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School Mistakes Huge Burrito for a Weapon Brick sent this one in.

"There needs to be security before the kids walk through the door," said Heather Black, whose son attends the school.

jm has passed along this link and analysis: Study finds female fetuses more likely to survive times of stress. The study concentrates on the time around 9/11. So, in 2020, we'll have a slightly favorable ratio of 18 year old girls, uh, I mean women, to 18 year old dudes. Maybe then CMU will aproach 50/50.

Some amusing photochopping jobs done on a baby pic. From Jay Park.

A brief history of internet time. A chuckle or two to be found. From Bill.

Since its inception almost 30 years ago, the internet has been transformed from a primitive device for sharing thoughts and ideas, into a massive network where people pay to connect and read advertisements they don't want, while calling each other "asshats".

New Strong Bad email. The last few things they've put out have been a bit off, but this one, while not a classic, has its moments.

Female sprinters do better after getting laid. The effect on female push teams will be left as an exercise for the 2006 pushers.

Roger Williams students start penis day. Includes a mascot 'Testicles'. Lots of pics. The students are now on probation.

Colorado recruiters tell kid to fake diploma and detox for drug test. A high school reporter wanted to see who they would take.

Female boxer drops the other female boxer in 1 punch. From Jay Park. I thought I'd throw this one on for good measure.

If there's magic in boxing, it’s the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you.

Tons of movie trailers. You can sign up to get e-mail when they're added. 'League of Ordinary Gentlemen' looks pretty entertaining. Strikes and gutters, dude.

Surfer almost getting smooshed by a jet ski From rcr.

Time Traveler Convention. The MIT kids are at it again. From oof.

I'm from the future, and I'd like to attend!

We're not sure how you're emailing us from the future, but we'd love to have you! Come as you are! No dress code whatsoever.

0-60 in 2.9 seconds in an Ariel Atom. 300HP in a 1,000lb car. You absolutely won't believe how insane this thing is. Rollins sent it my way, adding The best part is Clarkson's 'Oh my god.' I like the part where it races a CBR600. Wow.

Runaway bitch facing charges. This would be the idiotic ho that reported she had been abducted and stole about 2 days worth of news cycles in order to avoid... wait for it... getting married. Note to attractive, young, well-off white women: if you need lots and lots and lots of attention, just disappear. Make sure you meet all the criteria, though.

Restaurant offers 15 pound burger. Because when it comes to gluttony, no one does it better than the US of A.

Dubbed the Beer Barrel Belly Buster, the burger comes with 10.5 pounds of ground beef, 25 slices of cheese, a head of lettuce, three tomatoes, two onions, a cup-and-a-half each of mayonnaise, relish, ketchup, mustard and banana peppers — and a bun.

From Wes Mantooth, who reports In a completely unrelated story Ryan Jackson has been spotted in the area of Denny's Beer Barrel Pub.

Oof sent this: A British magazine recently ranked the 50 best restaurants in the world. To no surprise the several London eateries rank in the top; I have even eaten at #5. Of course, I can't help but notice the glaring omission of Chez Tom aka PiKA. Be sure to click the pop-up link to see the full list.

A bandage designed specifically for will and his love of bacon.

Naked dude goes on rampage (no pictures)

anti-santa show cancelled

More fingers

"I thought it was candy because they put candy in your ice cream ... to make it a treat. So I said, 'OK, well, I'll just put it in my mouth and get the ice cream off of it and see what it is.'"

All this News of the Weird comes from Derek.

Study: 209 animals sexually abused. All from Jay Park.

Most of the cases were reported by veterinarians and police after 2000, the study said. But it was not clear if sex with animals had become more common or if people had become more likely to report it, it said.

so in a way, it's kinda like kids who had sex with Michael Jackson...

Idiot dies trying to do move from GTA:Vice City. What could possibly go wrong?

What kind of English do you speak?

I'm at 85% General American English / 15% Yankee / 0% Dixie / 0% Midwestern / 0% Upper Midwestern

Judge allows 13 year old to have abortion.

the judge, Ronald Alvarez of Palm Beach County Circuit Court, ruled that the girl was competent to make decisions regarding her pregnancy and had the right to do so under the state's Constitution.

Follows up on this. You're only a host until your parasite is no longer physically feeding off of you.

Landing a Hercules C-130 on an aircraft carrier. They actually did it. Over 20 times. If you've ever seen one of these in person, you'll know how amazing this is.

At 85,000 pounds, the KC-130Fcame to a complete stop within 267 feet, about twice the aircraft's wing span! The Navy was delighted to discover that even with the maximum load, the plane used only 745 feet for take-off and 460 feet for landing roll. The short landing roll resulted from close coordination between Flatley and Jerry Daugherty, the carrier's landing signal officer. Daugherty, later to become a captain and assigned to the Naval Air Systems Command, gave Flatley an engine "chop" while still three or four feet off the deck.

Edmunds gets around to the Ariel Atom. Has some good pics and a little different perspective.

Dude chows down on KFC in front of protesters. Funny video. Apparently Moby was in charge of the protest.

April Car Sales are in. VW, Jaguar, and Mitsubishi tanking. Nissan and Toyota (helped by Scion and Prius sales) doing well. Trucks are taking the expected hit. Cayenne and Touareg sales are off 40%.

TSA selling confiscated shit on eBay. This would be Pennsylvania shit. These fuckers need each and every one of those Leathermen shoved up their fucking asses. I want my damn allen wrenches back, you fucks.

More reports of pharmacists that won't fill birth control prescriptions. Most people get fired for not completing their assigned tasks at work. If you need a login, check out BugMeNot.com and if you have Firefox, get the BugMeNot extension.

Brazil rejects US AIDS money. Too many strings attached that in their estimation would only make things worse. It's great to see the Bush administration trying to legislate morality in other countries. Way to lend a helping hand.

Vacuum elevator ready to go. Easy to retro-fit due to small footprint and lower cost. Could be convenient for older people or the handicapped. Or the lazy. Take your pick.

Vacuum elevator ready to go. Easy to retro-fit due to small footprint and lower cost. Could be convenient for older people or the handicapped. Or the lazy. Take your pick.

Paris Hilton wants kids in the next two years.

I want to have kids in the next two years because I know that completes your life. I've had so much fun, and had a great life. I've accomplished everything that I wanted to accomplish and I think that when I have kids that'll make me happier than I already am.

