Evangelical Christians are Scary

The anti-crhist will be a man of peace, not war, and he will be the one that leads Isreal to sign a peace treaty with Palestine.

It frightens me how you got here

Google search terms that lead people to this blog yesterday:

hillary clinton nude	6
hillary clinton on vacation	5
i can has cheezburger	4
i can has a cheezburger	4
cleavage breasts	3
i can has	2
HEAVY BOOBS	2
hillary clinton breasts	2
summer cleavage	2
big boobs	2

The ’summer cleavage’ one intrigued me as much as ‘cleavage breasts’ made me laugh. What were those two people looking for? A summer cleavage cooler? An article on how to get a summer cleavage? Perhaps they were looking for summercleavage.com.

HEAVY BOOBS in all caps is also rather amusing, and big boobs is just beautiful in its elegant simplicity.

But the fact that 6 people found my blog by way of googling ‘hillary clinton nude’ makes me a little uneasy about the world.

Bush to America: Protest my war, I’ll take your assets

At least that’s what many people think King George was trying to say on July 17th when he signed into law Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq.

The language in the order is vague enough that it’s difficult to understand who Bush is setting his sights on. The order itself states it is targeted at:

any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense,

(i) to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence that have the purpose or effect of:

(A) threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq; or

(B) undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people;

The terms person, entity, and United States person are further defined in the order, however it is hard to tell who Bush and friends think pose a significant risk of committing acts of violence. It occurs to many that protesting could easily be viewed as such by this administration.

More Hard-Hitting Journalism

The Washington Post took up space in it’s pages this week to tell us about the space between Ms. Clinton’s breasts. It’s twelve paragraphs of horrifying “reporting”. If you really want to read it, here’s the link.

If you want something similar, but funnier, and more disturbing. Check this out.

Bush’s Polyps

Sometimes google news matches pictures up with headlines that are both disturbing, and hilarious. Case in point:

That’s a big polyp.

Temp Agency Hires Robots

It had to happen eventually. The Japanese temp agency, People Staff have 10 robots they are ready to put to work as receptionists. The robot is the Wakamaru robot manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Originally, the Wakamaru was designed to be a household companion. Using an internet connection, it provides information useful to family members, and looks out for anything unusual. The robot can contact local emergency services or a private security firm when it encounters an unresponsive body, or other suspicious activity.

The Wakamaru does not wait to speak until spoken to. It takes an initiative in communcating, and uses familiar gestures while doing so.

The Wakamaru can also be accessed remotely, wich allows the user to look at the house through the eyes of the robot. That part kind of gives me the chills, but it is cute. Link

Spying on Republicans

Max Blumenthal of The Nation visits the College Republican National Convention to interview America’s next crop of republican leaders. The results are amusing.

Many of the young GOP cadres I met described the so-called “war on terror” as nothing less than the cause of their time.

Yet when I asked these College Repulicans why they were not participating in this historical cause, they immediately went into contortions. Asthma. Bad knees from playing catcher in high school. “Medical reasons.” “It’s not for me.” These were some of the excuses College Republicans offered for why they could not fight them “over there.” Like the current Republican leaders who skipped out on Vietnam, the GOP’s next generation would rather cheerlead from the sidelines for the war in Iraq while other, less privileged young men and women fight and die.

Watch the video:

What do conservatives say when they think nobody else is listening? Johann Hari of the Independent hopped on board a cruise ship full of National Review readers to find out. The results are sometimes funny, sometimes scary:

I lie on the beach with Hillary-Ann, a chatty, scatty 35-year-old Californian designer. As she explains the perils of Republican dating, my mind drifts, watching the gentle tide. When I hear her say, ” Of course, we need to execute some of these people,” I wake up. Who do we need to execute? She runs her fingers through the sand lazily. “A few of these prominent liberals who are trying to demoralise the country,” she says. “Just take a couple of these anti-war people off to the gas chamber for treason to show, if you try to bring down America at a time of war, that’s what you’ll get.” She squints at the sun and smiles. ” Then things’ll change.”

Read the full article here

Happy Yellow Pig Day!

Today, July the 17th, is Yellow Pig Day, a day for mathematicians to celebrate Yellow Pigs and the number 17.

The holiday was started by Princeton math students David C. Kelly and Mike Spivak in the late 60s while drinking at a local pub. The origins beyond that, and the relevance of yellow pigs or the number seventeen, are difficult to come by. Some say that the two were drinking so hard that instead of seeing pink elephants, they saw yellow pigs.

The number 17, according to Kelly, is the most random number, that is, there are more random numbers divisible by 17 than not. The Parthenon is 17 columns long; there are 17 steps from the landing to the door in Sherlock Holmes’ house at 221b (13 x 17b) Baker Street; the last mission to the Moon was on Apollo 17 in 1972 (17×116); the biblical flood started on the 17th, and Noah’s Ark landed on the Mount Ararat (alt. 17,000 feet) on the 17th. [more seventeens]

After Princeton David Kelly started the Hampshire College Summer Studies Program, a six week program for high school students interested in math. It was here at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts that Kelly turned yellow pigs and the number 17 into a holiday.

Each year the program has a three day Yellow Pig Math Days celebration where students attend lectures, make yellow pig t-shirts, sing songs about yellow pigs, and visit the home of Kelly, who boasts the largest collection of yellow pigs. Hampshire College alumni come back every year to take part in the festivities and hear Kelly read his annual list of random seventeens.

As for Mike Spivak, he has written several math texts, all of which include references to yellow pigs. His text, Calculus is “Dedicated to the Memory of Y.P.” and an index entry for “Pig, Yellow” refers the reader to a page with the sentence: In this case we will go whole hog. Other texts feature yellow pigs on the cover, and references to cowering cops.

• Photos from Yellow Pig Math Days 2006
• Jargon File reference to Yellow Pigs
• 1982 article in The Harvard Crimson about Yellow Pig Day
  

Shadow Sculpture

Artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster create self portraits by sculting garbage in a way that it projects their own silhouettes on a wall. Their work has been exhibited at the Royal Acadamy and the Saatchi Gallery. Seen here is Dirty White Trash (With Gulls), 1998.

See more of their work here.
Learn how to make your own shadow sculpture from junk.

Hard Hitting Journalism at its Best

With little or nothing else happening in the world, Time magazine’s best and brightest go to work uncovering the latest internet meme: pictures of cats with hilarious, grammatically incorrect captions. Is this really what journalism is coming to? Link to Time article Link to icanhascheezburger

In case you’re wondering, the article did make it into the print edition of Time as well: