randomWalks

Can anyone help Fred find a used car?

He tried various other angles on convincing me that there's no way you could prank someone by e-flatulating in their cubicle. I still wasn't convinced, so we went round and round about email, rotting flesh, and flatulence for like 5 minutes before we both realized that the conversation we were having was sounding more and more bizarre. At this point I just thanked him for his time and took off.

At the National Cigar Museum: Racism Sells Cigars.

Minibosses is the band I always wanted to start.

There I was, wallowing for weeks in my unemployment misery, when one day, bam! I was watching the movie Pulp Fiction. And you know that scene where they blew the guy away in the back of the car and then had to bring in Harvey Keitel to clean the whole thing up?

It appears the only thing spoiled by the Nader candidacy was the Democrats' ability to think critically.

Bill Gates has seen the future of personal computing, and it’s… a Newton?

Virtually the entire world, including the United States and the UN Security Council, regards Israel's occupation of Palestinian land as a violation of international law. Yet in a typical news story reporting on "Palestinian violence" against Israeli occupation soldiers, viewers are not told that Palestinians are fighting against a military occupation. The right to use force to resist foreign occupation is universally recognized and enshrined in international law.

"Governor Bush feels that Eminem is the perfect embodiment of what his presidency can accomplish," said Karen Hughes, Bush's communications director. "Like the governor, Eminem is charismatic, funny, and extremely dangerous to women, homosexuals, the country, and the world."

This premature ejaculation is so buggy I’ll never be able to convince my NS4 friends to switch to it, which means it’ll be that much longer before I can spiff up my site with more and sexier CSS – but someone just came by and tossed me a NS6 t-shirt! “The Code is Ready… are you?” Woohoo!

Logo Design Workshop, parts one and two. Logos for the Design Challenged in 19 parts. Happy companies, sad companies. xblog on logos and symbols. And, of course, swish, swirl, and swoosh.

This is the burrito page with the burrito personality-style test that New Yorker article mentions. It’s a great page in that it covers one of the greatest possible topics for a web page, but otherwise it’s pretty piss-poor – which can be only partially attributed to the paucity of burrito information on this world wide web. A google search reveals a few data points, vegetarian burrito recipes (umm, fresh onion-tomato-cilantro salsa, rice maybe cooked with a little peanut oil, and your choice of beans cooked as you like them rolled up in the largest tortilla you can find is a good starting point), and of course the site that turns you into a burrito, but not much else besides way too many links to the world’s largest burrito which couldn’t possibly be as interesting as the world’s smallest burrito, which I’m going to make this week by wrapping a single grain of rice and one bean in a tortilla the size of my fingertip.

My uncle told me the story of this place when I was 13 and I didn't believe it until I saw it. The story goes that during WWII the US was worried that the Germans would try to bomb US airports, so they built a fake town just east of Richmond International Airport (then called Byrd Airport). The town is strange to see -- it consistes of roads, sidewalks, driveways that lead to nothing, streetlights, sewer covers, mailboxes, even the occasional park bench. It also had a runway with landing lights. All the lights were designed to be turned on in case of an air raid and at the same time, the real airport and all of Richmond would be blacked out in the hopes that the Germans would bomb the fake town.

Metafilter-by-numbers

It's you I like,
It's not the things you wear,
It's not the way you do your hair--
But it's you I like
The way you are right now,
The way down deep inside you--
Not the things that hide you,
Not your toys--
They're just beside you.

But it's you I like--
Every part of you,
Your skin, your eyes, your feelings
Whether old or new.
I hope that you'll remember
Even when you're feeling blue
That it's you I like,
It's you yourself,
It's you, it's you I like.

In case you’re not completely saturated in election coverage, analysis, analysis of coverage, and analysis of analysis, three of my favorite websites are doing a much better job of linking and thinking about these things than I could hope to. Please visit:

• arblog
• caught in between
• monkeyfist

The real blame rests with a Democratic Leadership Council that is pro-death-penalty, pro-censorship, pro-corporation, pro-plutarchy, pro-military-buildup and pro-drug-war, and yet still somehow, against all logic, expects Liberal support. Listen up Gore. Listen up Lieberman. If you abandon the Left, the Left will abandon you. This lesson should be etched into your brains with a big Green tattoo the size of Florida with the name Ralph Nader all over it.

Of course, the liberals will insist there are environmental explanations for white drug and alcohol problems. One can imagine them trying to blame two-earner white families for being too busy with their dot-com startup or landscaping classes at Home Depot to give their children the nurturing needed to resist drugs.

Thanks to misnomer for tipping me off to the latest edition of Scott McCloud’s online comic column I can’t stop thinking!

I can't speak for all Nader voters, but I can speak as a Nader voter, and the fact of the matter is that Ralph Nader spoke to the issues and ideals that most concern me as a citizen. Call me a crazy radical Lefty, but I'm more concerned with the vast amounts of money permeating and polluting our political process than I am about whether or not elderly voters can get their drugs on the cheap. And, yes, the issue of character was a factor too. Given a false choice between two desperate, inadequate fortunate sons grasping to escape their fathers' shadows, I chose instead to pick a man who'd devoted his entire life really fighting for the people of this nation. In sum, given the candidates on the ballot, I believe Nader was - and is - the best choice.

But - and this is what the Goreites just can't seem to understand - had Nader not been on the ballot and this had been a two-man race, I still would not have voted for Gore. I would have abstained in the Presidential race and voted solely for local and congressional candidates and ballot initiatives. Meaning that, at least in my case, Nader is not responsible for my not voting for Gore. Al Gore lost my vote before Nader ever won it.

Two days after the election, we still don’t know who the next president will be. How did things get to be so weird?

Not to belabor the day’s news, but the word out of Florida is pretty astounding – 19,000 Palm Beach ballots have been tossed out for being punched in two places, ballots are showing up which had been “forgotten” Tuesday night, Blacks were turned away from the polls yesterday, and it even looks like the flawed design of the Palm Beach ballot was illegal under Florida law!

Wow – Buchanan did really well in Palm Beach County, Florida. Odd, don’t you think?