The Iranian protests seem to be spreading. Via the Twitter hive mind, there seems to have been a vast rally in the city of Isfahan:

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WBEZ's This American Life has just produced a great show that seeks to explain the banking crisis in plain English. They start with the very basics---assets and liabilities-- and move on to discussions of toxic assets, the prospects of nationalization, and other fun stuff.

The second half of the show profiles a couple of guys who are actually ( Read more... )

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Apparently, the Hannah Montana craze is causing parents to do, well, crazy things. PennQuarter Living recounts finding a number of weeping 'tween girls on the Metro, unaccompanied by any responsible adult:

The eldest girl (who was 13) explained that they were on their way to the Hannah Montana concert at the Verizon Center and that ( Read more... )

You know the story: Dad has a gun. Dad leaves the gun in a place where Junior has easy access to it. Junior finds the gun, plays with it, and ends up killing himself or one of his buddies ( Read more... )

Auntie Beeb is carrying a story about the U.S. Army's proposed Battlefield Extraction Assist Robot (BEAR). Since a picture is worth a thousand words, here's how the guy looks:

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Many, if not most of you who are reading this have met me in real life. You know my name. You know what I look like, how I sound. You probably know my taste in food and drink. Yet my proper name appears nowhere on the blog. I don't reveal my personal e-mail address. Those of you who haven't had the dubious pleasure of meeting me in the flesh ( Read more... )

Here's Tony Blair congratulating the new President of the French Republic--in French, on Youtube. I love the Internets!

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I've been turning off my radio a lot lately ( Read more... )

When the Times runs an idea that has been on at the top of bash.org for what seems to be years:

INSULT
RETORT
COUNTER-RETORT
QUESTIONING OF SEXUAL PREFERENCE
SUGGESTION TO SHUT THE FUCK UP
NOTATION THAT YOU CREATE A VACUUM
RIPOSTE
ADDON RIPOSTE
COUNTER-RIPOSTE
COUNTER-COUNTER RIPOSTE
NONSENSICAL STATEMENT INVOLVING PLANKTON
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The most egregious example of ivy-league whining I have seen in ages ran in yesterday's WaPo:She graduated Phi Beta Kappa, has published in top legal journals and completed internships at leading institutions in her field. So when the Yale law student interviewed with 16 firms for a job this summer, she was concerned that she had only four call- ( Read more... )