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psaphonic
n. planning one's rise to wealth and fame

http://www.sorryimissedyourparty.com/2008/09/extreme-filthy-bachelorpad-makeover.html

http://feepingcreatures.blogspot.com/2008/09/flame-dragon.html

http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2008/09/fan-wrecks.html

Readers Aimee C., Amy G., Jessica S., & Amanda K. threw a Cake Wreck Decorating Party:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FutilityCloset/~3/385714541/

http://www.futilitycloset.com/?p=4760

In 1938, Stefan Banach proved that it's always possible to slice a ham and cheese sandwich in half such that each half contains the same amount of bread, cheese, and ham.

It's called the ham sandwich theorem.

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 047. This week's mixtape comes on a 120 minute VHS tape instead of on a 90 minute cassette tape. I hope that's ok with you.

Some of these videos have "higher quality" versions, but apparently the "fmt=18" hack doesn't work on Youtube playlists, only on embeds of single videos. So the the video quality isn't even as good VHS. What year is this?

I am sad to report that it took me 10× as long to actually construct the playlist as it did to decide what tracks should be on it. It was such a pain in the ass that I doubt I'll be doing this again soon.

By the way, please tell me your favorite sources of A) new music videos, and B) music videos in higher resolution than the sub-VHS 320x240 crap that Youtube gives us. I already subscribe to the (Miro) music video podcast feeds from if:mv, Cliptip, Antville, Gorilla vs. Bear, Shots Ring Out, No Fat Clips, Telemusicvision, and Zapsation. (A bunch of those fail epically as podcasts because they don't inline the videos, they just thumbnail-link to some HTML page instead. Bleh.)

Current Music: as noted

It has been my opinion that Governor Palin is an autocratic, batty, smarmy, weaselly, menacing, disingenuous, fundamentalist-theocratic, ecology-destroying, capriciously money-wasting wingnut.

But I forgot an extra adjective: bigoted!

Palin church promotes converting gays

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP, Rachel D'Oro) — Gov. Sarah Palin's church is promoting a conference that promises to convert gays into heterosexuals through the power of prayer.

"You'll be encouraged by the power of God's love and His desire to transform the lives of those impacted by homosexuality," according to the insert in the bulletin of the Wasilla Bible Church, where Palin has prayed for about six years. [...]

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The AP story bungles some facts about what she signed and why.  This explains.  She hates that gay people exist, and she will spend state money just to make that point.  And that's besides the prayer-juju.

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She is a muppet, and he should have been elected governor instead, no question.  The fact that he wasn't, is inexcusable.

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And a digression into history, which will sound like something from 1860, but will actually be from 1960:

The idea of essential "conversion" is not without some precedent.  The Mormons used to (?) have the ambition to (apparently literally, chromatically) convert American Indians into whites.  (Blacks, too?  Can't tell.)  Anyway, look, here's some gibberish from 1960:

«I saw a striking contrast in the progress of the Indian people today. [...] The day of the Lamanites [American Indians, in crazytalk] is nigh.  For years they have been growing delightsome, and they are now becoming white and delightsome, as they were promised.[?!?!]   In this picture of the twenty Lamanite missionaries, fifteen of the twenty were as light as Anglos, five were darker but equally delightsome.  The children in the home placement program in Utah are often lighter than their brothers and sisters in the hogans on the reservation.

At one meeting a father and mother and their sixteen-year-old daughter were present, the little member girl— sixteen— sitting between the dark father and mother, and it was evident she was several shades lighter than her parents— on the same reservation, in the same hogan, subject to the same sun and wind and weather.  [...] These young members of the Church are changing to whiteness and to delightsomeness.  One white elder jokingly [haaaaah] said that he and his companion were donating blood regularly to the hospital in the hope that the process might be accelerated.»

—copied from over here, with the citation: General Conference Report, October, 1960, Improvement Era, December 1960, pp. 922-923.