Kinda Lame

Share This Post:

Out of total coincidence I have something to go with out last story!

A Tory councillor has been arrested over claims he suggested on Twitter that Yasmin Alibai-Brown, a female newspaper columnist, should be stoned to death.

From The Telegraph – who offers a screenshot of his tweet, begging for someone to stone the journalist before it was deleted:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/8127081/Tory-councillor-Gareth-Compton-arrested-over-Twitter-stoning-tweet-about-Yasmin-Alibai-Brown.html

Share This Post:

Busted on the social networking site Facebook, a Palestinian man from the West Bank is facing the death penalty because he denounced Islam and told his followers to smoke up;

If that wasn’t enough, he is also suspected of creating three Facebook groups in which he sarcastically declared himself God and ordered his followers, among other things, to smoke marijuana in verses that spoof the Muslim holy book, the Quran. At its peak, Husayin’s Arabic-language blog had more than 70,000 visitors, overwhelmingly from Arab countries.

Via that liberal monster MSNBC;

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40143564

Share This Post:

I’ve created a few screen grabs of my Ubuntu 10.04 (kick ass) desktop and I can’t get any of them to convert without getting washed out with trippy colors. The source file coming from recordmydesktop is .ogv and converting it via YouTube or via Pitivi results in the same horrible product. I am guessing Google uses ffmpeg

Share This Post:

Prime Minister Gordon Brown today, who is polling third behind his opponents in the election, called a female candidate a bigoted woman in private remarks which were recorded and played back to him on the BBC. He swiftly apologized but it’s sure to sting a little longer though his apology was accepted by his opponent.

Edit: I fail, the woman was just some random bigot who was out getting bread and milk. I read another story that claimed she was a candidate.

For television viewers, one of the day’s most excruciating moments came when a BBC Radio announcer told Brown that he had a tape recording of the private conversation and played it back for him. In what could become a defining image of the election, Brown, whose party is running third in most opinion polls, buried his head in his hands.

Via The Washington Post: Gordon Brown stumbles on campaign trail.

Share This Post:

I started the ordering process for a new Nexus One phone from Google to find, to my chagrin, that Google won’t let me fight the power by engraving my enslavement device with the words “FUCK GOOGLE” (see screenshot below).

Google Won't Allow Me To Engrave A Nexus One With "FUCK GOOGLE"

Share This Post:

His trading card should just be a mugshot.

According to the Cincinnati Enquirer the Bengals wide-receiver is a famly man. Of course the readers said ‘not so fast’, in droves. Good thing the national media hasn’t forgotten that he was released after five arrests. Even a story today about his fresh broken arm references it.

Henry was a key part of the 2005 Bengals team that made the playoffs, but fell out of favor because of five arrests.

(via Bengals WR Henry breaks left forearm – NFL – Yahoo! Sports.)

But the Bengals took him back. I guess Bob Huggins is on their staff helping pick talent (and writing stories for the Enquirer?).

Share This Post:

What is this drawing?

Robot sperm? A swastika for schizophrenics? A clever commentary on race relations in Cincinnati? Schematics for a cold fusion reactor? The worst tic-tac-toe game ever? Connect the dots for a Parkinson’s crippled woman? The timeline of Michael Jackson’s skin color?

Nope, none of those… I was just bored waiting for my mom’s laptop to install Windows Vista Service Pack 2.

What is This?

Share This Post:

Today I received an e-mail from Air America Radio with the teaser:

Pitney-gate: Why Is Huffington Post Getting Called On At White House Pressers?

First I have to say it’s a teaser because I saw no mention of this story in the actual e-mail. Secondly, maybe it has something to do with the huge sum of money recently invested in the Huffington Post ($15 million!), money which didn’t come from the White House and the taxpayer.

Why not reward an American company that is out there doing it without asking for a bailout and a media company that isn’t about to go under? (see: American Newspapers) Now this isn’t the reason that Obama called on Pitney, it was because they knew he had a real question. But the above is just my 2 cents.

For more info: Spar Over Obama Exchange @ Politico

Share This Post:

“How immoral! Accessing a partner’s flexible spending account to purchase prescription eyewear with pretax earnings is a right that should only be granted to those in religiously-sanctioned heterosexual relationships.”

Via TheOnion – Benefits Extended To Federal Employees Domestic Partners