Stephen Colbert is getting his own show. Sounds like it's going to be Talk Soup but for political shouting head shows (Hardball, O'Reilly Factor, etc.).

The latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll. Bush's numbers are low, as are approval rates for 'Was the war worth it?' I'm still trying to reconcile some of the answers that seem to conflict, but there ya' go.

How Star Wars Changed the world All from derek.

Interactive diagram of connections and influence of LucasArts on film, effects, and video games

Lucas is a weird spot to start. Coppula and American Zoetrope would be a more fitting beggining.

Inflatable TV via Derek

2 Kent State douche bags say the Guard was right to kill protestors.

Another pompous jackass says no one cares about what happened.

Today is the 35th anniversary of the shootings at Kent State. If anyone thinks this doesn't matter to people, talk to your parents. If they think it doesn't matter, talk to my Mom and her friends. They were there.

Cupcake case protects your delicious snack. Better than a cargo pocket or saran wrap. Sorry to bite off of boing boing so much, but this is awesome.

Big Willy Ferrell hosting SNL in 10 days. Keep the TiVO fired up. Thanks to JT for this one.

The real Bob Saget. No mention of sucking dick for coke, but an interesting piece on the dirtiest man in comedy.

BAR Honda may be tossed from F1 for the season for cheating. The car was too light after the fuel was drained, which seems to indicate they are illegally using fuel for ballast. I'm sure Jenson is going to be really happy about this one. Wonder if he can still get that Williams seat? Oh, and Alonso says Ferrari is cheating as well. Sweet.

Student disturbs Ann Coulter visit at UT. He was wearing a Penny Arcade shirt at the time, so I'll swing it over to them.

The ad guy's starter kit. From ab, adding I especially like the heat test on the chin tuft. I enjoy the way it can slice fruit.

The google web accelerator. From JT. I've already saved 7.1 seconds. Wow.

Pat O'Brien's (The Insider) nasty sex calls to a co-worker. From Brick, who adds They're Awesome.

If you listen to Howard Stern, you've heard them...over and over and over. Hilarious. Oh, and he got interviewed by Dr. Phil tonight on prime time tv. What a douche...

Crazy online gamers are in Pirate clan. There's a transcript from a conversation between them and a game supervisor.

3rd season of Chappelle's Show delayed. No reason given, but I guess Dave's been sick.

TSA to start asking for full name and birthday. So while this may not seem like a big deal, I can only see it as the first step down the slippery slope. Given the idiocy of TSA, I can almost assure you that this information will be hacked and will be leaked and it will be of no use to TSA. Why no use? Because what criminal with two brain cells to rub together would ever register with their full real name and birthday? Oh, hello Mr. Bin Laden. How are you? Wait a minute... This birthday matches our records exactly. Get 'em.

Engineered Concrete can bend in crazy ways. It only bends at failure loads. It hasn't gotten widespread acceptance yet, but I'm guessing that's mainly due to cost. Installation coming to the Monona terrace soon.

BAR Honda lost all points gained this far in the season and will be out for the next two races. Look for them in Germany on May 29.

BAR Honda lost all points gained this far in the season and will be out for the next two races. Look for them in Germany on May 29.

Don't eat fish you're not licensed to cook. All from JT.

(From snpp.com)

Dr. H: Well, if there's one consolation, it's that you will feel no pain at all until some time tomorrow evening, when your heart suddenly explodes.
Dr. H: Now, a little death anxiety is normal. You can expect to go through five stages. The first is denial.
Homer: No way! Because I'm not dying!
Dr. H: The second is anger.
Homer: Why you little! [steps towards Dr. H]
Dr. H: After that comes fear.
Homer: What's after fear? What's after fear? [cringes]
Dr. H: Bargaining.
Homer: Doc, you gotta get me out of this! I'll make it worth your while!
Dr. H: Finally, acceptance.
Homer: Well, we all gotta go sometime.
Dr. H: Mr. Simpson, your progress astounds me.

Texas House passes resolution against sexy cheering. jm sent this and added: Yeah, I don't think there is anything I could possibly add. However, I do like this line:

He complained of cheerleaders "shaking their behinds, breaking it down..."

Buffett on nukes, corporate america, and taxes.

Annual Berkshire Hathaway's shareholder meeting. Buffett on nukes, $40 Billion cash, and not AIG.

Bufett's letter to BH shareholders. Really long but interesting insight into his business. [PDF format]

I didn’t do that job very well last year. My hope was to make several multi-billion dollar acquisitions that would add new and significant streams of earnings to the many we already have. But I struck out. Additionally, I found very few attractive securities to buy. Berkshire therefore ended the year with $43 billion of cash equivalents, not a happy position. Charlie and I will work to translate some of this hoard into more interesting assets during 2005, though we can’t promise success.

Kids can't detect slow motion in moving objects. So throwing the ball slowly to them is not helping. I don't know why I find this so interesting.

How to perform strong man stunts. Impress your friends!

How to avoid dressing to unimpress. From ryan. With commentary.

"Bermuda shorts and boat shoes with no socks. Who does that?

Today, the violators are more likely to be women wearing clothes that show too much skin, leave too little to the imagination and scream 'I'd rather be clubbing!'" I need to work there...

from hendrix: I would also add that this statement - Women in all professions should know they're not advancing their careers when they wear revealing clothing. is not always true.

GM debt cut to junk status. I believe Mr. Buffett was looking for some junk... Things are not looking good for the General.

Cliff Yablonsky makes fun of internet pictures. After clicking through and finding no pics from this site (whew), I chuckled.

Hedonistica.com Random videos/flash games, etc. Cool site full of neat stuff. There's another click/consequence game there as well. Not as good as the DeviantArt one derek sent, but there ya' go.

Paris Hilton disobeys the laws of grammar. Twice. On the same shirt. What an idiot. And if we didn't have previous evidence that she's dumb as a post, I might think she was being ironical. Update This may be the worst tag line I've ever come up with. I suck. That is all.

From Bobby D:

so this is kinda sad... but...

if you go to MuggleNet.com, there are a bunch of pics from the goblet of fire movie out. the one of the labyrinth is the best. and i am not going to be perverted and mention a few of them, but if you look at the picture of Ron in his getup for the ball, he looks just like shaun white a couple years back. its kinda funny. If you were to roll me on the 20-sided die of dorkdom, you would get a 21.

plus fleur and hermione are wicked hot.

