Musings of a Chicagoan

• Mr. Blobby (a rather disgusting … but real … and cartoonish-looking fish).
  (tags: photos funny)
• Amazing blind kid seems to have a finely developed skill of echolocation.
  (tags: health cool interesting video holy_holy_shit amazing)
• “Roger Barnett, an Arizona rancher and border vigilante, was found to be responsible for false imprisonment, assualt, and inflicting emotional damage on Wednesday in a civil trial.”
  “Barnett held Ronald Moralas’ hunting party at gun point on state land Barnett leases. Barnett, who boasts of detaining and handing over more than 10,000 illegal immigrants to border patrol, harrased and abused the Mexican-American family.”
  (tags: amazing)
• Of all the various things I’ve found on the Internet, this has to be the hands-down funniest thing I’ve ever listened to.
  A telemarketer calls a guy — and the recipient pretends that he’s just called a crime scene and is talking to a sheriff. It gets a bit into a bit of homophobic humor at the end … and that soured me on it a bit … but it’s still hysterical.
  (tags: hysterical explicit audio funny)
• Cool photographs of the new motorcyclish vehicles they use to tow cars in China.
  (tags: weird photos cool)
• FOX News: “Frances Kemp booked an aisle seat on a recent British Airways (BA) flight because she had a bad leg that required extra space. Her 76-year-old husband Michael occupied the middle seat. A nine-year-old girl took the window position.”
  “When a stewardess asked Frances to switch seats with her husband, she declined. The stewardess explained that the seating arrangement breached the airline’s child-welfare regulations and moved the child.”
  (tags: corporatism dumbass whaddafuck weird)
• Something Positive: Choo-Choo explains America’s Thanksgiving history to non-Americans.
  (tags: comics seasonal funny)
• “Joss, mind if we borrow your show?”
  Essentially, making the not-altogether-without-substance argument that Buffy = Claire, Xander = Zach, Cordy = bitchy pretender cheerleader, and Angel = Peter.
  (tags: scifi interesting tv funny)
• For Firefly fans who also have heard the “there’s a llama” meme …
  (tags: hysterical scifi tv funny)
• EFF: “All the proposed exemptions [to the DMCA] that would benefit consumers were denied (space-shifting, region coding, backing up DVDs).”
  “So, while we’re pleased that film professors, archivists, cellphone recyclers, and security researchers were able to successfully navigate the exemption process, it appears that digital consumers still have no choice but to get Congress to amend the DMCA
  (tags: interesting censorship government copyleft)
• AMERICAblog: Hastert is looking for something to do — before he quits
  “‘Friends of Mr. Hastert say they expect he will try to make the most of his remaining time but that it will be surprising if he serves his entire term.’ So, for now, Denny isn’t doing anything but collecting his big fat paycheck.”
  (tags: dumbass government neocon)
• “Once in a Lifetime,” by Matt Brubeck
  Funny little time travel short-short story.
  (tags: funny scifi)
• What a “kynoid” is (a scifi fandom term) … interesting.
  (tags: interesting scifi)
• Washington Post: Teachers Refuse free ‘Insignificant Truth’ DVDs Because They Don’t Want to Piss Off Exxon
  “Accepting the ["Insignificant Truth"] DVDs, they wrote, would place ‘unnecessary risk upon the [NSTA] capital campaign, especially certain targeted supporters.’ One of those supporters, it turns out, is the Exxon Mobil Corp.”
  (tags: dumbass censorship whaddafuck corporatism)

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