These are actual headlines . . . What’s So Special About a Team of Rivals? What’s the Value of a Big Bonus? What’s the Point of Daylight Time? The black-white Oughts (both George W. Bush’s us-versus-them and the opposition’s are-you-f-ing-kidding-me response to it) will give way to a decade of contrarianism, where everything you know is wrong (and in some cases will be used to give Obama some ideological cover).

tags: george w bush, daylight time, rivals, black white, bonus, headlines

The breathless marketing of Trek's new chainless bicycle will no doubt capture bike industry news heading into the holidays as the next new thing in bicycling. But since I sometimes follow different trails, I'm going to report on something that I discovered this morning that could revolutionize and improve your sag-supported bicycle touring experience -- the Luggage Locator. I've been on many across-state bicycle tours and have never had to repair a broken bike chain (I always ...

tags: luggage locator, chainless bicycle, bicycle tours, bike chain, bike industry, chain tool, sag, no doubt, industry news, trek, holidays, marketing

The huge growth of credit card processing, it is important that merchant account lenders also provide merchants with credit card processing softwares. Using such softwares are beneficial not only for customers as as for the merchants as it offer a cost-effective solution to their ecommerce business. Benefits of using these softwares are - Economical – Credit card processing software doesn't need any terminals so saving on both space and money. Better Performance – There are...

tags: credit card processing software, credit card processing, cost effective solution, ecommerce business, merchant account, lenders, merchants, money

VMware Fusion - Expanding a disk « Only Talking Sense (tags: vmware) THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING REPUBLICAN BASE, Crystal Ball, U.Va. (tags: politics)

tags: republican base, nthe, crystal ball, fusion

Wear Good Shoes: Advice to young photographers [From Magnum Blog / Wear Good Shoes: Advice to young photographers - the photo blog of Magnum Photos]

tags: magnum photos, good shoes, photographers, gig, photo

From the infrequently updated recipe files: Better Than Store-Bought Hot Chocolate Mix Mix in a cup or jug: 1/3 cup dry milk powder 1 heaping tsp cocoa powder 2 heaping tsp sugar Add 8 oz hot water. Stir. Enjoy. This is better and cheaper than the packaged varieties, and you know what’s in it, unlike the other stuff: sugar, modified whey, cocoa (processed with alkali), hydrogenated coconut oil, nonfat milk, calcium carbonate, less than 2% of: salt, dipotassium phosphate, mono- and diglyderides, artificial flavor, carrageenan. I ...

tags: hot chocolate mix, dry milk powder, cocoa powder, swiss miss, recipe files, nadd, jug, hot water

From a recent commenter to the Classmates.com thread: If you really want to get in touch with people, sign up for a facebook account [From a crank’s progress » Blog Archive » classmates.com spam scam] So I did. Hmmm, not a lot of names I recognize. I realize I was in a big high school class (950 or so, I think) but still . . . I had planned to be the last person on Facebook, but curiosity got ...

tags: class 950, facebook, classmates, blog archive, free advice, crank, curiosity, high school class

Content: Crash Time 2 - DemoPrice: FreeAvailability: Not available in Australia, Asia, North America or New ZealandDash Text: [PEGI: 7+] Play the demo and experience pure action with Detective Chief Inspectors Semir and Ben. Wheels are burning up the Autobahn!

tags: detective chief, chief inspectors, semir, time 2, autobahn, crash, wheels, demo, north america, asia, australia, europe

Portrait of cartoonist as Islamophobic cretin Yes it is.  It truly is.  So says Pam Geller (notice the quotation marks–I didn’t say that) of Atlas Shrugged and one of the world’s most distinguished forensic psychologists and learned scholars of Islam.  Er, not really.  The only forensic psychology this woman has ever practiced involves writing her own blog which is a repository for pathological hatred.  As for her scholarly credentials, she earned them at the Merkaz HaRav ...

tags: quotation marks, cretin, cartoonist, mental illness, pam, islam

There’s a lot of sex worker stuff in the news lately, isn’t there?So yes, I’ve been reading about the busts at the tanning salon/brothels on Aurora Ave. I have some sympathy for the female manager who got arrested, seeing as how I once managed a “sensual touch” business myself. And just because you read something in the paper doesn’t make it true. However, if she and the owner really were running women in and out ...

tags: appointment fee, aurora ave, running women, management works, paper doesn, sensual touch, sex worker, club management, coffee table, sex work, those women, strip clubs, brothels, tanning salon, busts, vibrator, small group, peers, sympathy, lawyer

