It was art: A police report indicates Smith said he was a “special agent with the United States Illuminati, badge number 0931.” His mission? One from “Director Womack,” to “defuse and confiscate a Soviet-made MERV6SS-22AN warhead, with 14.5 kg of enriched uranium and a plutonium trigger, capable of delivering a 40-kiloton yield.” Police say Smith …
One of religion’s longstanding problems is the immutability of scripture – the inevitable struggle over the inability of a fixed text to respond to changing conditions. You can see this as Jews try to keep the Sabbath, and in modern fundementalists’ struggle over shellfish. I was thinking deeply about this issue today on my bike …
No power, no printing presses, but they keep on publishing. There is no more heroic news organization than the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
Watching my young friend Kelsey’s feed for the Gustav evacuation order. (So far, so good.) update: evacuation order has been issued.
On DOE’s new “branding” effort.
The giant novelty item to end all giant novelty items: by Florentijn Hofman h/t Kittrick
I recently complained to my boss about the plastic forks he keeps in his desk drawer. I regularly steal them when I forget cutlery for my microwave lunches. But Charlie was getting those really crappy, flimsy forks. Totally unacceptable for eating microwave lunches. Yesterday, I noticed that he had gotten some of those beefy, sturdy …
Los Volcanes Fitness Center Opening Originally uploaded by MayorMarty. A giant scissors sighting on Albuquerque’s west side. Previous giant stuff coverage on Inkstain: giant scissors giant scissors update giant sushi giant inflatable promotional items of various types
Happy 61st anniversary of nothing terribly interesting happening down in the deserts of southeastern New Mexico, and let me take this opportunity to reprise one of my all time greatest hits: Roswell Myths Crash Into Reality: In conventional historical research or journalistic exposé, says Brandeis University anthropologist Benson Saler, successive investigations fill in details and …
“Reality is a sandwich I did not order.” – Zippy and Zerbina