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Oct. 31st, 2006 12:12 amToday was Monday - meaning that while I agonized about it, I managed to avoid doing any significant work in favor of letting myself rest a bit. I'm slowly working my way through Okami, trying to make sure I get as many goodies as possible on the first pass, so that I don't need a second one.
There's a lot more stuff that I got this time around than usual - so be prepared for significantly higher amounts of following me about the insanity of the Internet.
We'll start with something from Sesame Street before it became the Elmo Show. How many of us remember this particular character?
Tetris block shelving. Perfectly functional and makes showing off your video game skillz easy. Something else that might be interesting for gamer-types is a first-hand account of someone taking a drug meant to assist narcoleptics in staying awake. Late nights may be changed forever - although the Bawls are still probably not going anywhere.
In Russia, vodka reigns supreme. However, it appears that some people are passing poisons off as vodka. What's even more alarming is the amount of people in Russia that are being treated for this kind of poisoning - says something about the conditions of life there, doesn't it? At least it's not Iraq, where more than 100 soliders and many more Iraqis were killed this month. People who think this is a referendum on the war now should have voted on it back in 2004. But better late than never. And the LA times reminds us that in times of military conflict, you can have all the tech in the world, but if you don't know how to apply it, you will fail. On other news of quackery, just as serious as the tainted vodka, expired preegnancy tests were being sold as HIV tests to some Indian hospitals. Something that's at least fixable, hopefully, though, are the accounts of early voters that say the voting machines aren't casting accurate votes.
Would you (or your significant other) want to be text-messaged when it would be best to have sex that results in a pregnancy? In Japan, a new service has been launched that keeps track of a menstrual cycle. An average cycle, we note, and not necessarily one tuned to an individual. Still, I wonder how many upstanding, morally correct, missionary-only men and women would want such a service here. It'd be a good way of helping populate the planet with more people just like them. And such people would never, ever, consult a witch to cast a love spell, especially the witch who was ordered to pay back her spell fee because the love spell failed.
The War on Christmas has begun anew... and it's the malls that are firing the first salvo by putting out their Christmas things before either Halloween or Thanksgiving have passed. Remind your merchants, gently but forcefully, that while they have had this planned out since August, they need to remember to wait until December to do anything about it. Otherwise they look tacky. But Bill O'Reily probably approves of this.
I've managed to get my hands on a copy of a document that will shock you to the core. While everyone was claiming that there was a homosexual agenda or a liberal agenda, the truth of the matter is that the heterosexual agenda is the most dangerous threat to us all! Take it upon yourselves to read The Heterosexual Agenda: Exposing the Myths and educate yourselves on the dangers of heterosexuality and how insidious agents are going to indoctrinate your children against their will into this cult!
And when you're done with that, you can read How to Write an Anti-Gay Tract in 15 Easy Steps to see how it's all done.
In other oddities, guess who's at the top of a list just released by Afghanistan and Iraq Veterans of America in "Support the troops"? Why, the Democrats are. Apparently, when it comes to the vote, the Dems are better at troop support. Makes some of the Republican Party rhetoric turn itself upside-down, doesn't it? Assuming, of course, that the group releasing the scorecard is a trustworthy organization. (Even if it isn't, I like the idea of seeing the Republicans fail at troop support, anyway. See? You always have to watch for bias.)
Solar power's on the rise again - maybe those articles about unsustainability sparked renewed interest? (Or maybe those articles have people peering again into the solar markets, where there has been toil going on for all this time and is now getting noticed.)
If games are your thing, though, why not give a go at Skool Rools, a system where the daydreaming boys pit themselves against the sadistic hadmasters in a battle to see who can either pull off the most stunts or pile on the most detention.
Even after all that, though, we've still got people who are genuinely great - even though it was staged, an opposing soccer team let a Downs Syndrome girl score a goal. The contest wasn't in doubt, and both sides agreed to it. On the great parts, there's also this exhibit of Peter Callesen's cutouts. You can see how they were cut out. And then you can appreciate the mind that figures out how to cut and fold all of these things together.
