wow.
in Greyhound scraps ads after Canada bus beheading

"Not like the manly-man Technology bloggers, who are so manly, that they KILL THEMSELVES with manly HEART ATTACKS!11!!!1! " *snort*
in Blogging’s Glass Ceiling - NYTimes.com

Now if only the candidates had hired themselves a Dr. Funke's 100 Percent Natural Good-Time Family Band Solution-type band, the primaries would have been so much more interesting!
in The US 2008 presidential candidates as pharmaceuticals

I forgot about 2004: Give - The Bad Plus. I too had some trouble in certain years and had to decide between albums that I enjoyed a lot then versus ones that have meaning and enjoyment for me now. I also chose some albums for particular songs when I might not have heard the rest of it.
in Geeky list time: Pick an album for every year you've been alive | The A.V. Club

This makes me think of the Stanislaw Lem story "Uranium Earpieces."
in Norilsk, Siberia - NASA Image of the Day

Yay! Good for them!
in Flat Earth Brewery July News

but only sometimes
in Barack Obama and his iPod: Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen

That's wicked cute!
in Interview with Pixar animator, Angus MacLane, about his LEGO creations.

I wonder what portion of those searches are a product of actual erotic fantasy on the part of the searcher or a product of curiosity. "Oh so _that's_ what a dirty sanchez is...
in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Orgy : Sexual hypocrisy and the Internet.

I read "Odysseus' Bloody Homecoming Date" (on the thread bubble wall) and immediately clicked to see what that was about. I had pictured Odysseus as the star quarterback and Penelope as the popular cheerleader...
in Odysseus' Bloody Homecoming Dated to 1178 B.C.

The man must be paid by the word indeed! This gives Stephenson novels a quality of "I finished... now what am I going to do with my life?!" The accompanying music sounds like an awesome idea. I wonder how libraries handle the book + cd pairs, though.
in Neal Stephenson's new book, Anathem, will come with a CD of music.

Jessica : http://www.textarc.org/
in Cryptonomicon via tag cloud

"It tastes like punishment, all right."
in Taste-Testing Nutraloaf : The prison food that just might be unconstitutionally bad.

Very impressive sir. Excessive consumption seems so antithetical to veganism, the idea of it is pretty absurd!
in Vegan Competitive Eating

http://m.twitter.com/MarsPhoenix
in Twitter

http://www.last.fm/user/radioaction/
in Last.fm

Libraria :D
in Liberians tell stories of torture, pain to special commission

He also has 20/10 vision so he can read it.
in Rumors the Obama campaign shouldn't try to correct.

Ditto. :)
in Sexy Spring V, Minneapolis, MN

Stephen Phillips and other soldiers in his Army MP company were battling insurgents when his phone was pressed against his Humvee.
in Soldier In Afghanistan Accidentally Calls Parents In The Middle Of A Battle

"Maybe it's because kids are dropping out of school to have sex."
in How do you fix a broken school district?

Maybe that's why meat eaters find vegetarians threatening! They think we think they're racially impure and are trying to restore civilization with our spiritually clean diet.
in Meatless Like Me : Vegetarian Myths, Debunked

I'm not sure how to feel about the whole "compassionate" carnivorism movement. But I certainly don't agree that it's better than being vegetarian. If people need to eat humanely raised meat (as opposed to not eating meat at all) in order for such farms to exist (a goodness certainly) then there's clearly too many people not eating humanely for it to ultimately make a huge difference in American industrial farming practices.
in The best way to help animals may be to eat them (Dish)

I like the diagonally placed nipple piercings. Generally pleasing aesthetically and in this case they nicely direct the eye to the amount of time remaining before detonation.
in Best tattoo ever.

