Ver nice, how much?

BBC News - Kazakh gold medallist is played Borat anthem in Kuwait:

Sigh.

capturing da pulse of da city (cont'd)

Today's most viewed stories:

Washington Post: Obama Aims to Shield Science From Politics
Chicago Tribune: Found: The source of ... belly-button lint

Nuff Sed

I'm disappointed that none of Smiff's zingers made it

Most Outrageous Comments of 2008

Offered Without Comment

Apparently I'm leading the voting for Douche of the Week...

Sarge's platoon?

Philippine troops battle rampaging MILFs

Quandary

Did the terrists win, or did democracy win? Did America lose an ally in the war against terrorism, or gain an Islamic democratic state?

Musharraf resigns as Pakistan president

beach bikini rumble

But no whipped cream?

Georgian-Russian hostilities spill over to beach volleyball
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LoC Top 40 - An Occasional Survey (cont'd)

1. stooooooopid (139)
2. FULLA$#i+ (115)
3. Bushian (99)
4. totally phokked (93)
5. that's so America (88)
6. we are living in a golden age (cont'd) (87)
7. SHOCKING (79)
8. bad ideas (77)
8. expect delays (77)
10. s#i+ blowing up (68)
11. whitey keeping darky down (cont) (65)
12. he SUCKS (60)
13. brain-dead managers (58)
14. weather (whining about) (56)
15. Idiocracy (54)
16. brain-dead GMs (53)
16. move along - nothing to see here (53)
18. moron (50)
19. adventures in plutocracy (48)
20. Cub (that is so) (47)
20. Dumbya (47)
20. rezzziDUNCE (47)
23. brain-dead Americans (46)
23. offered without comment (46)
23. they SUCK (46)
26. s#i+ for brainz (43)
27. America-hating "Americans" hating America (42)
27. how does k-mad do it (cont'd)? (42)
29. Da City Dat Works (40)
29. fightin' phils (40)
31. Dick "Dick" (Dick) Dick Cheney (39)
32. End Times (will they hurry up already?) (38)
32. improbable things (38)
32. zzzzzzzzzz........... (38)
35. America: bacon to the world... mmmm bacon... (36)
35. McCain: unhinged (36)
37. Ozzie Guillen (35)
37. World's Awfulest "Newspaper" (tie) (35)
39. ASSHOLE (34)
39. HOLY PHOKKING S#I+ WE'RE SO PHOKKED (34)
39. Internets (34)
39. the end times? (34)

at the break...

What is the most shocking: Smiff in 1st (again), Decker in 2nd, K-Mad in 4th or Corms in dead freakin' last?

Wellness Center All-Stars

Rank Team Points Pts Change Waiver Moves
1. Lord Viper Elefantes 202 2.5 12 31
2. Blue Ward Cyclones 196 0.5 4 7
3. Golemi Topki 187.5 -2 7 16
4. Troglodyte Homunculi 175.5 0 9 37
5. shot_at_bill 171.5 2.5 10 38
6. Spackler Bents 169 0 3 16
7. Columbus Bureaucrats 161 0.5 6 8
8. La Jolla Chemists 145.5 -1 5 25
9. Coach #31 137 -0.5 11 22
10. clan of terrorists 117 -4 2 23
11. Mr. Baby's Fortune 111.5 0.5 1 16
12. Maddogs 98.5 1 8 28

human rain delays in the news, or, golf gets a soundtrack

One Thousand Hear Change of Note in World’s Longest Concert

The next musical change in John Cage’s slow masterpiece will happen in November

More than 1,000 music-lovers showed up on Saturday, July 5, in a German town to hear a change of note in the longest-running and slowest piece of music ever composed.

Eccentric US composer John Cage (1912-1992) planned his composition to last 639 years, meaning more than a dozen generations of musicians will be needed to play it on an automatic, as-yet unfinished organ at Halberstadt, Germany.

Entitled ORGAN2/ASLSP, it began in 2001 and has so far reached its sixth note. The second part of the name means "as slow as possible."

who said it? (no Googling)

"Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip."

McCain garners key Ponch endorsement

"He's a good man...he's a man's man."

Karl Rove on Barack Obama

"Even if you never met him, you know this guy...he's the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by."

offered without comment

Furious Ozzie Guillen's Lineup Card Full Of Expletives

finally, some good news (for K-Mad)

Hands-On Japan's Sega Robot Chicken

finally, some good news (for Smiff, Fung)

Japan makes robot girlfriend for lonely men
Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:43pm BST
TOKYO (Reuters) - She is big-busted, petite, very friendly, and she runs on batteries.

A Japanese firm has produced a 38 cm (15 inch) tall robotic girlfriend that kisses on command, to go on sale in September for around $175, with a target market of lonely adult men.

Using her infrared sensors and battery power, the diminutive damsel named "EMA" puckers up for nearby human heads, entering what designers call its "love mode".

"Strong, tough and battle-ready are some of the words often associated with robots, but we wanted to break that stereotype and provide a robot that's sweet and interactive," said Minako Sakanoue, a spokeswoman for the maker, Sega Toys.

"She's very lovable and though she's not a human, she can act like a real girlfriend."

EMA, which stands for Eternal Maiden Actualization, can also hand out business cards, sing and dance, with Sega hoping to sell 10,000 in the first year.

Japan, home to almost half the world's 800,000 industrial robots, envisions a $10-billion market for artificial intelligence in a decade.

Chinese: The New Black

Chinese South Africans now black

Jon Stewart: "The Mets suck."