420 Summit

401-K(eg) plan

AA is free too. Win win.

12 hours ago

Barack 'Osama'...

on Rensselaer County ballots. Ever been to Toy, NY? If you have, you won’t be surprised.

16 hours ago

Urban Golf

When you combine egalitarian ideals with natty fashion, a dose of whimsy, and plenty of beer, a good time is par for the course.

17 hours ago

Sparkledammerung IS HERE!

Hysterical send up of that ridiculous Twilight Series.

19 days ago

CERN's LHC firetruck

I think I would rather be sucked into a flaming black hole rather than ride in this contraption.

27 days ago

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?

30 days ago

A Beginners Guide To Sporn

It was inevitable. NSFW.

33 days ago

McSweeney's Internet Tendency

Corrections to last month’s letters to Penthouse Forum.

67 days ago

Crazy Sprinkler Lady

“We have to ask ourselves what is going on. What the hell is oozing out of our ground?”

67 days ago

Cereal Killers

Kreepsville Industries presents Cereal Killers. A spooky, kooky coffin table cartoon art book.

96 days ago

Complex crop circle

Somebody has way too much time on their hands.

113 days ago

Dear Pscho Killer

For his own entertainment, the then-unemployed thirtysomething launched a letter-writing campaign to some of the most powerful and infamous figures in the country…

155 days ago

Ya think?

A New Zealand man who claimed he was raped by a wombat and that the experience left him speaking with an Australian accent has been found guilty of wasting police time.

196 days ago

Rude and reckless

How wonder how long it will take someone to cook up a Giuliani ad using the Clash’s, “Rudie Can’t Fail”.

Okay, it probably won’t happen, but I can’t get the song out my head whenever I see the guy. Then I have to spend the day imagining a power pop trio of ferrets playing the same three chords over and over and over.

We hear them sayin’
How you get a rude and a-reckless?
Don’t you be so crude and a feckless
You been drinking brew for breakfast
Rudie can’t fail, no, no

So we reply
I know that my life make you nervous
But I tell you that I can’t live in service
Like the doctor who was born for a purpose
Rudie can’t fail

Okay, I went to the market to realise my soul
Cos what I need I just don’t have, oh no
First they cursed then they pressed me ‘till I hurt
We say Rudie can’t fail

Woah, first you must cure your temper
Then you find a job in a paper
You need someone for a saviour
Then Rudie can’t fail, oh no

316 days ago

Specificity

From the NWS:

A chance of snow before 8am, then a chance of snow and freezing rain between 8am and 10am, then a chance of rain and snow between 10am and noon, then a chance of rain and sleet, mainly between noon and 1pm.

Now I can plan my morning.

328 days ago

Say No To Grandpa Joe

I never did like that guy, he was mean to Chico.

328 days ago

Sittin' in a circle

Kevin Drum, who I generally like, has decided to run a contest to determine the all-time most wingnuttiest blog post. With superhuman discernment he has managed to narrow the field to fourteen. All neo-cons and all quite… uh, wingnutty.

The posts themselves are, for the most part, unremarkable and what you would expect from their respective authors. More interesting is the way the various ‘nominees’ are reacting, or, not reacting.

Kim DuToit, who is actually coherent, blusters:

Actually, Drum’s post just highlights what a pathetic bunch of losers our modern-day liberals really are, that they would create a silly poll like this one. It is, as they say, to laugh.

Reaction on his blog is negligible but maybe he can gather a few more links for his Pussification masterpiece. Everyone has to be known for something.

Den Beste, an old school geek loon, has made no response at all. He has bravely decided to drop his post down the memory hole.

Someone with his geek cred should have learned that the web has a long memory and there is a copy of his bizarre essay readily available. Then again, Den Beste’s stardates are really cute and his grasp of history and foreign policy is unmatched by any of the other anime fans in his D&D group.

Ann Althouse couldn’t care less. The new meds must be kicking in and she is busy taking pretty pictures and rehashing some squabble with John (or Juan, I can never tell them apart) Cole.

John Hinderaker makes no mention of Drum’s ‘contest’ on Power Line, but if I had to pick a winner, it’s all John. It doesn’t get much crazier than:

It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can’t get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.

Malkin, Reynolds, Derbyshire, and Hewitt are also, so far, silent.

My eyes have started to bleed and I can’t look at any more of these sites — maybe someone can study why right-wing sites are almost universally ugly — but I don’t think Drum is getting the reaction he wanted.

Hang in there, Kevin. Some right-wing weblog will copy this and cherry pick examples of left-wing lunacy for us to laugh at and generate the traffic and ham-fisted commenting that you, for some unfathomable reason, seem to want.

341 days ago

The Worst Mayor in America

“He once bulldozed an elderly woman’s house, promising to build her a better one. He then forgot to build it.”

354 days ago

Where do you put the money?

Dresses that convert into vending machine costumes so Japanese women can hide. Really.

