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What's Behind Door Number Three, Jay?" Here's hoping you don't get zonked, Monty... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/30/obituaries/monty-hall-dead-lets-make-a-deal.html

Patronymic Initial Pay no attention to the space ships. U.K. LeGuin and Virginia Kidd: Ghetto Busters. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/06/04/the-golden-age-5 via Anne-Marie Clark https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/06/04/the-golden-age-5

Going Mobile Originally shared by **** More and more, precarity has morphed into the status quo. The economic fringe is becoming the center. In other words: “They” are turning into “us.” So I hope that the stories in this book will offer readers a wake-up call—not because the characters’ circumstances seem exotic, but because, in many ways, they’re quite familiar. The price of traditional housing has skyrocketed. Wages have stayed flat. In that context, the decision to become a nomad isn’t radical at all. It’s a logical outcome of the economy we’ve built. https://www.thenation.com/article/qa-jessica-bruder/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Riding A River Of Maggots Down The Hill Not politics. But related, maybe. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/09/dead-feral-pig-science-ecology/

"Brownie, You're Doing A Heck Of A Job!" https://thinkprogress.org/after-katrina-disgraced-former-fema-director-continued-disaster-aid-it-didnt-go-well-bdf6efe17651/ via Cara Evangelista Originally shared by Craig Stellmacher "San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz reacted with shock and anger to acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke on Friday, saying Puerto Rico's recovery is "not a good news story." "This is a 'people are dying' story," she said in disbelief. Cruz was referencing Duke's comments from Thursday, when the Trump administration official said she was satisfied with the government's response to help Puerto Rico's recover from Hurricane Maria. "I know it is really a good news story in terms of our ability to reach people and the limited number of deaths that have taken place in such a devastating hurricane," Duke said. "Well maybe from where she's standing it's a good news story," Y...

The Dream Police "The dream police... They live inside of my head. The dream police... They come to me in my bed. The dream police... They're coming to arrest me, Oh no!" Appropriately enough, the band is named Cheap Trick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjMCaw4qzjg http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/28/politics/facebook-anti-administration-activists/index.html

Originally shared by Ray Radlein #waitWHAT https://io9.gizmodo.com/neal-adams-did-a-radio-play-of-batman-vs-elmer-fudd-a-1818990559?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_twitter&utm_source=io9_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Dignity & Respect, Or Get Out Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria, Superintendent of the US Air Force Academy makes an impassioned speech, and it's a pretty good one. However... it ain't just about race, or gender, in the military. http://www.newsweek.com/chaplain-urges-service-members-reject-religious-tolerance-665614 Capt. Sonny Hernandez, an Air Force Reserve Chaplain, wrote the following, recently: "Christian service members who openly profess and support the rights of Muslims, Buddhists, and all other anti-Christian worldviews to practice their religions—because the language in the Constitution permits—are grossly in error, and deceived." All members of the U.S. military, including military chaplains, take an oath when they enlist: “I , ___ , do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic..." Still waiting to hear what's going to be said about that... http://barbwire.co...

#ThrowBackThursday Berke Breathed: “He is the reverse canary in America’s gilded gold mine: When Donald Trump gets up from the dead and starts singing, you know you’ve reached toxic air.” http://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/1989/7/16

Errybody Hates An Uppity Wage Slave http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/20846763/president-trump-says-nfl-owners-afraid-their-players

When Your AI Suffers From Dunning–Kruger Effect A similar case applies when security protocols ask you questions based on "authoritative" sources (not known to you) in order to confirm your identity. Originally shared by Rick Wayne (Author) Death by Proxy What Google was doing is something that’s now commonplace for tech products: It was using proxies. A proxy is a stand-in for real knowledge—similar to the personas that designers use as a stand-in for their real audience. But in this case, we’re talking about proxy data: When you don’t have a piece of information about a user that you want, you use data you do have to infer that information. Here, Google wanted to track my age and gender, because advertisers place a high value on this information. But since Google didn’t have demographic data at the time, it tried to infer those facts from something it had lots of: my behavioral data. The problem with this kind of proxy, though, is that it relies on assumptions—and those ass...

