28 Aug 06 Net Crap (8/28)

• A beautiful poem Neil Gaiman wrote for and delivered at a wedding …
  “This for you, for both of you, / a small poem of happiness / filled with small glories and little triumphs / a fragile, short cheerful song / filled with hope and all sorts of futures … “
  (tags: powerful beautiful)
• PCRM >> Health >> Fast-Food Salad Review 2003
  “McDonald’s Crispy Chicken Bacon Ranch Salad with dressing has a hefty 51 grams of fat and 660 calories while a Big Mac has 34 grams of fat and 590 calories. Surprisingly, this salad entrée also has just as much cholesterol, 85 milligrams, as the Big M
  (tags: reference)
• Salon awards its annual ‘Buffy’ award to the new ‘Battlestar Galactica’ series …
  … but presents a tongue-in-cheek “top ten” reasons why you shouldn’t watch it: “William Shatner hasn’t made a SINGLE guest appearance!”
  (tags: tv scifi funny)
• Katherine Harris: “[T]he separation of church and state [...] is so wrong because God is the one who chooses our rulers.”
  Hmmm. How very interesting that the woman in charge of counting the 2000 election votes in Florida believes that God (evidently not voters?) is the one who chooses our rulers?
  (tags: religion whaddafuck dumbass politics neocon)
• An Interesting Way of Showing Battery Status
  “The phone has a built in motion sensor. [...] The ‘water’ moves when you move the phone around. The water level also reflects your current battery status, the lower it reaches, the less power you have.”
  (tags: goodideas geekery)
• Washington Post: “Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) Called Him ‘Macaca.’”
  “So welcome, let’s give a welcome to Macaca here! Welcome to America, and the real world of Virginia!”

  (tags: racist dumbass neocon whaddafuck)

• The Founding Fathers Were NOT Christians
  Quotations from Thomas Paine, Ben Franklin, John Adams, George Washington, and so on quite clearly indicating that they were not Christians.
  (tags: neocon fascinating government religion)
• An interesting tale about Bob Dylan, a New Jersey teenager, and the song “Blowin’ in the Wind.”
  (tags: fascinating music cool)
• Christian Science MOnitor: In Oregon, A Close-Up Look Into A Coastal Dead Zone
  “White anemones, brilliant in the submersible’s spotlights, look as if they are taking their last gasp. In two runs lasting roughly an hour each, not one fish - dead or alive - appears on screen.”
  (tags: nature tragic horrifying science)