Ron does look a little like Shaun White, which is weird. And Hermione looks a little bit like a younger lindsay lohan.

Search terms that lead people to bhendrix.com. I went through my logs for the past few months and pulled out all the search terms that people put into google or yahoo that landed them on bhendrix.com. It's a comedy gold mine.

Greg Norman's Yacht There are more pics if you hit the little links on the right that say 'Show all thumbnails'. I missed them the first time.

More explanation

From Nino, who adds When I saw the theater I fell silent. . .

Can anybody figure out how they launch and retrieve the 42ft boat from the deck?

Driving (or riding in) the Jeep concepts. Includes the Compass, which might be the stupidest car since the Isuzu Vehicross, the Gladiator pickup truck, and the Hurricane with the two Hemis. That thing got a Hemi? No. It's got two.

A ton of games - flash, java etc. The one called Space Dudes is pretty entertaining. A few of these have been posted here before, so they may seem familiar.

State board puts Darwin on trial. This is not an article from the classic Onion anthology Our Dumb Century. This is going on right now. In 2005. And it is real. I'd like to thank Kansas for taking itself off the list of Places I'll Ever Move.

The dude that got arrested for messing with Ann Coulter speaks. He was also the dude wearing the Penny Arcade shirt at the time. Ya gotta admire the balls.

When I want someone to know I'm pissed off, I'm going to throw down and give them a good shit-ruining. I wanted to show Ms. Coulter that people are down if she wants to hold a circle-jerk, but we're not gonna do it her way. Not me, at least.

Blogger reviews Revenge of the Sith. Miolla comments. From JT via Fark. The first comment about the review made me laugh. It's better if you read the whole review and then continue on to the comments.

No spoilers, if you're worried about that sort of thing.

Geek Hierarchy From Marissa, who adds Now everyone can know their place in the world.

Online people search returns crazy results. You can even find Tony F Hawk.

prince naseem hamad crashes SLR

From Jay Park, who adds can anyone say d-bag? D Bag.

The Dukes of Hazzard trailer. Flaming arrows are cool. Burt Reynolds is cool. Car stunts are cool. We'll see.

Guy that found frozen finger in custard won't return it to be re-attached. Anagha sent this my way. Then he went home, called the TV stations, hired a lawyer, and froze the finger, preventing any possibility of saving it. Update There's more information on the Kohl's web site.

Dead AIM

i don't talk on im but I always wanted to rename my buddy list. This one's all from Wes.

Whore College Offers Hands on Training. That about says it all. Thanks to jm for the link and upping the funny:crap tagline ratio. By a lot.

Clutch hitters do exist. Penn undergrad finds out who they are. Unfortunately, this article just details a few names, and no real stats. There's some talk over on a baseball forum and I guess he'll put everything up soon.

Top 100 travelers in Congress. It covers 2000-2004, as best I can tell. I looked through 2 or 3 lists. Some of these seem legitimate, like traveling to receive an award and address Meals on Wheels, but others, like a 4 day trip to Ameilia Island to give a speech to an oil group are reprehensible at best.

Kimi takes F1 flag to flag. Brilliant race for McClaren. Schumi retires, Rubens in 9th. Ferrari screwed. Alonso 2nd. Wow.

Ron Mexico sent along this insane rally drift video adding the drift at the end of the clip is amazing Indeed. For definition of countersteer, please see video.

funny stop motion video More from Ronny Mexico, who adds i dunno, the video's a little long, but something about it just made me laugh... a lot. The concept is kind of cool, but some of the stuff they did is just kinda ghey. Worth a look.

A pretentious d-bag pontificates for 5 pages on why he hates Brooklyn. It's like the gay male version of Sex and the City.

simple zombie shootin' game. From Jay Park, who points out that from the link, the game appears to be made by a CMU student. Whoever made it, it's hard as nuts.

New Weezer album in streaming format. It's from Weezer's myspace account, which means it's legit.

Tuner version of the Grand Cherokee. This thing ain't too bad lookin'. Stolen from Autoblog. Maybe it's a trim level thing. Base Mustangs look like shite, while the GTs look pretty nice.

A gnarly TV commercial. And by gnarly, I mean G-N-A-R-L-Y. Yoi.

Al Qaeda's #3 man not really #3.

Yet the backslapping in Washington and Islamabad has astonished European terrorism experts, who point out that the Libyan was neither on the FBI’s most wanted list, nor on that of the State Department “rewards for justice” programme.

Home Star Runner on NPR A profile of the brothers Chaps.

Guess the Google Guess the word typed into google images that returns the images shown. Thanks to Rollins for this one.

H2 with supercharger and 28's. Yea. 28's. Just under 2 1/2 feet for just the wheels.

Pitchfork Media wipes their collective ass with the new Weezer album. A perfectly crafted entry from JT.

Why Larry David supports John Bolton. If you've seen and like Curb Your Enthusiasm, you will probably spit up whatever you're drinking when you read this. If not, carry on. Thanks to Seth for showing me the light. The rest of the site is a mix of self-important wankers blogging about b.s. and some interesting commentary on things in general. Sort of like the web.

Firefox security flaw out and about. This one's from "Africa Bambaataa and the Zulu Nation."

To fix the problem temporarily, go to Tools->Options->Web Features and uncheck 'Allow Web Sites to Install Software'. This will disable extension installation. A patch is rumored to be afoot, and I'll post when it's available.

Study of odors and homosexuality. From Anagha.

Gay men preferred odors from gay men, while odors from gay men were the least preferred by heterosexual men and women and by lesbian women in the study

Sony and Toshiba come to agreement on HD-DVD spec It's not official, but apparently it's coming soon. Sweet.

Hamilton says failed blood doping test may be result of a vanishing twin. The premise is that the cells from a twin that is absorbed into the mother could show as another person's blood, which is what this type of blood doping is. Follows up on this and this.

From Dave: I have to decide whether I'm working for HP in Houston or Palo Alto for the summer by Wednesday, 6PM EST. Help me, bhendrix readers!

A bunch of nasty, foul, off-color 'Priceless' pictures. These are NOT SAFE FOR WORK. If you're at work right now, keep your job by not clicking on this link.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid offers debate and vote on a judicial nominee. The guy he wants to debate has been practicing law without a license for the past four years. Great nominee, Mr. Bush.

Dave Grohl beats throat problem with whiskey. naj adds I get it now. Its symbolic. Drinking whiskey at the door is a symbol, that your voice will now be heard. Genius. The Force is strong with this one.

there is absolutely nothing funny about this.

except the logo.

