Menuhin Plays Franck
Something, Nothing, Funny
There is a relationship between all things humorous that requires these elements work together in order to accomplish the end of being humorous. So something (say a joke in this example) is just a bundle of words that may be said in any number of ways without being funny, in many cases it may only be the individual that (although they probably don’t realize it) understands how to access the power of the continuum (Since my friend Aaron, and I and I guess now You the reader are the only ones that even know that the continuum exists I will say that I am sure this assumption is correct). But when this bundle of words is then combined with Nothing (say a proper amount of silence before executing the punch line) that bundle of words then becomes funny to the listener.
A Brief History of the Cat
By studying the mitochondrial DNA of 979 domestic and wild cats from Europe, Asia and Africa the researchers concluded that the origins of the species — what O’Brien calls a feline Adam and Eve — developed between 130,000 and 160,000 years ago.
Ms. Beckham Needs Help Dressing Herself
…the Beckhams have splashed out £250,000 on a walk-in closet at their luxurious new Los Angeles mansion. The room apparently comes with a “CAT-scan” such as those used in medical practice which will give her a detailed picture from all angles of herself wearing an outfit on a computer screen within seconds.
Counting My Blessings
How many people have jobs that let them sip on Lagavulin while working?
Google Maps
A career in cartography used to be the prerogative of well-funded adventurers — men like Rennell or Lewis and Clark — with full government backup. Even after the advent of commercial satellite and aerial photography, the ability to make maps remained largely in the hands of specialists. Now, suddenly, mapmaking power is within the grasp of a 12-year-old. In the past two years, map providers like Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have created tools that let anyone with an Internet connection layer their own geographic obsessions on top of ever-more-detailed road maps and satellite images. A host of collaborative annotation projects have appeared — not to mention tens of thousands of personal map mashups — that plot text, links, data, and even sounds onto every available blank space on the digital globe. It’s become a sprawling, networked atlas — a “geoweb” that’s expanding so quickly its outer edges are impossible to pin down.
Shit Storm
I carried my poop with me. Hers was on the floor. It was incumbent on me to inform my parents. I was so pleased that my dad took it out on her ass.
The Cheney Branch of Government
Emily Deprang’s Article “The War Comes Home”–Recommended
My June 27th, 07 issue of The Texas Observer arrived today, and there are many good things in it. We have all read many stories of soldiers coming home from Iraq by now, but I found this profile of three of them to be one of the best. These soldiers “speak of the inadequacy of what the military calls reintegration counseling, of the immediacy of their worst memories, of their helplessness in battle, of the struggle to rejoin a society that seems unwilling or unable to comprehend the price of their service.” Read their quietly compelling stories here.
Synthetic Life
Scientists have taken a first step toward making synthetic life by transferring genetic material from one bacterium into another, transforming the second microbe into a copy of the first.
Cute and Weird is good, too
John Kricfalusi, creator of Ren & Stimpy, uses his blog to provide commentary about cuteness, weirdness, and the art of animation.
The entry from 6/26 is about the use of color. The best quote:
“Genius.
Makes me want to roll up a spoonful of weather proof salt in cigarette foil and chew it to bits in a hurricane.
What do you think?”
Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control
Last night I rewatched Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control and afterward took some pictures of it.
The National, Boxer
I can’t stop listening to this album.
Egypt outlaws all female circumcision
Any circumcision “will be viewed as a violation of the law and all contraventions will be punished,” said the official, adding that it was a “permanent ban”.
A survey in 2000 said the practice was carried out on 97 percent of the country’s women.
I wonder what took them so long? The alien-ness of this practice reminds me of this recent story.
jPhone
[via my job, oddly enough]
Mistaken Fish Tacos
For Cindy, from Sven:
So Cindy, I went back today and checked it out for you. It was well noticed. Somebody was zzzleeping.
Answers to Often-Asked iPhone Questions
Is the search for aliens such a good idea?
Many scientists, frightened by the danger that might lurk out there, have argued against our actively seeking contact with extraterrestrials. Jared Diamond, professor of evolutionary biology and Pulitzer Prize winner, says: “Those astronomers now preparing again to beam radio signals out to hoped-for extraterrestrials are naive, even dangerous.”
Yep
I am proposing that the Son and the Father Singularities guided the worlds of the multiverse to concentrate the energy of the particles constituting Jesus in our universe into the Jesus of our universe.
Apple RSS Reader for iPhone
Apple has developed a web app at reader.mac.com that will bring RSS feeds to the iPhone. Users will be able to add the addresses of news feeds and check on headlines through the Apple-designed RSS aggregator.
Chris Marker
Even in the digital age, things can disappear. This DVD just came out yesterday. Two of the greatest films of all time that were near impossible to find? I’m going to buy a copy because at some point it will be out of print. It’s destined to be.
BandAid Rings
Smacktalk
Supposedly he called to follow up on something that he claims I’d asked him about when we were backstage at the D show. Then he starts talking about the iPhone and how crazy it is and how am I holding up and so forth. Then he says, “Well, ya know, I’m kind of anxious to get hold of one myself,” and I know what he’s hinting at, he wants me to send one up to him because he’s the Great Bill Gates, and I guess I should be a mensch and just give him a freebie but you know what? No way. Not after all that smacktalk from Ballmer.
PT-141
It is the nasal spray to end all nasal sprays, a new and apparently hugely effective brain-stroking libido-licking sex-drive-boosting drug called PT-141 which, if approved and if even half as effective as some of the amazing human trials indicate, will revolutionize sex in a way Viagra could only wet dream and which Ecstasy can only knowingly wink at and which cocaine and cocktails and overpriced sports cars will only deeply envy forevermore.
It works for both men and women. It is unaffected by food or alcohol. It is non-addictive, easy to use, has no serious physical side effects. It works by opening/stimulating/grinding against the same channels in the brain (as opposed to the bloodstream, like Viagra) that fire up when you get turned on. It is not Ecstasy, but it certainly could supplant it as the club drug of the new millennium. And it will be here in about three years.
iPhone for Mary Update
Okay, this is kick ass. We’re at 266.74 for Mary and we have an anonymous donor who will round the amount we receive by 5:00 CST to $500.
If you can afford it, please decrease the burden for our wonderful donor and bring Mary one step closer to her heart’s desire.
All for less than the price of a cup of coffee a day….
