virtually pardoned
a
glimpse of the future shows us how W one-ups our friend Bill by setting up an e-commerce site called
prez pardons:
President Bush plans to "use the Prez Pardons site on the Internets to hopefully make a little extra money before my presidency is all over. I mean, the president pension is chicken feed."
Prez Pardons provides simple instructions, testimonials from satisfied customers, and single-click purchasing for any convicted felon in need of pardon, according to the press release.
and by the way if you
haven't yet committed a crime, a bonus feature of using
prez pardons is that the pardons can be used later when you actually get convicted!
satisfied customers include donald rumsfeld, scooter libby, jeffrey skilling, tom delay, jack abramoff, every halliburton executive ever and um, president bush.
i wonder if mark foley knows about this yet?
politics:commerce
net zero
mary-jane makes for fun in yet another way... if you consider having your gametes swimming properly fun...
A synthetic chemical based on those found in marijuana may fix a problem that, paradoxically, affects the sperm of cigarette smokers.
A new synthetic cannabinoid appears to restore the ability of the sperm to bind to the outside of human eggs. The finding is unexpected since smoking marijuana itself appears to decrease male fertility, the researchers say.
from the new scientist
so... is that justification for smoking even
more weed?
by the way, the menthol cigarettes thing is apparently
not true. and according to the
mayo clinic, gametes prefer not being cooked in baths, saunas and hot tubs, and your bike seat really could be messing you up.
nature, photocopied
the nytimes yesterday had an
interesting article about dr eisner, one of e.o. wilson's former students, who has appropriated the colour photocopier to make art.
Color copiers can accommodate more than just paper documents on the glass plate that serves as their stage. They can “see” three-dimensional objects as well, objects of up to a very considerable thickness, which they depict in their printouts with extraordinary sharpness. The glass stage of the copier can thus serve as a "canvas" upon which the components of visual designs are assembled. What one designs, and out of what materials, is up to the imagination.
from dr. eisner's homepage
while certainly this is hardly the first time office supplies have been repurposed as creative materials (hi toe knee), dr. eisner's copier images range from capturing the odd-looking clematis seed to lacey herbaceous compositions, to goofy little animals constructed from seashells.
all of which are infinitely more interesting than that copy you made of your ass.
art:offices