Operator Manhattan Transfer-Operator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9aKZZJvB0E Originally shared by giacomo bencistà Dream of the Rarebit Fiend by Winsor McCay. Via: http://comicblah.tumblr.com/post/72104893088/dream-of-the-rarebit-fiend-by-winsor-mccay

Shindig! Bringing the Hot Mess to Video before MTV. Originally shared by Richard Bensam Farewell to Jack Good, the writer and producer responsible for this airing in prime time on NBC in April 1969. http://spyvibe.blogspot.com/2017/09/jack-good-rip.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gzmxI6oisg

"Brain, Brain, What Is Brain!?!" http://comicskingdom.com/zippy-the-pinhead/2017-09-26

Pro Say Originally shared by Alex Scrivener Key fact: you have to hit exactly the right legal notes to make banks take action on your identity theft claim, and most ordinary people can’t navigate the process and aren’t able to get their names cleared. Some Good Samaritan created a form letter that hit exactly the right legal notes, everyone started using it, the banks became annoyed that they had to actually respond to identity theft claims now, and they successfully lobbied Congress to prohibit using form letters to report identity theft. http://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-reports/

Dialectical Transformations via Olivier Malinur Originally shared by Farhad Abdolian So true!

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Supeplative Bakushou. Originally shared by Al Tlön

Forrest Gramps Originally shared by Ray Radlein #FloridaMan http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/entertainment/florida-man-cover-abbey-road-with-beatles-said-they-were-kooks/BnaQigXGlwKao4kTdLGL6L/

Yo, Ho, Blow The Man Down http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2017/09/coast-guard-sets-record-drug-seizures-sea/

EULA Originally shared by John Hardy I'm pretty sure threatening another nation with nuclear annihilation contravenes Twitter's terms of service.

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Couldn't Ketchup http://www.reflector.com/News/2017/09/10/Hurst-keeps-his-collard-crown-but-doesn-t-best-himself.html

Push To Talk Analog Broadcast has its uses... Originally shared by Ray Radlein http://wlrn.org/post/after-hurricane-irma-blew-away-power-century-old-technology-became-lifeline-locals-keys

Not To Scale Originally shared by Ray Radlein https://twitter.com/tressiemcphd/status/911249548852580352

The Floating World In The Cloud Originally shared by Sean Lally http://mymodernmet.com/japanese-woodblock-ukiyo-e-online-database/

Survivor Guilt For me, too many of these stories are from the viewpoint of folks, who never, ever, thought they could be the agent of another person's death, even accidentally, while driving a car. Like so many things, we are so acculturated to the presence and damages inflicted by autos that we don't even think about them, until it happens to us. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/18/the-sorrow-and-the-shame-of-the-accidental-killer

Postcard From The Edge Originally shared by Damn interesting http://digg.com/2017/cassini-final-image-saturn

Being Deplorable Before Deplorable Was Cool And here's the lyric Judge Roy Moore was criticized for referring to: Jesus loves the little children, All the children of the world. Red and yellow, black and white, All are precious in His sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world. A pretty well known song, to folks from certain times and places. Here's more about the author: http://www.paraphiliamagazine.com/periodical/red-and-yellow-black-and-white-clarence-herbert-woolston-writes-a-standard/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/09/22/sarah-palin-in-alabama-the-swamp-is-trying-to-hijack-this-presidency/

Got A Little Tipsy http://www.wral.com/tractor-trailer-carrying-40-000-pounds-of-vodka-overturns-on-us-70/16963307/

Originally shared by **** El meu país és tan petit que quan el sol se’n va a dormir mai no està prou segur d’haver-lo vist. Diuen les velles sàvies que és per això que torna. Potser sí que exageren, tant se val! és així com m’agrada a mi i no en sabria dir res més. Canto i sempre em sabré malalt d’amor pel meu país. El meu país és tan petit que des de dalt d’un campanar sempre es pot veure el campanar veí. Diuen que els poblets tenen por, tenen por de sentir-se sols, tenen por de ser massa grans, tant se val! és així com m’agrada a mi i no sabria dir res més. Canto i sempre em sabré malalt d’amor pel meu país. El meu país és tan petit que sempre cap dintre del cor si és que la vida et porta lluny d’aquí i ens fem contrabandistes, mentre no descobreixin detectors pels secrets del cor. I és així, és així com m’agrada a mi i no en sabria dir res més. Canto i sempre em sabré malalt d’amor pel meu país. El meu país és tan petit que quan el sol se’n va a adormir mai no està prou segur d’have...

