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Tuesday, February 11, 2003

Economists forecast recovery, based on surge in duct tape sales. A Lowe's hardware store in Alexandria, Virginia, said every roll of duct tape has been sold. Another Alexandria Home Depot store reported sales of duct tape tripled overnight. Our minds have been rendered useless, resistance is futile. When a significant portion of the population truly believes that the only thing standing between them and an ungodly death is a piece of fucking duct tape, it is time to write off all of civilization as a horrible mistake. Somewhere between the agrarian impulses and the thermonuclear ones, we blew it, irretrievably. 10:08:23 PM    comment []

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOOD DIVISION REGULATION NO. 569. SMOKED FISH (By authority conferred on the department of agriculture by section 23 of Act No. 39 of the Public Acts of 1968, as amended, being §289.723 of the Michigan Compiled Laws) <blah-blah-blah, lotsa definitions> R 285.569.2 Exemptions from rules. Rule 2. The following fish products are exempt from the requirements of these rules: (a) Finnan haddie, smoked cod fillet, smoked Scottish kipper, or other smoked fish that is clearly labeled to be cooked before consumed. (b) Boneless, smoked salted herring; smoked, dry salted herring; smoked blind robbin; or other smoked fish that has a water phase salt content of not less than 10%. (c) Commercially sterile smoked fish, either canned or in sterile packaging 9:43:33 PM    comment []

Wirh a little practice, you can build your very own blind robbin, using nothing but Lego! 9:05:33 PM    comment []

The Goodyear Blind Robbin, world's only surviving lighter than air smoked herring, sails gracefully over Angkor Wat as Leo Wycoff, 39, Swiss designer, mugs playfully for the camera on the promenade. 8:08:35 PM    comment []

Lots of Googles on "blind robbins" on this weblog, many looking for a picture. Okay, here's your picture. Unlike most I've seen, which try to gross you out somehow, I made an attempt to make this look okay. Okay, as they say, you can't polish a turd, but you can make a really stinky fish look...uh...okay. 7:22:48 PM    comment []

(from the online LA Times, registration free) TV's longest-running hit Reporting on the 50th anniversary of the TV dinner: By 1955 Swanson had sold 25 million. And the TV dinner had become the bento box for middle America. 1:31:40 PM    comment []

State Can Make Inmate Sane Enough to Execute, Court Rules The federal appeals court in St. Louis ruled yesterday that officials in Arkansas can force a prisoner on death row to take antipsychotic medication to make him sane enough to execute. Without the drugs, the prisoner, Charles Laverne Singleton, could not be put to death under a United States Supreme Court decision that prohibits the execution of the insane. But can Arkansas make sane people crazy enough to live there? 9:45:07 AM    comment []

"Deep down he was a wonderful person," Gerald Warren, a former deputy press secretary under Presidents Nixon and Ford said Monday night. "I think he was placed in an awkward position as a young man. ... It wasn't easy for him, but he did his best and he was very loyal. "I don't think he ever showed the great promise that he had," Warren said. "I wish that he had been able to tell his story to the world." Another friend, New York journalist David Pinto, said Ziegler "never stopped thinking well of Nixon." 3:59:08 AM    comment []

Artificial Intelligence: When you Babelfish "Braunschweiger" from German to English, you get "more braunschweiger." However, when you try and break it down by typing it as "braun schweig" it simply tells you "brown be silent". Maybe that means you should just accept the fact that it's meat and ask no further questions. 3:00:22 AM    comment []