I agree, more distance doesn't mean more fun.

So there's this guy, see, and he wants to be the republican candidate for president. His name is Bill Wyatt.

He apparently got 10.01% of the vote in Oklahoma. Short of what it would take to get him a delegate on the floor of the convention, but he's trying.

Don't miss his Do it Yourself Propaganda selection.

(hijack)
Can anyone tell me how the fsck Bush has spent $33 million on his campaign w/ no other contenders?
(/hijack)
And, for your reading pleasure:
Cory Doctorow has a new book out that is really, really good. It's been published under a Creative Commons license (Open Source for lit). You can find his first two books at Craphound

Because a lot of people stand to make a lot more money than that when he is re-elected, that's how. They think of it as a capital investment.

Call me "skipper"
 

Googlism results for me
 

Some of these I just don't understand...


Googlism for: brian robinson

brian robinson is acting treasurer of friends of old takoma
brian robinson is the senior public affairs project manager for tynangroup
brian robinson is the only member of actors' equity in the show
brian robinson is second at 2
brian robinson is responsible for the day to day operation of our retirement villages
brian robinson is on the trail of the cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
brian robinson is typical of howard university students
brian robinson is approaching retirement
brian robinson is the chairman of victoria's environmental protection authority
brian robinson is faced with that
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brian robinson is expected to be at full strength for saturday's game in cincinnati
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brian robinson is available for comments and questions on bullboards today from 4
brian robinson is a hero to himself
brian robinson is the main character through the entire book and it stays that way
brian robinson is a freelance writer based in portland
brian robinson is the process of securing an after
brian robinson is a freelance photographer & writer
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brian robinson is into his 8th pair of boots in almost 7000 miles of hiking
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brian robinson is the national leader with the best mark from the texas state met in winning the 3a title by over a dozen feet
brian robinson is een wel heel ongewone sportieve toerist
brian robinson is available for the final despite being sent off in the win over mayo
brian robinson is currently coaching the struggling ail division one club but it is believed that bester will be installed for next season's campaign
brian robinson is a freelance journalist based in portland
brian robinson is the scourge of conference usa
brian robinson is instructor
brian robinson is the son of hal and marta hevener of matewan
brian robinson is planning a triple crown this year
brian robinson is now thru
brian robinson is the southern interior manager for industrial forestry service ltd
brian robinson is going to visit his father
brian robinson is an old mancunian who initially worked in operations management in the manchester textile and chemical industries
brian robinson is writing a history of the first 25 years of iucaf for the annual review of astronomy and astrophysicsastronomy
brian robinson is building a sonex with a 6
brian robinson is attempting be the first person to complete hiking's triple crown
brian robinson is about firewalls and goes on to say
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brian robinson is a native of chattanooga
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When I entered my legal name, the response was "googlism does not know enough about ..."

this was entertaining in a different way

You should have found the first response encouraging, anyway!

I found nothing. Zero. Nada. Zip. Despite the fact that a normal Googling turns up several hits.

Check out these storys !!!
http://www.lateralscience.co.uk/glitch/index.html

You and Wolf should get together...

(this is in complete jest, of course, and not meant to offend, but if you read both of their links' contents, it is pretty easy to see what I mean)

Toy for the Boys.

Would have been a lot better with a neutral background, instead of the venetians.

Oh, and don't click too far off center. Looks more realistic that way.

thank you, wolf. thank you very much.

NSFW! NSFW!

In the "so it's come to this" department, *actual* kitty porn:

http://www.littlegrayguy.com/lgg/

What must be about thirty different shots of thirty different 20-something naked chix, all posed lovingly while holding a grey cat who appears to not give a shit about the whole thing. Totally NSFW, totally leading into a membership page into this bizarre cat's porn site.

A somewhat gentler <a href="http://www2.b3ta.com/sleepy-kittens/">sleepy kittens</a> page. (Two naughty words in the song, but SFW apart from that. Stay to the end.)

Oh my. I think I might have gotten diabetes from watching that.

