Musings of a Chicagoan

• Funk-en-telechy vs. The Placebo Syndrome!
  (tags: cartoons funny cool video music)
• Take Matthew Bellamy of Muse, alter the pitch of his voice up to 120%, and you get Gwen Stefani. Perfectly. Even her vocal mannerisms.
  (tags: whaddafuck music weird video)
• Some guys crashed the (unattended) “Lost” beach … and took some great photographs.
  (tags: nature photos tv cool)
• AMERICAblog: Why do I need an ad campaign to remind me about September 11?
  (tags: insightful images terrorism)
• And speaking of walking on water …
  (tags: images google funny)
• “An evangelist who tried replicating Jesus’ miracle of walking on water has reportedly drowned off the western coast of Africa.”
  (tags: religion)
• Wow. This has to be the most explicit children’s book I’ve ever seen.
  And, yet, a kid’s going to come out of that non-traumatized with an extremely clear idea of exactly how babies are formed. I think I might actually approve.
  (tags: images sex)
• “The Guard has provided more than 100 of the cutouts to families of deployed service members as a way to ease the pain of separation.”
  Ah. I see. We can have them fighting for an idiot war, we can’t armor them appropriately, but damn it, we can provide their families with two-dimensional plasterboard versions of the parents whom we’re putting in harm’s way.
  (tags: dumbass whaddafuck military)
• “Authorities in Norway have found the Edvard Munch paintings–The Scream and Madonna–that were ripped off at gunpoint two years ago from the Munch Museum.”
  Woo hoo!
  (tags: you_go_boy cool woohoo)
• McDonalds McFlurry cups redesigned for hedgehog safety
  “The present wide-mouth McFlurry cups serve as fatal hedgehog traps by sucking in ‘hogs who lick up the left-over slurry, get stuck, and die.”
  (tags: cool weird funny)
• Dad to daughter: “Do you know what tax is, honey?”
  Daughter to dad: “It’s money you have to pay to keep your stuff.” Out of the mouths of babes …
  (tags: government funny)
• eBay: COMEDIAN GEORGE BURNS’ VINTAGE HERMES SILK OPERA SCARF (item 120026356420 end time Sep-06-06 10:36:56 PDT)
  “The item on auction is a vintage Hermès men’s scarf which was originally given as a present to the great comedian George Burns by his wife, comedienne Gracie Allen.”
  (tags: celebrity amazing cool)
• SSRN-Porn Up, Rape Down by Anthony D’Amato
  “The incidence of rape in the United States has declined 85% in the past 25 years while access to pornography has become freely available to teenagers and adults. The Nixon and Reagan Commissions tried to show that exposure to pornographic materials produ
  (tags: sex holy_shit amazing)
• Some extremely clever and hilarious advertising.
  (tags: photos funny)
• “[T]he Secret Service asked Virginia officials if they would be kind enough to shut down all of the HOV lanes on I-395 from 1 to 7 p.m. the next day so President Bush could get where he needed to be.”
  “There will be approximately 8,600 cars using the HOV lanes over a three hour period (4 to 7 pm). This equates to approximately 20,000 to 22,000 people. If the HOV lanes are closed, according to the District’s estimate the back up of traffic in the genera
  (tags: politics neocon dumbass)
• Sports Illustrated: Tyson becomes just another freak show in Vegas
  “The signs said he was in training, and that was enough to lure a few hundred people to the makeshift ring set up just outside the casino’s buffet restaurant. Training for what was a question better left unanswered.”
  (tags: weird)
• BBC NEWS | Business | ‘Product sabotage’ helps consumers
  Go into Starbucks and order a short cappuccino.
  (tags: reference)
• Photographs of Russian subway commuters.
  Comrade Stalin, people sleeping, a guy loading a semi-automatic …
  (tags: weird funny subway photos)
• An alien Buddha sculpted from spare tires.
  (tags: weird photos cool)
• Drop iPod in toilet + be a ‘World of Warcraft’ player = terrorist.
