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Video: Gary Neumann and Nine Inch Nails perform "Cars." The girls and I had a "bad video night" last night, revisiting all those videos made before 1985, before MTV figured out what videos were for. This is not a bad video. Neumann looks fabulous at 49.
Wisconsin Republican Senator subject to popular recall found to be living outside his district with his mistress. More of them great Republican Family Values. His wife is reported to have signed the recall petition.
Comic: Subnormality on what is sexier than... Another great comic!
Recipe: Chocolate Chip Scones. Yummy! What I made for Kouryou-chan's bake sale.
Louis Gohmert calls the American Muslim Community "a pit of vipers," says Jesus would approve of King's fishing expedition. Because when Christians terrorize American citizens, that's merely "activism."
Congress attempts to repeal a scientific finding. This is just plain stupid. The House has passed a bill stating that certain scientific findings, regardless of the overwhelming evidence for them, can never be used to direct public policy. What. The. Fuck.
XB 35 Flying Wing Bomber. Seriously cool shot of a short-lived turboprop experimental aircraft. Once upon a time, America did cool shit.
"It's not the infidelity. It's the arrogance, hypocrisy, and the cruelty." David Frum on why Newt Gingrich's tendency to abandon his wives when they become seriously ill makes him ineligble for anything but a corner office at Faux News with a gold-plated toilet.
If we establish laws permitting surrogate mothering, and pass laws recognizing families with same-sex parenting, we're giving gays the power to enslave women! Or something. State Senator Dan Swecker (R - WA 20th District), a long time anti-gay activist, seems to believe that if we pass the Uniform Parentage Act of 2011, it will give gays the power to dictate when women become pregrant.
Top 10 Solutions to Real Life's Most Annoying Problems. No, really. Lifehacker's summary is spot on.
Video: Prisecolinensinenciousol. A classic: What English sounds like to non-English-speaking Europeans. Given that it was done in the early 1970's, the presentation is top-notch, too.
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Date: 2011-03-16 03:59 pm (UTC)We do cool stuff today too. Consider the hypersonic missile tests. Today, a weapon. Tomorrow, the promise of actual super/hypersonic passenger planes without the worry about sonic booms -- no sonic booms from 80,000 feet.
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Date: 2011-03-16 10:35 pm (UTC)Not that lifehacker is in any way useful or anything. 95% of it appears to be "articles" on "how to use feature X of device Y" and 60% of them seem to be about iPhone apps.
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Date: 2011-03-16 11:24 pm (UTC)Gawker properties now rely on Javascript
Date: 2011-03-17 08:58 pm (UTC)You'll see this on every Gawker property now.
Enable Javascript. The hint is the #! in the URL. It's the same reason Twitter links keep on breaking for you, if you've noticed that.
Basically they decided to break web access :'(.
I can't _believe_ Google caved so easily. (Google defined a standard for #! pattern hints to Google that there's a different URL they can try. Latest NoScript tries to use that, but it hasn't worked for me so far. Hopefully it's a bug in NoScript and not something even shittier like user-agent sniffing).
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Date: 2011-03-18 04:29 am (UTC)Ob: "Congress attempts to repeal a scientific finding" — yeah, and next they're gonna pass a law stating that the sky is chartreuse, that the area of a circle is 5·r2, and that only 50% of the Earth's surface is covered in water…