Ran out of steam on about page 17 of reading these submissions (which are great, btw), so I might be repeating something. Anyways...

Say goodbye to your spare time


My favorite online cartoon

Shameless plug for my band, which you may ignore if you so choose
:cool:

Parody response to the talking action figures.

I wonder if Radar can help this guy.

"True, he admits, the helicopter is still a work in progress: It only rises about 18 inches off the ground. "We are in the process of a fifth test of moving forward and backward, left and right," Danh said."
Huh? If it can rise 18" why not 18' or 1800' etc. anyone?

well, it took me until 3 am, but i finally got laid

lol don't bother with the other one. It looks like you will get laid but you won't.

I've seen films of Frank Piasecki and Igor Sikorski testing their designs. That's the way they did it and usually teathered to the ground. You don't want to get up 18' (or more :eek: ) only to find out your design is not stable and you can't control it. Helicopter design is 100 times more difficult than fixed wing aircraft. At least for ones that work.

Yeah Bruce, After I posted I thought about it some more and figured I was being pedantic in my interpretation.

I didn't read through the entire 62 pages of links, so if these are repeats, sorry. Here are some sites that I can spend hours at if I have the time:

http://www.slowwave.com/index.php?date=04-01-31

http://www.worth1000.com/

http://www.darwinawards.com/slush/

I couldn't be arsed reading 62 pages either. Top right of every thread page is an efficient search engine:)

They're picking on we deaf people.

Don't be upset, Bruce...fast forward 500 years or so, when the deaf have become more perfect and more highly-evolved due to the fact that they have only been able to absorb pure, family-friendly entertainment.

That's what will happen, right? I mean, that's the point, isn't it? If we protect all the deaf people from the bad stuff (like that Sanford and Son...have you ever seen such *filth*!?), then they will go on to be better citizens, living better lives, and therefore will be more successful, and raise offspring who are even more perfect, etc, until the deaf and their progeny rule the Earth....?

I suppose you're right, Els. And they can operate the Solient Green Machines and not hear the screams. ;)

The word "censor" appears six times in this article. I'm sorry, but this isn't censorship. The goverment isn't preventing the media outlets from providing closed captioning, they're just declining to help fund the closed captioning. Sure, the process to select which shows are granted goverment funds is pretty mind-bendingly dumb, but that's just the way the government operates.

So many people whip out the "censorship!" flag these days where it just plain isn't. If the government declines to pay a station money to add closed captioning to Bewitched, the station can pay for that themselves... it's not censorship. If a university removes a student's website from their servers because it's deemed inappropriate, that makes them close-minded, stick-in-the-mud fucktards; but they're within their rights, and nothing prevents the student from hosting the site elsewhere... it's not censorship. Declining to support somone's message is WAY different from making an effort to smother that message. Freedom of Speech guarantees that you can say what you like, but it doesn't guarantee that anyone is going to help you say it.

Playing the censorship card is like taking antibiotics... if either is used too liberally where it's not appropriate, it will lose it's effectiveness to the point of being worthless.

Alan's philosophy #51: Never assume something's sinister if it can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Ok, I'm done now.

Yank or Dixie?
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 91% (Dixie). Is General Lee your father?
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That's right, not a bit of Yank here. I should probably make an obligatory southern expression but as it's after three in the mornin' I can't think of any.

Hmmm. I changed from "pillbug" (Great Lakes, northeast) to "sowbug" (midwest), and went from 50% to 61%. That seems off to me.

Too many people give the government this free pass. If they tried to actually ban the showing of "Bewitched", they know they'd get smacked down. So they do some stupid petty thing to satisfy the Ashcrofts in their base, but still avoid nationwide derision. The prejudicial denial of money is one of two sneaky US forms of censorship. The other is putting pressure on a corporation to do it, then saying it wasn't the government, so it wasn't censorship.

But HP, if the feds pick and choose what to fund, knowing full well if they don't fund it nobody will, isn't that censorship on the deaf? I agree it's not censorship on the media but what about the end user?

