Archive for September, 2005
Thus spake Antropologo
September 30, 2005 at 1:40 pm
Thus spake Evil Overload
at 8:15 am
“I’ve put on a few pounds these past couple of years, but I’m clearly below the limiting mass for thermonuclear fusion,” said Finkelschmidt, while patting his belly. “And I orbit the Sun, obviously. So technically, I qualify.”
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(via Monochrom)
Warning: Spoof.
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Thus spake Tycho
September 29, 2005 at 2:36 pm
Thus spake Tycho
at 2:33 pm
Thus spake Tycho
at 10:56 am
 “The change also appears to be headed toward becoming self-sustaining: the increased open water absorbs solar energy that would otherwise be reflected back into space by bright white ice, said Ted A. Scambos, a scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., which compiled the data along with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.” Crap. Link.
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Thus spake Evil Overload
at 8:20 am
Thus spake Tycho
September 28, 2005 at 10:18 am
For the price of a long distance call (free if long dist. is included in your cell phoen plan):
Governor Schwarzenegger’s office has opened their phone lines to anyone around the country wishing to express support for AB849 - the marriage equality legislation that the Governor has pledged to veto.
It’s all automated, you don’t have to talk to anyone.
FOLLOW THESE DIRECTIONS:
Call: 916-445-2841
Push: 2
Push: 1
Then push: 1 to support marriage equality.
Copied from the Stonewall Democrats.
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Thus spake Tycho
September 27, 2005 at 11:03 am
 A coworker sent me this. Look carefully at the picture. Don’t know if it’s been doctored. Willing to give the guy the benefit of the doubt…this time.
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Thus spake Evil Overload
at 6:50 am
The savagery and brutality following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans appears to be greatly exaggerated, Hindenberg-style. What is it about disasters that causes people to invent details to this extent?
“The vast majority of reported atrocities committed by evacuees — mass murders, rapes and beatings — have turned out to be false, or at least unsupported by any evidence, according to key military, law-enforcement, medical and civilian officials in positions to know.
“I think 99 percent of it is [expletive],” said Sgt. 1st Class Jason Lachney, who played a key role in security and humanitarian work inside the Dome. “Don’t get me wrong — bad things happened. But I didn’t see any killing and raping and cutting of throats or anything … 99 percent of the people in the Dome were very well-behaved.”
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Thus spake Joanne
at 6:17 am
Thus spake Evil Overload
September 26, 2005 at 7:36 am
“It may be the oddest tale to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico.
Experts who have studied the US navy’s cetacean training exercises claim the 36 mammals could be carrying ‘toxic dart’ guns. Divers and surfers risk attack, they claim, from a species considered to be among the planet’s smartest. The US navy admits it has been training dolphins for military purposes, but has refused to confirm that any are missing.”
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(via Warren Ellis)
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Thus spake Joanne
at 6:05 am
Thus spake Evil Overload
September 23, 2005 at 1:24 pm
I just found out that the Georgia School System will be closed Monday and Tuesday, in order to “…do our part to save gas during the crisis.” Well and good, so far as it goes.
However, millions of Georgians are, this very minute, thinking “Long weekend! Let’s go to the beach!”
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Thus spake Evil Overload
at 1:17 pm
As of 1:24pm CST (which I guess means 2:24pm EST):
“NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Rita’s steady rains sent water pouring through breaches in a patched levee Friday, cascading into one of the city’s lowest-lying neighborhoods in a devastating repeat of New Orleans’ flooding nightmare.”
“Our worst fears came true,” said Maj. Barry Guidry of the Georgia National Guard.
“We have three significant breaches in the levee and the water is rising rapidly,” he said. “At daybreak I found substantial breaks and they’ve grown larger.”
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Thus spake Evil Overload
at 12:32 pm
The homepage of this device is all in Deutsche, but it looks like it generates a bubble everytime someone views your website. Cool! Although, if your site gets Slashdotted, does it explode? Link
(Stolen from Monochrom)
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Thus spake Evil Overload
at 8:38 am
Thus spake Ennui
at 4:03 am
Thus spake Joanne
September 22, 2005 at 1:06 pm
Thus spake Evil Overload
September 20, 2005 at 10:18 am
Thus spake Evil Overload
at 8:10 am
Thus spake H
September 16, 2005 at 7:23 pm
Thus spake Ennui
at 11:35 am
Thus spake Joanne
at 7:33 am
Thus spake Evil Overload
September 15, 2005 at 10:56 am
 “It’s offered to your attention the “space pants” for macaque small monkey to wear it during the experimental space flight. This pants has been used for animals (monkeys) experiments in 1950-s - 1960-s in the USSR Institute of Biomedical Problems (IMBP, Moscow). The monkey’s “space pants” are designed with many clasps to fit bigger or smaller monkey.”
