Make with the Eco-Funny!

Today's Questionable Content is quite amusing. Now I want an animated gif icon made out of that last panel - three stills, one each with the appropriate character and speech bubble, in appropriate order. I don't know that the text would be readable though. And it's my bedtime. Anyone else feel like doing it? :-P

Eeeee! The cuteness!

I've recently been reading Cute Overload in my rotation of time killers. This post is mostly a self-note to someday use the various cute icons, but there's no real reason to hide them from the world!

"Catch and release"

The terminology amuses me. You know why border security w/ Mexico is a big issue? Because being in the US is more desirable than being in Mexico. You don't see people worrying about all the illegal Canadian immigrants. I've got the perfect solution to the leaky Mexican border: keep doing whatever Bush says. After another couple years in office, the US will be so fuxxored up that we'd have to pay Latinos to immigrate.

BBC interviews wrong person - live!

They mixed up an internet expert named Guy Kewney who was supposed to be interviewed, with a guy (Guy Goma) who came in for an IT job interview!

Creative solutions

Today's trash day. I shoved the pizza box as far into the bag as it would go, but there still wasn't enough to tie the top together in a knot, my preferred method of closing. (Because it leaves a loop as a handle.) I tried gathering it together for a twisty tie, but that wasn't doing either. So I grabbed my stapler. *ker-chunk! ker-chunk! ker-chunk!* and it was shut. The pizza box was trying to rip out the side a bit too, so I opened the stapler and *ker-chunk!* stapled both sides of the hole onto the box. Whee! :)

Next I needa rig a ramp from the kitchen window to a spot next to the curb.

International protests against "Da Vinci Code" movie

In Athens, Greece, some 200 religious protesters, waving crucifixes and Greek flags, demonstrated Tuesday in protest of the film. The protesters -- including Orthodox monks and nuns -- later marched peacefully to parliament.

"All religions merit respect, so why don't they show respect in this case instead of attacking all that we hold sacred?" said Athanasios Papageorgiou, president of St. John the Theologian group in Peania, east of Athens.

"I've read the book. It's despicable," he added. "The Muslims for one cartoon burnt anything, so what should we do?"
--CNN/AP

Protest peacefully, that's what! Duh. I'm waiting for the Vatican to make a statement.

Meanwhile, the movie manages to offend secular groups as well.

Also, while not planning a protest or boycott, members of the National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation expressed unhappiness with the film's heavy, a monk-assassin, being an albino, as described in the book.

Michael McGowan, an albino who heads the organization, said "The Da Vinci Code" will be the 68th movie since 1960 to feature an evil albino.

The "Da Vinci" character "is just the latest in a long string," McGowan said. "The problem is there has been no balance. There are no realistic, sympathetic or heroic characters with albinism that you can find in movies or popular culture."

He said the group aims to use the movie's popularity to raise awareness about the realities of albinism. People with albinism have little or no pigmentation in their skin, eyes and hair.