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I’ve mentioned before that I digitally “clip” portions of books I read on Kindle because I find certain excerpts interesting, funny or insightful and worth sharing at a later date. Here are a few of my most recent clippings. From Pascal Bruckner’s The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism: “Let us bewa

  Baby condor Deep-sea Yeti crab Inside North Korea Lowering the Bar: Governor Praises Legislature for Mountain-Lion-Stuffing Bill Leopard and dingo theft Wayne Crews: Who’s the Bigger Regulator — Bush or Obama? Related articles ‘Lost World’ Discovered in Antarctica (bigthink.com) Hairy Crab Dubbed “The Hoff” (

Finally! THE DEBATE WE ALL NEED! Related articles Desert Christ and the Joke-Telling LBJ Robot (icedborscht.com) Pussy Galore (rikrawling.wordpress.com) OTL: Full version of Johnny Jolly profile (espn.go.com) —————————————————————– ————————————————�

h/t Richard Roadkill Milligan Related articles Putin hails 65 years of Russian hockey (en.rian.ru) Clever Criminal or Crappy Cops? (reason.com) The 2011 Worst Prosecutor of the Year Award (theagitator.com) Damien Hirst: No Love Lost (rikrawling.wordpress.com) —————————————————————�

Check it out, all my fly motherfuckers. Related articles A Cluttered, Unquiet Place (3quarksdaily.com) There’s No There There: Our Hollow President Obama (3quarksdaily.com) Where Is So-Called Conservative Media on Romney? (realclearpolitics.com) —————————————————————– ———�

America’s Gayest City is in Utah An Atheist Defends Tim Tebow Celebrities as Russian Generals h/t Jackie Baisa via the Princeling Chris Christie Does Oprah Come For the Basketball, Stay for the Gay Ninja Dance Fight Eric Fruits: In Portland, Road Maintenance Takes a Backseat to Bikes and Streetcars Fred Seigel and Joel K

…and canine jaw: Related articles How Has Glass-Jawed Romney Survived? (realclearpolitics.com) Poodle Bitch is sad to note the passing of Pusuke (childmurderingrobot.blogspot.com) Whatever Happened to Curly? (neatorama.com) Should Poodle Bitch start listening to P!nk? (childmurderingrobot.blogspot.com) ——————

Write text here… Related articles Antipiracy Bid Aims to Jump Hurdle — Wall Street Journal (online.wsj.com) Missing toll jumps as ship search resumes — CBS News (cbsnews.com) GOP Race Intensifies — Wall Street Journal (online.wsj.com) —————————————————————– —————

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…is either this: …or this… On some days, it’s this: Related articles Battle Songs: These Children Can’t be Bought (3quarksdaily.com) Hair of the Dog (thedabbler.co.uk) The 25 Most Powerful Songs of the Past 25 Years (neatorama.com) —————————————————————– —————�

Just had some new business cards shipped to my current living space, Le Tigre Lounge. The cards have cupcakes (not borscht) emblazoned on them, but I can live with that sort of incongruity. What does everyone think? Related articles Woman Fined for Having Car Parked in the Same Spot since 208 AD (neatorama.com) Han Solo in

Michael Shermer: Why experts get it wrong so often Mother Jones’ interesting but ultimately kind of snarky and dumb take on libertarianism No cops, broken-down ambulances – shit’s fucked up in Detroit (and shit) Our stupid, green city does not want to pave roads for the next five years Prediction Machine says Green

I don’t know if it’s because I’m prone to ADHD-ish behavior or what, but I generally read two or three books simultaneously. Whichever one is within closest proximity to me is the one I grab and read. Currently on my Kindle or in my own bare hands: Death is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury; [...]

