] It is not the first time Cohen has wooed controversy with
] his show, which airs on HBO. In one episode last year,
] Borat sang an anti-Semitic song called "Throw the
] Jew Down the Well" at a country music bar, prompting
] protests from the Anti-Defamation League.

The more crazy the world gets, the more funny Dada-ist art becomes.

Ali G character causes near riot at rodeo

[ Read this. it's now almost a week old, but it's long and I don't like recommending things i haven't read thoroughly. It was worth it. Certainly, it's not news to anyone who's been paying attention, but it's ever so important to understanding the philosophy that has overtaken the power structure of the Right in America.

If nothing else, scroll to the end and read the last few grafs. The Bush presidency seems really to have been nothing less than an all out attack on the very notion of rational investigation, honest and open discourse and nuanced thought. He's peddled a black and white vision desired by so many who've consumed it in droves... but the world is seldom black and white, and it's escapist to live in that binary world. -k]

The New York Times - Magazine - Without a Doubt

The world is safer.

What 'freedom' will look like in the Middle East

LMAO

Best Craig's List Post/Picture Yet

There's no conspiracy theory section here, but I have to admit I was thinking the same thing as the writer of this article.

The shaved head in the picture, just the way Berg looked. What he was doing there. I can't help but feel like he HAD to be a spy.

BERG- 98% Chance That This is a Military-Industrial Complex Psyop

If you don't already have reason to vote for anyone other than the incumbent, including any household appliance that might suddenly gain sentience and make a bid for the US presidency, this might help you out.

Anyone but Bush

This is a video of a dog that can skateboard. Yes, you read that right. Skateboard.

Ahem.. Let me make one of those predictions that I make all the time, and tend to be right. Either that, or they tend to be forgotten. But whatever, I make them all the time and I only seem to get called on them when they are right.

Either via David Lettermen's stupid pet tricks, or some random television advertisement, America will be exposed to this dog. Maybe this Windows Media file will be the vector. It doesn't matter. America will love this dog. As another example of "asking for techno" we will be pounded over the head with stuff involving this dog until we want to see it hung in our respective local town squares.

Just a hunch.

(... this is pretty neat.)

Skateboarding Dog - Future Animal Star we will eventually be sick of

] Royal Device has on its own developped and built the
] biggest subwoofer of the world for an AUDIO/VIDEO room
] that can be also considered as the biggest AUDIO ROOM for
] private music listening of the world. The audio
] reproduction is focused on the speakers output capability
] more than electric power output of the amplifiers with no
] need of KWatts power supply lines, releasing more than
] 110 dB/1W/1 meter sensitivity starting from below 10 Hz
] focused on the listening position.

[ Wow. Now, that's a serious listening space. -k]

Giant Subwoofer, not suitable for 'blingin''

] Guitar virtuoso performs Super Mario Brothers theme
]
] This is an absolutely stellar video of Japanes guitar
] virtuoso KeiicHi performing a rendition of the theme from
] Super Mario Brothers, hendrixing power-up and coin-grab
] sound effects by wringing his axe's neck with long and
] clever fingers. Tasty. 3.7MB WMV Link (via Boing BOing)

Guitar virtuoso performs Super Mario Brothers theme

] I travel a lot and one of my favorite destination lead
] through poisoned with radiation, so called Chernobyl
] "dead zone" It is 130kms from my home. Why favourite?
] because one can ride there for hours and not meet any
] single car and not to see any single soul. People left
] and nature is blooming, there are beautiful places,
] woods, lakes. There is no newly built roads, but those
] which left from 80th in fairly good condition

Ryan -- this is one of the coolest things I have seen in a while. It is a photoblog of a daughter of a nuclear engineer who tours around Chernobyl on her motorcycle.

Photoblogging Chernobyl