Frem derek.

singing cubes from hell indeed. On the other side of the tracks in hell. - ed.

the Experimental game project the goal - 50 to 100 games in a semester - new ones added every week It's from CMU and one of them is called 'A Mime to Kill'. 'nuf said -ed.

All from derek.

Stan Bush - "The Touch" From derek.

From Transformers - the movie

On a side note, Dirk Diggler sings this tune in Boogie Nights. -ed.

If you like cars even remotely, I highly recommend Dust to Glory. It's documentary about the 2003 Baja 1000, one of the gnarliest races in the world. One guy tries it solo on a motorcycle. All kinds of awesome trucks, dune buggies, beetles, and bikes. IMDb info

Harry Potter Goblet of Fire Teaser Trailer. With like, fire, and undersea adventures and stuff.

Yes. And he can't get a license in West Virginia. From jm, who adds This is suprising as it is almost heaven (rimshot).

Review of the new Nine Inch Nails CD

puzzle bobble / bust a move from Jay Park : a classic game (similar to snood)

Google content blocker

Stevie Wonder releases videos for the blind - narrated by busta rhymes

All from derek.

Kos on messed up Army recruiting tactics. He uses it to berate all thos that want war but don't enlist, but I just thought it was strange how far Army personnel would go to get people who are obviously not qualified into the service.

Several spoke of concealing mental-health histories and police records. They described falsified documents, wallet-size cheat sheets slipped to applicants before the military's aptitude test and commanding officers who look the other way. And they voiced doubts about the quality of some troops destined for the front lines.

Cheers and Jeers from Daily Kos. Always entertaining, always informative, and always on the left. An excellent daily read. Hook yourself up with the KOS RSS and keep your eyes peeled. And it's from Maine. How can you go wrong?

Firefox extension for over/underlaying Chicago train maps in Google Maps. Got Firefox? Live in Chicago? Need a train? Boom. Done.

The most photographed squirrel in the world. If feel for this furry rat. I really do. I think his 'Mom' needs a mental checkup. Thanks to Dave R and Dave Barry's blog for this one.

Dave D followed up on his summer plans:

I chose Houston. The main reason was because when I read about having lunch with Rollins everyday I orgasmed 6 times in 23 seconds, and then I knew Palo Alto would just be too exciting.

Honestly though, if anyone is actually curious about how I made the decision, talk to me offline (or on IM). Thanks for the input on locations.

Get Ron Mexico in your pants. The is from 'Not Ron Mexico or Norbs-aju-Mexico'. Also maybe NSFW. It's just a picture of a thong, though. No models or anything.

Firefox 1.0.4 out now. If you've got the 'fox, check in your upper right corner for the update arrow. Or head over to Mozilla.org and get the download there.

This latest update fixes three security vulnerabilities listed on the known vulnerabilities page (MFSA 2005-42, MSFA 2005-43 and MSFA 2005-44) and resolves a DHTML regression introduced in Firefox 1.0.3

NYT on how rap has become ultra-violent. This seems this comes up every few years (see: Cop Killer and Biggie/Pac), but the overall trend is toward increased violence. Bring back De La Soul.

Larry Flynt gets some swingin', sexy dirt on John Bolton. I don't know how much of this is true, but I'd like to thank Mr. Flynt for his work in keeping politicians in check. It's a crazy, mixed up world.

The Weismann GT What the Z4 should have been. Or the Morgan. Or the Austin Healy. More ice cave pics over here. The black makes it look a lot better. And what's up with the giant rear window?

Cave Chappelle rumored to be in South African mental facility. Here's hoping he gets better.

Mullen's Baby Photo (w/ a nice tan) This one's all from Nino.

An NFL endorsement for the Whizzinator. The Whizzinator site is probably NSFW. But it is pretty hillarious. Be sure to check out the links section and the comments/feedback section. Boot sent most of this.

Letters from Richard Feynman

Later pictures and observations showed that an area almost one mile in diameter was covered by a green glasslike glaze formed by melting the sand at the surface. The sand is brown, the glaze is bright green. It is a wonderful sight from the air.

The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to. A problem is grand in science if it lies before us unsolved and we see some way for us to make a little headway into it.

I was delighted too when I heard about the Nobel Prize, thinking as you did that my bongo playing was at last recognised. Imagine my chagrin when I realised that there had been some mistake — they cited some marks I made on paper some 15 years ago — and not one word about percussion technique. I know you share in my disappointment.

The lowdown on the RealID act. Explains why a national ID is a Bad Thing without going into hysterics. The worst part of this is how the legislation was attached to the Iraq emergency spending bill which couldn't be voted down by any senator for fear of extreme retribution.

Star Wars dork and his tats. This one's from Shoof, who asks What is this picture really about? The lame tattoos? or the naked chicks in the background? Either way, this guy is a dork. Oof's starwars tattoos look way better than this.

I believe she means the site oof submitted a while ago, unless oof has gotten some new ink. (Other than afghanistan on his arm, that is. And yes, I am a horrible, horrible friend.)

One Man's analysis of a death match against 13 Kindergardeners (sp?). The profiles of the kids are fantastic. Be forewarned of language and Hilarity. jm sent this along and gave props to JT's friend, dominator.

Will Ferrell Q&A over at SI No one's claiming this one. I enjoyed his latest outing, although it seemed to be his weakest yet.

SI: You're a USC graduate and an active supporter of the football team. Did you personally pressure Matt Leinart to stay in school?

Ferrell: I threatened him. I called him every week and I told him, "Look, don't be stupid."

The recently deceased pope has been pre-qualified to become a saint... From boot, who adds this insight:

Now all they need to do is spend millions of dollars collecting papers, listening to witnesses, writing volumes and oh yeah, prove that he is responsible for 2 miracles since his death...

Gulf Stream may shift From rcr.

"Without the influence of the Gulf Stream..., the weather in Britain could be more like that of Siberia, which shares the same latitude."

Will has refined his car-purchase list and would like other people make his decision for him.

Caveats:
no rear wheel drive
I really want a convertible, something I can't get with the RSX or Celica
price range: upper teens... so probably on '03 or '04 model for these cars.

I have citizens' bank. Their on-line application sucks. Here's how:

1) If using Firefox, you have to login, and it never re-directs you. It just sits. But if you browse away and then login again, it will re-direct you to your info. It authenticates the first login and upadtes your 'most recent login date' but then never goes anywhere.