Thursday, November 20 Jonah Goldberg unloads both barrels on the quisling Kathleen Parker: I don't know what's more grating, the quasi-bigotry that has you calling religious Christians low brows, gorillas and oogedy-boogedy types or the bravery-on-the-cheap as you salute — in that winsome way — your own courage for saying what (according to you) needs to be said. Please stop bragging about how courageous you are for weathering a storm of nasty email you invite on ...

tags: chicken chalupas, jules crittenden, blind tastings, objective scholarship, zumwalt destroyer, dark and stormy night, bulwer lytton, religious christians, iowahawk, egregious examples, kathleen parker, gullets, english letters, quisling, naming names, gorditas, writing contest, replicator, tom wolfe, weathering

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/television/America_s_Next_Top_Model_11_Finale'; After 10 weeks and 14 models, America’s Next Top Model: Cycle 11 finally came down to the Top Three. Which lady eventually found herself with an Elite Model Management contract, a Seventeen spread/cover and a $100,000 CoverGirl contract? Was it McKey (the boxer who evolved into a woman), Analeigh (the skater who figured out how to use her body) or Samantha (the girl who once offended a designer but turned things ...

tags: elite model management, television america, model cycle, digg, management contract, america s next top model, next top model, skater, finale, boxer, models

He tore his coffee money to shreds, but at least he still had the banana to chew on during his lunch break.

tags: max keiser, lunch break, shreds, ussr, banana, coffee, money

The Institute for Pornographic Nomenclature.

tags: adult films, nomenclature

Collapse is unavoidable. Music Video for a South African band directed by Bryan Little.

tags: safe as houses, collapse, south african band

A promise, very NSFW. Just 4:27 of irreverent song while tickling the ivories.

tags: ivories, virgins, cock

Well, it is hard to buzz in on Jeopardy with a penguin costume. Thank goodness we have this gem.

tags: game show, jeopardy, penguins, penguin, goodness

from the motion picture Hollywood Hotel (1937) here's the Benny Goodman Orchestra doing "Sing, Sing, Sing" featuring Gene Krupa and Lionel Hampton. A classic of the swing era.

tags: sing sing sing benny goodman, sing sing sing, benny goodman orchestra, gene krupa, lionel hampton, hollywood hotel, motion picture, hollywood, swing

Sam Kinison, preacher, vitriolic humorist, screamer, ranter and great comedian in this 1987 classic. 1 of 5 in this YT playlist.

tags: sam kinison, breaking the rules, humorist, preacher, n1, comedian, yt

The sixth song on their third album, Sheer Heart Attack, it was written by lead guitarist Brian May while he was in the hospital. In the UK, the song hit #11 on the charts when released as a single in 1975. The song has many features on it including Mercury, who hit some of the highest notes in his career. The song is also noted for its hard riff and vocal harmonies. The song remained ...

tags: sheer heart attack, queen rocks, guitarist brian, rainbow theatre, album queen, vocal harmonies, compilation album, brian may, heart attack, riff, music video, segments, nit, mercury

Groucho cuts it up with Marine Sgt. Sylvester & Colette Nelson, then model turned dog trainer Marilyn Pierce and pro golfer Jim Ferrier. And then home economics teacher Evelyn Farrow and lion tamer Floyd Humisson play along for cash prizes. Groucho Marx. Full show, RT 27:01. Complete with De Soto commercials.

tags: marine sgt, life water, secret word, groucho, sylvester, you bet your life

Can?t tell you how many times it took to make this work, but it was a lot. Shout out to "Lars" and the rest of the Brierwood Vandals! Prisoner of Society by The Living End - best song on Guitar Hero WT.

tags: guitar hero, vandals, lars, wt

Gromit's daily chores include sweeping up, unfortunately Wallace wants to help. The 525 Crackervac will save Gromit's time and take the strain out of cleaning and it has a "cracker sensor" to boot!! However, things don't go quite as Wallace planned and it's up to Gromit to save the day.

tags: daily chores, cracking contraptions

[@375]Twits du JourLooks like Comcast is back for good. Well, until the next outage that is. #At MickeyD getting a healthy snack... #Looks like Comcast is back up... Nope, it's out again... and back up again... Going up and down faster than I can tweet. #Comcast is 'experiencing an outage' in my area. TV but no internet. That's when Smartphones pay for themselves. Well, not quite. #

tags: healthy snack, twits, comcast

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Mammoth's genome pieced together: "A US-Russian team of researchers has pieced together most of the genome of a woolly mammoth, Nature journal reports.The experts extracted DNA from samples of mammoth hair to reconstruct the genetic sequence of this Ice Age beast.Though some stretches are missing, the researchers estimate that the genome is roughly 80% complete.The work could provide insights into the extinction of the mammoth and also resurrects ...

