I do love me some wacky-font conspiracy sites. Happily I've found another good one. And this one asks The Big Question:

Is the Hole of Holy Father a Vagina?

I told you it was big!

Hoax Buster will set you straight on this and other important questions - such as "Why was the Bible written?"

The Bible, a highly edited collection of independent papers is a hoax. The God who's word it claims to be is itself a hoax, not God at all but rather the sun god. The actual collecting and editing was done under the authority and direction of the Roman emperor, Constantine the great. Therefore we can say that he is it's author. The actual writings originated from faulty translations of hieroglyphic writings the bulk of which came from El Amarna. The two super stars of the Bible, Moses and Jesus are one and the same person, a not Pharaoh [sic], Amenophis IV. The Bible was written as a manual for the ministry of a religion originated by it's author Constantine, Christianity. The purpose of the religion was to shift the tax burden from wealthy Romans to the lower classes. This was accomplished through the smoke an mirrors of tithing, pretending that God is taxing and not the government. When we follow God's money to it's final rest we discover who God is, his most royal taxing authority, Constantine the great hoaxer.

There's tons and tons more!

I'm suddenly struck with the desire to play Unreal Tournament, specifically, the Deck 16 map. Love that game. Back in the day, when 6:00 came around, everyone in the office would stop working and we'd all play Unreal for an hour. What fun. These days, I have mandatory extended work hours (8-7, for me), including Saturdays, with lunch brought in to encourage people to eat at their desks instead of going out. No fun.

Gonna post a bunch of pictures. I feel like I've been neglecting the real purpose of this site; 'Cleek' was originally intended to be an anonymous, text-free, one-a-day photo blog. While that lasted only a couple of days, I still want it to be photo-heavy (and not just with pictures of our lovely cat). Next step - take more new pictures.

Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny does not like Kenny G..

I have to admit, for about two weeks back in 1986, I thought Kenny G was some kind of great sax player. My mother had one of his records and I copied it and listened to it a lot, until it dawned on me... this is lame-ass EZ-listening elevator music ! And that was the end of my interest in Kenny G..

via Neddie J.

All you GUI programmers (or non-programmer vision/perception geeks) should run over and take a look at Evaluating Low Spatial Frequency Compositions at Boxes and Arrows. It'll show you new ways of thinking about icon design.

My theory of icon design is basically "Ugh. I can't draw at all. I hate this," so I'm not sure learning how to tell which visual pathway my icon designs are tickling is the kind of lesson I need. But, nonetheless, it's interesting stuff.

(this is one of those posts wherein i put something here for my own archival purposes... )

In a lighthearted little post about the way the high-dollar (and two-bit) political pundits are working hard to avoid owning up to the fact that they were wrong when they pushed for the Iraq war, Liberal Japonicus, at Taking it Outside (the site formerly known as Hating On Charles Bird), asks:

...what is the right way to take these Pollackian calls of `it's all history now, so let's not let this get in the way of me continuing to pundit' Whatever happened to hairshirts?

(my link)

Well, I could only respond in verse:

apologies embarass;
hairshirts, how they itch!
flagellation stings him;
penance? for Catholics;
confession's for the guilty;
pardon's not his to give;
mea culpa hints at weakness;
punishment? none for him.

Even though it's posted in the comment sections of two other blogs already, I'll save it here for my own convenience.

h/t Dorothy Parker

Someone let me know when CNN.com is done showing close-up pictures of John Mark Karr, the guy who killed JonBenet Ramsey. After four days, I'm pretty fucking tired of looking at his beady little eyes and that stupid blue shirt every time I visit CNN.com. It's even worse than their three solid weeks of pictures of fire coming out of the barrels of Israeli artillery.

Here's an oldie, from back in Feb, 05:

Lt. Gen. James Mattis, who commanded Marine expeditions in Afghanistan and Iraq, made the comments Tuesday during a panel discussion in San Diego, California.

"Actually it's quite fun to fight them, you know. It's a hell of a hoot," Mattis said, prompting laughter from some military members in the audience. "It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up there with you. I like brawling.

"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil," Mattis said. "You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them."

It's "fun to shoot some people!" It's a "hoot!"

Can you think of a worse person to decide if charges are warranted in the Haditha massacre ? Nope, me neither.

I think it's time to re-read Catch 22.

h/t Digby

Must agree with The Poor Man, user the search strings from AOL user 711391 is "the greatest character study in literary history".

Go here, enter '711391'.

Noted cryptologist and security expert Bruce Schneier is quite an amazing man. For example, did you know:

Bruce Schneier once broke AES using nothing but six feet of rusty barbed wire, a toothpick, and the front axle from a 1962 Ford Falcon.

and

When Bruce Schneier does modulo arithmetic, there are no remainders. Ever.

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These and more at Bruce Schneier Facts.

I've submitted a few. I hope they'll be accepted - I'll be sad if they aren't.

Update:
I got two in:

Bruce Schneier is the ideal man. Alice loves him; Bob fears him; Charlie wants to be him.

and...

Bruce Schneier once decrypted a box of AlphaBits.