This may have you rollinge on the floore laughinge.
Headlines In Brief
Senate Votes to Raise Debt Limit: Fiscal responsibility anyone? Eleven patients die in Eisai drug trial: So, I’m guessing the clinical trial was not a success. Elderly ‘don’t miss’ dead partners: The "grieving widow" scam comes to an end. Video Shows Iraqi Children Playing With Remains Of U.S. Soldier: Not exactly what we intended when we started this mission to … Read More
Drink To Thee
A company called Turn Your Head will craft a wooden goblet based on your profile [via Boing Boing]:
Goggle Earth
For those of you not "in the know", Google Earth is a typical Internet service which (like Mapquest) provides maps. The cool feature is that for much of the world, it also provides a satellite photo of the area. So you can (theoretically) see an overhead picture of many parts of the world. Internet sleuths have found some Google Earth … Read More
The Worst Web Design
Look, my blog is pretty bad, but this has got to be the worst designed website in the entire world: Association of International Glaucoma Societies (be sure to have your sound on)
Friday iPod Random Ten
Okay, let’s get it over with: All Of A Sudden – XTC Shambala – Rockapella Agony – Into The Woods [Original Broadway Cast] Good Vibrations – Brian Wilson (from "Smile") Silent All These Years – Tori Amos Concerto No. 3 in F Major aka "Autumn: III. Allegro from ‘The Four Seasons’" – Vivaldi, featuring Anne-Sophie Mutter Everybody Dance Now – … Read More
Mysterious Animal Stalking NC
Sploid reports: A bizarre creature is haunting the workers at North Carolina’s Tyco Electronics campus, and they’ve got the amazing pictures and video to prove it. Skeptics immediately dismissed the animal as a "fox with mange" or a Mexican hairless dog known as the Xoloitzquintle, but Tyco employees are having none of it. Witnesses describe the mystery beast as much … Read More
Friday iPod Random Ten
Dubuque Blues – The Association Blackwater – Doobie Brothers Schoolhouse Rock Medley – Brown Derbies The Want Of A Nail – Camp (movie soundtrack) Nights On Broadway – Bee Gees I Wish – Stevie Wonder Cruel Summer – Ace of Base (cover) Eight Miles High – The Byrds Love Me Do – The Beatles Breakfast in America – Supertramp My … Read More
Super Cats
How about a video of talking cats to start your day? How about a cat who got hit with six bullets, and lived?
Better Than Hoosiers
Yeah, I know. I’m probably the last one to hear this story, but on the off-chance I’m not, here’s the set-up. Jason McElwain is a 17 year old autistic kid who attends Athena High School in Greece, New York. Think Leo DiCaprio in "Gilbert Grape", only a lot more functional. He loves basketball but, lacking height and other skills, he … Read More
Why Charlie Never Returned*
Because he used the Boston Anagram T Map (click on it to enlarge): * Too obscure?
Trailer Park Nation
Sigh. The Vice President shoots someone in the face, and Anna Nicole Smith is now in front of the Supreme Court. What’s next? A worn-out couch just sitting on the front lawn of the White House?
Sex Offender Map
Go here, type in your address, and get a map of the registered sex offenders in your neighborhood. While it is good to know that I am within a stone’s throw of a couple of perverts, I have misgivings about the sex offender registry in general. Mostly this: any chance there could be mistakes made? Remember, the people who compile … Read More
Friday iPod Random Ten
Another installment in which my iPod embarrasses me and my musical taste: Real – William Shatner [Oh, dear. Off to a very very bad start] Brandenberg Concerto No. 3 – Swingle Sisters [Ah, classical. I’ve redeemed myself] Rosanna – Toto [Back on shaky ground, but I can still keep my head up] The Flower Duet – Delibes Lakme [A bit … Read More