in case you’re unaware of the latest kerfuffle between the metropolitan airport commission and taxi drivers, this is a good summary. in short, muslim cabbies are denying transport of passengers who are carrying alcohol, due to their religious beliefs. the MAC held a hearing yesterday where numerous white people, accustomed to carrying booze anywhere they pleased, showed up to voice their displeasure.

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A while back I was discussing the newest James Bond movie with wadE, and I commented that the opening sequence had some really cool action shots with a sort of kung-fu on wires look to it. As it turns out, there were no wires. Instead, the stunt man was doing something apparently called free running. Intrigued, I naturally turned to YouTube, where I found several clips. I will arbitrarily embed one below.

The camera work on this one is barf-inducing at times, but it’s pretty cool overall. I think this is prime proof that we’re descended from apes, personally. Though what I really wanna know is: where are the outtakes? I’m sure there were some good clips of this guy groining himself, and I think America needs to see it. Right? Anyhows, enjoy:

sounds like glen taylor is a strong believer in the words of dan wilson: it’s all about chemistry. i, myself, am more in the camp of modern philosopher / orioles DH jay gibbons, who says that it’s winning that causes good chemistry, not the other way around.

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Pizza Party: A command line program for ordering pizza.

bash-2.05a$ pizza_party -p -m 1 medium thin

Oh baby. The mother of all nerd programs. From the product page:

• Can order pizza with only a few keystrokes.
• Can save pizza preferences.
• Can use batch files for ordering many pizzas.
• Has easy to use flags for ordering different toppings.
• Runs on most UNIX-like operating systems.
• Supports most currently popular topings like “mushrooms”, and “pepperoni”!
• Unattended / background operation.

Gotta love it. Of course, we’ll have to port it to use another pizza company; somebody call me when Pizza Party:Green Mill is released.

Alex here. I came across this link recently, and thought it might be a good topic for discussion. Frankly, I’m not sure how I feel about it. Wade and I are gonna bat around a few items, and then we’ll leave the comment floor open to y’all. So feel free to weigh in at any time.

Selling Cocaine in stores: Good Idea, Bad Idea, or Stupid Idea?

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