Alaska will be subsumed into Russia!!!!
Full story here
December 30, 2008
December 29, 2008
Quote of the Day
"If life is like the Special Olympics, I'm a fucking front-runner."
-Susannah Breslin
The Reverse Cowgirl
-Susannah Breslin
The Reverse Cowgirl
December 28, 2008
December 26, 2008
December 24, 2008
I Wish Evlred and the Custodian a Merry Christmas!
Thank you two for hanging out with me at the Curriculum this year and making this by far the coolest Finnish/Floridian mash up site ever. You are both in my thoughts. May all your Christmas wishes come true!
Merry Christmas,
Your Dean
December 22, 2008
Get your own pair of Bush Shoes
Their deployment as a makeshift missile robbed President George Bush of his dignity and landed their owner in jail. But the world's most notorious pair of shoes have yielded an unexpected bonanza for a Turkish shoemaker.
Ramazan Baydan, owner of the Istanbul-based Baydan Shoe Company, has been swamped with orders from across the world, after insisting that his company produced the black leather shoes which the Iraqi journalist Muntazar al-Zaidi threw at Bush during a press conference in Baghdad last Sunday.
Baydan has recruited an extra 100 staff to meet orders for 300,000 pairs of Model 271 - more than four times the shoe's normal annual sale - following an outpouring of support for Zaidi's act, which was intended as a protest, but led to his arrest by Iraqi security forces.
Orders have come mainly from the US and Britain, and from neighbouring Muslim countries, he said.
Around 120,000 pairs have been ordered from Iraq, while a US company has placed a request for 18,000. A British firm is understood to have offered to serve as European distributor for the shoes, which have been on the market since 1999 and sell at around £28 in Turkey. A sharp rise in orders has been recorded in Syria, Egypt and Iran, where the main shoemaker's federation has offered to provide Zaidi and his family with a lifetime's supply of shoes.
To meet the mood of the marketplace, Baydan is planning to rename the model "the Bush Shoe" or "Bye-Bye Bush".
"We've been selling these shoes for years but, thanks to Bush, orders are flying in like crazy. We've even hired an agency to look at television advertising," he said.
Zaidi has been in custody since the shoe-throwing incident, amid claims that he has been badly beaten. He faces a possible jail sentence for insulting a foreign leader, but has reportedly apologised and requested a pardon from Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki.
Ramazan Baydan, owner of the Istanbul-based Baydan Shoe Company, has been swamped with orders from across the world, after insisting that his company produced the black leather shoes which the Iraqi journalist Muntazar al-Zaidi threw at Bush during a press conference in Baghdad last Sunday.
Baydan has recruited an extra 100 staff to meet orders for 300,000 pairs of Model 271 - more than four times the shoe's normal annual sale - following an outpouring of support for Zaidi's act, which was intended as a protest, but led to his arrest by Iraqi security forces.
Orders have come mainly from the US and Britain, and from neighbouring Muslim countries, he said.
Around 120,000 pairs have been ordered from Iraq, while a US company has placed a request for 18,000. A British firm is understood to have offered to serve as European distributor for the shoes, which have been on the market since 1999 and sell at around £28 in Turkey. A sharp rise in orders has been recorded in Syria, Egypt and Iran, where the main shoemaker's federation has offered to provide Zaidi and his family with a lifetime's supply of shoes.
To meet the mood of the marketplace, Baydan is planning to rename the model "the Bush Shoe" or "Bye-Bye Bush".
"We've been selling these shoes for years but, thanks to Bush, orders are flying in like crazy. We've even hired an agency to look at television advertising," he said.
Zaidi has been in custody since the shoe-throwing incident, amid claims that he has been badly beaten. He faces a possible jail sentence for insulting a foreign leader, but has reportedly apologised and requested a pardon from Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki.
