Recent Links » September 2006

• Radar interviews John Hodgman → Daily Show correspondent, personification of the PC, author and editor. This guy is my hero of the day. #
• Coolest Toy Ever → RC airplane + wireless pan/tilt camera + VR goggles = TOYGASM. Holy shit. #
• Can the Bicycle Save Civilization? → Heh, when propaganda runs parallel to my own idealism, I tend to gobble it up. Read this though, it makes some very nice points. #
• Obey Giant steals from FUCT → Uh oh, looks like Shepard Fairey is a ripoff cocksuck. #
• The Daily Show 10 F-ing years: Even Stephen → Yeah, sorry, another Youtube link, but this is awesome. These guys are magic. I almost peed. #
• Brainwashed kids at a ‘Jesus Camp’ → Awhile ago I linked to an article about the upcoming documentary Jesus Camp, and now here’s some video to go with it: brainwashed kids worshipping at the feet of a cardboard George W Bush cutout. This is fucking depressing. #
• Slug Sex → This isn’t pornographic, and it isn’t gratuitous. It’s simply insane. My mind is SHATTERED. #
• An Exit Strategy for the War on Drugs → The state of Washington takes a baby step in the right direction. “Despite the stunning $4.7 billion we’ve spent since 2000 on planes fumigating Colombia’s coca crop, farmers there are producing just as much cocaine as before our aerial assault.” #
• Alcohol use helps boost income: study → Awesome. Studies show I need a beer. Right now. #
• Refreshingly Honest Crate and Barrel Catalog Descriptions → Yay McSweeney’s! “This bowl is going to love you like your parents couldn’t, like your wife no longer does, and like those ungrateful hooligans who sprang from your loins never will. This bowl doesn’t want anything from you except $90, and in return it will sit on your table and it will tell people that you are not a failure who spends weekends watching E! True Hollywood Story and drinking wine from a Gatorade bottle. It will say that you have a worldly appeal and an international pedigree! It will scream that you are sophisticated and wise! It will lie for you, and it will never stop, and probably that will go a long way toward making you whole again. Isn’t that worth 90 measly dollars, you cheap bastard?” #
• Why Iran Has the Upper Hand in the Nuclear Showdown → When lowest-common-denominator Time writes “Iran’s defiance may be based on a sound diplomatic calculation,” and “Washington is struggling to prevail on the issue,” that’s a pretty big indicator of a new direction for national consensus. Next thing you know, USA Today is going to run a headline of “The U.S. is Wrong!” accompanied by a pie chart of questionable purpose whose background is a frowny face. #
• Being an Atheist in America Isn’t Easy → A 1999 Gallup poll revealed that more Americans would vote for a homosexual presidential candidate than an atheist one. #

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