• Music

    The Amazing DubFX

    August 16, 2009 - By 

    Ben Dowden lays down the beats in the streets of Bristol. Watch and be amazed. (testing how WP handles embed code straight from YouTube) Via dowdenboy’s YouTube channel and Google Reader, which is really opening up the social possibilities this week. Thanks, Zamil!

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Curried Turkey Sandwich

    August 16, 2009 - By 

    Just assembled from leftovers, with curry mayo, hot pepper mango preserves, green onions, parlsey, and a dab of cream cheese. YUM. Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Curried Turkey Sandwich By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 16 Aug ’09, 2.05pm CDT PST

  • Mini-Posts

    The Eternal Quest for Happiness

    August 16, 2009 - By 

    It comes when you stop looking for it. How to be happy in yourself | Emma Cook | Life and style | The Guardian The restless quest to alter aspects of our lives is intimately linked to self-esteem. “In evolutionary terms, we don’t have to worry about lions and tigers any more; instead we’re constantly vigilant about the modern-day predator, the person who will spot that we’re no good,” Williams says. “That generates a lot of preoccupation, and low self-esteem goes hand-in-hand.” This whole article is worth a serious read. I’m glad I ran across it.

  • The Life of Riley

    Re-Purpose The Baffling New Into The Tried-And-True Old

    August 16, 2009 - By 

    Oooowee, my first time uploading video to YouTube evar.  Of course it’s of the cat, duh. This is what Riley’s cat toy originally looked like, but he never played with it this way, he just watched it, occasionally batted at the bottom, and was baffled by the noise and clattering if he tried to grab the string. As he’s declawed, perhaps he just didn’t feel like he was getting anywhere since he could never grab the string at all. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/bMmxm-R_thw" width="425" height="344" wmode="transparent" /] Fling-ama-String cat toy mechanizes feline torture – Boing Boing Gadgets Fling-A-Ma-String Cat Toy The “Fling-ama-String”…

  • Politics, Schmolitics

    Bean On Iran

    August 15, 2009 - By 

    I keep finding interesting little factnuggets at Progressive Punch. After the Dems won control of Congress, my Congresscritter Rep. Melissa Bean (D-IL8, a former Repub district) still sided with the Bush administration on contingency plans for a possible military operation in Iran in in 2007. ProgressivePunch : War & Peace—Relations with Iran / Bean, Melissa WHAT: All issues : War & Peace : Relations with Iran WHO: All members : IL, District 8 : Bean, Melissa Click below to see the vote description. WAR & PEACE—Relations with Iran Roll Call 364. Fiscal 2008 Defense authorization (H.R. 1585); Rep. Robert Andrews…

  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    The GOPs Misplaced Rage – The Daily Beast

    August 15, 2009 - By 

    Bruce Bartlett’s thoughtful piece has been making the rounds. The GOPs Misplaced Rage – The Daily Beast David Horsey: We Want Our Country Back In my opinion, conservative activists, who seem to believe that the louder they shout the more correct their beliefs must be, are less angry about Obama’s policies than they are about having lost the White House in 2008. They are primarily Republican Party hacks trying to overturn the election results, not representatives of a true grassroots revolt against liberal policies. If that were the case they would have been out demonstrating against the Medicare drug benefit,…