Check out this funny anti John Kerry internet ad. Pretty funny stuff.

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Some British wackos want to bring giant toasted ants to your picnic. Link

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Shocking and macabre: Double amputee arrested in rape of 78-year-old woman.

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There is no plan in place for disposition of any of the properties

announced for closure. If you have interest in specific real estate, please send me your full contact information. In that way, we will have a way to notify you when a determination is made on that real estate.

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As you may have heard, the Archdiocese of Boston is going to close 65 churches. Link

I’ve emailed their real estate division to see whether they will be selling off the properties. Will keep you posted.

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I stumbled onto this site called rawstory.com. It bills itself as a more liberal drudge report. What I think is particularly cool about it is the fact that it utilizes several of the concepts mentioned in the article that ennui posted yesterday.

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In case you haven’t heard (or simply don’t care) President Adams apparently won the whole war between him and the UGA Foundation. The Board of Regents directed Adams to write a letter to the foundation notifying them that the University is ending thier relationship with the foundation. However, according to this article, the foundation might own the rights to the UGA name and Logo. Pretty funny, huh?

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Word on the street is that they’re gonna eliminate my department in October. I think my fork is broken. Where’s the spoon?

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This is courtesy of http://eponymous.no-ip.org/mt/.

FBI Apologizes — In other news, Hell Freezes Over

The FBI has offered a rare, public apology to the American Lawyer Brandon Mayfield whom they defamed by claiming links to the Madrid Terror Bombing of 3/11. Mayfield, an Oregonian and a convert to Islam, always stood by his innocence, even after being held as a material witness.

Apparently, the problem was caused by misidentification of Mr. Mayfield’s fingerprints but compounded by mistakes made by the FBI Analysts. Mayfield was picked up last month after the press picked up the story (possibly from a Spanish source) and the FBI rushed in to hold him as a flight risk.

“The FBI apologizes to Mr. Mayfield and his family for the hardships that this matter has caused,” the bureau said in a statement. The agency also said it would review its practices on fingerprint analyses.

Mayfield, a former Army lieutenant, was released last week. But he was not altogether cleared of suspicion; the government said he remained a material witness and put restrictions on his movements.

So, let me get this straight: you can be picked up by mistake, falsely accused, held incommunicado, your reputation shattered, in front of the American Media and after your innoncence is proven your movements are still restricted? I know I’ve said this before, but what the fuck is wrong with the FBI?

**UPDATE**

This part is the scariest:

According to court documents unsealed Monday, FBI agents began their surveillance of Mayfield two weeks after the March 11 attacks in the Spanish capital.

Under a provision of the U.S. Patriot Act, agents entered his home — but mistakenly locked and bolted the door on their way out. The family uses only the lock below the bolt, and they became suspicious.

Mayfield called 911 after he found the door bolted a second time, as well as noticing a man’s footprint on the rug that matched no one in the family.

After Mayfield’s arrest, FBI agents took the attorney’s computers, modem, safe deposit key, assorted papers, as well as copies of the Quran and “Spanish documents” — later determined to be his son’s Spanish homework.

“It was humiliating,” said Mayfield. “This whole process has been a harrowing ordeal. It shouldn’t happen to anybody.”

You know that friend or relative you have that always counters your arguments about the Patriot Act with assertions that “most provisions haven’t even been used” or “they’d be careful who they used it on and wouldn’t get innocent people”? Show them this article and ask them what they think now

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Cool article about earthshine.

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Find your spoon.

Oh wait, there is no spoon.

Do this instead.

Or this.

Or maybe this.

Actually, don’t listen to me. I spend all my time sitting around looking at this.

And lying.

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“The conversations portray a senior adviser trying to juggle foreign policy crises under a president increasingly distracted by the Watergate scandal and, on at least one occasion, too drunk to talk to the British prime minister.”

NY Times article here.

The whole poop here.

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This article takes a very good look at the impact of blogging on the world of journalism.

Consider if you were starting a “newspaper” today. Wouldn’t you want to facilitate exchanges with readers? Wouldn’t you want to encourage your readers to find out more than what you can publish? Wouldn’t you want to make it easier for them to take action? Wouldn’t you want to define and create a community? Wouldn’t you want to make your readers feel important?

Blog tools give you all that — not to mention the ability to easily and quickly post something you just found out about. (What could be more journalistic?)

Anyone who is serious about creating an informative blog should read this.

Link

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Contrary to widespread belief, the gap between chimpanzees and humans is extremely big, according to a study by an international research consortium. read this story

also of interest

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If you haven’t seen Honda’s latest UK commercial, go here. It is incredible. Using two of only six handmade accords(one was completely disassembled for the ad) in the world, the ad agency created a two-minute long cinematic masterpiece reminiscent of the old Milton-Bradley game Mousetrap. It took 606 takes, and absolutely zero CGI was used. Garrison Keillor is the voice at the end of the two-minute long advertisement.

