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PQBON.com search results

Here are some of the strange search terms that have returned pqbon.com to people on the web.

Strange PQBON.COM search hits:

• homosexuality not natural polyester eyeglasses birth control -- ???
• monique sinfest nude or sinfest monique nude or nude sinfest monique -- sick fucks looking for nude online comics!
• where is the gas and clutch on a motorcycle
• george p. parker teddy draper
• marathon poop while running -- Thanks meta!
• how to miscarry -- um, wow... kinda sad...
• mike rubin broadcom -- Interesting...

Common searches (This is done by culling the list and grouping similar searches by hand):

• Hobit love
• mp3 vs. aac
• People looking for JenniCam
• People looking for female masturbation????
• chernobyl related searches
• People looking for unemployment statistics
• Harvards h-bomb magazine
• ttr-125le (tonya's dirtbike)

Jersey Girl...

No, not the one that emailed me yesterday. Kevin Smiths new movie...
Penny Arcade (gabe and tycho), who like most of us 20-somethings (how old am i?), worship Kevin Smith in all his incarnations had a great comic that applies a concept Kevin Smith is pioneering. Kevin Smith has decided Jersey Girl isn't for critics.

Political roundup...

Richard Clarke stepped forward this weekend and asserted that the bush administration could have done more to stop September 11th. Richard Clarke was bushes first anti-terrorism advisor. It seems even then bush had it in for Iraq.

"Frankly," he said, "I find it outrageous that the president is running for re-election on the grounds that he's done such great things about terrorism. He ignored it. He ignored terrorism for months, when maybe we could have done something to stop 9/11. Maybe. We'll never know."

Powell, the new mouth piece of the bush administration now that Rumsfield has been proven to be fallible, is now making strong statements to the effect that there may have been nothing the administration could have done to stop 9/11.

In worse news, Scalia won't step adide from Cheney's case. Scalia went on to say that thinking that a duck hunting trip could bias an supreme court justice paints a very horrible picture of where we are as a country. I agree with him, but I don't think that that horrible picture is inaccurate.

I like/hate the British Museum

I was reading this article on CNN about an Egyptian museum restoring the sarcophagus of Ramses, and I was reminded of why I both love and hate the British Museum. I love the British Museum because it has a wonderful collection of cultural items from all over the world, and I hate the British Museum because it has a wonderful collection of cultural items that are the stolen fruits of its colonial conquests.

The part of the article that really got me was that the Egypt had managed to piece together 250 fragments of the sarcophagus, but according to the article: "The original face is on display at the British Museum, and Zahi Hawass, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said he hoped it would be returned to complete the sarcophagus."

McCain rules

How many Republican senators have the balls to tell Bush/Cheney to shove it when it comes to attacking Kerry on defense issues? Give McCain more airtime and there's a small chance that the level of debate in the country might actually be raised. This Yahoo News article points out just how bad the coming election might get if the level isn't raised.
- McCain Backs Kerry on National Security (washingtonpost.com)

Most common mispeled words and persnickety pronounciations

It was really interesting to go through these lists. Some of the words were obvious, some reveal dialectal tendencies that I had never even heard of, and some made me correct myself.
yourDictionary.com - 100 Most Often Mispronounced Words
yourDictionary.com - 100 Most Often Misspelled Words

(via kottke)

NSFW supermodel personals

A person by the name of Tara created a mostly amusing sight by using photos/ads of models and writing personals for them.

Subvocal user interfaces

Orson Scott Card made subvocal interfaces sound interesting in Speaker for the Dead (+ other post Ender's Game books). In the books, Ender uses subvocalization to talk to a sentient computer, which allows him to communicate privately. It also affords him a bit of laziness, as he doesn't have to fully express the words.

Now subvocalization looks like it's closer to being a real interface. What I find most compelling about it is that it could potentially allow for the richness of a user interface based on speech, but without the annoying side effect of having to listen to people talk to their computers (it's bad enough having to hear your co-workers talking on the phone). The actual research sounds pretty far off from being practical, though, as the lexicon it recognizes is rather small.
- Yahoo! News - NASA hears words not yet spoken

(via boingboing)

Amusing tare panda items

Congressional Activism

See for yourself, a bill introduced in the House last week that would allow Congress to overrule Supreme Court rulings with a two-thirds vote. It is titled "Congressional Accountability for Judicial Activism Act of 2004 a.k.a Check and balances my @$$." Luckily, the Supreme Court can rule this one unconstitutional, or can they... Maybe Congress would just stick their fingers in their ears and repeat, "la la la... Not listening... Can't hear you Supreme Court... Not listening..."

(via blogdex)

PQBON's Dose o' comics...

In a time where we are cutting veterans rights, maybe should remember what a bunch of them came home to...

I thought this captured the girlfriend conundrum well. You want a girlfriend who likes the things you like, but then...

Daddy, daddy, is he hurting her?

