Wowie zowie! George loves the environment so bad that he promises the US will lead efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions. Nevermind that he has done nothing and has no plans to do anything that even hints at accomplishing this. (Wait, does standing next to a hydrogen drive vehicle with a confused look on your face count? No, I don't think it does.) But to you discerning readers will notice he made no promises about himself or his administration. The US will do it, cause I'm outta here, suckas. There's something about writing checks that other people have to cash that strikes me awry; even if they are for really good causes.
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Jyte Me.
I've been messing around with Jyte today. Its kinda a snarky little community wherein you propose an assertion or "claim" and everyone else either agrees with you or is stupid. Wait, I mean or they disagree. Its kinda silly and kinda fun with topics from politics to grammar, physics to movies. You kinda exchange ideas and opinions in a succinct topical way. Best of all, and the only reason I started with it, it uses OpenID authentication. If you know what that means, head over and check it out for a little bit. If you don't its probably not worth your time to figure it out for this.
Clear Soda Is A Nice Precedent.
Let me lay this out for you:
- Wiimotes- cool
- Different colored wiimotes: silly
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Well, Crap. That Didn't Work.
I know you might like pandas, but I'm not sure we should be fighting for an animal that is so obviously destined to get snuffed out. I mean, we did our best. Coaxed his parents into bumping uglies in captivity, raised him by hand so he didn't get sat on, brought him food and spent millions on enclosures. But in the end we coddled him too much and he couldn't hack it in the real world. He ended up getting whacked by other pandas and falling out of a tree. Talk about an unfortunate "accident." I feel the world's first panda mafia movie coming on.
I had too many ideas for article titles on this one, its just too hard to decide.
I had too many ideas for article titles on this one, its just too hard to decide.
- My mom says I'm tough, but she's never left the house.
- City Panda goes to Country; gets ass kicked by locals.
- Panda released to wild; Wild refuses delivery.
- Zoo Panda gets 'jumped in' to panda gang.
- Public schools don't prepare you for life on streets... er trees.
Mrs Butterworth Is After You.
"Fatal Syrup"?!? This is not something I needed to know about.
Turns out, if you actually read the article, that they're talking about diethylene glycol in cough syrup, not sweet Vermont gold. Its an industrial solvent found in anifreeze, but can also be used as a sweetener if you don't mind the side-effects; like death.
A Chinese company labeled a shipment of the stuff "TD glycerine" and sold it to someone in Spain, who sold it in Panama as "medical glycerine" where it was used to give cough syrup that kickass sweet goodness. Toothpastes in China apparently regularly use the stuff, which I guess is why you shouldn't 1)swallow your toothpaste or 2) buy toothpaste from China. But that's not really cool for larger doses and at least 50 people died from the goof.
I would say that this is the US Drug companies trying to make us afraid of buying foreign made toiletries, and I'm sure the Brush administration is working on a way to link it to Iraq, but to tell the truth we've been poisoning people with this stuff since 1937. And we're not about to stop now.
So whether you're an Austrian making fine wine in a hurry, or a Chinese toothpaste factory looking to trim its sweetener budget, diethylene glycol is the poison for you.
On a side note, the headline still says 'fatal syrup', and while your favorite flapjack topping has been cleared of all charges, I'm still gonna worry next time I sweeten up my morning.
Turns out, if you actually read the article, that they're talking about diethylene glycol in cough syrup, not sweet Vermont gold. Its an industrial solvent found in anifreeze, but can also be used as a sweetener if you don't mind the side-effects; like death.
A Chinese company labeled a shipment of the stuff "TD glycerine" and sold it to someone in Spain, who sold it in Panama as "medical glycerine" where it was used to give cough syrup that kickass sweet goodness. Toothpastes in China apparently regularly use the stuff, which I guess is why you shouldn't 1)swallow your toothpaste or 2) buy toothpaste from China. But that's not really cool for larger doses and at least 50 people died from the goof.
I would say that this is the US Drug companies trying to make us afraid of buying foreign made toiletries, and I'm sure the Brush administration is working on a way to link it to Iraq, but to tell the truth we've been poisoning people with this stuff since 1937. And we're not about to stop now.
So whether you're an Austrian making fine wine in a hurry, or a Chinese toothpaste factory looking to trim its sweetener budget, diethylene glycol is the poison for you.
On a side note, the headline still says 'fatal syrup', and while your favorite flapjack topping has been cleared of all charges, I'm still gonna worry next time I sweeten up my morning.
Shake Your Groove Thing.
