Today's topic for discussion is:
| The world's largest cave has been discovered in Vietnam. |
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Today's topic for discussion is:
| Lolli-pies, anyone? |
| posted at: 06:42 | permanent link to this entry |
The best news from ComicCon in several years -- on one of the many movie preview/rollout panels on the ComicCon slate, an enterprising conventioneer stepped up to a microphone and asked Megan Fox to make a sex tape. I haven't looked for a URL, but apparently the flacks and hacks didn't take too kindly so such a question, and that's plain funny. The fact such a question was asked may seem highly outrageous, perverted, and maybe even creepy to the point of being threatening. If you subscribe to either of the above sentiments, please get the hell off my lawn, and take the 'entertainment' industries with you. P.S. The correct answer for such an inquiry is "Not until the 14th minute". |
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Today's topic for discussion is:
| Food idea: crumbled pie crust as an ice-cream topping. |
| posted at: 12:09 | permanent link to this entry |
Apparently, herds of brown people are clogging traffic on Sandy Springs Plantation, because AJC is reporting the 'city' has passed an ordinance, billed as requiring hiring vehicles to remove themselves from traffic. Now, it could be that in the two years since I've lived in that neck of the woods, that 18 months of housing market downturn and 9 months of economic downturn have resulted in masses of 'free range laborers' accumulating at intersections and home-improvement stores throughout North Fulton county. The correct answer is the various restrictions on when/where people can be hired for jobs. TFA glosses over these points, buried halfway into the article. I'll skip that blather and go straight to the money shot: That distance {of day-laborer prevention}, that of a football field . should keep traffic on busy I- 285 and GA-400 moving, {Police Chief Terry Sult} added. Color me "skeptical." If any commuters on top-end 285 or GA-400 either (a) experience speed-limit traffic when the sun is shining, or (b) spot herds of brown people massed in and around the medians, aprons, or traffic lanes of these highways or cross-streets, please let me know. I almost forgot -- I bet this portion really targets the bums/panhandlers on the exit ramps. Since measures to directly restrict such activity are generally frowned upon in courts, perhaps the Plantation has granted legitimacy to panhandling by categorizing such activity as 'Day Labor'. |
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Any bets on how long ajc.com will run the Orange County Register's story of of the craigslist bartered wedding? I'd be surprised if an editor or city official wasn't awakened with an emergency call, alerting him/her to the transgression. For those who are not in the loop, craigslist is a sworn enemy of the local powers that be. The party line is that craigslist is to be associated with such corrosive forces as prostitution, murder, and child exploitation. It's rather difficult to perpetuate such 'brand management' when you're running stories like the one linked above. Update: Order has been restored; the story was buried (off the navbar and linkset) sometime this morning. |
| posted at: 11:57 | permanent link to this entry |
Today's topic for discussion is:
| 1366x768 monitor resolution, on anything larger than a netbook. WTF? |
| posted at: 02:31 | permanent link to this entry |
Today's topic for discussion is:
| An interesting site find: PopURLs. It's an aggregator's aggregator, with a subsection for most of the major news and social news sites. |
| posted at: 02:42 | permanent link to this entry |
It's July 20th, and my windows are open, soaking up night air in the low 60s. This is certainly abnormal, albeit welcome. I wonder how much last month's Russian volcano eruption is still impacting temperatures around the Northern Hemisphere. In any event, yesterday's weather was good for a 5+ mile hike through the neighborhoods and parks. Crape Myrtles are in full bloom, and I'm now aware of the sheer number of these plants in the surrounding area. There's at least one for every house, on average. |
| posted at: 00:45 | permanent link to this entry |
So, I've spent the past few weeks either on vacation or busy; the following Twitter-like thoughts have crossed my mind: Wobbly HousesI regard Twitter to be a clunky dotcom product which longs for an IPO, so the dev team can dump the project on unsuspecting fools and "retire". Maybe the app will evolve past this state, maybe not. In particular, the XML/HTTP "API" just simply reeks of VC herd mentality. Seesmic Desktop? They didn't bother separating comment download, storage, and presentation into separate processes. So, I call it "Seize My Desktop", and will try other options shortly. Content is Still KingI find Twitter's content largely fascinating. As I watch results scroll by for a given search term, I recall the days where only a lucky few of us were online in any capacity. Now, enough bandwidth exists to place everyone online, and I imagine what my peers would do, had this technology been available to them at the time. For example, a search on "Atlanta" nets twits from passengers landing and departing Hartsfield-Jackson traffic. This was particularly hilarious for Monday's washout and subsequent airport closure. |
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Today's topic for discussion is:
| Radar guns. |
| posted at: 03:35 | permanent link to this entry |
Today's topic for discussion is:
| [via Joeventures] Census estimates for city population changes, over the 2007-08 period. |
| posted at: 01:15 | permanent link to this entry |
Today's topic for discussion is:
| "Enough Already," an essay about bores. |
| posted at: 01:22 | permanent link to this entry |
Mental Imagery from the Great Conflict
It really pains me to link to a twitter user, and really pains me to link to such user who uses a heroic portrait of V. I. Lenin as his wallpaper, but I saw the following quote, wrt a local teabaggers' ball: @RuffMix what did the Obama supporters do, close Atlanta early & the baggers were left outside? HA! @ronpaul_2012 #teaparty #tlot #tcot #p2 Legitimate discussion about the event in question may be found elsewhere on the web, but here's my visual: Shut down all inbound lanes of traffic where they cross I-285, redirecting traffic onto (and out of) I-285. Do this unannounced, and the teabaggers will be driving around I-285 like Pascual Perez looking for the ballpark. |
| posted at: 01:22 | permanent link to this entry |
Today's topic for discussion is:
| [via EcoGeek] A renewable fuel infrastructure map. |
| posted at: 15:00 | permanent link to this entry |