They are all the rage these days. Above: The Orange Line of the Boston MTA
Our Solar System
This is pretty cool. This webpage shows a scaled version of our solar system, where 1 pixel equals about 1000 kilometers. You start off at the sun, and you scroll to the right until you hit Mercury. Then Venus. Then Earth, and so on. Not only are the distances between the planets to scale, but the planet sizes are to … Read More
He Forgot To Bring The Funny
The Redstate post entitled "Boston Red Sox As Washington Politicians" naturally caught my eye, but I failed to crack so much as a smile.
Or You Could Get A Girlfriend…
Kevin McCormick had an epiphany one day: One day, I had to face the facts: I had no idea how to dress myself. After going through old yearbooks and photographs, I came to the stunning realization that I needed serious help with my wardrobe. So, at first I did what most people would do. I went to others for advice. … Read More
Bush Knew In Advance About Cheney Shooting
From The Onion: White House Had Prior Knowledge Of Cheney Threat Aug. 2005 Briefing Warned, ‘Cheney Determined To Shoot Old Man In Face’ February 20, 2006 | Issue 42•08 WASHINGTON, DC—Government documents declassified today reveal that President Bush was briefed last summer of "a substantial risk" that Vice President Dick Cheney would shoot an elderly male in the face sometime … Read More
Excerpts From Harry Whittington’s Blog
Harry Whittington’s Blog: Have you ever been in a situation where somebody you thought was your friend did something that hurt you very much, and then they tried to blame it on you? And then that person waited 18 hours to report it to the media, and that person’s colleagues tried to make a joke out of it, until you … Read More
Mystery Solved
The following is from the State of Ohio’s missing person’s database: Raymond Power Jr AKA: Missing Since: 8/2/2005 Sex Male Race White Age 57 DOB 08/25/48 Hgt 5Ft9In Wgt 190 Hair Grey Eye Blue Raymond Power Jr. age 57 was reported by his wife Jane as missing to New Rochelle NY Police on Tuesday August 2, 2005. Ray is an … Read More
Damon Sez Goodbye
Johnny Damon takes out a full-page ad in the Boston Globe (replicated here) to say goodbye and thanks to the Red Sox fans. Nice touch, and he didn’t have to do it. However, Matt Rivers at Over The Monster, the Red Sox blog, aren’t not moved: My thoughts on the ad? Allow me to speak directly to the former center … Read More
Karma
In 1999, an 11-year-old by the name of Kevin Stephan was a batboy during a game being played at Erie Community Colleges. He was accidentally struck in the chest with a baseball bat. He collapsed, and his heart stopped beating. Fortunately, a nurse was in attendance, and was able to save Kevin’s life by restarting his heart. Ten days ago … Read More
An Open Letter To That Deer I Almost Ran Over
Dear Roadkill Wannabe: Dude, that was so not funny. What are you — nuts?!? Are you just some nutty nutjob who is just a crazy nut? You see that hard black path with a yellow line down the middle? That’s called a road, asshole! Cars drive on them! There was, like, 200 yards between me and the closet car. Plenty … Read More
Milestones
I guess I should take note of a couple of milestones: (1) I passed by two-year blogging anniversary on January 21, 2006. Ironically, my first post was about the State Of the Union . . in 2004. (Although not really, because I was part of a group blog back in 2003. But whatever.) (2) My 2,000th post was written today. … Read More
Human-Animal Hybrid Blogswarm
Bush mentioned human-animal hybrids in the SOTU From Technorati, here are the number of blog posts that mentioning Human-animal Hybrids per day for the last 30 days.