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according to reuters, bush is sending rice to china.
Bush adviser Rice to visit China July 8-9 [reuters, july 5, 2004]Rice’s Beijing stop on July 8-9 will be sandwiched between talks in Tokyo with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi and meetings in Seoul with South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and other senior officials.
the last thing china needs is rice. sandwiches, maybe.
since it’s all about design, really. and i haven’t seen it yet, i present iPanic – the aesthetically cool (for now) terror alert.
iPanic. uPanic.
do you feel safer now?
(we’ll be using these on the meta-roj blog on various political posts)
a couple weeks ago, we learned that drinking milk (to excess) is punishable by dismissal in american high schools.
A North Carolina science teacher whose milk experiment brought complaints after some students drank milk until they threw up has been dismissed.
The Johnston County, N.C., school board voted 5-1 Tuesday to end Jeff Ferguson’s contract seven months after he was suspended over the experiment. Ferguson had taught chemistry and physics at Smithfield-Selma Senior High School for three years
on the other hand (and on the other side of the world), it’s ok to have students write apology letters in their own blood – as long as you apologize.
A Japanese teenager was forced by his teacher to write an apology in blood after dozing in the classroom, the school’s principal said on Monday.
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He said the boy was back in school, and neither he nor his parents had asked to switch teachers. The teacher involved is expected to resume classes in a few days, Dan said.
hmmmm. i wonder what would happen if i had some kids test some oobleck armor in class….
[half of this from boingboing]
[excuse me a moment while i take the foreigner off the record player]
reported by msnbc, the hot new thing in body modification is jewelry on your eyeball.
The procedure involves inserting a 0.13 inch wide piece of specially developed jewelry — the range includes a glittering half-moon or heart — into the eye’s mucous membrane under local anaesthetic at a cost of $610 to $1,232.
unfortunately, the picture included with the story shows a heart-shaped object on the eyeball.
which leads us to more unfortunate speculation…. green clovers? purple diamonds? they’re magically delicious.
A Belgian motorist was left stunned after authorities sent him a speeding ticket for travelling in his Mini at three times the speed of sound.
The ticket claimed the man had been caught driving at 3380 kph (2, 100 mph) – or Mach 3 speed – in a Brussels suburb, a Belgian newspaper reported.
slashdot points to fox, but you can get more here (zdnet), here (washington post), here (variety) and here (seattle post intelligencer).
no word on whether bradley buckles brigs no-knock warrants and usa patriot-backed secret searches with him to his new employer.
life just got interesting for all the computerless elderly music pirates.
a couple days apart, but still close enough for me to make the connection….
it’s turtles all the way down, but it’s only 80 in manhattan.
(and they’re moving to Tewksbury)
bill cosby, fatherhood, 1986Michael Jackson loves all his fans, but he has a special feeling for the ones who eat broccoli.
there was once a tradition that you mostly named things after and built icons and homages to great people after they died.
today, i heard about the ronald reagan dime act (and the request by mrs. reagan to withdraw the proposal). i have to agree, but for a different reason. this is a wimpy proposal.
we have no time for tradition, the man can’t even feed himself, we should act now to honor this great former american president while he’s still breathing, but completely unaware of our bold gestures.
accordingly, it’s time to unveil the “united states of reagan act,” which would rename the western hemisphere as “the gippersphere.” north america would become north reagan. south america, of course, south reagan. and, naturally, this would become the united states of reagan, or “usr” which is, incidentally, a homage to reagan’s great defeat of the pinko communist evil empire that was once known as the “ussr.”
resistance is futile, you will be reaganated.
oh, and jelly beans for everyone!
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