Reminds me of the great Onion article:

World's Nuclear Arsenal "Pretty Much" Accounted For.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29474

Of course, the protestors are -well, almost certainly- completely wrong.

It's a fine poster, but do they have an edition that includes non-discretionary spending? From a quick look, seems not to include SSA, Medicare, Medicaid and the like. Not to mention interest payments.

I like the two fellows by the tree, staying in place long enough to be resolved.

I would so actually play with that.

If bananas really are the creation of God, how come they are so completely revolting?

On BART the other day, I sat next to a gentlemen who I am pretty sure was one of these fellows. The tear under the eye was particularly unnerving, although he was very polite when he needed to climb past me for his stop.

There's apparently a whole universe of outtakes of a*hole media personalities. See, e.g., Casey Kasem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmuqdGvCxtA

It gets really good about 0:50

As to single malt, yes, no ice, but water to taste. A lady in the tasting room at Glenmorangie told me that "the only thing you should put in scotch whisky, is more scotch whisky."

However, for a blend or an American corn or rye whiskey, this might be fun.

hmmmm that didn't work

http://internationalposter.com/poster-details.aspx?id=FRL01040

Nitrolien Paint

Also, Dr. Theopolis is the one at the lower left -- note the strap.

Just to the lower left of the Dalek is the robot Muffit from the original BSG.

When the teacher would bring back a stack of still-fresh papers of the ditto machine, half of my 2d or 3d grade class would take a big whiff of that sweet smell. By this standard, it was like Studio 54.

@2: No kidding, to see the ugly European, one used to have to visit their native environment.

...without any fuss, the stars were going out.

Thanks, Sir Arthur, for everything.

@58 Dave: I'll assume for purposes of this discussion that this was indeed a deliberate attempt to disenfranchise these students. I wasn't trying to argue that. My point is that regardless of how much gerrymandering is going on there, the location of polling places has nothing to do with gerrymandering.

At the end of the day, an individual votes through the mechanisms provided by through the county unless you vote from oversees through the US military or the State Department (and even then, it's mostly county-issued absentee ballots). If Waller County were atomized into a districts that ran to El Paso in one direction and Port Orange in another, these kids would still vote through the Waller county board of elections or county clerk or whoever runs the system there.

It may well be about voter access, but this is not about gerrymandering, not one little bit.

While I agree that it's plenty obnoxious for the county not to open a early-voting polling place near the college, this has nothing to do with gerrymandered districts in Texas, nothing.

The 10th Congressional District includes all of Waller Country; the Texas 18th State Senate Seat includes all of Waller County; the Texas 28th House district includes all of Waller County.

Voting is run by the counties in Texas - just like it is, as far as I know, everywhere else in the United States. Voting is not organized and run by individual constituencies. Now, this may be lame, and I suppose this is a reasonable form of protest But this has nothing to with gerrymandered districts, whether created by Tom DeLay or anyone else.

How does this violate anyone's rights? Assuming I'm free to play some sort of music at my store at some volume, who is to say that music can't be designed to drive a certain customer out the door? I've avoided businesses because they were playing some godawful music or another, but I don't think my rights -- as an old fart -- were violated there. Do I have a right to be protected from annoying noises? If so, can we go ahead and ban overly-loud bass coming out of other folks' iPods?

Was that Warcraft Lego there at the end?

Since when do you have to go through customs to travel within the borders of the United States of America? American Samoa to Hawaii? What b.s.

Awesome! Glad that you pay attention to the man behind the curtain!

The best book on this subject is Cadillac Desert, by Marc Reisner. A whole history of the aquification of the West.

This is bad news for all. But perhaps not quite so bad for me, being a water lawyer.

that was atrociously punctuated. sorry.

Everyone, I think, finds a typeface they ultimately stick with. Me, I can't me get enough Centaur.

My grandfather was a printer in San Francisco his whole life (the owner of Arion Press was an apprentice to him, for instance). The first typeface I could recognize -- at about age 4 -- was Centaur. Heck, my school lunch bags were printed in 60 pt Centaur.

I still adore it, and my Centaur and Arrighi advertising broadside for Centaur monotype and linotype services, from my grandfather is one of favorite things.

Appropos of nothing, except that this audience might enjoy it -- broadsides included some long discussion of the type face or some other story -- to give the potential customer a look at a finished product in the potential font. This broadside of mine includes this delightful little comment that tells me that even in the 1940s, folks didn't want open access to everything:

"Although a typefounder's specimen sheet seems an odd place for Carl Purtington Rollins' pungent comment on the availability of Centaur. I cannot refrain from referring to it here because of the implied challenge to its prosective users. I quote only part, 'Mr. Rogers' fine roman has now been cut for the monotype machine by the English house. This is a situation not at all commendable. One of te conditions of modern [1948-ed.] printing seems to be that every printer, anywhere, shall be able to buy any type face which exists, whether he knows how to use it or not. I am no believer in any kind of censorships, but I believe firmly in what James Truslow Adams has so recently pointed out in 'Harper's' that which everyone can get too easily ceases to have value for anyone.'"

@28 - I work downtown, live in the East Bay. I've always had pretty much that story with that piece of art as long as its been there (10 years or so?). How weird.

I'm sorry that President Bush didn't show all his work in analyzing the painting. He came up with a story that fits the narrative, so be it.

A lot of art is ambiguous, of course, but that doesn't mean one's foolish to resolve the ambiguity whatever way seems fit. I think this damned bow and arrow on the SF water front was left by some pissed off giant who was hoping to kill his rival and the other guy didn't show up for the fight. I'm sure its "supposed" to be about something else or nothing at all. Big whoop.