We Can Make It Happen Maybe. Chicago-Dialog Pt. 1 & 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8zLGZi7-Yk https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2017/09/20/how-a-black-lives-matter-activist-took-the-stage-and-got-trump-supporters-to-listen-at-last-weekends-dc-rally/ https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/909961001876910080

Bad User Experience Still cheaper than Starbucks... #NotAllUglyAmericans https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowTopic-g293889-i9243-k10875747-Crazy_Nepali_woman_attacks_British_family_on_AC-Nepal.html Originally shared by Max Bolan Athithi Devo Bhava (Visitors should be treated like Gods) lolz http://ind.pn/2xhyo29 #Nepal http://ind.pn/2xhyo29

Here, But Not Here http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/02/opinion/remembering-hepburn-floppy-pants-and-all.html http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/06/07/reviews/980607.07mcgratt.html Originally shared by The New Yorker Lillian Ross, who died last night, was a legend of American journalism. Here is a selection of her pieces. http://nyer.cm/KQOs03e

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You Better Check Your Bucket Eddie Bo's birthday, today. Originally shared by **** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3beRHU-DB4&feature=player_embedded

More Progress, Less Process "Truly, much of what passes for arrangement in processing work is really just overzealous housekeeping, writ large. Our professional fastidiousness, our reluctance to be perceived as sloppy or uncaring by users and others has encouraged a widespread fixation on tasks that do not need to be performed." Pointing out that as much as 80 percent of the archivists’ time was spent “refoldering,” the paper offered shortcuts that, it claimed, would make more collections available without sacrificing much in the way of intellectual accessibility. Originally shared by Damn interesting https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/09/20/keepers-of-the-secrets/

Right On Originally shared by **** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtIUhKZ2aC8&feature=player_embedded

Clickbait With Footnotes Retraction, Rebuttal, or Resignation? https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/09/19/controversy-over-paper-favor-colonialism-sparks-calls-retraction Originally shared by George Station THE WHOLE DANG EDITORIAL BOARD RESIGNS #peerreview #scholarship http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/journals-editorial-board-resigns-over-colonialism-essay/articleshow/60754617.cms

Sparkline Font Originally shared by Julie Bee This Font Makes Graphics Out Of Numbers In Seconds www.fastcodesign.com/90139343/this-font-makes-graphics-out-of-numbers-in-seconds

Corporate Raiders Originally shared by Al Tlön In honour of Talk like a Pirate Day: The Crimson Permanent Assurance (Part 1) https://youtu.be/aSO9OFJNMBA

Originally shared by Anne-Marie Clark Meanwhile in Portland Tweets the Unipiper: "There's a unicycle coming out of your kilt..." Me: Yarr, it be driving me nuts! Happy #TalkLikeAPirateDay! #KeepPortlandWeird #pdx Click to see his video banner of him shirtless in a kiddie pool, flapping bunny flippers and bigger flames coming out of his bagpipes: https://www.facebook.com/theunipiper/ https://twitter.com/TheUnipiper/status/910159563688570881

It Takes A (Potemkin) Village Along with some populist rage and a fair amount of gerrymandering... Originally shared by Will Shetterly The best explanation of the election will not make anyone happy. This is short and smart. Recommended, regardless of your politics. http://mattbruenig.com/2017/09/19/the-boring-story-of-the-2016-election/

Breakfast Of Champions Boy: They stay crispy in milk. Waffelo Bill: Yep. And their chock full of all kinds of good thangs. Girl: What kind of good things? Waffelo Bill: 'Thangs.' Girl: Oh thangs. Horse: He means they're fortified with 8 vitamins plus iron. Waffelo Bill: Yeah. New Waffelos Cereal... a nice part of a complete breakfast. Yaaa Hooo! Horse: Waffelos... the flavor of waffles and maple syrup. From the comments: When I developed Type One Diabetes at aged 10 in 1981, I cried to my mother "You mean I'll never get to eat Waffelos again?" Horrible thing for a little kid, but she still let me have small amounts occasionally. Man I loved this cereal! This stuff was like crack! http://www.mrbreakfast.com/cereal_detail.asp?id=387 Cara Evangelista

