- Nick Packwood on a reason to be proud of Canada: “Canada’s entire delegation is set to walk out of the United Nations General Assembly chamber when Persian tyrant, Twelver whack job and Holocaust denier/enthusiast Mahmoud Ahmadinejad takes the podium.”
- Talking down to irresponsible American adults. “Secretary Chu said he didn’t think that the public would throw the same political temper tantrum over climate legislation has has happened with the healthcare debate.”
- “You Can Have Either Sex or Immortality”
- Pimp my . . . bed?
“After years of catering to women, manufacturers are setting their sights on men. The new macho mattresses they’re introducing have “muscle-recovery properties” and cooling technology, on the theory that men are more likely to feel too hot in bed. The bed frames feature built-in TVs, iPod docking stations, wine coolers, safes and other guy-friendly gadgetry.”
September 23, 2009
A few random links
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September 10, 2009
September 5, 2009
Obsession takes many forms
I guess the “collector” urge can manifest itself in almost any form. As proof, here’s iPhone case collector “WyldCeltic” and her collection of cases:
And I was feeling guilty about thinking of getting a second case for my iPhone.
Oh, and on the general topic of the iPhone, you AT&T haters may be blaming the wrong group for all the problems:
For years, AT&T’s iPhone customers have endured dropped calls, slow connections, and crippled service, especially in crowded areas such as New York and San Francisco. And for this, customers pay a higher rate than most other phone users. If you own the iPhone, hating AT&T is practically written into the two-year service contract.
I think AT&T’s getting a raw deal. The company has to shoulder the complaints of people who use their data plans way more than anyone else, sucking up bad blood while other carriers are viewed as knights in shining armor. Oh sure, let’s fantasize about a Verizon Wireless iPhone, but are we sure that Verizon can handle iPhone users, and the ten times more traffic they consume than other smartphone owners?
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August 31, 2009
Frederick Pohl graduates from high school
Fred Pohl, the long-time science fiction author (his first published piece was a poem in the October, 1937 issue of Amazing Stories, according to Wikipedia) has finally received his high school diploma:
Happens that I never graduated from high school, the reason being that I quit school as soon as I was old enough, which was 17. I had several reasons for doing that, but the one I prefer to give when asked that question is the one given by my friend John Brunner when he quit in England, at about the same age. That was, “I had to leave school, because it was interfering with my education.” (In case you wonder, I didn’t go to college, either. I did teach at several and lectured at scores if not hundreds of them, all the way from local community two-year schools to the Ivy League, in maybe a dozen different countries as well as our own, but I never attended one.)
[. . .]
I do have one problem, though. I remember matchbook ads for a correspondence school, back in the days when people still carried matchbooks, which promised that people who got a high-school diploma would get $25 more a week. The problem is I don’t know whom to bill.
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August 27, 2009
Kids will be kids
Even when they’re adults . . . James May tried to set a record, but the kids just got in the way:
An attempt by Top Gear‘s James May to break the world’s longest model railway record has failed amid claims that vandals and thieves tampered with the track.
The long-haired presenter joined 400 enthusiasts to build the miniature railway stretching 10 miles from Barnstaple to Bideford, in North Devon.
He was recording the attempt yesterday for his new show James May’s Toy Stories.
The team hoped that a train would run successfully along the length of the track, built on the picturesque Tarka Trail.
But their hard work was hampered as parts of the track were taken and coins dropped on the line, blowing the battery. Even the battery was stolen.
H/T to Jeff Shultz.
July 19, 2009
Learn something new everyday
H/T to Craig Zeni, who sent along this valuable bit of knowledge:
July 14, 2009
Random links of possible interest
Just a few links to provide you with click-therapy:
- China decides that electro-shock therapy isn’t appropriate for treating “internet addiction”. No word on whether they’ve invested in Tasers instead.
- Simona Halep ignores an online petition and decides to promote her sports career over the interests of thousand of pasty internet geeks.
- Apollo 11 experience recreated on the web.
- I can’t possibly improve on this article’s title: Pic of the Day (Mid-1930s’ Edition): Economic Suicide Girls Get Tattooed For the NRA!
Sure hope those were temporary tattoos!
- Tim Cavanaugh fisks Timothy Geithner.
- Auto Czar abdicates.
- An over-the-top analysis of why there is a Gender Gap among American voters (link via Gerard Van der Leun).
- Survey shows that one in six people too dumb to be allowed out on the internet by themselves.
(Cross-posted to the old blog, http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/005579.html.)
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