Do you guys know we just passed thru a BLACK HOLE in space?
(via get your war on)
My wife and I made our living wills last night. Mine says that if I fall into a persistent vegetative state, and Tom DeLay comes within a hundred miles of me, I am to turn into a zombie and rip his fucking head off. They can’t prosecute the undead for manslaughter, can they?
(from the this post probably belongs here dept.)
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Check out the International Chamber of Commerce’s Weekly Piracy Report.
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A furious lightsaber duel is underway. DARTH VADER is backing LUKE SKYWALKER towards the end of the gantry. A quick move by Vader, chops off Luke’s hand! It goes spinning off into the ventilation shaft. Luke backs away. He looks around, but realizes there’s nowhere to go but straight down.
Darth Vader: Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.
Luke: He told me enough! He told me you killed him!
Darth Vader: No… I am your father!
Luke: No, it’s not true! That’s impossible!
Darth Vader: Search your feelings… you know it to be true…
Luke: NO!
Darth Vader: Yes, it is true.. and you know what else? You know that brass droid of yours?
Luke: Threepio?
Darth Vader: Yes… Threepio… I built him… when I was 7 years old…
Luke: No…
Darth Vader: Seven years old! And what have you done? Look at yourself, no hand, no job, and couldn’t even levitate your own ship out of the swamp…
Luke: I destroyed your precious Death Star!
Darth Vader: When you were 20! When I was 10, I single-handedly destroyed a Trade Federation Droid Control ship!
Luke: Well, it’s not my fault…
Darth Vader: Oh, here we go… “Poor me… my father never gave me what I wanted for my birthday… boo hoo, my daddy’s the Dark Lord of the Sith… waahhh wahhh!”
Luke: Shut up…
Darth Vader: You’re a slacker! By the time I was your age, I had exterminated the Jedi knights!
Luke: I used to race my T-16 through Beggar’s Canyon!
Darth Vader: Oh, for the love of the Emperor… 10 years old, winner of the Boonta Eve Open… Only human to ever fly a pod racer… right here, baby!
Luke looks down the shaft. Takes a step towards it.
Darth Vader: I was wrong… You’re not my kid… I don’t know whose you are, but you sure ain’t mine…
Luke takes a step off the platform, hesitates, then plunges down the shaft. Darth Vader looks after him.
Darth Vader: And get a haircut, you look like a girl!
Bring Kleenex to Star Wars finale:
“It’s not like the first one. It’s more emotional,” said the director of the upcoming space adventure Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith, which arrives in North American theatres on May 19.
“I describe it as a Titanic in space. It’s a real tearjerker, and it will be received in a way that none of us can expect,” he told theatre owners at the ShoWest convention.
I’m sure the new Star Wars will be a titanic something. I did weep a bit over the 133 minutes of my life lost watching Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace .
I’ve finally switched this site to WordPress. Everything is mostly working — I just need to fix the comments template and the right sidebar doesn’t quite look right when viewed with Internet Explorer (why are you using Internet Explorer anyway?). I also have to figure out a way to make the “Quote of the Day” work.
I may still mess around with the theme, but I think it’s pretty close to the way I want it.
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I know this is redundant…
bold the states you’ve been to, underline the states you’ve lived in and italicize the state you’re in now…
Alabama / Alaska / Arizona / Arkansas / California / Colorado / Connecticut / Delaware / Florida / Georgia / Hawaii / Idaho / Illinois / Indiana / Iowa / Kansas / Kentucky / Louisiana / Maine / Maryland / Massachusetts / Michigan / Minnesota / Mississippi / Missouri / Montana / Nebraska / Nevada / New Hampshire / New Jersey / New Mexico / New York / North Carolina / North Dakota / Ohio / Oklahoma / Oregon / Pennsylvania / Rhode Island / South Carolina / South Dakota / Tennessee / Texas / Utah / Vermont / Virginia / Washington / West Virginia / Wisconsin / Wyoming / Washington D.C. /
Go HERE to have a form generate the HTML for you.
(via Google Blog)
If you’re a blogger (or a blog reader), you’re painfully familiar with people who try to raise their own websites’ search engine rankings by submitting linked blog comments like “Visit my discount pharmaceuticals site.” This is called comment spam, we don’t like it either, and we’ve been testing a new tag that blocks it. From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel=”nofollow”) on hyperlinks, those links won’t get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. This isn’t a negative vote for the site where the comment was posted; it’s just a way to make sure that spammers get no benefit from abusing public areas like blog comments, trackbacks, and referrer lists.
I’ve set up this web log to add the attribute, rel=”nofollow” to all links added by users (comments, trackbacks, etc.). Users are now allowed to use HTML in their comments (MT-Blacklist should handle any abusers).
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The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D’oh! of Homer – William Irwin, Mark T. Conard, Aeon J. Skoble |
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values – Robert M. Pirsig |
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The Trial of Socrates – I.F. Stone |
