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For all the teeny boppers on here that are obsessed with Twilight and there are many. Especially Tiki.

Supreme Court nominations require the media and politicians to develop their own delicate code words. Otherwise, you’re liable to be accused of a “high-tech lynching.” So what does it mean when someone calls Barack Obama nominee Sonia Sotomayor “vibrant,” “domineering,” or even “Maria”? The Daily Beast has assembled a glossary to guide you through the upcoming debate over her nomination.

affirmative action
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1.The condition of being a successful minority: She is an affirmative action case extraordinaire and she has put down white men in favor of Latina women.—Rush Limbaugh;

I say it’s affirmative action. They were picked because she’s a woman and a Hispanic.—Pat Buchanan.

empathy
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1. a condition unique to liberals whose symptoms include spinelessness and cowardice: Crazy nonsense empathetic. I’ll give you empathy. Empathize right on your behind. Craziness.—Michael Steele;

In the president’s now-famous word, judging should be shaped by “empathy” as much or more than by reason.—The Wall Street Journal.

The Daily Beast

no 360? gasp! this is too cute for me to not play.

tip o’ the hat to topless robot. Btw, this is exactly the way deadpool needs to be portrayed. MARVEL : PLEASE DO THIS.

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A few weeks ago, a guy moved into the apartment across from me. I know little about him apart from the fact that he owns cane furniture as I saw the delivery guys carry it up. I bumped into him on the stairs once and he said hello but I cannot be friends with someone that owns cane furniture so I pretended I had a turtle to feed or something.

Last week when I checked my mailbox, I found that my new neighbour had left me a note stating that he was having a party and to let him know if the noise was too loud.
– Matthew’s non theme based fancy dress party

Here are the 10 best local TV ads ever.

Girlfriends’ spokesperson Kelly Ambrose joins us in the Financial Fallout Shelter to discuss why Boyfriends moving in with them just makes fiscal sense right now.

“Most of the people who see the work are surprised that the pictures are created by folding paper, they don’t believe it when I tell them.

“Many of them think I’ve used paint or pencil to create the affect of light and shade. But when they realise the pictures are actually folded they are quite impressed.”
– Artist Folds Paper To Create Pictures – Geekologie

Oye.  there’s a few more at the link, this is some crazy cool stuff!

Image via Wikipedia

Videogames cause rape, murder, domestic abuse, obesity and now they are kind of responsible for CO poisoning. That’s the word coming from a new report that says people are using gas-powered generators during electrical outages so they can continue to play games, blissfully unaware that they’re filling their lungs with delicious carbon monoxide.

Hurricane Ike left millions of people without power in September 2008, and the Houston area saw twelve seperate cases of poisoning thanks to the use of generators. Of those twelve cases, five of them were because people needed some juice for their videogames.
– Destructoid – Videogames and CO poisoning, together at last!

Ha, and people say that evolution has stopped for humans.  I say nay, NAY I SAY.  idiots like they will be bred out of our genetics!

And so it was, approximately 40 years ago, that Satya Pal Asija created Swift-Answer, a piece of software used for “full text, free-form, narrative, information input, storage and retrieval.” With his creation, Asija set forth on a quest to get his software patented — not copyrighted, mind you — in order to offer software creators the same protection from imitators that other inventors were offered. And 28 years ago, on May 26, the world’s first software patent was approved.
– 28 years ago today: World’s first software patent successfully filed

and now we find ourself in a world in which amazon.com patented a method of clicking a button to buy something from a website.

Perhaps I should get my Xbox 360 fixed after all. Although it will no doubt break soon after. This game looks fantastic!!!! Just imagine the multiplayer!!

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A T-shirt has become one of the most popular items sold by online retailer Amazon in the past few weeks.

Sales of the kitsch Three Wolf Moon T-shirt shot up 2,300% after a spate of ironic reviews went viral.

The first review gave the shirt five stars, saying it “Fits my girthy frame, has wolves on it, attracts women” but “cannot see wolves with arms crossed”.

That prompted hundreds of others to post frivolous reviews, turning the page into an internet phenomenon.

“When I put this T-shirt on for the first time, my wife left me! Thank you, Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt,” wrote one wag, while another said that “the Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt gave me a +10 resistance to energy attacks, +8 Strength… and I have successfully solved 7 crimes in my city”.

Amazon’s senior manager of community content, Russell Dicker, said the T-shirt was currently the top selling item in their clothing store.

“The Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt recently moved up 2,300% in sales rank,” he said. “We are grateful that our reviewers are so passionate.”
– BBC NEWS | Technology | Joke review boosts T-shirt sales

I’ve seen this shirt around, I’m just not man enough to buy one for myself

The Church of Scientology has gone on trial in the French capital, Paris, accused of organised fraud.

