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I am retard person 2007-10-06 10:25:00 Don't know how happy I am about finding this site today. Sort of a downer to find out that your name anagrams to 'retard person'. What are the odds?Then I found this site, where I became 'pants reorder'.Sigh, Charlie Brown. What a day.Tags:* comedy * humor * funny * silly * entertainment * pop culture * anagram * retard * person * pants * reorder * games * word games * Charlie Brown * sigh ...

Craig not leaving senate? But you said... ah, forget it. 2007-10-05 00:09:00 Wait a minute, what did he say? Let's re-cap:June 11: Craig is arrested by an undercover police officer at the Minneapolis Airport during a sting targeting "out of sync foot tapping, followed by amazing bathroom sex".(Read: Do you know who I am? You can't do this. Have you ever seen a business card like this?)July 2: Apparently unable to get his beat on, Craig is charged with disorderly (foot tapping) conduct, a misdemeanor, and interference with privacy, a gross misdemeanor.(Read: Does this mean no more bathroom sex?)Aug. 1: Craig signs a written guilty plea to disorderly (foot tapping) conduct.(Read: Okay, look I wanted some closeted gay sex. Big deal. You bet I'll sign, now leave me alone.)Aug. 27: Craig's arrest is reported in Roll Call. Craig later says that police misconstrued his actions in the airport bathroom and denies that he is gay.(Read: Huh? Wha? Just tappin' my foot to my own little beat, officer... Gay? I'm from Idaho, for Christ's sake. We don't do gay there.)S ...

Radiohead says 'you tell us what it's worth' 2007-10-03 01:20:00 Radiohead, the English band that hit big in '92 with Creep, are calling their own shots with their latest album In Rainbows. No longer under contract to any label, the Oxfordshire band has decided to take the matter of album sales into their own hands and has made In Rainbows available for pre-order download. The yummy goody fuzzy sticky sweetness here is that when you click on the 'view basket' icon after you've added the download to your shopping basket, there's no freakin' price next to it! Woo hoo - we da' man! We be decidin' what we be payin'!It's obviously got to go this way sooner or later, I mean, I look at those hundreds of CDs in my collection and say, Why do you have to be so big and unwieldy? You take up so much space in my life. Poo on you, CDs. Puh-poo. Sure, we've been able to pay for our music online for some time now. But I still have a bit of a problem with the prices. I mean, if I'm going to pay 10 bucks for an album, well... all right, okay, you better s ...

tHErAPY 2007-10-02 13:39:00 I'm currently working on translating a fascinating textbook about steel production into English, which means that the last few days have ended with liquefied bits of my brain oozing out of my nostrils and ears and onto the floor. It's just all mush up there right now, which is why this little distraction here is perfect for my state of mind right now.Give it a go. Come on, click on it. You know you want to.Tags: * comedy * humor * funny * silly * bubbleplast * therapy * brainooze * poppin' ...

Letterman on Paris 2007-09-30 02:53:00 If you haven't seen this yet, it's definitely worth watching. If you have, it's definitely worth watching again. It is pure Letterman, the man at his absolute finest.Tags: * comedy * humor * funny * silly * entertainment * pop culture * Paris Hilton * David Letterman * Can Can * Repo! * The Genetic Opera ...

Letting the Wedding Photos Decide 2007-09-29 07:16:00 The US presidential candidates are running all over the place, scratching and pawing at every possible kernel that could potentially burst open to reveal an opportunity to be heard or a chance to make some cash. Besides the fact that this time around each candidate has a Facebook page, a MySpace page and (yikes) a YouTube account, it pretty much is like it always is: career politicians at their finest, doing what they do best - campaigning. "I won't raise taxes, I won't go to war, I won't have sex with anyone but my spouse, I won't yadda yadda yadda." And they go about their gathering of resources and funding to build their voter bases and gain their party's nomination.But that's not really working for me. I'm thinking about letting their wedding pictures decide for me. You can tell a lot about a person from his or her wedding picture. All right, 'nuff said, let's have a look:First of all, Rudy Giuliani and Judith Nathan(1). Hmm. Tiara thingy? Yes, tiara thingy. That should be ...

35 2007-09-25 03:21:00 Last night I came across the following amazing facts about the number 35. Did I say amazing? Good, because I meant it.California resident Guy "Bud" Hart (I love the fact that his name is Guy, but for unknown reasons his friends save time and call him Bud) coughed up a nail that had been inside of him for 35 years.Some guy (apparently... or not) took a picture of Tokyo every day for 35 years from the same spot and it is now a ten second film.35 years of original Sesame Street music is available here.In June of this year, tribunal judges sentenced Milan Marti?, a former political leader of Croatian Serbs, to 35 years' imprisonment for crimes committed during the early nineties against Croats and other non-Serbs in Croatia.Interstate 35 is a US highway that runs from Texas to Minnesota.35 is the highest number one can count to on one's fingers using base 6.The 35th wedding anniversary is the Coral Wedding Anniversary. Lovely.You must be 35 years old to run for the office of the Preside ...

