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2000 Archive
31 Mar
Daily Planet makes its own news

Berkeley Woman Slain By Richard Brenneman

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get it while it's warming

This Asshole's SUV is sure to be impounded any moment.

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30 Mar
four magic words* that could help Tyler to decide

Tyler Dunlap, a 27-year-old newlywed in San Francisco, is just one of the many American men eagerly awaiting salvation from the tyranny of potentially fertile females. "[It] would mean that, finally, I could take control of my own future, instead of leaving it to someone else," says Dunlap. "I don't want to rely on condoms for birth control. I'm not ready for a vasectomy, though. This new procedure could be the answer that gives men the decisive control we lack with current contraceptives."
[E]xpert panels subsequently concluded that the major side effect -- several weeks of non-painful scrotal swelling in about a third of the subjects --was not enough to stop the study. That was a bonus.

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they've got your ethical stem cells hangin'

Mice testicles yield 'ethical' stem cells

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28 Mar
an important part of this complete [documentary]

Hot damn:
"We don't believe that the FCC took into account prior precedent set by them in our case — how the language was used in context," KCSM-TV General Manager Marilyn Lawrence said Thursday.

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poor little ferret sneezes

At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ferret sneezes are frozen in tiny vials and locked up in a high-security chamber called an enhanced biosafety Level 3 laboratory.

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27 Mar
RIP Nikki Sudden

Sudden has just completed a new solo album, "The Truth Doesn't Matter," and has a gig booked in London on Wednesday (March 29) with his band the Jacobites. According to a post from longtime group member Dave Kusworth on Sudden's MySpace.com page, the show will go off as planned in memoriam to Sudden.

Mike Lupica reflects on Nikki Sudden's visit to his show last Monday.

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and it's my new favorite thing

Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog

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26 Mar
hossana in the highest

I'd always figured the formula for prophecy was
[charisma]+[smoking something][psychotropic stimulus]+[insane gullibility of the masses].
Proof of the first and third factors is abundantly clear every time one peeks at Fox News. As for the integral middle factor, well, sometimes all one has to do is inhale

[A]cute and chronic hypoxia significantly affect the temporo-parietal junction and the prefrontal cortex and both areas have also been linked to altered own body perceptions and mystical experiences. Prolonged stay at high altitudes, especially in social deprivation, may also lead to prefrontal lobe dysfunctions[.]

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24 Mar
christian cash cows: protest for profit

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The $55 advance tickets for two days of musical performances and speeches were sold out, but walk-up admission [to the Christian hate rally in S.F.] was available for $199. He challenged youth leaders to double the size of their groups in the next year. And try to bring some kids: these folks are mostly >60, and morbidly obese. Not a sustainable market.

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well Pierce my Bush

Looks (insert pun here. I mean. yowza.) like the nephew takes after his uncle, at least in his appreciation for early morning intoxicants. You can smell the Mickey's Big Mouth sweat even without slowing down the tape.

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21 Mar
maybe don't sing it in parts of the Mission, or at all in the 'Loin

S/FJ hips us to the Rolling Stones whoring themselves out to Kellogg's Rice Krispies circa 1964. The clip is a baffling little piece of pop culture history, and the song is even catchy. But not as catchy as this phenomenal (and so NSFW, unless your work is porn) contractual obligation for Decca, circa 1972, brought to us by the inimitable WFMU. The catchiness of Cocksucker Blues is downright peevish, if you're already ohrwurm-succeptible: one might regularly find oneself singing a line or two while otherwise innocuously humming [and now everything sounds dirty] one's way through some particularly tedious task.

I only know a handful of people who could belt out "When do I get my [!] sucked? When do I get my [!] f[!]cked?" without eliciting some equal-and-opposite style reaction.
Could be it's just a matter of practice.

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whee.

Yes, I'd call that about a 3.7. The windows thought it was a 4.5, but then you could sneeze from across the street and our windows would likely shudder.

