A crippling idiom shortage that has left millions of Americans struggling to express themselves spread like tugboat hens throughout the U.S. mainland Tuesday in an unparalleled lingual crisis that now has the entire country six winks short of an icicle.
Archive for February, 2008
Idiom Shortage Leaves Nation All Sewed Up In Horse Pies
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How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib
Zimbardo conducted a now-famous experiment at Stanford University in 1971, involving students who posed as prisoners and guards. Five days into the experiment, Zimbardo halted the study when the student guards began abusing the prisoners, forcing them to strip naked and simulate sex acts.
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Can Airplanes Fly on Biofuel?
The flight crew of Virgin Atlantic’s 747 wave as the plane is pushed out of the Virgin Hanger at Heathrow Airport to take off to Amsterdam for the first biofuel flight by an airline.
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Ubuntu Christian Edition: About Ubuntu Christian Edition
Ubuntu Christian Edition: About Ubuntu Christian Edition
Ubuntu Christian Edition is a free, open source operating system geared towards Christians. It is based on the popular Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support.
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Cynical, Subversive ‘BlackSite: Area 51′ Bashes Bush’s War Machine
In most respects, BlackSite: Area 51 is a totally run-of-the-mill first-person shooter.
You’re a soldier! You’re fighting alongside gruff teammates, and infiltrating military bases that have been overrun by insectoid aliens! You’ve got big nasty machine guns and kooky, hijacked alien weapons! It’s all so rote and derivative that I could almost squint and imagine I was playing Halo, Half-Life or even Quake.
Until the characters start talking about Abu Ghraib.
One of your teammates is a military doctor who describes how she mistreated some prisoners in a government prison. “I think we all started to lose our minds a little bit,” she says. “We were isolated, no oversight — no one to tell us it was torture.”
“Chickenshit politicians and doctors,” replies an angry soldier. “They try to cover it all up.”
And this, my friends, makes BlackSite a weirdly unusual game. Many videogames include fantasy and sci-fi politics — but BlackSite directly tackles the most divisive political issues of our real-life world.
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Gravity Lamp
The entire column glows when activated. The electricity is generated by the slow fall of a mass that spins a rotor. The resulting energy powers 10 high-output LEDs that fire into the acrylic lens, creating a diffuse light. The operation is silent and the housing is elegant and cord free — completely independent of electrical infrastructure.
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Cayman Islands Bank Gets Wikileaks Taken Offline in U.S.
In a pretty extraordinary ex-parte move, the Julius Baer Bank and Trust got Dynadot, the U.S. hosting company for Wikileaks, to agree not only to take down the Wikileaks site but also to ” lock the wikileaks.org domain name to prevent transfer of the domain name to a different domain registrar.” A judge in the U.S. District Court for Northern California signed off on the stipulation between the two parties last week without giving Wikileaks a chance to address the issue in court.
Wrong Paul
Ron Paul’s candidacy is something of an enigma. His impressive fundraising and his legions of dedicated volunteers suggest that he could be among the front-runners in contention for the Republican nomination. Yet his national poll numbers hover consistently just above the margin of error, and on Super Tuesday, he finished last in 17 of 21 contests, including California, where he lost to a candidate who had already withdrawn from the race. He admits he has little hope of winning the nomination.
