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Do you need another reason never to take the bus?
BRANDON, Man. — Thirty-six passengers of a Greyhound bus travelling from Edmonton to Winnipeg Wednesday night watched in horror as a fellow passenger reportedly stabbed another man sleeping next to him, eventually decapitating him and waving the man’s severed head.
“He didn’t do anything to provoke the […]

Today’s headlines are putting me to sleep:
Google tests in-game advertising software
Don’t care.
EarthLink eyes AOL dialup for purchase
Don’t care.
Apple restores deleted MobileMe emails
Really don’t care — and “email” is not a count noun. Don’t you illiterate buffoons employ editors?
Cheaper GeForce 9500 GT not due until Q4
Yawn.
Dell poised to re-enter MP3 player market?
Good for insomnia.

The Carnival of Ed is posted. Now, for those of you who have never hosted a carnival, it’s pretty simple. People submit articles. You paste the URLs for the submitted articles, surround it with something, and you’re done.
A sixth-grader could do it.
But this blogger apparently cannot. Two of the best bloggers in the edusphere, Jane […]

I have an appointment at 10:30.

The youtube video of the recent Penn and Teller show on Greenie idiocy is all over the blogosphere, so you’ve probably seen it (I haven’t, because I watch the show, so I don’t know if the youtube video is the whole show or not). Where do they find these people? We have this scam artist […]

Ted Bridge-To-Nowhere Stevens indicted!

How can you run a country if you cannot run a convention?
And yet more idiocy: I’m trying to save the planet!

I love the Progressive commercials with Flo, particularly the “tricked-out name tag”:

And the “Surprise!” commercial:

So does anybody know where the text in text widgets are actually stored? I lost all of mine. The text widgets are there, but they’re empty.
Just curious. I’m just happy that my content is back.

Psychological studies confirm what we all know: Long meetings are a waste of time
Though it does invoke the “We needed a study to tell us that?” response.

I hate to say this, because I’m going to come off like a traitor, but I strongly suspect that crime rates have more to do — directly, that is — with the metropolitan/non-metropolitan population ratio than they do gun laws.
Look at the crime rates for states broken down into metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas. The difference […]

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The problems I use aren’t for the most part mathematical brain teasers, because the real world problems I’m trying to […]

None of my uploaded images are showing (and they’re all uploaded, plus the protections are set correctly). I just uploaded another image, which goes to the same directory, and it shows up. So I’m not sure what’s going on. I’m downloaded all of my uploaded images. If nothing else, I can re-upload those I really […]

Until I get those files uploaded, which I’m going to do now.

Created a mysql 5.0 database and dumped the backup from the command line — and all the data is back. I haven’t backed up all of my files, notably some of my graphics, so my header is weird, but I’ll change the theme until I get everything back.
Whew!

From today’s local rag:
Irving’s Bakery Cafe is multiplying.
A new location opened at the University Park Airport last Monday
Okay, a baker/sandwich place at the airport makes sense, but:
and an additional location will open at the new Geisinger Grays Woods facility on Aug. 4 — the same day the medical facility is to open . . .
The […]

But I have an education article (only part rant) in the pipeline.

Hmmmm. So is The Dark Knight still at the theater here today? Hey, how about that? It is! Maybe see it again . . .

From Rory, whose daughter’s teacher said the following:
You daughter is a good reader, she just has problems with her decoding
One more time: The fundamental problem with education is that idiots like this become teachers.

That’s how much The Dark Knight made in one day (Surber).
Sells $66.4 million worth of tickets in one day — or 10 times what “Valley of Elah” sold in over a year.
Ah, yes, the VRWC’s favorite antiwar movie. Its total box office and rentals are $6.5 million.
And it’s going to keep making money:
All indications are […]

Iraq, that is, on the civilized nations list:
KFC is now open in Fallujah—formerly Iraq’s most dangerous city. It’ll be interesting to see how residents cope with the subsequent arrival of naked PETA protesters.
Naked PETA protesters in Fallujah. I’d pay good money to see what the Iraqis would do to them.

