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“YO! MS Raps!” Remember when 45 whole k of memory was like woah, dude? Happy days. Here’s a very silly rapping Microsoft training video for the MS-Dos 5.0 upgrade.
“Gimme 5.0!” Watch it and cringe.
McDonald’s Worker Wins Hoax Strip-Search Suit
US produce is being left to rot in the fields because of the right-wing immigration backlash. Prison labour is being used to make up the shortfall. Expect price rises and shortages.
Guidebook issued for Muslims in space Which way is Mecca when there’s no compass?
Even a cuckoo clock needs love…
Thinking about a kitchen update? You can keep your Corian and your hand-hewn granite: this interactive LED-loaded worktop is what I want in my kitchen.
Are you against the Iraq War? Hate Bushco? Nonviolent protestor? Hoping you’re going to escape to Canada if it all goes to shit? Well, think again:
FBI Puts Antiwar Protesters on Criminal Database; Canada Uses It To Ban Protesters From Entry
“The FBI’s placing of peace activists on an international criminal database is blatant political intimidation of US citizens opposed to Bush administration policies,” says Colonel Wright, who was also Deputy US Ambassador in four countries. “The Canadian government should certainly not accept this FBI database”
Awwwww. A stray 6-week-old calico kitten accidentally traveled from New Jersey to New Hampshire in a spare-tire compartment.
US corporations are getting into international diplomacy, via lobby group Business for Diplomatic Action :
“Our mission is to enlist the U.S. business community in actions to improve the standing of America in the world with the goal of once again, seeing America admired as a global leader and respected as a courier of progress and prosperity for all people.”
What’s their solution for the US’ dire international diplomatic position? Kick out Bush perhaps, stop being such gungho assholes maybe, possibly change the system? Of course not, don’t be silly. It’s not what they do that’s the problem, it’s how we perceive it… so they’re going to rebrand America. Yes, seriously. They’ve got a real job on their hands.
Double awww: “Mom, is that you? Orphaned kitten is nursed by local dog ”
Wahahahahahaha. AP has the lowdown on the greedy, hypocritical life of slimy evangelist Oral Roberts and his spawn, whose fundy ‘university’ is being sued for wrongful dismissal.
Twenty years ago, televangelist Oral Roberts said he was reading a spy novel when God appeared to him and told him to raise $8 million for Roberts’ university, or else he would be “called home.”
Now, his son, Oral Roberts University President Richard Roberts, says God is speaking again, telling him to deny lurid allegations in a lawsuit that threatens to engulf this 44-year-old Bible Belt college in scandal.
Richard Roberts is accused of illegal involvement in a local political campaign and lavish spending at donors’ expense, including numerous home remodeling projects, use of the university jet for his daughter’s senior trip to the Bahamas, and a red Mercedes convertible and a Lexus SUV for his wife, Lindsay.
She is accused of dropping tens of thousands of dollars on clothes, awarding nonacademic scholarships to friends of her children and sending scores of text messages on university-issued cell phones to people described in the lawsuit as “underage males.”
What kind of parent names a kid Oral, anyway? You’ve got to wonder.
UPDATE: For perplexed UKians, Sara Robinson has a good overview of the Robertses, Oral and offspring, here.
Things To Read And Look At
Oh my lord. Pink guns for girls. What’s next, the Barbie AK47?
“Females want to shoot guns, but they want them to look pretty, too,” he said. “Guys could give a rat’s butt what their gun looks like.”
Experimental baking:
Sweet Corn, Maple, and Bacon Cupcakes and Doughnuts and Coffee cupcakes.
Alternet: The Federal War on Medical Marijuana Becomes a War on Children
Automatic weapons. Check. Helicopters. Check. Dogs. Check. Bulletproof vests. Check.
You may not buy the government’s characterization of its campaign against medical marijuana patients as a “war on drugs,” but increasingly violent, militaristic tactics in recent months offer a troubling glimpse into the federal law enforcement community’s mentality: To them, this is war.
Not that they’re obsessed or anything. A World of Warcraft wedding cake:
Science Daily: Racism’s Cognitive Toll: Subtle Discrimination Is More Taxing On The Brain
John Dean: The Impact of Authoritarian Conservatism On American Government: Part Three in a Three-Part Series
Under Speaker Gingrich as well as Speaker Hastert, who followed him, extreme centralization of the legislative processes of the House occurred. Regularly, GOP leaders wrote the laws themselves – often relying on lobbyists to do the grunt work of drafting – rather than abiding by the regular procedures of the committees, which hold hearings and have professional staff to draft legislation. When not actually writing the laws, the House leaders often drastically changed proposed legislation themselves, typically late in the evening when no one was around to contest their actions.
Justice for war crimes is possible.
Is it a cake or a baked potato?
Well, don’t send bacteria them into space then:
Microbes that cause salmonella came back from spaceflight even more virulent and dangerous in an experiment aboard the US space shuttle Atlantis, according to a study published on Monday.
Awww, poor little loves. Who’d want to shoot kittens from a cannon? Me! Kitten Cannon flash game:
Ceiling Cat is On the Ceiling
Party animal
A Sydney man took his highly agitated kitten to the vet – only to discover it was high on cocaine.
The cat, which had been accidentally locked in a cupboard overnight, also had benzodiazepines in its system, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
The eight-month-old Himalayan cat arrived at the Double Bay clinic with dilated pupils and a racing heart.
The owner said it had trouble walking and was easily startled, according to a report in the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery.
The cat was placed in a cage, began pacing incessantly and was too anxious for the vet to take a thermometer reading.
The vets and authors of the report, Dominic Barfield and Richard Malik, tried to take some blood but the cat was in no mood to oblige.
With no blood tests and no temperature to guide them, they questioned the owner again, who was adamant the cat had not been exposed to toxic plants, mouldy foods or drugs.
The vets rang the owner’s wife, who admitted the cat could have licked “plates of cocaine” after a weekend party two days earlier.
The red-faced owner was “remorseful” but, as there is no legal requirement in Australia for vets to report such cases to the police, he was counselled and allowed to take his party animal home.
What they should’ve done was tie him down and forcefeed him a kilo of catnip. See how he likes it.
Still Life With Geek
What Martin and the cats my loyal minions’ve been doing while I was away:
