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Christopher Hitchens gets waterboarded so you don’t have to.

The inhalation brought the damp cloths tight against my nostrils, as if a huge, wet paw had been suddenly and annihilatingly clamped over my face. Unable to determine whether I was breathing in or out, and flooded more with sheer panic than with mere water, I triggered the pre-arranged signal and felt the unbelievable relief of being pulled upright and having the soaking and stifling layers pulled off me. I find I don’t want to tell you how little time I lasted.

Video footage.

Via the Jason Kottke.

Reading Hitchens’ article make me want to experience this. On the other hand, this technique is probably best explored vicariously. Maybe I’ll shake things up by taking a different route to work tomorrow.

Daring Fireball mentions an AP article run by OneNewsNow, a Christian news site in the habit of automatically replacing “gay” with “homosexual.” Although the article was corrected at some point today, at least one other example still remains. Lending itself quite well to the substitution, the second example reads, “Memphis Grizzlies backers hit the hay hoping that Kevin Love would open things up for Rudy Homosexual in the frontcourt.” Update: I’m not sure how I failed to notice that Stumblng posted this screenshot a few hours before me. 

Daring Fireball mentions an AP article run by OneNewsNow, a Christian news site in the habit of automatically replacing “gay” with “homosexual.” Although the article was corrected at some point today, at least one other example still remains. Lending itself quite well to the substitution, the second example reads, “Memphis Grizzlies backers hit the hay hoping that Kevin Love would open things up for Rudy Homosexual in the frontcourt.”

Update: I’m not sure how I failed to notice that Stumblng posted this screenshot a few hours before me. 

Michael Phelps set a new world record in the 400m individual medley in today’s Olympic trials. In second place was Ryan Lochte, who, in his quest to finally beat Phelps in the event, swam fast enough to break the old world record. In track and field, Tyson Gay ran the 100 meter in 9.68 seconds, the best time ever recorded. It doesn’t qualify as a world record because the tailwind was too fast. If anyone’s interested, the NYT has a section devoted to the Beijing Olympics.

Michael Phelps set a new world record in the 400m individual medley in today’s Olympic trials. In second place was Ryan Lochte, who, in his quest to finally beat Phelps in the event, swam fast enough to break the old world record. In track and field, Tyson Gay ran the 100 meter in 9.68 seconds, the best time ever recorded. It doesn’t qualify as a world record because the tailwind was too fast.

If anyone’s interested, the NYT has a section devoted to the Beijing Olympics.

I hope the system isn’t referring to me.
I hope the system isn’t referring to me.
bauldoff: Scottie Cowan photographed the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen in Chicago. Somewhere down river, there is a giant Tetris player that is about to be VERY happy. (via wtf is pantone?)

bauldoff:


Scottie Cowan photographed the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen in Chicago.

Somewhere down river, there is a giant Tetris player that is about to be VERY happy. (via wtf is pantone?)

The Economist reports a 16% increase in coca production last year in the three largest producing counties. This is despite large-scale efforts in Colombia to destroy crops.
The Economist reports a 16% increase in coca production last year in the three largest producing counties. This is despite large-scale efforts in Colombia to destroy crops.
Here’s Roy the Job Opportunity Cowboy meeting a Microsoft developer. This is one of many videos available on the View My World channel, which is part of Microsoft’s recruiting efforts. In each video, Roy’s song is followed by an employee describing, with cowboy lingo, what s/he does for the company.
sydvish: Will came over with 3 diet cokes and started a diet coke party. Woo! Just what I needed. DC party!

sydvish:

Will came over with 3 diet cokes and started a diet coke party. Woo! Just what I needed.

DC party!

matthewb: The very eerie “Untitled (Variant Crowd 2)” by Russian photographer Alexey Titarenko from his City of Shadows project (1992–1994). (via Kris Lane)

matthewb:

The very eerie “Untitled (Variant Crowd 2)” by Russian photographer Alexey Titarenko from his City of Shadows project (1992–1994). (via Kris Lane)
(via stumblng) I dig the way this guy does business.

(via stumblng)

I dig the way this guy does business.