Oh, and 34%. Definite Yankee.

dude

39% Yankee.

Well, stations get sponsors for closed captioning all the time, probably more often than the government pays for it. And in some cases, the stations just absorb the expense themselves.

I'm not agreeing with the government's actions, I think they've broken a few Stupid Barriers in their process of selecting which shows to support. And I definitely think the goverment uses its power to manipulate the media, to undesirable ends. I'm just pointing out that in this instance, there's no "censorship" that I can see. The government isn't forbidding stations from providing closed captioning, they're just not sponsoring it for certain programs anymore, programs which supposedly fall outside of the "educational, news or informational" category.

My disagreement is not really with the sentiment of the article, just with the language it uses. It's like a boy-that-cried-wolf thing... if too many people accuse the goverment of censorship where no real censorship is going on, it dilutes the anti-censorship argument. There is a problem with this government action, and it ought to be fixed, but I wouldn't call it "censorship." I highly doubt that Bewitched was denied money to pay for Closed Captioning because it contained some message the govenment is trying to squash... more likely the government is just doing a government-quality job of enforcing their "educational, news or informational" requirement, and making a futile effort to correct that.

I'm not big fan of the governemnt per se, but I don't think they're completely evil. Just mostly evil.

45% Yankee ... barely into the Yankee category. My primary language acquisition occured in the Midwest, which may account for this score.

What can I say. I'm a cracker at heart.

I like Springer, Baseball, and shotguns. I can tolerate NASCAR, if required, allthough prefer prorally to circle track when it comes to auto racing.

Okay, it isn't censorship. It is discrimination, because they are choosing one type or quality of programming over another, based on some unknown and arbitrary set of values.

Barely Dixie at 58%. I knew I was a hick, but at least now I've got some evidence.

http://www.madville.com/corporate.php?id=6#guess

I have 23 so far.

40% Yankee. Depressing really.

Listen to Jupiter Online
 

65% (Dixie). A definitive Southern score!

Fuck...

Closet redneck!!

Closet??

I managed a 52% Dixie...Dagney only got to 56%...can't tell there are TWO 'a's in caramel. LOL

Brian

I prefer "educated hoosier."

95% Dixie,
Amercan by birth,
Southern by the grace of god !!!!!

53% dixie. born in maryland, lived there and Va until age 7. thought i had cleansed my self of that........
if they'd asked yeah, yes, yup, or yo, hey, hi, i'd have come up more northern.

The first honest political quiz

"A Humorous Political Party Quiz to Test If You're an Archconservative, Leftwing Wacko, Antigovernment Libertine or a Commie Sympathizer"

It says it's satire, but there is a ton of truth to be found in it too.

---
What is the meanest most low-down thing a person can do during a kid's soccer game?

&nbsp;CONS: Cheat.

&nbsp;LIBL: Keep score.

&nbsp;LBRT: Play the game in a municipal park.

&nbsp;COMM: Hog all the glory by not being a team player.

---
The solution to traffic congestion is to...

&nbsp;CONS: build more roads, and highways.

&nbsp;LIBL: - discourage people from driving by quadrupling the price of gasoline.
- severely limit the number of available parking spaces.
- build more busses and rail transit.

&nbsp;LBRT: make traffic signals, stop signs, and speed limits mere suggestions, rather than hard and fast rules.

&nbsp;COMM: give everybody a free bicycle.

I wouldn't be too proud of that. ;)

Fun Time waster ... Bush Shoot Out.

I promise. No kittens. No sponge-monkeys.

http://www.rathergood.com/vid/

(sorry about the Brittney Spears.)

Wolf both of those links are crazy and I like 'em:D

You say that as if there was something wrong with either.

Kellog's Nutrigrain.

Bizarre/hilarious/inspiring/disturbing/confusingalarming... shit, I busted my slash key. But I think you get the idea. My life is now forever changed in some immeasurably small but unmistakably critical way.

Some of the other videos on the site are also amusing, others not so much.

I loved the Starbucks movie.