The incident creates a dilemma in China where no law exists for the ownership of virtual weapons.
Kalee pascha
(Thanks, Dan)
We've heard he can be a bit of an egomaniacal notoriety-seeking annoyance to the London art scene, but right now at this very moment Banksy is our hero. We dug the London rat series last year, but we effing love these .
(Someone who is clearly not a real patriot) warned of lawsuits from students enrolled in Holocaust history courses who believe the Holocaust never happened. Similar suits could be filed by students who don’t believe astronauts landed on the moon, who believe teaching birth control is a sin or even by Shands medical students who refuse to perform blood transfusions and believe prayer is the only way to heal the body.
They put the bats on a treadmill inside a cage...
No, they did not. Tell me they didn't put the cute furry guys on little tiny bat treadmills.
.... using cows as bait.
Oh. All right. As long as they got a snack afterward.
The federal government does not regulate the creation of such chimeras, named after the mythical Greek creature that is part-man, part-animal. "[...] If the mouse shows human-like behaviors, like improved memory or problem-solving, it's time to stop." said (the) director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences.
Ian Brown, former singer of the Stone Roses, was briefly detained for attacking a fan during a concert and beating a bouncer who intervened, police said. Shortly after taking the stage at the Great American Music Hall, witnesses said Brown started and stopped his old band's hit "Made of Stone" three times. He threw a microphone at a sound engineer and another into the balcony, then said, "What do you say we finish the show and then smash the place up?" Investigators were having a tough time sorting through conflicting descriptions of the melee.
Why don't they just watch the video?
NYC bike messengers rule ok.
Dax Pierson, beloved Amoeba buyer and Subtle keyboardist, suffered crushed vertebrae when the band's tour van hit black ice in Atlantic, Iowa a few weeks ago. Amoeba Berkeley is selling signature pink bandanas for $10, all ten of which dollars go to Dax's recovery fund. You'll soon be able to buy bandanas through his website, where cool t-shirts will also be on offer, and look for benefit shows in London, Munich, Berlin, Zurich, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Minneapolis, Chicago, and Vancouver.
Cards, letters, flowers, etc. go to:
The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research
Care of Dax Pierson
1333 Moursund unit 5
Houston TX 77030
Teenaged (2 year old) felines are as bad as adolescent humans, I tell you. It doesn't help that Ash is part puppy.
"I can so go out with badly damaged rear legs. Who needs tarsal joints? See? I can even (grunt) leap up onto my perch on the glass end table next to the plants, so just let me out! C'mon!"
Never mind that he's shaved and scraped. Or that his right hock is severely sprained, its skin just recently re-gloved, or that his left hock was completely separated, the tibia sheared, muscles and tendons torn and mashed. And that his splint makes him walk like Wimpy. He's got squirrels to chase, people to charm, SpyCat's ass to kick. It's amazing how fast he can truck toward the sound of an opening door or window, when really he should not be walking at all. Maybe he'll calm down when the effing rain returns on Friday.
I thought it was just Kansas the state that had strange ideas about evolution and geologic time, but now Kansas City, MO is joining the fray:
Union Station officials are hoping a 65-foot, 140-year-old dinosaur will attract up to 100,000 more visitors a year and help pull the struggling Kansas City landmark out of the red.
"Judicial tyranny is alive and well and reigning in San Francisco," said the Rev. Louis Sheldon, chairman of the Anaheim-based Traditional Values Coalition. "If this is unconstitutional, there is another constitution to answer to, and that is the word of God," said Wang[, an evangelical pastor from Mountain View].
Kramer wrote, "One does not have to be married in order to procreate, nor does one have to procreate in order to be married." Wang responded by quoting Chapter 18, Verse 22 of Leviticus.
'Cause that's relevant.
