Musings of a Chicagoan

• Michel Gondry’s Music Videos
  (tags: amazing video music cool)
• Weak security in our daily lives@Everything2.com
  “Right now, I am going to give you a sequence of minimal length that, when you enter it into a car’s numeric keypad, is guaranteed to unlock the doors of said car. It is exactly 3129 keypresses long, which should take you around 20 minutes to go through.”
  (tags: scary reference weird)
• It’s apparently not wise to donate to the American Association of Physical Anthropologists via Paypal.
  (tags: geekery funny)
• David Pogue: When Apple Hit Bottom
  All of the forecasters who said that Apple would be closing its doors circa 1995-6 … rather friggin’ hilarious reading for we Macheads.
  (tags: geekery funny macintosh)
• Why 360 degrees? Why 60 minutes, or 60 seconds?
  Answer: Babylonians used the sexagesimal system (base 60).
  (tags: useful reference)
• Boing Boing: Open PVR from Neuros: cash money to owners who hack it
  “What’s more, they’re offering cash bounties to hackers who add various features to the device, including $1000 for a YouTube or Google video Browser, $600 for a Flickr Photo Browser, $500 for a WiFi PSP or PDA remote, $700 for a TiVo-like recording funct
  (tags: you_go_boy copyleft woohoo geekery amazing cool)
• McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: The Recording Industry Will Destroy You.
  “If your toddler has been named in this lawsuit, explain to them that the fruits of their labor as an adult will go to pay a debt that will ultimately lead to their death at a young age due to their inability to afford medical insurance. Toddlers never un
  (tags: hysterical woohoo copyleft funny)
• Star-Telegram | 09/14/2006 | Crunchtime! Eat this and bypass the line
  “During the first weekend of its annual Halloween festival, Six Flags Over Texas will let guests skip to the front of the Titan roller coaster line if they eat a live cockroach. A live, wingless, 3-inch long Madagascar hissing cockroach that can run at 3
  (tags: goodid funny gross)
• Christian outlets say, “We can’t do closed captioning.” FCC replies, “Oh, let’s take care of that for you.”
  (tags: religion whaddafuck dumbass)
• Pretty trippy Margaret Thatcher illusion …
  (tags: weird cool images)
• Presidential Doodles
  President Harrison’s is profoundly trippy.
  (tags: images weird cool)
• Why Katamari Damacy can be dangerous …
  (tags: games comics funny)
• Meeehhhh! These young whipper-snappers who run marathons these days! Why in MY day, we had to run 500 miles! In socks! And we LOVED IT!
  (tags: dumbass whaddafuck funny)
• “this is my powerbook g4 which after more than 5 years of hard love has stopped working. i don’t usually get real emotional feelings for my tools or material objects. but after using this computer every day for the last five years i am sad to see it go.”
  … the love of a man for his apple has no equal …
  (tags: touching photos macintosh funny)
• Freshman David Banh completed his entire college experience at University of Virginia in ONE YEAR. And he took one class in the summer to make it a double major. JESUS.
  (tags: admirable amazing holy_shit)
• Rolling Stone : Kurt Vonnegut Says This Is the End of the World
  “I pressed him to expand, wondering if he had any advice for young people who want to join the increasingly vocal environmental movement. ‘There is nothing they can do,’ he bleakly answered. ‘It’s over, my friend. The game is lost.’”
  (tags: neocon powerful food4thought)
• Heh. A rather funny letter to Dr. Ruth.
  (tags: sex images funny)
• TeeVee Archive: Fall ‘06: “Heroes”
  “[U]nlike his loser cohorts, Hiro gets it: Superpowers are awesome, and they should be used to help others. He’s unabashedly sweet and credibly pure of heart, a welcome ray of sunshine among the series’ slathered-on gloom. It doesn’t hurt that he na
  (tags: tv comics funny)
• Yet another casualty of Bush’s insane evil war: that soldiers are coming home mentally and emotionally crippled.
  “In LCpl. Reyes’ case, the Purple Heart recipient did not recognize his father and closest friends when they picked him up at the airport. His math and reading skills had deteriorated to a child’s level.”
  (tags: powerful tragic holy_shit whaddafuck military horrifying)
• This Is Broken - Braille Help Sign
  “Right under that text is Braille, but the Braille is printed on paper that has no variable texture, therefore making the braille unusable.”
  (tags: funny)
• XtremeMac iPod Audio Accessories: MicroMemo for iPod with video
  For whenever I purchase a full iPod … I need to remember to pick up this one!
  (tags: ipod)
• Fox Reporter Gets A Bill Stuffed In Her Bra
  *snicker*
  (tags: neocon video funny)
• Bill Clinton absolutely thrashes the hell out of neocon droolboy Chris Wallace in an interview. Go Bubba!
  (tags: amazing you_go_boy woohoo politics)
• waiterrant.net » Puttanesca
  “‘I’ve never had such a salty sauce!’ the woman says. ‘Why is it so salty?’ ‘Because it’s made with anchovies, you requested capers, and you put parmesan cheese on top,’ I say.”
  (tags: funny)
• “The pope makes a reference to a 14th-century Byzantine emperor’s remark about Islam imposing itself by the sword, and to protest this linking of Islam and violence … “
  “In Mogadishu [... they] shoot dead, execution-style, an Italian nun who worked in a children’s hospital. ‘How dare you say Islam is a violent religion? I’ll kill you for it’ is not exactly the best way to go about refuting the charge.”
  (tags: powerful religion food4thought)
• MSNBC: “In 2004, 28-year old Culberson, a biracial woman who had been adopted by a white family in West Virginia as a baby—hired a private investigator to find her biological father.”
  “[T]he information he yielded was a shocker: her father was a member of the ruling family of the Mende tribe in the Southern Province of Sierra Leone. She was, by birthright, a princess.”
  (tags: holy_shit amazing)
• Bill Clinton: “They rediscover bin Laden every two years right before the election.”
  (tags: funny terrorism insightful politics)
• YouTube: “Ever wonder why officers ask you to step away from your vehicle?”
  (tags: video funny)
• MailTags
  (tags: mail-app)
• Mail Unread Menu
  (tags: mail-app)
• The Guardian reprints the last words of some of the inmates put to death in Texas.
  “Tonight we tell the world that there are no second chances in the eyes of justice [ ... ] Tonight, we tell our children that in some instances, in some cases, killing is right [ ... ] No one wins tonight. No one gets closure. No one walks away victorious
  (tags: powerful interesting)
• A Ohio woman tries to get emergency contraception … and no hospital will help her.
  “‘Ok, well ummm….Are you married?’ he mumbles the words so low I can barely hear them. “
  (tags: religion neocon whaddafuck horrifying)

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