You know it's an official

bad day at work when you wish it was just good ol' raw sewage that you accidentally swallowed. via drudge

Elana James

nee Fremerman Played Cafe 9 last night and as always it was an outstanding show. Beau and Whit were fantastic. Whit is from Connecticut and they are all very nice people. You can probably hear some on the myspace page but I haven't checked.

A Mayor

wrote this...

Liquid light

very strange.

More birds, how do they know?

Intelligence Summit

On the left I have a link to John Loftus' roundup of news feeds. It has not been updated in a while but there is an interesting link regarding Iran, Islamic Republic Of, left on top so to speak. I do not know to what extent Loftus ran or runs the site or has others spin the gears...

Endangered species ringtones

For free. Make it sound as if you're smuggling cheetahs.

From Pinch's dog's breakfast

A resource for April Fools. In Russia July 7th is Ivan Kupala day. A pagan holiday that was worked into the Christian calendar as John the Baptist day. It is tradition to splash unsuspecting people with water on that day amongst other things. Kind of like April Fools, vaguely. Can't find much good on that though.

The Times also has this on web based "radio stations."

Marmots

The subject came up today. This is from 2002.

Tackle cannon

This would be very cool. Pat forwarded it I believe it was from Tasker(s.)

What does this mean for Virgos?

Good? Bad?

Birds

of the wild getting a bad rap.

Art

Brook Cottle, a.k.a. Brook Haggerty, a.k.a. Rich's wife has a splendid website up. I have seen her art and it is very cool. She does it with her fingers alone as I recall.

It is also here.

As Rich writes:"Spread the word to everyone you know!Have fun looking around, and if you can, help the artist choose her 2007 giclee print line for her on-line store!You vote, America and Cyberworld.For details, click on the Art Shop."

I knew

That Koko was a little randy, but this is cause for consternation.

Perhaps disgust had some way to go?

Beautiful

Galleries of past entries into Nikon's small world microscopic photography contest going back into the seventies.

Wake up people

when you are as successful as Barbaro you can just completely drop out!!

Posting

I have several things to post. Haven't been working the 'puter the last couple of days much...will post later tonight or tomorrow. Noticed the term "dog's breakfast" today in the dictionary. New one on me.

Porococa

More cool river surfing. via dave barry

PJ's

Got a nice new update!!

"Immigrant adjustment"

It is important not to use the term "assimilation" as that would involve those coming here adjusting to our life and appreciating our liberties. The passengers involved in the flying imam case are being sued for pointing out unusual behavior, and yes not quietly engaging in their "religion of peace" was intentionally unusual. The intent is to cow us obviously, the fact that half of us are their useful idiots is disgusting. Islam means submit, and many of us who profess to be liberal are cravenly eager to do so.

Maybe the two light system is helpful.

Aahhhhh....now here we go. Yeesh.

Powerline

Little Green Footballs

Robert Spencer

Daniel Pipes

Big brother

In England. They no longer can disagree with the state line...poor boy didn't become re-educated well enough.

Via comments section in Alphecca.

Ahhh, but they have no problem with murderers walking away from "open prisons" back over the pond. The authorities do, however, get a bit worried over releasing murderers photos as it may violate their human rights.
That Derbyshire Chief just keeps giving, it's a shame he seems to be retiring this September.

Awww...

But wait, the animal rights folks want the little critter dead!!

Wow

I have some level of low humor here on this site however---
I was just turning the computer off for tonight and thinking why watch bad t.v. this late when I noticed this on Malkin. I guess it must just be a bodily function (all bodies do it-- grow up blah blah) employed as performance art in the name of our first amendment secured by those you are symbolically crapping on...don't hold your breath so to speak for this to be noticed by the template brigade...

I'll copy this from Malkin:

While we're on the subject of liberal crap: It wasn't enough that Portland anti-war thugs burned a US soldier in effigy, and tore and burned the American flag. According to the Portland Tribune, they also knocked a Portland police officer off his bicycle and committed yet another disgusting act:

This splinter group of protesters showed its support for “peace” by burning a U.S. soldier in effigy. It exhibited its supposedly pacifist nature by knocking a police officer off his bike — an action that brought out the police riot squad.

Perhaps the most disturbing scene of the afternoon, however, involved the man who pulled down his pants in front of women and children and defecated on a burning U.S. flag. This disgusting act actually elicited cheers from some members of the crowd, but we hope that the emotion it produces in the community is one of revulsion...

...The anti-war demonstrators who behaved responsibly this past weekend have an obligation to denounce — and distance themselves from — those protesters who purposefully offend others and consequently destroy the intended message of peace.

