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August 31st, 2004

When you create a product, you do not get to regulate every thing your customers do with it. lombre  

I’m the guy who’s still there at three in the morning in an empty hall, with tumbleweed blowing past, sitting there next to horse skeletons and starving vultures, waiting for the airport workers to finish their smack break and grub around in the back of the airplane for my bag. Which usually comes out looking like they’ve been having group sex on it. Gizmodo  

In a sinus-induced haze, I have decided to base all future technical decisions on this site on which technology kills more kittens. dive into mark  

“Do you think these swift boat ads are unfair to John Kerry?”
“Not really. There have been millions of terrible ads against my husband.” archy  

Why are the Republicans encouraging our soldiers to violate the Uniform Code of Military Justice and its stated rules of political engagement? Daily Kos  

Whitest. Convention. Ever. Wonkette!  

No suprise that W.’s campaign is hosted on a expensive, buggy, and relatively insecure web server. Yet Another Web Site  

They have wrapped themselves in a flag and are standing on a pile of rubble, chanting paeans to The Glorious Leader. Pharyngula  

And if we tell the terrorists we’ve got flying robot buttplugs coming for them, we may finally have a workable deterrent. Gizmodo  

I don’t know . . . I’d like to think I would rise above it and act like the mature adult and parent of two teenagers that I am . . . but I’m pretty sure I’d end up doing the cock-punch. WIL WHEATON DOT NET  

August 30th, 2004

I thought evangelical types like the Jews since they were recreating Jeruselem or something and that this was needed for Jeebus to return. Shit, I can’t keep my crackpots straight. Corsair the Rational Pirate  

However, I’m sure Christian parents would be just as offended as atheist parents if public school teachers tried to spread their belief in Odin to the students, or put up signs that said, “Odin bless the U.S.A.” Unscrewing The Inscrutable  

The Lord moves in mysterious ways. That’s why he’s so hard to get out in dodgeball. The Pungent Aftertaste of Cognitive Emesis  

It may seem strange that the world’s most successful life form looks a bit like the ship-drilling robots that swarmed through The Matrix. But the fact is that the bacteriophage is nanotechnology of the most elegant, most deadly sort. The Loom  

Can anyone tell me why this incident is not being reported, both by government officials and the press, as a case of domestic terrorism? Orcinus