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Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy: Barris-built 1972 Lincoln Bugazzi
12.21.2009
11:59 am
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I strongly urge you to check out the interior photos of this Lincoln Bugazzi. From Auto Blog:

We’re beginning to think that George Barris’ movie cars were more restrained than his customer cars—and that Dolemite had the man on speed dial. Barris built the car you see above: a Bugazzi (boo-GOT-zee), which started out as a 1972 Lincoln Mark IV and was turned into “an American version of a Rolls-Royce.”

That means it’s been slathered in thirty coats of pearl lacquer and trimmed with 24-carat gold-leaf, hand-applied pinstripes. Up front are two lanterns where the headlights would normally go. Inside, you’ll find gold, suede upholstery, Persian rugs, Italian doorhandles mounted on Italian marble slabs, a television, and a back seat wet bar. That could explain why the car cost $10,000 more than a Rolls. Or not.

Find of the Day: Barris-built 1972 Lincoln Bugazzi has interior like a dictator’s bathroom

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12.21.2009
11:59 am
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Sen. James Inhofe Called “Ridiculous”
12.21.2009
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Is Sen. Jim Inhofe jealous of Sarah Palin’s starring role as pied piper to the idiot wing of the Republican party, or is he perhaps trying to position himself as a potential running mate for her in 2012? It’s hard to tell what the silliest Senator from Oklahoma was thinking, or if he’s really capable of much thinking at all. Witness what the witless Republican had waiting for him when he showed up in Copenhagen with his “message” of a Hollywood conspiracy that’s behind global warming:

Sen. Jim Inhofe flew across the Atlantic and ?

Posted by Richard Metzger
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12.21.2009
12:01 am
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Racist Face Tracking Software ?
12.20.2009
11:05 pm
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(Thanks Brian Morishita)

Posted by Brad Laner
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12.20.2009
11:05 pm
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I Drink Orange Cooktail
12.20.2009
10:45 pm
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At first she doesn’t reveal much about herself…
 

 
Then you delve deeper:
 

 
And deeper still. It all makes no sense. No sense. Not at all. This is the world of ceeceelemon.
 

 
Via Jesse Merlin

Posted by Richard Metzger
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12.20.2009
10:45 pm
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Celebrity real estate porn: Jane Wiedlin’s sci-fi penthouse for rent in downtown Los Angeles
12.18.2009
10:54 pm
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Go-Go Jane Wiedlin is renting out her amazing sci-fi fantasy penthouse loft in Little Tokyo. Check out her Blade Runner-esque decor. A sweet crib for those with more unique tastes than the average Earthling, don’t you think?

Posted by Richard Metzger
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12.18.2009
10:54 pm
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The Right-Wing Rape Obsesssion
12.18.2009
07:28 pm
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As Sociological Images (where this was spotted via Media Matters) points out, it’s entirely possible that a similar clip could be cobbled together from the blatherings of left-wing pundits.  But I don’t think so.

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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12.18.2009
07:28 pm
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Thom Yorke: Pissed Off In Copenhagen
12.18.2009
06:57 pm
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Yorke with environmentalist Tony Juniper at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (via Dead Air Space).

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke somehow got ahold of a press pass yesterday and has been filing a series of increasingly vitriolic dispatches from the UN’s Climate Change Conference now playing out in Copenhagen with all the expected inertia.  You can check ‘em out on the Radiohead band blog, Dead Air Space, but here’s a taste of Yorke’s totally valid indignation:

...there is a lot of brinksmanship, the americans offering money seemed.  but no-one was talking 40 percent cuts by 2020.  and the negotiations had an obvious G8 vibe about them.  the west dictating terms and bizarrely assuming that the science could be bartered.. !!! arguing about who cuts what??? that somehow the amount we have to cut our emissions is negotiable??  what a crock of shit.

Yorke also appeared on The Stupid Show (below), a web-based series tied in to the climate change doc, The Age of Stupid.

 
(via Pitchfork)

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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12.18.2009
06:57 pm
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It’s T2, Not U2: A Hopelessly Obscure Yet Marvelous British Teen Prog Rock Group
12.18.2009
06:30 pm
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Having only released one LP, 1970’s “It’ll All Work Out In Boomland” during its brief original lifespan, T2 (talk about google-proof band names !) were led by 16 year old guitarist Keith Cross. The enigmatically named “J.L.T.” is one hell of a lovely song. Sounds to these ears like Robert Wyatt fronting a mellow version of King Crimson. Play loud and often.

Posted by Brad Laner
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12.18.2009
06:30 pm
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Nuclear Reactor Wall Charts!
12.18.2009
04:34 pm
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Best desktop images ever. In BIG sizes.

(BibliOdyssey: Nuclear Reactor Wall Charts)

Posted by Jason Louv
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12.18.2009
04:34 pm
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“Reclaiming the Lucidity of Our Hearts”
12.18.2009
04:25 pm
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Via Coilhouse, here’s video of Filipina poet and activist Sass Rogando Sasot speaking out for transgendered rights at the United Nations. Clear and moving speech on a crucial 21st century issue.

