Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Hunting Safety

I only have time for the following updated graphic. Thanks mspaint.

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(previously)

***update: (15:14)*** Some guy has created a "hunting with cheney" flash game.

Monday, February 06, 2006

New Techie Blog

Via slashdot, an apparently new blog by a person responsible for web infrastructure. Not many posts up so far, but the author seems to know his or her stuff.

Virtualthreads

Thursday, February 02, 2006

Hybrid Awareness

Taking the President's bold new initiative seriously, some enterprising individual has taken it upon themselves to make a t-shirt design available on cafepress to help further awareness of the human animal hybrid problem. (via boingboing)

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Wednesday, February 01, 2006

WTF? Radiohead headlining Bonnaroo

Holy crap! In one of the strangest matches I've ever seen, yesterday it was announced that Radiohead will be headlining bonnaroo this year. Perhaps with this precedent, phish may get back together and finally headline the Inferno Festival.

Info purloined directly from the ateaseweb posting:
Tickets for the 2006 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival will go on sale
Saturday, February 11th at 10:00 AM Eastern Time through Bonnaroo.com.
Tickets for Bonnaroo 2006 are priced at two levels: The first tickets will be priced at a special rate of $169.50 each. There is a limited allotment of tickets at this price. When the initial allotment is sold out, ticket prices will increase without notice to $184.50.
Official bonnaroo site here.

Underwhelming SOTU

Since I was a small child, and long before I was ever interested in politics, I've hated Presidential State of the Union addresses. They invariably pre-empted my favorite show and forced me to find something else to occupy my time. Given my feelings towards the chimperor, it probably goes without saying that my attitudes towards them haven't changed much.

However, the presidential speechwriters and advisors totally phoned in last night's speech. In previous ones, even if one was watching them to pick Shrub apart, one always had some grand, overarching concept as a reward for watching. Whether it was the Iraq war, the dismemberment of Social Security or even plans to put a human on "Mars, B!tch3s!", there was always the visionary idea tossed in.

Last night, the best we got was a bold stance against hybrid human-animal cloning. Somewhere in the White House at this moment, there is a seriously hungover speechwriter holding his aching head but laughing his @$$ off over that one, still unable to believe they let him slip that bit in.

In what has now become commonplace, Chimpy railed against the excesses and failings of the government over which he has presided for the last 6 years. He reiterated his pledge to cut in half the massive deficit which he created. He spewed pleasant words about education, for which he cut funding. And he boldly suggested that we need to reduce our dependence on Middle Eastern oil; the dependence which was strengthened by Dick Cheney's energy task force.

So, lacking the single visionary jewel, this was just another example of the Republicans who control the entire government railing against the fat cats in Washington.

Personally, while it was on, I was doing my usual "SOTU activity, and was thoroughly engaged in a cutthroat game of Hide and Seek. Glad I didn't miss anything.