Electric Josh

Good lord, even Dark Overlord Henry Kissinger isn't sure that the Iraq war has made America safer. Wasn't this the kind of crazy liberal attitude that got Howard Dean, the best potential President we've seen in years, in so much trouble?
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The Onion: "The University of Michigan has become the 17th institution of higher learning to be implicated in the checks-for-degrees scandal rocking American campuses, representatives from the Department of Justice reported Tuesday." This is what happens when satire hits its target too squarely—one doesn't really laugh all that hard.
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I want an iPod for a lot of reasons, but here's another: to be a radio pirate just like Christian Slater. Nice. Super ultra bonus: ASCII rock videos accompanied by wicked cheezy Casio keyboard renditions of these classic rock tunes. Van Halen, The Who, and ZZ Top are extremely well covered, while the others kind of suck. Do not say that this space never did anything to totally fix whatever's wrong with your day.
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Everyone should watch The Daily Show's coverage of the Democrat's convention that's coming up in just about a week and a half. They're already leading up to it with Ed Helms reporting from the Free Speech Zone a decent fraction of a mile from the site of the convention itself. In the previews he celebrates his free speech by playing the penis game with a cop.
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Huck at work pointed this space to the coolest clock I've seen all week. Just try not to sit there and watch minutes tick by.
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Getting ideas on how to spruce up this space at the unbelievably neat CSS Zen Garden, where same HTML with different stylesheets produces wildly different results, including some of the prettiest (content-free) web pages I've seen.
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