On Dec 10th (International Human Rights Day), Filipina activist Sass Rogando Sasot spoke passionately about transgender rights before an assembly of the United Nations. Her speech, titled ?

Posted by Jason Louv
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12.18.2009
04:25 pm
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Kabbalah Vodka: Now With More Dead Baby
12.18.2009
04:19 pm
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Is this offensive? It is, isn’t it?

Via Copyranter:

It?

Posted by Jason Louv
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12.18.2009
04:19 pm
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The Political Ecology of Collapse: Weishaupt’s Fallacy
12.18.2009
04:10 pm
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John Michael Greer of the Archdruid Report contributes an excellently on-point article about systems theory and the relation between the American Neoconservatives and the Bavarian Illuminati (no, it’s not quite what you think). This is a masterful analysis of geopolitics and a very simple explanation of why conspiracies fail. Read on…

The problem with Professor Weishaupt’s fantasy of an illuminated Bavaria was a bit of bad logic that has been faithfully repeated by intellectuals seeking power ever since: the belief, as sincere as it is silly, that if you have the right ideas, you are by definition smarter than the system you are trying to control. That’s Weishaupt’s Fallacy. Because Weishaupt and his fellow Illuminati were convinced that the conservative forces in Bavaria were a bunch of clueless boors, they were totally unprepared for the counterblow that followed once the Bavarian government figured out who the Illuminati were and what they were after.

For a more recent example, consider the rise and fall of the neoconservative movement, which stormed into power in the United States in 2000 boldly proclaiming the arrival of a “new American century,” and proceeded to squander what remained of America’s wealth and global reputation in a series of foreign and domestic policy blunders that have set impressive new standards for political fecklessness. The neoconservatives were convinced that they understood the world better than anybody else. That conviction was the single most potent factor behind their failure; when mainstream conservatives (not to mention everybody else!) tried to warn them where their fantasies of remaking the Middle East in America’s image would inevitably end, the neoconservatives snorted in derision and marched straight on into the disaster they were making for themselves, and of course for the rest of us as well.

(John Michael Greer: Weishaupt’s Fallacy)

(JM Greer: The Long Descent)

Posted by Jason Louv
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12.18.2009
04:10 pm
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Meat Tube: America’s #1 Pet And Dinner
12.18.2009
11:58 am
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Top 5 lies told about Meat Tube:

Meat Tube is full of cardboard.
TRUTH: Meat Tube?Ǭ

Posted by Brad Laner
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12.18.2009
11:58 am
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Al Franken totally pwns Joe Lieberman!
12.17.2009
11:48 pm
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Senator Franken, I could kiss you!

Posted by Richard Metzger
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12.17.2009
11:48 pm
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Lost city of Atlantis discovered?
12.17.2009
11:06 pm
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File this one under: Maybe. First off, it strikes me as just a little suspicious that the “scientists” refuse to identify themselves. Most in the scientific field would be calling a press conference and looking for Hollywood agents, so take this news with a grain of salt. Didn’t stop the Daily Mail from publishing it as news, though and maybe it is, time will tell (or else we’ll never hear of it again…):

A group of ‘undersea archaeologists’ have become the latest to claim they have uncovered the lost city of Atlantis. The scientists - who have refused to identify themselves - have released a series of images taken beneath the Caribbean.

They insist the snaps show what appear to be the ruins of a city that could pre-date Egypt’s pyramids, which appeared after 2600BC. They even told a French newspaper that one of the structures appears to be a pyramid.

Now the anonymous group wants to raise funds to explore the secret location where the images were taken.They would not reveal the exact location, however, saying only that it was somewhere in the Caribbean Sea.

The claims have raised eyebrows on the internet, though skeptics refrained from debunking them entirely - just in case.

The legend of Atlantis, a city of astonishing wealth, knowledge and power that sank beneath the ocean waves, has fascinated millions. Time and time again hopes have been raised that the lost city has been found - only for those hopes to be dashed against the evidence (or lack thereof).

Its location—or at least the source of the legend—remained a tantalising mystery. In 1997, Russian scientists claimed to have found Atlantis 100 miles off Land’s End. In 2000 a ruined town was found under 300ft of water off the north coast of Turkey in the Black Sea. The area is thought to have been swamped by a great flood around 5000BC, possibly the floods referred to in the Old Testament.

In 2004 an American architect used sonar to reveal man-made walls a mile deep in the Mediterranean between Cyprus and Syria. In 2007 Swedish researchers claimed the city lay on the Dogger Bank in the North Sea, which was submerged in the Bronze Age. And as recently as February of this year, what appeared to be grid-like lines that resembled city streets were spotted on Google Earth - in the ocean off the coast of Africa.

Sadly Google itself quickly debunked the suggestion, explaining that the lines were left by a boat as it collected data for the application. ‘Bathymetric (sea-floor) data is often collected from boats using sonar to take measurements of the sea-floor,’ a spokesman said. ‘The lines reflect the path of the boat as it gathers the data.’

Posted by Richard Metzger
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12.17.2009
11:06 pm
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