It seems middle america had its sacred violence interrupted by sex once again. First Janet blows the super bowl by mixing sex in with good old christian american violence. Now, sex has invaded wrestling! Oh, the humanity!

In Tampa Bay a cable company crossed there pay per view streams. People trying to watch good old american wrestling were had their senses assailed by soft core porn. Scenes from Naked Dating were spliced into the middle of Wrestlemania XX.

This, on top of watching his 8-year-old son witness the Janet Jackson "wardrobe malfunction" during the Super Bowl halftime show, has turned Cosentino's stomach a bit.

"Unfortunately," Cosentino said, "he's becoming a very educated 8-year-old."

I've seen ads for the WWF, I mean WWE, recently and I remember women kissing and women almost naked. In the extended section are screen shots from the WWE website that look no worse then the ads for Naked Dating...

Now that is really besides the point. What do you think is worse for a kid wrestling WWE style or Naked Dating? WWE dramatizes disagreements and teaches us to solve our problems with violence. Naked dating teach us that if you're hot you can have sex with anybody and people will pay to watch. I would say violence is a much worse lesson for kids.

This image was from the front page:

The first link I followed was the Divas link. It produced these two images:


Then I remembered all the ads for WWE RAW. I followed that link. This is a picture of one of the RAW performers:

Finally, I decided to check out Smack Down. Smack Down is purported to be the most main stream part of WWE. This is what I was greeted with from the female performers:

'more' versus 'foreign'

This whole Kerry-bragging-about-unnamed-foreign-leaders situation is getting comically complicated. Follow with me:
- Boston Globe claims that Kerry stated that he has the backing of several unnamed foreign leaders.
- Colin Powell goes on TV and dares Kerry to name these leaders
- Kerry defends the statement: "I'm not going to betray a private conversation with anybody," he said Sunday. "I have heard from people, foreign leaders elsewhere in the world who don't appreciate the Bush administration and would love to see a change in the leadership of the United States."
- Bush dares Kerry to name the leaders that Kerry has the backing of
- The Globe reporter admits an error in transcribing the comment. Instead of "foreign leaders," Kerry actually said "more leaders."

What do you do in this situation? Kerry's already defended the comment, which puts him in the position of supporting a comment that he never actually made. Now that Bush is calling Kerry out on this, does Kerry:
- name foreign leaders that he never actually claimed he had the support of?
- does he pass it off as a misquote (despite his earlier defense), which makes it look like Kerry is backpedalling, which will makes it look like the Bush Administration wins, even though the misquoted statement is most likely true.

(via metafilter)

This man wants your spam

The Wall Street Journal has a story about a man who buys the products out of spam. He isn't a government regulator looking after consumer interests, he is just a bargain hunter who has moved online. He lives on Ebay and spam and collects things he doesn't ever use.

NYTimes on Greenspan, our huge deficit, and housing prices

Greenspan Shifts View on Deficits

Code talker finally gets his benefits

Decades later, a windfall for code talker Attorney secures medal, benefits for Navajo WWII vet

Teddy Draper Sr. fought in WWII at Iwo Jima. He and other Navajo have been credited with a large amount of the success in WWII. The Navajo language (unknown outside of North America) was used to confound the Axis powers in WWII. The code talkers put their lives on the line, as their handlers were instructed not to let them become POWs under ANY circumstance. Teddy was hit by a mortar round while serving at Iwo Jima. His injuries while not life threatening are non the less severe. He has lost a large part of his hearing, and some eye sight. That coupled with what sounds a lot like survivors guilt and post traumatic stress disorder means he gave a lot to a country that put him and his people on a reservation.

Even now, Teddy didn't really get the award he deserved. His purple hart was mailed to him in a box, very unceremoniously. Then again this kind of goes with how we have always treated the native americans.

While most of my right up has been a downer, it must be pointed out that an attorney, George P. Parker Jr., was the one to workout and fix things for Teddy. Who until Mr. Parker stepped in had been trying to work the system for 60 years. Parker, a labor attorney, learned all about Veteran's law strictly to help Mr. Draper probono.

2x the burnage

The movie DVDs you have are all dual-layer, which means they have twice the capacity as there are two layers of data inside of the DVD. Recordable DVDs, however, have been single-layer. While the recordable DVDs are great for backing up files, the smaller capacity means that you couldn't backup movies onto them. Also, for people like myself, 4.7GB isn't enough space to backup my digital camera photos, and I don't even think about backing up my music collection.

All that can change now that Philips has figured out how to make dual-layer recordable DVDs that will eventually burn at 16x. I'm sure the discs will cost twice as much, but it would be worth the convenience.
- New Double-Layer DVD R From Philips

Imminent threat

For those of you keeping track, the Center for American Progress has put together a list of "imminent threat" statements by the Bush administration:
- Center for American Progress - In Their Own Words: Iraq's 'Imminent' Threat - Page

Death of Bruce Lee

I've heard a lot of stories of Bruce Lee's death, most involving him being struck dead with a single blow during a movie. It turns out that none of them were even slightly true, though the truth is just as surprising.
- The Mystery of Bruce Lee's Death

Cory is both God and Dog

Cory Doctrow rocks. He is a sci-fi author and one of the authors of BoingBoing one of the coolest group blogs on the web (other than 1010).
Here is an inventory of his computer bag.