The New Euthanasia Suicide by Police ought to be one of the hardest ways to off yourself, instead of one of the easiest. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article174078586.html

Justifiable Homicide https://mondaynote.com/publishers-pick-your-kpis-and-stick-with-them-55e24621efb5 Originally shared by Richard Stevens Tonight's comic is covered in blood-for a good cause. http://www.dieselsweeties.com/ics/392/ http://www.dieselsweeties.com/ics/392/

Wandering Into The Toy Department You could be forgiven, after reading this, for thinking that this kind of TV news changed the world. You'd be right, although probably not for the reasons you'd think. I used to work in the edges of this world, back in the day. It had its moments, and its personalities, for sure. I imagine I'll have to get the book. Originally shared by Damn interesting https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/don-hewitt-60-minutes-50-years-anniversary

Originally shared by **** Gospel Tune - Sandy Bull https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaG0vi9eW8s

Originally shared by Kevin Clarke (ksclarke) https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-unlikely-return-of-cat-stevens

Pecking Order Reminded me of some recent discussions with some peace loving pacifist friends, where I reminded them that they had outsourced their violence to the State. "Oh," they said. Originally shared by Grey Bar0n

"Today, We Are All Clowns" "Juggalos don't care if people are white, gay, black, trans, fat as fuck..." "We're different, not dangerous." Daniel Dale-Toronto Star: "The Juggalo March is definitely the first protest where I've said I'm a reporter and people have tried to hug me." https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/909102442083700736 Did you think you would live to see the day, Julie Bee? What's next, Breadfish for President? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/juggalos-insane-clown-posse-fans-trump-supporters-converge-in-dueling-rallies/

I'll Keep Holding On I've wasted all my tears Wasted all of those years And nothing had the chance to be good Cause nothing ever could oh yeah I'll keep holding on I'll keep holding on I'll keep holding on I'll keep holding on Holding, holding, holding That's all I have today It's all I have to say... Simply Red-Holding Back The Years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG07WSu7Q9w Well. It was either this, or "If You Don't Know Me By Now"... It isn't so much that the Democrats have to move left, as the Democrats have to move, and especially move past the old status quo. http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-2020-2017-9

The Soul Of Wit This business is well ended. My liege and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief: your noble son is mad. Mad call I it, for, to define true madness, What is ’t but to be nothing else but mad? But let that go. via Kevin Clarke Originally shared by John Lusk Wow. Unearthed by Hacker News. Unix shell scripter unloads on Donald Knuth in the most elegant way possible. http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg/

LRAD-R Long Range Acoustic Device... RED... Goings on in Richmond, today. https://twitter.com/gmoomaw/status/909063834874400770

Received Pronunciation Originally shared by Meg L POW. Yeah I'm Ju to the D. Not like I need another reason to love Dame Judi Dench even more than I already do, but this is too adorable for words. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7ojygIbMYk&feature=share

Smashing The E-Patriarchy One (barely) twitching mouse, at a time... I'm so old, I didn't even know that professional e-sports (with coaches and announcers) was a thing. For decades ... Originally shared by Ray Radlein http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/20692051/how-teenage-gamer-became-reluctant-icon-south-korea-feminist-movement?sf114337952=1

Whitewashed https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/books/roald-dahl-charlie-black.html

Sold A Bill Of Goods, Not A Bill Of Rights "He says he was trying to call what he believed to be the agents' bluff. “A lot of people don't understand basic civil rights,” he said." “It's like there's a war going on and they want to make war with my Bill of Rights,” he said. “How do they get away with this? How could this happen?” DHS effectively operates without oversight, and not just in matters of civil forfeiture. via Ray Radlein https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/09/13/customs-agents-seized-a-lawful-gun-owners-truck-over-five-bullets-now-hes-suing-to-get-it-back/

Saving Private Herman Herman ain't no Mother... http://discovermagazine.com/2003/sep/featscienceof via Assia Alexandrova https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/bjvxp4/how-i-saved-my-sourdough-mother-from-hurricane-irma

Five Blade Shutter With the Six Blade Knife of a Pi computer... Making a film chain is harder than it looks... via Kevin Clarke https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/how-to-convert-old-film-reels-with-a-raspberry-pi

