• John McCain onion video
• Drinking - "My parents taught me everything I know."
• unusual recycling projects
• this is not just a cigar
• journalistic words that are never used in real life
• daily coyote video of charlie and eli
• tale of a school gone mad, and the overgroomed eyebrows that provoked them
• the story of Officer Obie, of Alice's Restaurant fame
• Coolest laptop-theft thwarting story ever

• disney hates mothers
• the duggars are at it again
• best and worst moms ever

• Meet Battlehard Bear
•  The Soapless Experiment
• Read about the top 10 sputniks
• How come nobody worries about the sun going out?
• Halloween strategies for the Crispy Christians * (and I'm sure these tips will keep them from getting egged.)
•  What do you know about WWII?  (With quiz goodness!)
• Global Volcanism Project
•  PA could start allowing self-uniting marriage licenses.
• Commander Riker pulls an OJ....
• Death's Head Terror!!
• Video -- A cat eating a melon.
• comic feeds I've recently subscribed to -- Basic Instructions,  Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

* as I'm sure I've explained previously, the Crispy Christians are the ones that make Pat "Homosexuality Causes Hurricanes" Robertson look mainstream.



Also, here are two giraffes beating the shit out of each other.  Enjoy.  

Observe.  And also, here.  I will most certainly be carrying one... let the nerd flag fly!

I would like to point out today's dinosaur comic.  That is all.

I was reading the Wikipedia page for 1997, just for shits and giggles, and it was actually really depressing.  I don't just remember this stuff like it was yesterday, it actually feels like it happened yesterday.  Examples / highlights:

• January 20 - Bill Clinton starts his second term as President of the United States. 
•  January 21 - Newt Gingrich becomes the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives to be internally disciplined for ethical misconduct
• February 4 - O.J. Simpson is found liable in civil court for the death of Ron Goldman and for the battery of Nicole Brown Simpson. Simpson is ordered to pay $35,000,000 in damages to the families of the 2 victims.
• February 9 - The Simpsons surpasses The Flintstones as the longest-running prime-time animated series.
• February 22 - In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned, and was born in July 1996.
• March 9 - Rap artist Notorious B.I.G. is murdered in Los Angeles, 6 months after the killing of Tupac Shakur.
• March 22 - The comet Hale-Bopp makes its closest approach to Earth.
• March 26 - In San Diego, California, 39 Heaven's Gate cultists commit mass suicide at their compound.
• May 2 - Tony Blair is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• May 11 - IBM's Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, the first time a computer beat a chess World champion in a match.
• June 13 - A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to the death penalty for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
• Radiohead's landmark third album OK Computer is released.
• June 30 - The first book in the award winning Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling is published.
• July 1 - The United Kingdom hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
• July 8 - Mayo Clinic researchers warn that the dieting drug "fen-phen" can cause severe heart and lung damage.
• July 15 - Serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan shoots fashion designer Gianni Versace to death outside Versace's Miami, Florida residence.
• July 17 - The F.W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business.
• August 13 - South Park premieres on Comedy Central.
• August 31 - Diana, Princess of Wales is taken to a hospital after a car crash shortly after midnight in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris. She is pronounced dead at 4:00 a.m. that morning.
• September 5 - Mother Theresa of Calcutta dies of heart failure in Kolkata, India.
• October 2 - UK scientists Moira Bruce and John Collinge, with their colleagues, independently show that the new variant form of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is the same disease as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or "mad-cow disease".
• November 19 - In Carlisle, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all 7 babies were born alive.
• December 16 - An episode of Pokémon (called Electric Soldier Porygon) in Japan causes 6085 children to have epileptic seizures. The majority of these seizures are later determined to be the result of collective hysteria.
• December 17 - The term "weblog" is coined by Jorn Barger.
• December 29 - Hong Kong begins to kill all the chickens within its territory (1.25 million) to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.

(if the formatting of the whole thing is screwy, because of the copy/paste, i apologize.  but it looks good so far...)

I'm still home alone.  I'm getting ready for midnight... and I wanted to say "happy festivities" to everyone, wherever you are and whatever you're doing.  I'll be raising a solidarity toast when the ball drops, if my old ass makes it that late.  

Here's to 2007...

• if this doesn't get you into the holiday spirit, I don't know what will.
• just don't go overboard...
• the most important unanswered, and quite possibly, unanswerable questions of 2006.
• i for one welcome our new robot overlords
• this week in "i hope to god something this undignified never happens to me"
• but wait!  more adventures in strange childbirth news...
• is it drafty in here?   *shiver*
• and to take away the nasty taste and nausea of that last link...

heh heh, have a wonderful whatever-you-people-do.


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• the egg babysitting project with a new twist
• things to cross off your shopping list
• oh, and don't think Left Behind is the easy choice...
• someone already has their own personal savior, thank you
• he probably also asked santa for this
• a creepy robot pet for the lonely shut-ins in your life
• a stocking stuffer for the aspiring stupid spoiled whore
• not completely sure what this is, but involves jesus and a dog
• and now, a word from a "good christian"

and for no particular reason:  beards