If one's going to blandish the pronouncements of Leviticus, one must pull out the whole crazy gamut for context. There's the one about being struck dead if you speak ill of your parents (and yet we still have teenagers!), the bit about insects being unclean four-legged animals (Leviticus couldn't count), the bit about bunnies as bovine, all the gory women-are-unclean-so-it's-ok-to-murder-them commandments. And of course all the stuff about throwing massive sweet blood orgies in the name of the LORD. Whatever Leviticus was smoking, Sheldon has sprinkled it with something truly vile. Don't just toke what's passed without thinking, people: that's tantamount to blasphemy. And we know what Leviticus says about blasphemers.
a (Cheyenne, Wyoming) city health inspector said there had been "several cases" of tongue rings and other facial jewelry found in the food in the city's restaurants.
Actually we wonder if he hadn't been hiding under a bush in our front yard for a very long time, making that tiny little cry that Brendan kept thinking he heard. We walked the neighborhood calling for him and asking if anyone had seen him since 3am on Saturday, and while we happily didn't find him lying in a ditch somewhere, we were both pretty sure something bad had happened.
He's at the Pet Emergency Treatment Center, now, so at least we can stop wondering if he was hit by a car. He totally was.
Jesus Craft!
or Jumpin' Jesus Toilet Paper Tube.
With Sheep Glued to His Feet.
The unofficial Norwegian Tree-Ski-Jumping Championships are, hopefully, being organized for the second time in the Hallingskarvet wilderness area... The idea is to take flight from a mound of snow, fly through the air and land in a tree. To qualify as a completed jump, the skier has to hang onto the tree without falling to the ground.
I'm not sure if that makes me a whole lot more or a tiny bit less proud to be 1/4 Norwegian. Akvavit might assist in the pondering of that problem.
Clearly it helped this guy.
Just what is Phil Mickelson uttering?
(thanks, Mr. Ex-SpaceCheese)
Thomas Griffith, nominated by President Bush to a seat on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...doesn't have a Utah law license because he never thought he needed it for his job as lawyer for Brigham Young University. Griffith, who was the chamber's general counsel during President Clinton's impeachment...
It just gets better from there.
It was fine last week when the mercury hit 67ºF. Lovely, even. This, though? I'm not so sure.
That's it from me for a couple days, as I dig out the tank tops and try to get some actual work done.
(yeah. right.)
The farming state in the middle of the American Heartland has long leaned Republican, and routinely backed conservatives on both social and fiscal matters. "Any clear-cut moral issue that God has spoken on is worth defending."
Someone ought to warn Kansas' pork industry. The Word on pig farming is way clearer than on, say, gay marriage or abortion: Their flesh you shall not eat, and their dead bodies you shall not touch; they are unclean for you.
And now, via CAAF, via OGIC, The First Five Movie Quotes That Pop Into My Head:
- Helen Sinclair: No, no, don't speak. Don't speak. Please don't speak.
Bullets over Broadway - Amilyn: Kill him A LOT!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Shaun: I was gonna.
Shaun of the Dead - Dick Vernon: Now this is the thought that wakes me up in the middle of the night.
That when I get older, these kids are going to take care of me.
Carl: I wouldn't count on it
The Breakfast Club - Lord John Whorfin: Laugh while you can, monkey-boy!
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
What quotes pop into, or rather out of, your head?
via TT, via altehaggen
- Worked in a massage parlor.
- Appeared in two episodes of Max Headroom.
- Lived under an assumed name, and in abandoned buildings, as a child.
- Taken Cosma Shiva for a walk in her stroller through the Fillmore at one in the morning.
- Had my work stolen from a gallery by a stalker-fan who showed up at my house with it years later.
- Had Bonnie Hunt mistake me for a producer who’s like my big heroine. And forever after refer to me as The Evil Twin.
- Herded throngs of screaming students out of elevators and down a swaying stairwell as a library was shaken to smithereens around us.
- Patented a nondestructive method of introducing new genetic material into living plant cells.
- Held Courtney’s hair while she was junk-sick in a gutter. No, wait. Lots of people have done that.
- Been on Danielle Steel's xmas list. She gives lovely gift baskets filled with ornaments, wine, and fine chocolates.
The Corpse is back!
"I am not cutting my film for this jerk," (Emir Kusturica) insists. "Was he brought up by pigeons or something?"