Still waiting.

A few fringe actors? Not.

-------------------------------------------------------------------I'm sure she will update.

Start shopping ladies

You will be encouraged to fit in, starting in three...two...

update: they have reversed the voting decision.

But then there's this.

Capybaras

...aside from the feces consumption, (coprophagy, are they really certain they only consume their own?) they are lovely, cayman and piranha defiant 100 pound rodents!!! Tomorrow is Friday...choose fish!!! (although the empendadas sound great...fishy capy-nadas!!!)

Take the quiz!!

As for question twelve:

The question is how to control the exponential and disordered growth of native species. In the case of the capybara population expansion, in addition to the impact in areas of gallery forest regeneration due to over grazing and trampling, there is a serious problem of public health. Capybaras are the host of the bacteria Rickettsia rickettsii (Wolbach 1919) Brumpt 1922 that is transmitted to humans by the star tick (Amblyomma cajennense Fabricius, 1787) and causes the Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF).

NationalGeo

Has more Toygers. And fainting goats. More on fainting goats here. Having no experience with them but finding them quite funny I here assert that they make wonderful pets!!! Tiny Horses are also important contributors to our world. They are into their footwear like hood gangstas. They buy them here. (last link via Metahipster.)

Finger down throat

when happy or sad?

via nndb

"...I'm in population control..."

episode six is up but it is a serial, they are about seven or eight minutes each. I think I first saw them on samizdata...

600 pound octopus

Glides through quarter sized habitrail.

John Batchelor

Recently in the Sun.

Fire starter

A little late for this season but I have seen one of these in action and they work fantastically. Cape Cod Firestarters. Kerosene works just fine.

More photos....

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Iran

via instapundit more defections. Also via instapundit this.

Prius

manufacturing looks pretty bad. via boortz

God, Inc.

Can be amusing.

Eastern Cougars?

Also at Cryptomundo is this, which links to here in the comments. There are Connecticut sightings, and here is an article from 2005 in Connecticut Magazine.

"which remained unpublished and under strict family secrecy."

Well yeah. That's understandable. But we must be mature enough to discuss feathered Bigfoots with sparkly red eyes. We have to get this out in the open and begin the healing.

St. Pat's!!!

Jack had asked that I take a photo not of him but of what he was seeing...it is here with others:

St. Pat's!!!

This involves several photos and may take a spell to put up. I will do it in a couple of batches!! Here we see Jack at the first available venue.

Lovely 17th

Well in a minute I will post several photos to sum up the emerald of it all...

Tweny Major

He's in Ireland and he can be amusing. He live-blogged St. Paddy's with his new screamin' apple once, keep checking to see if he is up and about on his new site. You will have to fish for the previous Paddy's blogging but it is worth it.

Top o' the Mornin'

Happy St. Patrick's Day. Have a lovely Pooka and Banshee-free day! So there!

It's about Ideas!!!

And "diverse" ideas!!! I will link this here for discussion: free thought

Actually I said "free thought." We are already past that, keep your mouths shut and we will discuss anon.

Sandy Berger

Just because. More if you look.

Invention

This is pretty neat. And it explains how those Iditarod dogs can run so far, they are running through snow, which is like steroids!!!

via instapundit

Who

Doesn't love the Sasquatch?

Combat

videos. via malkin

Hewitt

Hugh is always worth checking in on. This via powerline

New leopard species found

in Borneo. Also special video series, predator vs. prey.

Rats!!

So much to post so little computer time...I missed this yesterday. Let's see, I had Bologna, is that animal?

via instapundit

Alrighty...

Let's start with Black Irish, which just gives and gives...for now...

Easter!!

is fast on us and here is a great site that is perfect and better viewed sooner than later!! Mr. Richards has viewed this blog and I thank him for the link to a huge Easter resource!

Happy Pi day

Kellie sent greetings for Pi day!

Fancy notebooks

These notebooks came up during a google query. I should use dogpile but didn't. Laura had mentioned her and Pat's efforts to get me some wonderful Tasmanian devil poo for Christmas. The response sadly, was that the fellers were under the weather and not producing. Sad, very very sad. Laura gets credit for Koala poo as well, it's the same innovators and she is ahead of Bigfoot and alien curves as well, mea culpa. (as I type this I typed "Bigfoot" with a lower case "b" and it came up misspelled. Capitalize it and it is recognized. Does anyone need further proof?) So strange that some things just pop up in a cluster in life...but on a more pragmatic can-doo note: Can't we use our very own 'Possums, North America's only marsupial, to re-flower Bridgeport with economic self-sufficiency? The classy product ideas are endless, with tie-ins and general social benefit!

