October 11, 2008

Saturday Review

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Jules Crittenden wades hip deep in the pecksniffian mire pits of the Palin-Deranged Left so you don't have to.

Gawker. Suckered. Nick Denton. Moron. Nutroots use my SAT scoresheet to forge 'Palin Grades' [Addendum: Fake but Shouldn't Be Even when the art director of Denton exposes the fraud he wishes it wasn't so and others are deeply saddened.]

Not the ship you want to on in a storm: While civilization may not wish to voyage its waters on an warship, the question is whether we can safely risk it on the Love Boat.

Sixteen Treads and you'll feel every one @ Jaded Haven

Of balance, the Godknuckle, and beer The Dipso Chronicles: Finding Balance

The walls are coming down in The Forgotten War - Jules Crittenden

Magazine that helped make girls into sluts is buh-bye: Hearst to Close CosmoGirl!

Between us and androids lies - The Uncanny Valley If the entity is "almost human", then the non-human characteristics will be the ones that stand out, leading to a feeling of "strangeness" in the human viewer.

"I prefer bazookas to burkas," and other sound reasons women should continue to take their clothes off.

Email of the day: CAJUN ENGINEERING - A NEW CONCEPT AND TECHNICAL INNOVATION

Okay, everyone is always telling Boudreaux and Thibodeaux jokes implying that Cajuns aren't smart, but anybody who would build a city 10 feet below sea level in a hurricane zone and fill it with Democrats.....is a genius!

How to Ruin the US Economy Ben Stein's 12 Point Plan.

Finally, to see how American billionaires live, and will live, spend some time inside Jay Walker's Library

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Walker frequently meets with the Walker Digital brain trust in the seating area of the library, hoping to draw inspiration from the surroundings. Artist Clyde Lynds (known for integrating fiber optics into his work) created the intricate illuminated glass panels and many other visual elements. Walker himself designed the Escher-like tile floor, modeled after a tumbling block pattern from the Victorian age. He bought the chandelier (seen in the Bond film Die Another Day) at an auction and rewired it with 6,000 LEDs. The open book on the table features watercolor illustrations for an 18th-century papal palace that was never built. The globe has special meaning for Walker: "It was a wedding gift Eileen and I received in 1982."
Not a bad use of money to spare at all.

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The billionaire said, "I get offered things that collectors don't," he says. "Nobody else would want a book on dwarfs, with pages beautifully hand-painted in silver and gold, but for me that makes perfect sense."

I would love to own that dwarf book.

That library got me a little hot.

Posted by: daphne at October 11, 2008 6:27 PM
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