A Hitch In The Go Along Get Along "Much of that suppression occurs at the hands of Chinese agents, who construct internet firewalls, monitor communications, and even ban puns in increasingly desperate efforts to rein in the double-speak that censorship breeds." "Winnie the Pooh is the latest victim of Chinese censors, who bristled at comparisons between the fat bear of very little brain and Chinese President Xi Jinping." I offer apologies to the spirit of Pu, master of the Art of the Uncarved Block. Originally shared by Timothy Street If one does not stand up, one may be forced to sit down. "Study the past, if you would divine the future." - Confucius https://www.nas.org/articles/censorship_another_cheap_chinese_import_we_dont_need https://www.nas.org/articles/censorship_another_cheap_chinese_import_we_dont_need

Partisanship Sometimes, when folks fuss about change, it's because they don't like their ox being gored. And my experience with the NC Justice system would confirm that it could use some reform. However, having an arrogant backwoods bail bondsman redesign it certainly seems like a bad idea. http://www.heraldsun.com/opinion/article172241102.html

Arms Control If the ban covers guns, Van Cleave said, the group would likely file a lawsuit. “The law’s the law,” he said. Van Cleave said the VCDL has no issue with the city banning sticks or other objects that could be used as weapons. “Pretty much anything but guns,” Van Cleave said. Fetish: an object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular, a human-made object that has power over others. Fetishism: worship of an inanimate object for its supposed magical powers. http://www.richmond.com/news/local/city-of-richmond/richmond-police-plan-weapons-ban-at-pro-confederate-protest-saturday/article_d595113c-4680-58e1-b4ba-53372d78beaf.html

Telling It Slowly For the Irish and the Southerners... via Al Clark http://www.vulture.com/2017/09/john-cleese-monty-python-in-conversation.html

Standards Some folks got 'em… Some folks don't... Originally shared by Susan Jahn Hah! https://twitter.com/funnyordie/status/908030346590957568?s=09

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Crash Test Dummies “Test subjects must be naïve [sic] and meet the specified demographics (age, gender etc) to ensure a representative passenger load, while at the same time not subjecting people to undue risk." "The two most significant changes in seat design are a move away from bulky upholstered seats to slender shells and the addition to seatbacks of video screens for in-flight entertainment. In fact, DOT documents reveal that testing seatbacks equipped with video screens for blunt trauma impact destroyed so many of the expensive screens that the FAA allowed the manufacturers to substitute cheaper replicas." Originally shared by Damn interesting http://www.thedailybeast.com/flying-coach-is-so-cramped-it-could-be-a-death-trap

(Not) As Good As Money In The Bank Originally shared by Rick Wayne (Author) A bunch of article about cryptocurrencies in my feeds today. Regulators are taking note and warning people of the danger: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41240803 The head of JP Morgan blasted them recently, calling anyone who buys them "stupid" (including his own daughter), and calling the current bubble "worse than the tulip craze": https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/13/bitcoin-fraud-jp-morgan-cryptocurrency-drug-dealers And it turns out that, besides facilitating ransomware developers, identity thieves, drug dealers, and hired killers, Bitcoin is also the new favorite currency of nuclear-powered dictators, per the article below. So if North Korea does progress with their program, breaking UN sanctions, it may very well be because they had access to a financial instrument that didn't previously exist. Wonderful. A common theme among cryptocurrency supporters seems to be t...

And The Hits Just Keep On Comin'..." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/12/your-money/equifax-fee-waiver.html Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh Le sigh. Obfuscated plain-text passwords on web page also revealed using "View Source". "[Brian Krebs] Earlier today, this author was contacted by Alex Holden, founder of Milwaukee, Wisc.-based Hold Security LLC. Holden’s team of nearly 30 employees includes two native Argentinians who spent some time examining Equifax’s South American operations online after the company disclosed the breach involving its business units in North America. It took almost no time for them to discover that an online portal designed to let Equifax employees in Argentina manage credit report disputes from consumers in that country was wide open, protected by perhaps the most easy-to-guess password combination ever: “admin/admin. [...] [Author’s note: I am listed as an adviser to Hold Security on the company’s Web site. However this is not a role...

