A very timely graph.
Woot, my knee-jerk don’t-overthink-it pub-quiz answer was Iran which seems to be [✓]. I ‘knew’ it was more populous than…
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Dirty Dahl
Hat tip to Andrew for pointing me to today’s Australian, which features a story about Roald Dahl’s sexy adventures as a “World War II spy.” *snort* Look, the guy was no angel, and he certainly got around a lot when he was younger. But he also has a documented history of embellishing his wartime adventures after the fact. I take all this stuff with a huge grain of salt.
And by the way, what a crappy article! It doesn’t even mention the name of the new book which apparently prompted the piece. If I was the author, I’d be annoyed.
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Shared today on Facebook
is wondering, “If McCain wanted a former beauty queen with no experience and a criminal investigation on her record, why didn’t he just pick his own wife?”
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Runners for Obama
Yay! The Runners for Obama T-shirts I mentioned before is now available for purchase. There’s no mention of sizing though… I emailed the guy to see if he can at least give me the brand.
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It’s the end of the world as we know it
Dubya covers REM’s “It’s the End of the World as We Know It.” Quite possibly the best YouTube video I’ve ever seen. (Link courtesy of Waxy.org.)
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Milo loves the gays
Swoon. Milo “Peter Petrelli” Ventimiglia does an interview with Advocate.com and talks all about his big gay following. Oh, and being shirtless a lot. Bring on Heroes Season 3!
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ObamaTaxCut.com
ObamaTaxCut.com. Barack Obama will cut taxes for over 95% of American families. For our household, we’d be looking at a $2000+ tax cut (adjusting to American dollars). Here’s how they calculate it.
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Pinched
Pinched: The day I took my family to a soup kitchen. Very powerful essay on what it’s like for the working poor in America. I don’t know how anyone – anyone with less than seven houses, that is – could read that and still think the economy is going A-OK.
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More about Billy Mitchell
If you enjoyed The King of Kong (as I did), you should check out this Harper’s article (PDF) about Billy Mitchell and his Pac-Man records. The author talks to Billy and Walter Day quite a bit, and follows a Jamaican immigrant named Abdner who tries to break the Ms Pac-Man record. The author was working on the story while King of Kong was filming, and he was even invited to the screening of Billy’s infamous Donkey Kong videotape designed to steal Steve Weibe’s thunder at Fun Spot. (For the record, the author doesn’t think the tape was doctored.) I think it’s very interesting to get another view of the guy, especially since it was very easy to write off his villainous portrayal in King of Kong as a consequence of editing. The author of this piece is definitely kinder to Billy, but he still admits that the gigantic ego, defensiveness, and scheming are all true-to-life.
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