Cool Stuff: Spider Car
April 30th, 2007Maybe it’s not as practical as wheels, but a heck of a lot more fun to drive. This was at Burning Man last year.
Maybe it’s not as practical as wheels, but a heck of a lot more fun to drive. This was at Burning Man last year.
It’s pretty amazing, you watch this video, and you can only shake your head in disgust as to what has happened to John McCain.
The arguements he makes in 1993 for pulling out of Somalia are the EXACT OPPOSITE of the arguements he is making in 2007 for staying in Iraq.
I really think that one […]
By Restless
This just in …
As the winds and water of Hurricane Katrina were receding, presidential confidante Karen Hughes sent a cable from her State Department office to U.S. ambassadors worldwide.
Titled “Echo-Chamber Message” — a public relations term for talking points designed to be repeated again and again — the Sept. 7, 2005, directive was unmistakable: […]
Just a few of Bush’s Top Lies, There isn’t enough disk space on this server to post links to every lie he and his administration have told in the past 6 years:
Lying about linking Iraq and 9/11
Lying about what he did on 9/11
Lying about giving up on Osama Bin Laden
Lying about firing Rumsfeld
Lying about […]
By Restless
With good reason, Danny Schechter writes in A Media Scandal a Day Keeps the Ratings in Play, here, that there is wayyyyyyyy too much coverage on which prositute which official met last night and no coverage on what really counts — wide-spread corruption and incompetence in our institutions that can and will affect millions […]
From YahooNews:
Brother, can you spare a bride?
PATNA, India (Reuters) - Villagers at a wedding in eastern India decided the groom had arrived too drunk to get married, and so the bride married the groom’s more sober brother instead, police said Monday.
The groom was drunk and had reportedly misbehaved with guests when the bride’s family and […]
From MSNBC.COM:
Mind-reading toys could revolutionize play
Technology could make games more mentally stimulating and realistic
SAN JOSE - A convincing twin of Darth Vader stalks the beige cubicles of a Silicon Valley office, complete with ominous black mask, cape and light saber.
But this is no chintzy Halloween costume. It’s a prototype, years in the making, of a […]
By Restless
When President Ronald Reagan passed there was a State funeral and a ceremony that lasted for days. And days. It was endless. The talk on talk-TV was that of a savior’s passing. Where would we be if Ronnie had not been our Leader? There was talk about a new dime with his image on […]
By Restless
Female member of Mursi tribe in Southern Ethiopia
Link (Via boing boing)
Nerds
From The Wall Street Journal Online:
Bush Approval Rating Falls to 28%,Lowest Level So Far, in Harris Poll
President Bush’s approval rating slipped to new lows in the most recent Harris Interactive survey, but he’s not alone: For the first time since the series began, all of the political figures and institutions included in the survey have negative […]
By Restless
Rolling Stone just came out with its 40th Anniversary Issue. I remember buying issue number 2 from a street vendor on Polk Street back in the day. That’s how it was first sold, just like other indie newspapers (the Berkeley Barb, Bay Guardian, Haight Ashbury Oracle).
It was a San Francisco mag, run first out […]
By Restless
Be the first in your neighborhood to get a free copy of the documentary challenging Jesus’ existence and other precepts of Christianity.
The Rational Response Squad is giving away 1001 DVDs of The God Who Wasn’t There, the hit documentary that the Los Angeles Times calls “provocative — to put it mildly.”
There’s only one catch: […]
From YahooNews:
India May Arrest Richard Gere Over Kiss
A court issued arrest warrants for Hollywood actor Richard Gere and Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty on Thursday, saying their kiss at a public function “transgressed all limits of vulgarity,” media reports said.
Judge Dinesh Gupta issued the warrants in the northwestern city of Jaipur after a local citizen filed […]