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How many are there of you?
It's says I'm the only one in the US, but I already knew that. Whadda bout youse?
suggested by Ms. Greene
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MySpace is the best place
oh yes, there is.Sunday, July 30, 2006 (SF Chronicle)
TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES/How I became a MySpace hottieLisa Hix, Special to The Chronicle
Oh, there are so many ways to amuse yourself on MySpace.
Angles, baby, all angles.
Then it happened. By some miracle of God, I took a great picture.
This had to be honored in the halls of MySpace. You know, for all my
exes to cry about.
It wasn't long before they came poking around. And by they, I mean the girl collectors, the guys who build their self-esteem based on how many
porn chicks they can "friend" and put in their "Top 8." Yes, this ridiculous site lets you rank your eight, or 16, best friends on the Internet. Or your favorite "ho's."
The porn industry has found quite an advertising tool in MySpace, through soft-porn fembots who spit out hourly ads to real porn sites. Of course, some girls just post trashy pictures.
This girl-collector attention is all very funny to me. I am pale and freckled and bespectacled and flat-chested. Even in my "hot" pictures I do not look like a porn chick or resemble a fembot. I look like Daphne and Velma rolled up into one.
What's even funnier is that my new paramours don't read my profile.
If they did, for one, they would know that I am an editor, and very much in love with grammar rules and clever turns of phrase. I wouldn't get so many anti-grammatical text-message-style come-ons. "wazzup cutie. u r hott.hollatchaboi!" It's 50 variations on the same theme. Some of these Romeos are 18, and some are close to 40, and I don't know which is more disturbing: bad spellers close to or far from high school.
Click on link above for full essay.
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Reasons never to pass out with friends....
.. Or should that be frenemies?
And the ..1 reason
Not to drink with "friends" ......
Seen on a bulletin from MySpace.
And the ..1 reason
Not to drink with "friends" ......
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Size is relative
This was sent to me from SupaD. Nifty and geeky.
Nicely puts some size issues into perspective.
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Congressional Votes Database
Fucking-A most awesome....
Bless you Washington Post.
About the site,in the paper's own words, cut-and-pasted ....Arrrrgh!
Bless you Washington Post.
About the site,in the paper's own words, cut-and-pasted ....Arrrrgh!
This site, washingtonpost.com's U.S. Congress Votes Database, is a deep database of every vote in the United States Congress since the 102nd Congress (1991). It lets you browse votes in a variety of ways -- both in aggregate and for individual members of Congress.
Browse the database by drilling down to a particular Congress (e.g. 109th Congress) or particular member (e.g. 109th Congress senators).
This site publishes an RSS feed of recent votes by each member of Congress, and a feed of the most recent votes in both chambers. See the RSS page for full details.
This site is generally updated every day, although there is a delay between a vote in Congress and its appearance on the official Congress Web sites.Methodology
The data for washingtonpost.com's U.S. Congress Votes Database is taken directly from several official Internet sources:
House vote data comes from the Web site of the Clerk of the House of Representatives.
Senate vote data comes from the Web site of the Senate.
Member biographical information, including birth dates and hometowns, comes from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Member gender information comes from Women in Congress site and the Women in the Senate page.
Representatives' district information comes from the Library of Congress' THOMAS site.
For each congressional vote in each chamber beginning with the 102nd Congress (1991), the Post has assembled detail and summary information about that vote and the members who took part. In addition to displaying the details of every vote, washingtonpost.com calculates a majority position for Republicans and Democrats, if one exists.
The Post uses additional sources for certain types of summary information. For the vote totals by region, regional definitions from the U.S. Census Bureau are employed. For totals by "Baby Boomer" status, the Post defines Baby Boomers as those born between the end of World War II (Aug. 1, 1945) through Dec. 31, 1964, inclusive. Vote totals by astrological sign are calculated using each member's date of birth.
Statistics on most-voted on bills include votes in both the House and Senate for a two-year Congress. Late-night votes are defined as those occurring between midnight and 7 a.m.
Finally, this site is a work in progress and will be expanded over time. If you have ideas on how to improve it, please contact us via the e-mail addresses in the following section.Credits
This site was created by Adrian Holovaty of washingtonpost.com and Derek Willis of The Post. Contact them at adrian.holovaty at wpni dot com and willisd at washpost dot com.
Brian Cordyack designed the site. Contact him at brian.cordyack at wpni dot com.
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Erections
City design with a vast difference
An anonymous source at City Hall tipped Iowa Ear off to this aerial photo on
the Polk County assessor's Web page. It's of the city of Des Moines'
detention basin at 2617 Easton Blvd.
