Morris Minor
2008 is the 60th anniversary of the Morris Minor. This is the meet in Melbourne, Australia.
Al Franken NRSC Mailer in Minnesota
My cousin in Minnesota recently got this pamphlet from the NRSC (National Republican Senatorial Committee) in the mail- addressed to his six year old son:
“Come on in, kids… Senator Franken’s going to tell a few jokes!”
“We shouldn’t have to be ashamed of Minnesota’s senator!”
Al Franked tackled a [sic] protestor at a political rally- and bragged about it
“We shouldn’t have to wonder what he will say…”
Al Franken wrote a pornographic column in Playboy- and thought it was funny.
“We shouldn’t have to apologize for his actions…”
Al Franken has written so-called comedy routines about raping women.
Al Franken: A bad example for our kids; completely unfit for public office
Toasted Head and Orangina
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On a recent trip to the super market, these two items caught me by surprise.
God Prefers Athiests
Tags:Dark Humor, Humor, Religion, Sad :(, Science!
Amazing Comet Holmes
Tags:APOD, Science!, Space, Wallpaper
Explanation: One year ago, Comet 17P/Holmes amazed sky watchers across planet Earth. A stunningly rapid outburst transformed it from a faint comet quietly orbiting the Sun with a period of about 7 years to a naked-eye comet rivaling the brighter stars in the constellation Perseus. Its largely tail-less shape, as in this wide-angle view recorded on November 11, 2007, became well-known to astronomers trying to unravel the mystery of the comet’s surprising outburst . Still, Comet Holmes had a dim ion tail that was seen to separate from the bright coma. In this image, the separated tail creates the illusion of a reflection nebula. It appears as a faint bluish haze right of center against a background of stars in the loosely grouped Alpha Persei Moving Cluster.
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0810/17P-Holmes_cook.jpg
Venus of Willendorf
24,000 BC ‒ 22,000 BC Found near Willendorf, Austria. Discovered in 1908 by by Josef Szombathy. Made of limestone and tinted with red ocre.
The Venus is not a realistic portrait but rather an idealization of the female figure. Her vulva, breasts, and swollen belly, are heavily pronounced, suggesting a strong connection to fertility. Her tiny arms are folded over her breasts. The figure has no visible feet, her head being covered with circular horizontal bands of what might be rows of plaited hair, or a type of headdress.
The nickname, urging a comparison to the classical image of “Venus,” causes resistance in some modern analyses. According to Christopher Witcombe, “the ironic identification of these figurines as ‘Venus’ pleasantly satisfied certain assumptions at the time about the primitive, about women, and about taste.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf
Did you mean ‘Children Asses’?
btjunkie.org/search?q=shivvering+isles
This sceen cap was taken by my fiance as he was trying to find the Shivering Isles expansion. I spat my water out and couldn’t stop laughing.
And yes, it still comes up with that result.
Have I ever clicked that redirect search?
brb, party van
Smooth Pooch
Tags:Cute As Hell Animals, Humor
Hey Babe… How YOU doin…?
Sarah Palin Drops Puck
I wonder if she will be booed again, when she drops the puck tonight for the LA Kings@ St. Louis Blues game.
Pretty sure “hockey moms” wear hockey jerseys to games.
Who knew
Tags:Humor, Politics, Television
Bill Shapiro writes to Romenesko: I’m the former managing editor LIFE (the newspaper supplement version). After The Speech last night, I couldn’t help recall our third cover featuring McCain and…. Take a peek. I think you’ll find it very fun and rather prescient.
When we shot this photo for the third cover of LIFE (the newspaper
supplement version) back in September of 2004, we never dreamed we’d actually see it play out….or even anything this close.
As the election neared and it was becoming clear that every vote would
matter, we decided to ask a wide range of famous Americans why there were stepping up to the ballot box. We photographed Madeleine Albright, Manny Ramirez, Andre 3000, and Tucker Carlson (who told us, “People vote when they feel threatened. So it’s a good sign, in my view, that half the country doesn’t vote in the presidential electionâ€Â) among others. Of course, we photographed John McCain and Tina Fey together. He was thrilled to meet her and they got along very well: They had lunch and he gave her an impromptu tour of the Senate building. Makes us wonder if when McCain met Palin for the first time, he said, ‘You know, you remind me of someone…â€Â
SOHO’s Uninterrupted View of the Sun
Tags:APOD, Science!, Space, Wallpaper
Explanation: Launched ten years ago this week, SOHO (the SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory) still enjoys an uninterrupted view of the Sun. Twelve sungazing instruments on board the spacecraft have explored the Sun’s internal structure, the extensive solar atmosphere and solar wind, and discovered over 1,000 comets from a remarkable orbit around a point about 1.5 million kilometers directly sunward of planet Earth itself. At that location, known as a Lagrange point, the gravitational influence of the Earth and Sun are equal. With scientific instrument teams distributed around the world, the SOHO operations center is located at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Mission operations are planned through March of 2007 to allow the study of a complete 11-year solar cycle. Contributions from SOHO’s instruments are represented in the colorful montage image. Happy tenth anniversary SOHO!
This was APOD’s POD in December of 2005.
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0512/soho10_hill_f.jpg
Whale Waste
I don’t know what happened… the page was in russian, so if anyone here speaks russian, I would like and explanation!
