Dixie Chicks Rawk
Natalie Maines is really fucking funny. Smart hawt chix. There’s nothing better.
Natalie Maines is really fucking funny. Smart hawt chix. There’s nothing better.
U.N. says “no money or troops for you” after Bush goes to them on his knees begging for help. Hmm. I wonder why?
Odigo, the instant messaging service, says that two of its workers received messages two hours before the Twin Towers attack on September 11 predicting the attack would happen, and the company has been cooperating with Israeli and American law enforcement, including the FBI, in trying to find the original sender of the message predicting the attack.
Okay… WTF? Seriously, did they do this to one of my favorite novels? This is the kind of thing that makes me want kick someone in the shins. Preferable the person that did it.
I really don’t think this is an “update” of the book, just a modern cover. So strange.
I’m sending this Fark Photoshop contest to all the book cover designers at work. Maybe they’ll get some ideas.
Salon has an excellent article that covers a great deal more about the flaws in the electronic voting system. It’s a subscription article, but well worth the one day subscription. There’s also a free to read article about the investigator who found many of these flaws. In addition to being notoriously easy to hack, there’s also the problem that a leading owner/manufacturer or voting equipment is a GOP fundraiser who promised to deliver the state of Ohio to Bush next year.
Everybody seems to be remarking on the 1-year anniversary of the tornado that struck Indianapolis. I tend to remember the date because it was day I learned that my cat Idgie was dying. I had to have her put to sleep the next day.
I sat down today with Dru and Huck and Annabelle and petted all of them and talked to them about Idgie.
You might be aware that one of my favorite shows is Animal Cops on the Animal Planet network. Here’s a guy who doesn’t have cable (!) and saw the show for the first time at his grandmother’s house. Then he started riffing on other potential Animal Planet shows. Like “Welcome Back Otter” and “Queer Eye For A Pig Sty.”
Fark photo-contest: create your own Anti-Drug ad. This one’s getting my vote.
“Would you like to end up like this man? Sure you’ll get to be President…
… but imagine living life with a single digit IQ. This is what Cocaine can do to you.
DUBYA… my anti-drug”