• Uncategorical Weirdness

    Pocket Bikes Must Die!

    August 3, 2006 - By 

    Helmets off to Joey the Accordion Guy, who offered this impressive graphic illustrating the latest stupid craze:     Pocket bikes. Tiny little miniature road racers, styled like Sabre or Samurai-styleroad rocketsthat are ridden by teens, and most disturbingly, fully grown adults, in the mistaken belief that riding a high stylin’motorizedchihuahua will make them look cool and get them hot chicks.   Or, not so much.   But it might get you a ticket, because they’re illegal for street riding in many places, including my little characterless burbclave. Luckily for us, one of the neighborhood kids got one, so now…

  • Parish: Holy Moly (ECUSA)

    On This Day: +Gene Confirmed Bishop

    August 3, 2006 - By 

    BBC ON THIS DAY | 3 | 2003: Anglican church approves gay bishop Yes, three years ago today +Gene Robinson was approved and confirmed by General Convention 2003 of The Episcopal Church, which was then acronymized as “ECUSA.” There’s been a lot of turbulent water under the bridge since then… a LOT. But at the time, I thought it was a good step forward, and I still do. Gay clergy and lay leadership helped me in my personal formation as a better Christian (aw! that’s such an Episcopal usage, “formation”). I never found Biblical literalism helpful in any way: it’s…

  • Mini-Posts

    links for 2006-08-02

    August 1, 2006 - By 

    The Moderate Voice – – (tags: Moderate Blogs) The Raw Story | MoveOn’s clout divides Democrats (tags: Democrats MoveOn) The Raw Story | Experts: Not a single Army Combat team left ready to deploy Army unready to deploy: let’s not commit ourselves to more wars (tags: Army) GOP purging voter rolls | IndyStar.com (tags: VoteSuppression Republican) Gibson Apologizes for Anti-Semitic Remarks | Chicago Tribune In Vino Veritas, Mel (tags: Gibson Anti-semitism DUI) Fashion week: Your nagging questions answered. By Josh Patner (tags: ProjectRunway Model)

  • Blogs Wot I Read

    This Will Freak Steve Out

    August 1, 2006 - By 

    Boing Boing: How thieves steal RFID-enabled cars Apparently, it’s absurdly easy to steal a car by hacking or social engineering if it has a RFID key. And some Honda hybrids apparently can be started with a sekrit combination of pulls on the emergency brake and a faked or disabled key in the ignition.

  • Mini-Posts

    links for 2006-08-01

    July 31, 2006 - By 

    Breaking: Lieberman tries the smear | TPMCafe (tags: DINO Lieberman Lamont Politics) Playing politics on public television Mayor William Shaw and brother Robert use Dolton’s cable station to harass rivals without rebuttal | Chicago Tribune Badly written, worse edited, but still interesting reading about how a cable access show is used to play dirty politics in South Chicago (tags: Chicago Politics CorruptDemocrats) TIME.com: A Mixture of Regret and Resolve in Israel — Page 1 (tags: Israel MiddleEast) CNN.com – Blair, Arnie ‘global warming pact’ – Jul 31, 2006 End run around Bush (tags: GlobalWarming ClimateChange SwelterAge) AP Wire | 07/31/2006…