The nearly four-acre basin was constructed about two years ago and "took
some of the load off of the pipe downstream" and helps prevent flooding,
according to Des Moines City Engineer Jeb Brewer.
Brewer swears that consultants who work for the city did not design the $5.7
million detention basin to resemble anything, but recent e-mails to City
Hall from area residents seem to have found "art" in the not-so-subtle
phallic design.
"It's pretty functional," Brewer said. "There's no artistic statement in our
detention basin."
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Radio Ga-Ga
What if there was a Website that made an online radio tailor to your taste in music, based off favorite songs and artists?
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Ask a Mexican
I really wasn't sure where to post this. I'm half tempted to list this under Post-Ironic Neo Transcendentalism 'cause it's so refreshingly goddam honest. The headline links to the weekly column from the OC Weekly.
Dear Mexican,
Where does a Mexican’s “sense” of color scheme come from? I have seen trucks that are teal, maroon and yellow—all on one truck! Is this something ustedes do on purpose, and do ustedes know it looks like crap?
Blinded by the Blight
Dear Gabacho,
Alan Burner doesn’t think that the Mexican love of vibrant colors is crap. Burner is a professor at the Art Institute of California—Orange County and one of the country’s premier color theorists; his textbook, The Dynasty of Light, is required reading in art schools nationwide. “Color is very spiritual and symbolic of one’s inner nature,” the bueno professor told the Mexican. “Worldwide, if you view ethnic people with a rich heritage, you’ll find vibrant colors, because they’re energized. You look at Mexicans, they’re passionate at what they do. When they work, they work hard. When they play, they play hard.” That translates into the retina-searing trucks, houses and hair that offend you so, Blinded. Burner adds that gabacho criticism of bright colors is “just singing sour grapes because we don’t have the guts to do what Mexicans do. [Bright colors] are a very brave approach to life—it shows you’re not afraid of emotions. Americans, we’re lazy and lethargic. We’re stuffy. We’re colorless. We’re too busy building façades and not being genuine. We’ll say, ‘Bright pink is not a sophisticated way to paint your house,’ but that’s only because we want everyone to be as phony and plastic as we are.” Translation, Blinded: you’re as cowardly as a Guatemalan.
I could’ve sworn I heard somewhere that the song “La Cucaracha” was originally about Pancho Villa’s soldiers, and the lyrics had to do with them not being able to march without marijuana. I totally forgot where I heard it, man, but I also heard something about the U.S. Cavalry tracking the troops, and how they would find joint butts strewn across the trail. Is this why gabachos from Hawaii to Ireland to Thailand refer to the end of a joint as a roach?
Alto en Vida
Dear Gabacho,
Next to “The Mexican Hat Dance” and “Livin’ la Vida Loca,” America’s favorite Mexican song is “La Cucaracha.” Even Carl Sandburg was a fan of the cockroach-citing ditty—the famed poet included it in his 1927 collection of folk tunes, The American Songbag. Sandburg wrote that he first heard it in 1916 in Chicago from two reporters who had covered the Mexican Revolution and “had eaten frijoles with Villa and slept under Pancho’s poncho.” Sandburg included eight stanzas of “La Cucaracha” in The American Songbag, but there are hundreds of variations. “‘La Cucaracha’ is the Spanish equivalent of ‘Yankee Doodle’—a traditional satirical tune periodically fitted out with new lyrics to meet the needs of the moment,” noted Cecil Adams, author of the syndicated column “The Straight Dope,” in his 2001 take on the song’s meaning. Indeed, “La Cucaracha” is one of the oldest songs in Hispanic culture. There are lyrics that ridicule Pancho Villa, the French occupation of Mexico, the Carlist Wars of the mid-19th century, even the Moors (“From the skin of the Moorish king/I have to make a sofa/So the Spanish captain/Can sit in it,” goes one such version—and you think Europe hates Muslims today!). I’d never heard the “Cucaracha”/roach theory until you mentioned it, High on Life, but it wouldn’t be the first time gabachos had appropriated Mexican culture to describe their sinful acts—“Dirty Sanchez,” anyone?
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The MySpace Movie
*COMING TO A BULLETIN NEAR YOU*
*OPENS EVERYWHERE*
*NOTE*This film is NOT associated with the MySpace site.
(Finders Credit: Wheatley)
Brillant. ...or is that Brillent? Nope. Brillant.
"working my angles"
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Pets in Uniform...or outer space!
Like this photo, but very different.
(thanks imp)
...And, in case your pooch gets abducted by little green men – or is the PC term these days greys? – this might help with the recovery. Shit! I just realized these are for people. D'oh.
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Brokeback to the Future
"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit."
Brokeback to the Future
And, this one's thanks to Ste7en.
And -- oh yes -- there's more:
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