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MAC USERS: THE SKY IS FALLING, OH NO

Mayor Dave sent me an alert about an OS X adware proof-of-concept, but there’s not much in the way of anything to read there, and I was kinda disappointed. I mean, we Mac users don’t generally get to participate in all the fun of having tons of anti-spyware software running simultaneously and all that.
So I […]

GIVE US BACK NEW YORK

Being renamed “New York” after being called “New Amsterdam” can’t be anything but a step down the status ladder. Seriously, where’s York anyway? Godforsaken British town, compared to the glorious capital of Holland.

The time has come for New York to be returned to its righteous owner: The Netherlands!
Photo: artist’s rendition of glorious future Times Square

EVEN THE CLEARLY DERANGED ONES

The ACLU Fights for Christians, an ever-growing list of specific instances

TROUBLES TOURISM

The Troubles Tours have become a big moneymaker in Belfast. Why stop only at the renovated Grand Opera House when you can get your picture taken next to the former fish shop on Shankill Road where a Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb killed 10 people in 1993? Or at the Europa, once known as the […]

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WHAT IS THE SPEED OF MEME?

1. Read the following post and link to it.
2. ?
3. Science!
Measuring The Speed of Meme: An Experiment in which You Will Participate, Or Else… (Acephalous)

OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS OVER

Breakfix, an eighty-dollar appliance that sits on the countertop and dispenses cereal
(Via Metafilter)

PENGUIN’S RADIO ADDRESS

In his weekly radio address A huge anthropomorphic penguin said, “This week, Antarcticans across our Iceberg gather with loved ones to give thanks for the many blessings we share. … And we’re grateful to Almighty Bird for the icy cold water to enjoy all these gifts. … Antarcticans believe that every penguin has the right […]

GROWTH INDUSTRY: VIRAL VIDEOS

Viral Learning Center (YouTube, via Coudal)

SHOPPING FOR MEDS IN THE U.S.A.

It should be said though that in Ireland a chemist is a shop. A shop with a shopfront. Like a post office or a pub. And they are dotted around like post offices.
Here in the Midwest however a pharmacy is industrial in size. Like SuperQuinn. Or Tesco. And they build them right beside each other.
I […]