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Friday, March 30, 2007

Get the kids! Otters holding hands, be sure to watch to the end.

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22:48 bone daddy

There were hearings yesterday with the House subcommittee on horticulture and organic agriculture on the big honeybee problem and colony-collapse disorder.

Dwindling Honeybee Population in US Puzzles Scientists

Where have all the bees gone?

Washington hears beekeepers' woes

According to one of the above links, bees pollinate more than 90 percent of food, fiber and seed crops.

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18:43 HD

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Top Fifteen Unintentionally Funny Comic Panels. "They laugh at my boner, will they?"

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23:26 bone daddy

Monday, March 26, 2007

This past weekend's TV Funhouse on Saturday Night Live was a funny parody of Dora the Explorer.

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13:15 HD

Big Game Coming UConn Women face LSU tonight in an Elite Eight matchup. If you haven't been watching the Huskies, at this point it's only a matter of where in the pantheon of UConn greats Tina Charles ends up. The N.C. State game was marred mainly by the announcers, who turned Kay Yow's inspirational story into something to something to link to each bounce of the ball. At one point they even compared UConn to the cancer Yow is fighting. Basketball announcers must be spread pretty thin now. During last night's Georgia-Purdue game, I heard one talk about the "exiler" of life, which probably won't help you as much as an elixer elixir will. Anyway, tonight's game should be good. Can't make any promises about the announcers though. (Update: Bleech. And it wasn't even a good game. And the announcers were terrible. The next time I hear "big, soft paws" no matter when I hear it will be too soon.)

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10:31 bone daddy

Sunday, March 25, 2007

Is 24 liberal or conservative?

The politics of the man behind 24.

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22:05 HD

Thursday, March 22, 2007

I must confess I have so far taken a pass on the U.S. attorney scandal. I know many details about the outing of Valerie Plame and I'm exceptionally well-informed about the spinning of pre-war intelligence. I know more than a little about the incompetence of Bush's response to Katrina, but I can only do so much. I'm begining to think this administration is deliberately doing nasty and/or illegal things just to fuck with me.

I'll start to pay more attention if this scandal veers from recent scandal history - possibility of something vile/illegal suggested in media. Media attacked as evil Bush-haters. The vile/illegal thing is proved to have happened but probably not a big deal, right? Okay it's a slightly vile or maybe illegal thing, but Clinton did it too. Well, an underling is responsible for this thing and he's a great person doing a great job in Iraq/New Orleans/the White House. Hey, now that the underling has been disposed of there's really no need to investigate any further, right? Who would ever suggest that the guy who called himself "the Decider" every decided anything? Wow, look! Another scandal!

I'm also not particularly surprised that a guy who rolled his eyes at treaties barring torture would even blink at politically motivated firings. Rove and Bush probably could have gotten Gonzales to approve beatings, water-boarding and then dismissals.

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23:06 bone daddy

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

"Just Like a Scot to Bring a Caber to Cricket Match"
Yeah, this is a cricket post. For real. For real real. I know it's NCAA tourney time, but my brackets are blown, the men aren't playing, the women are still on cruise control, and baseball is still a few weeks away. The Cricket World Cup is being played in the West Indies and there's legit Cricket Fever going on up in here.

Cricket is huge in India. Tear-the-wicket-keeper's-house-down-if-they-lose huge. I mostly hang out with the Indian guys at work so I'm caught up in the fever. Ikram's Bangladeshi, actually, but that's part of the drama. Bangladesh pulled a stunning upset of India the other day and stands a chance of making the Super 8. If Bangladesh beats Sri Lanka today, they will be in great shape (and I will get a free lunch). So I'm getting pulled into the world of cricket here at work.

Scotland is in for the second time in the history of World Cup play. First time since 1999 when they got it handed to them. That seems to be happening again, but not much was expected of them. I'm pulling for my people to at least manage a draw in this Cup. The Irish managed to upset Pakistan -- a defeat that seems to have lead directly to the death of the Pakistani coach (heart condition or something more sinister?) -- so maybe Scotland can manage a shocker as well. Or not.