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(via Boingboing)
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Thus spake Tycho
at 9:33 am
The new Mazda Sassou hatchback will use a USB drive for the ignition rather than a traditional cylinder. Why not? You can put it on your keychain anyway.
“In addition to starting the engine, the flash drives can be used to transfer driving directions for long trips along with the latest songs for the day to the Sassou’s internal hard drive.” Link.
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Thus spake Evil Overload
September 14, 2005 at 6:09 am
“Here’s how it works: You decide on the amount you would like to pledge for each
protester (minimum 10 cents). When protesters show up on our sidewalks, Planned
Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania will count and record their number each day from October 1 through November 30, 2005. We will place a sign outside the health center that tracks pledges and makes protesters fully aware that their actions are benefiting PPSP. At the end of the two-month campaign, we will send you an update on protest activities and a pledge reminder.
Example: If you pledge 30 cents per protester, and PPSP has 100 protesters in October and 160 protesters in November, your donation would be 78 dollars for the entire two-month campaign…” Link
(Appropriated from Warren Ellis)
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Thus spake Evil Overload
September 13, 2005 at 7:52 am
Pat Robertson blames Hurricane Katrina on choice of Ellen Degeneres to host Emmys, on account of NO being her hometown:
:Robertson also noted that the last time Degeneres hosted the Emmys, in 2001, the September 11 terrorism attacks took place shortly before the ceremony.
“This is the second time in a row that God has invoked a disaster shortly before lesbian Ellen Degeneres hosted the Emmy Awards,” Robertson explained to his approximately one million viewers. “America is waiting for her to apologize for the death and destruction that her sexual deviance has brought onto this great nation.”
And yet people keep listening to him. Link
(stolen from The Day Jobs)
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Thus spake Joanne
September 12, 2005 at 12:04 pm
Thus spake Adrian
September 11, 2005 at 11:44 am
I just heard the Plaquemines Parish sheriff on television say that when FEMA showed up days late he asked, “Where in the hell have you been?” The representative said they assumed the parish was OK since they hadn’t heard from them. The sheriff explained that communications had been down for a long time.
Hello! Big-ass hurricane knocks over everything and floodwaters wash through. Does FEMA think that communications are going to keep working? If most people fail to call their mothers, and there are no disasters or bad weather or anything, their mothers will start to worry when they haven’t heard from their children. Put somebody’s mom in charge of FEMA, not the blasted horse show dude!
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Thus spake Joanne
at 4:46 am
When the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Michael Brown, promised $2,000 debit cards to Hurricane Katrina’s neediest evacuees, Susan Anastassiadis, who was watching Brown’s televised announcement Wednesday in her Deer Park home, sprang into action.
She phoned her cousin, Jewell Knobloch, who had fled her Chalmette, La., home, and urged her to call FEMA on the number Brown gave: 800-621-FEMA. Knobloch’s repeated calls from a cell phone in Baton Rouge were met with a recorded announcement that all lines were busy, and then she was disconnected. Hours later, Anastassiadis began trying on her cousin’s behalf.
For six hours, she got the same response - none - until 1 a.m. Thursday, when a FEMA inspector named Ann told Anastassiadis she knew nothing about the much-touted plan.
“I said to Ann, ‘This is something brand new. They’ve never done it before,’” Anastassiadis said. “She said, ‘Well, it’s so new I’ve never heard of it.’”
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Roberts was sworn in immediately after confirmation today. Let’s hope for the best. Link.
“The change also appears to be headed toward becoming self-sustaining: the increased open water absorbs solar energy that would otherwise be reflected back into space by bright white ice, said Ted A. Scambos, a scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., which compiled the data along with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.” Crap. Link.
A coworker sent me this. Look carefully at the picture. Don’t know if it’s been doctored. Willing to give the guy the benefit of the doubt…this time.