tags: news science, bbc

The Hindu : Front Page News : Thursday, November 20, 2008: "Indira Gandhi prize for ElBaradeiNEW DELHI: Nobel laureate and Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei has been chosen to receive the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2008. An international jury, chaired ..."

tags: indira gandhi, mohamed elbaradei, atomic energy agency, nobel laureate, international atomic energy agency, international atomic energy, international jury, front page news, disarmament, hindu, peace

Daily Kos: State of the Nation: "According to data just released by the Minnesota Secretary of State, Al Franken has gained a net of 43 votes on the first day of that state's recount process. Norm Coleman had a lead of 215 voters over Franken in Minnesota's certified, pre-recount tally; that margin is now 172 votes.Minnesota reports that it has thus far re-counted 15.49 percent of its ballots. If the first day's results are indicative ...

tags: minnesota secretary of state, norm coleman, democratic stronghold, al franken, narrow victory, initial count, state of the nation, future trends, ballots, duluth, election day, aggregate, secretary of state, tally, minneapolis, pace

Daily Kos: State of the Nation: "More than three decades after he first appeared before the panel as a 27-year-old Vietnam veteran-turned-antiwar protester, Senator John F. Kerry is widely expected to be named the new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a position that will give him enormous influence over international relations.The pending announcement by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, which congressional aides said could come as early as today, would elevate Kerry to ...

tags: senate majority leader harry reid, senate majority leader, foreign relations committee, senate foreign relations committee, senator john f kerry, senate foreign relations, barack obama, joe biden, congressional aides, vietnam veteran, john f kerry, policy priorities, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, president elect, senate majority leader harry, policy establishment, outgoing chairman, congressional session, us senate, enormous influence

Chinese Democracy is livestreaming on MySpace.

tags: chinese democracy

I just had a short overnight out-of-town trip. Hubby-Eric went to a teacher thing, and we stayed at a swanky hotel. Unfortunately, it was one of those swanky hotels where nothing was free, not even internet access, so we had to forgo the 'net last night. If we'd had a choice, I'd have rather stayed in a Motel 6. You usually get free 'net and a complimentary continental breakfast there, two ...

tags: complimentary continental breakfast, swanky hotel, evil twin, motel 6, hubby, good food, internet access, hotels

From a recent commenter to the Classmates.com thread: If you really want to get in touch with people, sign up for a facebook account [From a crank’s progress » Blog Archive » classmates.com spam scam] So I did. Hmmm, not a lot of names I recognize. I realize I was in a big high school class (950 or so, I think) but still . . . I had planned to be the last person on Facebook, but curiosity got ...

tags: class 950, facebook, classmates, blog archive, free advice, crank, curiosity, high school class

Today in my first meeting of the day we were talking about social networking application in relation to projects that my organization uses for public outreach. Not only blogs, but facebook, youtube and twitter. Imagine -- updating your twitter to tell your constituent/data users that there is a new cruise's worth of bottle data available for their viewing or that you have updated the most recent model runs with last year's climatologies reanalyzed ...

tags: sending a text message, marine protected areas, networking application, facebook, public outreach, youtube, derivative markets, social networking, twitter, data users, widget, first meeting, vortex, constituent, guess, mba, reply, tubes, cruise, bottle data

From the infrequently updated recipe files: Better Than Store-Bought Hot Chocolate Mix Mix in a cup or jug: 1/3 cup dry milk powder 1 heaping tsp cocoa powder 2 heaping tsp sugar Add 8 oz hot water. Stir. Enjoy. This is better and cheaper than the packaged varieties, and you know what’s in it, unlike the other stuff: sugar, modified whey, cocoa (processed with alkali), hydrogenated coconut oil, nonfat milk, calcium carbonate, less than 2% of: salt, dipotassium phosphate, mono- and diglyderides, artificial flavor, carrageenan. I ...

tags: hot chocolate mix, dry milk powder, cocoa powder, swiss miss, recipe files, nadd, jug, hot water

The I'm Just Sayin' Show is now out of beta -- it's already looking a lot better than last week! After a nice review, Tilzy.TV has an interview with me that explains how the show came together. We (Jackie, Alisa, Kristen, and I) like to think of the show as "Diggnation for girls" -- or, okay, "Golden Girls for hipsters."

