December 28th, 2005

In fact the great-grandfather has now won a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the oldest person in the world to start primary school. mentalacrobatics  

Two days without opening my laptop - now that’s a vacation. My heart’s in Accra  

This is about circumventing a teeny tiny check by the judicial branch, placed there by the legislative branch, placed there 27 years ago — on the last occasion that the executive branch abused its power so broadly. Schneier on Security  

But when judicial oversight doesn’t go your way, real men break the law, I guess. TPMCafe  

God almighty, these two shouldn’t be given cactus to raise, much less a human being. What Would Tyler Durden Do  

Someone started throwing turds, but it was a gesture of love. Probably. Secondsight  

It’s so hilarious and so jarring, to read about how these hippies are so evil and mean to these nice, upper-class kids. toastykitten  

It must be awfully uncomfortable watching TV or going to the movies with a stick up your ass. James Wolcott  

So we have 10 days left in the Creative Commons campaign. This is not a drill. We are down to the last $100,000, and really need your support — both for the very cool projects we’re launching (see, e.g., the license interoperability project, discussed recently in Technology Review, and the two new projects announced this week), and for the very uncool pressure we’re under from IRS regulations to demonstrate “public support” as a condition for keeping our (absolutely essential as in we can’t live with out it) tax exempt status. So please, anything helps. Lots of anything helps lots. Lawrence Lessig  

Goodbye Corporate America, I hope I never have to work in another one of your shitty little cubicles again. Monkeys with Fezzes  

Like the village bells that created a sense of identity and place in medieval France, these terrifyingly loud and invasive technologies interpellate our bodies in ways that, despite the shock that they produce, ultimately come to seem ‘natural’ and ‘legitimate’ after a certain period of time, one simply integrates them into daily experience and forgets that they are there in the background; then, as Nietzsche said, we forget that we forgot, and the governmentalization of sensation is complete. jasonadams  

So, seeing as how the highball glasses are dog knows where, we poured ourselves some fine scotch into — what else? — 8 oz. canning jars. Bitch | Lab  

I saw like a million Santas, and I only saw one Jesus, and that one was on one of those stupid fuckin’ Franklin Mint painted plates in somebody’s living room. Jaundice James  

Wearing a Bush mask and masturbating on on a map of Iraq with an F-117A Stealth fighter shaped Fleshlight — now that’s art. God is for Suckers!  

If the Intelligent Designer can cause worms to spontaneously generate, surely He can do the same for the lowly crab louse. Jesus’ General