Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
I really should get something like this setup so that if I ever get a stupidly fancy phone I could blog from it. Of course, I will probably never get a stupidly fancy phone, nor be able to afford the cell phone plan for said stupidly fancy phone, but I really should set it up. Really.
I’m mostly just posting this here in case anybody else is interested in it as I can’t remotely use it right now, but might in the not-so-foreseeable future.
Some people have way too much time on their hands.
Only at a design school would somebody be correcting the kerning on somebody’s bathroom scrawl.
And she’s fighting city council to do so.
LOGAN, Utah — A woman is fighting the City Council in Providence to issue her a permit to run a colon-cleansing service out of her home.
Colon hydrotherapy (…) focuses on removing waste from the large intestine by injecting water into the colon, where it loosens and softens waste. The water is injected through the rectum.
And the key quote:
Yates said commissioners are wary because they’re not familiar with the procedure, though she provided them with detailed videos and literature.
I can imagine the city council loved sitting through videos of people with tubes running up their butt. Or was she trying to say that the council members needed to get an cleansing themselves?
Link from Barney.
Since about 400 people have sent me this link, I’d better post it here. It’s a promotional video and site for some movie, but video’s still relatively impressive (I know I would’ve respected cheerleaders a lot more if they could pull that off, never mind that the girl nearly cracked her skull open).
According to Yahoo! UK these were the top 10 video clips that were passed around the office in 2004. There are several entertaining ones there that I hadn’t seen. Thanks SEB for the link.
There are just some places that human-made machines are not meant to go.
BANG NIENG, Thailand – A year ago, they were filming battle scenes for the movie “Alexander.” Now six elephants are pitching in to help with the massive cleanup from the tsunami that devastated many of Thailand’s prime tourist destinations.
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While heavy machinery works on the tangled wreckage that used to be posh seafront resorts, some areas are too muddy or hilly for anything other than 4 foot drive.
So the Wang Chang elephant farm in the 17th-century Thai capital of Ayuddhaya offered to send in its best pachyderms. They arrived by truck Sunday in Phang Nga and got to work immediately — after a quick shower to cool off in the tropical heat.
“The six were chosen because they are smart and can act on command,” said Romthongsai Meephan, one of the elephant farm’s owners.
This is obviously not safe for work, but here’s a blog dedicated to really awful porn.
Talk about one stop shopping: Buy a hot dog and some sex, all in one place. Thank Barney for the link.
As much as I’m not a fan of George W. Bush, there are some nutjobs that are blaming him for the death toll. See Exhibit A and Exhibit B. But it’s not Bush’s fault: If you listen to these other nimrods, it’s all the fault of gays and lesbians.
Morons. All of those folks. Anyway, speaking of the Tsunami, here’s some good scientific data on the whole thing, a story about how the animals escaped the tsunami, a pile of links from Boing Boing and how the disaster is going to affect cryptozoology. The New York Times has a great package of infographics, photographs, and more. They’re still having a hard time getting inland and to some of the most devastated areas where there could be tens of thousands more bodies. And we could’ve saved a lot of this if we just follow these directions on how we can build a tsunami early warning system in one month. Here’s a good list of tsunami resources and good note on how the real news is getting distributed. If you really cared, there are some Starbucks that have been affected by this and they plan on donating all their sales from December 29th to disaster relief.
As it stands right now, the death toll stands at just about 150,000.