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Tech Note: LGF Pages, Now with Tags - Did I mention that LGF Pages is turning into a full-featured blogging tool for any registered LGF user? I did?
Well, it took another step in the mutational process today, with the addition of a free-form tagging system.
“Tags” are words or phrases associated with an LGF Page; there are very few ...
Tea Party Crowing Over Bennett's Scalp in Utah - Like a paranoid old turtle pulling its head back into its shell and ignoring the rest of the world, the Republican Party is letting itself be taken over by the atavistic, extreme right wing forces of the tea party movement, as one of the most conservative Senators in Congress is ...
Avengers #25, 'Enter... Dr. Doom' (February 1966) - Tonight’s photo from the Lizard Collection is another Marvel Silver Age classic: Avengers #25, published in February 1966, set in the mythical Eastern European country of “Latveria.” The Avengers are all freaking out, but Dr. Doom, he’s cool. The Lizard Collection’s copy is in outstanding condition, with white pages, bright inks, ...
Tech Note: Linkage Mutating into Diaries - Yeesh. When you’re moving text around among browsers and Javascript and PHP and MySQL, and when that text is coming from outside sources (copied and pasted from web pages by LGF users), sometimes the character encoding and translation issues can become … intense. Yes, I’m coding away at LGF Linkage ...
Video: Renewable Energy Solution of the Month - Wind - Environmentalist Peter Sinclair’s latest video looks at the current state of a very promising energy production technology, already yielding big benefits in other countries. How does “negative energy pricing” sound to you? [Video]
National Academy of Sciences Members Denounce 'McCarthy-Like Threats' by AGW Deniers - The National Academy of Sciences has published an open letter signed by 255 members, strongly denouncing the recent attacks and “McCarthy-like threats” against climate scientists by global warming denial groups and individuals: Open letter: Climate change and the integrity of science. We are deeply disturbed by the recent escalation of ...
Demon Sheep Strike Back - California politics is getting very, very weird. [Video]
Friday Night Music: Antoine Dufour, 'Hide and Seek' - Antoine Dufour covers Imogen Heap’s electronic tour de force “Hide and Seek” on solo acoustic guitar, and catches the essence. Absolutely beautiful. [Video] Here’s an Amazon widget with more audio samples from this fine album. [Video]
Barrett Brown Will Make Fun of Islam for Pageviews - On the way to answering the question of why humorists seem to make fun of Christians more often than Muslims, Barrett Brown shamelessly admits that it’s all about the pageviews: Muslims Love the Sweet Taste of Candy: A Message to Judeo-Christian Literalists.
Don't Forget Mom - It’s not too late to get something nice for mom at Amazon; here’s their special page with some excellent discounts on Mother’s Day Gifts. (Note: if you click through to Amazon from one of our links, LGF gets a small percentage in referral fees on all qualifying merchandise, without raising the ...
Times Square Evacuated for 'Suspicious Package' - A “suspicious package” left in a cooler outside a hotel has prompted another evacuation of Times Square and surrounding streets. Developing… UPDATE at 5/7/10 6:48:57 pm: Developing… into nothing. The cooler contained water bottles. A bit edgy, are we?
The Lieberman/Brown Terror Suspect Expatriation Bill - Joe Lieberman has joined forces with Scott Brown to introduce legislation that would let the government strip terror suspects of their citizenship. Surprisingly, GOP leader John Boehner isn’t on board with this idea, but Hillary Clinton is. WASHINGTON -- Proposed legislation that would allow the government to revoke American ...
GOP's Expert Climate Change Witness: Lord High Denier Monckton - In the best example yet of the GOP’s total disconnection from reality, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) called hearings on climate science, and the Republican Party chose as their sole “expert” witness — quack non-scientist ranting loon Lord Christopher Monckton, also known as a frequent guest on the utterly insane Alex ...
Baby Woolly Monkey and Kin - We seem to have a monkey theme developing tonight, so here’s a developing monkey: a Woolly Monkey at Apenheul Primate Park, from the Internet Center for the Study of Baby Animal Cuteness, Zooborns.
Video: No Kin to the Monkey - Thank goodness nobody in America thinks like this any more. Oh, wait. What? [Video] (Hat tip: The Sensuous Curmudgeon.) UPDATE at 5/6/10 6:16:18 pm: Another rendition of this timeless atavistic classic: [Audio]
Thursday Afternoon Music: Elvis Costello, 'Monkey to Man' - Today’s music break celebrates the discovery of Neanderthal genes in human beings with a great live version of Elvis Costello’s lesson in evolution, from the Jools Holland TV show. [Video] A long time ago our point of view Was broadcast by Mr. Bartholomew Now the world is full of sorrow and ...
Greek Financial Crisis Going Viral - Yikes. The stock market is plunging on the latest news from Greece. Problems with Greek debt are about to spread to other countries and could infect the US unless the nation tackles its own mounting problems, Pimco’s Mohamed El-Erian told CNBC. Riots erupted in Greece again on Thursday night to protest ...
Outrageous Outrage of the Day - The wingnut blogosphere is fuming and hissing with outrage over this story today: Students Kicked Off Campus for Wearing American Flag Tees. What? They were kicked out of school just for wearing US flag clothing? Outrage! But as usual with these trumped up nontroversies, there’s a bit more to the story. Is ...
Now Can We Call Them 'Teabaggers?' - Uh… Also see: What’s In a Name?
Duck, Watching - (Camera: Nikon D90 with 18-105mm Nikkor zoom lens.)
Fox Refuses Climate Legislation Ad - Here’s the advertisement Fox News refused to run, from a liberal group making the case that America’s dependence on foreign oil has national security implications. I’m pretty sure I’ve heard Fox News commentators make similar arguments, many times. Fox officials said the ad was “too confusing,” but the point seems crystal ...
Video: Television - The insanity break for today might make you slightly insane, if you aren’t already. A video by Beth Fulton, inspired by Todd Alcott’s poem “Television.” [Video]
US Anti-Abortion Group Trying to Sabotage Kenya's Constitution - Why are American fundamentalist Christian groups suddenly so active in Africa? Earlier we learned that leading evangelicals are behind the push to make homosexuality a capital crime in Uganda, and now we have a Pat Robertson front group spending large amounts of money to subvert Kenya’s proposed new constitution. New ...
'Ashamed to Call Myself a Conservative' - At FrumForum, writer Dennis Sanders says the GOP Should Be Ashamed of AZ’s Anti-Immigration Law. Unfortunately, the GOP is not only not ashamed, they’re lining up to defend this un-American law, and pushing to get similar legislation in other states. Some say the answer to this law is that legal residents ...
Captain America #101, 'When Wakes the Sleeper!' (May 1968) - LGF reader JasonA posted a link to an article about actor Hugo Weaving being cast as “The Red Skull” in the upcoming movie “Captain America: The First Avenger,” so here’s one of the Lizard Collection’s Captain America books: #101, the second issue of the Captain America title, featuring the dreaded ...
Video: Gravite - Today’s insanity break is a cleverly rhythmic short film by Renaud Hallée, titled Gravite. [Video]
Christian Right Leader George Rekers and the 'Rent Boy' - Uh oh. Fundamentalist Christian leader George Rekers, who founded the politically active and virulently anti-gay Family Research Council with Dr. James Dobson, has been caught by a Miami newspaper on vacation with a ‘rent boy’. The pictures on the Rentboy.com profile show a shirtless young man with delicate features, ...