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Monday, October 03, 2005
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Saw Nipsey once in Vegas, with Redd Foxx! What a show!
They always come in 3s: Bob Denver, Don Adamsn, now Nipsey Russell.
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Radley Balko at The Agitator points out that as pornography has become more and more widely available in the U.S. with the rise of the Internet, sex crimes against children, abortions, teen pregnancy, divorce, crimes against women, and rape have dropped. Of course, the U.S. is still worse than many countries on several of those attributes, as the earlier study about rates of religiosity showed. This would be interesting to compare across countries with different levels of Internet connectivity. This item via Ed Brayton's Dispatches from the Culture Wars, where you can find further commentary.
(Via The Lippard Blog.)
10:13:57 PM
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 You thought Mr. Coffee was convenient? Well, make some counter space for Mr. Beer. This ingenious easy-to-use kit gives you everything you need to brew your own tasty suds. It's the most advanced and widely acclaimed home brewing product on the market. And it's the simplest. [via] Link.
(Via MAKE: Blog.)
Yeah, but for just $69, you'll get much better beer and a kit you can reuse from Beer, Beer and More Beer. I've made a couple dozen batches from their kits (and a few of my own recipes), and have always had excellent results. These guys give really good services, have great ingredients, a terrific message board. Don't waste your time and get burned on the $27 kit, go, as they say, for the gusto.
8:21:41 PM
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A wikipedia entry containing collected words from The Simpsons of the made-up variety.
Skittlebrau should be real. We await the real life equivalent from some microbrewer/transvestite. Cromulent words [wikipedia]
(Via Screenhead.)
8:10:09 PM
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Tom DeLay thinks he can beat one indictment and be back at his Majority Leader helm in no time. But news is now just out that DeLay has been indicted by a separate grand jury on a different charge --...
(Via The Washington Note.)
7:46:06 PM
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Sep 30, 2005 - Cassini made its first flyby of Saturn's moon Hyperion last week, and took this amazing photograph. The spacecraft got within 500 km (310 miles), and you can clearly see how unusual this spongy-looking moon is. Scientists think that Hyperion is little more than a pile of rubble, loosely held together by its own gravity because much of its mass is just empty space. Hyperion is only 266 kilometers (165 miles) across, has an irregular shape, and spins in a chaotic rotation.
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(Via Universe Today.)
7:14:24 PM
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Cory Doctorow:
Nicholas Cage's new son is named "Kal-El Cage."
Link
(Via Boing Boing.)
I bet Jerry Seinfeld is jealous!
7:13:17 PM
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Condi Rice is "greatest fool ever" in State Dept (CPunch-Roberts)
Capitol Hill Blue, the Washington DC publication that cultivates relationships with White House staffers, reports (September 28) one White House aide saying: “It’s like working in an insane asylum. People walk around like they’re in a trance. We’re the dance band on the Titanic, playing out our last songs to people who know the ship is sinking and none of us are going to make it.”
“If POTUS is on the road, you can breathe a little easier,” says an aide. Otherwise it is one temper tantrum after another from Bush, whose “cakewalk war” has turned into interminable conflict, whose idiocy in diverting funding for New Orleans’ levees to war in Iraq was disastrous for the famous city, and whose Social Security privatization has been rejected by the electorate.
What kind of fool believes that the way to bring democracy to a country is to invade, destroy cities and infrastructure, and kill and maim tens of thousands of civilians, while creating every possible animosity by aligning with some members of the society against the others?
Condi Rice’s speech at Princeton has branded her as the greatest fool ever to be appointed Secretary of State. The same day that she declared, Mao-like, that democracy comes out of the barrel of a gun, Lt. Gen. William Odom, Director of the National Security Agency during President Reagan’s second term, a scholar with a distinguished career in military intelligence, declared Bush’s invasion of Iraq to be the “greatest strategic disaster in United States history.”
(Via robot wisdom weblog.)
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