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Saturday, January 29, 2005

Best Anti-"Intelligent Design" Piece Ever

From a Frayster at Slate:

IOZ: Good evening, God, and welcome to The Deity's Studio.
INTELLIGENT DESIGNER: Good evening, IOZ. And please, don't call me God.
IOZ: You'd prefer... Hashem?
ID: No, IOZ. I'm not God. I'm the Intelligent Designer.
IOZ: Well, we hate to quibble with our deities on TDS, but wouldn't a supernatural force capable of the creation of the entire universe, by its very nature, be a God.
ID: Not necessarily, IOZ. I could be, for instance, a supremely powerful metaphysical industrial designer.
IOZ: Are you?
ID: I'm afraid I can't say.

-- and it goes way on beyond that.

- posted by Don Porges @ 1/29/2005 11:43:00 PM

And He Shall Reign For Ever And Ever

Constitutional note: although the 22nd Amendment limits Presidents to 2 full terms, there is no such limitation on Vice-Presidents. Cheney can remain VP until the End of Days!

- posted by Don Porges @ 1/29/2005 04:28:00 PM

Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Starting an Urban Legend

Brian Flemming is trying to spread a deliberately made-up story about an e-mail spammer who was murdered by having a can of Spam shoved down his throat. I say, if it convinces one spammer to stop, it's well worth the lie.

(David Letterman once had a bit where he was going to try to spread a rumor, and invited the audience to help pick the rumor. They settled on "Dan Rather and Peter Jennings were secretly married recently in South America".)

- posted by Don Porges @ 1/26/2005 10:06:00 PM

Monday, January 24, 2005

Huh?

From the Boston Globe's sports blog:

Tom Brady is like the black in roulette. Don't dare go against him.

- posted by Don Porges @ 1/24/2005 10:31:00 AM

Sunday, January 23, 2005

Photoblogging Over Two Feet of Snow

Wanna see see my house and a whole pile of snow?

- posted by Don Porges @ 1/23/2005 09:57:00 PM

Saturday, January 15, 2005

Great Moments in Restaurant Reviewing

Jae's Cafe, Downtown Boston:

Now the only people taking the motto ["Eat at Jae's, Live Forever"] literally are sitting next to us, elaborately wasted and canoodling over their pad see ew. ''I'm having a lovely evening with my clients and I'm in the ladies room giving you a call," the blonde in the coatdress tells her phone as the bald-pated man in horn-rimmed glasses caresses her shoulder. ''I should have divorced him a long time ago," she confides to him later.

- posted by Don Porges @ 1/15/2005 01:06:00 PM

Tuesday, January 11, 2005

You Think Playing Video Games is Pathetic?

There's playing video games (pathetic). There's making video games into an impossible challenge, by trying to see how fast you can finish one in one continuous, near-perfect burst of twitchiness (macho pathetic). There's recording the feat of completing Super Mario 64 -- a game that I spent most of one unemployed summer working my way through -- in three hours (impressive). There's putting that video on the web. There's downloading that video, and then there's watching a video of some stranger playing Super Mario 64. For three hours.

At this last point, I think we've really arrived at pathetic.

- posted by Don Porges @ 1/11/2005 08:16:00 PM

Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Welcome to the Blogroll

Bob's Tropical Fish has, inexplicably, put this here blog on its blogroll, as well as consisting of my legion of recent commentor, so...look! Over there, on the right-hand margin!

- posted by Don Porges @ 1/04/2005 10:23:00 PM

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