This is satire, right? Please say yes…
If Everyone’s Talking, Who Will Listen?
Money quote:
It’s possible that over time, an energy tax, by making some computers, Web sites, blogs and perhaps cable TV channels too costly to maintain, could reduce the supply of information.
And folks wonder why newspapers are becoming less and less relevant.
Äffchen / Little Monkeys by only_point_five
Curse you simian god, why, why oh why do we not have monkeys (money quote leads paragraph two) in North America?! Of course, if we did they would have probably all have been killed off by now in some sort of monkeys-are-terrorist pronouncement by the TSA.
5ives » Five things that should be issued to every American on his or her 14th birthday.
Awesome!!!
Seen on my car:
Losing faith in humanity one interaction at a time.
Apathy, the lesser of two evils.
Seen on a Harley:
Loud pipes help me remember my penis is still there.
From late 1995 to March 2008 I had pretty much given up on newspaper comics. Late 1995 saw the end of both The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes. In March 2008 I finally took my dad’s advice and started reading Pearls Before Swine everyday. It took me a few weeks of reading it to [...]
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I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch – hay fever, I fancy it was. I [...]
For the past 10 years or so there have been gobs of stories about ridiculous patents being granted. The most famous is probably the Amazon one-click patent. Hardly a day goes by that my RSS reader does not present to me yet another story about a stupid patent either being approved or at least filed. [...]