Reviews and links for June 2010
Tell-All by Chuck Palahniuk
2/5
A barely reheated Glamorama (celebrities and brands in bold face) about star-fucking in the form of a movie script. Enough Palahniukisms to make it worth finishing (for me), but only because it was mercifully short.
Links
- Oklahoma police tase an 86-year-old bedridden grandmother from Boing Boing (Molly, pay attention!).
- Oklahoma police tase an 86-year-old bedridden grandmother from Boing Boing (Molly, pay attention!).
- Police come to the rescue of delayed Ryanair passengers from BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition (Did they have to batter and fry the chocolate?).
- BP 'trusted partner' of Olympics from BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition (Appropriate given that much of the Olympic site is toxic sludge covered in a thin layer of plastic wrap...).
- Falls cost NHS millions each day from BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition (Are they falling on expensive scanners or something?).
- When You Need to Sleep Through Your Child's Graduation Or Other Formal Occasion from NPR Blogs: Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me! (Pillow Tie!).
- Whales 'offset carbon emissions' from BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition (You're talking carbon offsets).
- Should nuts be banned on commercial flights? from All Salon (Ban them? I can't remember the last time I was served anything as luxurious as a peanut on a US flight...).
- Call to regulate artificial life from BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition (Public should have studied harder at school then.).
- City of Smarty Pantses from Spots Unknown (Says more about cost of living maybe?).
- "A hundred mile oil lake at the bottom of the Gulf that's 500 feet deep." from jwz (Hopefully this guy doesn't know what he's talking about...).
- Torchwood returns for new series from BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition (Yippee!).
- Dolphin uses iPad as way to communicate with humans from Boing Boing ("S_ l_*g *nd th*nks !or *ll the !ish" - but what can it mean?).
- Feds meet with film director Cameron on oil spill from SFGate: Top News Stories (They can get rid of it in post-production?).
Robert Ellison's blog, I Thought He Came With You, on the Fediverse via fed.brid.gy. Photography, time lapse, programming, politics, hikes and more.
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