Courtesy of HeadTurban and Miss Fipi Lele, here’s a specially-captioned photo shoot of Hugo “Greasy” Chavez paying a visit to Fidel Castro’s hospital room. Love the matching outfits, guys — are you starting a gang or something?
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My friend Lisa, a freelance journalist who lives in Tel Aviv, reports in her blog On the Face about her experiences on the border of Israel and Lebanon in an article titled Welcome to the Shooting Gallery. The stories and photos are a mix of the destruction brought about by war, such as this picture of Kibbutz Kfar Giladi on fire:
…the often-surreal world of geopolitics, as shown in this strange-but-funny sign on the fence demarcating the border:
…and how even amidst all the altillery fire, some businesspeople try to go about with the daily routine, as shown in this photo of the breakfast spread at a guest house in Metulla called Beit Shalom, which translates from Hebrew as “House of Peace”:
Lisa updates her Flickr photostream regularly, so be sure to check that out too.
Stay safe, Lisa!
A guy named “Ikes” has created some strange diagrams on his site. I used to live near a Hooters, and for a while, I worked across the street from one, and from casual observation would say that the diagram below is fairly accurate not just of the downtown Hooters, but most places in Accordion City’s club district:
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He Failed the Saving Throw
Found this photo this morning under the title You might need to be a level six cleric to resurrect a ford focus.jpg. I added a caption to it and posted it below:
This one’s a bit of a long shot, but here goes: someone emailed me with this:
I’m actually looking for an accordion player to play at my wedding reception — my fiance is Italian, and I thought it would be lovely to have an accordion to help ‘set the mood’. However, I’m not having any luck locating one in Kansas City. Would you have any ideas on where I might look?
I suggested looking up accordionists on Gigmasters and PartyPop, but just in case one of you readers out there know of a Kansas City-based accordionist who does weddings, drop me a line so I can pass along your info.
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The "On Notice" Board Generator
My personal “On Notice” board, created with the “On Notice” Board Generator. You may need to Google some of the items in that list.
Here’s the latest in online sign generators: The On Notice Board Generator, which lets you create your own version of Stephen Colbert’s “On Notice” Board from The Colbert Report.
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The Cleaned-Up Blogroll
Still Under Construction
If this blog currently looks half-done, that’s because it is. I’m generally pleased with the look of the content section — that’s the middle column — but the sidebars need a lot of work, and that temporary title graphic has got to go. Work and life have conspired to keep me busy as usual, but my inner Japanese engineer keeps looking at the blog and yelling “Kansei!” and “Kaizen!” and won’t let me rest until this thing looks just right.
Accurate and Up-to-Date
I just completed the clean-up task that involved the most drudgery: the cleaning up of my blogroll, the list that appears in the right-hand column. I’ve gone through every blog in that list and for each one, I checked to see:
- That the blog still exists
- The the blog is still being maintained (I treat having at least one new entry in the past 12 months and not having announced that it is shutting down as “being maintained”)
- That a link to this blog exists in a permanent list on that blog
Any blog that met all three criteria stayed on the blogroll and any blog that didn’t was removed. I also added a few new blogs that met the criteria. As of this writing, the blogroll is up-to-date.
“He’s Vewwy Highwy Wanked in Wome, You Know.”
If you’ve got a blog that meets the criteria listed above, let me know! Having your blog appear in my blogroll is good for your Google ranking. This blog has a Google PageRank of 7. For comparison,
- Little Green Footballs’ PageRank is 6
- Reddit and Digg have a PageRank of 7
- MetaFilter’s is 8
- BoingBoing’s is 9
Google’s algorithm gives your page a higher ranking when people with good PageRank link to you, so if you’d like to give your blog a boost, link to me and let me know about it!