This is the most brilliant way to handle the Ku Klux Klan that I have ever seen or read about. From here, via Metafilter:
Saturday May 26th, the VNN Vanguard Nazi/KKK group attempted to host a hate rally, to try to take advantage of the brutal murder of a white couple for media and recruitment [...]
Coffee Drinks Illustrated
(tags: cool reference interesting)
Just wanted to throw in a plug here for my tumblelog, Minimusings. If I want to post a quick quote, an amusing YTMND site, an image, or an interesting or funny video, that’s where it’s going — not on del.icio.us, nor on here. Check it out! (Wondering what a tumblelog is?)
Get wireless working in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn
(tags: ubuntu reference)
Avant Window Navigator
(tags: ubuntu reference geekery)
Ubuntu Unleashed: Howto: Completely Transparent Shell on your Ubuntu desktop with Compiz Fusion
(tags: reference ubuntu)
Realisticats. Now THIS I could get behind.
(tags: amusing geekery)
How to Make Evil Childproof Caps Easy to Open
(tags: reference)
The most fun way you ever can find out your IP address.
(tags: funny geekery)
I am working my way through the Bible — mostly because even though I don’t consider myself a Christian, I think that the Bible — as with most religions’ holy books — is worthy of a read.
I found a very interesting passage. I’m up to Deuteronomy. And I read this passage, and I [...]
Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Gnome Desktop Tweaks - Lifehacker
(tags: ubuntu reference)
Excerpts from Family Security Matters contributing editor Philip Atkinson’s essay, “Conquering the Drawbacks of Democracy“:
The wisest course would have been for President Bush to use his nuclear weapons to slaughter Iraqis until they complied with his demands, or until they were all dead. Then there would be little risk or expense and no American army [...]
Awwww. Congrats to the happy (fictional) couple!
(tags: woohoo funny comics sweet)
Pretty And Productive: Power Up Your Linux Desktop With Compiz Fusion - Lifehacker
“Not only can desktop decorator Compiz Fusion add eye candy to your system that leaves Windows and Mac users drooling on their keyboards, it can seriously boost your productivity.”
(tags: ubuntu)
Did bedbugs never die out, but just migrate to chickens?
“For this reason, we believe [...]
THIS FUCKING SUCKS.
August 20, 2007
Grant yanked, student in a bind
A student thought her tuition at Chicago’s Loyola University was taken care of when the U.S. Navy presented her with a mock check for $180,000.
But the Navy has now rescinded the scholarship, saying she can’t be an ROTC student because of an old back injury.
Danielle Littrell, [...]
How to Reprogram Your T-Mobile Phone to Do “Yes, Ask Once” for Web Access
(tags: geekery reference)
ABC News: Feds Pay $80,000 Over Anti-Bush T-Shirts
“A couple arrested at a rally after refusing to cover T-shirts that bore anti-President Bush slogans settled their lawsuit against the federal government for $80,000, the American Civil Liberties Union announced Thursday.”
(tags: cool woohoo wonderful government fascist)
I just found, courtesy of Metafilter, one of the most creepiest “viral ad campaigns” I’ve ever come across. How would you like to make a friend of yours think, quite literally and with convincing reality, that he or she is the next target of a serial killer? For example, here’s one targeted to [...]
A “this software doesn’t run” fake Windows application won 21 five-star awards from various download sites.
(tags: funny microsoft)
New York Times: Continental calls the cops on its own passengers after making them wait hours upon hours on the tarmac.
(tags: amazing fascist corporatism dumbfuck)
“Comedienne divorcee Kathy Griffin is dating Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Griffin, [...]