December 2008
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It’s like Ren and Stimpy, only more disturbing.
November 2008
Rush to Enact a Safety Rule Obama Opposes -... →
If you think Bush is going out lame duck style, you’re very, very wrong.
Profiles in punditry, Peggy Noonan →
I love coming across great punditry like this, from Peggy Noonan in February 2006: Conservatives are always writing about the strains and stresses within the Republican Party, and they are…
Call Your Shots
Now is the time for those that feel Obama will fuck up “just as bad” as Bush to write down exactly what that means. Will it be the deficit? Will it be wars around the globe? A continued erosion of the Bill of Rights? Oh what, tapping phones isn’t cool when a Democrat is doing it? I thought you were shitting your pants in fear or terrorists calling for movie times or using...
Pragmatic Version Control Using Git →
Another book for work to buy for the team.
“Remember, a party predicated on the notion that government sucks and can’t...”
– Daily Kos: Building machines
Map of New York City Parking Tickets in 2008 -... →
That’s a lot of parking tickets.
'Tis The Season →
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That’s kinda fucked.
Ho Ho Ho:
A worker died after being trampled and a woman miscarried when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island Wal-Mart Friday…
I Like Turkey →
I’ve long been puzzled by the turkey backlash. Get a heritage turkey, cook it on the grill with some smoking chips. Yummy!
Fox News shut out at Obama press conferences. →
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Maybe he didn’t want to answer puppy questions anymore…
Fishbowl DC notes that Fox News has not been allowed to ask a question at any of the four press conferences that…
“What’s new is something consultant and social technologist Clay Shirky...”
– Schneier on Security: Here Comes Everybody Review
Amazon Cheats Time
Claims Black Friday is today.
Deep Thought →
I’m so old I can remember when spending $8 billion to give more health care to kids would spook the bond markets so badly that it just couldn’t be done.
Report: NSA Kept File On Tony Blair’s ‘Private... →
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Oh, you mean the NSA still does what it’s supposed to do?
In October, ABC News reported that despite President Bush’s promises that the National Security Administration’s…
FSM spotted at prop 8 rally →
My friend was at the rally against Prop.8 in florida and spotted his noodley appendages on a sign
-Ryan
Autographed Zork first edition manual sells for... →
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Dammit beej, this is not the way for you to help the economy!
from Brian Moriarty’s personal collection, less than 100 copies were sold for the PDP-11 [via]
iPhone Cut-and-Paste Apparently Withheld Out of... →
The commenters have clearly hit on the main reason for the lackluster sales of iPhones.
Projection: Franken to Win Recount by 27 Votes →
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Math fight!
As we wrote yesterday evening, the ever-increasing number of challenged ballots in Minnesota is making it more and more difficult to determine the extent to which Al…
George Will: ‘The First New Deal Didn’t Work’ →
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Again, the facts show their liberal bias.
Economists on both the left and right broadly agree that the need for stimulative government spending is necessary to prevent a…
Lego Safe is ultra secure - SlipperyBrick.com →
Holy jebus
The Official Netflix Blog: Encoding for streaming →
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That is some serious video nerdery right there.
O’Reilly: Internet has a well-known liberal bias. →
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Somebody filled the tubes with liberalism!
Summoning the mythical boogeyman of the Fairness Doctrine — which would require broadcasters to provide a variety of political views…
Maddow Fails To Question Huckabee On His Recent... →
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Welcome to the big time, Rachel
Since Prop. 8’s passage in California, which revoked same-sex couples’ right to marry, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow has been a powerful outspoken…
“There are a certain segment of conservatives who literally cannot believe that...”
– FiveThirtyEight.com: Politics Done Right: Did Talk Radio Kill Conservatism?
hundred minute test tone →
It turns out that there is a film in which a blurry shadow on a black background hisses at a blurry shadow on a black background which clicks and purrs. Also, briefly, some rednecks get nuked. This…
Dear Democrats: If You Must Blame, Blame Obama →
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ZOMG! PRAGMATISM! RUN AWAY! We all know “pragmatism” is just another way to be an apologist, right? Obama can do no wrong, yadda yadda yadda. I know The Great Orange Satan will…
"Superbad" Move for Sony, Netflix, and Microsoft
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Fuck you, Sony…
“In passing, has anyone observed that hunting animals with high-powered guns...”
– The Wild Wordsmith of Wasilla - Dick Cavett Blog - NYTimes.com
An Interview with John Ziegler on the Zogby... →
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He went to the Dick Cheney School of Charm.
I had the chance this afternoon to speak with John Ziegler, a documentary filmmaker and former radio talk show host who built the…
It's kind of like a "jump to... →
Jumping Brain! This is probably what your Boltzmann brain looks like. Because how else would you jump to a lower entropic state? (Seriously people, think these things through.)
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google →
Because it took me more than a minute to find the damn URL for this…
The Reckoning - Phil Gramm, Unswayed Champion of... →
That’s right. You all failed conservatism! You made Phil Gramm look bad. That’s okay, he knows that he’s right. No matter how fucking wrong he really is.
Pirates Hijack Oil Tanker In Brazen Attack,... →
Where the hell do you pawn a fucking supertanker?
Tim-Tams available at Target until March, first... →
best chocolate cookies ever, the Tim Tam Slam is a chocolaty revelation [via]
Cantor: Republicans lack ‘the ability to be... →
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Wait, isn’t this a sign of success for the GOP? Aren’t these all areas where government shouldn’t belong? Right? Or, did I miss a memo?
In a new interview with the Washington…
3 Flat-Screen Makers Plead Guilty to Trying to... →
DRUDGE REPORT: GOOGLE REPORTS FLU SEARCHES,... →
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Eric Schmidt, GOOGLE’s chief executive vows: “From a technological perspective, it is the beginning.”
Hey! Hey, Google! I have the flu! Right now! Want to tell the gov’t or should I just IM them or something?
I noticed on news radio this moring that some official reporting showed that a percentage of workers gave, as their reason for not taking a flu shot, that...
Barone: Media trashed Palin because ‘she did not... →
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These Republicans that make these outrageous claims and then claim to be making a joke, yeah…keep it up!
Speaking before a roomful of academics in Chicago yesterday, U.S….
WLBT 3 - Jackson, MS: Schools not allowing... →
This story will either be overblown or based on supreme idiocy. Although, I guess the two aren’t mutually exclusive…
where the things in Cloverfield happen →
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Hilarious use of Google Maps
“this is where things in Cloverfield happen okay” [via]
Rep. Broun on comparing Obama to Hitler: ‘I regret... →
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Okay, clowns…pick one thing and stick with it. Obama can’t be a socialist and a conservative capitalist at the same time. You guys used to have daily memos telling you what to…
GOP congressman: Obama wants to go ‘down the road’... →
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Keep it up jackass.
In July, Barack Obama proposed a “civilian national security force,” an idea backed by President Bush and intended to expand AmeriCorps and other…
