This is a great assessment of Scooby-Doo's popularity over passed 25 years. It is pretty amazing that such a screwball show has been so popular for so long...

I love Al Franken. He is even better since his views often align with mine. Things are much funnier when you agree with them.

It is crazy how many people fall for the Nigerian scam. Especially since that spam has been around for quite some time. Doesn't anybody read the little stories on MSN but me?

Article in Slate about a reason for limiting the number of childern a couple has.

having more than two children is tantamount to handicapping their chances for academic, and thus economic, success.

If only more people thought in those terms.

Slate has a set of PowerPoint slides that give a summary of the Pledge of Allegiance. I like the last slide: Avoid these common errors!

Say it ain't so Mr. Orbach!

This is a pretty interesting reaction to the whole gay marriage issue. They do have a good point: ...we need to treat everyone in our county equally. At least everyone is getting kicked out.

I heard about this group on NPR. It looks interesting for us "godless heathens."

Cool article about the reissue of three Fleetwood Mac albums. Here's the core:

But what's most striking about the bonus material is how little it adds to our understanding of these three immaculately buffed albums. It mostly reinforces the myth that Fleetwood Mac knew exactly what they were doing in the studio from the get-go and were primarily concerned with getting the sound of every instrument exactly right

This is excellent. It is part of a collection of street graffiti from Baghdad. It is pretty cool, you can get a sense of how torn even Iraq is about the international presence there.

Ah, yes. CNN continues to prove to me that the world is full of uptight people.

The funny part about this article, is not that they are bringing lobsters back to life, it is that UMaine has a lobster institute and that it isn't located at UMaine, Portland, it is instead located inland, at UMaine, Orno.

Ay-uh.

People like this shouldn't have e-mail accounts. I would be convinced spam is worth something if this guy made money on his ventures, but it seems to me that the type of people who respond to spam, would be poor at making money.

Nice article on changing one's name when becoming married. The conclusion:

...the beauty of the contemporary name change is that you don't have to formally decide. You can keep your name professionally and socially, change your name for the purposes of school lists, or airline tickets, or your husband's presidential run—in short, you can maintain an extremely confusing relation to your own name (or names).

All this is reassuring to me since I am not planning on changing my name. To me, it is important to retain one's own idenity and not have it lost within the name of one's husband. Granted, husband and wife are merging thier lives, but they are not becoming anything more than leagally related to eachother. I think also my view is effected by the fact that Jason and I have lived together for 2 years without sharing a name, but sharing everything else, and marriage really isn't going to change any of that.

This was an excellent segment on 60 Minutes last night. Some people take things far to seriously. Calling Andy Rooney a

asinine, bottom-dwelling, numb-skulled, low-life, slimy, sickening, gutless, spineless, ignorant, pot-licking, cowardly pathetic little weasel

seems a bit harsh to me. But, what do I know, most of the times his sarcastic, grating comments are right in line with what I think, it's just that I would rarely say them outside the comfort of my home.

Oh no. I really hope the majority of the music isn't based on any of the songs included in the books. Pages upon pages of the verbal history of a imaginary world won't look any better on stage than it did in the books.

Maybe I should find a hobby like this. I could make "the biggest pile of broken Nerf blasters" out of the stuff in my office.

I refound this page while poking around google's site. I first saw it a couple years ago at school, and have fond memories of passing it on to my Mom.

The Japanese are very interesting people. It's a Seabiscut tale, without the win...

CNN has afollow up on the popcorn workers lung story from a week or so ago. It turns out that the EPA is looking into the effects to consumers breathing the buttery vapors after the bags come out of the microwave. Mmmm...fake buttery chemical goodness.

My first question on this issue, is why are people doing it in the first place? Are people so addicted to porn, that they can't spend an hour or two not watching it? I have seen porn before in a passing car, but it was a party bus, with what looked like a bacholer's party going on. That I get. But do you need to have it running when you are on your way to get milk?

That said, it seems like this will be a sticky issue. I know that most people consider the car as an extension of thier personal space. It would be akin to some one openly reading a porno mag in a park. Is that illegal?

This is a cool site from Google. You can put in a list, and Google will doits best topredict other items on it.

I put in: "Roger Miller" and "Johnney Cash" and got this back. Not too bad.

This is absolutely amazing (it might take a while to load, it's a large pic). All of those smudges are galexies. One of the few things that always impresses me is the size of the universe, and just how much other stuff there is out there. I want to work for NASA.

This is pretty amazing. I've been curious about the enviromental impact of manufacturing different items, but I would have never thought that it would take so many resources just to make a single computer. I am curious now how many tons of resources it takes to make a single Nerf ball.

Wow. That is some fine wool. I wonder what it looks like under a microscope. I'd like some to compare to some standard wool, to see just how fine it is.

Great article on Bush. The last section says it all:

President Bush. Strength and confidence. Steady leadership in times of change. He knows exactly where he wants to lead this country. And he won't let facts, circumstances, or the Constitution get in his way.

Don't mess with Texas.

Some people are so uptight. And the thing is, all the scouts are doing is endorsing Planned Parenthood as a way to learn, they don't hand out PP materials to the scouts, or teach that "homosexuality is OK".

Good quote:

Some 400 to 700 fifth- through ninth-graders attend the half-day Nobody's Fool conference in Waco each July. The program never mentions abortion, according to Planned Parenthood. The youngsters receive a book with chapters on homosexuality and masturbation, as well as illustrations of couples having sex, people examining their naked bodies and a boy putting on a condom.
Some Girl Scout mothers called it soft-core porn.
"It embarrassed me to look at it with my husband," said parent Shannon Donaldson.

I am not going to comment on the relationship that Mrs. Donaldson has with her husband. It needs none.

Don't mess with Texas.

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Who had any idea that there was such a thing as popcorn packers lung? I guess I'll stop sniffing my popcorn as soon as it comes out of the microwave...

It seems in this old article from CNN, that the $2 bill may have been reissued last year. After a brief google search, I can't find any other information to the effect.

I used to get a $2 bill every birthday from a great-aunt of mine. Unfortunately, when she died that was the end of that. But I think I still have a small pile of them at my dad's. I also knew a student at MIT who would regullarly get $20 worth of $2 bills from the bank and spend them. He did the same for the $1 coin. I wonder how many rarely used pieces of currency he was responsible for passing...

I love coinsidences like this. Maybe the Devil did go down to Georgia (the background midi here is annoying, but somehow, also great). Also note that this happened in Rome, Georgia. Another coinsidence? Hmmmm.

A very cool tiny helicopter that is about the size of a hamster. This reminds me of a comment we once got at work from our counterparts in Hong Kong...ask me about it some time.

How in the world do you not notice this. If you had a dead guy caught in the front-end suspension of your SUV, wouldn't you notice that it is leaning a bit to one side? Or that the bumps are a bit harder? I know SUVs are big, but wouldn't you notice that you hit some one in the first place? The driver must have been beyond intoxicated...