The inconvenient truth is that we’re all going to die and nobody’s going to stop it. The inconvenient truth is that I am wasting carbon dioxide right now. The inconvenient truth is that facts and reality have nothing to do with policy and everything to do with pain.
Author: Aaron Weber
MySpace meets Regicide
Via Jalopnik, several Tongan Royals were killed in car crash near San Francisco on the 6th. Allegedly, the accident was caused by a young woman out street-racing. My guess is that she was blinded by the horrible background on her MySpace page.
Is that too mean? It’s not the ugliest MySpace page out there, I know. But she’s getting charged with vehicular regicide. You gotta make a joke of some kind.
Friday Evening Links
Oh, some of you may have stuff to do tonight, but I am blogging it up in style at home. Since the World Cup is ending this weekend, you may be in a soccerish mood. I suggest that you have a look at a classic Monty Python soccer sketch courtesy of Pito Salas, and a soccer-themed watermelon carving from this gallery of carved fruit, courtesy of Gethen.
Patent Headache Medicine
CNN blogs about the Friendster Patent. No wonder the Friendster investors just put more cash in.
MySpace StyleFeeder group
We now have a MySpace group for StyleFeeder. You know you want to join it.
Imitating Warren Buffett by Donating to WHAT?
So Warren Buffett is giving away money, huh? Well, humorist Adam Green is doing the same. From his “nearly a decade of gainful employment” he donates 85% of his personal fortune of just over six thousand dollars, including the value of his iTunes music library.
Then he details his meagre and likely useless donations, including at the end “You know how when some group or other looking for a handout sends you a sheet of those personalized return-address labels you sort of feel guilted into contributing, as if you owned them something? In any case, I sent $25 to Islamic Jihad.”
How did I not know about this?
NeoOffice is the OpenOffice port for MacOS X — no X11 required. Sweet.
Suggested Reading
The 4th of July has people thinking about the nature of the republic, so the 5th brings us some pretty good blogging. For example, an excellent long post from Billmon today about the red vs. blue thing and how it’s more related to the Spanish civil war than the US civil war.
Also, today is apparently the 60th anniversary of the bikini.
Free to a good home
Best Craigslist giveaway ever: Best 5BR 3BA house in Danvers, MA. Built 1843, needs wiring and plumbing work. You pay shipping.
No, the land underneath it is not included. You gotta move it away and there’s the matter of finding a lot to put it on. Still, a free house! It’s a lot more impressive than a silly ol’ free Atari.
That’s Not Stupid!
Be safe out there today: don’t put fireworks in your pants.
