A shiny new donkey to the reader who offers a credible explanation of either the lightning-bolt shape or the ellipsoid curve(s) in this incredibly odd instance of data mining.
[via waxy]
in case you missed these recent local headlines…
Grolier Poetry Bookshop has new owner
and, not so locally, but close enough to my interests to be worth posting:
Green Party Lieutenant Governor of NY candidate Alison Duncan’s website… is back up and running! (Thanks, Nick!)
in a different category altogether, but still close to my beclogged heart, the legenedary beer battered deep fried bacon double quarter pounder, caught on camera, by one who survived his encounter with it!
Hot on the heels of my first StarCraft victory against a skilled opponent the night before, Yang the Merciless emerged from her lair late last night to throw down the gauntlet. Two games were played, both ended swiftly, both ended with my entrails strewn across the ground like … like… something that gets strewn!
Some day, I will defeat her.
*tests edge of knife on a strand of silk*
Some day….
*laughs maniacally*
OH YES, SOME! DAY! MWAH HA HA HA HA HA!!!!
Kentucky’s shit is now hitting the blogospheric fan in a ’scandal’ that’s led its main victim to call his home “The People’s Republic of Kentucky” for the censorship practices of its state government.
What’s especially interesting to me about that epithet in particular is that my neighbors in Cambridge are proud to call their community “The People’s Republic of Cambridge”. This has been true for so long, I didn’t get the bluegrassreport’s jab at first: he’s talking about the totalitarianism of China, Cantabrigians are talking about the far left socialism.
But I digress, go read the article. It’s …
Thanks to Mike (via Nick) for pointing out a great science fiction movie I hadn’t even heard of: Primer. Just watched it last night, and, like Mike, I think I might have to watch it (all 78 minutes of it) at least one or two more times to really get it.
Very cool, plausible story. You’ll enjoy the characters, but you probably won’t feel too deeply for them. What is enjoyable however is the authenticity of the conversations, there’s this constant buzz of excitement and chatter that’s instantly recognizable to …
I got a tip that, only during June 6, WackyJac is having an amazingly colossal sale: all their wicked awesome fem-positive undies are marked down to $6.66 (from the usual $14).
And while it’s my great pleasure to pass that along, it’s an even greater pleasure to direct you to their great Links Page, which I only just now noticed.
1.7 bonus karma points to the best suggestion for a better alternative to “fem-positive.” Gwen and I brainstormed on it a few minutes, then collapsed, exhausted and without success.