Musings of a Chicagoan

• Found via Diane Duane. Were this only *really* the Google News front page … *sigh*
  (tags: funny powerful goodideas cool google)
• Hallelujah! “The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard.” I fully endorse this.
  (tags: geekery enjoyable goodideas)
• Cory pledges to direct his USC students to “defend” improvements in the “message-boards for the Wikipedia entries.”
  (tags: dumbfuck badideas)
• Bush Administration announces it doesn’t care about Iraq Study Group report — no changes in “certain aspects of Iraq policy.”
  (tags: military politics neocon dumbfuck)
• CNN: Kerry assessing impact of ‘botched joke’ on ‘08 prospects
  “Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, hope to boost their public reemergence with a book about the environment slated for publication next April.” Oh, REALLY? John, I just WONDER *coughGorecough* where you could’ve got that BRILL idea! Dumbass.
  (tags: politics dumbfuck)
• A $431 Best Buy gift card. Winning bid: $436.50.
  (tags: funny)
• Jeremy Zawodny discusses how the redesign of Yahoo’s television listings absolutely bites. I completely agree.
  (tags: geekery insightful)
• Radio host suggests crescent-shaped tattoos for Muslims to test his audience’s bigotry — phone lines jam in minutes with agreement.
  “For me to suggest to tattoo marks on people’s bodies, have them wear armbands, put a crescent moon on their driver’s license [...] basically what you just did was show me how the German people allowed what happened to the Jews to happen.”
  (tags: horrifying awful tragic)
• Atheist Money-Making Scheme: charge up to $800 to offer fundamentalist Christians a way to leave messages for their loved ones who won’t be caught up in the Rapture.
  Pretty sure this is a joke site, but their Paypal links do actually work, and I find this really rather hysterical …
  (tags: hysterical religion neocon)
• Celebrities and famous people who were adopted …
  (tags: interesting celebrity)
• “Ghosts of Earth,” by Curtis C. Chen
  (tags: scifi cool)
• Boing Boing: Barenaked Ladies Are Me tour - great music, politics, and tech!
  “At the show, I bought BLAM on a 256MB USB key, for $25. The key came loaded with the entire new album in MP3 form, a ton of live tracks, graphics, videos, ringtones, and basically everything else you could want.”
  (tags: music goodideas copyleft cool)
• So Warner Music reserves the right to sue the parents of children who download music illegally. However, the CEO admits to his children downloading it, but says that their punishment will be “kept within the family.”
  (tags: copyleft dumbfuck corporatism whaddafuck hypocritical)
• Dr. Laura … has an action figure. And, no, it’s not a parody one: it’s sold on her own website. *shakes head in amusement*
  (tags: whaddafuck hysterical hubris)
• Just Watch TV » Blog Archive » Opus Anagrams: Are We Crossing The Line Mister Disney?
  “The latest ‘Opus’ cartoon refers to an anagram for ‘The Prophet Mohammed’. Whoa, that’s risky business. Someone could get offended, so the cartoonist scribbled over the anagram.”
  (tags: comics funny religion)
• “Most businesses in the United States make change using just four different types of coins: 1 cent (penny), 5 cents (nickel), 10 cents (dime), and 25 cents (quarter). This distribution of coinage suggests an interesting question: Is it the most efficient
  “Computer scientist Jeffrey Shallit of the University of Waterloo has worked out an answer. In the current issue of the Mathematical Intelligencer, he contends that ‘what the U.S. needs is an 18-cent piece.’”
  (tags: weird interesting)
• The Economist: 2007 to be the year of anniversaries …
  … 20 since Elvis’ death, 10 since Di’s …
  (tags: interesting)
• “City Hall station has been closed to passengers since 1945 and is definitely the world’s most beautiful abandoned subway station, if not its most beautiful subway station of any kind.”
  (tags: beautiful photos cool subway nyc)
• Don Carman, years after his retirement from baseball, finds a crate of forgotten letters … and responds to each of them.
  (tags: woohoo amazing admirable cool)
• Serenity Park: “Serenity,” told South Park-style
  (tags: tv scifi comics funny)
• Rather cool … a (pricy) speaker system for iPods that goes old tech and uses vacuum tubes.
  (tags: geekery interesting music cool)
• Instead of Buying a Sony Playstation 3 …
  Rather interesting list of other ways you could spend the money … with a dynamite wrap-up.
  (tags: interesting powerful games)

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