Tuesday, November 28, 2006
In Class Warfare, Guess Which Class Is Winning - New York Times Ben Stein interviews Warren Buffet about fiscal policy.
“There’s class warfare, all right,” Mr. Buffett said, “but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Diary of a turkey killer - Derrick pointed me to this moving account of getting closer to your food by raising it and taking its life yourself. I thought it was rather-thought provoking.
Monday, November 20, 2006
Wikipedia Brown and the Case of the Captured Koala [via]
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Study shows increased access to pornography is associated with a decrease in instances of rape
Thursday, November 16, 2006
OJ is writing a book about how he “hypothetically” might have murdered a couple of people - It’s called If I Did It, Here’s How It Happened. I’m not normally one for moral outrage, but does this strike anyone else as kind of disgusting?
Thursday, November 16, 2006
The Church of the Non-Believers - Interesting article in Wired about “The New Atheism”. Starring Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennet, and more!
Dawkins looks forward to the day when the first US politician is honest about being an atheist. . . “Not a single member of either house of Congress admits to being an atheist. It [...]
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Pitchfork: Stop Reading Us - Pitchfork writer calls the end of rock criticism, and likes it.
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Eyeglasses Stores are for Suckers - apparently, I’ve been a sucker for 20 years.
Friday, November 10, 2006
“Office Space” As Slasher Flick
- There are a lot of recut trailers out there (The Shining being one of my other favorites). This is a pretty good one.
Thursday, November 9, 2006
Percentage of Chart Which Resembles Pac-Man
Thursday, November 9, 2006
Shoots, Kills, Seasons
Season Shot is made of tightly packed seasoning bound by a fully biodegradable food product. The seasoning is actually injected into the bird on impact seasoning the meat from the inside out. When the bird is cooked the seasoning pellets melt into the meat spreading the flavor to the entire bird. Forget worrying [...]
Thursday, November 9, 2006
Colbert Calls it Quits - HIGH-larious
Tomorrow you’re all going to wake up in a brave new world. A world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones, created in a stem cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags!
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Rock this.
Originally uploaded by bigphil.
You still have a little time before the polls close, at least in California.
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
The Erotic Wine-Tasting Club - Achewood oscillates between strange and hilarious for me. This strip happens to be both. I may have to steal this technique for future wine tastings.
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
How Open Source Projects Select Features
Just remember, every time a Gaim user sends someone a file by dragging it into a conversation window, it’s because I lost my wallet.
Interview with EFF’s Fred von Lohmann on YouTube, Copyright, Google, and More - not exactly cutting edge right now, but there’s an interesting suggestion that one of the motivations for buying Youtube might have been to establish legal precedent favorable to Google. Nifty idea.