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Met Opa op reis from Hans Derycke on Vimeo.

“We never hide from history, we make history.”

Ballet Class Halloween from Hans Derycke on Vimeo.

That’s the first segment (YouTube does not allow videos over 10’ in length). The other parts are here:

• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6
• Part 7
• Part 8
• Part 9
• Part 10
• and finally... part 11

many websites focused on adult or erotic material have experienced an upswing in sales in the recent weeks since checks have appeared in millions of Americans' mailboxes across the country.

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Now it’s getting personal.

For all I care you can believe that God is a space turtle who shits out the world every morning and eats it again every night, and one day the world will hatch open and the almighty Son of Turtle God will emerge from the placenta of the earth and vomit rainbows onto the true believers before carrying them on His back to the promised land of Turtopia. It's a free country, go nuts.

The museum was extremely busy on a weekday afternoon, filled almost exclusively with the stone-washed jeans, tucked-in shirts, and patriotic colors of Wal-Mart brand families, who regarded my friend and me with raised eyebrows and icy stares. They probably thought we were gay, and were afraid they might catch it.

The violence, which began last week, has left more than 20 people dead and is estimated to have driven 30,000 people from their homes.

There’s an old poker adage: Look around the table, and if you can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you. One gets the feeling that if you see Leander Kahney at your table, you can stop looking.

American waste water treatment plants remove all but trace contaminants from the drinking water supply, but currently they have no way to even recognize drugs at homeopathic dilutions, let alone to not remove the molecules they don’t contain. Even more shockingly, the federal government hasn't set any safety limits for not containing no molecules of homeopathic drugs in drinking water.

Okay, eloquence isn't everything. But just imagine trying to do this [...] with a Hillary Clinton speech, or a John McCain speech, or (shudder) a George W. Bush speech.

After what her people pulled in IA trying to disenfranchise college kids, trying to disenfranchise Vegas strip workers in Vegas that as it turns out would have cost her the caucuses, Bill’s disgusting attacks on Obama, her putting America’s misogynist pimp Bob Johnson on stage with her to allude to Obama’s teenage drug dabbling and then lie about it, I’ve had it, that’s just disgusting. I expect that kind of crap from Republicans not Democrats.

Now she says in her ads she’ll be my “voice in Washington”. Nobody speaks for me who campaigns the way she and her people do. If she wins the nomination using those tactics she’ll have to find someone else to turn out the vote for her in my precinct. I won’t do it.

These times are all off by two hours. I can't really explain why this is. Maybe it has to do with the fact that the local time on my machine is Mountain, and the file was originally created in the Eastern time zone. But I filled it in locally, with the correct numbers, and it still shows the correct number when I open the file in Excel.

Once more, it's weeds.  Curiously, it's on the side of the flipper's house. Never mind that whatever is there has been there since spring. Now, suddenly, at the end of the growing season, it's a problem. It's all about to get covered up in snow and shrivel away, but that doesn't stop the brave people at Clarke Farms HOA from sending out letters.

Hi, today or tomorrow I want to purchase your item. But before I will ask you. You may send this item to directly my sister? She lives in other city. I will pay via PayPal. The sister has birthday in five days. I want so that they would deliver the item in time. After payment I will give its address. Please email me. Thank you.

Apparently, she'll be flying up the left edge to Alaska, all the way to the far edge of the Aleutians, then go like a bat out of hell due east into oblivion, only to come racing back to Kamchatka Peninsula and continuing on her way to Taipei. At least Flight Explorer avoids the problem by being singlemindedly stupid:

Once upon a time, many prominent Republicans believed that perjury was a crime so heinous as to warrant throwing the president out of office.

Bush Still a Dickless Piece of Shit

Yes, the Clarke Farms HOA comes to the rescue, because if the dandelions can stay, the terrorists have already won. No doubt.

Now get a load of the very first comment:

I can't get over feeling insulted on the chimp's behalf.

It comes with an essay triggered by Starbucks' printing of a Jonathan Wells quote on their cups. It's well worth reading, and it ends with the Saint calling for coffee cups with this quote on it:

“Jonathan Wells is a douchebag.”  –Saint Gasoline

Ballmer spent almost two days trying to rid the PC of worms, viruses, spyware, malware and severe fragmentation without success.

the oven is useless by default.

there’s no good reason for an oven to insist on knowing the time before it will cook anything.

By my calculations, if the blasphemy virus continues to spread at this rate, the Earth will be 100% atheist by the end of 2006, the entire universe will be atheist by March 2007, and God himself will be an atheist just in time for Easter.

Imagine your son waking up on Christmas (if you're into Christmas) morning and rushing to open his presents in breathless anticipation of getting a shiny new iPod, only to find out he's got a Zune, which is like coming second in chess.

To address both of these things, we added a button called "Safe Delete" to every explorer window.  Clicking this button would instantly delete all of the files shown in the window permanently from the system, overriding every confirmation, bypassing the recycle bin, and also zeroing out the space on the disk that the files used to occupy (hence the "safe" name).

We wanted to button to be in a prominent place in the UI, since hiding it would defeat the purpose of a fast and easy delete mechanism.  However, we also felt it was important to indicate to users that the button performed a destructive action and wanted to make sure they didn't hit it by accident.  Therefore, we made it RED (the universal color for danger) and put a large X on it.  Here is what the UI would have looked like:

(note that the close button was moved in and the icon changed to a neutral image with a less intense color, indicating that at least in Explorer, closing a window is a benign task with no possibility of data loss.  Non-explorer windows would still use the standard buttons.)

Steve Jobs can make sharing earwax sound sexy. Ballmer can make a digital file transfer sound like something you’d need to clean up after.

Born into slavery in 1845 in South Carolina, believed to have escaped, and joined the Union Army when they came to his home state.

There's this article about Mr. Jones over at myway.com. I don't want to talk about the meat of the story, but about one detail that struck me:

Matthew Jones paid $225 for this parcel - a pittance now, but a fortune for a former slave in the 1880s.

A Montana high school has canceled the remainder of its football season, after a hazing incident -- in which a boy was taped to the ceiling of a school bus.The hazing reportedly happened during a football road trip, while school officials were present.

while school officials were present