Another article on Gunflint from MPR
in On the Gunflint, time to plant

+1 for starting with a wikipedia trail.
in Heavy Load-Exerting Concrete Body and Other Structural Near-Analogues

I feel that opening up dialog on race and privilege through humor is a good tactic; it's a topic that makes lots of people 'uncomfortablz'. Particularly when recognizing their own privilege given to them at birth by virtue of their race. "I was taught to recognize racism only in individual acts of meanness by members of my group, never in the invisible systems conferring unsought racial dominance on my group from birth." McIntosh encourages white people to be aware of their "knapsack" and to not just disapprove of their institutionalized privilege but to do something about it. And if LOLCats are the vehicle for doing that, right on. I suppose it could come of as flippant or disparaging, but I believe it comes from a well intended place. Also I think that "white kitteh takes knapsack. moves to suburbz" is pretty frickin' hilarious. But maybe that's related to my impression that suburbanites here are afraid of Minneapolis proper as a big scary city (that also may have people with a different skin color than theirs). :)
in White kitteh takes knapsack. Moves to suburbs. More at 8!

you're one closer than I am jhota: me > Smith College Professor David Newbury > Idi Amin (Newbury attended his wedding of all things) > Queen Elizabeth II > Neville Chamberlain > Hitler
in Two degrees of Adolf Hitler. - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine

*high five* jessica :)
in Blogger proposes inside girlfriend's video game

Also, don't hang out with Dr Manhattan. ;)
in Why do we focus on the least important causes of cancer? - By Darshak Sanghavi - Slate Magazine

They Might Be Giants should write a song about *that*. :)
in Edison's last breath

jessica: I don't think it's inherently shameful to be intrigued by this at all. :) Intrigue is part of what's so great about this, that people will be curious and will be challenged to really reconsider the way they look at gender, sex, parenting, etc. I think that it becomes a problem when it's exploitive and when people just want to look at "the freak man that's pregnant" and make judgments about him and his wife.
in Pregnant man from Oregon to appear on Oprah show

*Laughs*
in Bachmann is pro-choice on bulbs

lol. This one hit close to home... 1,060 complaints in a year? Here at Minneapolis St Paul International we have a few residents that file close to 600 complaints a month with total complaints being around 3500-4000/month! Dealing with airport noise is not an easy task. For one, the airport authorities have pretty much zero control over where the airplanes actually fly, which is the domain of the FAA, but we get to deal with the fallout of such an emotional issue. It runs the gamut from people who are concerned about particular operations to people who call 50 times a day to people who scream and curse when they call. Things do change which expose people to noise where they had previously experienced little but increase in air travel and other factors mean the planes have to go somewhere over someone's house. Yes, it's frustrating when it's your house and it wasn't this way when you purchased the home or you didn't realize and moving is not a viable option or it's late/early &c. I sympathize but I also acknowledge the reality of the situation. Sometimes the pilot is in error or something else is amiss, but generally it's all just standard operating procedure and part of living in a community close to a large airport. I swear it's not some conspiracy to deprive anyone of sleep! /rant :)
in One man can make a difference! This one, for example, is responsible for more than 80% of the noise complaints to the Tampa Airport.

This is wonderful in so many ways.
in Japan Appoints Cartoon Ambassador

Credit for DST goes to William Willett (http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/willett.html). We can thank him for stealing our hour of sleep Sunday. *grumble* :)

in Ben Franklin's Satirical Call for "Daylight Saving" in 1784

I vote sacrilicious. I'm for anything that gets people to enjoy non-dairy 'cheese,' but I say that as a vegan and not a Jew. :D
in Kosher Cheeseburger: Sacrilicious or Sacrilegious?

you might want to ask the Fungineers about that :)
in Best. Fortune. Ever.

babel fishes for everyone! :)
in "Hillary, Hillary Clinton" vs. "¡Viva Obama!'

There's always an exception for Janeane Garofalo. :-D
in Ballpit, smaller than expected (that's what she said!)

*bows* :)
in Bush-McCain McCaption Contest

mass suicides of air traffic controllers soon follow
in 3rd Runway to Appear in Sheremetyevo Airport