27 Jul 06 Net Crap (7/27)

• The Onion: Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence
  Bwa ha ha ha ha ha …
  (tags: funny hysterical)
• NPR : Image : A vulture watches a starving child in southern Sudan, March 1, 1993.
  A horrific image — not gory, but horrific nonetheless — that so haunted the photographer that he committed suicide a year later.
  (tags: photos powerful horrifying horrible awful)
• chicago_el: This isn’t Grand anymore
  Aw, dammit. “This … is GRAND” doesn’t exist anymore.
  (tags: tragic subway chicago)
• Urban Legends Reference Pages: Free USPS Military Shipping Kits
  “The USPS provides free Priority Mail shipping supplies for customers sending packages to U.S. military personnel overseas.”
  (tags: kickass goodideas military cool)
• Guardian Unlimited Film | News | Miramax turns on to Leary
  “He exhorted America to ‘turn on, tune in and drop out’ and claimed to have discovered a new primary colour - which he called gendale.” That last bit came from gullible.info.
  (tags: dumbass funny)
• Weeks after the fact, Guardian still wrong
  “A few weeks back I made a post about how a ‘fact’ from Gullible.info made it into an article in the Guardian UK, via Wikipedia.”
  (tags: dumbass funny)
• Tampon Shooter Blowgun
  “Inspired by marshmallow shooters, this air-powered tampon gun turns your feminine hygiene products into high-flying projectiles. “
  (tags: funny)
• Lance Bass Comes Out of the Closet
  Good for him!
  (tags: homosexuality)
• Rolling Stone : Al Gore 3.0
  “[T]he dream of a Gore candidacy also underscores the pathetic core of today’s Democratic Party: It has become so unusual to hear a mainstream Democratic politician speak from a sense of conviction that when one does, people practically start begging him
  (tags: insightful politics)
• Heh. ‘Lost Experience’ game star Rachel Blake confronts ‘Lost’ cast members at Comic-Con.
  VERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRY meta.
  (tags: tv video)
• WOW! A photograph of a kernel of salt next to a kernel of pepper, very, VERY, *VERY* close up!
  (tags: beautiful cool photos science)
• I find it absolutely amazing that atheism even came into play in this case …
  … but then I forget we’re a far more fundamentalist country than we really think we are.
  (tags: fascinating religion)
• The Cake Dance
  Very catchy song, very cute little cartoon.
  (tags: funny cute music cartoons)