http://www.snarkout.org/side/ Avocados of Doom and Baconburg Horrors en-us sideblog@snarkout.org 2006-06-15T15:00:10-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.designobserver.com/archives/015320.html 2544@http://www.snarkout.org/side/ 2006-06-15T15:00:10-05:00 http://www.antarctic-circle.org/fauno.htm A huge (comprehensive?) annotated bibliography of Antarctic and hollow earth fiction. Wow. (Thanks, Jonah!) 2542@http://www.snarkout.org/side/ 2006-06-14T18:00:05-05:00 http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=53562 The Loudres of Ohio, defining miracles down. 2543@http://www.snarkout.org/side/ 2006-06-14T18:00:05-05:00 http://www.ochenk.com/entry.php?id=63 Years of going to punk rock shows have wrecked my hearing; above 17,000 Hz, I can't -hear- anything, but it starts giving me a headache. 2541@http://www.snarkout.org/side/ 2006-06-13T21:00:03-05:00 http://doublearticulation.blogspot.com/2006/05/deconstructing-brett-ratners-x3-2006.html#comments This is spot on, except a) it's too nice to Halle Berry, b) it's too nice to the ham-handed Angel plot, and c) the Hellfire Club clearly should have been in the fourth movie, because that's how I would have done it. (Spoilers abound.) 2540@http://www.snarkout.org/side/ 2006-06-12T15:00:06-05:00 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/10/AR2006061001040.html 2539@http://www.snarkout.org/side/ 2006-06-11T18:00:05-05:00 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/09/AR2006060901420.html The DoD stops wind farm construction throughout the Midwest to study radar issues. Good job, Ted Kennedy! 2538@http://www.snarkout.org/side/ 2006-06-11T15:00:11-05:00 http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060610/bob8.asp 2537@http://www.snarkout.org/side/ 2006-06-11T03:00:05-05:00 http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060608/NEWS09/606080387/1001/NEWS Upping the ante on Google Maps gags -- are you going to let a bunch of city boys beat you, farmers of the world? 2536@http://www.snarkout.org/side/ 2006-06-09T18:00:09-05:00 http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16751509&BRD= We're rapidly near the point where any government official who advocates buying an electronic voting machine that doesn't support a paper trail should be recalled or fired. This is no way to run a government. 2534@http://www.snarkout.org/side/ 2006-06-09T15:00:11-05:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5OpaklUYyo Insane. I wish I were as good at Ronaldinho at -anything-. (There's a move at 3:21 which literally made my jaw drop.) 2535@http://www.snarkout.org/side/ 2006-06-09T15:00:11-05:00 http://fafblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/after-end-of-world-albatross-or-not.html Stupid Chris, going to his college reunion and denying us the world's only source of Fafblog! 2532@http://www.snarkout.org/side/ 2006-06-07T00:00:03-05:00 http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/?p=550 Alex of the Dojo framework suggests a ridiculously ugly hack for speeding up your JavaScript. Heavens. 2533@http://www.snarkout.org/side/ 2006-06-07T00:00:03-05:00 http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-06/04/content_4644754.htm The problem, about the nature of three-dimensional spheres, is one of the Clay Millennium Problems; if the proof stands, someone (probably Grisha Perelman, whose work on the problem the Chinese mathematicians belief they've confirmed) wins a million bucks 2531@http://www.snarkout.org/side/ 2006-06-06T18:00:04-05:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/06/business/06loomis.html?ex=1307246400&en=7da98898908b8eaa&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss He worked on Chatty Cathy, Barbie, Strawberry Shortcake, and Star Wars action figures, and invented the Saturday morning product-based cartoon. 2530@http://www.snarkout.org/side/ 2006-06-06T11:00:07-05:00