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Random thoughts and links
Things I found interesting today
- What is childhood but a series of injustices that we spend the rest of our lives avenging?
Colin Quinn - An interesting collection of photos from New Orleans. It’s still a wasteland.
- Voluntary kidney donor Virginia Postrel delivers the smackdown to the National Kidney Foundation.
- GreenPeace is funny, but not on purpose, from one of their “fact sheets”
“In the twenty years since the Chernobyl tragedy, the world’s worst nuclear accident, there have been nearly [FILL IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE].”
Via The Agitator
- AllOfMP3.com finally gets some attention, thought not in a good way.
- What is childhood but a series of injustices that we spend the rest of our lives avenging?
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First ride on the new bike
So, I’m not feeling sore or congested anymore, so I take the new Fuji out for a spin. It felt good. For anyone curious, I went 33.5 miles at 14 miles an hour, with an average heart rate of 140. The handlebars are going to take some getting used to, as is the braking, but on the whole, the road bike is a pleasant change from the hybrid.
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We all knew it would come to this
Granted, this lawsuit is happening in England, but still.
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After having a £4,000 boob job sales girl Sabrina Pace is suing her boss for looking at her breasts too much.
Sabrina, 26, went from an attractive B-cup to a whopping DD size after her boyfriend forked out for the enlargement op.
Despite opting to pump up her cleavage to glamour girl proportions, the pretty brunette says the attention her new chest was attracting at work was sexual harassment.
Jury selection on that case must be a strange process. On the other hand, maybe there’s more of a market for the conversation poncho than I thought.
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Quote of the moment
“Money doesn’t talk, it swears”.
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Wacky twists of fate
So I get the new road bike, and I’m too sore to ride and have too much insomnia to sleep. Lo, the irony. The bike is cool though.
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Rapid fire and random thoughts
- Interesting thoughts on the use of mercenaries to settle third world conflicts (Darfour, the Congo, etc) at Instapundit and Marginal Revolution. I’m a bit queasy about the idea myself, though it’s probably worth trying.
- Congress asserts amazing immunities for itself. No-knock raids and tear gas are good enough for you and me though.
- Why do we believe anything sponsored by supposedly independent interest groups, in this case, an epidemic of girls going wild?
- A nice AJAX primer from Brainjar.
- Traffic Data in Windows Live Local.
- The current media created craze is the fight club. I think this article misses out on reasons why it is appealing to techies though. If you’re a programmer, you’re spending all day in your virtual world, and stepping into the ring is about as far away from that as you can get.
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Finally done for the night
Such an evil project. A cool link is WikiMapia.
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Joy, Joy
Now I find that the monster project is to be live at midnight, and not tomorrow morning, and there are 23 more changes, mostly in the copy.
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RIP Steve Mizerak
The CNNSI article
I got his “Pool the Master’s Way” videotapes in the early 90s, and to date, they were the best instructional investment I’ve ever made, and I have dozens of instructional tapes and DVD’s over the years. They improved my pool game several hundred percent.
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Yet more
I’m nearing the “Vomit With Rage” stage of my workday. More changes!?!