February 2008
74 posts
BBC NEWS | India cancels small farmers' debt →
the Indian government is to cancel the entire debt of the country’s small farmers in a giant scheme that will cost 600bn rupees ($15bn; £7.6bn). The move is a centrepiece of India’s latest budget, with the government also increasing education spending by 20% and health funding by 15%. Widely seen as a populist budget ahead of elections due by May 2009, Delhi has also pledged to...
Daily Kos: Contempt takes the next step →
Pelosi sends yet another meaningless letter to the DOJ asking nicely for Mukasey to actually follow the law. This time, she threatens to do something after one week. Lets see her not do anything next Thursday. Why is Pelosi so spineless? She takes “leadership” to new lows. Next time a grandma becomes speaker of the house we should make sure she is a real fire-breather who doesn’t...
Obsolete Skills →
A wiki of things you no longer need to remember. Goes all the way from Adjusting VCR Tracking to Zipping Files on floppy disks.
Sex With No Hands in NYC
Thats right. My band, Sex With No Hands, the world’s finest Accordion Funk band, is headed to NYC next week for three shows. If you like accordions, keytars, or Michael Jackson played on accordions and keytars, we’ve got the show you need to see. The band is a lot like a tumblelog since we take so many disparate elements and combine them in a way that just works. The focus is always on...
“The passenger list on the bus veers towards the eclectic, with elderly Chinese...”
– FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CHINATOWN BUS.
Everyone's History Month: DNA Confirms We're Out... →
A new genetic analysis of people from around the world adds further confirmation to the African origin of humans. The study of genetic details from 938 individuals from 51 populations provides evidence of how people are related and different. The team looked at variations in 650,000 sections of each of the DNA samples, providing a view of the similarities and differences between people in...
Fight with the homeless →
For those of you in SF: Some overfunded startup is giving away tomatoes in Dolores Park on Saturday morning. Attached to each tomato will be some increasingly worthless dollar bills. I’m looking forward to the bums vs. broke hipsters fighting over the money. Its time for the short-brimmed ones to learn about rabies firsthand. Also, a tomato fight would be a great addition to this time of...
Phrase of the day
“Hit my on my pager” Of course, somebody already has the hotmail address.
buttpenis.com →
from energyface:Surprisingly, not what you’d expect. Safe for work. And who is the guy in the background? Also, when did my sense of humor turn 14 again?
Hillary Clinton Is Your New HD-DVD Player
I feel a big new meme brewing…. I’m looking forward to all the LOLrus haters jumping on this one right away. Here is my attempt: HILLARY THINKS CONTENT IS MOVING ONLINE from highindustrial: Someone should register hillaryclintonisyournewhddvdplayer.com. Oh look, I just went and did. I’ve only fed a few phrases into it. Shoot me some more if inspiration strikes.
“John McCain spent more time in a Vietnamese P.O.W. camp than Barack Obama has...”
– Alex Balk
beautiful →
we need more of this on the web. energyface: (via onemoretimewithfeeling)
U.S. Finishes A 'Strong Second' In Iraq War | The... →
“Although the U.S. military did not win, it did set records for kills, yardage gained, palaces overrun, defensive stops, and military bases stolen.” Thanks to David for the link!
a link to a really funny picture →
safe for work if you boss is not looking.
CA plans Bay Area pesticide spraying →
“The state agriculture department plans to use airplanes at night this summer to spray a farm pesticide over urban San Francisco, Marin County and the East Bay, intending to eradicate a potentially destructive moth. The little-known proposal to wipe out the light brown apple moth, which if it became established could destroy the region’s agricultural industry, has developed increasing...
Lawyers group calls for Scalia’s recusal in... →
Earlier this week in an interview with BBC News, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia defended torture, saying that it would be “absurd” to say the government can’t “smack” a suspect “in the face.” In light of these remarks, the National Lawyers Guild today called on Scalia “to recuse himself from any case coming before the Supreme Court involving the constitutionality of torture as an...
“Of the nearly 72 million Americans who think “I hope there’s a...”
– San Francisco Bay Guardian yeah, my band was featured in the newspaper today. Next stop NYC! More details soon….
Survival Of The Fittest (M&M) →
Best of CL. This guy holds contests to find the best M&M in the bag for “breeding purposes” …”Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species.” from energyface
i’m sharing an apartment with a keytar. Life has never been sweeter.
Request for Non-English MP3s
Hi Friends, I’m working on a project right now to make MP3s from any country available for cell phone ringtones. Specifically, I’m looking for MP3s that have the titles or tag information in a language or character set other than English. This means Japanese Kanji, Arabic script, Spanish tildes, French circumflexes…anything other than English. This also means no foreign languages...
Mukasey won’t pursue waterboarding inquiry. →
from youletthishappen (the best political group tumblr you’re not reading): from Thinkprogress.org: “In a congressional hearing today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) asked Attorney General Mike Mukasey whether he plans to “investigate whether U.S. interrogators broke the law when waterboarding al-Qaida detainees the years after 9/11.” Mukasey declined: “Are you...
Larry King and Snoop Dogg at Roscoe's Chicken and...
Snoop and Larry King in a leather jacket with popped collar eat at Roscoes. from sharingtime: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/01/29/lkl.roscoes.cnn