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Hilarious and highly disturbing at the same time.
Iowahawk's parody of the Frank Sinatra song "Come Fly With Me", rewritten to be about the, um, new procedures at US airports. One of his readers actually sang it and made this video.
The disturbing part is that what goes on at the airports is real - and I am seriously NOT going to take a trip to the US until the TSA scraps it. -
Maybe the American news media are NOT liberals...
A new article at Reason.com proposes that the mainstream media are authoritarians, citing how newspapers have been reluctant to take a stand against policies such as the War on Drugs and eminent domain, policies which liberals and progressives often oppose ( Read more... ) -
NaNoWriMo starts tomo-rrow!
Yes, 50000 words in 30 days...and I haven't even been to the forums much, let alone posted on them ( Read more... ) -
Good News Spot
Read this in the local newspaper: New automated dairy farm system lets the cows decide when they want to be milkedThis sounds like an innovation that's going to be great for both the cows and the farmer, and likely to be adopted widely in New Zealand (and maybe the rest of the world) in a few years. It costs around the same amount as a traditional ( Read more... ) -
What if EVERY website got a movie? Cracked.com answers...
I just saw a poster for the Facebook movie yesterday, so I thought it was appropriate to share this. Cracked.com had a photoshop contest in which they asked: What if EVERY website got a movie adaptationSome of the contest posters were scary or disturbing, but I loved this one. I'd watch it if Pixar actually decided to do the adaptation, actually ( Read more... ) -
The tendency to react
I wonder why it is that every time somebody lectures about a bad habit which I agree I need to work on (such as eating unhealthy foods, self-obsession, or overuse of the Internet), and they do it in a particular preachy way, my instinctive reaction is to reject their entire message.
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A tale of wanton procrastination
Ah, paperwork filing. I had some which had been sitting in a drawer for ages, with me not having gotten around to putting them in the right Manila folders for ages ( Read more... )
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