Quick- how many dance steps are in the Electric Slide? ...If you guessed "I don't fucking care" you're right!
Luckily though, you are now free to duplicate and elaborate the 'Slide non-commercially as a result of an agreement reached by the EFF and Richard Silver, the dance's creator. They agreed not to sue him if he stopped filing DMCA claims to prevent people from posting videos of themselves doing the dance wrong. That's right, they weren't even technically doing the terribly embarrassing dance correctly; how embarrassing. But not as embarrassing as admitting you invented the dance to begin with.
Luckily though, you are now free to duplicate and elaborate the 'Slide non-commercially as a result of an agreement reached by the EFF and Richard Silver, the dance's creator. They agreed not to sue him if he stopped filing DMCA claims to prevent people from posting videos of themselves doing the dance wrong. That's right, they weren't even technically doing the terribly embarrassing dance correctly; how embarrassing. But not as embarrassing as admitting you invented the dance to begin with.
Personal Movie Remakes.
I watched Lady and the Tramp for the first time last night without falling asleep 20 mins in. It was cute, but I've got a beef with the ending. When they're chasing the dog catcher and the cart falls over and you see the bloodhound lying motionless on the ground... yeah... he died. I know you think he came back in the end with a bandaged up paw to tell his painfully boring stories about old Reliable, but that just didn't happen. He died under a cart in the rain and that little scotty dog was depressed.
I guess this is kinda my new thing, cause Pirates of the Carri bean was awesome... After I imagined a less-sucky last 40 minutes of it. And Spiderman 3 rocked after I imagined away all the discrepancies and terrible acting. In fact, I just saw the Nakesake on Sunday and I was fine with it. But now I'm even happier since I just decided he got back together with that cute white girl after his wife left him.
Hell, I might even be able to get pumped up about a whole bunch of terrible summer movies like Fantastic 5 and Transformers. You know they're gonna suck harder than a dyson. But with the power of my brain, they don't have to. I might even be able to save 12 bucks and just imagine I went to see them instead.
I guess this is kinda my new thing, cause Pirates of the Carri bean was awesome... After I imagined a less-sucky last 40 minutes of it. And Spiderman 3 rocked after I imagined away all the discrepancies and terrible acting. In fact, I just saw the Nakesake on Sunday and I was fine with it. But now I'm even happier since I just decided he got back together with that cute white girl after his wife left him.
Hell, I might even be able to get pumped up about a whole bunch of terrible summer movies like Fantastic 5 and Transformers. You know they're gonna suck harder than a dyson. But with the power of my brain, they don't have to. I might even be able to save 12 bucks and just imagine I went to see them instead.
Friday, June 01, 2007
Brilliant!
It really is a shame that I'm too lazy/inept to implement this fantastic storage idea. Think about it, what is the space under your stairs good for? Some kind of sporting goods warehouse or funky trash closet for incubating god-knows-what? I'm pretty sure all that crap would still fit under there if you chopped the ceiling a bit to make the most badass dresser I've ever seen.
Dear God, Not The Coke Bubbles!
This has to be the weirdest threat I've ever hard. Coke is a soft drink. Its carbonated, which is why there are little tiny bubbles fizzing out. Gum arabic reduces surface tension of liquids, making the soda more fizzy. Most of the world's gum arabic supply comes from Sudan.
So when a Sudanese Ambassador held a heated press junket, he had something to bargain with. That's right, he ranted about the sanctions the US has imposed because of the genocide in Darfur. And then he laid out the most calculated and horrifying scenario American consumers can imagine. "Stop trying to stop our mass killings or we'll make your soda less bubbly."
Well, he said that he could do that, but won't cause he loves the stuff. But he doesn't see what the big deal is; its just like when the cowboys fought the farmers for grazing land in the US he says. Ah yes, I remember the cowboy-farmer wars well, it was back in eighteen dickety two, we had to say dickety because the kaiser had stolen the word twenty...
So when a Sudanese Ambassador held a heated press junket, he had something to bargain with. That's right, he ranted about the sanctions the US has imposed because of the genocide in Darfur. And then he laid out the most calculated and horrifying scenario American consumers can imagine. "Stop trying to stop our mass killings or we'll make your soda less bubbly."
Well, he said that he could do that, but won't cause he loves the stuff. But he doesn't see what the big deal is; its just like when the cowboys fought the farmers for grazing land in the US he says. Ah yes, I remember the cowboy-farmer wars well, it was back in eighteen dickety two, we had to say dickety because the kaiser had stolen the word twenty...
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