You know me! I'm like, "Go school! It's your birthday!" Or something to that effect.

Willow ,'Empty Places'


Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


§ ita § - Mar 15, 2006 11:55:53 am PST #4090 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm guessing the line will go through the Great Rift Valley?

The map they show doesn't go as far south as Kenya, which has a fair bit of Rift Valley in it. But that's just the bit that's sinking first.

The map is kinda vague in labelling and context.


Consuela - Mar 15, 2006 12:00:49 pm PST #4091 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Oh, this is great. The ACLU did a very fun little X-Files cartoon about the NSA spying scandal. [link]

It's even got all the film-noir lighting going.


Theodosia - Mar 15, 2006 12:06:52 pm PST #4092 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Oh my on the ACLU cartoon -- gotta love the guy with the shotgun.


Typo Boy - Mar 15, 2006 12:09:50 pm PST #4093 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Skimmy Mcskimmerson Drive by: (fowarded by Doug Henwood)

New York Times - March 15, 2006

Editors' Note

The cover photograph in The Times Magazine on Sunday rendered colors incorrectly for the jacket, shirt and tie worn by Mark Warner, the former Virginia governor who is a possible candidate for the presidency. The jacket was charcoal, not maroon; the shirt was light blue, not pink; the tie was dark blue with stripes, not maroon.

The Times's policy rules out alteration of photographs that depict actual news scenes and, even in a contrived illustration, requires acknowledgment in a credit. In this case, the film that was used can cause colors to shift, and the processing altered them further; the change escaped notice because of a misunderstanding by the editors.


P.M. Marc - Mar 15, 2006 12:10:07 pm PST #4094 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Suela, that's awesome.


Jessica - Mar 15, 2006 12:12:36 pm PST #4095 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

the change escaped notice because of a misunderstanding by the editors

They thought he'd been dressed by David Boreanaz?


flea - Mar 15, 2006 12:18:34 pm PST #4096 of 10001
information libertarian

The scary thing is, this correction implies that his face and scary scary teeth were not manipulated in any way.


tommyrot - Mar 15, 2006 12:27:30 pm PST #4097 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Dan Brown returned to the witness stand Wednesday and acknowledged "reworking" passages from an earlier book for his best-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code," but he firmly rejected charges that he ripped off key ideas for his conspiracy thriller.

The author spent a third day defending his work against a copyright infringement suit brought by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, authors of a 1982 nonfiction book, "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail."

So he admits to copying sections from the other book and rewriting them, but he didn't rip off any "key ideas." Sure.

Not lookin' good for the Da Vinci Code guy.

[link]


DavidS - Mar 15, 2006 12:28:23 pm PST #4098 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

You've heard the whispers. You couldn't believe the rumors. Now, learn the truth about...Roomba Cockfighting!


JohnSweden - Mar 15, 2006 12:47:31 pm PST #4099 of 10001
I can't even.

How many work pens do you have at home?

A brazilian of them. I'm taxing the government back via office supplies.