2) IF you mess up the password, you can get in using your 'secret question'. However, they give you a choice of the four secret questions that you MAY have answered when you set up the account. And then you have to answer that correctly. There is no indication of case sensitivity, either.

3) They were doing maintenance this weekend on the system but didn't bother to put up a notice. They just failed all the login attempts I made, driving me insane.

4) After their 'upgrade' they now have a ton of entries that read 'DEBIT CARDnbspShop N Save'. Yea. These clowns don't know how to create a space using ' '. How much longer should I trust them with my financial information? Yea. Not much.

Krugman on the Downing Street Memo. The minutes of a meeting with Prime Minister Blair discussing the build up to the Iraq war came out last week.

C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regime's record. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action.

Clinton gets impeached for lying about a BJ and Bush and Co. are still in office? Glad to know where the priorities are.

Penny Arcade on Pirate-like people. I strongly urge you to read this site regularly. Even if you're not into gaming, you have to at least chuckle at the stuff.

I mentioned in my last post that J Allard looks like a pirate, which is incontrovertible. You only need to look at a picture of the man to see that he spends a lot of time swinging on rigging and generally being dashing. What you might not know is that Ed Fries, who used to run the games unit over at MS, also had a very sort of "have at thee," kinda "gesturing at the plank with a cutlass" thing going on as well. You can't really see it in this picture, but we met him a few years ago at some Microsoft thing. His blond hair softly feathered to each side and a Victorian shirt of flowing silk stated in a way beyond debate that this was a man whose mind was constantly dominated by thoughts of his doubloons - and vice versa. I'm not trying to place a stigma on those who engage in piratical acts - in fact, just the opposite. Piracy is wicked awesome. There's just something mysterious about the management structure over there where once you get past a certain point you have to start hoisting the Jolly fucking Roger.

Videos of one R. Mullen skateboarding. You'll need to click through to the Videos section. Prepare to waste about a 1/2 hour and you'll need something to catch the drool due to your mouth being stuck open. I've mentioned him a couple times before.

Court Lets Wine Lovers to Buy Out-Of-State This only applies to New York and Michigan at the moment. No word on how this will affect PA, because if the state bans any wine shipments at all, they don't fall under this decision. Thanlks to W. Mantooth for this one.

Mini limo This one's from derek:automobiles::slotted spoon:soup

but apparently 7th graders dont

Middle Schooler gets detention after hugging boyfriend. Whores. Lousy whores. This one's from derek:analogies::monkeys:thumb.

"I'm trying to understand what's wrong with a hug," said Swanson, 42.

Jeff and Bonnie Engaged Straight from Mr. Bricker's mouth: Hell has frozen over... I'm engaged (and yes, it's to a woman). Bonnie and I have no set dates for anything yet.... Bonus info: It happened on the NYC leg of the Good Will Tour of 2002. I think he means they met then -ed. Congratulations to both of you.

Lion defeats 42 midgets in Cambodian death match. This was sent in by Mayes's Alter-ego, which is really just Mayes, since everyone knows that his ego is running the show.

Some clarification

Corpse Humping in Halo2 Once you've beaten your oponent, feel free to 'crouch' over him.

Paris Hilton revealing a little too much. Saying this is camel toe is like saying Tara Reid was showing her cleavage. NOT SAFE FOR WORK. This was posted on Another Dumb Blog, which did that Corpse humping thing below. Reminder: Not Safe For Work.

All from oof: This just doesn't seem like a good idea. It seems that by taking this herb one begins to feel the affects of alcohol quicker. I can't even begin to list the types of abuse this allows. Boot and derek both sent this in as well.

From Dot: Always knew Bobby Bowden was an idiot...

Brother Bowden speaks his mind.

"He's fighting a heck of a battle because he happens to be a Christian, and he wants his boys to be saved. I want my boys to be saved."

..."The problem with us Christians is we won't speak out"

Kylie Minogue has breast cancer. From Will, who adds Boooooooooo. Indeed. Bob, please let us know if we can help with the candlelight vigil.

Your daily derek.

Virtual Drum Kit

Air Hockey online.

The 'race' to bench press 1,000 lbs. No one's claiming this one, but they added So you enjoy lifting? Working towards a target wieght? Maximizing your protein intake, and counting your carbs in hopes of reaching your target number of zero? Check this out... did anyone, except for maybe Nino, know that it was even possible to lift this much weight?

I thought I had posted something about this before, but this is just nuts. And those shirts are straight up cheating.

Nintendo Revolution details.

- Capable of playing every Nintendo game ever created as it act as an emulator for all past systems!

- Confirmed that all Nintendo content from NES, SNES and N64 will be available for download on the console.

PETA all up in some lab's grill about cruelty to monkeys. From ryan, who adds I've heard of the Donkey Punch, but I can't imagine what the Monkey Punch would feel like Indeed.

U of Chicago students start TheAssBook.net It's a hookup web on the, uh, web. Meg sent this one in adding we should start one for the u of c thetas, cmu pikes and cmu thetas...good lord, that's a lot of overlap! Uh, no.

Wendy's finger originally from PA. The guy lost it and gave it to the Wendy's chilli lady's husband. Yoi. Thanks to ryan for this one.

To have an open ended Episode III thread for all of us losers who are going to the midnight showing tonight…

Boot put in the request, I posted it. Yap away.

guy's GTI caught on fire. from Jay Park, who adds perhaps something that Will should scratch off of his list of cars to buy.

note to self: buy fire extinguisher for car

Pearl Jam, Black Eyed Peas and others to open for Stones. So is it okay to just go see the opening act and leave? This one's from 311's daddy.

100 best voices in movies. CMU alert at #9.

3. Christopher Walken - Cinema's most unique voice, Walken reportedly taught himself his halting manner of speech by deleting all the punctuation out of his scripts when learning his lines. You can. Understand. What that could do to your. Speech. Right? Anyway, we could use a little more cowbell.

Video of a team coming from 5 down to win state champtionship. This one's from JT. It's pretty highly compressed, but you'll get the picture.

Look, Nobody Cares That You're a DJ This guy throws down on DJs. Pretty funny. Be sure to check out the comments for a laugh as well. On a related note (stolen from jwz)...

One DJ says to the other, "Do you want to go to a movie tonight?"
and the other one says, "I don't know, who's the projectionist?"

