At least in this context, as Barney Frank isn’t afraid to call people who are so stupid that they believe Obama’s health care reform equals Nazis crazy and as much use to debate as “arguing with a dining room table”. More goodness here as well.
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Can you Handel this?
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain: because it’s been too long since we’ve featured them on this blog. Palau discovered them yonks ago, with a great version of Outcast’s Hey-Ya; this is entirely different but just as good. Normally I dislike cutesy covers like lounge versions of Wonderwall, but the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain is good enough and has a good sense of humour to make their versions of songs into more than just “ironic” pieces of fluff.
First Dutch airbike flown
A second year student at the Technical University Delft has managed to design, build and fly his very own airbike, an ultralight airplane powered by muscle power. It may have only flown for two metres and as many seconds, but it’s something to be proud of nonetheless:
Ironically, “luchtfietsen” (to airbike) has a negative connotation here in the Netherlands, similar to “pie in the sky” in English, meaning to make wild, impractical, impossible plans… Not so much for Jesse van Kuijk!
Somewhat familiar
The amount of damage our little horrors have done chasing flies or other insects and yet they’re completely useless when it comes to spiders…
Just like it was in the Warsaw ghetto
Israeli soldiers happily playing football with unseen Palestinians across the socalled security fence. Found at Lenny’s.