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Space Cadet

Cleveland Plain Dealer:

Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich has claimed to have seen a UFO, according to Shirley MacLaine in her new book, "Sage-Ing While Age-Ing."

Kucinich "had a close sighting over my home in Graham, Washington, when I lived there," the actress, a close Kucinich friend, wrote. "Dennis found his encounter extremely moving. The smell of roses drew him out to my balcony where, when he looked up, he saw a gigantic triangular craft, silent, and observing him.

"It hovered, soundless, for 10 minutes or so, and sped away with a speed he couldn't comprehend. He said he felt a connection in his heart and heard directions in his mind."

Crazy? Sure. But there are crazier things a presidential candidate could believe in.

Start Your iPods

From the iPod's urn of 5800 songs, ten are chosen without replacement:

  1. Spoon - I Turn My Camera On
  2. Green Day - Emenius Sleepus
  3. Cassandra Wilson - Honey Bee
  4. Pavement - Best Friend's Arm (live)
  5. Talking Heads - Seen And Not Seen
  6. Cat Power - Speak For Me
  7. Fleetwood Mac - Over & Over
  8. Artie Shaw - Indian Love Call
  9. Modest Mouse - Life Like Weeds
  10. Doc Watson - Mississippi Heavy Water Blues

... what is the probability that the next song is The The's "Beyond Love"?

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Class 3 Thoughtcrime

MTV News:

Death Cab For Cutie Guitarist Baffled By Homeland Security's Seizure Of His Album

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Yes, it seems that recently, Walla's solo record (which has been scheduled to come out at various points over the past, well, four years) took another step toward oblivion when the master hard drive — containing all song files — was confiscated by Homeland Security at the Canadian border, for reasons not abundantly clear, and sent to the department's computer-forensics division for further inspection.

(via)

Jump (in pitch)!

Dinosaur rockers Van Halen had a little trouble with their pre-recorded backup tapes...

So what happens when you’re Van Halen, the last song in your set list is the million-seller “Jump” with its synthesizer-keyboard opening…and the recording you’re using to play back the synth is accidentally run at 48K instead of 44.1K?

Read the rest, here (with video!!)

Coincidentally, we just changed office buildings this week, at work, so we all have a shiny new cubicles. These cubes are designed so they can be assembled with entire panels made out of dry-erase material: inside, outside, there's a place to draw on nearly every 'wall'. Everybody in my little area has some graffiti on their 'inside' whiteboard, so I figured I'd better put something on mine... so I drew the first thing that popped into my head this AM: the Van Halen logo, which I will reproduce here with my mad MS Paint skilz:

Tora! Tora! Tora! Hang 'em high! Bottom's Up! You really got me dancing the sinner's swing in the mean streets, you little dreamer you! Total loss of control.

What a drag it is getting old...

(h.t. joe)

The Painful Realities of Hyena Sex

Via LiveScience:

Imagine giving birth through a penis

But providing the extra hormones takes a toll on the mother. The dose of androgen that she received from her own alpha mother damages her ovaries, making it difficult to conceive.

It also causes female reproductive organs to grow. A lot. Her clitoris, which contains the birthing canal, protrudes 7 inches from her body.

"Imagine giving birth through a penis," said study co-author Kay Holekamp of Michigan State University. "It's really weird genitalia, but it seems to work. Although giving birth through a 'penis' isn't a trivial problem."

(via Unfogged)