Odd Musical Combination of the Day

Faith No More's former frontman Mike Patton has a new band, Peeping Tom, and he has enlisted the help of Norah Jones on a song called "Sucker." It's a pretty good song, and there's something oddly satisfying about hearing Norah Jones say "motherfucker."

Can you hear this sound?

So apparently there's a high pitched mp3 going around that store owners in England are using to keep teens away.

You see, almost all teens can hear it, but most adults can't because of hearing loss.

But now the kids have turned the table, and they're using it as a ringtone. They can use it in class and most of their teachers can't hear it.

However, I'm 28 and I can hear it clearly. I thought surely the two Nine Inch Nails concerts I've been to would have destroyed my hearing enough that I wouldn't be able to hear it.

I do believe in the legitimacy of this story, as some friends of mine can't hear it.

Can you hear the noise?

Here it is.

Wonkette Links Dara Again

Ok, Wonkette linked my friend Dara again.

When do I get to be linked by a big name blog? About the best I've done is a link from First Draft back in September 2004, in the first incarnation of this blog.

So it's time for someone to link to me. I'm looking your way, Kos.

Emu Attacks Carbondale!

You think the place you come from is fucked up? Look what's going on in Southern Illinois, where I grew up.

The headline says it all... Police Gun Down Errant Emu

What's even better are the accompanying emails I got from my friend Jonathan who works in Carbondale....

This happened by a guy I work with's house. He went home for lunch, and he saw the whole thing. He said the SWAT shot it with an m-16/ar-15 like 16 times and the thing didn't die. They even shot it pointblank in the face with a shotgun, and it still didn't die. They had to like shoot it 3 times in the face before it eventually died.

The best part of his story was that his neighbor thought SWAT was tranquilizing it, with m-16s and shotguns.

...........

Eric, the guy who saw the whole thing, said, "They shot it hell of alot more times than what said."

Bush makes fun of blind people

Well, not exactly. For once, I do believe this was an honest mistake on Bush's part, one that anyone could have made. But still, it somehow seems like a microcosm of things going wrong in the Bush administration.

Here's the story, from Wonkette.

Jim Webb

I haven't blogged about the guy I voted for in the Democratic primary on Tuesday yet. Well, here I go. He won. And Kos thinks he'll appeal to Libertarians, too.

This feels like the end of an era

Industrial Light and Magic, the people behind Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Ghostbusters, are dumping their minatures and models department.

Fun with Youtube

I don't know why I feel compelled to post this video, but here's your chance to learn English, exercise, and fend off pesky American boys all at once!

Jason Grimsley

A couple links here regarding baseball's latest doping scandal....

1. Why aren't more people pointing out that Jason Grimsley is the same guy who climbed through a dugout ceiling to grab Albert Belle's corked bat before the umpires found it?

2. King Kaufman has a great column regarding how the Grimsley situation shows how Major League Baseball's punishment based drug policies are no more successful than, and as pointless as, our nation's punishment based War on Drugs.

This is a Public Service Announcment

meant to provoke no one in particular.

Progressive rocks sucks. Almost as much as the Green Bay Packers.