The Onion nails Intelligent Design with this bit of satire. What I find disturbing is that the story sounds completely believable, which only illustrates how crazy the real situation is to begin with.
The Onion | Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New ‘Intelligent Falling’ Theory
“Things fall not because they are acted upon by some gravitational […]

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That’s Dedication

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I posted a few more BlobFest pics to Flickr. Why? Because I know y’all can’t get enough, that’s why!
This whole thing was a blast to me. It had all the home-towniness of a real American town festival, but without being whitebread-bland. […]

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“You are being forwarded to an automatic voice mailbox system. ….. The mailbox for ‘Customer Inquiries’ is full….”
That’s what I got when I finally managed to find a phone number on Verizon’s website, and was transferred to a different number (because I found the wrong number after all).
I was calling because I wanted to […]

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OOPS

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BJ is fine, but The Bear is in critical condition. … Actually this is a wrecked semi I passed on my drive from PA to NC. I think it had happened just a little while before, because there weren’t any police or […]

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This site has some tongue-in-cheek and yet entirely workable instructions on how to burn a flag without running afoul of the law: Whatever: Cracking the Flag-Burning Amendment
For example, one “flag” is a US flag but with a dot for one of the stars (pictured).

This is fascinating to me because it gets to the heart of […]

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This week in The New Yorker, Anthony Lane reviews the movie “Yes” in iambic pentameter, with rhymed couplets.

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This is grand… a contest I can do weekly without having to be smart like those Sunday NYTimes Crossword junkies.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/articles/050425on_onlineonly02
The New Yorker is having a weekly cartoon caption contest now. Yip!!

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Vice Magazine is snarky potty-mouthed fun. I wonder if their style guide is so detailed that it actually makes all their writers sound like the same exact disaffected Manhattan 20-something? Whatever the case, it’s a good time.
For all you designers, check out Viceland - The Vice A to Z of Design. They roast everything […]

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I’ve been getting flooded by “spam comment” bots again, and even though my blog is now set up to allow me to screen all comments from unregistered visitors, I really can’t scan 200-300 comments a day. Plus it eats bandwidth on my site.
So, I had to go with exclusive TypeKey registration. Registration is very […]

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Krispy Kreme introduces glazed doughnut frozen beverage - Jul. 21, 2004
The chain introduced a new line of frozen drinks Wednesday, including frozen original kreme — a drinkable version of the company’s signature doughnut — raspberry, latte and double chocolate.

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Ok, so this would be stupid use of a song in a commercial number 2,358. Mitsubishi is using just the first line of a song, a Flaming Lips song.
Do you realize - that you have the most beautiful face
Problem is the rest of the verse goes like this:
Do you realize - we’re floating in […]

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Bush Began to Plan War Three Months After 9/11 (washingtonpost.com)
Here’s the quote that I heard on NPR this morning that I just couldn’t believe I was actually hearing:
Asked by Woodward how history would judge the war, Bush replied: “History. We don’t know. We’ll all be dead.”

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