the game of life

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The Lifeboat Foundation is suggesting some warning signs of the future. Several have immediate application: the Group Intellect and Memetic Hazard warnings could be posted at UTSA’s slacker corner, the hangout for all the chain-smoking, hacky-sack-playing low-rent-Goth gamers with soap allergies. Several of our developmental ed. and diversity workshops should have the Cognitive Hazard symbol Read more

I just received word that my long-lost cousin Bashar (n-times-removed) has perished, along with his family, in an auto accident: FROM THE DESK OFBARRISTER  ROBERT WILLIAM ROBERT CHAMBERS & ASSOCIATES.102 RUE DU JEAN PAUL 2 LOME REP OF TOGO.DATE;28/08/06.   ATTN DEAR FRIEND,   I am Barrister Robert  William  a solicitor at law,personal Lawyer  to  Read more

Some guys have just stopped looking for work: “To be honest, I’m kind of looking for the home run,” said Christopher Priga, who is 54 and has not had steady work since he lost a job with a six-figure income as an electrical engineer at Xerox in 2002. “There’s no point in hitting for base Read more

The final word has been spoken about the anti-American Marxist revolutionary baby boomers: To a pervert there is no such thing as a perversion, only a life-style choice. Anything else I could say would be trivial and an anticlimax. Read the whole thing at American Digest.  Poster from Michelle Malkin. Update (2 July).  Gagdad Bob Read more

and he’ll smite you for being a clueless git. Tip from the Drudge Report. Update (7 July)  He wasn’t kidding.  Don’t walk around with that silly iPod plugged into your empty head all day. Read more

Folks are having second thoughts about their Chinese-character tatoos: New York City jewelry designer Jane Ko, 30, who is Chinese-American, has been approached countless times by sheepish and somewhat befuddled strangers and acquaintances who have asked her to translate tattoos that they once thought were Chinese characters for attractive concepts like “power” and “love” but Read more

Only a little hung over from el Cinco de Mayo, Iowahawk has an intriguing post about lowriders Sociologist believe lowriding is a modern incarnation of the traditional Mexican paseo (promenade), an ancient social ritual in which the unmarried adolescents of the village coyly circled the town square, boys on one side, girls on the other. Read more

A Florida woman, aced out of a parking space at a local Wal-Mart, decided to voice her displeasure with a sword cane. Lucky for her, someone called the cops. Some folks I know woulda punched her into next week, and called it self-defense–and that’s just the ladies! Read more

Australian researchers have found evidence that cell phone use affects brain function. They say reaction time is slowed, while short-term memory improves. So you’ll remember the license number of that car you ran into. If those Aussies would just walk around campus for a couple of days, they’d come out with a stronger statement: prolonged Read more