Category Archives: Completely Different

UltraSnark

  • Kos, Ensign raises just under $33K in Q309, “Let's put this another way: in Q309, the amount of cash John Ensign added to his campaign kitty was less than one-third the amount of hush money his parents gave to the family of his mistress.”
  • SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling (and some other stuff)?, “Diagnosis, in brief: (1) they write about stuff they clearly don't understand (2) they pick a catchy reverse-common-wisdom nugget as a headliner without the having the slightest interest in whether it is true or not (mind you, plenty of more respectable folk do the same) (3) they pick an expert to talk to, but since they don't have a clue about the subject they don't know how to pick a good expert, or even understand what the expert says (4) there is a grain of sense in there, but so badly wrapped in trash it is nearly unfindable.”
  • Commentator reacting to plans to make a “conservative” version of the New Testament, “In this new version of the bible, Jesus asks the lepers what health care plan they’re on before he cures them.”
  • The Yes Men

Update: And how did I miss this?

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Google Mind-Powered Search Engine

I was recently directed to the Google Mentalplex, a way of searching for things by projecting mental images into the computer.

It's been around a while, but it's slow, and you have to remove your glasses for it to work, which is probably why it's not more popular.

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Everybody Can Have One

Kenyan Birth Certificate Generator – Make your own! Invalidating legitimate presidencies since 2009!

(Please note that actually posting one of these things with otherwise accurate information invites ID theft….)

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Dog Bites Gator

EYE ON MIAMI: Dog Pack Attacks Gator In Florida … by gimleteye

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This Is Funny

This is funny.

Warning: Some viewers may find this oleaginous.

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Yuks

Not so very long ago we were all told that a black man would be President when pigs fly.

And, who knew?!

On the 100th day of Barack Obama’s Presidency… swine flu!

(via Gene Spafford’s mailing list)

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