Saturday, October 02, 2004

Keeping America Safe from John Kerry quotes Rather than force people to read actual quotes fron John Kerry, reporter Carl Cameron makes some better ones up and they just happen to wind up on the Fox News site. They invent, you decide. Fox News publishes made-up Kerry quotes, then pulls story without comment. Mark Frauenfelder: According to Talking Points Memo, Fox News ran a story with made-up quotes from Kerry, then yanked them without explanation. Some of the quotes: "Didn't my nails and cuticles look great? What a good debate!" Kerry said Friday. Women should like me! I do manicures" About himself and the president: "I'm metrosexual — he's a cowboy." Talking Points Memo has contacted Fox News for a comment. He's waiting to hear back from them. Link UPDATE: Michael McDaniel sez: "Looks like FOX News has retracted their story, now that they've done as much damage as possible with it." [Boing Boing] 3:45:21 PM     Categories: Keeping America Safe LiveJournal

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radaR's LiveJournal   3:45PM PST Artists are scary. Animaris Rhinoceros Transport: Not your typical day at the beach. We know this unhinged, genius Dutch artist created these At-At-Walker-looking creatues just so he could play lion-master with his walking stick (argh, stay back unruly beasts!), but thatā€™s definitely the first thing we would do if we encountered one of these creatures lumbering around the beach. The artist created these skeleton things, which he named Animaris Rhinoceros Transport, out of a steel skeleton and polyester skin and since theyā€™re almost 5 meters tall they actually move (must look at the videos) by wind power. The Animarisā€™ weigh about 2 tons each and can carry passengers, though the artist says that heā€™s going to make living quarters in the beast since travel can only be accomplished during strong winds. Right, good thinking, the artist also wants to set the beasts free on nearby beaches so that they can ā€œlive their own livesā€. Alright so heā€™s completely loopy, but in that brilliant ā€œItā€™s Alive!ā€ kind of way.[Via Near Near Future][Engadget] By radar@poboxes.com. Can you tell us, Jimmy Swaggart, when it is okay to lie to your god?. Moment of Jimmy Swaggart Zen. Xeni Jardin: During a recently broadcast sermon in which he discussed his opposition to gay marriage, evangelical telepreacher Jimmy Swaggart said: "I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry. And I'm going to be blunt and plain: If one ever looks at me like that, I'm going to kill him and tell God he died." Link (via Warren) [Boing Boing] By radar@poboxes.com. Stoopid peeple. A Little Short on Those Risk Assessment Skills (or: Expectant Mom of the Year). Bonus reading: Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker article Big and Bad: How the S.U.V. ran over automotive safety, in which the author talks about what people worry about when they worry about safety: "not risks, however commonplace, involving their own behavior but risks, however rare, involving some unexpected event." [The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century :: Joey deVilla's Weblog] By radar@poboxes.com. Sadly, I lack both a girlfriend AND a PlayStation. Help this guy find a girlfriend, get a modded PS2. Not quite up there with the guy willing to buy an iPod for any girl willing to pretend to be his girlfriend for a few days while his parents were in town, but some (apparently desperate) young man in New York is offering up his modded Japanese PlayStation 2 (with three games) up to the person who successfully finds him a mate: Thatā€™s right. Iā€™m giving my PS2 away along with some games all in the name of charitable contribution. Well ok, more like I scratch your back - you scratch mine. The premise is simple: When it comes to meeting girls, matchmakers always seem to deliver better than self-service. I am asking you to play matchmaker for someone who you think is suitable, eligible, and preferably legal for a late 20 something guy with lots to give and no one to give it to. I - after a yet to be determined period of time, will award (by hand delivery if I must) said PS2 to the matchmaker responsible for the most ā€˜successfulā€™ match. About the guy: Fun-loving, adventurous, laid-back yet responsible, Asian guy with a big heart possessing nice cushy full-time employment, living on his own in the big city, and solemnly losing all of his best friends to marriage and them becoming old farts. About the PS2: Japanese modified PS2 which will play any/all PS2 games regardless of region. Includes 1 controller, 1 memory card, and 3 games. Kindly direct all your match inquiries, requests, comments, and of course matches to: helptheguy@rayswheels.com Guess it beats offering a girlā€™s father 15 gallons of insecticide. [Thanks, foo][Engadget] By radar@poboxes.com. A special day. Today was a special day at work. For the first time. the CEO specifically identified a group that I am associated with to tell to fuck off and die. By radar@poboxes.com.