"Spain has seen the future and it is slow, dim and uncomfortable." (The IndependentThey're heavily dependent on imported energy and taking a beating over it. The canary in the Western European coalmine, they know it's time to act. So Spain now has 50mph (80kph) speed limits, and among other measures has decreed that "air conditioning systems in ( Read more... )

If we really want to do the project of getting satirical arguments for or against ballot measures in the voters pamphlet for the November election, we don't have much time.

• The deadline for submission is Aug. 26.
• We'd need to raise either $500 or get 1000 signatures. Here's the form. Instructions are at the end.
• There are some seriously satire-worthy ( Read more... )

While we slept, they ran the Palio Dell'Assunta. I guess while i was thinking that maybe i'd try to watch it on a TV, i didn't really think about the time difference.

Leocorno won.

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The slamming-into-walls bit is a bit shocking, but the part i can't get over is the mobbing at the end.

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first, harmless manipulation.
i need someone to make music using this sound: baby crocodiles.

second, seriously misguided.A research team led by Professor Junichi Takahashi at Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine has discovered that cattle developing nitrite poisoning do not release methane by belching. They also found that ( Read more... )

what does it mean when the guy who makes your bagel says, as he hands it to you, "you should go to Disneyland and take me with you ( Read more... )

Based on the lj interests lists of those who share my more unusual interests, the interests suggestion meme thinks ( i might be jesse )

So on Wednesday morning, conform and i attended our very first City Council meeting, to see them unanimously pass a resolution sending the city's castoff computers to Free Geek. That was pretty exciting, and will be a good thing for Free Geek. (If you live in town, consider sending a nice note to the council members, eh ( Read more... )

I idly checked the list of co-sponsors of HR 6003, fully expecting to see Mr. Blumenauer there, given his position on trains. I didn't. I wonder why.

Update 5/27: I was curious enough to send him an email to ask why.