Musings of a Chicagoan

• New Orleans mayoral candidate uses Disneyland’s New Orleans Square as backdrop for her site’s header graphic.
• Boing Boing: AOL won’t deliver emails that criticize AOL
  “AOL is blocking delivery to AOL customers of all emails that include a link to www.DearAOL.com. Today, over 100 people who signed a petition to AOL tried sending messages to their AOL-using friends, and received a bounce-back message informing them that
• Grue (monster) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  You have been eaten by a grue.
• Acephalous: DISADVENTURE!
  “WORK ON DISSERTATION!”
• Ask MetaFilter: Finding someone
• Evolution Versus Norse Mythology
  Hee.
• Damn Interesting » A Potentially Disastrous Design Error
  “Hurricane season was fast approaching, and now only two men in the world knew that Citicorp’s new $175 million tower and its occupants were vulnerable to destruction by catastrophic collapse.”
• Shakespeare’s Sister: Poor, Persecuted Christians….
  “Okay, all you ‘Colleges are filled with Liberals that want to destroy Christianity and Conservatives’ mouth-flappers: Name one school in the United States that will expel you for being Christian. Or for being Conservative. One.”
• The true story behind “FIVE EIGHT EIGHT, TWO THREE HUNDRED, EMPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRE!”
• The Stranger | Seattle | News | Feature | Bitter Pill
  Now, these assinine hateful pro-life pharmacists are refusing to fill prescriptions for post-abortion antibiotics and vitamins. If the outrage hasn’t ignited yet, this has to be what sets everyone off. My friggin’ God.
• My Boring Ass Life » Me and My Shadow, Pt. 8
  Kevin Smith finally chronicles what he’s only hinted about previously: the journey of Jason Mewes.
• Chicagoist: Coke Blak: More Confusion Than Fusion
  “If someone left coffee sludge in the bottom of a mug and poured Diet Coke and sugar into it, you’d have Coke Blak.”
• “Disney’s Atlantis the Lost Empire was one of a few discs at the time that were mastered with bad audio flags.”
  “Large corporations screw up and they don’t like to publicize it. Personal DIY can fix these screw ups. Part of this DIY process, defeating DVD’s DRM protection, was criminal. I don’t feel like what I did was theft. I just wanted to watch the movie
• “A clip traded for a fish pen, traded for an trippy doorknob, traded for a Coleman stove, traded for a Honda Ex generator, traded for an ‘instant party,’ traded for a snowmobile … “
  ” … traded for an all-expenses-paid trip to Yahk, British Columbia, traded for a cube van, traded for a recording contract, traded for a year’s free rent in Phoenix, Arizona!”
• “Dropping a Pebble in a Dry Well,” by Kathy Kachelries
  One of the more amusing SF short-shorts I’ve seen on this site.
• Neil Gaiman - Neil Gaiman’s Journal: How to Wake Up
  “‘Juice of the day is avocado with lime and skimmed milk.’ It was not really nice really. It was actually significantly worse than it sounds.”
• Why Yahoo Can’t Deliver Email
  If I’m reading this right, it’s because half its mail servers are down, and those remaining servers accept incoming mail only 55% of the time.
• European Union to visit moon and plant a tulip. (Seriously.)

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