December 2007
44 posts
My husband would like to point out ...
… that our world might have been engineered by bunnies.
November 2007
59 posts
“State science curriculum director Chris Comer says she was forced to resign...”
– Warning: Angry Political Commentary. Don’t bother reading this if you agree with intelligent design or the teaching of it. Open minds welcome. Epic Fucking Fail. Are our public officials really intending to enforce the inclusion of intelligent design in public school curriculum? ...
If Lance Armstrong runs for Texas governor... →
I’m leaving the state.
Rockefeller tonight: A truly green Christmas tree... →
Rockefeller Center goes eco-friendly: they’re using LED lights for their giant tree, dropping its daily energy usage by more than half. They have also installed a new gigantic 365-panel solar energy array on the roof. Wow.
Gold lame hot shorts approacheth!
“Austin will move three steps closer to becoming Southern California a real city a place where you can try on those high-waisted hot shorts and shiny tights before buying them with the opening of three new American Apparel locations (two real stores in Austin and an outlet in Round Rock).” (via Austinist) Posted for Jeff and for the Wit. Honestly, though, let’s be real. ...
Hyde Park might not want to rent space to me, but... →
I hope Hyde Park Baptist Church felt good and certain about their decision to not host the Austin InterFaith Thanksgiving Dinner at their facility. They do have the right, of course, to not want people to practice non-Christian worship at their church. The church is not too popular in Austin right now. Hyde Park’s gotten some crap about their decision, as this article by John Kelso...
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - Ask.com search... →
The folks at Evil Mad Scientist Labs noted that Ask.com gives some weird search suggestions, and decided to run a contest to see who could come up with the best weird searches. This is really, really funny. Until at some point you realize these suggestions are based on the most popular searches actually run through Ask. Then they’re mostly funny again, but now it’s in that...
“Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.”
– From Slashdot. Perhaps my favorite article yet.
having writer’s exhaustion again. i need a week off. remind me of that in december.
Broken Down Car
Saw an ad for a car that runs Microsoft software. Just what we all need. Blue screen of death on the freeway at 75 mph. Oh, and you know it would happen.
Gothamist: Steamrolled: Spitzer Drops Driver's... →
Governor Spitzer has to qualify as the most stubborn politician ever… well, actually, I take that back. The most stubborn is Bush’s insistence on asking Congress for uncontrolled, absurd spending without qualifiers for an increasingly unpopular war.
Happy Birthday, Progress Coffee →
I think this article is really funny. Progress Coffee is an east Austin coffeeshop, transformed into an “anchor” for a “creative community” from a warehouse bordering a drug haven. I love Austin’s coffeeshops, don’t get me wrong. I’ve spent almost as much time in them as in my own house. At the same time, I have to laugh. The coffeehouse and its status...
JFK assassination to be re-enacted on Second Life →
Let’s all put on our tin foil hats and watch for the aliens to appear. Again. Hasn’t this been rehashed enough?!
Really Freakin' Slow - I mean REALLY
I emailed this article to myself in DECEMBER 2006 and just received it on NOVEMBER 15, 2007. I think their email system is broken. Iran: Official Sanction Of Holocaust Conference Distresses Many - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY
If this doesn't make you want to go on a first... →
More than 1 million reported chlamydia cases set STD record - Gonorrhea rates up, superbug form increasingly seen, congenital syphilis rates up for first time in 15 years - CNN.com
Austinist: Activist Blocks Purges of Perry E-mails →
Very clever. I applaud this man for thinking of this. I’m not assuming Perry has anything to hide, but it does seem funny that a public official would routinely destroy email. They DO make storage facilities for these things. Perhaps his staff is just incompetent. And like they say, there’s always Gmail.
D.C. Tax Office Corruption Scandal Brewing →
And I thought the best scandal in DC was having a drugged-up mayor. That’s a lot of money they stole.
Oil Spill in San Fran or, Wow I Missed A Lot by... →
Just in case you weren’t aware like I wasn’t, there was an oil spill in SF over the weekend. Does anyone else find it incredibly ironic that one of America’s most ecologically conscious cities ended up with an oil spill? Later reports showed that the number of people volunteering to help clean up outnumbered the number of oil-soaked bird reports. Crazy! It would’ve...
Police: Pot Smoke, Verbal Abuse Prompted Assistant... →
Sometimes I read the Gothamist, whenever I start missing reading the sleazy news of the New York Post over someone’s shoulder on the subway.
Judge rules in city's favor in Wal-Mart dispute →
Congress Turns Back Bush’s Veto in a Test of Power →
Oh, NOW they’re getting a set on ‘em? What about when they were elected? Maybe then was the time to show they weren’t jellyfish. Says Senator Boxer “We have said today, as a Congress to this president, you can’t just keep rolling over us like this.” Ms. Boxer, perhaps you should have though of this earlier instead of ending up kinda sounding pathetic like...
Casserole Queens - aka I just found out someone... →
It sort of freaks me out and sort of makes me happy. Also, the photo in the link … the dresses, the aprons. As I would’ve said when I was 10 - like, gag me with a spoon.
LOLSAUR.com - OMG RAWR! →
Now why didn’t I think of that?
Go Fug Yourself: Fuglin Rouge →
There aren’t very many celebrity thingies that I watch, but the Tom Cruse/Nicole Kidman and the Brad Pitt/Jennifer Aniston ones made me choose sides. I was all for the women in these, because it seemed to me like the men were all bein’ really sleazeriffic. However, this picture (and other similar ones) make me think that in the one case, Nicole is NOT winning this battle. She looks...
Cops Pepper-Spray Student Accused of Eating Half... →
(1) I don’t get why cops were called for a pizza incident, (2) don’t get why pepper spray was used and (3) it seems like Round Rock ISD officials and faculty are incapable of handling their students and the problems that arise.
Red-light cameras on Austin city council agenda →
Oh for pete’s sake. They’re just doing this now? This had been implemented for a couple of years when I lived in Boulder … in 1998.
FAIL
Unclutterer » Archive » Is that a purse or an overnight bag? This guy thought to diss women’s purses. Wrong again! He got flayed in the comments. Also, why is it okay to have a large backpack or computer bag, but not okay to have a large purse that accomplishes the same thing? This guy clearly doesn’t get it.
“At a wine-tasting event, remember you should never swallow the wine. Always spit...”
– How to Worry Friends and Inconvenience People