From the Department Of Pointless Games:

Meet RPS-15. It's like rock-paper-scissors, but with *15* possible symbols so you'll tie much less often while still winning and losing in equal ratios.

The writer says "I have officially lost all grip with reality," and it's hard to argue.

I want one.

Ah, yes. The IBM Infoprint 4100 laser printer. It starts at half a million dollars, is half the size of an SUV, and can print War And Peace in under a minute.

I need one.
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A 12-year-old girl in Tennessee who was watching a police presentation about drinking and driving unexpectedly saw a gruesome photo -- of the remains of her father. The family didn't know the accident that killed him had involved alcohol, and the girl didn't recognize her father's formal first name when it was announced before the picture was shown last month.

The girl's mother said she was traumatized by the experience. Her attorney said police made a terrible mistake. He's asking why 12-year-olds are shown mutilated dead bodies when they can't drive for another four years.

Knox County officials said they're looking into the incident.

See? Canadian politicians are insane, too.

Party-hopping octagenarian former Defense Minister to be "featured speaker" at UFO conference.

Python versus Electric Fence. Round 1, FIGHT!

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Ah, Bush, always thinking of the least fortunate and most important people affected by a disaster.

Bush slashes minimum wage requirements in hurricane-affected areas by Executive Order.

The Miami Herald thanks Cuba, even if the US government doesn't. Snarky and well worth the read.

Lafayette, LA is refusing to allow parades by "undesirable" and "immoral" groups. First Amend-what? Fair warning: link is to Agape, who are all insane

The state of the Cajundome blamed on the Red Cross - by the same Lafayette paper that Agape referenced, just above.

Speaking of the Dome, a story from the inside, in three parts.
Part Two. Part Three.

Tucson Weekly provides the Top Ten Censored News Stories of 2005.

Then there's The Rest Of The List and Censored Or Bogus?

Tom DeLay's PAC indicted on election fraud charges. Hands up from anyone who is surprised? Oh? No hands?

Gay activists posting the names and home addresses of anyone who signs the anti-gay marriage petition to the internet.
Some background on a similar case and more details and opinion.

Bill Moyers explains why fundies are insane.

Oklahoma minister takes on the irrational and hateful American Christians. PDF.

The Housewives' Tarot

The next denizen of ursulav's garden - just you wait!

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The baby born to the brain-dead woman has, herself, died.

And porn. This will be used for porn.

The privacy-enhanced computer display uses a ferroelectric shutter glasses and a special device driver to produce a computer display which can be read only by the desired recipient, and not by an onlooker. The display alternately displays the desired information in one field, then the inverse image of the desired information in the next field, at up to 120 Hz refresh. The ferroelectric shutter glasses allow only the desired information to be viewed, while the inverse image causes unauthorized viewers to perceive only a flickering gray image, caused by the persistence of vision in the human visual system (as illustrated here). It is also possible to use the system to "underlay" a private message on a public display system.

Background & Objective: The Privacy Enhanced Computer Display is appropriate for situations where a computer display is to be located in a publicly accessible area, but the display itself may show information that should be kept private. Places such as banks (bank balances) hospitals (patient health information), pharmacies (drug information), airline ticketing and airport gate agent stations (passenger and security information) are all candidates for a privacy-enhanced computer display.

Now, we commence operation "Scapegoat The Guy Who Quit" instead of taking responsibility.

Ding, dong, the witch is dead.

Said Brown, "I would have resigned earlier, if only I'd been able to find the correct forms to fill out."

Chris has found me a new favourite comic.

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Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by Dickless here.

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The ethnically divided Bosnian city of Mostar has agreed to erect a new symbol of unity -- a statue of kung fu legend Bruce Lee, worshipped by Muslims, Serbs and Croats.

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New American nuclear policy: If the President thinks there might be nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons in an area, NUKE IT PRE-EMPTIVELY.

I'll repeat that again. IF THE PRESIDENT *THINKS* THERE *MIGHT* BE WMD.

And since you don't have a President, that means Bush will be the one doing the "thinking" and the ordering of nukes.

The same guy who said there were WMDs in Iraq, and you needed to go to war because of a real, imminent threat of them being used.

The way things are going? You're fucked, USA. It's time to get rid of Chimpzilla before he nukes Iran and North Korea, and North Korea, China, and Russia nuke you *and take actual, functioning countries with you*.

Spreading democracy starts at home, you victims of the third-world theocratic banana republic dictatorship.

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I'll have it known that, for the record, I was not in Pennsylvania this weekend, and I have witnesses to that effect

Besides, torrain was using *my* sledgehammer to fix the bathroom at the time. No, really.

I'm confused as to how this progression of links happened.

How to make Habanero oil

Plus sex education commercials

Equals sex advice from vegans?