Lost in the flurry of year-end reportage/blogging was Glenn Greenwald’s excellent New Year’s Eve piece at Salon.com about Ron Paul. In short, GG holds a mirror up to our big, dumb faces and confirms that, yes, while we’re all fixated on whether Paul (or one of Paul’s jogging buddies) wrote pee-pee or poo-poo in

“…economically rational public policy is incompatible with political viability. Having hit bottom, the politicians can only do one thing: keep digging. If Hell is down there, they’ll reach it, sooner or later.” – the Independent Institute’s ROBERT HIGGS – via Reason Magazine circa 2009 Related articles Ego Bl

I’m going to steal Jacob Grier’s idea and blog about my favorite miscellaneous things of 2011. Here we go. Best local intoxicant: The kava at Bula Kava House. The staff at BKH has started to place more of an emphasis on the potency of its kava (rather than flavor), and the results are stellar. Best [...]

Via Twitter and Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost comes this awesome prize at my doorstep: Thanks, Mark! Related articles Canada’s New Plastic Currency (neatorama.com) Notes on ‘Kamp Burgundy’ (3quarksdaily.com) Twin Peaks Intro-Parks And Rec Style (neatorama.com) Wrap-up: Vikings 33, Redskins 26 (espn.go.com) ——�

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Related articles North Korea dubs Kim Jong Un ‘supreme commander’ — CNN International (cnn.com) New Anti-Election Fraud Protests Begin in Moscow — Voice of America (voanews.com) Pope decries commercial glitter of Christmas — The Guardian (guardian.co.uk) ————————————————————

Tonight’s linkage… Astronaut cow Brain sculptures made from food Brazilian turd statue Dana Schutz Talks About Her “Scuzzy” and “Contagious” Paintings Daniel Kalder: Cloning the Mammoth Dutch dodo museum Fukushima’s Dead Zone Here is one of my awesome Christmas gifts from Jackie Baisa (And here is a Christmas

A smattering of links this Friday evening… Happy microwave oven History of cute robots Homeless robots Larry King looks forward to being frozen upon death Mammoth mummies Naked David statue vandalized Officials in Uzhgorod, Ukraine threaten to melt down statue of Lenin  Parts of Einstein’s brain on display Strange antl

Some pics from my recent trip to Carmel and Monterey…        Related articles A Philosopher’s Sickness (3quarksdaily.com) 20 Unbelievable Video Game Stories (neatorama.com) Mastodons, Giant Squid Beaks and “The National Thing” (3quarksdaily.com) History of Miniature Golf (terrastories.com) The Riddle of Jerry

As the Inanimate Immortality book project continues to gestate and take shape, I’ll keep asking for peoples’ subject-matter suggestions. The great Daniel K recommends Austin’s joke-telling Lyndon B. Johnson robot (which DK describes to the Onion here) and longtime Internet friend o’ mine Cordelia Roberts recommends

Available here. Related articles Noah Scalin for Kennith Cole (streetanatomy.com) Picking up one’s marbles and going home (scienceblogs.com) Yemen unrest — Washington Post (washingtonpost.com) —————————————————————– ————————————————————�

Amazing photo via Jackie B Related articles At Jonestown, a Time to Die (realclearpolitics.com) Why We Don’t Let People Die (realclearpolitics.com) Five die in South Siberia fire (en.rian.ru) Die-Hard Fan (neatorama.com) —————————————————————– ———————————�

Via Comically Vintage: Related articles New at Reason: William Niskanen’s 1978 Reason Interview (reason.com) 25 Foods You’ll Never Be Able To Eat Again (weirduniverse.net) 14 Hours of Free Cab Rides (neatorama.com) Yemen’s President Agrees to Step Down — Wall Street Journal (online.wsj.com) ————————�

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So my favorite photographer and best friend Jackie Baisa and I have decided to produce an Inanimate Immortality coffee-table book. Jackie would take most of the photos, and we would both contribute accompanying prose. Now comes the tough part — we need to make a wish list of must-see objects and/or places to include in t

Some sort of Russian aquatic Olympics with blow-up sex dolls. (h/t Jackie B) Related articles Celebrity Week for Occupy Portland (bojack.org) The fall in combat of commander Alfonso Cano (english.pravda.ru) Spaghetti Western Orchestra (neatorama.com) Arundhati Roy on ‘Walking with the Comrades’ (3quarksdaily.com) Ohio m