Torture in CIA “secret prisons” didn’t land us the plans of 9/11. The FBI building a rapport did. From Vanity Fair’s article “Rorschach and Awe“:
Abu Zubaydah was a mess. It was early April 2002, and the al-Qaeda lieutenant had been shot in the groin during a firefight in Pakistan, then captured by the [...]
Boing Boing: Vaporub solves meerkat gang-wars
“However, thanks to a suggestion from our vet, Kate Chitty, we were able to neutralise all odours by using a little of the VapoRub on the nose of each meerkat. The meerkats then all smelt the same to each other and gladly accepted the new arrivals.”
(tags: funny science nature [...]
The Top Ten Things to Say During a Harry Potter Movie to Annoy Potterheads
10. Which one is Frodo?
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“The Walt Disney Co. will eliminate smoking from all its films released under its label and will discourage smoking in films released under its Touchstone and Miramax brands.”
(tags: interesting movies)
Did you know I’m related to conservative pundit Hugh Hewitt? We have a common ancestor, James Hewitt, Sr.
James had a son, Hugh Hewitt (not quite yet, this guy was born in 1898), whose grandson is the conservative pundit. But his daughter Anna Belle married Albert Harris, and I’m Albert and Anna Belle’s great-grandson. [...]
Nice lineup! But Gray’s Anatomy’s “Denny” as the Comedian? I don’t know. Like Rorschach’s casting, though.
Okay, listen. You’re reading this sentence right now, right? Don’t continue unless you’ve either finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows or you don’t give a shit about it, ‘kay?
Okay. Last warning here.
Okay, Rowling appeared on Today and scooped out a rather huge dish of details on the Harry Potter “19 years [...]
George Lucas wearing a “Han Shot First” T-shirt … while talking to Harrison Ford. As the blogger here says, “the recursion is mindboggling.”
(tags: scifi movies funny photos)
Pimp up Google Reader with 15 Firefox hacks
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24 has a new President, and it’s a woman
I don’t watch “24,” but I saw Cherry Jones in “The Cradle Will Rock,” and she was excellent.
(tags: cool celebrity tv terrorism)
The End of the Harry Potter Series
How various authors might end the Harry Potter series. (No spoilers.)
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YTMND - The Horrible Truth Behind SIDS
Oh, this is sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, hilarious, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, and sick. (And hilarious.)
(tags: funny movies scifi)
MySpace evidently for a short period this weekend blocked the letter “i”.
(tags: hysterical dumbfuck)
Visiting the National College Republican Convention. “We have to fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here.”
“Oh.” [polite look] “Are you planning to enlist?”
Their answers:
This is so very sad. (And that kid in the white T-shirt … wow. Hope he gets a better sense of [...]
My Website on an iPhone
Originally uploaded by WCityMike
on 20th July, 2007.
In the Apple Store, mind you. I’m not about to shell out a grand for a new cell phone ($700 iPhone + $200 cancellation fee + $36 registration fee with AT&T).
Google Reader Search
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The Mobius strip has been figured out. Cool.
(tags: science geekery cool)
FRIGGIN’ AWESOME.
(tags: geekery comics funny photos woohoo)
Mike Davidson: A Low-Fi Solution to E-Mail Overload: Sentenc.es
Nice idea.
(tags: geekery)
Lifehacker’s Top 10 Unofficial Gmail Apps and Add-ons
(tags: gmail)
How to Set Google Reader as Your Default RSS Handler in Firefox
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Neocons on a Cruise: What Conservatives Say When [...]
Just a quick side note: there’s a lot of content being posted to my tumblelog. If I see a cool image, or a unique YouTube video, or a YTMND, or an interesting quote, it’s usually not going here to the blog, but instead to the tumblelog. It’s here (RSS feed). After all, [...]
I wanted to share with you all something personal — and unique to the Internet — so that I could share a little bit of my grandparents with the world at large.
I know that many (most?) people are proud of their grandparents. I’m especially proud of mine, because they were some truly unique people. [...]
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