The case centres on a complaint by a woman who says she was pressured into paying large sums of money after being offered a free personality test.

The church, which is fighting the charges, denies that any mental manipulation took place.

France regards Scientology as a sect, not a religion, and the organisation could be banned if it loses the case.

It is the first time the church has appeared as a defendant in a fraud case in France. Previous court cases have involved individual Scientologists.

BBC News

UPDATE 10/27/2009:
Church of Scientology convicted of fraud in France

A Paris court convicted the Church of Scientology of fraud and fined it more than euro600,000 ($900,000) on Tuesday but stopped short of banning the group as prosecutors had demanded.

The group’s French branch immediately announced it would appeal the verdict.

The court convicted the Church of Scientology’s French office, its library and six of its leaders of organized fraud. Investigators said the group pressured members into paying large sums of money for questionable financial gain and used “commercial harassment” against recruits…

…However, the court did not order the Church of Scientology to shut down, ruling that it would be likely to continue its activities anyway “outside any legal framework.”

Prosecutors had urged that the group be dissolved in France and fined euro2 million ($3 million).

A word of caution before you head out for the long Memorial Day weekend: It’s also No-Refusal Weekend. Which means? Well, if Dallas police pull suspect you’re drinking and driving, you’ll be stuck with a butterfly needle attached to a vacuum-packed container, and two vials’ worth of your blood will taken and tested. And, no, you can’t refuse the test…

The program, which the DPD’s been testing since last Memorial Day weekend, has proven to be most everything Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the Dallas Police Department and the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office hoped it would be. According to the police, 335 people have had their blood drawn during the handful of no-refusal weekends, and of the tests taken, all but five came back with results well over the legal blood alcohol level of .08 — and in most cases, they were closer to double the legal limit.
That’s not all that Chief Kunkle and MADD director Mary Kardell were cheering about this morning at a press event: They also noted that not a single one of these blood test cases had gone before a jury. According to Kunkle, all 51 cases that have thus far entered the legal system pleaded guilty before ever heading to trial…
They also said the program will go full-time on September 1. Should pending legislation pass through the state Legislature, as expected, Dallas County will become a full-time needle-poking place.

There is no way I’m letting a cop open my veins. This can’t be quite right. Do they have phlebotomists, nurses or EMTs on hand for this?
Dallas Observer

Chen Fuchao, a man heavily in debt, had been contemplating suicide on a bridge in southern China for hours when a passer-by came up, shook his hand — and pushed him off the ledge.
Chen fell 26 feet onto a partially inflated emergency air cushion laid out by authorities and survived, suffering spine and elbow injuries, the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday.

“I pushed him off because jumpers like Chen are very selfish. Their action violates a lot of public interests…They do not really dare to kill themselves. Instead, they just want to raise the relevant government authorities’ attention to their appeals.”

The passer-by, 66-year-old Lai Jiansheng, had been fed up with what he called Chen’s “selfish activity,” Xinhua said. Traffic around the Haizhu bridge in the city of Guangzhou had been backed up for five hours and police had cordoned off the area.

AOL Article with Pics.

Three years ago, Whitney Cerak\’s family was told she died in van crash, but it was a case of mistaken identity. This weekend she graduated from Indiana\’s Taylor University. (May 24)

Jan Vormann once again indulged his passion for Plastic! This time, in Berlin, he “dispatched” mostly holes that remained from the World War II.

At some very touristic hot-spots, (Kupfergraben corner with Dorotheenstraße) a whole lot of people of all ages spontaneously started “helping” him with the dispachwork project and plastic construction pieces in all colors, between old stones, gave an interesting new twist in Berlin.

Some Kids, Parents and Grandparents took the project “to another dimension” with a variation of approaches towards the possibilities of constructing with those little bricks..

The Event was accompanied by an indoor exhibition at Jarmuschek + Partners gallery , where Vormann showed a handful of Kinetic objects. The exhibition will last until the13th of June.

Yatzer
My house is fieldstone and has a crack or two (or three) in her. Perhaps I’ll copy Vormann, since I have plenty of Legos and K’nex.

Mancow used to be on my local radio station. Why would you call yourself Mancow? What a crazy ass radio show. They used to have women orgasms on the radio and crazy stuff like that. I miss it. Waterboarding is torture. What do you think?

Hockey officials hope to attract fans and create a higher-scoring, fast-paced game with a new aerodynamic puck and artificial turf instead of ice.

Presented by Showtimes Weeds. Never seen it. Any good? Don\’t have Showtime but I know where to find weed. So I have my priorities straight.