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October 1, 2008 at 5:47 pm
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August 12, 2008 at 11:23 am
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July 7, 2008 at 6:47 am
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April 22, 2008 at 7:06 am
A CATHOLIC priest who floated away under hundreds of helium balloons in a bid to raise money for his parish is missing off Brazil.
See video here of him taking off here.
Only pieces of the party balloons have been found by searchers looking for Reverend Adelir Antonio de Carli off the coast of Santa Catarina state, the Associated Press reported.
Mr de Carli, 41, lifted off from the port city of Paranagua yesterday afternoon wearing a helmet, thermal suit and a parachute.
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(via Arbroath)
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April 18, 2008 at 7:50 am
Based on exhastive research (which for my attention span means ten minutes of dedicated googling), the French phrase “Zut Alors!” can be alternatively translated as “Damn!”, “Shoot!”, “Blimey!”, “Dang!”, or for some reason, “Holy Mackerel!”. “Alors” seems to literally mean “then”, and is added for emphasis, as in the similar case of “Merde Alors!”.
But what does “Zut” mean? I can’t find that anywhere, other than its arbitrary value as a mild curse word. Is it a nonsense word used by custom, or does it have some really cool etimology? Can I even spell etimology? These are the things that haunt my dreams and disrupt my toilet-time. Any Francophiles, or actual French people, feel free to chime in on this one.
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April 16, 2008 at 7:51 am
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April 11, 2008 at 7:37 am
Amid grain shortages worldwide due to economic manuverings and the global biofuel apocalypse, it has now become more profitable to grow wheat than poppies. That’s right. Mathmatically, the demand for wheat is overtaking the demand for HEROIN. There’s a solution that the DEA never thought of.
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(straight from Futurismic to you!)
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April 10, 2008 at 8:44 am
It’s hard to argue with success. Any organization that can remain in operation for so many decades and continue to turn a profit, while dodging law enforcement and getting literally gunned down by the competition, definitely warrants observation:
They’re violent, they’re ruthless, they have caused misery to many, but you can’t fault their business sense: mafia bosses know how to make a profit. Its practices may be largely illegal, but Cosa Nostra is not as retrograde, or conservative, as it has often been portrayed. Its raison d’etre is profit. Like any business, it is pragmatic and constantly changing to exploit new opportunities.Big business has learned how to sell itself to the public, with television shows such as The Apprentice and Dragons’ Den granting us a view of harsh but compellingly competitive environments. Businessmen such as Sir Alan Sugar, Duncan Bannatyne and Peter Jones have become unlikely media personalities. But the mafia has been using these methods for years.
In brief:
Rule 1: Submersion
Rule 2: Mediation
Rule 3: Consensus
Rule 4: Keep God on your side
Rule 5: Be politically flexible
Rule 6: Reinvention
Rule 7: Modesty
To the details already!
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April 9, 2008 at 7:25 am
Apparently this is replacing groin-shots as the topic-of-choice for youtube postings:
Girls fighting girls is becoming a troubling trend on YouTube, experts said.
A search for “girl fight in Florida” in YouTube uncovered a series of violent fights in Brevard, Volusia and Orange counties.
Experts classify the beatings as cyber-bullying, saying the girls can continue to torment their victims long after their bruises heal by posting the beatings online for the world to see.
Sugar and spice indeed. Link
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March 26, 2008 at 6:16 am
“But having such a big penis does have one drawback: it seems that co-ordinating eight legs, two feeding tentacles and a huge penis, whilst fending off an irate female, is a bit too much to ask, and one of the two males stranded on the Spanish coast had accidentally injected himself with sperm packages in the legs and body. And this does not seem to have been an isolated incident since two of the eight males that had stranded in the north-east Atlantic before had also accidentally inseminated themselves.”
Owww my damn brain.
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Thanks again, Warren Ellis
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October 17, 2007 at 5:27 am
Not quite what I was expecting:
This weekend I attended a small, intimate house party in Manhattan of mostly gay men in the media. I was sitting in the kitchen talking about Men’s Vogue and Lisa Kudrow’s The Comeback with my friend Mark when in walks: ANN COULTER. It was shocking to see America’s deplorable scion of extreme right-wing fanaticism pour herself a glass of wine in a casual white tank top and jeans (no black cocktail dress) and effusively greet the liberal media that she’s made a career crusading.
The gays squealed with delight. They all shelved their political beliefs and giggled to one another about the famous guest, cooing over how skinny she is and hovering around her waiting for an introduction.
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September 24, 2007 at 11:53 am
Never underestimate human ingenuity. Margaret has spawned an amazing variety of names, some of which you wouldn’t connect with the original in a million years. For example: Margot, Marguerita, Rita (!), Greta, Gretel, Gretchen, Marjorie (originally Margery), Margie, Maggie, Madge, May, Maisie, Daisy (!!), Maidie, Meg, and Mog. As for Peg, one historian writes, “the nicknames Mog and Meg later gave rise to the rhymed forms Pog(gy) and Peg(gy).” Can’t say as I know a lot of Poggies, and can’t say as I want to. But you see how Grandma Margaret wound up with Peg.
And now you know.
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September 14, 2007 at 6:40 am
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August 21, 2007 at 5:50 am
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August 20, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Aug. 20-27, 2007 - In one of history’s more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to reincarnate, is “an important move to institutionalize management of reincarnation.” But beyond the irony lies China’s true motive: to cut off the influence of the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled spiritual and political leader, and to quell the region’s Buddhist religious establishment more than 50 years after China invaded the small Himalayan country. By barring any Buddhist monk living outside China from seeking reincarnation, the law effectively gives Chinese authorities the power to choose the next Dalai Lama, whose soul, by tradition, is reborn as a new human to continue the work of relieving suffering.