The day I got Galaxy Explorer remains one of my strongest memories of being nine years old. My god, that thing was beautiful. I probably have most of the parts still - and now that my own boy is 3.5 and utterly fascinated with Lego - I'll be breaking the small stuff again soon.

Honestly, I teared up looking at that thing again.

I want me some Tigger Fun.

I think it was Ursula LeGuin who noted that science fiction allows the author to make the figurative literal. And that's a goodly part of the reason it is fun.

A delightful story. But the response seems like an reasonable one by the feds: they saw something suspicious about the single biggest war time secret, investigated the situation, determined there was nothing to it, and then eased off. Easy for us to see now that Robert Heinlein would rather be put to the sword than betray his country -- but the folks in charge of Manhattan Project security couldn't have known that at the time.

Recall that the Allies investigated the author of the Daily Telegraph crossword puzzle who'd used "Mulberry" "Utah" "Omaha" and "Overlord" as clues a month ahead of Normandy. And were entirely right to do so.

Sort of what I imagine the jelly bean scene was like in H. Ellison's "Repent, Harlequin, Said the Tick-Tock Man"

Hahahaha! That's so funny! A hacker hurt twelve people! Because everything works better when no one is in charge! Ha!

I have a Benedict XVI bottle opener, which we refer to as the Popener.

There's actually a perfectly good reason that "Paris [is] noted as one of the centers of American Indian culture" -- not to justify the trips, mind you -- but the French kept very good records about the Indian tribes of the Louisiana, better records in a lot of cases than those of the English/Dutch colonies along the Atlantic coast.

(But, yah, this is pretty much outrageous).

I can't find the federal law against it, but California law is pretty clear (Cal. Penal Code)

247.5. Any person who willfully and maliciously discharges a laser at an aircraft, whether in motion or in flight, while occupied, is guilty of a violation of this section, which shall be punishable as either a misdemeanor by imprisonment in the county jail for not more
than one year or by a fine of one thousand dollars ($1,000), or a felony by imprisonment in the state prison for 16 months, two years,
or three years, or by a fine of two thousand dollars ($2,000). This section does not apply to the conduct of laser development activity
by or on behalf of the United States Armed Forces.
As used in this section, "aircraft" means any contrivance intended for and capable of transporting persons through the airspace.
As used in this section, "laser" means a device that utilizes the natural oscillations of atoms or molecules between energy levels for
generating coherent electromagnetic radiation in the ultraviolet, visible, or infrared region of the spectrum, and when discharged exceeds one milliwatt continuous wave.

248. Any person who, with the intent to interfere with the operation of an aircraft, willfully shines a light or other bright
device, of an intensity capable of impairing the operation of an aircraft, at an aircraft, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment.

The real question to ask is why the vests on the EMTs were all in English.

Maybe, just maybe, because English is one of the two official languages of Pakistan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Pakistan#English_.28official_language.29

Ordinarily, you get a two for one sandwich deal (fries, drink, sandwich) from the universe of "double sandwiches" -- but now, you get the two for one sandwich deal as well as a single sandwich, which I guess is a regular, single, non-deluxe sort of thing.

I was not aware that Hugo trophies were done as a variation on a theme, rather than the same thing each year. Is there a gallery of the trophies (or at least the (particularly) cool ones?

I declared myself Baron Harkonnen back in 1984/85. Later, I switched to Bevatron Repairman which -- as you can see -- has made a comeback.

One of my dearest friends was "Copy Cat" which was pretty bitchin'

The 150 "National Security Advisors" seems weird, as does the 250 "Secret Service Agents" given that there is no listing for military personnel -- the crews for the various helicopters, military protection, etc. I'm sure the total number is probably about right, but this breakdown's a little weird.

Two friends were married at the Mutter Museum or, more properly, at the College of Physicians building (in which the Museum is housed), but had cocktail hour in and around the Museum itself. That I could look at Chief Justice Marshall's Gallstones while sipping a mandarin cosmopolitan and toast to my friends' happiness was simply delightful, doubly so that the wedding was the Saturday before Halloween that year.

What's so stupid about this from the folks losing their land is that this could have been cured simply by posting a sign that says "right to pass by permission." If you look around San Francisco, the sidewalks are littered with small plaques that say exactly that. This keeps the public from ever obtaining a prescriptive easement.

I don't know the particularities of these guys getting 1/3 of the land, rather than an easement, but it's pretty clear the underlying notion -- we're using your land, do something about it or give it up -- is reasonable law.

It's a pretty dickhead thing to do, but four-square on the law.

J'Accuse!

They wanted to actually sell CDs, too? Isn't Doctorow's whole thing that by giving the books away, people will want to own them? I really dig (most) of what BoingBoing is all about, but if this is supposed to be a bad thing, I give up on this whole new copyright stuff. I'll go drink the RIAA Kool-Aid instead.

E6000 works out to be about $8,400 at 1.40:1, so if its 5999.99 or something...

It would be cooler if the quoted the price in Soldis.

#10 said: Incorrect. the best car analogy would be a car with an in-car computer that only allows you to drive normally on Apple roads, and charges you a "roaming" fee if you use anyone else's roads. Modifying it to work with any road, as you expect when you buy a car, requires a hack that voids your warranty. Warranties, and the ability to upgrade, are worth money: so you either lose money in losing the warranty, or you lose money through the roaming fee.

Isn't the neat thing about building robust and flexible IP rules that people can contract into and out-of all kinds of things? I'm sorry Apple is being lame about their service options, but the trick is just not buy the product.

Can I invite Michael Madsen to my housewarming party? "Turn the key, sir. Sir. Sir!"