October 2007
100 posts
“I think it was one of the dumbest and most inappropriate things I’ve ever...”
– Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff (FEMA PR chief loses new job after fake news briefing)
“Tomorrow night, October 30th, at 9 pm EST, you can log on to the virtual...”
– Scott Adams
“Luckily, there was one surefire way for Southern folk to get their coffee...”
– How a coffee played a role in Civil War - CNN.com
“I’m sure lots of people would love to ridicule me when I say this, but it is...”
– White House Press Secretary Dana Perino (Think Progress) - Too bad climate change won’t do much to increase her intelligence.
“When (WHEN) your backup drive goes bad, which you will notice because your last...”
– jwz - PSA: backups
“It looks like we didn’t have to wait until Halloween to get ghoulish data.”
– Mike Larson (Existing home sales fall more than expected)
How-to: Proper Gmail IMAP for iPhone & Apple Mail →
Broccoli Sprout-derived Extract Protects Against... →
(via Newsvine)
“Allow me to digress right here and confess that I could type the words “monkey...”
– The Dilbert Blog: Monkey Attack
“Thompson’s tendency to look down and read his remarks provided the audience with...”
– Gail Collins (Three-Card Morality Monte)
Fake turf watered as supplies dry up →
Prankster places for-sale sign at Bowden's home →
“I’m angry at my government for failing to regulate chemicals that are in...”
– Michelle Hammond (Tests reveal high chemical levels in kids’ bodies)
“At $109,382,222 for the current year, Ohio State’s athletic budget is the...”
– Inside College Sports’ Biggest Money Machine (via ScottKidder.com) - Yet they still come in second to UF. Heh.
“I have nothing but respect for our brave men and women in uniform and wish them...”
– Rep. Pete Stark (Democrat: Soldiers dying for Bush’s ‘amusement’)
Early Seafood, Makeup Found in S. Africa →
In one of the earliest hints of “modern” living, humans 164,000 years ago put on primitive makeup and hit the seashore for steaming mussels, new archaeological finds show.
Miscellany: INSERT COIN →
This little perl program allows you to set the “Ready Message” on HP printers to whatever you’d like. (via Boing Boing)
Contraception Foe Named to Contraception Post →
Orr, who will be acting deputy assistant secretary for population affairs, has been directing child welfare programs in another branch of HHS. Prior to joining the Bush administration, Orr was senior director for marriage and family at the Family Research Council, a conservative group that favors abstinence-only education and opposes federal money for contraception. The moron appoints a moron. ...
“I know my children were the beneficiaries of a government-run insurance program...”
– Gov. Kathleen Sebelius
“This is Operation Iraqi Freedom and the reality we experienced. This is what we...”
– 12 former Army captains (The Real Iraq We Knew)
“One year I wore a cow costume featuring a huge udder at crotch level. At the...”
– The Dilbert Blog: Halloween Costumes
Postcard Polaroid →
Man Attacks Inflatable Ghosts, Pumpkin →
A woman says a neighbor attacked her inflatable Halloween lawn display of three ghosts and a giant pumpkin, then apparently smashed his head through her window in a fit of rage. Yes, alcohol was involved.
Pepsi man punches out Coke man during delivery →
(from Newsvine)