Dethroner: "Professor Lady Nerd Astronaut, Love Me"
Giz: Megacollection of original, in box Transformers toys sold...
...for one million dollars......
Giz: TV Packaging Turns Into TV Stand
via DF: A solution to email overload: fivesentenc.es
When I have email, I have this problem. I, however, rarely have email.
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via BB: "What Conservatives Say When They Think We Aren't Listening"
A brilliant, brilliant (if long) profile of a writer who goes on a cruise put together by The National Review. He finds so many, many disturbing things. A couple of highlights to whet your appetite:
I adjust and stiffly greet the first man I see. He is a judge, with the craggy self-important charm that slowly consumes any judge. He is from Canada, he declares (a little more apologetically), and is the founding president of "Canadians Against Suicide Bombing". Would there be many members of "Canadians for Suicide Bombing?" I ask. Dismayed, he suggests that yes, there would.
They live on Park Avenue, they explain in precise Northern tones. "You must live near the UN building," the Floridian says to one of the New York ladies after the entree is served. Yes, she responds, shaking her head wearily. "They should suicide-bomb that place," he says. They all chuckle gently. How did that happen? How do you go from sweet to suicide-bomb in six seconds?
There is something strange about this discussion, and it takes me a few moments to realise exactly what it is. All the tropes that conservatives usually deny in public - that Iraq is another Vietnam, that Bush is fighting a class war on behalf of the rich - are embraced on this shining ship in the middle of the ocean. Yes, they concede, we are fighting another Vietnam; and this time we won't let the weak-kneed liberals lose it.
Like I said, brilliant.
