Proof!

More fun to be had here although I had to screenshot this one as drag and drop produces a generic image.

Sad Headline of the Day

Diploma mills are bad and all, but please. If anything's a terrorist threat it's pregnant teenagers. I suppose I should link to the piece from the Newspaper of Record but them's the breaks.

Sproing!

Read the fine print. It's always meaningful.

They don't call him Wildmon for nothing.

Jonah Wept

This will be the best thing ever when I get around to contributing to it.

The Question

"The Question" apparently has nothing to do with who called Cindy McCain a cunt.

Firefox 3 is Go

Thus far a bunch of extensions aren't working, but the hassle of that, using the developer version of Tab Mix Plus, and installing Adblock Plus instead of Adblock is more than made up for by the performance boost for my Mac. PC users with lotsa extensions might want to wait - I didn't really need the upgrade at work and lost a little functionality out of it - but generally I am very pleased.

I Am Aware of All Internet Traditions

This was provided by Michael relating to this hilarious LGM thread:



It's the new meme.

Mythic Means Big

The Blink Tag

I have never seen, I think,
A tag as lovely as a blink.

A tag whose “open” sits right next
To sweetly fulminating text;

A tag that blinks out “God” all day,
Should we desire to virtually pray;

A tag that may in summer swear
“IT’S TOO HOT TO FUCKING CARE”;

Upon whose closure sweet relief
For snobby coders with a beef.

Lou Montulli made the blink,
But only you can make it stink.

Good Luck Iowa City

I spent a while there feeding fish popcorn in between drinking beer and not going to classes. Once in a while the park I walked by on the way to school would vanish under water. It's worse now.

Viagra Professional?

Go Detroit!

John McCain, ABBA Fan

Via MAJeff here, John McCain is an ABBA fan.

I recommend Knowing Me, Knowing You.

It Is a Great Thing

It is a great thing that the presidency is within the reach of women who don't hire Mark Penn.

If I Ever Figure Out How to Autopost...

...this'll pop up weekly. Wow. Fox has its work cut out for it with this old bastard.

The Semicolon

Hail to thee oh semicolon,
Crutch of pedant masked as Solon,
Aid to bold Non Sequitur;
The weather’s nice today.

I Don't Get It

The Technische Universität Berlin has an ongoing tradition of mangled English, but what happened here?

Hutsuls

I never made it to the Carpathians but did make it to Kolomyia where there was a pretty nice collection of Hutsul relics, though most were relatively new as museumy things go: the Hutsuls use a lotta wood so things must be perishable. As with a number of Ukrainian museums people follow you around from room to room turning the lights on or off according to how strained their budget is.

Desk set including stamp. Very important as the Ukraine is filled with fucking notaries.

This guy has been nailed again and again for causing problems. Enough already! Chill, long-haired dude!

There was a small but quite nice section of modern painters who seemed to be very much the type that the Russians would have sent to Siberia.

Grover Jesus.

A nutcracker, poorly photographed.

To demonstrate her affinity with the peasant Hutsuls singer Ruslana drives around in a Hummer, taps at her laptop, and has helicopters film her posing on a mountain.

Update: My monitor at home appears to be quite bright. Gotta fix that and maybe my posted photos will wind up less murky.

Kamianets-Podilskyi

This was a nice place to visit. Nerds with military fantasies will find a dream fulfilled: the old town has a river around it and its only connection overland is via a huge bridge to a big fortress on a cliff.



Every picturesque castle needs an electrical station under it.



Every castle requires hobbits to protect.

Death

The cemetary in Lviv is a fascinating place for miserable ghouls such as myself.