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Monday, February 12, 2007

A look at Anna Nicole Smith

Some pics from her better days, I'd say she had some structure:

One of my all-time favories:

The best Anna Nicole Smith pics

From the Guess Jeans ads:

More on the Snow

From the USA Today-nice graph on the height of the snow fall in upstate NY

How do you live here?

Like the bus could see you . . .

No thanks, I'd be outta here . . .

I guess they were running 24 hrs a day to clean up 10 feet . . . 10 FEET!!!

Saturday, February 10, 2007

The Inglehart Values Map

This produces a culture of trust and tolerance, in which people place a relatively high value on individual freedom and self-expression, and have activist political orientations. These are precisely the attributes that the political culture literature defines as crucial to democracy.

The clustering is remarkable. For a full explanation here's the page.

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

5 Star Recruits

No wonder all those guys sign with USC

Paris and Kim

"hey Kim"
"hey Paris"
"What's up"
"Nothing, what's up?"
"nothing"

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Talk about a before and after . . .

This is one screwed up woman
lisa nowak mug shot

I would guess it will be a cold day in hell before Lisa Nowak flies in space. Of course if the cold snap doesn't break soon it may happen. The former Mrs. Nowak;

Even Wikipedia has already got it down.

Monday, February 5, 2007

Jenny's hanging in there, . . . while

while Oksana Bauil . . . wth????

I found these over at Barstool.

It Looks like I need to watch Battlestar Galactica

Tricia Helfer

The end of floppy disks?

It appears so . . . from the story:

A 3.5-inch floppy disk can store 1.44 megabytes of data; a typical MP3 song file can be twice that. And increasingly, customers are choosing to store their data on USB memory sticks or on external hard drives, so the demand for the floppy simply is not there, Thompson said.

I guess it's time to convert that data over, that is, if you can.

Cartoon Law

An example Cartoon law IX:

Everything falls faster than an anvil.

Here's the link to the laws.

Or Amendment B:

The laws of object permanence are nullified for "cool" characters.

Characters who are intended to be "cool" can make previously nonexistent objects appear from behind their backs at will. For instance, the Road Runner can materialize signs to express himself without speaking.

Sunday, February 4, 2007

Stonehenge; a new community?

Image is from LA Times.

Here is another story about this newly discovered village.

Sunday, January 28, 2007

I guess she can read

Friday, January 19, 2007

AFDB

Not quite what I was expecting:

This was what I was expecting:

The site for your aluminum hat, and the page to build your beanie.

Save yourself from the government!!!

Pamela's protecting her virtue

Tokyo in HDR

Came across this on flickr

The original photo is here, it's large, it's dynamic, and it a damn fine set of photo's.
The saying is, a big city was called the concrete jungle, this looks more like the electric jungle.