BlogBites

August 24th, 2005

After a weekend’s reading of “Phenomenology of Spirit”, and having been out-drunk by David Hume, I can now state categorically that Georg Wilheim Friedrich Hegel, perhaps one of Europe’s greatest thinkers, knew fuck-all about RSS. Ben Hammersley’s Dangerous Precedent  

August 23rd, 2005

I don’t know exactly how that works, but for those of you who don’t have children yet, remember this formula: PUTTING IT IN YOUR WIFE + TIME = YOU AT SOME RANDOM KID’S PARTY. The Sneeze - Half zine. Half blog. Half not good with fractions.  

Jesus, the thought of sitting in RFK Stadium, gettin’ my Sixties on with forty thousand people I loathe, squinting at a bug-sized little Mick Jagger doing that tired rooster-on-acid crap while all around me completely sober 50-year-old attorneys on comped tickets from the fuckin’ American Bankers Association go “woo!” and raise the devil-horns — nah. Not for the Jingster. By Neddie Jingo!  

I don’t think she often sees white girls at Lola’s Mexican Grocery asking for whole pig heads. 101 Cookbooks  

August 21st, 2005

There is much to be admired and appreciated about Apple; but its paranoia about What Users Might Do and its coziness with Hollywood both come at a price: your freedom. Doc Searls’ IT Garage  

Technology rulez. Russell Beattie Notebook  

Man cannot live on miniature quiches alone. (24)Slash7  

August 20th, 2005

We are willing to pay any individual *$250,000 if they can produce empirical evidence which proves that Jesus is not the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Boing Boing  

Either I’ll come out a bona fide Ph.D. or I get to spend the rest of my life saying “I’m not actually a ’scientist’, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night!” NEUROTOPIA  

August 19th, 2005

After all, some would say that photos of a woman’s bare breasts or a man’s penis are offensive; others would say any photo of President Bush is offensive. Burningbird  

August 18th, 2005

And then I spied the only proper substitution to a decomposed drag queen: Cold Stone Creamery. Faggoty-Ass Faggot  

And that, my friends, is how at the age of 21 I learned the difference between farts and boners. The Drunken Lagomorph  

“Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is.” Daily Kos  

August 17th, 2005

But the revelation that will prove most uncomfortable for Scotland Yard was that the 27-year-old electrician had already been restrained by a surveillance officer before being shot seven times in the head and once in the shoulder. Political Animal  

The policy bans gays being openly gay, not just being gay. The Queen of All Evil