Above Earth

The Earth Observatory has some pretty kickin' photos of Earth from space, including Mt. Fuji, auroras from space, and San Francisco Bay as well as the salt ponds in the South Bay.

(via TinyApps.Org : Blog)

Origami(folding) /Kiragami (cutting) Motorcycles...

Paper R1

They have their other bikes too, along with kind of a weird mix of paper animals.

Other things

Hamlet-ster

Shakespeare Social Networks

Swiss army fiend

I'm a bit of a Swiss Army knife/pocketknife fiend. I've bought a lot over the years, though much of that is due to airport security.

Victorinox is planning on releasing a Swiss Army knife with 64MB or 128MB of flash built-in. I have two USB pen drives, but I have to leave them in my bag and at home b/c it's one too many things to carry around in my pockets. Depending on the form factor of the new knife (the photo looks potentially fake), I may have to add a new knife to my collection.
- The Register: CeBIT to premiere USB Swiss Army Knife

Firefox to get new logo...

After several name changes, a logo controversy is on the horizon (and about 20,000 light years away). Apparently V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) has already trademarked the design:
- adot's notblog*: late posting but...

An interesting issue: Youth Employment

Teens often the losers in competition for jobs

Now, I'm all for youth employment, but isn't it more important that family providers and people trying to support themselves have SOME kind of job. It does suck that kids are having trouble finding jobs but I would rather that then have parents under employed or RCGs unable to get any work at all.

delicious stalinist crabs

Telegraph | News | Stalin's last army - hordes of gigantic crabs on their way to invade Europe

This from the whiskydrinkingjesus, who I believe calls his place of residence "Stalin House".

The rapists for $500

If you don't feel like scrounging around Kazaa, you can get all the videos here:
- Celebrity Jeopardy

Sweet meat

Yummy, yummy SPAM, now in collector's edition cans:
- Yahoo! News - Top Stories Photos - AP
(via FARK)

Review of green eggs and ham....

Green eggs and ham as as parable from Eisenhower era America...

SF ain't on this one

World subway systems compared side-by-side

The map reminds me how nice it is to visit cities like Paris, London, and Tokyo.

For materialistic hoors

You can now subscribe to Amazon
- Amazon.com Syndicated Content

the chickmobile

Volvo Reveals Car Designed by Women via Halley's Comment.

At last! A car made for people with my oil-changing habits. It's almost self-cleaning, too.

Movie fonts

I'm stuck. I can't get B, C, E, F, J, P, S, U, X, or Y. I don't understand how I can't get X, that should be ridiculously easy, and that B looks oh-so familiar.

Movie Alphabet Game #1

There's also a second one that I haven't even tried yet:
Movie Alphabet Game #2

(via metafilter)

The Passion of Popcorn

shane brought this one back from London, but I managed to notice it online as well:
- Guardian Unlimited Film | Features | What's popcorn in Aramaic?

404 Weapons of Mass Destruction...

Cannot find Weapons of Mass Destruction: "These Weapons of Mass Destruction cannot be displayed"

Best search engine ever?

Calvin and Hobbes Extensive Strip Search

Scalia plays duck hunt with Cheney and misses

I don't know what is worse... going hunting with a man as evil as Cheney on the bill of an energy executive or going hunting with a man as evil as Cheney then not recusing yourself from hearing a case he is appealing before you.

Conservative counter part...

IT'S ALL RELATIVE

Ok, so its clear that this guy thinks bush is god and dog, but let me put his data into context (remember kids, context IS important, regardless of what conservatives will tell you about the bible or anything else).

When Clinton took office in '92 unemployment was at 8% or so... When he left office it was at 4.X% so in '96 5.6% was low... Very low. Clinton's economy continued to push the unemployment down until Bush took office. You will see this in the graph below both the yearly only and monthly values decreased the whole time clinton was in office. Fluke right... just the right time to get elected, same would have happened to Dole or Bush... Well, it didn't happen to Bush Jr. When he got elected unemployment went back up. Almost as sharply as when his father was in office. So, given this context, when Clinton had a 5.6% it was low, compared to the mess the first Bush and Reganomics left us. Now, 5.6 is high, given that Clinton left at at 4.0.

Yearly unemployment rates:

Gif graph is courtesy BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Monthly unemployment rates:

Gif graph is courtesy BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Data (again from BLS):
YearAnnual 19807.1 19817.6 19829.7 19839.6 19847.5 19857.2 19867.0 19876.2 19885.5 19895.3 19905.6 19916.8 19927.5 19936.9 19946.1 19955.6 19965.4 19974.9 19984.5 19994.2 20004.0 20014.7 20025.8 20036.0