“I, Crocodile” by Fred Marcellino
“Skippyjon Jones” by Judith Byron Schachner
“Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type” by Doreen Cronin, Betsy Lewin
“Giggle, Giggle, Quack” by Doreen Cronin, Betsy Lewin
“A Light in the Attic” by Shel Silverstein
“Katy and the Big Snow” by Virginia Lee Burton
Little Tikes Commercial has created a Moebius strip for playgrounds. The “Infinity Climber” recently won a 2004 Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA).
Damn, I really want one of these for the back yard…
Update: Boing Boing has posted my submission for this item, and I stand corrected – it’s not a Moebius strip, as there are two twists in the structure. It’s actually a “Double Twist Strip”.
Intersting article by Bruce Bawer on Hudson Review:
Another interesting quote:
From Engadget:
Isaac Hayes’ Three Laws of Robotics:
Interesting survey results from PC World:
Compaq (sold by Hewlett-Packard)
Dell
EMachines (sold by Gateway)
Gateway
Hewlett-Packard
IBM
Sony
Independent Stores
How it really went down – c/o the New Yorker (by way of JWZ):
“Whut? Whut?” Mr. Leahy shot back.
“Once again,” Mr. Cheney replied (quite obviously quoting a lyric from Ice Cube’s 1990 album, “AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted”), “it’s on.”
As a quick-thinking senatorial aide switched on the Senate’s public-address system and cued up the infamous “Seven Minutes of Funk” break, Mr. Leahy and Mr. Cheney went head-to-head in what can only be described as a “take no prisoners” freestyle rap battle.
Most of the rhymes kicked therein cannot be quoted in a family publication, but observers gave Mr. Cheney credit for his deceptively laid-back flow. Mr. Leahy was applauded for managing to rhyme the phrases “unethical for certain,” “crude oil spurtin’,” and “like Halliburton.”
Despite the fact that both participants brought their A-game and succeeded in dropping mad scientifics, the bout seemed to end in a draw.
From Ekklesia:
Foreign priests are reportedly shipping out “Mass intentions” — requests for services such as thanksgiving and forgiveness of sins — to congregations in India, with each earning a priest about five euros or six dollars.
The Mass intentions usually come by post or e-mail through the church, although some Indian priests take down the requests by telephone from friends and contacts made abroad.
From the Cape Times:
“Red is just the start,” said Solly Solinga, spokesperson for Zimbabwean Television, when I phoned him about the decision to ban that colour from the country’s TV screens because it symbolised the opposition Movement for Democratic Change party. “We have other colours in mind, too.”
“But there is red in so many things,” I argued. “You can’t simply ban it out of the spectrum.”
“We can do what we like with the spectrum, whatever that is,” said Solly. “We are not bound by Western concepts. Besides, red also signifies other hateful things to our revered president. It is the colour of London buses, so beloved by our former colonial oppressors. There is also the red herring of human rights abuses, when everyone knows our people have never been happier. Worst of all is when our enemies claim our national finances are in the red, so envious are they of our favourite colour, black.”
“What about red carpets?” I asked.
“The president is prepared to make an exception in the case of red carpets, so long as they are for him,” said Solly. “Pink is also banned. It reminds the president of homosexuals.”
Read the rest here.
Just received a press release from FIRE:
Occidental College Ruthlessly Suppresses Free Speech
Censors Student Radio Host, Dissolves Student Government
LOS ANGELES, July 15, 2004—Showing profound contempt for free speech, Occidental College in Los Angeles has fired the student host of a popular student radio program and found him guilty of sexual harassment due to satirical jokes made on the air. Occidental also used this controversy as a pretext for the unprecedented decision to dissolve its entire student government and assume control of nearly half a million dollars in funds from student fees. Occidental then began a campaign of false accusations and distortions to justify, after the fact, its illiberal actions. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), which has spearheaded the defense of student radio host Jason Antebi since he was removed from his show last March, has formed a national coalition of organizations and is launching a public campaign to oppose Occidental’s outrageous actions.
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