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Beach house ready to sail to NY from NJ

13th March 2009

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Markets will arise whenever there is a willing buyer and a willing seller.

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Man Faces 10 Years In Jail For Self-Incrimination By YouTube

6th March 2009

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It’s like YouTube is a giant filter for dumb criminals.

Think of it as evolution in action. Criminality plus narcissism is never a good combination.

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New Cartoon

3rd March 2009

Check out “PVP Online” on the right. A new story line starts on March 2.

For those of you who are familiar with WATCHMEN, this will be entertaining.

For those of you who aren’t, it will be terminally confusing. But that’s cool, too.

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The Tea Parties Have Begun

27th February 2009

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Wounded Warriors at Home on the Range

27th February 2009

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High-powered, jet-mounted laser one step closer to flying the terrifying skies

27th February 2009

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it’s a moral imperative.

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Magnets taped to crocodiles to keep them away from neighbourhoods

25th February 2009

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We have the technology.

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Stuff White People Like #122 Moleskine Notebooks

24th February 2009

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Since all white people consider themselves to be “creative,” they are constantly in need of products and accessories that will allow them to capture their thoughts.  One of the more popular  products in recent years has been the Moleskine notebook.

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Marvell’s SheevaPlug Linux PC fits in its power adapter

24th February 2009

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Apple Disk ][ enclosure used to house Mac mini, enhance lives

23rd February 2009

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This is just cute.

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Solve the budget crisis, then relax at Archer Farms Lake

22nd February 2009

Lileks has some ideas.

Lower the tax rates to compete with South Dakota, attract more business to our marvelously civilized state, generate more tax revenue from increased production and additional population. I know it’s crazy, but it just might work.

Good luck with that.

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SteamPunk Frankenstein casemod sure to anger Luddites

22nd February 2009

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It is, however, a work of art.

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Oscars 2009: gate crasher hired to prevent security breaches

21st February 2009

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A professional gatecrasher who snuck his way into last year’s Oscars has been hired by the event’s bosses to plug the gaps in their security for this weekend’s ceremony.

That shows more sense than I’ve seen Hollywood people use in my lifetime.

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Drummer Takes Tiered Buying Options To Extreme (And Hilarious) Levels

20th February 2009

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Gotta admire his willingness to experiment, though.

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Chicken fried bacon

17th February 2009

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I am not making this up.

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Star Trek USB Communicator dials up galactic jetsetters

11th February 2009

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Oh, I don’t want to beam down with the Captain

‘Cause the Captain beams up alone….

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Kindle owners, you have been played

11th February 2009

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So, in sum, Amazon doesn’t ship any Kindles during the Christmas season, but they do accept orders and build demand. They (i) turn just having the ability to buy their product into ‘good customer service,’ (ii) don’t have to worry about throwing a bone to the early adopters and (iii) don’t have to deal with any excess inventory on the original Kindle because by the time people know about the Kindle 2, no one who owns a Kindle 1 would fall into the return window time frame.


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Stuff White People Like #121 Funny or Ironic Tattoos

10th February 2009

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A white person getting a tattoo is a major step in their life as it presupposes that their taste at this given moment is good enough to sustain them for the rest of their lives.  Needless to say, this is a near impossible task.  This is why you don’t see a lot of white people with R.E.M. or Strokes tattoos.

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Class action lawyers to be paid in gift cards

6th February 2009

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I don’t know where Wally finds these things; it’s a gift.

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Pizza Pro: like a circular saw for your pizza pies

4th February 2009

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You know you want one.

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Video: Mac vs. PC

2nd February 2009

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A truly epic struggle between good and evil.

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TV advertising slots for Super Bowl sell for record £141m

1st February 2009

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If that’s a recession, I’d like to see what a boom is like. (Reminds me the story about the African who is reported to have said, “I want to come to America and see a country where the poor people are fat.”)

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New-style Teasmade wakes you with freshly cooked bacon

1st February 2009

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Invented by an American, of course.

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Take Bacon. Add Sausage. Blog.

28th January 2009

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You know you want one.

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Shelby’s amazing Aero EV: 0 to 60 in 2.5 seconds, 10 minute recharge

28th January 2009

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And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

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Republicans suggest Alcatraz for Guantanamo prisoners

27th January 2009

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Perhaps by coincidence, or perhaps not, Alcatraz is in the constituency of Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives and a vocal liberal opponent of Guantanamo.

I like it. It has texture, and scope.

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DHS deploys undercar Kraken tentacle-bombs

25th January 2009

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With great power comes great bureaucracy.

