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[cleolinda]

Today's weather forecast on Yahoo Weather (12:54 pm):

High: 38
Low: 37
Current: 35

Wha?

VP Accident Tale Filled With Discrepancies. O rly. Ya rly: far from "zero drinking," there was, in fact, beer. Which... well, when you put it that way, doesn't sound all that awful. But then, I didn't think lying about a blowjob was so terrible, either. Clearly I'm not cut out for this politics thing.

From suenosdejmi: "There's a website, www.invisiblechildren.com, which is of a non-profit that is working to help children in Northern Uganda. There's groups of people travelling the country showing this documentary film about these kids, and the war, & their lives there...it's all really powerful stuff.  I feel really compelled to help, but there's not too much to be done, you know?  If you could just help me spread the word about this website, there's all sorts of information there about the cause & the mission. Thanks!!"

Isaac Mizrahi Defends Red-Carpet Behavior. Except he doesn't so much "defend" it as defy all critics, promising more of the same (most famously, he grabbed Scarlett Johansson's breast and squeezed, like, three times). I would give my eyeteeth to see some starlet mace him on the red carpet come Oscar night.

Co. Hopes to Market Kid Rock, Stapp Tape. But I thought assisted suicide was illegal...?

Apple Hackers Encounter a Poetic Warning.

Nick Lachey files for spousal support. And jewelry. No word on who gets custody of the boobs.

NBC goes after You Tube. That's right! How dare you make "Lazy Sunday" a cultural zeitgeist! It was particularly cruel, how you revived the show's flagging ratings! And the way you updated the video with "We know how popular that video is but YouTube respects the rights of copyright holders. You can still watch SNL's Lazy Sunday video for free on NBC's website"? Reprehensible.

Michael Jackson has a Katrina song. God help us all.

redrum! redrum!

Words you never expect to see in a cookbook, no matter how old it is: To make the Brain Cakes.

Franz Ferdinand cover of Gwen Stefani's "What You Waiting For." Right-hand side, near the bottom, go!

Sonic teenager repellent. There's a fifteen-year-old in me that's totally indignant. There's also a twenty-seven-year-old who hopes the man who came up with this becomes so rich.

Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog ("Top X searches in myne networke: 10. John Gowere swyving a donkey").

Comments

[ninepointfivemm.livejournal.com]

The anti-teenager noise thing drives me to all hell. Ok, lemme put it this way: there are still 10% of adults above 30 people who can hear the noise. What annoys me is that I've always looked about 4 years younger than I really am (which would make me look like a 17 year old), added to the issue that they'd most likely drive me crazy, since I have sensitive eardrums.

They shouldn't alienate their 20-30 market by installing them. Sure, it might keep away the high school set, but it's too close to the college students and 20somethings to do it.

[ninepointfivemm.livejournal.com]

Oh, and thanks for listing the Franz cover. *loves The Franz*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was slightly offended at the idea, thinking back to what I was actually like at 15 (i.e., not what you'd want to drive away). It could definitely be abused, but they did say that in practice, the shop owners would turn it on *only* when they had a large, unruly group on the lot (and yeah, I'm sure "unruly" is open to interpretation), and that you can't hear it inside the building. So it'll either drive people inside, to buy food or whatever, or away to start trouble somewhere else. Quite honestly, if I'd had some earplugs or something, it's the kind of thing I would have loved to have when *I* was a teenager, to keep assholes away from me.

[ninepointfivemm.livejournal.com]

I've had people get annoyed at a group of 8 college students at Olive Garden for a cast party, calling us unruly. (When I've experienced unruly, and we were not) Yeah, it'd definitely be abused.

And yeah, those things might keep the assholes away, but after extremely loud, unruly college roommates and sensitive ears... all they'd do is alienate someone like me who behaves myself.

Now if they could do that in movie theaters to selectively keep away the loud jerks... I'd go for it!

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was slightly offended at the idea, thinking back to what I was actually like at 15 (i.e., not what you'd want to drive away).

That's how I felt on reading it. It fails the "do unto others" test pretty badly. Also, it reminds me a little too much of its larger cousins (http://www.kathryncramer.com/kathryn_cramer/2005/09/sonic_weapons.html) which are being used as weapons in Iraq.