This might come in handy over the holiday weekend (better safe then sorry)

I think I have to agree with this well thought out insight.....

Some people are upset with the signing of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman for the next batman movie called “Dark Knight Rises” but I think her boobs are going to look boobtastic the entire movie so I give the hire two thumbs up

true that......

very cool...

Lego Barad-dûr: 50,000 Pieces, Two Months to Build, Pure Awesome

Barad-dûr, the Dark Tower of Sauron from The Lord of the Rings, is re-created out of Lego bricks.

A group of 15 people from five countries set out to re-create Tolkien’s world with Lego bricks, and one man had the intense challenge of building Barad-dûr. This is how he did it

now we got that out of the way..Where's my flying car!!!!!!

Robot armpit

Cory Doctorow at 1:09 PM Tue 

Kevin Grennan created this Robot Armpit prototype. There's more good stuff about his work with robots that smell scary in this We Make Money Not Art interview and profile, in honor of The Smell of Control: Fear, Focus, Trust, which deals with smell and robotics.

oh my stars and garters......

Stocks Of Socialized Countries Have Outperformed U.S. Since Reagan Era

American traders aren't likely to take kindly to the suggestion that big government might be good for the stock market. But data from a paper on the job- and income-growth of top earners shows that stock prices in some socialized countries, relative to themselves and adjusted for inflation, have done considerably better than those in the U.S over the last two and a half decades.

Specifically, during the twenty five years after Ronald Reagan took office -- a pro-market honeymoon that Ryan Chittum of the Columbia Journalism Review this week termed "the ascent of laissez-faire economic policies" -- French stock prices have performed significantly better than Americans ones, according to the report by Jon Bakija, Adam Cole, and Bradley Heim. A further examination of the 39-year period extending from the end of the Nixon administration until 2008 shows the Swedish economy, known for its high taxes and heavy regulation, growing at a significantly higher rate than the US. The authors conclude that big government might not actually stand in contradiction to a productive economy: "Countries with typically high levels of government involvement in the economy, such as Sweden, Denmark and Canada, do not appear to have experienced stifled economic growth relative to countries where government involvement is more limited, like the US," the report says. With bastions of socialism -- Sweden Canada and France -- outpacing American market prices, does this mean it's time for Wall Streeters to start calling croissants "Freedom bagels?" Probably not. According to Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, a research fellow specializing in European economies at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the disparity between the American and European markets might have more to do with the period in question than governmental forces. "In 1981, [Francois] Mitterand was elected president of France, and the first thing he did was to nationalize a bunch of French businesses and most of the banking system," Kirkegaard explained. "But going forward, France has moved quite dramatically towards a market-oriented economy, though not anywhere near the scope of market and economic freedom as perceived in the U.S."

I listened to it twice. I not really sure why he is so pissed. But great tirade anyway...

Zero Puncutation on Duke Nukem Forever

Cory Doctorow at 1:02 PM Wed 

finally, now lets get to executing children there is quite a back log...

 

Milton Mathis, Convicted Killer, Executed In Texas Despite Evidence Of Retardation

A man convicted of slaying two people and critically injuring a third in a drug house shooting was executed on Tuesday evening by Texas officials, despite evidence that he suffered from mental retardation.

Milton Mathis, 32, was sentenced to death in 1999, three years before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that execution of the mentally retarded violated the Constitution's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. Intelligence tests, including one given by the Texas Department of Corrections in 2000, measured Mathis's IQ in the low 60s, well below the threshold for mild mental retardation as recognized by almost all states. In 2005, however, a Texas court rejected his claims of mental impairment, siding with prosecutors who characterized Mathis as a "street smart" criminal whose behavior indicated near-normal intelligence. Federal and

I am fully in favor of summary executions for cretins who text while driving (roadside so I can see it driving by)

 

I do not trust this dog.......

I need this(really I do)

Flame throwing trombone

this better be what I am getting for father's day..

wha????

Early coded ad for anal vibrator

Cory Doctorow at 9:23 AM Fri 

This 1943 Amazing Stories ad for an anally inserted vibrator "to treat prostatitis" is the male equivalent of those coded ads for phallic "neck massagers" that ran around the same time and later, gracing the pages of the Sears Catalog and others.

great book...great poster....

dig this.......

Scott Jones And Alex Thomas: Kissing Couple At Vancouver Riot Identified

"This guy has scared the sh*t out of me since I was fifteen."

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."

I live on the Maine coast in a two hundred year old farmhouse. When bad weather comes in it gets dark and we lose electricity alot. I was sitting with my family and reading by lanterns when I pulled down a copy of the Mountains of madness. I checked under my bed twice that night before turning in.....

true that....

Awesome Cthulhu bathroom graffiti

Sound advice scrawled on a bathroom wall by some anonymous H.P. Lovecraft fan

very cool....

Lego-making machine made of Lego

Cory Doctorow at 4:55 PM Sun 

Joseph sez, "This is an exclusive Lego set that you can purchase on the factory tour in Denmark. It has semi-functional injection molding mechanics. Really a neat toy."

Yes, but he wasn't a gay mobster....

Priest Accused Of Helping Mobster Hide Property

— A Roman Catholic priest from the Diocese of Winona, Minn., has been placed on administrative leave after he was indicted in Chicago in an alleged scheme to help an imprisoned mobster conceal property from authorities.

Deacon Justin Green of the Winona Diocese says Bishop John Quinn has also suspended the Rev. Eugene Klein from his priestly duties. KAGE-AM in Winona reports it means he can't function as a priest.
Green says the diocese is fully cooperating with the investigation. He also says Quinn expresses deep sorrow over Klein's indictment.
Prosecutors Thursday said Klein ministered to Frank Calabrese at a prison in Springfield, Mo., where he allegedly participated in a scheme to recover a valuable violin from a home Calabrese once owned in Wisconsin. Calabrese is serving life for 13 murders.

You don't have a state income tax...go piss up a rope....

Kay Bailey Hutchison: Obama Has A 'Bias' Against Texas




"I see a bias in this administration against Texas… yes, I do see it in this administration, absolutely. We didn't get the help in the wildfires that I think any other state would have gotten," said Hutchison. "I think if you look at the things that have not happened in Texas, I think it is pretty clear that there is a bias against Texas. Even in the border issues we are not getting the help we should have from the federal government to secure the 1,200-mile border we have with Mexico. So I do think that a lot of the rhetoric has rubbed the administration wrong, and we have had to fight hard for our fair share."