….and I cheer. So sayeth a wit on metafilter:

I don’t give a rat’s ass whether people choose to believe that the earth is 20 minutes old and *GOD* created everything pretty much as is/was, but to deny observable phenomena simply because the only book you can read hasn’t been updated in a thousand years is silly.

Here here! I got such an earful about god and the good book while I was in colorado, it was enough to turn my stomach. Or make me more appreciative of posts like the one above anyway.

So, like over a month ago (look for the google heading, halfway down the page) I observed that you could use google as a sort of backup system for your site by inserting a bizarre combination of words into your content. Someone else has noticed the same thing, only they’ve taken a slightly different angle. And managed to get linked all over hell and high water as a result. Just goes to show, it’s all in the interpretation and presentation, observation alone isn’t worth the pixels it’s recorded on 😉

Turn a jpg into asci art, automagically!. It’s very cool and an excellent hack.

It started snowing midafternoon today. One of my coworkers who has a 2 hour commute mentioned how much he disliked having to drive in the snow. I told him I didn’t mind it that much. So of course on the car ride home I almost splat myself broadsides into a Taurus.

It was snowing pretty hard when I left the office so I decided to take Route 1 instead of the highway because the roads were so bad and the highway turns into a turtle race in those conditions. As I came over the crest of a hill I noticed a car coming towards me flashing his lights. At first I thought….
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Today’s laugh, courtesy of the usually amusing metafilter:

thou chickenfucker!
Luckily, that chicken hath
teat, not testicle.

If twas the reverse?
Punishment would be meted
severely, farmboy.

from a thread about animal cruelty and other culture’s customs

Today I got a kick out of an email I got from amazon.co.uk (the british amazon.com) which informed me that my order had been proccessed and shipped using the Royal Mail. I suppose citizens of the UK would think I’m dopey but there’s something to ‘The Royal Mail’ that tickles my funny bone. I’m expecting it to be hand delivered by a lavendar scented fellow outfitted in purple velvet 😉

the order was for a series of books by an obscure sci fi author. They’re not available in the US, so I used the UK amazon.com to get them

‘When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors – when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you- when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self- sacrifice- you may know that your society is doomed.’

The comparison to the RIAA is a little unfair, perhaps I should mention Enron and leave it at that ;-(