More info, from the Daily Telegraph

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Ahem.

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Studies show that Athena Pheromones significantly increases the pleasure of blogging or being blogged.

Please note that Bored Athenians is in no way affiliated with nor do they endorse this product. We do, however, have a weakness for human pheromones.

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another day, another glimpse into the void that is human existence.

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Bush signs bills targeting spam, offensive names

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The subject line says it’s “re: our meeting.” But you open the email and it’s an offer to sell you prescription drugs or to enhance parts of your body.

Under legislation signed Tuesday by Gov. Jeb Bush, the attorney general could go after anyone in Florida who sends such email with a deceptive subject line.

The bill (SB 2574) gives the attorney general the authority to bring civil action against the sender, or anyone helping the sender, and impose $500 fines for each occurrence.

Bush also signed a bill intended to remove any offensive place names from the state’s maps.

It’s not clear how many such places there are, but the bill (SB 444) calls for a study to find out.

The bill says local governments would have to report offensive places to the state Division of Historical Resources, which would then change the names. It’s not clear how the division would decide what a slur is.

Another measure (SB 348) the governor signed is designed to protect government employees from fraud and identity theft by exempting from the state public records law social security numbers of all government employees along with certain other information on U.S. attorneys and federal judges.

Offensive place names? What a moron.

Source

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For the most part, they like what they see.

But we have found a number of instances of coverage that was not as rigorous as it should have been. In some cases, information that was controversial then, and seems questionable now, was insufficiently qualified or allowed to stand unchallenged. Looking back, we wish we had been more aggressive in re-examining the claims as new evidence emerged — or failed to emerge.

Now that’s what I call journalistic integrity!

Read it!

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“IN DUE RESPECT I WOULD LIKE TO DISCLOSE A MUTUAL TRANSACTION WITH YOU. IAM MR.NDONG MICHAEL. THE DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL SECURITY COMPANY AFFILIATED OFFICE HERE IN LIBREVILLE GABON, IN CENTRAL REPUBLIC OF AFRICA.”

Wow! It’s been a while since I had one of these. You’d think by now everyone would have heard of this, and they would have stopped trying, but no! I guess they’re counting on sheer perserverance. The tricky thing about this scam, is that you have to give the victim a valid email address through which to contact you, in this case: michaelndong@z6.com

Anyone who feels like it should feel free to sign up Mr. Ndong for magazine subscriptions, product updates, porn ads, or anything else to help him get the most use possible out of this email address.

What the hell is the Central Republic of Africa, anyway? I wonder if it’s next to the Central African Republic.

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A new network is coming to town.

This one is for gays and lesbians!

This is either MTV’s way of trying to redeem itself for turning a really good thing into a really bad hip-hop frat party for the sake of money or just another great way for them to rake in the dough.

LOGO will launch in February 2005.

Link

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Well, so I hear.

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Two great tools, now combined! Victorinox has decided to start integrating electronics into their products, since they had already put every conceivable non-electronic tool on a folding knife. They’re also planning to produce an air-travel version with no blades, damn these silly times we live in. I don’t know what the red light is meant to be, but I’m going to believe that it’s an infrared port until proven otherwise. Link

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This article from Wired discusses the inclusion of addictive, sometimes deadly drugs into massively-multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG’s):

“Achaea characters who take gleam get hooked quickly — suffering typical addiction symptoms: violent vomiting, shivering, irrational sobbing, begging for the drug and even overdoses resulting in death. Some of the game’s players are angry about gleam’s introduction into their world.”

“It’s probably naïve of me, but I was a little surprised at the vehement attitude a few players took toward the introduction of gleam,” one designer said. “I have a hard time taking that seriously, given that these games are based on mass murder and the like. I mean, come on.”

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When you’re finally done making a film trilogy that required costumes for some 23,000 actors, extras and four-legged creatures; thousands of weapons; hundreds of sets ranging from a Hobbit’s shire to swamps and mountainsides, and thousands of props, where does it all go?

Link

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Any links that we have to Blogspot sites are not working properly. I find this very annoying. If someone can figure out what the deal is and how to work around it, please let me know. I have a headache and do not feel like dealing with this today.

In other news, we have two new bloggers to welcome. Everyone say hello to josh and Adrian Pritchett of Athens World.

Hi guys.

Blog on.

Elsewhere - I have heard a rumor about a new online music publication that sounds like it might be super neato. I shall keep you informed of that.

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Athens Weekly News is now a free ‘zine. Looks like Tony & Brad & Nick & them are really gunning for Pete & Flagpole & them. Could get ugly, but should be interesting.

I like both for different reasons, so I’m not taking sides.

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This is a very interesting interview with Mark Whitaker, editor of Newsweek. If you like this kind of stuff.

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