tags: golden girls, alisa, diggnation, kristen, beta

You know how it is, Whole. You know. And I know you know. We just can't pretend it is what it was any longer. Bad things have been happening between us whenever I've tried to get into your sack for quite some time. It's time to face the fact that we just don't have that old natural spark between us any longer. We've faded from organic to conventional. It's time to move on to fresh ...

tags: pride parades, fresh fruits and vegetables, johnson grass, whole hog, earth shoes, fruits and vegetables, dairy case, nbad, pound range, sloppy seconds, flavors, pastes, whole foods, wind power, insistence, quite some time, ditto, apron, junkies, cheeses

NBC News is reporting that former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-ND) will be appointed by President-elect Obama as Secretary of Health & Human Services.Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has accepted President-elect Barack Obama's offer to be secretary of the Department Health and Human Services, NBC News confirmed Wednesday.Democratic officials confirmed the acceptance.The appointment has not been announced, but officials said the job is Daschle's barring an unforeseen problem as Obama's team reviews the ...

tags: leader tom daschle, senate majority leader, former senate majority leader, cabinet appointments, tom daschle, nbc news, president elect, nbc, health

Earlier today, Alaska's most famous convicted felon, Senator Ted Stevens, conceded his bid for re-election. Here is Stevens' statement:"Given the number of ballots that remain to be counted, it is apparent the election has been decided and Mayor Begich has been elected. "My family and I wish to thank the thousands of Alaskans who stood by us and who supported my re-election. It was a tough fight that would not ...

tags: senator ted stevens, political persuasions, ted stevens, alaskans, u s senate, democratic majority, felon, new position, ballots, encouragement, prayers, alaska

Oh for fucks sake. Didn't we go through a millennial scare once already? Trailer to 2012. (Though that's an interesting tagline at the end: "FIND OUT THE TRUTH. GOOGLE SEARCH: 2012" -- scary!)

tags: tagline, scare, google, sake, truth

PC Magazine dropping print for online: "PC Magazine is the latest US publication to drop its print edition and move to a Web-only format.US News & World Report, long the number three newsmagazine in the United States behind Time and Newsweek, announced earlier this month that it was abandoning print for the Web and the 100-year-old newspaper the Christian Science Monitor announced plans recently to do the same."Here is the beginning of my post. And ...

tags: pc magazine

Here is the beginning of my post. And here is the rest of it.

tags: contest name

With a commenter name like "ratman," you would probably expect a lulz onslaught. But whoever is commenting on this site with that username (here, here, and here) is my favorite commenter in the world. They are such non sequiturs that at first I thought they were spam, but now I see it's some sort of crazy genius. I hope they all come together to form a story.

tags: non sequiturs, crazy genius, onslaught, ratman

The New Yorker hangs out with Prince. They eat carrot soup.

tags: carrot soup, new yorker, prince

Although numbers were down for all CBS shows, the Eye network still did enough to win with the viewers last night. Meanwhile, FOX - with help from Fringe and House - was #1 again in the demos. 8pm NCIS (18 million, 3.5/9 in 18-49) slid by 800,000. House (13 million, 5.5/15) was up a notch. Dancing with the Stars* (11.8 million, 2.4/6) added another 1.4 million. The Biggest Loser: Families (7.8 million, 3.2/8) was off by 200,000. 90210 ...

tags: biggest loser, fringe, cbs, fox

Amazon has come out with their Top 10 lists for the year, and check out the hiphop picks: 1. Paper Trail - TI 2. Droppin Science Fiction - The Mighty Underdogs 3. The Dusty Foot Philosopher - K'Naan 4. White Van Music - Jake One 5. Bake Sale - The Cool Kids 6. New York's Finest - Pete Rock 7. The In Crowd - Kidz In The Hall 8. Tha Carter III - Lil Wayne 9. When Life Gives You Lemons... - Atmosphere 10. ...

tags: k naan, dusty foot, droppin science, when life gives you lemons, tha carter, amazon, pete rock, lil wayne, cool kids, top 10 lists, n9, noh, foxes, top ten lists, kidz, best music, life gives you lemons, n4, underdogs, n5

The Fremont Bridge, gateway to the Center of the Universe, could be your future art studio. Some lucky Seattle-area creative type is going to get a workshop in one of the bridge towers, in which to create a diverse, in-depth exploration of what it means to be the city’s busiest bridge 'n' stuff. All that and a $20,000 grant from SDOT. Apply by Jan. 5. Or don’t--we don’t need the competition! ...

