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Your dose of ‘WTF?’ for the day.

From Daily Kos:

Wow. Just when you think Republicans can’t get any crazier, we find out that the powerful chairman of the Texas House Appropriations Committee, Warren Chisum, doesn’t even believe that the earth revolves around the sun.

And from the article itself:

It’s not surprising that the earth doesn’t move for Warren Chisum, and maybe it’s not surprising that he blames a Jewish conspiracy for it.

Still, it’s enough to set the world a-spinning that the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, the most powerful committee in the House, distributed to legislators a memo pitching crazed wingers who believe the earth stands still — doesn’t spin on its axis or revolve around the Sun — that Copernicus was part of a Jewish conspiracy to undermine the Old Testament. That would be the same Old Testament that was written by the folks Chisum’s friends say are conspiring to undermine it.

And, for more fun, here’s the memo itself.

February 16th, 2007 · Tags Uncategorized | Comments Off

links for 2007-01-16

January 16th, 2007 · Tags Uncategorized | Comments Off

And lastly, several stories in one go

Put YOUR slogan on someone’s lower back with ImageChef (via Lifehacker).

Spell your name in alphabet soup. Turn your slogan into a neon sign. Give your loved one a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. These are just a few of the cool images you can cook up with ImageChef.

image courtesy of Lifehacker

Then, if you think YOU’RE a Mac fanboy or fangirl, check out this guy’s OS X Dock pillows (via MAKE’s blog).

Dock pillows

I particularly like the Finder one, myself. Next up, China manages to kill off the white dolphin after twenty million years (via CNN):

An expedition searching for a rare Yangtze River dolphin ended Wednesday without a single sighting and with the team’s leader saying one of the world’s oldest species was effectively extinct.

The white dolphin known as baiji, shy and nearly blind, dates back some 20 million years. Its disappearance is believed to be the first time in a half-century, since hunting killed off the Caribbean monk seal, that a large aquatic mammal has been driven to extinction.

And last but not least, someone’s killing English hookers (also via CNN):

Police in eastern England are combing through rural areas hoping to find out who is behind the suspected killings of five women — all believed to be prostitutes — that may be the work of a lone serial killer.

Prostitutes were on Wednesday warned to stay off the streets of the Suffolk city of Ipswich, fearing the killer or killers could strike again.

“I’m not sure what starker message there can be at the moment: Certainly three of their peer group have been murdered, now potentially another two,” Chief Supt. Stewart Gull of Suffolk police said.

“Clearly it’s not safe, they need to stay off the streets.”

A Jack the Ripper wannabe? Maybe!

December 13th, 2006 · Tags Animals, Internet, Mac, News, Sex, Technology, Uncategorized | Comments Off