English pissed about rich old codger buying Manchester United. The guy's an ass and he's most likely going to fuck the fans pretty hard.

This guy, however, can also suck it. If he doesn't think there would be a Pittsburgh Education Committee formed at the first hint of a whiff of a foreign company buying anything more than 2 season tickets to a Heinz field, he's the chief correspondent for fantasy land.

Tons of pics of hot cars - GT2s, 3s, Lambos, 911s, etc. Changing the wheels on a Ferrari makes baby Jesus cry. Thanks to Jay Park for this orgy of metal.

More coverage of the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray showdown. Neither side is willing to budge. Odd part is that they're apparently stuck on the depth of the protective layer. This just gets stranger and stranger. At this point, couldn't an independent 3rd party step in and help? I'm not talking government, but some sort of behemoth not beholden to either party. Mr. Buffett, time to learn about DVD formats... Additional note One of the comments is saying that the protection thickness doesn't matter. Can anyone figure out what he means?

Store Wars. Crazy video made to promote organic vegetables. It's not the great, but the concept is hilarious.

Gumball 3000 blog. It's going on right now, and almost over, I believe. Anyway, tons of info and links to other sites. There's an excellent rundown of the all the participants. What kind of world do we live in that Porsche 911 Turbos are run-of-the-mill? An excellent one, I think. Anyway, DC shoes is sponsoring this thing as well as fielding 3 WRX STis with full rally prep. They don't really foster deep links, so click through to the 'rally' section.

And while you're at it, check out the back story to the basketball shot thing, which is all real. Follows up on this.

Pencil Carvings

Lake disappears, baffling villagers From Jay Park.

Google announces personalization portal. You can get to it here.

JT TJ adds: So I tried this sucker out and you can drag yo shizzle around. It will be nice when you can start tossing your own rss feeds or whatever on there... Definately sweet if you have a gmail account, like google maps, google weather, the new york times, and slashdot.

Aside from the nice interface, I have to agree with the yahoo and msn folks quoted in the Times article. There's nothing new here, aside from the Google branding.

I Hate Dimes!! From JT who adds I stole this from Fark, but please view it if only for the Dimes Eat Babies! animation at the bottom of the page...

Dick compares Democratic fillibuster efforts to Hitler. See, in the Senate it doesn't immediately stop the conversation like it should. Read on for where he attacked another Senator for making a similar comparison.

Afghan Riots Not Tied to Report on Quran Handling, General Says This is in regards to the Newsweek article about the Quran being flushed down the toilet. Since you won't be hearing about this on the nightly news, I thought I should at least post it here.

However, Myers said an after-action report provided by U.S. Army Lieutenant General Karl Eikenberry, commander of the Combined Forces in Afghanistan, indicated that the political violence was not, in fact, connected to the magazine report.

Penn State prof theorizes that PA base was placed on closure list so Rick could save it. I don't believe it, but it's an interesting twist anyway.

Washingtonienne sued. This was the DC staffer that was banging a bunch of guys and then blogging about it. One of them was 'a Bush appointee'. Previous coverage here

Since gaining notoriety as "Washingtonienne", Cutler has signed a book deal for a reported $300 000 (R1,9-million) advance and posed nude for Playboy magazine.

Update Okay - there is way more to this. She broke the dude's wang. There's all sorts of legal-ese in there, but that's what happened.

Update II Anonymous points out that someone else was doing the wang breaking in a similar case. My Reading is FUNdamental books are on order.

If this were available for purchase, i would request that you add it to your collection. It apparently is not, so I will continue to hope.

-bth

New BMW factory. Auto manufacturing plants are cool. Lots of pics.

Not-OK computer: Cubs tell Zambrano to cut back on use. This is from 'who else', so I assume mayes (sperl and JT close seconds). So, he says he's on his computer four hours a day talking to his brother. I have more Bean related theories myself, maybe a revival of persiankitty.com. In a related story, Albert Pujols was found to be fond of willAndcharliemakeout.com.

Raikkonen walks away with Monaco. JPM and anyone driving a car that rhymes with 'Derrari' had a bad weekend. More information here with pics and quotes.

Porsche Cayman - Boxster coupe details w/pics 300HP; 0-60 in 5.4s Previously mentioned here.

The absolute height in web based marketing. jm adds I'm not realy sure what can possibly be added. Speechless. Warnings on sound and engineering content.

If only this were in Japanese, I could blame it on the crazy Japanese people scaring me again. And can everyone stop measuring capacities in '# of songs'? It makes absolutely no sense.

More of the puzzle-click thing. Part II of the game mentioned here. I can make a few complex chains happen, but it still doesn't get me anywhere. Suck.

The NY Times profile of my Senator. He's the guy that represents me in the Senate. Awesome.

But a Democratic senator who would talk only on the condition his name not be used said: ''I'm shocked to see him in leadership, because of his comportment and general disdain for everybody else. There have to be moments of compromise, but with him, it's his way or no way. He really is doctrinaire and sanctimonious.''

A long list of Democratic senators declined to talk, in most cases, I was told by staff members, out of a sense of senatorial civility; if they had nothing good to say, they preferred not to be quoted.

Dick did manage to get some feedback from Capitol Hill staffers: Wins in the "No Rocket Scientist" and "Biggest Kerry Attacker"categories, a bronze for "Biggest Windbag", and honorable mentions in the "CSPAN Ham" and "No Altar Boy" contests.

In the summer of 1999, Santorum gave a lecture at the Heritage Foundation in Washington titled ''The Necessity of Truth.'' It can be read as a distillation of his philosophy. He began by identifying what he considers an oddity of American culture, the ''paradox,'' he called it, ''of a people that strive to be both religious and nonjudgmental.'' He then moved on to his central theme -- that Americans of faith feel constrained from expressing their views in ''the public square,'' where legislation and public policy are debated.

''How is it possible, I wonder, to believe in the existence of God yet refuse to express outrage when his moral code is flouted?'' he asked that day. ''To have faith in God, but to reject moral absolutes? How is it possible that there exists so little space in the public square for expressions of faith and the standards that follow from belief in a transcendent God?''

Here's a hint, Dick. It's called tolerance. I was a Catholic for a long time, and I'm pretty sure they told me about it. Were you out that day?

Returning in 2003 to the Heritage Foundation to speak on ''The Necessity of Marriage,'' he said: ''The notion of a right to privacy is not about the common good, but about 'me.' Starting during the sexual revolution with contraception, it quickly evolved to abortion, and now it has found its way into today's marriage debate.''

