Now this would be cool at Burningman this year.
It’s made by a company in Germany, price?  well you have to email them for the price as it’s custom made.  In otherwords, expensive, but wow what a cool bike this would be for Playa!

By Restless
The first 3 webisodes of the new series detailing life amongst the vanishing educated peoples of Baghdad are up and running.
My favorite is “Forbidden Salad,” the new notion that eating a mixed salad is punishable by death narrated and starring 23-year-old Adel (pictured below).
Check it out!

 
From Spiegel Online:
McDonald’s Targets the English McLanguage
The word has only been in the English language for two decades, but the hamburger chain McDonald’s would like to see the word “McJob” McEliminated from the dictionary — the fast food firm is not lovin’ the OED’s definition.
(more here)
So Mc.Donalds isn’t Mcpleased about the term McJob.
I love the […]

 
From USA Today:
Farm aid plumps up Iraq funding
Democrats insert $3.7B that’s unrelated to war
WASHINGTON — Three months after promising to curtail spending on pet legislative projects, House Democrats have salted the Iraq emergency spending bill with $3.7 billion for farm interests that make significant donations to Democrats.
Rep. Sanford Bishop, a Georgia Democrat who refers to […]

I love how he sits there and insists that the text of the book is one thing, when the actual written word is something else.
This is what these idiot Republicans have been doing for years…
“Don’t look at the man behind the curtain… here… lookie here! that’s right…. yes…. yessss…”
They’ve gotten so […]

By Restless
In a recent post (here), Robert Borosage lists the 2 major problems for a democratic republic when Conservatives rule the Executive Branch (at least in the past 40 years):

Conservative presidents–from Nixon to Reagan to Bush–believe in the imperial presidency. They assume that in the area of the national security, the president operates above the law, […]

 
From CNN.COM:
Letterman’s Larry “Bud” Melman actor dies
NEW YORK (AP) — The balding, bespectacled nebbish who gained cult status as the oddball Larry “Bud” Melman on David Letterman’s late-night television shows has died after a long illness.
Brooklyn-born Calvert DeForest, who was 85, died Monday at a hospital on Long Island, the Letterman show announced Wednesday.
He made […]

By Restless
The cosmic energy released in the Big Bang that started the Universe 13 billion years ago has been mapped by satellites and can now be used by mathematicians to test “string theory,” the proposition that everything in the universe, from subatomic particles to entire galaxies, is made of tiny strings of energy.
The mathematics of […]

By Restless
When you’re in a restaurant, ever wonder what’s going on in the kitchen? Here’s one possibility:
In a restaurant somewhere in New Orleans, black women were working in the kitchen being paid $10/hour.
They were all fired and replaced by undocumented workers who were paid $8 an hour.
Later, they were all fired and replaced by Brazilian […]

 
From MSNBC.COM:
Bush accuses Democrats of ‘partisan fishing’
President vows to block all efforts to subpoena staff in prosecutor probe
WASHINGTON - Calling the Democratic response to the firing of eight federal prosecutors a “partisan fishing expedition,” President Bush rejected lawmakers’ call Tuesday to subpoena White House staff for testimony related to the matter.
Bush’s public statement came hours […]

By Restless 
Look at these images for a few seconds. . .

From Didn’t You Hear?

Who needs one of those easy-to-use, wussy web counters on your website, when you can have a mechanical real life one!

 
Tensions are high in Europe,  first there was unwarrented malicious invasion of Leichenstein a few weeks ago by the Swiss Army,  and now this.   Could World War III be close at hand? 
From YahooNews:
Rowing team arrested for illegal entry
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian border guards arrested Belarus’s national rowing team Tuesday for illegally entering the country on a flotilla of […]

 
From YahooNews:
13-year-old wins rotten sneaker contest
MONTPELIER, Vt. - Thirteen-year-old Katharine Tuck’s sneakers are equal opportunity offenders. They smell as bad as they look. Now, the Utah seventh grader is $2,500 richer because of it: On Tuesday, she out-ranked six other children to win the 32nd annual National Odor-Eaters Rotten Sneaker Contest, stinking up the joint […]