Lean On Me http://gizmodo.com/yes-google-uses-its-power-to-quash-ideas-it-doesn-t-li-1798646437

Bravo! Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh A fun tribute to the Cassini Mission. "Planetary Society‏ @exploreplanets A farewell to @CassiniSaturn, in the style @RobertPicardo sings best: opera! #GrandFinale " https://twitter.com/exploreplanets/status/907604738232872960/

Persist Steven Barnes remembers Jerry Pournelle, along with thoughts on persistence, and mastery. via +Ray Radlein Originally shared by Cheryl Martin https://stevenbarneslife.wordpress.com/2017/09/12/thank-you-jerry/

The Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu via John Lewis https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column/expert-view/u-s-sick-chinese-analyst-might-view-united-states

Introspection Engine ...will be the name of my next indie electronica/prog rock band... https://www.pubpub.org/pub/direct-radio-introspection https://www.pubpub.org/pub/direct-radio-introspection

Getting All Jacked Up Originally shared by Eric Hansen Completely disproving every hack who whines about "progress" and "no room in the phone". https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=utfbE3_uAMA

Jenga! "It's not like you can call Pepito in Hialeah and he can come take it down. There are few companies that can do it," he said. "You have to call the company ahead of time. They have to come and prepare." "It's an intense procedure and to take 25 cranes down in a matter of four or five days? It's not going to happen. It's not feasible.” His advice? “Don't be next to a crane." http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article172416297.html

The Future of Illiberal Education The struggle is real... D-Day: War’s over, man. Wormer dropped the big one. Bluto: Over? Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! Otter: Germans? Boon: Forget it, he’s rolling. Bluto: And it ain’t over now. ‘Cause when the goin’ gets tough… [thinks hard] Bluto: the tough get goin’! Who’s with me? Let’s go! [runs out, alone; then returns] Bluto: What the fuck happened to the Delta I used to know? Where’s the spirit? Where’s the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you’re gonna let it be the worst. “Ooh, we’re afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble.” Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I’m not gonna take this. Wormer, he’s a dead man! Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer… Otter: Dead! Bluto’s right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons that could take years and cost milli...

Sock! Pow! Zok! Originally shared by lynn paden it's weird to see this animation in the drawing stage ....bare, and without background. it takes a minute to realize where it comes from. more beginning art from the batman series there: https://bigglee.blogspot.com/2017/09/pow-1966-batman-tv-series-opening.html

I Believe In You Well, some of you, anyway... Don Williams passed away today, age 78... http://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/don-williams-countrys-gentle-giant-dead-at-78-w501990 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RksFhgayhtY

Built By Books #InternationalLiteracyDay via the much missed Dirk Puehl http://www.terriwindling.com/blog/2014/04/reading.html

A Farmer Takes A Wife More from John Gould: Describing his great-grandfather’s “swing-dingle” logging sled, he pauses to exclaim, “How America has disintegrated when a swing-dingle must be explained!” http://downeast.com/maine-books-farmer-boys/

Down (East) On The Farm According to John Gould, "Down East is a never-never land always east of where you are." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/arts/e-b-white-house-charlottes-web.html Little Feat-Down On The Farm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh9iycVZubE "They all asked about you Down on the farm The cows asked, the pigs asked The horses asked, too..." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/arts/e-b-white-house-charlottes-web.html

Black & Blue via George Station Originally shared by Rod Mesa (Motorod) >. https://thegeekygaeilgeoir.wordpress.com/2017/09/06/even-racists-got-the-blues/

Terminal Condition Originally shared by Al Tlön “It is dead time,” Don DeLillo wrote. “It never happened until it happens again. Then it never happened." http://www.slate.com/articles/business/cover_story/2017/09/how_airports_became_temples_of_our_national_fear_fueled_psychosis.html#comments

(No) Shelter From The Storm No specific word on what will happen to undocumented folks, but the threat is certainly implied, ain't it? http://www.orlandosentinel.com/weather/hurricane/os-hurricane-irma-florida-sheriff-jail-shelter-20170906-story.html

Trying To Crawl Back Into The (Archie) Bunker http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/trumps-move-to-end-daca-and-echoes-of-the-immigration-act-of-1924