You're damn right it's about 'me'. It's about ME living my life and YOU living your life and me not having to deal with your bullshit doctrine being rammed down my throat. See how that works? It's called freedom. When you write it like this, The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. it's called THE FOURTH AMENDMENT. You fuck.

His line of reasoning usually goes like this: The founding fathers were men of faith. They believed in a nation based on traditional, religiously derived values, the same ''moral absolutes'' that he finds in his faith, and to diverge from them is to undermine the health of American society.

Now where have I heard this before? Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; Was it some Sorkin movie? Maybe it was in Star Wars? Oh, right. The FIRST AMENDMENT. You fuck.

When I asked him if he viewed gay marriage as a threat to his own marriage, he answered quickly. ''Yes, absolutely,'' he said. ''It threatens my marriage. It threatens all marriages. It threatens the traditional values of this country.''

This country needs to stop electing morons. I don't care what their beliefs are, I just don't want people who are incapable of using logic and reason deciding the future of this country and the laws under which we all live.

Santorum told me that no organization, even one using tax dollars, should have to employ someone ''who is at cross purposes with the mission of what the charity is.''

Okay, Rick. Pop quiz. How do you explain the difference between this statement and that fact that you introduced legislation that would allow THIS VERY BEHAVIOR for health care workers who didn't want to perform some part of their job - J-O-B JOB due to their 'morals'? You know, the pharmacist that won't hand out medicine and the abortion doctor that won't perform abortions? Because you said in the legislation that they shouldn't ever be fired or eliminated from their position based on their views.

He would go a step further in loosening the reins on charities by letting them read from Bibles and speak of their faith. He said he did not see the difference between a Bible and ''the teachings of Aristotle -- that's a philosophy of life.'' He added: ''Here you have a book that's been pretty well tested over time. So to say, here are some passages from the Bible that may help you, I don't necessarily see that as a negative.''

Aristotle == Bible. Got it. See previous moron comment.

Information about the revisions to the PATRIOT Act

So this is how Liberty dies - with thunderous applause.

Bear falls into pool. She was okay after they tranq'd her and got her out. I can't stop laughing at the picture.

Charlie: Eh lieutenant, what were you doing there? Goose: Communicating. Maverick: Communicating. Keeping up foriegn relations. You know, giving him the bird!

The Rocks N' Rings guys. From Will, who adds Got this from the Sports Guy on Espn.com. Rocks 'N Rings = Bag of Dicks.

Oof this in: Seriously, this obesity stuff is getting out of hand. This guy had to get a ginormous coffin made. I wonder if he had to buy a double-wide grave site as well.

Letterman on Indy, auto racing, and cars. He's co-owner of a team with Bobby Rahal.

Q: You used to get in trouble with Connecticut state troopers.

A: I had this Dodge made by Mitsubishi, it was very fast and a great car and I put 160,000 miles on the thing. That's what I got in trouble with. It was silly fast.

For a long time I drove a Pontiac Fiero, and that thing wasn't particularly fast but it drove like a go-kart and if you had enough time it would eventually go fast. I still have that car and put a lot of miles on it, but it had a tiny gas tank and I was forever running out of gas.

Does anybody know what the deal is with comedians and cars? Leno, Letterman and Seinfeld are all car fanatics.

Poseidon Adventure remake coming.

The cast for the film includes Steve Guttenberg (cue Stone Cutters song - ed.), Rutger Hauer, Peter Weller, Alexa Hamilton, Bryan Brown, C. Thomas Howell, Adam Baldwin and Sylvia Syms.

This one's from Rollins, who adds: Greatest Ensemble Cast Ever Assembled. When making this movie they should be prepared for the universe to fold in on itself due to having this much talent in one place.

Students Who Get Drunk Weekly Have Higher Risk Of Injuries

According to the NIAAA, about four out of five students drink and about half of the drinkers engage in heaving episodic consumption.

Heaving episodic consumption? That's a new one.

Texas Representative throws down on gay marriage ammendment.

Members, this bill is about hate and fear and discrimination... When I was a small girl, white folks used to talk about 'protecting the institution of marriage' as well. What they meant was if people of my color tried to marry people of Mr. Chisum's color, you'd often find the people of my color hanging from a tree... Fifty years ago, white folks thought interracial marriages were 'a threat to the institution of marriage.'

Two book reviews:

Freakonomics This is the one by the U of Chicago prof that examines all sorts of societal notions to see if they're true. First off, this is a really quick read. It's about 225 pages, and there are no charts/graphs/huge tables that you'd expect with a book about econ. That said, there are some really interesting revelations within the book. Sumo wrestling is quite often rigged, changes in policing tactics in NYC weren't responsible for the drop in crime, and realtors have huge incentive to screw you. Most of them do have some sort of nuance, so when you hear people say 'The drop in crime is due to abortion' that's not the whole story. There are other mitigating factors, but most are not the ones you think. The book will get you thinking critically about challenging conventional wisdom and looking at what's really going on with a given situation using logic, reason, and facts. If you've ever spoken with my Dad about topics of consequence, it will remind you a lot of that.

In short, an excellent read in that you'll be thinking about the subjects (and others) long after you put the book down. I was engrossed by their data sets (and the stories behind them) as well as their conclusions.

Naked by David Sedaris Others put the Sedaris bug in my head, and I finally got around to this one. It's a series of stories about growing up and his family life. There are a few stories from later in his life as well. I don't usually find 'comedy' writing that funny. But somehow I found myself laughing out lout on several occassions due to the absurdity of the stories combined with the excellent writing. Some of the stories are better than others, but that's what you get with this kind of book.

Overall, quite an entertaining lighter read. I've heard his other books are excellent as well. And on one last side note, his sister Amy (mentioned a few times in the book) plays 'Candy' on 'Strangers with Candy', the Comedy Central show now made into a movie.

In the fillibuster battle-royale, no one was a winner. There's that saying that if both sides walk away unhappy, then a good deal was struck. I think that somehow managed to happen. Anyway, here's the list of Senators who sacked (or ovaried, I guess) up and made a deal. So remember them the next time you're in your place of voting. (And I'd sooner gouge my eyes out than support Lieberman for anything, but here it is.)

ps - Maine represent!

