For looking chic whilst you sprint.

Via Fark, Der Spiegel Int’l

Updated with News Video link

but its nice to have someone say it to you.

It is worth noticing though, the backlink to the SEO site. Even that site could end up being about money. [Update] See this post’s comments. Seems the backlink was just part of the counter code.

Via Digg

AND this type of crap is also part of our problem.

…lose a finger? Some robot enthusiasts made a “Mumblety-Peg” automatron:

Fascinating what people do in their spare time.

Via Engadget

It’s even weirder as a video.

Barnes & Barnes: Fish Heads

Via an in-law

The Net Neutrality debate just got alot more interesting…

LOLLAPALOOZA WEBCAST: SPONSORED/CENSORED BY AT&T?

After concluding our Sunday night show at Lollapalooza, fans informed us that portions of that performance were missing and may have been censored by AT&T during the “Blue Room” Live Lollapalooza Webcast.

When asked about the missing performance, AT&T informed Lollapalooza that portions of the show were in fact missing from the webcast, and that their content monitor had made a mistake in cutting them.

Found via a DKos article, which including the following observation:

That’s right. AT&T, like other telcos who say you can “just trust them” not to censor content in the absence of mandatory net neutrality, just did exactly what everyone who’s worried about net neutrality always believe they would do.

What’d that take? About ten seconds?

For more information on net neutrality and ways you can help protect expression on the internet, click thru to Save the Internet.

More Articles:
http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2007/08/08/pearl_jam/index.html
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6466942.html

Via the BBC:

“When you are actively in your eating disorder, you desperately want someone to understand, and a lot of time you find groups like the pro groups on Facebook that are supportive of you continuing your eating disorder,” she says.

The article mentions that some people go on to seek treatment, making me wonder if this phenomenon isn’t some type of elaborate bait-and-switch, but my first reaction to the idea of a ‘pro-ana’ group was to file them under NAMBLA-ish whackjobs. But unlike NAMBLA, these people seem to be more naive than predatory. Case in point, from the article:

“Hearing girls your weight or smaller say they are fat makes you feel worthless. Ana tips can push you to take it too far and thinspirational pictures give you an unattainable goal.”

Really? Wouldn’t have thought…

In Dusty Archives, a Theory of Affluence, an article in the NY Times has some interesting thoughts on the history of the industrial revolution:

Generation after generation, the rich had more surviving children than the poor, his research showed. That meant there must have been constant downward social mobility as the poor failed to reproduce themselves and the progeny of the rich took over their occupations. “The modern population of the English is largely descended from the economic upper classes of the Middle Ages,” he concluded.

It is fascinating to me that we still do not have a true handle on how we got where we are, and by extension, what it has/is costing us. For, what are we really?

Found via Slashdot

In the realm of things I don’t understand that other people do, I welcome Zentai.

The one below is purple. And old [circa Dec. 2006].

Procurement of a green one may be necessary for the Jubi Show, however, I don’t know who we would size for one. Maybe Jamma. Maybe Guitar Tom. 😉

Courtesy RW.

UPDATE – Turns out the guy is from Iowa, currently at Pizza Hut in Cedar Falls. Might be time for an interview on the show?

Iowa related politics. Jim’s having difficulty getting his new job.

Found via a DKos article.

Not sure how often you will see these political things. Probably just when they are about Iowa.