The game is actually fun to watch and there are some good stories, Dwayne Leverock, for example. Finding a stream to watch is difficult but not impossible and tv coverage here is spotty to say the least. When you can track down CNN's World Sport show, you can get highlights, but otherwise it's pretty much a web only thing. The terminology is so different from what I'm used to, it took me a while to catch on, but I'm learning the game and the scoring well enough that I can tell what's going on. The Bangladeshis won the toss and have taken the field ... it's on.

Update: It looks like Woolmer's death may have been something more sinister after all.

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08:57 c-dog

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Ken Burns does The Office. (Update: fixed link.)

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23:09 bone daddy

The (Oval) Office.

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22:53 bone daddy

The yeti has been found to be more ungulate than primate. It's more a bison than a man.

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18:41 HD

Commodore is back with new high-end gaming computers. They come preloaded with a Commodore 64 emulator and classic titles.

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18:38 HD

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Eyetracking study reveals that men are checking out the crotches of George Brett, and animals.

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21:11 HD

Yo La Tengo will take requests and sing cover songs live for $100 pledges to New York's WFMU radio station on Friday night.

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20:55 HD

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

UConn men have no postseason for the first time since 1987, not even NIT. It was a young team this year with no juniors or seniors. They'll grow up and get better.

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18:50 HD

Conservative Ben Stein gets a bout of rationality when asked to write about what's new and exciting in American finance. The magazine publisher asked that Stein not "complain about the rich."

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18:10 HD

A brief article on the rise of Philip K. Dick's reputation since his death. I got into written science fiction by way of Blade Runner and its source Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? so the guy has always been a giant to me.

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08:44 bone daddy

As punishment for losing to Rutgers in the Big East championship, the UConn women keep a number one seed, but get shipped off to Fresno where Stanford, NC State and LSU (with its dark cloud of scandal) will likely wait. Not too bad. Tennessee got a tough bracket as well. They also lost in their conference championship. Still, this is not a bad year to pencil in all the number ones (including Duke and UNC) at the Final Four. I like UConn's chances anyway. As the men's season tanked, I stopped paying attention to that side so my men's bracket will be especially miserable this year.

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08:36 bone daddy

But "Fair and Balanced" is our Motto! Funny, sad, un-doctored screen shots of Fox "News." (via This Modern World.)

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08:27 bone daddy

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Bone Daddy once asked Are conservative prudes really complaining about Prince's shadow boner?

Yup, they are. Complainer thinks that son might now be gay and have HIV for merely watching Prince's Superbowl halftime show. Many more complaints at The Smoking Gun.

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21:37 HD

60 Days and Counting
A disappointingly slight, but accurate as far as it goes, Salon review of the new KSR.

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19:47 c-dog

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Daniel Radcliffe will star in the final two Harry Potter movies. That's easily a good choice. Better to go forward with the guy who, even though he now looks too old for the part, has done a decent job of it than to introduce someone completely different to end it. Radcliffe is only two or three years older than Harry, which is nothing in crazy Hollywood casting, but he looks much older. (Check out how young the main three look in the article's photo!) In the past couple of books, Rowling has dropped lines about how tall Harry is getting. If Kareem-abdul-Weasley isn't a problem, a studded out Harry really isn't either.

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16:19 bone daddy

Making the rounds I'm a bit late, but in case no one's spotted this yet, I give you Conservapedia, for those those who find Wikipedia too liberal. Or liberal at all. Or too fact-based. Not soothing enough. Whatever. Do conservatives really need something to make them more insulated? I found the site a bit slow, not really funny, and user-unfriendly, but I guess that's fitting.

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14:26 bone daddy

Big Game Coming Having finished the regular Big East season undefeated, the UConn Women are all set to face Rutgers in tonight's Big East championship game, ESPN2 at 7. Catch it if you can. With Tennessee and Duke's recent stumbles, it would be nice for UConn to cruise into a number 1 seed with their third victory over Rutgers.

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14:16 bone daddy