When I was a kid, we’d head south once a year from North Carolina to Palatka, Florida, to visit my dad’s side of the family. I remember the long stretches of flatland in South Carolina, avoiding Atlanta as much as possible, and even longer stretches of swamp and scrub pine forest once you got close to Florida. But what I remember the most is that you could tell where you were once you got down there from the smells. ...
Actually, I would love to have a space elevator in my backyard. Guess these folks wouldn’t. :) Courtesy of Boing Boing
Backstreet Boys + Matchbox Twenty + Goo Goo Dolls + Train There are some equations that should never be solved. I’m going to put this in the Music category, even though it pains me. Courtesy of Best Week Ever
Apparently there’s some controversy about University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill speaking at a college in New York because he wrote an essay back in 2001 calling the September 11 victims in the World Trade Center “little Eichmanns,” among other insults. Good. The only reason it didn’t happen earlier is because folks were a bit too shocked at the time to notice one more in a series of ignorant essays, but it looks like, paraphrasing what Mr. Churchill says, that the chickens do come home to roost. ...
I was reading alexking.org and ran across this meme: Go to bloglines (dont think you need to have an account). Find your own blog on bloglines (if its not there you can sign up and add it I guess, if you dont have a blog this ones not for you). Click related feeds (each time you click they may change slightly). Post the top 5 (or more) on your blog. Here are mine: ...
Excerpt from “Play-by-Play of Classic Sports Rivalries If the Team Names Actually Represented the Combatants. And Also, Instead of Playing the Sport, They’re Fighting to the Death” Giants vs. Dodgers “It’s a classic David vs. Goliath matchup as an old-fashioned trolley-dodger from turn-of-the-century Brooklyn takes on—this match is over!” Browns vs. Steelers “Now what are we looking at here?” “I couldn’t tell you.” Check out more McSweeney’s Lists.
From 1901, when everyone carried a cane or umbrella — for defensive purposes only, of course — a Pearson’s Magazine article on stick-fighting moves for the well-dressed assailant. Link courtesy of Boing Boing
You’d think, when putting together the dictionary for random spam subject lines, they’d get rid of certain words that spam filters won’t like: [thrusting] 84% off Vicodin. asteroids shadowy I got this one today, and I still don’t know if the first verb is supposed to have something to do with the 84% off part. :)
Despite Alberto Gonzales’ role in the attempted justification of torture by this Administration, Republicans still voted for him in a straight party-line vote after his confirmation hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee. You know, I used to be Republican. I’ve found I can’t call myself that anymore without being ashamed when loyalty to the party means condoning torture. How are the Republicans — the party of “patriotism” — becoming so unpatriotic as to tacitly accept an un-American value as torture in the name of retaining power in Washington? ...
Great game, particularly seeing it from the sixth row. Duke was #1, and UNC had lost twelve straight games to them. Women’s basketball tickets at UNC are a very good buy.