The Iranians

Are big butt lovers, and they're into ours.

Legless runner

Amazing story of an amputee who tied Flojo's world record sprint and may make the olympics.

Job opening

For Israeli ambassador to El Salvador. via instapundit

Cave in Litchfield

hills for only two grand a night. Looks a little more plush than that description.

His Exalted Highness

His Exalted Highness Duke Matthew the Philomath of Lower Hellswicke.

That's my aristocratic name. Obviously via generator blog again.

Leprechaun Name

Also via the generator blog is this engine for creating you own Leprechaun name. Mine is Underpants O'brien.

And a link to this St. Pat's day button creator which also allows photos.

Easter Egg

Generator. This might work well and you can include your own photos. A little time might pay off.

via generatorblog

Beggars and Freaks

From Boingboing. Main page here.

Neat film

of an eclipse seen from a satellite.

Sodium Disposal

Wow...should send the link to this guy.

Impressive demo

This makes for a real presentation.

The world must bend over

backwards. We haven't seen anything yet, either.

Honor student bumper stickers

Some retorts. I personally like this one. via Boortz

He had other matters to attend

What? Did you expect him to walk around with it all day? via drudge

This Russian

has some impressive moves. The music is a little much you may wish to turn the volume off. There was a special on the Discovery Channel about the French kids and their new sport. Here is a sort of primer.

Live eagle cam

In Maine, in her nest. via livescience

Shadow Wolves

Interesting article on Native American trackers in the Smithsonian. From a Malkin post regarding sending them to Afghanistan.

Quonset Hut

MDM sells temporary storage structures and they are located in Milford, CT. The directions on puting them up are horrendous and they should be flogged and publicly shamed over the matter. But it made me wonder where the term quonset hut comes from and it comes from Quonset Point just over a bit in Rhode Island.

U3

I was recommended to get a U3 thumb drive to be able to use Firefox at work. It's not working but U3 has this in the trouble-shooting page. If the point of U3 is to use these applications on other computers then how can they so glibbly recommend uninstalling programs? If I was on my computer I would not need the U3.

Don't forget to nap

It's national nap at work day!

They walk amongst us

It's all true.

Frankly I'm not sure I have seen a more chilling arrangement of words than "Mexican Atomic Energy Commission" recently.

His cartoons

can be amusing. Unlike, say, Trudeau in the last quarter century.

Lovely Photography

over on a blog called "Sensitive Light." I saw it on the bottom of a blog while looking up the walking stick but closed out that window and am having trouble seeing where that page is.

Interesting

Guy. I think the stick he carries is referred to as a "dang." Rory Stewart writes that it has been out of fashion for about eighty years though he used one during his walk. Another interview is here.

Performance art

Typical. I think Dorsman is full of it. He didn't know anything yet applauds them, but thinks the city wasn't "ready for it?" Yup, they weren't sufficiently consumed with self deluding childish idiocy to appreciate the "art," that part's true. I'm not buying that jerk had no clue about the performance that was to occur.

via michelle malkin

Newest dog

necessity.

Shock ball

Neat new hot potato toy. via gizmodo

Also at gizmodo a way to super zoom google earth.

Phase change

memory. via gizmodo

"It's sort of a downer"

I'd say counsel is unconvinced of innocence.

Devil's A-hole

I have been this guy and this is my blanket apology!! Actually I didn't want to be the a'hole I just was:) The Onion is great! The radio feed I never get to check but there are stunning news-flash pieces not to be missed. I love funny audio and will post more on these guys soon, they were kind of local. Pat and Laura picked up some to give for Christmas which was very cool. Phil Hendrie was great, I don't know how he did that for so long but you had a good chance of hearing something very funny every time you tuned in to listen. He opted to try the less arduous acting route and deserved an award for "Team America," an Oscar performance. I searched for some great artwork such as "Plane Go Boom" but can't find it, so there.

A cow with cat-like moves

eating chikens in India. There was some interest in this today and I looked for the video (spending extra time at behest) but kept finding the same report or a rehashed version. It actually reminds me of this (cow via boortz) This site has some nice photos and the joke about cicada tea if you keep scrolling...I had heard they tasted like asparagus and ought to be pre-dawn dewy and fresh. (I hope people scroll to read about dogs and squirrels eating the cicadas.) Anyway animals you would not consider eating things you would not suspect. The cow thing is still suspect...

