From the goofballs that brought you Cinnamon Challenge 2001, comes Horseradish Challenge #1 and Horseradish Challenge #2. How this man can continue to eat this stuff and live is beyond me.

[Kottke.org]

- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 9:14:35 PM -

In today's SF GATE MORNING FIX

**Dick Cheney With A Large Knife**

Seriously. It's a photo. Like you'll be able to sleep after seeing this.
You have been warned. I mean it. Click the link and get ready. It's
worse than you imagine. This is not a joke. Well it is, but it's a
serious photo that looks like it should be a joke because it's
absolutely terrifying and wrong. The stuff of nightmares. And Xanax.

And therapy. And wet dreams, if you're a spitting sociopathic partially
lobotomized ferret. Or Lynne Cheney. Which is the same thing. Go ahead now.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/nm/20020130/ts/mdf122000.html

- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 12:57:43 PM -

Short Attention Span Summary

The Web has engendered an unexpected lust, a longing for something. We don't even know what the Web is for but we know we must have it.

- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 11:03:06 AM -

John Ashcroft believes calico cats are signs of th .... John Ashcroft believes calico cats are signs of the Devil, according to this November column by financial guru Andrew Tobias. Link

posted by Mark Frauenfelder at 09:47 [bOing bOing]

- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 3:29:40 PM -

Search Engine Watch ..."provides tips and information about searching the web, analysis of the search engine industry and help to site owners trying to improve their ability to be found in search engines."

- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 8:40:00 PM -

This Modern World. Rational Republicans agree: The Enron scandal is a nonstarter! [Salon.com]

Tom Tommorrow has his own blog with lots of material that needs to be read, such as:

- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 8:36:35 PM -

[Privacy Digest]

- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 1:58:26 PM -

Matt sent me the following:

Can you believe .... lawyers with a sense of humor?

http://www.b-f-h.com/index.html

- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 9:12:03 AM -

Unbelieveable names portal, with links to lists.... Unbelieveable names portal, with links to lists of every conceivable kind of name: Female hippie names, Jamaican bus names, unpopular American names, cheese names, Finnish name pronunciation guides -- I am in heaven.

posted by Cory Doctorow at 23:24 [bOing bOing]

- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 9:04:06 AM -

Quote of the day editor wrote:

 "It's just that no one dared to report it when they were late."

 - Gianni Farneti, spokesman for the Italian Railroad Service, debunks the right wing myth that Italian trains ran on time under the rule of Benito Mussolini. Quoted in the Manchester Guardian, 2002-01-16

> [http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4336777,00.html]

> Submitted by: Chas Simmons  Jan. 21, 2002

- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 6:01:49 PM -

I am discovering Andrei Codrescu's writings. There is so much richness, enojoyment of bathing in the fresh waters of words and phrases -- hold that thought. Let's switch to RageBoy for just a sec - There is one line that struck me the most. (I think it's from Bombast Transcripts) and it's this:

'The Solution is Poetry'

That is the most brilliant line I have ever read in a business book. (sidenote: Thank god he didn't say 'The solution is zooming'. I would have to personally go to Colorado and beat the zooming crap out of that fucker with dead monkeys. But he said 'The Solution is Poetry' and we are sticking with it people)

Hop over to Exquisite Corps or Codrescu.com to persue Romanian approach to business. Find a solution for whatever ails you or your corporatura. Here are some 'Solution' quotes for your musing from an interview with Andrei.(scroll 2/3 of the page) and we start with a solution for 'content' creation:

"content" is a meaningless word. Everything is "content." But only poets are in full possession of it, because they are the only ones who move within the imaginary as easily as Hispanic maids move within the houses of the rich on Long Island

and move to a solution for religion:

My religion is Creolisation, Hybridization, Miscegenation, Immigration, Genre-Busting, Trespassing, Border-Crossing, Identity-Shifting, Mask-Making, and Syncretism

and a solution for work: (The follwing reminds me of Gonzo first chapter on Bricolage.)

My work is about play: take apart things to see what's in them, then use the parts to make something else, invite people over to play with you, stay up all night.

Play, bricolage - I have an affinity for people who 'take themselves apart' or 'dismantle themselves' to examine what's there, what's worth to keep, what's ready to be discarded and how could one put oneself together - with play and stay up all night (yes, it's 3:03am) joyfullness. Why this affinity? No idea but it's the discovery, exploration what I most love about life and I am recommending this solution to all.

And the following quote left me speechless:

Language is a battlefield: it is littered with the corpses of words killed by ideologies, strangled to death by advertising, assassinated by political opportunists, drowned in the urine of bureaucratic sadists. On this field, poets have the very big job of rendering the killers of words inefficient through paradox, irony, erudition, and sound. At the same time, they must save the still-living words from the intensifying hunt for them by the purveyors of "content."

and now no words to come to mind so I will shut up after I remind you that 'The Solution is Poetry' - practiced often.

- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 9:06:05 AM -

[from  radioUser.com ]

Here's a set of mind-blowing images that go from way out in the universe to subatomic structure in powers of ten.

Here's some wisdom for all you blues lovers out there. Before you read this, swallow your coffee or it will end up in your keyboard.  

If you think your job sucks, try being a Stick Figure Warning Man!

- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 9:25:00 PM -

In Just in case you weren't feeling too old today, this will certainly change things. Each year the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin put together a list to try to give the faculty a sense of the mind set of this year's incoming freshmen.Here's this year's list:

1) The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1983.

2) They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.

3) Their lifetime has always included AIDS.

4) Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.

5) The CD was introduced the year they were born.

6) They have always had an answering machine.

7) They have always had cable.

8) They cannot fathom not having a remote control.

9) Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.

10) Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.

11) They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.

12) They can't imagine what hard contact lenses are.

13) They don't know who Mork was or where he was from.

14) They've never heard:

a.. "Where's the Beef?",

b.. "I'd walk a mile for a Camel", or

c.. "de plane Boss, de plane".

15) They do not care who shot J. R. and have no idea who J. R. even is.

16) Michael Jackson has always been white.

17) McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers.

18) They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.

Sent to me by Jim Holler.

- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 11:46:37 AM -

connection can order a potato gun .. ready to fire.

- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 4:26:51 PM -

Good site for bidding on priceline

http://pub4.ezboard.com/bpricelineandexpediabidding

- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 2:54:44 PM -