In case you want to cross a bridge.

Federal Highway Administration's NBI

This is already awesome, but even more, i want this with a 12 hour cycle.

whitney music box var. 0 - chromatic - 48 tines

If you attempted to use the system most of today, you saw a message from Decius explaining that the system was broke...

Immediately after my earlier post explaining the situation with the OIDs Rattle and I leapt into action with a major overhaul of the database schema and software. Oh how this brought back memories of being an admin. Totally unexpected computer work when you're supposed to have the day off and you have to get it done before you can do anything else. Waiting on development systems to reload while sitting on a speaker phone.... that disconnected manner of teleconferences that span hours while work is getting done.... Random breaks to grab coffee, or dinner, without hanging up the phone... Your eyes getting heavy as you strain your ears to make out the details of the television news which the party on the other end of the line is using for background noise...

We got it done. About 200 lines of new code written and 650 modified. Rattle even managed to work a fix in for the redirection on login and some problems with creating a new account, and I cleaned up some annoyances with the circle interface.

MemeStreams is back. Thank you for your patience, and please let us know if you notice anything strange about the way the site works (or doesn't work) over the next few days.

Things should be back to working normally, and in some places a little better than normal.

Everyone will need to log into the system again. If there are any problems with login, let us know. Since we were trying to push this fix out as soon as possible, it's entirely possible bugs have been missed.

MemeStreams is OK again

Yes, during the presidential candidates debates, one of the questions submitted by a YouTube user had the infamous goatse in it for one whole frame.

As an added bonus, here's a slightly NSFW image (don't worry, the actual goatse in it is about 10 pixels high, so very low gross-factor) of the actual event.

http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/6513/cnngo2gn8.jpg

ROFLMAO Moment: Goatse on CNN, Live.

Most sane investors know not to take anything at face value from the rabid idealogues who live in the WSJ Op-Ed section. But regardless of how you feel about the page, you gotta laugh at this comic:

Hillarious.

The Big Picture | Murdoch & the WSJ Editorial Page

This is, in fact, funny.

YouTube - BET - Read A Book (High Quality)

IED made out of batteries. I love it.

I'm actually kinda suprised no one has tried to make an IED out of Li-ion batteries. Then again, the explosive force is nothing compared to a block of C4, or rocket ordinance.

I wonder if an exploding Li-ion battery generates enough heat to ignite thermite.

Exploding mobile battery kills Chinese welder | The Register

"I understand their disappointment," said Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada. "We raised the bar too high."

This pisses me the fuck off. You raised the bar too high? Fuck you, Harry. Dems took congress because people were fed up with the war, and then on the first major opportunity, a giant funding bill you could have simply refused to pass, you FUCKING CAPITULATED to the president.

I'm sick of this bullshit talk about working together. The Republicans didn't give a flying fuck about working together when they were in power, and they're using current Democratic good will to continue fucking the country in the ass. It's time to stop being polite. It was time about 5 years ago.

Fuck them. Don't pass any more funding for the war, period. Make the public understand that the reason there's no money for domestic priorities like health care, research, roads, or anything else is because Bush and the Republicans refuse to listen to the American public and GET THE FUCK OUT NOW. Stonewall until we get what we fucking elected you for.

God damn congress.

'Voters are going to be mad with us until we end the war.'

"The notion was that a chemical that would probably be pleasant in the human body in low quantities could be identified, and by virtue of either breathing or having their skin exposed to this chemical, the notion was that soliders would become gay," explained Hammond.

Your tax dollars at work...

cbs5.com - Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A 'Gay Bomb'

Apparently, Balcony Cat has obtained your encryption key and is watching you masterbate.

The Ultimate Pointless Hexadecimal Mention