Does this mean you can bribe your way out of the Wheel of Death and Rebirth? Link
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at 11:49 am
This article details some of the dangers to worldwide finance caused in recent years by overly clever financial wizardry. A fairly recent example of this is the rise of credit derivatives, which provided the financial incentive about five years ago for all the crazy mortgages, many of which are now in foreclosure, bringing about a growing global financial crisis:
The overall problems are structural, and include the greatly varying ratios between corporate debt loads and core earnings, which have grown substantially from four to six times over the past year because there are fewer legal clauses to protect investors from loss. They also keep companies from going bankrupt when they should. As long as interest rates have been low, leveraged loans. With these loans it is possible to buy a company with a very small have been the solution. Because of hedge funds and other financial instruments, there is now a market for incompetent and debt-ridden firms. When the Ford Motor Company announced last month that it was losing over $7bn annually, its bonds actually shot up 20%. The rules once associated with capitalism, such as probity and profit, no longer hold.
Call me old-fashioned, but I think this just goes to show what happens when you make money without adding value.
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(accolades and kudos to monochrom)
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August 17, 2007 at 5:33 am
It’s looking like it might be the US vs. the comedy duo of China and Russia, and to the winner goes control of middle eastern oil:
“President Vladimir Putin, Chinese leader Hu Jintao and other leaders of the SCO nations attended the exercise, which followed their summit Thursday in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek.
The summit concluded with a communique that sounded like a thinly veiled warning to the United States to stay away from the strategically placed, resource-rich region.
“Stability and security in Central Asia are best ensured primarily through efforts taken by the nations of the region on the basis of the existing regional associations,” the statement said.”
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August 13, 2007 at 11:36 am
Second Life appears to be made for people like Warren Ellis:
“And, sure enough, people started teleporting in. They’d stand and look around. And four zombies would appear and chew them to death. Again and again. After a while, repeat visitors got what was happening, and arrived with guns drawn, firing wildly. But with the land unsafe, the guns did damage to people too. The scene quickly degenerated into utter chaos, with people accidentally blowing other people away while zombies gnawed on their sweet digital flesh.
It was a wonderful way to say goodbye to the land. Of course, the people on the Army Of Filth group will never trust me again. This is why I have no friends.”
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August 6, 2007 at 1:16 pm
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August 2, 2007 at 8:15 am
Apparently, Putin’s administration has initiated nationalistic youth programs promoting Russia’s new ideology of “Soveriegn Democracy” whch promote, among other agendas, the creation of more Russians:
“Remember the mammoths, say the clean-cut organisers at the youth camp’s mass wedding. “They became extinct because they did not have enough sex. That must not happen to Russia”.
Obediently, couples move to a special section of dormitory tents arranged in a heart-shape and called the Love Oasis, where they can start procreating for the motherland.”
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July 20, 2007 at 11:29 am
Apparently Fox News, and briefly CNN, were running a story on Israeli spying in America, and since then all references have been pulled from large-scale media outlets. Anybody know what’s going on? Here’s one story about what all this spy network as allegedly been up to, and here’s another at Indymedia about the ongoing attempt to bury it. While we can assume that everybody spies on everybody else, the muted buzz on this seems to imply that it’s not the usual benign reciprocal spying among allies that’s going on here. At the very least, the idea of stories being killed, buried, and forgotten creeps me out more than their actual content. So sound off if you know more.
Update: Here’s more detail from Salon, which is the highest-profile publication in which I’ve even been able to find references to this.
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July 13, 2007 at 7:38 am
 UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer said: “We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area. ”
So they say. Link
(from boingboing)
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June 28, 2007 at 5:25 am
Provisions to make the RealID mandatory for all states have been slipped into the current immigration bill. This would override the objections of Georgia and other states that have come out against this national ID system. If the RealID becomes mandatory, all of our personal information will be stored in a national database accessible by federal and state agencies accross the country, which is not the best scenario from an information security and identity-theft-prevention perspective. If you don’t like this idea, now’s the time to write your senators. For you Georgians out there, here are links to the webpages for Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss, from whence you can email them your perspective on the issue. Also, here are details on the consequences of the RealID program.
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June 19, 2007 at 8:08 am
“But Mr Haq told the National Assembly: “This is an occasion for the 1.5 billion Muslims to look at the seriousness of this decision. The West is accusing Muslims of extremism and terrorism. If someone exploded a bomb on his body he would be right to do so unless the British government apologises and withdraws the ’sir’ title.”
If I was in charge, nobody would be allowed to encourage suicide bombing and get indignant about being called terrorists in the same f&%#ing paragraph. Link
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June 12, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Lest our minds inadvertantly drift out of the gutter, here’s a story of nonlethal weaponry gone completely absurd:
“The Ohio Air Force lab proposed that a bomb be developed that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soliders to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistably attractive to one another,” Hammond said after reviwing the documents.The documents show the Air Force lab asked for $7.5 million to develop such a chemical weapon.
“The Department of Defense is committed to identifying, researching and developing non-lethal weapons that will support our men and women in uniform,” said a DOD spokesperson, who indicated that the “gay bomb” idea was quickly dismissed.”
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(via Warren Ellis)
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UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer said: “We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area. ”
