February 2009
25 posts
“The only good union is a dead union!” Osama bin Laden stated in prepared...”
– Al Qaeda Leadership Gather For Secret Meeting. “EFCA is The Great Satan!” | The National Gadfly
(satire)
Would you still do whatever you're doing if Barack... →
BBC NEWS | Europe | Thousands protest across... →
Maybe the Russian people have finally had enough of Putin’s tyranny.
FiveThirtyEight.com: Politics Done Right: Just... →
Gallup is in the midst of releasing a series of data from the more than 350,000 interviews that it conducted over the course of its daily tracking in 2008. The first data they’ve released, on partisan affiliation, contains some sobering news for Republicans: That’s right: just five states, collectively containing about 2 percent of the American population, have statistically...
January 2009
35 posts
WatchStar Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it) on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
My friend Amanda had never seen a whole Star Wars film. When I asked her if she wanted to watch the original trilogy she said that she would, but that she already knew what happens. So I took out my voice recorder and asked her to start from the top. I then created some very basic animation in Final Cut to go along with...
“I won.”
– — President Obama, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, in response to Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) on why he’s not including more Republican ideas in his economic stimulus plan.
Bonus Quote of the Day — Political Wire
Inauguration Speech Generator →
Barack Obama’s Inauguration Speech
My fellow Americans, today is a fat day. You have shown the world that “hope” is not just another word for “Jew”, and that “change” is not only something we can believe in again, but something we can actually josh. Today we celebrate, but let there be no mistake – America faces lardy and gluttonous challenges like...
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THIS IS VERY HELPFUL.
The Dial Up Kid →
John Hodgman debates the existence of Chicago |... →
Random Japanese Obama Action Figure [PIC] →
5ives →
Lists of five things. It’s amazing.
FACES OF US →
A photo campaign created with the purpose of bringing the fight for LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) rights to the National spotlight.
Inspiring.
Project Cybersyn - Wikipedia, the free... →
Project Cybersyn was a Chilean attempt at real-time computer-controlled planned economy in the years 1970–1973 (during the government of president Salvador Allende). It was essentially a network of telex machines that linked factories with a single computer centre in Santiago, which controlled them using principles of cybernetics. The principal architect of the system was British operations...
How to Stump Anti-Abortionists With One Question «... →
Q: Abortion should be illegal, did you say?
A: Yes, it should be illegal because it’s killing a human person.
Q: And what should happen to women who have illegal abortions?
A: … Just pray for them. I don’t think they should have to spend time in jail or anything.
Q: So if it’s illegal, you think there should be no punishment under the law?
A: No, I don’t think they should be...
Carping Crusaders: Religious Right Whines About... →
Free Inauguration Cover Reprint from the New... →
Word Cloud Analysis of Obama's Inaugural Speech... →
Saddlebacking →
LOLIRONY.
“Saddlebacking: sad•dle•back•ing \ˈsa-dəl-ˈba-kiŋ\ vb [fr. Saddleback Church] (2009): the phenomenon of Christian teens engaging in unprotected anal sex in order to preserve their virginities”
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EFF Leads Call of Support for Live Webcast of RIAA... →
I kind of love these people.
GOP Congressman Intros 'Rangel Rule,' Eliminating... →
I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this — it’s very clearly some partisan nonsense meant to prove a point — but I still feel like it’s pretty cool.
The Raft of George W. Bush →
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Gay penguins wed | The Daily Telegraph →
This is so adorable.
Google Aims To Expose Network Meddling -- Google... →
“Vint Cerf puts out the word that Google’s Measurement Lab will make it more difficult for telecoms to degrade or block apps such as BitTorrent or Skype.” Internet freedom for the win.
Obama Officials Tell Citibank To Ditch Plans For... →
Man smears feces on his lawyer, flings it at jury... →
FOXNews.com - Hackers Crack Into Texas Road Sign,... →