Just a quick troll through the referrer log, and I find someone looking for "hateful tony blair pictures" from google.co.uk. Sorry, mate ... we're (or at least the verbally productive half of "we") is all in favor of Mr. Blair and his gummint except for the R.I.P. bits. While I'm spouting off, how long before the U.K. recovers its senses and tell the EU to piss off? You don't need their financial policies, their currency, or their cheese. F*ck 'em.

To the person googling for "alton brown hate", you'll need to move along as well. Alton Brown is a GODDAMNED GENIUS!!!!!!! Everyone should watch Good Eats, or at least TiVo up new episodes. Also, he has a book and DVDs out as well. Everybody go buy some stuff.

Well, I'm thinking about buying a new camera, and I'll inflict my bookmarks on all (both) of my readers:

• Canon PowerShot G3
• Sony DSC-F717

Now THAT'S a case mod. Woo-hoo for LEGO's!

Tony Pierce's photo essay "Dear Kids." If I was the sort, I might have teared up, but I'm not so I didn't. There are some good shots here anyway.

BWA-hahahahahahaha! Something Awful weighs in on the Xmas season. It's funny ... I usually only look at Photoshop Phridays there, but Amish Tech Support apparently reads the whole thing. Go figure.

Which Firearm are you? brought to you byStan Ryker

Woo-hoo! Stand back, Jackson!

Well, it appears my socio-political education was sorely lacking, because this essay into the intellectual origins of America-bashing contained a great deal that I didn't know about Marx (and Marxism) beforehand. Excellent reading, if a bit long-ish (around 5,000 words or so).

Pig Newtons?!? Yummy!!!!

Woo-hoo! Semper fi!

The new season of Demotivators are out! I love 'em all!

Available now: Dave Barry's 2002 Gift Guide.

TiVo? That is so old hat ... you can't even archive to DVD with that thing. What an antique.

Ummmmm .... okay. Suppose you're a misanthropic hermit with a gadget fetish who wants some ink. What to do? What to do?

Found via The World Wide Rant, a lovely little time-waster with heaps of badness in it.

Ummmm ... doesn't that kind of invalidate the inspection results? A bit? There is a huge amount of maneuvering in the U.S. to avoid even the appearance of conflict of interest, both in politics and in business (a.k.a. politics with smaller budgets). Apparently our unease isn't shared by the U.N.

BWA-hahahahahahaha! I thought I was condescending and hateful, but I bow before the master! Stop it! You're killing me!

A small "bwa-hahahaha" right in Lee's face. It would be a big one, and I'd claim it demonstrates that apparently guns aren't magically evil and soul-consuming after all except I can't find the primary source, but only this newspaper article stating that the U.N. published a report showing the the U.K. and Wales are now more violently crime-infested (per capita) than the U.S.

I see here that November 29th is the U.N.-recognized "International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People ". I wonder when the "International Day of Solidarity with the Israeli People" happens? What about the "International Day of Solidarity with the U.S. People"? U.K.? Australians? Just exactly what do you have to do to get a U.N. holiday of your own? I suspect the answer involves explosives, killing, and Jews.

Yet another interesting optical illusion. Found via The Volokh Conspiracy

One of my favorite parts of "Age of Empires II" is the endgame, where you have an army of archers, a handful of cavalry, and a few trebuchets walking the countryside absolutely obliterating the enemy's physical plant. Now, for you do-it-yourselfers, you can get some computer help designing your own trebuchet. Great. Now I have another time-consuming borderline-obsessive hobby.