Originally shared by Robert Rambusch Word of the Day: homologate Not a scandal involving Macaulay Culkin Use it in a sentence? I'm glad you asked. http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a10379935/why-moms-suv-is-quicker-than-a-million-dollar-le-mans-winner/ http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a10379935/why-moms-suv-is-quicker-than-a-million-dollar-le-mans-winner/

Last Bus Out Trust The Algorithm. https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/6/16263530/hurricane-irma-airline-flight-price-gouging-florida-tickets

Back To The Future http://www.wral.com/north-hills-time-capsule-on-display-this-month-/16918314/

Making Arrangements "But we certainly can’t work with him [Mark Mothersbaugh], anymore than he would consent to work with us. Same thing for the mandolins and the twelve-string stuff and the harpsichord, they’re out. You yourself may be partial to those particular instruments. We’re not. Remember, we saw “Tom Jones” in its original theatrical release when we were still in high school, we had to listen to “Walk Away Renee” all through college and we fucking opened for Roger McGuinn in the seventies, so all that “jingle-jangle morning” shit is no big thrill for us, OK?" Originally shared by Al Tlön "In 2006, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, aka Steely Dan, wrote an open letter to Wes Anderson from the Chicorydee hotel, Atlanta, Georgia. In a 2007 interview, Anderson said that he “appreciated their advice”, adding: “I can’t say that Steely Dan made me feel like a million bucks actually; but, I think it was kind of funny.”" http://flashbak.com/check-with-owen-wilson-st...

The Big One Originally shared by Susan Stone about a minute of footage right before the beach cam got taken offline in Port St. Maarten by the hurricane http://www.mahobeachcam.com/

#WordlessWednesday #wordlessonwednesday

The Storm Of The Century An old friend from Down East (North Carolina) called this morning to see if I had any advice for how to prepare for a Category 5 Hurricane. I was succinct. I said, "flee." And mentioned we have a spare bedroom up here in the highlands. He laughed, and then reminded me of this story, where the only survivors of work camps made of shell shocked WW I survivors clung to the railroad tracks. Up here, there were four Civilian Conservation Corps camps, who famously did a lot of beautiful stone work on the Blue Ridge Parkway, and several state and national parks, supervised by Galician stone masons, descendants of whom returned a few years back to do some repair work. But the story of what happened to the camps in the Keys is full of preventable tragedy, convenient lies, and bad politics... a cycle we seem to destined to repeat, over and over. Katrina and The Great Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/15109 Revisiting The Lost ...

TED Talk Originally shared by The Onion DNC chair Tom Perez added that the party sought to connect with more Americans by placing the customized slogans on postcards and door-hanger advertisements personally addressed to every inhabitant of the U.S. http://trib.al/A8IXZJQ

Run Out Groove Originally shared by NASA The golden record, humanity’s message to distant spacefarers should they ever come across it, is carried by each Voyager spacecraft as they travel beyond our solar system. Learn more: https://nasa.tumblr.com/post/164913705824/voyager-the-golden-record #Voyager40

Originally shared by Al Tlön Steely Dan

Pambansang Kamao "If Kikkoman's is Lea Salonga holding your hand, looking into your eyes, and smiling while singing love songs to you with her golden voice ... Silver Swan is like Manny Pacquiao showing you why one of his nicknames is Pambansang Kamao."

#DefendDACA #HereToStayNC

MAMIL Full Carbon Carbon Tax Originally shared by ****

A Tip O' The Beret From the Duchess of Cool... http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/read-rickie-lee-jones-poignant-tribute-to-walter-becker-w501078

Young Men (and Women) and Fire David Fathi, the director of the A.C.L.U. National Prison Project, who opposes all forms of prison labor, told me, ‘‘I think one important question to ask is, if these people are safe to be out and about and carrying axes and chain saws, maybe they didn’t need to be in prison in the first place.’’ C.D.C.R. says that the firefighter program is intended to serve as rehabilitation for the inmates. Yet they’re being trained to work in a field they will probably have trouble finding a job in when they get out: Los Angeles County Fire won’t hire felons and C.D.C.R. doesn’t offer any formal help to inmates who want firefighting jobs when they’re released. This institutional disinterest makes more sense when inmate firefighters, who are on-call continuously, are considered as a state resource. Originally shared by Damn interesting https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/31/magazine/the-incarcerated-women-who-fight-californias-wildfires.html

