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And speaking of Nevada politics, figures it would take the LA Times to publish an in-depth investigation of corrupt judges in Las Vegas who do favors for their financial contributors. Hmm, maybe electing judges is a bad idea? Although I do love those Bixler billboards. (via mb)
(0) #6/8/2006
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A Wired journalist gets a magnet implanted in the tip of his ring finger and lives to tell the tale of his new perceptive power. With this, you could play with Wooly Willy all day long – without the magnetic pen! (via kottke)
(0) #6/7/2006
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Streetfighter Bjork. (via waxy)
(0) #6/6/2006
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Why does Darwin get all the credit? Lord Monboddo was thinking about evolution decades before Chuck D. But he also once said that all humans are born with tails, secretly removed by midwives at birth.
(0) #6/6/2006
Google mail hiccup
I just got an email from myself on my gmail account that I never actually sent. The subject is a seven digit number and the body a three digit number. (I won’t divulge them in case it involves a security flaw.) Thinking it could be a Google-wide hiccup, I asked my officemate if he had received the same. He has, with different numbers. Anyone else get one of these? And if so, any idea what happened?
Plastination, plastination, everywhere
Bodies … The Exhibition is coming to Las Vegas, yet another exhibit of human corpses preserved – in, shall we say, creative ways – using the extraordinary plastination technique. I saw Body Worlds , the original plastination exhibit designed by technique founder Gunther von Hagens, in Los Angeles two years ago. (And there’s plenty of controversy surrounding that one, which continues to tour the country.) I doubt I’ll check out Bodies … due to the cost, but I highly recommend you catch one of these if you can – it will blow your unplastinated mind. (via mb)
Jonze on Gore
Let’s move back 4 years from yesterday’s election post: Here’s Spike Jonze’s short documentary on a day-in-the-life of Al Gore and his family, shown during the Democratic National Convention in 2000 but never televised. It was finally made available by the magazine The Believer via a DVD.
CineVegas
The 8th annual CineVegas – Las Vegas’s own film festival – is happening in town next week. Courtesy of CityLife , here’s the full schedule of showings and panels. I will be at the YearlyKos convention at the Riviera manning a table for the marijuana campaign for much of the festival, so maybe I’ll see Christina Ricci and Howard Dean hanging out at Pure at some point.
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. asks in Rolling Stone : Was the 2004 election stolen? I remember reading a similar story in
The Atlantic MonthlyHarper’s. I think the biggest problem here was the media’s avoidance of even a cursory look into the story at the time.Update: Salon says bullshit.
(0) #6/1/2006
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Will 2008 be the year of the third party? The Unity Party is the first ambitious effort to create a legitimate third party for the 2008 presidential race, and they’re looking to run a bipartisan ticket. (The order doesn’t matter, they claim.)
(0) #5/31/2006
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Forty minute audio recording of the Jonestown Massacre. This is very much not for the faint of heart. If you want to know more, here’s the Wikipedia entry on the massacre. (thx, d2k+1 & je)
(0) #5/31/2006
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The federal government continues to claim that marijuana has no medicinal use, but the Boston Globe claims that they may not just be good at growing it, and they won’t let anyone else try.
(0) #5/30/2006
“The Courthouse Mice”
Justice Judge Posner reviews two new books on the influence of Supreme Court clerks (recent law graduates who write first drafts of the decisions for the Justices, among other things), concentrating on the Court’s increased bureaucratization and its strange and potentially harmful obsession with secrecy. (Use bugmenot to circumvent registration.)
Superhappy Women’s Party
For your weekend enjoyment: a list of Nevada’s official major and minor political parties. I highly recommend you read the bylaws of the Superhappy Women’s Party:
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After Sophia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette premiered at Cannes, it was widely reported that the screening was booed by the French audience. But Roger Ebert says that the booing has been greatly exaggerated, and that the film was better received than what has been reported.
(0) #5/26/2006
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Karate Dog. I smell Emmy. (thx, jason)
(0) #5/26/2006
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Remember when I told you that someone was running push polls against the marijuana campaign I’m working on? Well, we now know who ran the poll and the story just got a little stranger.
(0) #5/25/2006
Love
The Las Vegas Sun provides an early glimpse of “Love,” the fifth and newest Cirque du Soleil show here in Las Vegas (the other four are still running), replacing two gay men and white tigers at The Mirage. The show is soundtracked by a 90-minute mix of Beatle’s music produced by George Martin himself, and will evidently feature plenty of psychedelic Beatlemania. I have discount tickets to see it in previews in a few weeks.
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Elaborate maps of worldwide language distributions, concentrating on the diverse languages of Asia and Africa. I heard that they say the equivalent of “doing donuts” in southern Togo and the equivalent of “whipping shitties” in central Togo. (via kottke)
(0) #5/24/2006
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Tom Delay obviously doesn’t understand satire. Next thing you know he’ll be eating Irish babies. (thx, flea)
(0) #5/24/2006
