Posse Comitatus

A long, but exceptional article about three drug dealers from Baltimore whose primary defense in the federal cases against them rely on the ideas and strategies of separatists and even the Oklahoma City bombers. As it turned out, he wasn’t alone. In the previous year, nearly twenty defendants in other Baltimore cases had begun adopting [...]

CCD

Finally getting closer to finding a reason for Colony Collapse Disorder. Tags: bees

Baby’s first internet

This will be a bedtime essential for me and the new baby. Rather than felicitations, send your friend an application. To be an expert’s no great tax: Write common sense and call it “hacks.” Tags: baby

Brief history of Legos

Great lego Stephen Hawking(from Kottke) Tags: legos

Don Draper

Watching Season One of Mad Men again. I love when the big boss tells Don, “The Japanese have a saying, ‘A man is whatever room he is in.’” The boss is probably the most altruistic character on the whole show. And did I mention he looks like Col. Sanders. The real one not the animated [...]

Error….error

A small clerical error in the glorious organization that is FEMA. For example, each spork was assigned the value of an entire case, inflating the original estimated value of the supplies a thousandfold to $36 million from $36,000. Packs of toilet paper originally estimated to be worth $1.5 million dropped to about $18,000, and plastic [...]

Rambo, John Rambo

From the looks of this knife it can be made by any entrepreneurial young ninja obsessed kid. No wonder the Brits are freaking out about it. Tags: knife

Stop the violence

Beautiful pics of a leopard attacking a crocodile. Silly kitty. Tags: cat, crocodile

Bye Bye Birdie

Totally crazy bird formation. They look like a single entity. Tags: birds

Always Sunny

I love this scene from Always Sunny In Philadelphia.