Ramblings… nonsensical ramblings… wildly nonsensical ramblings…
Over at Viral Video Chart, I found this little film…
If you want to know what happens next, I’d start here…
Vernor Vinge – Rainbow’s End – a science fiction novel that does a good job presenting a world built on the foundations of Wikipedia, and Google…
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
-Calvin Coolidge
Letterman has his stupid pet tricks, and usually you can get a good laugh out of stupid criminals, but here’s a stupid newspaper trick for you…
Lottery Post:
Maine’s Morning Sentinel newspaper appears to have revealed a lottery winner’s address and social security number in a published photo.In a story that ran in the February 27 edition of the Sentinel, Newport resident Venison Turner Jr. was pictured together with his son, holding a copy of a winning ticket worth $300,000 and the paperwork filed with the Maine Lottery. The man’s personal information is clearly visible.
(I found this from the Freaknomics Blog…)
We all know the saying “if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing it right.” Here comes a logical consequence…
“Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.”
-Elias Schwartz
Want to waste even more time online? Check out Overheard in New York – The Voice of the City. Random people post things they’ve overheard in (you guessed it) NYC. Here are a few juicey examples:
· “…like WMD sure… or Jesus sure?”
· “Able to convince morons in a single sentence”
· “It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! Ah Fuck, It’s a Train.”
· “Thinning the herd, Manhattan-style”
Everyone and their mother wants to be president… check out CNN’s slideshow of all 27 possible candidates — 15 Republicans and 12 Democrats.
Check out Friday’s The Show (with Ze Frank) for an entertaining take on the attempted non-binding resolutions in congress…
The American public is planning to vote on a non binding resolution condemning non binding resolutions. Enough with the non binding. Anyone can do that. …
The public can do non binding resolutions, we call ’em protests. And we do that to get the attention of elected officials who can do something about it. You’re elected officials and you have the power of the constitution… The President’s made it pretty clear he doesn’t give a crap about protests. …
At least make them filibuster, so we’re entertained while we wait.
Holy crap… Thanks to a service called USAA Deposit@Home, you can now deposit checks at your bank by using a scanner at home!
Of course, it’s only available to members of USAA, so the rest of the hoi polloi can suffer jealous envy.
From the Charlotte Observer… North Carolina’s Governor Easley finally speaks up about his choice of Mike Nifong as Durham’s District Attorney:
Gov. Mike Easley said last month that picking Mike Nifong to be Durham’s district attorney was the worst appointment of his career, and he said Nifong broke his promise not to run for the office.
Easley told law students in New York that Nifong’s decision to seek office in last fall’s election almost prompted him to consider yanking Nifong from office.
“I almost un-appointed him when he decided to run,” Easley said. “I rate that as probably the poorest appointment that I’ve,” the governor trailed off before adding “I’ve made some good ones.”
Easley, a former prosecutor, was speaking at New York University Jan. 22 about public service. After the speech, someone in the audience asked him to rate Nifong’s performance in the controversial sexual assault investigation against three former Duke University lacrosse players.
The governor said Nifong had done a poor job.
“You don’t need me to tell you that,” he said.