Finally, you can have a good laugh at Indiana Jones's tenure-rejection letter.
There's a lot more stuff that I got this time around than usual - so be prepared for significantly higher amounts of following me about the insanity of the Internet.
We'll start with something from Sesame Street before it became the Elmo Show. How many of us remember this particular character?
Tetris block shelving. Perfectly functional and makes showing off your video game skillz easy. Something else that might be interesting for gamer-types is a first-hand account of someone taking a drug meant to assist narcoleptics in staying awake. Late nights may be changed forever - although the Bawls are still probably not going anywhere.
In Russia, vodka reigns supreme. However, it appears that some people are passing poisons off as vodka. What's even more alarming is the amount of people in Russia that are being treated for this kind of poisoning - says something about the conditions of life there, doesn't it? At least it's not Iraq, where more than 100 soliders and many more Iraqis were killed this month. People who think this is a referendum on the war now should have voted on it back in 2004. But better late than never. And the LA times reminds us that in times of military conflict, you can have all the tech in the world, but if you don't know how to apply it, you will fail. On other news of quackery, just as serious as the tainted vodka, expired preegnancy tests were being sold as HIV tests to some Indian hospitals. Something that's at least fixable, hopefully, though, are the accounts of early voters that say the voting machines aren't casting accurate votes.
Would you (or your significant other) want to be text-messaged when it would be best to have sex that results in a pregnancy? In Japan, a new service has been launched that keeps track of a menstrual cycle. An average cycle, we note, and not necessarily one tuned to an individual. Still, I wonder how many upstanding, morally correct, missionary-only men and women would want such a service here. It'd be a good way of helping populate the planet with more people just like them. And such people would never, ever, consult a witch to cast a love spell, especially the witch who was ordered to pay back her spell fee because the love spell failed.
The War on Christmas has begun anew... and it's the malls that are firing the first salvo by putting out their Christmas things before either Halloween or Thanksgiving have passed. Remind your merchants, gently but forcefully, that while they have had this planned out since August, they need to remember to wait until December to do anything about it. Otherwise they look tacky. But Bill O'Reily probably approves of this.
I've managed to get my hands on a copy of a document that will shock you to the core. While everyone was claiming that there was a homosexual agenda or a liberal agenda, the truth of the matter is that the heterosexual agenda is the most dangerous threat to us all! Take it upon yourselves to read The Heterosexual Agenda: Exposing the Myths and educate yourselves on the dangers of heterosexuality and how insidious agents are going to indoctrinate your children against their will into this cult!
And when you're done with that, you can read How to Write an Anti-Gay Tract in 15 Easy Steps to see how it's all done.
In other oddities, guess who's at the top of a list just released by Afghanistan and Iraq Veterans of America in "Support the troops"? Why, the Democrats are. Apparently, when it comes to the vote, the Dems are better at troop support. Makes some of the Republican Party rhetoric turn itself upside-down, doesn't it? Assuming, of course, that the group releasing the scorecard is a trustworthy organization. (Even if it isn't, I like the idea of seeing the Republicans fail at troop support, anyway. See? You always have to watch for bias.)
Solar power's on the rise again - maybe those articles about unsustainability sparked renewed interest? (Or maybe those articles have people peering again into the solar markets, where there has been toil going on for all this time and is now getting noticed.)
If games are your thing, though, why not give a go at Skool Rools, a system where the daydreaming boys pit themselves against the sadistic hadmasters in a battle to see who can either pull off the most stunts or pile on the most detention.
Even after all that, though, we've still got people who are genuinely great - even though it was staged, an opposing soccer team let a Downs Syndrome girl score a goal. The contest wasn't in doubt, and both sides agreed to it. On the great parts, there's also this exhibit of Peter Callesen's cutouts. You can see how they were cut out. And then you can appreciate the mind that figures out how to cut and fold all of these things together.
Finally, you can have a good laugh at Indiana Jones's tenure-rejection letter.
