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Cake Wrecks:

"Now look, I need you to go back to the bakery - are you listening to me? - I need you to go back to the bakery, and get another cake. And remember: We are preparing for a new life. Happy, cheerful, life. We are avoiding death, mmkay? Got that? Good. Now hurry up; the party starts in an hour."

Also see Roadkill.

It also revealed 28 per cent had choked on crumbs while one in 10 had broken a tooth or filling biting a biscuit.

More unusually, three per cent had poked themselves in the eye with a biscuit and seven per cent bitten by a pet or "other wild animal" trying to get their biscuit.

The English, on the other hand -- we're not so sure.

Picture from the newly-refurbished Hubble Space Telescope showing:

. . . a small region inside the massive globular cluster Omega Centauri, which boasts nearly 10 million stars. Globular clusters, ancient swarms of stars united by gravity, are the homesteaders of our Milky Way galaxy. The stars in Omega Centauri are between 10 billion and 12 billion years old. The cluster lies about 16,000 light-years from Earth.

More pix here.

Adult Swim comes through for all those who've wondered about making the big leagues of selling overpriced crap to the unwilling. I haven't played this one too much, but it looks very well done.

Warning: Sfx, music and a short ad at the beginning, all of which can be muted.

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But I call it Wikipedia.

This Albert Einstein robot does not trouble me. Now, an Albert Einstein robot with frickin' laser beams attached to its head . . . let's not give them any ideas, OK?

Now featuring Canadian content!

Michelle Malkin:

Gibson: HAHAHAHAHA. HEHEHE. I didn’t even know about it. Um. So, you’ve got me at a loss. I don’t know. Uh. Uh. But my goodness, if it’s got everything including sleaziness in it, we should talk about it this morning.

Roma: This is the American way!

Gibson: Or maybe this is just one you leave to the cables.

Gibson is a blithering nincompoop or an utter incompetent or a liar if he claims to know nothing of ACORN's latest antics. But there remains another, more sinister possibility, which explains his new nickname.

Malkin prefaced Gibson's remarks with a plea:

Bernie Goldberg’s looking for new names for the "mainstream media." I’m pitching ostrich media. How about you?

John Gilmore:

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

You're welcome, Chuckles. Looks good on ya.

Via SDA

I tried to tell them -- but would they lisssssten?

An online drawing program. Click on the red triangle to reveal the title and/or artist; anywhere in the top portion of the drop-down menu to go to the site.

He hits the deck without so much as a whimper.

A Swiss man, looking for directions, pulls up at a bus stop where two Texans are waiting.

"Entschuldigen Sie mich, Sie zu tun sprechen Deutsches?" he asks. The two Texans just stare at him.

"Excusez-moi pour vous faire parlent français?" The two continue to stare.

"parli italiano?" No response.

"¿los di usted habla español?" Still nothing.

So he has a final try: "Tatakalamaani bil arabiyya?"

The Swiss man drives off, extremely disgusted.

The first Texan turns to the second and says, "You know Bubba, maybe we should learn a foreign language."

I think it might be the Young Pioneers' production of the peppy musical number, "To God's Knees." *

* A joke that Ronald Reagan liked to tell: A commissar was touring a collective farm and asked one of the workers how the harvest was going. He replied, "Comrade Commissar, if we piled all the potatoes together, they would reach to God's knees!" The commissar, shocked, sputtered, "B-b-b-ut Comrade! This is the Soviet Union! Surely you know that there is no God!" And the peasant replied, "And surely you know, Comrade, that there are no potatoes."

U.S. Condemned For Pre-Emptive Use Of Hillary Clinton Against Pakistan

A stunning collection of photo-realist paintings. You can click through on any individual artist and go to his or her web page. I did just that with Ms. Monks, and I am pleased to report that she has no prices listed. This can mean only one thing: She's giving them away for free. Which would be exactly in my price range, so I plan to pick up two or three. Maybe more, if she's willing to include the frames.