Black Friday Redux I was reminded of this show that Becker & Fagen did with Marian McPartland. The whole show is great, but this track, with Becker on guitar, just swings... Bass – Jay Leonhart Drums – Keith Carlock Guitar – Walter Becker Piano – Marian McPartland Piano, Vocals – Donald Fagen Like Marian says, "That was cool!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De0Pvrw6uo8

Black Friday On a Sunday. No Socks, no Shoes... No Bad Sneakers... http://somethingelsereviews.com/2014/10/05/steely-dan-sunday-five-best-walter-becker-guitar/ I'll miss Walter Becker laying down track after track of whack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0QhaBW73Sk

They Heard The Call I recall when I was small, How I spent my days alone. The busy world was not for me, So I went and found my own I would climb the garden wall, With a candle in my hand I'd hide inside a hall of rock and sand... On the stone an ancient hand, In a faded yellow-green. Made alive a worldly wonder, Often told but never seen. Now and ever bound to labor, On the sea and in the sky. Every man and beast appeared A friend as real as I... Before the fall when they wrote it on the wall, When there wasn't even any Hollywood, They heard the call, And they wrote it on the wall For you and me we understood... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0A2iYzOizY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R0A2iYzOizY

Change Of The Guard Dang. "If you live in this world, you're feeling the change of the guard..." Steely Dan-Change Of The Guard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p9d-PlV2ro Originally shared by **** http://thekey.xpn.org/2017/09/03/walter-becker-steely-dan-rip/

They Walked The Line Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh TIL just what is this line. ""It was the equivalent of the moon landings today," according to Mason-Dixon Line expert David Thaler. Baker's son Charles Mason and lapsed Quaker Jeremiah Dixon were established scientists when commissioned to settle a land dispute in the pre-revolutionary America of 1763. For 80 years the Calvert family of Maryland and the Penns of Pennsylvania had been locked in a bloody dispute over the boundary between the two colonies they had been granted by the English Crown. "The stakes were very high," said Mr Thaler, trustee of the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore and an expert on the Mason-Dixon project. "There was about 4,000 sq miles of territory that was in dispute and nobody knew who to pay taxes to. Warfare regularly broke out along the border." [...] The Mason-Dixon Line was drawn in two parts. An 83-mile (133.5km) north-south divide between Maryland and ...

Parental Controls https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/09/02/trump-browser

Straphangin' The Brecker Brothers-Straphangin': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pducylpRS7w Originally shared by The New York Public Library Informed Archives: The Straphangers Campaign and the NYC Subway System http://on.nypl.org/2iFL4tC http://on.nypl.org/2iFL4tC

Consequences Of A Low Sodium Diet Also, whatever happened to Navy coffee? “It’s safe to say I’ve bought enough Red Bull, Monster, and Rip-Its that I could [have made] a sizable down payment on a house." Harumph. http://www.eaglespeak.us/2007/04/sunday-ship-history-navy-coffee.html http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2017/08/met-enemy-us-will-navy-learn-tragic-collisions/

Carry That Weight AKA: "I never give you my number, I only give you my situation... And in the middle of investigation, I break down..." Originally shared by Robert Rambusch ... the world around Bravetart P 116, Stella Parks https://medium.com/@thebravetart/a-pints-not-a-pound-19ae49db81fe https://medium.com/@thebravetart/a-pints-not-a-pound-19ae49db81fe

Infrastructure Failure There were no rules. Speedway officials said there was no rule against building such bleachers and stands, and their only safety rule was that they "looked safe." The Wisdom of Markets ain't much on Physics, Safety, or Weather. http://anengineersaspect.blogspot.com/2012/07/grandstand-collapse-at-1960.html http://indymotorspeedway.com/scaffold.html

Public/Private Partnership Oh, wait, maybe that's not what that means... https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/site-sells-instagram-users-phone-and-e-mail-details-10-a-search/

Raise Your Voice It ain't always easy. It always matters. If not to them, then to you. https://medium.com/@katstory/when-the-racist-is-someone-you-know-and-love-2933c7049182

Taking A Bite Out Of Crime http://www.wral.com/man-encounters-shark-after-jumping-into-ocean-during-surf-city-police-chase/16918425/