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I think he’s got it bad, folks.

Firebox - Doctor Who Tardis 4-Way USB Hub

Update:

Gellibaff (requires audio. really it does.)? The Brits have invented cornstarch baths, apparently. Even spelled it “baff” for ease of pronunciation for the only people who’ll think it’s a good idea.

Update (2.1):

“It’s a series“

Wesco Gifts & Gadgets - […]

Categories: Entertainment

In my defense, you should see this guy’s handwriting. It’s — or was — a glomus tumor.

Glomus tumors are relatively uncommon benign neoplasms that differentiate to become modified smooth muscle cells called glomus cells.

And

The exact incidence of glomus tumors is unknown.

And

Patients with solitary glomus tumors usually have paroxysmal […]

Categories: Science and Nature

California always sets the bar for safety, environmental cleanliness, public health, etc. So we always like to laugh when labels say things like “This product has been shown to cause cancer in California,” etc. You know what they mean, but the phrasing just kills you.

Reuters - California may ban conventional lightbulbs by 2012

So […]

Categories: Science and Nature

BBC - Liberia gets all-female peacekeeping force

Lucky Liberia.

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

The Times - Un Certain Regard Sarkozy is a new and improved model of French politician

Can the winner of France’s presidential election overcome the voters’ deep-seated resistance to change? Put another way, can the French be persuaded to back any politician who says that restoring the value of work is his “priority of priorities” […]

Categories: Politics

You should go to Telegraph Blogs and peruse Con Coughlin’s (”on the world at war”) (but don’t let anyone think you’re calling it a world war!). It doesn’t update frequently, but just enough to make you feel comfortably as though the whole globe’s in the shiznits.

Telegraph Blogs - The world at war

So, […]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

It’s easy for the police these days. Just gotta drive up and down high streets checking signs to see which internet cafes to bug to look for Islamist wanna-be terrorists plotting to cut heads off of their enemies. “Netplay… NetAdventure… Blade… There, that one.”

Times Online - British Muslim soldier ‘was target of terror […]

Categories: People and Current Events

I’m just a one-handed moving machine. I just cleared, then cleaned and vacuumed 1001 square feet, including two bathrooms. And a day early. Now I’m going to eat some dinner and take some drugs. Woot.

Categories: Wildcard

Something I like to do when I’ve run out of things to do on the internet is flip through this site at leisure, which I did the other night, one-handed, after my operation. This post I especially liked, since it hits all my buttons, but also because I have that picture on my wall […]

Categories: History

Telegraph - Notebook By Cristina Odone

Middle-class children will learn to lie The anti-bourgeois, down-with-privilege bias that was a hallmark of the Soviet regime is well on the march in British academia. We are not yet at the stage where a middle-class background condemns youngsters to a life in the uranium […]

Categories: People and Current Events

Telegraph - Diversity will never unite us. By Zia Haider Rahman

An important and timely study published by the Policy Exchange think tank yesterday finds that young British Muslims are much more likely to be drawn to radical Islam than their parents. Thirty-seven per cent of 16- to 24-year-olds would prefer to live under […]

Categories: People and Current Events

Opinion Journal - Battle Royal: Bush, Clinton, Bush–Clinton? It sounds like the War of the Roses. BY MICHAEL BARONE

“Bush Clinton Clinton Bush Bush Clinton!“

Sing it, Mikey!

To compare our political struggles to the conflicts between rival dynasties may be carrying it too far. But we have become, I think, a nation that is less […]

Categories: Politics

You’d think the Catholics would have it pretty firmly nailed down but no, gotta hand it to ancestor worship:

BBC - China warns on Olympics morality

Chinese authorities have warned government and Olympic officials not to indulge in corrupt or immoral behaviour during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Officials will be monitored to […]

Categories: People and Current Events

HalfEmpty just sent me this. Oh lawdy:

BBC - Police play game of cat and mouse

Police officers were called to rescue a cat which got her head stuck in a jam jar trying to catch a mouse. A motorist found the tabby wandering beside a road in Peterborough, Cambs, with […]

Categories: Catblogging

The Times - My solution to the crisis in our prisons, by Harry Woolf The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, 2000-2005, hands down a verdict on a system facing meltdown

What, then, can now be done? Any action has to involve reducing the lack of balance between the numbers in custody and the […]

Categories: People and Current Events