The Associated Press caption accompanying the image with a black person says he's just finished "looting" a grocery store. The AFP/Getty Images caption describes lighter skinned people "finding" bread and soda from a grocery store. No stores are open to sell these goods.

I hate people.

Boing Boing: Black people loot, white people find?

there is the theory of the mobius...

a twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop

More electronic music on Wednesday nights for those of you in Atlanta.

The Mobius

When FBI supervisors in Miami met with new interim U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta last month, they wondered what the top enforcement priority for Acosta and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales would be.

Would it be terrorism? Organized crime? Narcotics trafficking? Immigration? Or maybe public corruption?

The agents were stunned to learn that a top prosecutorial priority of Acosta and the Department of Justice was none of the above. Instead, Acosta told them, it's obscenity. Not pornography involving children, but pornographic material featuring consenting adults.

Acosta's stated goal of prosecuting distributors of adult porn has angered federal and local law enforcement officials, as well as prosecutors in his own office. They say there are far more important issues in a high-crime area like South Florida, which is an international hub at risk for terrorism, money laundering and other dangerous activities.

His own prosecutors have warned Acosta that prioritizing adult porn would reduce resources for prosecuting other crimes, including porn involving children. According to high-level sources who did not want to be identified, Acosta has assigned prosecutors porn cases over their objections.

Speechless...

law.com - U.S. Attorney's Porn Fight Gets Bad Reviews

Dinny the roadside dinosaur has found religion.

The 45-foot-high concrete apatosaurus has towered over Interstate 10 near Palm Springs for nearly three decades as a kitschy prehistoric pit stop for tourists.

Now he is the star of a renovated attraction that disputes the fact that dinosaurs died off millions of years before humans first walked the planet.

Dinny's new owners, pointing to the Book of Genesis, contend that most dinosaurs arrived on Earth the same day as Adam and Eve, some 6,000 years ago, and later marched two by two onto Noah's Ark. The gift shop at the attraction, called the Cabazon Dinosaurs, sells toy dinosaurs whose labels warn, "Don't swallow it! The fossil record does not support evolution."

"We're putting evolutionists on notice: We're taking the dinosaurs back," said Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis, a Christian group building a $25-million creationist museum in Petersburg, Ky., that's already overrun with model sauropods and velociraptors.

OMFG Noooooo! The fundamentalists have purchased the Cabazon Dinosaurs from PeeWee's Big Adventure and The Wizard. I predict they'll destroy them when they loose interest in this rather then turn them over to the corrupt moderate intellectuals. These dinosaurs will be the Bamiyan Buddhas of American Culture!

Best Quote:

There's something in their DNA that knows man walked with these creatures on Earth.

If this was true it would disprove his point!!!!

Here is the official homepage for the Cabazon Dinosaur's new management. Chock full of mind bending self contradicting rationalizations like the one above, and it REALLY puts the FUN back in FUNdamentalism! I can't wait until their online store opens up! I want a TRex Creationism Tshirt!

Adam, Eve and T. Rex - Los Angeles Times

...by his noodly appendage!

Apparently (and predictibly) a Yak was seen near the crimescene.

cola_fan: Today, Georgia Tech was touched...

News out of the US Gulf Coast area is not good tonight.

You might consider a donation to the Red Cross.

Boing Boing: Katrina: things get worse in New Orleans

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The Alter Ego display shows what kind of virtual characters people choose to be in online games and 3D worlds.

This is an article about an exhibit which juxtaposed pictures of "real-life" people, next to images of the characters that they played in MMORPGs. Click on the picture in the article, to be taken to more side-by-side images. I found it very interesting to observe how some people were very different from their avatars, and others were very similar. Though of course the editors seemed to concentrate on the images that provided the most dramatic differences.

BBC NEWS : Virtual gamers reveal themselves

For the last 2 1/2 weeks, the lives of the couple and their three children have been plunged into an unsettling routine of drivers shouting profanities, stopping to photograph their house and — most recently — spray-painting a slogan on their property.

Their house, a suburban fixer-upper the Voricks bought three years ago, was wrongly identified in a cable news broadcast as the home of a terrorist.

In what Fox News officials concede was a mistake, John Loftus, a former U.S. prosecutor, gave out the address Aug. 7, saying it was the home of a Middle Eastern man, Iyad K. Hilal, who was the leader of a terrorist group with ties to those responsible for the July 7 bombings in London.

Satellite photos of the house and directions to the residence were posted online.

This is, perhaps, the worst example of irresponsible journalism that I have EVER heard of. This is absolutely terrible!

Worst part:

The Voricks say they have yet to see or hear a correction.

There is a rumor that Fox fired Loftus (three weeks after the broadcast as word has started to get out) but I haven't found a reliable report.

Fox news provides innocent person's home address on air, labeled as a terrorist home!

If it maintains its current central pressure, Katrina will be the most intense named hurricane to impact the United States since the naming of storms began in 1950 (and second overall since the recording of hurricanes began in 1851), being larger in size and slightly stronger than 1969 Hurricane Camille's central pressure of 909 mb.

BoingBoing has a useful collection of Katrina links if you are looking for news.

Boing Boing: Katrina approaches New Orleans, US Gulf Coast