Screw Alex P Jones’s conspiracy theories that he constantly strives to prove. Here is proof that the not-so-mythical ATM that dispenses change is real. —(Yes, I want you to download an 8MB video file with a Japanese codec.)—
I’ve been following the life of this guy through his letters to The Morning News, which start with his move to New York and end just before he takes a major step in his young life. It will take some time to get through, but start at the beginning and come back to the letters every so often, as long as the site’s up. Excellent Friday diversions, to be sure.
Baking, roasting, frying and toasting starchy foods forms acrylamide, a chemical known to the state of California to cause cancer.
Acrylamide, a synthetic polymer used for grout and in treating sewage, was placed on California’s Proposition 65 carcinogen list in 1990. Twelve years later, Swedish scientists discovered acrylamide was created when starchy foods were cooked at high temperatures.
The discovery led Rafael Metzger, a Long Beach lawyer, to sue McDonald’s and Burger King for not disclosing the presence of a carcinogen in their french fries. A stay has been in place pending the state’s action, but the judge in the case has urged the state to move faster in reaching a decision.
This month has been the Giro d’Italia, which I’m quickly coming to love more than le Tour. Maybe it’s just because I’ve only been following the TDF since it became the Lance Armstrong show (Allez, Lance!), but this year’s Giro – the first one I’ve really followed, is fascinating.
I post, however, to recommend two video clips that even non-cycling fans should love. One of the (I assume) Italian TV networks (RAI) is posting pretty much all of their Giro programming, with the exception of the live stage coverage, on the web. You have got to check out:
The Giro d’Italia Theme Song “El grande Giro, el grande Giro” – you’ll be humming all day. Why can’t we have cool stuff like that for the World Series?
L’Italia in Rosa Sounds like the Giro’s had theme songs for a while, even music videos and bad covers of the Monkees. (For cycling fans, it features a ton of Jaques Anteiul and Eddy Merckx footage)
Caio, bellas.
Like some crazy person’s idea if you have the right equipment you can catch the DVS version of The Simpsons which sounds a lot like an old radio show. Surely someone out there podcasts this? It is almost better than watching the show and lasts about as long as my commute.
(Like there’s not about a million blog entries with the same title today)
Went to see Revenge of the Sith tonite. Before I get to spoilers, let me lay claim to two quotes:
“Luke, I knew your father. George Lucas was once a great filmmaker, until he was destroyed by the Dark Side” and
“Much like the first trilogy, the second movie was the best one of the three.”
Read more!I was the first person in line yesterday who hadn’t spent the night there. The GM for the theater near our house had gone all out: digital projector, costumed actors to fight after dusk with light sabers, bringing in Force FX (the makers of the life size light saber replicas), two radio stations to host shows (one that held a costume contest giving away a life size Yoda, the other grilled dogs and burgers and brought in a local band), dragging out every News team in town (I made the background of the anchor spot!) and creating enough hype to fill three theaters at midnight and 3am.
Some of the guys who did spend the night had crafted wooden light sabers and spent much of the afternoon coreographing duel scenes. I decided to take the high road and simply declare that I had lost my innocence for doing that kind of thing.
Is “Gorgeous” George Galloway. I don’t care if he turns out to be guilty of participating in the oil-for-food debacle, I just praise the man for going before the Senate and saying these things that need to be said, again and again, ad infinitum, until it sinks in.
Billy Joel would surely be more inclined to suffer his trevails (as channeled by Michael Ian Black) than the man dubbed “The Piano Man” in this story that freaks me out more than a little.
The Guardian throws a volley at the VRWC with this article saying that Bush & Co. was in on illegal oil trading with Iraq.
A report released last night by Democratic staff on a Senate investigations committee presents documentary evidence that the Bush administration was made aware of illegal oil sales and kickbacks paid to the Saddam Hussein regime but did nothing to stop them.
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In fact, the Senate report found that US oil purchases accounted for 52% of the kickbacks paid to the regime in return for sales of cheap oil – more than the rest of the world put together.
“The United States was not only aware of Iraqi oil sales which violated UN sanctions and provided the bulk of the illicit money Saddam Hussein obtained from circumventing UN sanctions,” the report said. “On occasion, the United States actually facilitated the illicit oil sales.
Please note that the “Constitutional Option”, previously known as the Nuclear Option, has now been renamed The Byrd Option .
As far as framing goes, the GOP has been uncharacteristically clumsy with this one.
Republicans, this is what happens when you don’t consult with Rove before using words.