Category: Random

The Surreal-A-Tron 8000

Israel says Arafat’s worth $1.3 billion.

Build Your Own LCD Video Projector

Cloned cows that have your eyes. And hair. And liver. Well, at least the DNA. Freaky. What next, our women?

Madonna’s left overs

Can Weblogs Reach Ronald Scelson?

This french guy’s a freakin’ bad ass! He’s going to try and break the sound barrier during freefall. Yeah, skydiving at supersonic speeds. If it doesn’t kill him it’s going to rule.

Well, this can’t be good. Seems that if this drought keeps going and the water level of Lake Anna dips below 244 feet they may have to shut down the North Anna nuclear power plant (the water level’s currently at 246 feet). Lord knows what effect this would have on Virginia, but are we looking at a Virginia power crisis? Toss on the strike and Dominion Power looks pretty screwed as of late.

Oh boy! Uncle Bert’s Fun Page is spiffy!

How To Build A Time Machine

Save Karen or Don’t Save Karen. You decide.

WTFWJD? May be offensive to most people.

Losers. From Will.

GASP! Jesus hawking beer was defaced! Perhaps someone failed to realize it wasn’t serious and was a social commentary?

Mix Master Jay in the hizouse! (dead link)

The computer science of having more than one roll of toilet paper.

It’s fun to pee!

Tales of the Plush Cthulhu

Neat game (dead link)

Paintball’s cool too.

HEROES Fantasy Football League is still looking for players! Wanna join? Go to http://fantasysports.yahoo.com and sign on in to join an already existing private league. Here’s the info you’ll need to know:

League ID#: 135239

Password: heroesmag

Punch that stuff in, get a team name, set your draft rankings and you’ll be set. Up to 20 teams can join up, there are 7 so far and I want at least 10 before we go, so feel free to invite anyone you know to join on up. Let’s kick some ass. And put Klone Mob in their place.

Next time you go for a jog watch your head.

Is the I-Pod the greatest thing since sliced bread? Here’s a comparison. Thanks, Jish.

I’m generally one who believes in the inherent goodness of mankind. Really. Maybe I’m just naive or misguided or, hell, maybe I’m right, but I usually believe people are, once you get down to it, pretty darn good.

And then humanity has to go and shatter my little pipe dream.

We got suicide bombers, we got men kidnapping, raping and killing five year old girls, we have grown men throwing kittens on a grill, we have people really really really pissing me off at the overall stupidity and cruelity to life and morals.

Why do people feel the need to be so evil? Why do people feel the need to do such horrible acts when it’s so easy to be good, to simply live life as a good thing and treat others with kindness and respect, the same way you’d want them to treat you.

And all of this starts to bum me out. People being bad. People I know, people I don’t know, all of it gets to me. It’s just one of those things I’ve dealt with my whole life, I feel like the weight of the world is on my shoulders and I feel like I can fix everything if only given the chance. It’s part of what makes me want to get into politics, it’s part of what makes me mediate every damn tiff my family might have, it’s part of what makes me get up in the morning when I really would just like to roll over and sleep in, it’s part of what makes me keep going when the world tries to tell me it’s not worth it, it’s useless, there’s nothing I can do, I’m only one tiny man with so many huge dreams.

Have you ever cried over the world’s suffering?

(I just posted this over at complex postcards and thought, hell, why not post it here as well. Generally I will not double post like this, but something makes me want to do it now.)

I am currently preparing a cooler (or, rather, watching Jenn prepare a cooler) of food to take to the Elvis Costello concert tonight at Wolf Trap. Yea, me!

I want to give a quick apology for the lack of content on J’s Notes as of late. I mean, I’m not getting all the kick ass links I used to and I’m not even commenting as much as I used to, it’s just “post a bit here and bail” really. Sorry about that.

Though, my hits are up thanks to the US Open and one Ms. Elin Nordegren. Now I’m regretting removing her perma-links from the page. To all of you here looking for her, go digging through the archives of the last few months, I made a big post a while back with lots of good links. I’d dig it up, but I have to go help with this cooler now.

Later.

The warbloggers are coming, the warbloggers are coming!!! As Glenn Reynolds pointed out:

ATTENTION D.C. BLOGGERS AND BLOG-READERS: I’ll be up in DC on June 28, doing a panel on weblogs at the National Press Club with Mickey Kaus, James Lileks, James Taranto, and some other folks. It’s sponsored by The Idler; here’s a link to their press release. Should be fun.

I might have to go check that out.

The idea of 52 projects isn’t necessarily for you to do exactly these projects. Following something to the letter is never that much fun. The real idea is for you to do projects. Hopefully these projects will give you a starting off point, or maybe some inspiration, perhaps a reminder of the thing that you’ve been wanting to do.

(Thanks to Missy for all of the above links. I’m too lazy to find my own stuff today.)