Monday, November 24

Monday, November 24

• Hair in space "Astronaut Karen Nyberg, STS-124 mission specialist."@ The International Space Station turns 10 - The Big Picture

• Crocodile Bites Off Bush's Arm

  HOMESTEAD, FL—A 14-foot crocodile bit off President Bush's left arm at the shoulder Monday, a White House memo reported. Bush, who was reportedly standing waist-deep in a swamp at Everglades National Park when the crocodile struck, also sustained severe puncture wounds and torn flesh in his hip and upper thigh.

• In Search of Conservative Intelligence: Cobb's got a little list.

• Like.... yesterday: Shipping Companies: Blockade Somalia, or Attack It

• You know times are tough when the rich start cutting costs on their mistresses.

• "Don't be evil" in a way that people can see: The Stealth Google Layoffs - 10,000 Workers Affected More: Barron's says "Sell Google"

• "It used to be that you could visit Rhodesia and see the ruins of Zimbabwe. Now it's the other way around. "OPFOR: Zimbabwe on the Verge of Collapse

• LILEKS (James) on "Disney Collections": "There was a Disney collection, which was no surprise; go in for major surgery and you’ll find there’s a Disney collection of clamps and sterile gauze."

• Seinfeld's "The Manssiere" is here! Bra for the boys an online bestseller in Japan - Yahoo! News "Since launching two weeks ago on Rakuten, a major Japanese web shopping mall, the Wishroom shop has sold over 300 men's bras for 2,800 yen ($30) each." [Victoria's Secret did not take this lying down....]

You probably won't like the other 77 images either.

• 78 Photographs from the 2008 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show That You Probably Have No Interest in Seeing.

• Deconstructing Barry by Dennis Dale:

  "The appeal of Barack Obama is best understood as kitsch.... The absence of comprehensive societal equality requires ever more fanciful explanations; ever greater expressions of commitment to it are required of public servants; ever greater denunciations of a nation that has taken historically unprecedented actions to achieve it; ever greater action, and money spent, to reach this illusory goal. This is the pathological behavior of a neurotic society."

• 1,000 Gadgets For Every Man, Woman and Child? Include me out.

• Lamest Facebook "Cause" Ever:Facebook | Causes | Don't Let Newspapers Die

  Help spread the word and encourage people to pick up a newspaper today!

• First Principles - The Treasonous Clerk: Sarah Palin, Spectacular Politics, and the Death of the Family

• More on the world-wide mental disease: Little Green Footballs - Kuwaiti Cleric: 'Death is Too Good for Homosexuals'

• Creative Minority Report: Save the Tofurkey!

• The Van Susteren Post? Greta Van Susteren Dreams of Running an Internet News Site

  Children of Paradise -- How to watch Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies and why:

  The Our Gang films were neorealism in utero, and we may have no better filmic expression of the Depression. That is, not the schoolbook history of the decade but the Steinbeckian reality of its wide dusty streets, its collapsing social fabric, its literally threadbare wardrobe, its adult citizenry too wracked with pragmatic dread to pay attention to their children.

• Good question seldom asked: The Search For Life, What’s the Point?

• On dating vegans: "Going out to dinner with a vegan is like dragging a hundred pound boulder everywhere with you: inconvenient and burdensome."

• "There are many Made in the USA lists throughout the internet, nearly all of them tacky and in poor taste." This list is not one of those: The American List ｫ A Continuous Lean.

• The fatal flaw of the NY Time is:

  "the unrelenting fixation on the "gay" agenda. Actually, agenda is not a strong enough word for it. Mania is a more accurate description of the approach the Times takes towards all things homosexual. The love that "dares not speak its name" never shuts up in the pages of New York's most important newspaper." -American Thinker: How the NYT Could Save Itself

  [If only Pinch would come out, this would be over.]

• Explainer: Dry cleaning isn't dry at all. And other things you didn't know happened to your clothes at the cleaners.

• Early warning of dangerous asteroids and comets via a new 1.4-gigapixel camera. "We get an image that is 38,000 by 38,000 pixels in size, or about 200 times larger than you get in a high-end consumer digital camera."

• Welcome to the new W.P.A (aka "We Putter Around.")Obama Pledges Two-Year Economic Stimulus Plan - WSJ.com

  Obama -- "We'll put people back to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, modernizing schools that are failing our children, and building wind farms and solar panels; fuel-efficient cars and the alternative energy technologies that can free us from our dependence on foreign oil and keep our economy competitive in the years ahead."

Posted by Vanderleun at November 23, 2008 5:23 PM