[Edit: Story @ Guardian.co.uk]
December 21, 2008
December 20, 2008
Quote of the Day
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
- P. G. Wodehouse
- P. G. Wodehouse
December 18, 2008
Lockheed Martin 'MKV': Say Hello to Your Future Robot Overlords
The demonstration video is just too wild to describe. And thank goodness it's autonomous, because it almost had me worried for a second...
Via Schneier
Via Schneier
December 17, 2008
Egyptian Offers Daughter to Iraqi Shoe-Thrower
The daughter, Amal Saad Gumaa, said she agreed with the idea. "This is something that would honour me. I would like to live in Iraq, especially if I were attached to this hero," she told Reuters by telephone.
Reuters
Pic from Cynical-C
Reuters
Pic from Cynical-C
Curriculum Electronics New Quality™ Directive to Optimize Sales Force
Sales Manager (left): "So, your gonna get that PO today, right? You know what happens to people who don't get the PO, right?"
December 16, 2008
Dean False in Helsinki with DJ Dynasty Handbag!!!!
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I love the new white wintercoat the dean is sporting
December 15, 2008
Great Moments in American History
President Bush gets the Shoe thrown at him.
"This is a gift from the Iraqis. This is the farewell kiss, you dog," Muntadar al-Zeidi shouted in Arabic as he threw his shoe at Bush during a news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
"This is for the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq."
"If you want the facts, it's a size 10 shoe that he threw," Mr Bush joked afterwards.
USA Today , BBC
"This is a gift from the Iraqis. This is the farewell kiss, you dog," Muntadar al-Zeidi shouted in Arabic as he threw his shoe at Bush during a news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
"This is for the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq."
"If you want the facts, it's a size 10 shoe that he threw," Mr Bush joked afterwards.
USA Today , BBC
December 13, 2008
December 11, 2008
December 10, 2008
Quote of the Day
Being a teenager is powerful thing, because every single damn thing that happens, happens to you turned up to 11, which is fundamentally different experience than being an adult, in which most things have happened to you more than once, and you’ve generally found the volume knob and cranked it down a couple of notches simply to keep yourself sane.
December 09, 2008
U=EV/ID
Academics invent a mathematical equation for why people procrastinate.
The 'U' stands for utility, or the desire to complete a given task. It is equal to the product of E, the expectation of success, and V the value of completion, divided by the product of I, the immediacy of the task, and D, the personal sensitivity to delay.
December 08, 2008
December 06, 2008
Oil Slump
Oil Prices Slump toward 40 dollars
I don't really know how to start describing how insane this is.
The International Energy Agency on Friday lowered its projections for global oil demand in 2008-2013, foreseeing annual growth of 1.2 percent rather than 1.6 percent in the face of a worldwide economic slump.
In an announcement ahead of the US jobs data, the IEA said demand for oil products should climb from 86.2 million barrels a day in 2008 to 91.3 million in 2013, altering forecasts it had made in July.
Commenting on the US jobs data, Ian Shepherdson, chief US economist at High Frequency Economics, said: "This is almost indescribably terrible."
"In the past six months the US has lost 1.55 million jobs, almost as many as were lost in the whole 2001 recession, which included 9/11 and the two months after. The pace of job losses is accelerating alarmingly."
What bothers me most about it are two things: One, this sounds like the premature death blow to the fuel-efficient electric car, so in 10 year's we'd have to start right back up where we are now. Two, why am I still paying premium for food items and basic perishable goods damnit?
December 05, 2008
December 04, 2008
The Girls of Zeldis Pharmaceuticals: A Calendar Collection
Yulia, Manager of Bulk Sales
Tagline of the Day: "Eking out an office existence in Russia is not only bearable, but highly pleasurable."
Collection at Exiled Online
Collection at Exiled Online
December 03, 2008
Proposition 8: The Musical
Starring Jack Black as Jesus, who by the way was born for this role.
Via Shakesville
Via Shakesville
December 02, 2008
Quote of the Day
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.- Samuel Johnson
December 01, 2008
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