Clowning around with American lives 2007-09-24 01:01:00 One of the main reasons that I am still in Sweden has to do with health insurance. I did not really plan to move here permanently when I began working at the Icehotel in November of 2000. But shortly after meeting Sanna, she was diagnosed with Lupus and began treatment here in Sweden. Sweden's medical care is not only pretty damn good, but it is affordable. Every citizen and resident has the right to be seen and treated, and costs for prescriptions and care are minimal, if anything. (The taxes we pay make this possible, of course.)Before her diagnosis, we spoke often about the possibility of moving back to California. But making that move and starting over, without health insurance and with an existing chronic disease, would be a definite crap shoot. And expensive.Trying to explain this amazing phenomenon to non-Americans is extremely difficult. They don't really get the fact that just being a citizen does not mean that you will receive the medical attention that you need or deserve. ...

Sliding Doberman 2007-09-22 06:22:00 I wish I was a dog. This dog: ...

Cooking with Anders 2007-09-22 04:13:00 I don't give a very thorough explanation of what I'm actually doing, but benzone50 has done a great job of slicing together an episode of me in the kitchen preparing, of all things, duck. Go figure. Enjoy...Tags: * comedy * humor * funny * silly * entertainment * pop culture * duck * cooking * kitchen * anders porter * benzone50 ...

How YOU get good duck 2007-09-19 09:56:00 This is a story about how an idea becomes a blog entry...First the idea just sort of hovers in the background: present, but still vague and fuzzy.Then the idea is put on hold completely while much pondering occurs. In this particular instance, the pondering involved repetitive occurrences of the phrase "the &#*?/&% boat is filled with water" and other such loveliness.By the time the boat is no longer filled with water, the idea has gone for a swim.But the idea makes its way back, and finally lets itself be heard.Once the boat has reached the other side of the lake, the idea heads back home.Once home, the idea is converted into on-screen text and binary codes and bleeps and dots and ... stuff.Once properly formatted, the idea starts its journey to the server that will be its host and home.'Tis a long and perilous journey, with many obstacles and hindrances.The idea is forced into many awkward situations along the way. Flight is one of them.Another is extreme shrinkage.When tire ...

Hanging on... 2007-09-17 12:10:00 Tailer's debut music video for some free song by a guy named something or whatever on slide.com. Click on the speaker to hear it. ...

Clock ticking for Tuvalu 2007-09-17 01:48:00 Last night I watched a very well-done documentary on Swedish television called Trouble in Paradise, by Gilliane Le Gallic and Christopher Horner. In this colorful piece, the filmmakers discuss the notion that the island nation of Tuvalu may simply disappear within the next 50 years.Tuvalu? What's a Tuvalu? Formerly known as the Ellice Islands, Tuvalu is a group of islands east of Australia, about 1000 km north of Fiji. It is the second-least populated country in the world, with just under 12,000 people. The group of nine islands has almost no natural resources, most of its income coming from foreign aid. Any sustainable farming that they were once able to practice has been pretty much wiped out by the various effects of global warming.Tuvalu's lowest point and highest point are sea level and 30 feet respectively. 30 feet! That's nothing. And with ocean levels rising as they are, that nine meters is shrinking every year.With an average per capita income of $1,600/year, the country is ...

The Juice, once again, didn't do it. 2007-09-16 23:35:00 "You've got to understand, this ain't somebody going to steal somebody's drugs or something like that. This is somebody going to get his private (belongings) back. That's not robbery," Simpson told the Los Angeles Times.Merriam-Webster's Distionary of Law says:Main Entry: rob·beryFunction: nounInflected Form: plural -ber·iesEtymology: Anglo-French robberie roberie, from Old French, from rober to take something away from a person by force; the unlawful taking away of personal property from a person by violence or by threat of violence that causes fear : larceny from the person or immediate presence of another by violence or threat of violence and with intent to steal.Says nothing here about being okay if you once owned the personal property being stolen. Says nothing here about being all right to take stuff that once belonged to Joe Montana.OJ Simpson, ladies and gentlemen: Mental midget, murderer, general idiot.Tags: * O.J. * OJ Simpson * murder * Goldman * If I Did It * robbe ...

Did You Know 2.0 2007-09-12 08:24:00 The video below has been viewed by well over 5,000,000 people in the past year, but I was not one of them until today. So if you've already seen it, skip it. Otherwise, watch it. And you can read more about it here.I have worked as a teacher off and on and just a few years ago I came to the conclusion that, for the most part, kids think school is pretty stupid. And this video helps to point out why. What kids are doing at home in front of their computer screens makes it a bit tricky to go to school the next day and trace your hand to make a turkey or write an essay on Abraham Lincoln. "Yeah but, how many Facebook friends did Abraham Lincoln have? Could he write HTML? Did he take part in the YouTube debates?"Exactly. Kids know what's going on and it doesn't involve the hand turkey.Tags:* comedy * humor * funny * silly * YouTube * Facebook * Did You Know * viral * video ...