The Eye Jewellery Project

Gimli Glider

See you at the debate, bitches

Via B.J.:

Sen. Evan Bayh’s [pronounced "Bi's"] staff softball team, The Bayh Partisans, has cancelled the game it had scheduled for tomorrow evening with the drug policy team The One Hitters. Bayh staffer Jonathan Stahler sent One Hitter team captain Kris Krane an e-mail Monday morning citing “[t]oo many people out of town” as the reason for the cancellation.

The One Hitters ?

That's awesome.

Unfortunate discovery

This is a bit of the south-east desert of Saudi Arabia, via Google Maps.

I like how they've colorized this to make the dunes look like golden Arabic script.

More "star" dunes here (h/t).

There's no easy-to-quote paragraph here, so you're just going to have to read it all.

Tears of Wine

First, I received an e-mail from an unknown person; his name in the e-mail is Dr. Mike Johnson. The contents of this e-mail is an announcement of a part time job, he offered 10% of the total money after exchanging traveling cheques, and the remaining 90% was to be money transferred to him via Western Union-Money Transfer. I replied to his e-mail and gave him my personal information and address. I received American Express Traveler's Cheques totaling $2,500 a few days after my e-mail reply. Following this, I went to (redacted) Bank to cash these Traveler's Cheques. I then transferred 90% of this money to Nigeria. A week later, he delivered to me an additional $7,000 in Travelers Cheques. I followed the same process that I did the first time. The total amount money involved was $9,500, 10% ($950) I kept for my fees, $650 was used in transfer fees, and $7900 was transferred to Nigeria.

Nigeria, eh?

Nobody should be surprised to learn that it was a scam.

la la la... nothing to see here.

that title? i forget what that's about.