G.O.P.

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I thought this was an interesting entry from the Jlist dudes blog:
When you learn a foreign language, the first thing you usually learn are the “naughty” words. However, people studying Japanese are often surprised to find that most of the bad words they’re used to in English don’t really exist. Popular Japanese insults include baka [...]

The Goat - the milk of the goat is very sweet and good, and is often made into cheese.
A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his “wife”, after he was caught having sex with the animal.**************************“When I asked him: ‘What are you doing there?’, he fell off the back of the [...]

How do they get away with these overt “fucking” images to sell movies?(I like to ask dumb questions) I gotta hunt down some more but these two are just so dirty it makes me blush. Spider man is even making a dirty(pink & stink) gesture with his hands - look at the womans face! Really… [...]

Tom Tomorrow:
Just to reiterate
The Bush Administration wants to hand over control of vital ports to a state-run company controlled by an oligarchy whose ruling family used to go on hunting trips with their Taliban buddies, apparently including Osama himself.
And if this doesn’t seem quite right to you, according to David Brooks you are a racist [...]

link: we make money not art: Winter nudists

Google added “smart replying” to Gmail. Now I’m happy and less likely to accidentally give up my real identity when flaming people. LOL!
You gotta set it to do this in the ’settings’.
LINK

President George W. Bush did not know about a deal to hand over operations at major U.S. ports to an Arab company until after his administration approved it, the White House said on Wednesday.
I let a lot of Bush bungling slide by without comment but this one is just so ‘extra retarded’ it deserves some [...]

This is from Make, a blog from a master watch maker, full of amazing pictures about the artistry on the outside, and amazing mechanicals on the inside.
I find the artform and design of these almost hypnotic, I can’t imagine to see them working. There are few things cooler than little gears and chinese dragons put [...]

Ok, this really shows off the power of Director (and begrugingly, Flash), which as you may or may not know, is my major source of income and one of my true loves of the computer world.
In this game, you get to use your webcam to shoot a basketball into the hoop, collecting and avoiding rewards [...]

Ole Bushie and Pals are trying to sell off public lands in Montana, amoung other places… while giving away 7 billion dollars to the oil industry, and making promises to give away an estimated $35 billion over the next few years….
so obviously this is making some people upset…
So how does the internet and [...]

I almost forgot my favorite difference between Japan and the U.S., that I have my fingers crossed it doesn’t change: Bathrooms. You can find a clean bathroom anywhere you go in Tokyo(virtually). If it’s not a shiny clean public restroom then there are bathrooms in all the stores and restaurants that don’t require you to [...]

*I collect these frog toy motherfuckers like a madman over there!
Goodbye: ubiquitous, heated toilet seats, with their loving, automated bidet functions.
Hello: to all my fellow Americans who hate me and everybody else around them(well, can seem that way sometimes).
Goodbye: expressionless masses cramming into trains.
Hello: crazy people staring at me, people blabbering on their cells, [...]

I saw this list of quotes, and thought i would share a couple…
“War, at first, is the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn’t any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone’s being worse off.”– Karl Kraus, [...]

Now unlike my last post, this Google Map implementation is actually useful to me. A google maps Wiki of dive spots and what you might see there.
If only i lived someplace warmer…
Parrot, you up for another Keys trip?
Link: ScubaMAP

I don’t play this, cause i don’t have an alter-life to spend doing it.
But it sure looks like if i was in middle school again, i could really get into this and spend a lot of time looking for Leeroy.
Anyway: Google Maps for virtual worlds exists:
Link: MapWoW.com World of Warcraft Maps

Now that i’ve found the island market, i’ve got a business model for buying my own island. Just rediscover Jesus and Blood and whipping up fundamentalists into a frenzy.
CHA-CHING !!
Well, maybe i’ll go the Road Warrior route first. It will be good training for living on my island after the oil supplies run out.
And [...]

A beautiful collection of photographs from Guangxi Province, China. This place has always been on my list of must-sees, and when I was in Thailand I thought the scenery was amazing. But these photos are breathtaking.
And i’m someone who doesn’t use that word except to describe my twins (who are 7 weeks old today!)
Link: Beautiful [...]