bug. Located in a "radio quiet" zone, the station's large parabolic dishes secretly and silently sweep in millions of private telephone calls and e-mail messages an hour"...
comment posted at 10:12 PM on Dec-26-05

AllMusic.com's "Tapestry" playlist generator/recommendation doohickey has a demo that is open to the public. Through this page you can generate playlists based on similar songs, or by building a series of Styles, Tones, and Themes to get a specific list of music you want to check out. I really hope someone like iTunes can integrate this info so that I can hit one button on my iPod and generate intelligent playlists on the fly.
comment posted at 10:21 PM on Dec-25-05