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iPod touch M110 sniper rifle

20th January 2009

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Me want.

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Dressing like a retard isn’t impressing anyone

17th January 2009

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One really loathes seeing tastelessness, self-indulgence, and lack of intelligence jump up onto the table and loudly defend itself.  If you need to dress like a young boy well into your 30s and 40s because you are psychologically crippled or otherwise unable to shrug off adolescent immaturity, that’s fine, but at least have the decency to acknowledge this as a weakness of character.

This guy is one of us.

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MIT concocts semi-autonomous forklift for war zone unloading

16th January 2009

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Stick a 50-cal turret on the sucker and I’m there.

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Psychiatrist knits anatomically correct woolly brain

15th January 2009

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Sure, you need 20 years of education for that….

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One-armed shark attack girl runner up in world surfing championship

15th January 2009

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Some people just refuse to quit.

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Mother who posed as teenage daughter to become cheerleader sentenced

15th January 2009

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Saw an episode of “Buffy” about that once. Life imitates art.

But after she began missing classes last August, a truancy officer investigated Brown. Her real identity was revealed when she was found in jail being held on an unrelated fraud case.

Ah, they don’t make cheerleaders like they used to.

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Army Goes Electric With New Vehicles

13th January 2009

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Librarian, There’s Some Bacon in My Book

8th January 2009

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Much the most interesting thing I’ve seen in the New York Times in years.

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Things White People Like #119 Sea Salt

4th January 2009

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But Sea Salt is like Trader Joes, Banksy, or The Shins-entry level to their respective field.  Therefore, it is important that you learn about other more expensive salts so that you can complain about not having them.  To a white person, this shows that you know and love expensive things but feel sad that you can’t yet afford them.

I have never known a White Person who was not a food snob. Preference for sea salt is an essential component thereof.

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Cornyn threatens filibuster over Franken

3rd January 2009

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What’s sauce for Harry Reid….

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Nerf dart gun hacked into pulverizing chaingun

22nd December 2008

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We have the technology.

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A Jewish Plea for Merry Christmas -An Annual BotB Tradition

21st December 2008

Yaacov Ben Moshe wishes you a Merry Christmas, dammit.

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Rant: Obama, Reverend Warren, and my friends list

20th December 2008

Steven Brust, who is one of the outstanding fantasy writers of his generation but politically is a reincarnation of Eugene Debs (I guess fantasy is his life) has an entertaining rant that will sort of stand as an archetype for what all of the “Change We Can Believe In” crowd are probably feeling right now.

I won’t say “I told you so”, but I will enjoy a quiet snicker.

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More deceased taking cellphones, PMPs to their graves

19th December 2008

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Might as well, it’s probably obsolete anyway.

Those guys who took an analog phone into the box with them are in for a rude surprise if they ever wake up, though…

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Bug-sized spies may take flight

18th December 2008

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“The way we envision it is, there would be a bunch of these sent out in a swarm,” said Greg Parker, who helps lead the research project at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton. “If we know there’s a possibility of bad guys in a certain building, how do we find out? We think this would fill that void.”

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Man’s body left in car for 2 days after fatal wreck

17th December 2008

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Relatives are “outraged” and plan to sue the city, said John Lemieux, their lawyer.

Of course.

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Delivery man uses pizza to fight off gunmen

14th December 2008

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You never know when one of these babies can save your life.

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Bands complain about their songs being used in torture

11th December 2008

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Well, they could always change the sort of music they put out…. This just makes plain what a lot of us have been saying for years.

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Rolling Debate on God Is Hitting the Streets

9th December 2008

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The Bible is silent on exactly which day God created public transportation, probably sometime between when He created the fish of the sea and the fowl of the air and when He created Kraft Cheese Singles.

Interesting writing in the Washington Post. Whoda thunkit.

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Woman born with no arms becomes first pilot to fly plane using only feet

8th December 2008

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American, of course. I’m impressed.

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Victory at Sea: Navy routs Army in 109th meeting

7th December 2008

Of course.

Navy has won 13 straight times against Air Force and Army since 2002, outscoring the programs 441-205 during the streak. The Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy remains docked with Navy.

Quality tells.

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Flying car up for sale on eBay

4th December 2008

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Stuff White People Like #117 Political Prisoners

3rd December 2008

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White people love political prisoners because they are individuals who have been locked up because their beliefs or their presence stands in defiance of an unjust system. In fact, most white people would love to be locked up for their beliefs provided that they could go to a jail with private toilets, plenty of books and no rape.

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