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« March 2010 | Main | May 2010 » April 30, 2010Discovering the Gorilla I keep meaning to post this. It's from an issue of Scientific American from March 2009 that Wanyas gave to me. They have a section where they reprint portions of articles from older issues of their magazines. This one's from March 1859, and i thought it was pretty cool: By fnord12 | April 30, 2010, 10:08 AM | Science| Link
Are you ready, Wanyas? The Dead Milkmen's Bucky Fellini came out in 1987. But the AMG Review for Bucky Fellini says: So there you go. They're both parodies, but neither of the other. Still, "Are you ready, Jesus? Uh-uh. Buddha? Yeah...? Mohammed? Ok..." is pretty classic. (In investigating Ballroom Blitz i found that i was familiar with it due to the fact that i had an album by the pretty awful hard rock band Krokus in which they covered the song.) *I friggin' did it again! By fnord12 | April 28, 2010, 9:39 PM | Music | Comments (7) | Link
What's a well-tempered clavier? Here. By fnord12 | April 21, 2010, 2:27 PM | Music| Link Nope, she really meant chickens A few days ago i quoted Nevada Republican candidate for Senate Sue Lowden saying that we should barter with our doctors in return for medical treatment. Many thought she really meant 'bargain', not 'barter'. But she's standing firm: How many chickens for a week's supply of chemotherapy? For a visit to a psychiatrist? What will the doctor do with all these chickens? Forget the chickens. What does an unemployed person without health insurance, but suffering from cancer or mental illness, have to offer to a doctor? That's your health care plan? Seriously? By fnord12 | April 21, 2010, 9:12 AM | Liberal Outrage | Comments (1) | Link
Encouraging crazy people TPM: But the good folks who run the Judiciary Committee seemed to have gotten a bit more than they reckoned with when one of their hearing witnesses claimed that she had already been implanted with a microchip. And not just any microchip, but one the Pentagon had implanted in her "vaginal-rectum area", apparently to track her movements. Presumably part of the Stimulus Bill. By fnord12 | April 20, 2010, 3:05 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link How's That Solar Panel Project Going? Better get cracking on powering your house with renewables. The energy crisis outlined in a Joint Operating Environment report from the US Joint Forces Command, comes as the price of petrol in Britain reaches record levels and the cost of crude is predicted to soon top $100 a barrel. "By 2012, surplus oil production capacity could entirely disappear, and as early as 2015, the shortfall in output could reach nearly 10 million barrels per day," says the report, which has a foreword by a senior commander, General James N Mattis. I believe the "investment" Sweetman is speaking of here is extracting crude from the tar sands in Canada. According to Greenpeace, extracting crude from the tar sands both increases pollution and destroys the land itself so that it can't support forestry or farming. Meh, It's only Canada. By min | April 20, 2010, 1:07 PM | Liberal Outrage | Comments (1) | Link
Fear for your favorite Avenger Joss Whedon to direct the Avengers movie? By fnord12 | April 16, 2010, 4:21 PM | Comics & Movies| Link My lawyer advised me to never read the contracts Turns out that could have long term consequences. Link: The retailer, British firm GameStation, added the "immortal soul clause" to the contract signed before making any online purchases earlier this month. It states that customers grant the company the right to claim their soul. "By placing an order via this Web site on the first day of the fourth month of the year 2010 Anno Domini, you agree to grant GameStation's form also points out that "we reserve the right to serve such notice in 6 (six) foot high letters of fire, however we can accept no liability for any loss or damage caused by such an act. If you a) do not believe you have an immortal soul, b) have already given it to another party, or c) do not wish to grant Us such a license, please click the link below to nullify this sub-clause and proceed with your transaction." The terms of service were updated on April Fool's Day as a gag, but the retailer did so to make a very real point: No one reads the online terms and conditions of shopping, and companies are free to insert whatever language they want into the documents. By fnord12 | April 16, 2010, 4:13 PM | Ummm... Other? | Comments (6) | Link Another reminder for me to read a review after i read the comic By fnord12 | April 16, 2010, 12:21 PM | Comics | Comments (1) | Link The radicalization of Brad DeLong Brad DeLong, formerly a NAFTA-supporting neo-liberal economist, is now publishing books acknowledging that "globalization" has failed and advocating that we nationalize our energy industry in order to deal with global warming. By fnord12 | April 16, 2010, 11:25 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link Finally, the Obama Administration prosecutes someone from the Bush Administration Except... it was the whistleblower. By fnord12 | April 16, 2010, 11:16 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link
Laura,
Can't you give me some time? Sh'mon
Sh'mon This'll be the last time, This'll be the last time, By min | April 15, 2010, 1:08 PM | Music| Link
I think i see where this is going...  One of the odder Harris Poll lines of questioning that i've seen. By fnord12 | April 14, 2010, 3:12 PM | Ummm... Other?| Link
Fighting crime with the KFC Double-Down Chris Sims makes funnies with old Hostess ads. By fnord12 | April 13, 2010, 4:35 PM | Comics | Comments (1) | Link The Civil War was about slavery Not "states' rights" or anger over a powerful Federal government. Mississippi's Declaration of Secession (via Matthew Yglesias): Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery -- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin. By fnord12 | April 13, 2010, 1:12 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link
The Barter Economy Sue Lowden, the Republican candidate running for Harry Reid's seat, on how people can get medical costs down: Some think she meant 'bargain' instead of barter. Either way, doesn't sound very realistic to me. By fnord12 | April 12, 2010, 3:58 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link Dear Deficit Commission It's not hard. With easy to understand charts! By fnord12 | April 12, 2010, 10:31 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link
Logan's Run, The Omega Man, and Soylent Green The last of the Pre-Star Wars sci-fi films. By fnord12 | April 9, 2010, 4:10 PM | Movies & Star Wars| Link
I just wanted to write "Diiiiiiiiplomatic imuuuuuuuunity!" TPM: 'Diplo Immunity Ain't Kryptonite, Buddy' Update: This is really turning into quite a tale. This graph from the Times ... I mean, are we really to believe that this guy took his having diplomatic immunity as free rein to crack a joke about need to light his shoe bomb? I'm curious whether under international law a diplomat can be expelled from a host country simply for being a raging c@#k. By fnord12 | April 8, 2010, 8:59 AM | Ummm... Other?| Link
Recap Even the bullet points are too long. But it's still eeeeeeeeeevil:  By fnord12 | April 7, 2010, 6:00 PM | D&D| Link
Seth Green to make Star Wars comedy show Here. By fnord12 | April 5, 2010, 10:56 PM | Star Wars| Link Fair Enough If a player wants to, they can import their "Dead Warden" into Awakening and play as them. For the story it's assumed that they didn't make the ultimate sacrifice, instead somehow survived. A player would start as the same level with the same gear as their "Dead Warden". Essentially, if a player doesn't have a problem hand-waiving the story in this regard - neither do we. Also:
By fnord12 | April 5, 2010, 5:47 PM | Video Games | Comments (1) | Link OKCupid fun with charts & political leanings By fnord12 | April 5, 2010, 3:30 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link
Not for you This post isn't really for anyone except myself. It's to remind me to read this Roundtable Review of X-Men: Second Coming after i actually read the issue. But, uh, since you're here, how ya doin'? Read any good comics lately? By fnord12 | April 2, 2010, 3:01 PM | Comics | Comments (1) | Link
Scar My Tattered Body No More With Your Punishing Dildo Mallet By fnord12 | April 1, 2010, 8:40 PM | Ummm... Other?| Link Marvel Sales By fnord12 | April 1, 2010, 2:57 PM | Comics| Link |