Parsley

Well, it's Friday night and I have found myself at the Dull Men's Club and they have a new Parsley appreciation page. Shame is a distant second to what I am experiencing.

FAS and CRS

The Aftergood newsletter which is FAS and their link with CRS material which may be interesting follows:

MORE FROM CRS

Some recent publications of the Congressional Research Service
that have not been made readily available to the public include
the following.

"Conventional Warheads For Long-Range Ballistic Missiles:
Background and Issues for Congress," updated February 9, 2007:

 http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/RL33067.pdf

"The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center:
Issues for Congress," updated February 15, 2007:

 http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/RL32891.pdf

"National Security Surveillance Act of 2006: S. 3886, Title II
(S. 2453 as Reported Out of the Senate Judiciary Committee,"
updated January 18, 2007:

 http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/RL33650.pdf

"Active Military Sonar and Marine Mammals: Events and
References," updated February 12, 2007:

 http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/RL33133.pdf

"U.S.-China Nuclear Cooperation Agreement," updated January 31,
2007:

 http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33192.pdf

Well it's a hot topic

But I must suggest that no matter what a person feels is appropriate for today, it is preposterous to suggest that the people who insurrected and prevailed over the crown tyranny felt that the government ought to control the possession and direction of weapons in the eighteenth century in the wake of their victory.

via instapundit but volokh is on the left and always worth a look. I need to update the links...

Robo-boss

Sheesh.

But were they

wearing earings made from their own poo?

It's been funny

so it is worth looking in on again. This too, but the second link opens video and audio, fyi.

Museums

Are good. This is not so good, reasons being variegated, I need to just stop reading everything I see.

Wing morphing

I did not know that manufacturers of lithium Ion batteries had to accomodate serious volume changes during charging. Defense tech has mentioned it and the morphing thing has been on several sites, but specific attribution is vague at the moment. I will just post a bunch in this blurb. (probably it is on pop mech. or instapundit or the regulars...I should poke around and update...saw it somewhere first...)

New Orleans

is an embarrassment and point of shame. via overlawyered.

I love dogs

But this is nauseating.

Koko incidence

Odd. The subject of Koko the kitty loving and ASL fluent gorilla popped into my head yesterday. So I looked for updates and found a resolution on two nipple fetish sexual harrassement lawsuits but not the third (the third girl succumbed to the pressure "seven or eight times...") I remembered the "Monster Garage" with Jesse James and googled that and who has it? Boinboing, of course. Then I check out Samizdata, unrelated to Koko, and they mention the death of a polymath and on his "Bimbo" blog-arithm there is Koko. Again, Odd.

Bigfoot update

More tracks. via fark

Iranian missing

this via instapundit but Pajamas Media is worth bookmarking.

Update: he is cooperating. via instapundit.

Eye color calculator

and genetically modified food tool.

Australian feral

mega-cats. via coasttocoast

Ground to air moose-ile

Moose brings down chopper. via dave barry

8 mile

firecracker. via the corner

Science roundup

Honey Bee's change buzz for different chemicals. Sea Squirts regenerate completely from tiny blood vessel fragments in a week. Caterpillars click and barf in self-defense. Ocean discovered deep inside the Earth. The Irish and English are the same? Playgrounds are filthier than restrooms, should jr. have recess in the john?

Christopher Hitchens

In Slate via lgf

Boortz

Links to an article regarding immigration in Kansas.

Iditarod

Four-time winner is out. Pat sends this link to a tactic of rarified atmospheric dog doping. Strangely Poodles have made respectable showings in the past. They were bred as draft animals in Flanders. You can still see the real Balto in Cleveland for now. The Alaskans want him back. Here his posthumous countenance is between two dinosaurs. Balto.

Bridgeport baseball great

Jimmy sends this link to the Park city's own. Here are some other Major League-ers born in Connecticut.

We've opened our eyes

to non "western" care. This also belongs under "we bring it on ourselves."

via instapundit and the corner etc.

Michael Yon

Always worth reading.

Hygeine

is important and can be managed single handedly with new technology. No need to rely on the skill of strangers. Or stick something in there and then set it on fire, which may not be as fun as it sounds.

Black body

A material the reflects no light.

For when she's finally tired

of gold. Ofcourse, if she doesn't tire, they have that covered as well.

Google earth

With newsfeed updates. via lgf

Iditarod

Started March 3rd.