354 days ago

Who you gonna call?

I just came across this and I have no idea what to make of it. It would make a cool refrigerator magnet, though.

354 days ago

Nails and Toothpicks

Whoa… somebody has way too much time on their hands.

363 days ago

Bob sez

So, I was hangin’ on State St. when I ran into Bobby-D. He was just chillin’ with Kate Bush, sucking down unfiltered Pall Malls and mumbling something about a Taiwanese dentist and lobster bisque, when I stood him to a latte.

He was so happy he gave me a shout-out in his new video.

390 days ago

Chupa-whatsis, revealed

The beastie has been revealed. A Texas woman claims to have a few chupacabra bodies on ice,

“Phylis Canion lived in Africa for four years. She’s been a hunter all her life and has the mounted heads of a zebra and other exotic animals in her house to prove it. But the roadkill she found last month outside her ranch was a new one even for her, worth putting in a freezer hidden from curious onlookers: Canion believes she may have the head of the mythical, bloodsucking chupacabra.” Yahoo! News.

Or maybe, it’s just a really ugly dog:

I’m not going to tell you that’s not a chupacabra. I just think in my opinion a chupacabra is a dog,“ said Schaar, who has seen Canion’s find.”

Being a pragmatist, that makes a great deal of sense to me. Still, an unknown family of mutant bloodsucking dogs in rural Texas is messed up enough.

406 days ago

Oooops

I find this amusing,

At around 3 am Tuesday morning at Burning Man 2007, during a rare lunar eclipse, the Burning Man sculpture was set on fire prematurely…

… It is still scheduled for its normal burn on Saturday and they will be working throughout the week to repair any burn damage and re-install the neon.

410 days ago

AOL, here I come

I started work on a new site and set up a collaborative workspace. I then invited those I thought would be interested. My first reply:

“Please can you delete this email address from your list; I have not applied for an account or any service you offer. Unfortunately, I appear to have several stupid namesakes who repeatedly give my email address as theirs.”

This made me grouchy. In retrospect, considering that I’ve been spamming her for days (note to self: turn off automatic notifications or at least ask first), she was remarkably civil. As it turns out, I owe a very kind woman from some other country an apology.

I also owe an apology to another woman who lives a whole lot closer and isn’t half as kind.

414 days ago

Ohhh... pictures

Try and contain yourself. We all know how much fun it is to look at other peoples snapshots.

Now the real reason I wrote this post: I managed to totally creep out a houseful of kids. I’m so proud of myself.

They were watching some dumb movie with ghosts and I told them that ghosts were probably just invisible people living amongst us. You know, your invisible and need a place to live so you move in with the most chaotic people you can find. Your civilized, so you try and keep a low profile, but sometimes you screw up and leave something out of place or drip your way out of the shower.

It could be true.

423 days ago

Raj Patel, go home

This is so very wrong.

Archie Comics, after butchering a breast augmentation on Veronica and ho’ing up Betty, has added Raj Patel. A friendly little Indian dude blessed with:

“… a perky appearance… a bit smaller than most of Riverdale’s males… lively, optimistic personality is portrayed as much through his wardrobe, bedroom and expressive face, as it is through his words.”

Fer cryin’ out loud! It’s Riverdale. Indians don’t live in Riverdale, there are no cabs, no convenience stores and no “Subcontinent Cellular Card Service” shacks on the corner.

Jughead’s gonna kick his ass and he’ll be doing Archie’s homework well through grad school.

431 days ago

Food for thought

The airport, the Albany airport, is probably not the best place to mention that your return flight arrives in Conneticut.

Who the hell books a return flight to an airport 250 miles away?

434 days ago

You guys are in SO much trouble...

Earlier today time travelers hobbyists decided to cruise a replica Turtle submarine around the Queen Mary while she was docked in NY.

This is not really a good idea. Look at the thing. It’s half mine, half torpedo and full on Wile E. Coyote. No way somebody isn’t going to notice this contraption and unless you have spent the last six years in a coma you have to know that it’s going to scare the crap out of somebody, somewhere.

The original Turtle was designed, in 1775, to drill a hole through an enemy vessel and plant an explosive. Clever, but not so effective; today the crew (one inside the half-submerged thingamabobber and two on a tethered inflatable) was promptly scooped up by the NYPD and Coast Guard. It didn’t go any better two hundred years ago.

More:
Photos – flickr photoset with thirty-four images.
Metafilter thread – I pretty much stole this post from MeFi.
WCBS – NYC news story.

435 days ago

Step aside, K-Fed

According to Star Bulletin in Hawaii, a broadcasting company requested and received the call letters KUNT and KWTF — and you thought you were cool sneaking KRAPPER past the DMV. KM Radio is now saying that they are sorry for offending anyone by getting the letters that they… uh, asked for.

If your really bored, you can play at home by plugging in your favorite four letter word that starts with a “W” or a “K” into the handy FCC Callsign Query tool.

436 days ago