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18 Mar
"Please bear in mind that time is of the essence

in this regard."
[Ellen Johnson Sirleaf] was praised in speeches by many of the ambassadors, and her speech was greeted with applause, a rare occurrence in the chamber.

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TJ's in NYC

OK, NYC friends: it's time to go grocery shopping. Try the lowfat organic yogurt, even if you think you don't like yogurt. Try the vanilla. Dip a strawberry in it. See, there? $1.79/quart and you're all set. That said, you should go ahead and, just once or maybe twice a week if you're me, spend $4.79/pint on the Fage.
Spend some time in the beer and wine sections: TJ's has great pinot grigios for under $5/bottle, and, out here at least, Acme California Pale Ale at $5.99/6pk. There are frequently screaming deals on Bootles and Ketel One, too. My other drug of choice is the Five-Country Blend Organic Fair Trade Espresso. I'm high on it right now.

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16 Mar
where we'd be tomorrow if we lived in London

The 27 six year olds will wear red or white baseball caps to represent red and white blood cells and demonstrate how a kidney works ona set constructed out of church pews to look like a giant nephron – the functional unit of the kidney that filters and cleans the blood.

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coming soon to an aquarium near you

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[Either] the impending revolution will be short lived or our destruction will be incredibly swift.

Our destruction is already proceeding at a darned zippy pace, but what if we outfitted some roboto snecks with frickin' lasers and backpacks full of sponges and set them loose in the Indian ocean? Then we could send down a team of mechanical eunicids, and either greatly increase our chances for survival or end up robot worm food.

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send a copy to your congressperson

ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT
AGAINST GEORGE W. BUSH
ISBN 1-933633-08-5
$9.95 paperback original (144 pages)

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15 Mar
birds?

Daredevil doggies, mit deathrock.
Also: doggie loves his deck.

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8 Mar
or the second 'i' is invisible. like the force.

A City of Poughkeepsie man faces a stint in jail for dealing crack in the city last year. Landocalrissan Butler, 25...

Those are some damned geeky parents, calling their son Landocalrissian in 1980. I'm going to go ahead and blame the arresting officer or blotter clerk for the above spelling: this kid knew damned well he was special without having his name spelled funkily, and if the charts are right there weren't a whole lot of Landocalrissians to compete with.

It could be that he comes from a big family and the parents gave each child a unique moniker to avoid the "Time for bed, Julie-Josh-Joel-Jeanie-Jonathan-Geraldine... Jessica!" routine. There might be a Johnparker Butler, a Jeribashigan Butler, and a Chiefengineerparker Butler at home. '88 suffered a dearth of science fiction heroes of color, so Frankarmitage Butler's twin would probably hear the same old joke: "What is it, excitement, enthusiasm, esprit de corps?" And then the same old rumor that some kid gnawed his own hand off like a trapped skunk, or wolverine, or somethin'.

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that's hot

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We have frozen him to -175ºC, or any other number you care to name. He's out cold, as it were.

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7 Mar

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RIP Gordon Parks

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3 Mar
Jesus wept.

The Missouri House of Representatives doesn't require that resolutions comply with standard English grammar, but considers those which would require compliance with a standard (Christian) religion.

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all 18" of him

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Behold motion-activated vinyl Freddy Mercury, with sound.

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2 Mar
"We know that there are hundreds of thousands in Louisiana that need to be rescued."

Bush declared four days after the storm, "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees" that gushed deadly flood waters into New Orleans. Bush appeared from [...] his vacation ranch in Texas, with his elbows on a table[,] in the Aug. 28 briefing. "I want to assure the folks at the state level that we are fully prepared to not only help you during the storm, but we will move in whatever resources and assets we have at our disposal after the storm," the president said.

"I hope people don't draw conclusions[...]" presidential spokesman Trent Duffy said. Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke said his department would not release the full set of videotaped briefings. "There's nothing new or insightful on these tapes[.]"

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