The world’s all time greatest keyboard: The IBM Model M. I hate this keyboard (my notebook). I have an old clicky Dell keyboard on my desktop (the one that came with it is still in the box). I picked up the Dell keyboard at the university warehouse, and I like the touch, but it has […]

Seriously. The Dark Knight lives up to all the hype. A helluva movie. I can’t recommend seeing it in the theater strongly enough.
We went to the one down the road that nobody knows about. Er, knew about. We already had bought our tickets, and we got there 25 minutes early. The theater was nearly full […]

The first corn of the season! Today: Corn pudding, with chicken, sauteed in butter and cream.
After the movie, of course.

Dark Knight made 18 million dollars on the midnight showing alone (Ace). The local theater (the one 2.5 miles down the road) is even showing it at 10 am on weekends, and the theater never opens before noon.
Planning for the 1 pm today, but only if the car is done by then (I’m about six […]

From Nittany Meats. Way too bland. I don’t mean “not hot,” I mean indistinguishable from ground pork. This seems to be a sausage-challenged area.
And it’s too lean. You put sausage in a cold pan with no fat or oil, turn the heat on low, and let it cook. That’s the way you’re supposed to cook […]

I hopped over to my high school website, and the school is about the same size (senior class has 62 students) with an 87% graduation rate, but I didn’t recognize any of the teachers, not the names, not the faces. I suspect most are local (that’s the way it works, plus the family names are […]

I just found out that one of my high school teachers died last year. He was one of the teachers we played a lot of jokes on, but I’ll just let those go.

(Dark) chocolate-covered cherries. Scuse me, I need another one.

courtesy of Wyatt. Don’t fly US Air:
NEW YORK (CNN) — U.S. Airways is pressuring pilots to use less fuel, undermining their authority and possibly compromising safety, according to a spokesman for the U.S. Airline Pilots Association.
Eight pilots and their union have filed complaints with the Federal Aviation Administration, accusing the airline of infringing on their […]

Superdelegates switching to Hillary.

in under a year, that is. Hire the Amish.

The jug-eared jackass, that is, who is often touted for his techno-brilliance:
A funny thing happened over on the Barack Obama campaign website in the last few days.
The parts that stressed his opposition to the 2007 troop surge and his statement that more troops would make no difference in a civil war have somehow disappeared. John […]

From Peter Risdon. We’re not all weenies on this side of the pond.
Check out today’s links at Maggie’s Farm.
Here are a few more:

Shaun Doherty and Bob Clegg Sign Wave in Pelham New Hampshire
Shaun Doherty and Bob Clegg Sign Wave in Pelham New Hampshire
Take Part in the Historic Republican Party Online Platform
Take Part in the Historic […]

What is it about living in cities that turns people into drooling idiots? Courtesy of Sebastian, here is the latest thing Philadelphia police are doing instead of, you know, arresting criminals.
When you’re in law enforcement, there are days when you really feel like you’re making a difference.
And then there are days like today.
An officer brings […]

I’m not sure what’s going on in France. First, it was CW and line dancing. Now, this.
EVEN if you couldn’t be on the Champs-Élysées for Bastille Day on Monday to watch seven parachutists float down in front of President Nicolas Sarkozy, you can still celebrate the greatness of France with a new local tradition.
Eat a […]

Posted early this week. Here.

About once a day, I get these calls (caller ID shows “unavailable”) from a computer, which says:
“Hello. I’m calling about important personal business. Please call me back. My number is. Again, my number is.”
The message doesn’t leave a number. It just says, “My number is. Again, my number is.”
Must not be too important.

Clicky for biggie:

Recipe here.

Half of a full bookshelf is taken up by DVDs, but a couple of times, I’ve looked for a DVD, not found it, and thought, “Oh, I thought we had that. I guess not.”
Well, Gladiator is on (just now ending), which reminded me of A Beautiful Mind, which I know we have. It is nowhere […]