  (tags: fascinating games terrorism funny whaddafuck)
• Pope quoting St. Benedict: “[M]any jobs often lead to the ‘hardening of the heart’, as well as ’suffering of the spirit, loss of intelligence.’”
  (tags: religion)
• TB QuickMove 0.4.2
  “A new extension available to help you quickly file messages to your most common folders. You can use the keyboard or the right-click/message menu.”
  (tags: reference useful thunderbird)
• Lifehacker: Speed up installation of your Thunderbird extensions
  “If you have the Thunderbird extension window open you can drag the “Install Now” link from you browser into your extension window and it will install.”
  (tags: useful reference thunderbird)
• Lifehacker: Top 10 Ubuntu Apps and Tweaks
  If I ever decide to fool around with Ubuntu again, I gotta check this one out.
  (tags: useful reference ubuntu)
• BBC ON THIS DAY | 26 | 1962: Abortion mother returns home
  “[T]he negative publicity led her local hospital in Phoenix to withdraw a tentative offer of a legal abortion for fear they may be held criminally liable [...] She was dismissed from her job, and her husband was suspended from his high school teaching pos
  (tags: dumbass religion amazing)
• The “What the Fuck?” Mac Store
  (tags: photos geekery macintosh funny)
• CNN Anchor over the air in the bathroom: “He’s married, three kids, but his wife is just a control freak.”
  Oh, dear. Gotta feel for her.
  (tags: funny)
• BBC: “Iran’s president has challenged US President George W Bush to a live TV debate on world affairs.”
  Boy, he DOES want to hit us in one of our weak spots, doesn’t he?!?!
  (tags: politics)
• You Might Be A Redneck if …
  Hang on, it’s not Jeff Foxworthy’s bit. And the final one (don’t skip ahead) has to be the best.
  (tags: hysterical funny)
• A story of saving a man’s life.
  (tags: cool amazing)
• Photographs from when Niagara Falls completely froze in the beginning of the 20th century …
  (tags: weird nature holy_shit amazing)
• Photographs of the new Transformers from the upcoming Michael Bay movie.
  Oh, dear. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh … dear.
  (tags: horrifying scifi movies photos)
• Top 10 Stupidest “As Seen on TV” products
  (tags: cool funny)
• A beautifully plainitive, lonely ‘day in the life’ blog entry by our favorite Waiter.
  (tags: powerful profound amazing)
• 365 tomorrows » Time, 101
  “I’ve taken the liberty of scheduling a tubal ligation after the birth of your older brother Weston … “
  (tags: fascinating scifi)
• Check it out … a moth that evolved to look a helluva lot like a hummingbird.
  (tags: whaddafuck fascinating weird photos nature)
• Boing Boing: Armor of God kids pajamas
  “As they read the scriptures, they put on each spiritual and powerful piece of the Armor of God to keep them safe and peaceful while they slept. [...] As they dress in the mornings, they should replace them with the spiritual Armor of God to protect them
  (tags: photos weird whaddafuck religion)
• Homeland Security Does ‘Ready.Gov.’ FAS puts summer intern on project and creates far better site.
  “We reached out to the Department of Homeland Security, and they told us today that the FAS is, in their words, woefully uninformed. They say a Web site like this is counterproductive.” And now they’ve sent them a cease-and-desist under trademark.
  (tags: terrorism copyleft whaddafuck dumbass)
• Linux.com | Linux kiosks come to the aid of natural disaster victims
  “With the public kiosks, not only are emergency staff able to find resources to help victims, but the victims themselves can maintain contact with the outside world. Bill Ford, the IT director for Vicksburg, Mississippi, used the kiosk software in the Joi
  (tags: you_go_boy woohoo amazing weather geekery cool)
• Linux with a Christian flavor … Ubuntu: Christian Edition. (Not a joke.)
