#infoAnarchy Chump Archives for 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

Salon - I invaded the White House press corps
posted by seti at 2006-05-13 22:14

seti: insider journalism, good quotes on the former press secretary Scott McClellan
seti: "Scott McClellan is the Undertaker of Information. With the gentle sterility of a mortician, McClellan puts a dark suit on every day and tells us, in a soothing voice, how comfortable our beloved information will be now that it is dead and resting in an attractive coffin. The press -- outraged family members of the strangled Truth -- wail, "But Scott, it wasn't dead before you guys got your hands on it!" And the Undertaker, unruffled, sympathetic and
seti: politely informs you that it is part of an ongoing investigation, and he believes he has already told you what the president's comments were on that."

Instant death
posted by fridge at 2006-05-13 12:52

fridge:

Organic chocolate OVERNIGHT HOME DELIVERY.
posted by simmo at 2006-05-13 10:57

simmo: Whoever said online shopping was a failure?
fridge: The global brick & mortar retailer conspiracy

Jim Beam Inflatable Bar
posted by fridge at 2006-05-13 09:21

Why vegetarians should be force fed with lard.
posted by simmo at 2006-05-13 05:33

simmo: "intended to annoy"
simmo: the censored article
simmo: DO NOT CLIK!~!!
simmo: the worst thing about this essay is that he does the usual thing of making evolution sound like it is an active process propogated with intent by the entities which are undergoing it
simmo: rather than emphasising the absolute passivity, randomness, and lack of prescience that is part of its definition
simmo: "cabbages have evolved to be poisonous" scary scary. nasty cabbage.
Rovar: lamarkian darwinian
simmo: that was a beautiful lamark
simmo: somewhat skeptical over the 1,000-mussels-per-person calculation. s/20,000/2,000/

More UK anti-hacking laws
posted by simmo at 2006-05-13 05:31

Compare social bookmark sites (like you'd want to)
posted by simmo at 2006-05-13 03:27

simmo: pdf

<rechump> NSA phone call database largest database ever, to track every phone call made in USA EVER
posted by simmo at 2006-05-13 03:17

simmo: US public (in telephone poll) "Frankly my dears, we don't give a damn."
simmo: In other news, only 13% of USA 20-year-olds can find Iraq on a map.
simmo: Has an entire country ever been entered in the Darwin Awards yet?
Ash: yeah it's called canada

Poll: Clinton more honest
posted by tanheusa at 2006-05-13 02:19

simmo: Both "not real honest" according to survey participants
simmo: in another poll, 99% of those surveyed ask "why do we keep voting them in?"
simmo: Butch's popularity < 30%

Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue To Lose Cody's Books
posted by est at 2006-05-13 02:01

simmo: No books for YOU.