Archive for January, 2006

Money and Politricks.

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

I don’t know if I’ve ever posted something like this, forgive me if I have.
American politics are horribly fucked, IMHO.
Both major parties. My solution? Get the money out of it. The problem is this, corporations, in addition to being all corporationy, have lots of money. John Q. Public does not. Money suddenly raises the volume of your voice immensely. The only time the public gets their voice heard is when they kick up a complete shitstorm regarding some wholesale sale of their rights to the lowest non-bidder. How do you get the money out of it? I have no idea, I think McCain-Feingold only opened more loopholes. I wish people would pay attention to the independent parties. America was not always a 2 party country, most other countries have more than 2 parties as well.
We’re supposed to be the best nation in the world, surely we can do better.

I can’t comment on an ongoing…

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

So the White House spokesman called the lawsuits about illegal wiretaps frivolous.
I thought you couldn’t comment on an ongoing investigation?
As John Stewart said last night, this puts the lawsuit below “man glues ass to toilet seat at Home Depot”.
Classy.
I have to sneeze, hold on.
/me grabs constitution
It might as well serve some purpose.

Funny stuff.

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

This is the funniest flash animation I have ever seen.

Really cool.

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

This is a really cool bit of javascript trickery that will overlay a linked jpg over the current webpage when clicked.

What’re you in for?

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Apparently it’s now illegal to flame without using your real name.
What constitutes the “intent to annoy”?
Questioning leadership.
We would stop comparing you to 1984 if you’d stop acting so much like it.

Sprachen sie deutsch?

Sunday, January 8th, 2006

Check out the new theme, I like it.
I’m going to translate it to English later.
Then I might just release it, with the original editor’s permission.
I’m going to leave it like this until I can translate it all.
The theme creator’s website

He’s off his rocker…

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

If there was any doubt before.
Advocating assassination, hoping a town gets flooded, now this.
Religion of peace my ass.

Cute Overload.

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

Systems critical, cute core meltdown 5…4…3.
Cute overload
Pandafix

Multilingual Tongue Twisters.

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

This story on NPR has me on a quest.
We have tongue twisters and word games to help us with our grammar and speech. Of course, this means other languages have their own unique mnemonic constructs.
Russian has “Shla Sasha po shosse i sosala sushku” which means “Sasha was walking down the highway sucking a donut”. It just helps you with your sounds and such. I’m in search of more from other languages. Here are some more.