  (tags: cool geekery religion)
• Postman suspended for telling customers how to stop junk mail | the Daily Mail
  “Within days his local sorting office was inundated with at least 70 completed forms demanding an end to junk mail. Curious, his bosses decided to make a few inquiries and discovered the leaflet produced by Mr Annies. He was then suspended on full pay pen
  (tags: whaddafuck dumbass)
• The gnathograph … the most hideous-looking dental contraption known to man.
  (tags: horrifying photos)
• Boing Boing: NASA: Data indicates Earth’s ozone layer is on the mend
  “In his movie ‘Inconvenient Truth’ Gore points to the recovery of the ozone layer as a sign of hope that through policies, change is possible. And that now that we have made progess on the ozone layer we need to start working on carbon dioxide emissions.”
  (tags: cool science)
• What if the trend of friendly, casual ATM machine prompts continues?
  (tags: funny images hysterical)
• 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Death
  “Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you. Ruptured cells become food for living bacteria in the gut, which release enough noxious gas to bloat the body and force the eyes to bulge outward.”
  (tags: science fascinating gross)
• Guardian | We shall not be moved
  “In June Ehren Watada became the first commissioned officer to refuse to deploy. ‘This war is not only morally wrong but illegal under international and American law,’ he said. ‘I took an oath to defend the laws and constitution. My participation would ma
  (tags: amazing you_go_boy woohoo military)
• “A Vatican official has said the Catholic church will excommunicate a medical team who performed Colombia’s first legal abortion on an 11-year-old girl, who was eight weeks pregnant after being raped by her stepfather.”
  You just have to love people who are so insanely invested in their religion that a child is raped and they assign the evil in the situation to those who help the child return to normalcy.
  (tags: dumbass whaddafuck religion)
• Kottke: Pluto mnemonic device contest results
  “My! Very educated morons just screwed up numerous planetariums.”
  (tags: science space funny)
• “Well, we’ve confirmed it: There IS a big, ultimate, 6-film Star Wars anniversary DVD box set planned for 2007.”
  “There will be more changes to the films, and there will be LOTS of new, never-before-seen special features - all the good stuff that was held back by Lucasfilm from the original Trilogy DVD release a few years ago.”
  (tags: movies scifi)
• “South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone yesterday revealed that Saddam was made to watch ["South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut"] ‘repeatedly’ by the US Marines guarding him.”
  (tags: hysterical cartoons movies)
• Airline security methods compared to the security methods of the main “super-max” federal penitentiary in Marion, Illinois.
  (tags: whaddafuck terrorism amazing)
• Newsvine - You are made of space-time
  “[W]e could be nothing more than a bundle of stubborn dreadlocks in space. Tangled up as we are, we could at least take comfort in knowing at last that we truly are at one with the universe.”
  (tags: holy_shit science cool)
• New Yorker Story … Inside a Netflix Distribution Center
  She is among the fastest workers, with a stuffing rate of about a thousand per hour. In fifty-seven seconds, she stuffed “Oyster Farmer,” “Elizabethtown,” “Where the Buffalo Roam,” two copies of “Brokeback Mountain,” “Hill Street Blues:
  (tags: movies cool funny fascinating)
• “George W. Bush has decided to ‘end public access to research materials’ at EPA Regional libraries without Congressional consent.”
  (tags: corporatism neocon whaddafuck dumbass nature politics)
• Sun-Times: Part of Loop to see ‘voluntary evacuation’
  “The goal of the drill is to test in a real-life situation how prepared Chicago is for a mass evacuation five years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and one year after Hurricane Katrina.”
  (tags: chicago terrorism fascinating)
• Telling Your Mac to, Next Time It Reboots, Immediately Go to Firewire Target Mode
  (tags: reference useful geekery)
• World’s Smallest Kitten
  “It’s just the tiniest cutesy wittle bitty baby kitty-witty you just want to give it kisses but you can’t because it is so adorably fragile.”
  (tags: photos cute images)
• What if you could use ’sudo’ in real life?
  (tags: funny images geekery)

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