Spy shots of the M3, RS6, and 911 GT3 M3 - current version looks better, but I'll wait for the final version. RS6 - yea. GT3 - who do I have to kill to get one?

Carl's Jr. not sorry for 'soft core porn' Paris Hiltion commercial. This one's from Ryan, who adds

A couple of things jumped out at me

1) I loved their response. I've been dying for a company to do this. Guess we will see who wins this one in the end, but my guess is it will be Carl Jr.

2) I would start a boycott only because out of all famous hot chicks, they picked Paris. That and the line "It's a beautiful model" tell me Carl Jr is out of touch with reality and won't get any of my money.

If you're interested, you can see the add here.

Two idiots hurt in 'light saber' battle. Derek sent this in. Being the total dork that I am, I've heard conflicting reports. Best guess is they were lighting fires in glass tubes and it got out of hand.

The creepiest sex offender you are likely to see. This one's from Brick. This is the real web site linked off of the Lucas County home page. Doing a Google for him reveals 'internet knowledge' that he has Down's syndrome and a heroin addiction. He also has a LiveJournal. And the photoshopping has begun.

If anyone has space in their hotel room this Sat and Sun, can you let me know? brian@bhendrix.com

2 guys got stabbed in the ass Jay Park sent this one in, adding to the list of stupid people doing stupid things.

Amnesty International bitch slaps US Megs sent this one in.

"The U.S. government has gone to great lengths to restrict the application of the Geneva Convention and to 're-define' torture," she said, citing the secret detention of suspects and the practice of handing some over to countries where torture was not outlawed.

How to dance like a white guy. WMV Video. Naj sent this in, adding i can think of a few guys from the house who had a copy of this while we were in school and didn't share with the rest of us. Marooking in your direction, I''m looking in your direction.

And some things that you can't

WinAmp iPod plugin This one's brought to you by the letters T and J. It can copy and sync and stuff. Useful for getting files off a friend's iPod.

Slashdot article.

There are quite a few movies coming out that look like they're not going to suck completely (if only saved by someone in really short shorts).

Tillman's Parents Are Critical Of Army I'm not sure why this has come to a head now, but all reports are now that Tillman (the Arizona football star that joined the army and went to Afghanistan) was killed by friendly fire. His family is not happy with the government.

"Pat had high ideals about the country; that's why he did what he did," Mary Tillman said in her first lengthy interview since her son's death. "The military let him down. The administration let him down. It was a sign of disrespect. The fact that he was the ultimate team player and he watched his own men kill him is absolutely heartbreaking and tragic. The fact that they lied about it afterward is disgusting."

Links to the New Yorker piece debunking Intellegunt design. And news that Georgia has to take warning stickers off of text books. Nice.

13 Reasons to be glad Star Wars is done. It's a little heavy on the pretentious elitist stuff, but it's true.

Episodes I-III are mostly one thing and one thing only: huge exercises in CGI acrobatics, manic video games writ large, numbly awful movies full of fine actors reduced to stiff mannequins in bad monk robes and uncomfortable headpieces delivering stone-cold line readings seemingly written by that slightly twitchy tin-eared dweeb who sat next you in fifth-grade algebra, sweatingly.

Gay Test This one's from Brick, who adds Don't know if you've seen and/or posted this before... Either way, it's perfect for this site. I feel as though Mi-olé had a hand in this.

Oil Can Boyd is back.From will.

When a Red Sox game was postponed due to fog – in Cleveland – it was the Can who said, "That's what you get for building a ballpark on the ocean.''

Specter sacks up against Bush threat to veto stem cell bill. Me and ol' Arl haven't really seen eye to eye on much, but the effort is noted. For fun, please take note of the quoted dissenting Senator's home state. And then think back to this post.

"But if a veto threat is going to come from the White House, then the response from the Congress is to override the veto, if we can," Mr. Specter added. "Last year we had a letter signed by some 58 senators, and we had about 20 more in the wings. I think if it really comes down to a showdown, we will have enough in the United States Senate to override a veto."

Warning: Spoilers!

More Episode III information. This one's from oof via bean-o, who thought it was so good, he made two submissions. two submissions.

Scroll down a little to the Episode III paragraph(s). There will be a black-text-on-black-background block. Highlight it to be able to read it. In the paragraph there is a link to more cool (spoiler) stuff.

This information is more interesting than at least 1/2 the movie, and I can't understand why they didn't include it.

Northeasy drivers suck. Officially. No one claimed this, but I'm assuming Bob. They added I have never been so proud.

The state of Rhode Island leads the nation in driver cluelessness, according to the survey. The average test score there was 77, just eight points above a failing grade.

If anyone needs hotel lodging for this weekend on Sat and Sun night, send me and e-mail of give a call. I got a room at the hotel and at the moment it's just me.

Parody Flash Video Good for a morning chuckle. Has sound. This one's from carrema.

This cleverly titled movie leaves little to the imagination. From miolla.

So a kid dies. They take him to the morgue, and then he punches the doctor.

Fucking weird. All from miolla.

magic underpants from derek

From Jacqques: Hey fellas... I saw this clip on the Nature channel, and had to google it... During mating season, male Manakins perform a "Moonwalk" ritual to attract their mates... and by mates I think that means females, and not young male fledglings. Anyway... the clip is on CollegeHumor, but the Nature channel source legitmizes the documentary.

Bharath and Anagha's Wedding From Ren. The video in the Friday night section is poetry in motion.

Santorum loves puppies. The bill he introduced should help stop puppy mills. Which is a Good Thing. I can't help but wonder if there will be an ammendment that says everyone has to go through airport security buck naked. 'Cause if you vote against it, you hate puppies. Puppy hater!!

Maddox on Episode III Jim told me I had to post it. So I did. I will also do you the favor of telling you that there are major, major spoilers.

MTV won't let NIN perform in front of a picture of W. In other news, they will be promoting violence, misogyny, drug use and conspicuous consumption 24/7 for the foreseeable future.

Krugman vs. Okrent Okrent was the 'public editor' of the NYTimes (bias!! look out!!), and in his final column said Op-Ed columnist Paul Krugman has the disturbing habit of shaping, slicing and selectively citing numbers in a fashion that pleases his acolytes but leaves him open to substantive assaults. Kruggy did not take this well. The link has his rebuttal and Okrent's. It reads like bhendrix material. Crazy.

And the obligatory Luskind response.

Rules for driving in New Jersey Bean sent this in citing the recent 'Northeast Drivers suck' study.