Pft. You da rock star.
I like money better than people. People can so rarely be exchanged for goods and/or services!
Willow ,'Showtime'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
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.
Allyson - Jun 02, 2011 9:26:54 pm PDT #11072 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Consuela - Jun 02, 2011 9:33:32 pm PDT #11073 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Julia Sweeney tells a very funny story about the day her daughter wanted to learn about how frogs had babies: [link]
That's a riot.
javachik - Jun 02, 2011 9:37:55 pm PDT #11074 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
She told that hilarious tale when I saw the Julia and Jill (Sobule) show at Yoshi's a few years ago. Had us rolling in the aisles.
Calli - Jun 03, 2011 2:10:28 am PDT #11075 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Speaking of TED, my organization sponsored a TEDx event (an event affiliated with TED, but done locally) yesterday evening. We had speakers on using cell phones to enable distance diagnosis of things like oral cancer, developing prostheses for amputees, the problems with donating medical equipment to developing countries, and so on. And there was a great Senegal-NC combo band playing before and after the speech parts. Loads of fun. I volunteered to usher, which is probably as close to being a TED talk participant as I'll ever get.
Toddson - Jun 03, 2011 4:29:13 am PDT #11076 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
meara, I'd forgotten all about that book. Until now.
And the dolphins - there was a Carl Hiaasen book where, at the end, a bad guy is assaulted by a dolphin and, I believe, drowns in the process.
Jesse - Jun 03, 2011 5:00:36 am PDT #11077 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Aw -- Pink had a daughter, named her Willow. [link]
smonster - Jun 03, 2011 5:06:05 am PDT #11078 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I didn't know she was pregnant!
tommyrot - Jun 03, 2011 5:06:08 am PDT #11079 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
MI6 hackers replace al Qaeda bomb recipes with pirated cake recipes
Hackers working for UK intelligence agency MI6 modified an online al Qaeda magazine and replaced the bomb recipes therein with cake recipes. They called it "Operation Cupcake."
"When followers tried to download the 67-page colour magazine, instead of instructions about how to "Make a bomb in the Kitchen of your Mom" by "The AQ Chef" they were greeted with garbled computer code.
The code, which had been inserted into the original magazine by the British intelligence hackers, was actually a web page of recipes for "The Best Cupcakes in America" published by the Ellen DeGeneres chat show.
Written by Dulcy Israel and produced by Main Street Cupcakes in Hudson, Ohio, it said "the little cupcake is big again" adding: "Self-contained and satisfying, it summons memories of childhood even as it's updated for today's sweet-toothed hipsters."
§ ita § - Jun 03, 2011 5:06:35 am PDT #11080 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jack Kevorkian died. The article seems to imply it was natural.
tommyrot - Jun 03, 2011 5:12:40 am PDT #11081 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Do people still use Kevorkian's methods for suicide? Or was that something that he did personally?
Apparently the hip method of DIY home euthanasia these days is helium and a plastic bag....