tags: ancient pyramids, intrepid explorers, national geographic channel, fremont bridge, nwww, natgeotv, future art, creative type, center of the universe, depth exploration, ocean depths, art studio, seattle area, space travel, outer space, nseven, national geographic, discovery

Is this something new? A chef who cooks, a spouse who writes. ("He tastes, she types." Or should that be "He cooks, she composes"?) Earlier this fall, Karen Pager and Andrew Dornenburg came through town with their new jointly written tome, The Flavor Bible. In Seattle today (for KING TV's morning show, lunch at Sorrentino, book-signing and dinner at Tavolata) are Andrew Carmellini and his wife, Gwen Hyman. Carmellini (another chef whose opinions grace ...

tags: wife gwen, chef award, chef de cuisine, james beard, andrew dornenburg, king tv, sorrentino, book signing, hyman, andrew carmellini, morning show, cooks, bookshelf, six years, bible, lunch, seattle

Since the passage of California's Prop. 8, which reversed a State Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage, a potentially poisonous debate has sprung up over whether the California African-American community, who turned out in record numbers to vote for Obama, bears special responsibility for passing the measure. For perspective, we turned to Chad Goller-Sojourner, a local writer, poet, and performance artist whose work has explored his own struggles growing up black and gay. A guest post ...

tags: legalizing gay marriage, same sex marriage, political pundits, common denominator, supreme court decision, new math, frame show, striking evidence, goller, proposition 22, local writer, state supreme court, sojourner, legal protections, performance artist, pollsters, record numbers, silver lining, historical context, winds of change

Even people who aren’t into baseball at all are aware that the Seattle Mariners weren’t exactly looking like champs in their last season. In true sports club form, this meant that it was time for a new coach. Today the M’s announced their new coach: Hood River, Oregon, native Don Wakamatsu who now becomes the fourteenth full-time manager for the Mariners and the first ever Asian American to manage a Major League ball team. Wakamastu’s ...

tags: nod

It was a good day in the LexBlogosphere. There's quality posts from ACS Blog on Eric Holder (an ACS board member) being tabbed as the next attorney general and Minneapolis attorney Gavin Craig on Proposition 8. President Bush Issues Executive Order Pushing NextGen Forward - Costa Mesa lawyer Steven Taber of Chevalier, Allen & Lichman on the firm's Aviation and Airport Development Law Blog Governor Schwarzenegger Strikes Again: ...

tags: acs board, eric holder, legal news, executive order, taber, costa mesa, president bush, chevalier, acs, board member, attorney general, craig, minneapolis, lawyer, blog

As you can imagine, it's been an incredible day so far for the New Xbox Experience. It's great to see so much enthusiasm…it sounds like you are having fun exploring NXE. With an update of this magnitude, reaching more than 14 million people around the globe, we are aware some of you may be experiencing a few hiccups along the way. The LIVE team is closely monitoring the LIVE service and Xbox.com and are aware of ...

tags: launch day

There are a hundred ways to talk about NBA attendance, a hundred ways to distort the truth, a hundred ways to rationalize, pervert, and obfuscate the facts.In the weeks and months to come, the NBA will attempt to use all of those methods. They will load us down with facts and figures that explain how wonderful the league is, how healthy its balance sheets are, and how strong its ratings are.Just remember, when you hear ...

tags: nba attendance, work fellas, work stoppage, david stern, entire season, dominator, balance sheets, pervert, gap, nhl, six years, truth

Last night we were trying to watch House, M.D., and one of those terrible Microsoft "Mojave" commercials came on, which implied that the reason Vista hasn't sold well isn't because it sucks but because consumers don't know you can make panoramic photos with it. That's a feature on everyone's must-have list for a new OS, isn't it? So then we were like, Great, this is what intracranial bleeding feels like. Anyway that reminded us of ...

tags: microsoft shareholder, new coke, michael mcdonald, panoramic photos, professional manager, principal owner, guest editorial, ballmer, mojave, ad campaign, axe, shareholders, gates, 21st century, commercials, hasn, ceo, horror, consumers, testimonials

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed under 8000 today, a five year low, and 24% lower than it stood the day President Bush was inaugurated.  But hey… that’s still better than Herbert Hoover.

tags: dow jones industrial average, dow jones industrial, nthe, dow jones, president bush, hoover

Topspin » Northwest MusicTech Summit Keynote. CEO of TopSpin talking about the changin