Perhaps you have wondered

Can you speak with animals even if they are dead? Why yes, you can, but it helps to be an animal clairvoyant:

"Ever wonder what a lion is thinking? Ever wonder what gorillas talk about just between themselves? Ever wonder what your own dog is thinking as she looks up at you withshining eyes? Amelia Kinkade knows. And after this mind-blowing keynote, you will learn how to listen to animals, too. In this powerful and wildly entertaining lecture, audience members are empowered with the skills to go home and talk with their animals that very night! Handouts with exercises to practice at home will produce immediate results in your relationships with your animals, fostering both physical and emotional healings. "

via coasttocoast

Warm fuzzy numbers

There is awful news everywhere you look and the media spend all their time making sure it is bad news about us. Here are numbers the journalists don't like to dwell on: tally board. via instapundit

I must be doing something wrong

This site is still accessible from China. I see several bots a day scrolling from China and they must all find me innocuous. via freemarket

Rap Music

Has mellowed out quite a bit. In fact Sir Mixalot sounds almost melodious here...or is that Sir Mixalot? I'm out of touch. SADLY: this has been flagged as a copyright violation. You can see a live version here. This one may be better.

Also from Boingboing and here's Jcoulton

When visiting Manhattan

I know someone who learned to take Imodium A-D as a prophylactic measure while spending extra time trying to squeeze lots of itinerary into a visit. But London has just given up or decided that the middle age benjo ditch style wasn't such a hassle. ("'Benjo means toilet but its a little crude, kind of like 'crapper'. 'Toire,' from English 'toilet,' is better. 'Otearai' is best. No Japanese person knows what a benjo ditch is.'")

Those numbers are scary: "In Beijing, where the average salary is a 10th of London's, there are 7,700 toilets, or one for every 1,948 people. China's capital plans to renovate 3,700 in time for the 2008 Olympics. London, which will host the 2012 games and has one toilet per 18,000 residents, has no such plans."

Here is a dubious story of a "benjo wookie." It is not terribly convincing and some of the material of late seems to have taken a scatological course so let this be the last of it.

(Bloomberg link via Boingboing)

Space on Sunday

I believe they intended to loft their payload today, Sunday. I don't see an update yet though, it even says you should be able to keep up on googlearth but I don't see quite how. via boingboing

Gopher hunting

In Idaho. via Mr. Completely

f-14

Must have been fun.

Oh dear,

I'm not sure what to say about this...He seems to have some experience in extreme recreation. He inspired the Professor on Son of the Beach. He appears about a minute in, the series is well covered on Youtube for the moment. Checking for the Hawking character on Son of the Beach I came across this neat page on Simpsons math.

And if it falls behind the wall, Bugmenot.

The Moon

Was very nice this evening. It seems as if it would be even better to see while actually on the Moon.

Barack Hussein Obama

Helped Mexican drug gangs and their evil meth production!!

also via instapundit

Nasa's SUVs

Are busy tear-assing around Mars and global warming the joint all to hell...

via instapundit

Tax refund time!!

Hmmm....time for a look on ebay....electric shock pens for 99 cents...Roman coins, can't fake something that old...Personalized Big Head doll, that's pretty slick...also available in keychain size and all it takes is two photos...Oooooh, now this could be usefull--German noble title Graf von Leuchtenberg, I may be only as well educated as a dog but I may still earn some measure of respect in certain circles...Floggers for Bloggers...or here, let the welt tell them you love them...folks may need the forensic black light keychain if they took those last two seriously... Liquid fart prank...A thousand acres on Mars, some trashy Martian family will squat on it and take ownership before I could actually get there...Stop your wine bottle with Australian P.M. John Howard's butt...I already have a bottle opener made out of a kangaroo's scrotum so I'll pass..."lovely victim of oppression" snowglobe, it's actually official...White dude's dread locks so he can go to spring break..."It would make a great replacement tooth for your dog..." I do hope to be a dog owner someday that may be useful...

All in all fairly uninspiring, I guess auctions are by nature hit and miss...you just don't come across a Ghost in a Jar everyday. I suppose it will just go to paying bills, how boring.

Was reading

Ann Althouse who is usually interesting and read this post on a new book. The comments lead to Amazon and a different book and those comments led me to Milt Rosenberg who does a radio show out of Chicago and a look at his interview archive shows some potentially very interesting listening. It is often worth a couple of extra clicks.

Ofcourse! Alien technology

can stop global warming!!

via instapundit and Jules Crittenden

Time to give up

If dogs have college degrees how can the average bloke hope to compete?

via Drudge

Utopia Zones

Just stay inside the circle.

Lindbergh Baby

The anniversary is today. I had nothing to do with it. In fact the Lindbergh boy is alive and well.

---Wait!! This means that last night must have been Lindgerghbaby eve! I must have missed another cotillion.