possibly noteworthy wrote:

I doubt you'll ever find yourself associating a YouTube video with a place and time in your life.

I have a distinct memory of the first place and time I saw soxmas.mov. I remember the struggle to download, then find the right machine to watch it on, etc. Not quite the YouTube experience, but now it probably would have been.

I also have associations with watching episodes of "The Wire" on my wife's laptop in our oceanfront bungaloo on our honeymoon. Not quite YouTube, either.

Most YouTube does not have the production values that would translate to a classic. Remembering time and place with a viral or homemade movie is like remembering where you read a pulp paperback or newspaper... if it resonated, great, but otherwise they are disposable media for disposable time.

RE: A Traveler's Library

Mike the Usurper wrote:

I don't even know what to say about this one. Coffee for $100 a pound?

I covered some of this in my old comic in 2003.

Would you trust shitty-origin coffee that didn't carry a serious premium?

RE: Life After Coffee � The Straight Poop on Kopi Luwak Coffee

Two Edgewood High School students were arrested Thursday and accused of hacking into the school district’s Web site to schedule an unplanned – and unauthorized – snow day.

School officials had originally planned a one-hour delay for Monday morning, following an established procedure, so they were surprised to see an announcement Sunday night that classes were canceled.

“We immediately looked at ourselves, because we thought someone pushed the wrong button,” said Superintendent Tom York.

Officials said they were pilloried for the change on an Internet message board, and York said the two culprits joined in on the bashing without revealing they were responsible.

If by "hack" they mean "logged in and changed the html".

News 5 was also duped by the alleged school closing hackers. For 22 minutes, just before midnight Sunday night, our system listed Edgewood City Schools as closed.

Someone reported the error to our hotline and used the Edgewood Web site as verification and, at 12:05 a.m. Monday, we corrected the error.

We have since improved our security to make sure only school officials can list schools as closed or delayed.

I wonder what they did to improve it? Now they make a call?

Authorities: Students Hacked Into Web Site, Canceled School

A majority of people who moved out of Massachusetts last year report they are very satisfied with life in their new state and would not move back, a Boston Globe poll has found.

Born and raised in Boston. Pittsburgh homeowner. I would love to return to Boston, but only if I could maintain a similar standard of living... but that would be a very dramatic raise indeed.

Most who left state don't plan to return - The Boston Globe

Doctors' unions in Romania have criticised a decision to make a surgeon pay �100,000 in damages after he lost his temper and hacked off a patient's penis during surgery.

Surgeon Naum Ciomu, who had been suffering from stress at the time, had been operating on patient Nelu Radonescu, 36, to correct a testicular malformation when he suddenly lost his temper.

Grabbing a scalpel, he sliced off the penis in front of shocked nursing staff, and then placed it on the operating table where he chopped it into small pieces before storming out of the operating theatre at Bucharest hospital.

Row over angry, penis-removing doctor | Metro.co.uk

If we accept all the Star Wars films as the same canon, then a lot that happens in the original films has to be reinterpreted in the light of the prequels. As we now know, the rebel Alliance was founded by Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Bail Organa. What can readily be deduced is that their first recruit, who soon became their top field agent, was R2-D2.

A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope

Obviously, the writers have no idea what a hedge fund is — they probably assume that it’s where all the stock brokers work. What they should say is that love isn’t like a non-diversified traditional long-only fund.

In reality, love is exactly like a hedge fund. Love is a limited partnership structure (LP), it takes a large initial investment, and is largely unregulated. Frequently, it uses an aggressive strategy, relying on large directional bets and substantial amounts of leverage. The plan is to generate significant alpha (using the Lipper Love Average as a benchmark) but it is not uncommon to see a hedge fund or a love relationship with an unsuitably low Sortino ratio, indicating that it has strayed from it’s raison d’etre. This is a hedge fund (marriage) destined for fund outflows (divorce).

Love is relatively illiquid, such that if it takes on large speculative investments, and develops into something like a live-in relationship or marriage, there will be a lock-up period.

Long or Short Capital | Hedge Funds and Love

Please wait while one of the largest mobile machines in the world crosses the road. The machine pictured above is a bucket-wheel excavator used in modern surface mining... The largest excavators are over 200 meters long and 100 meters high, now dwarfing the huge NASA Crawler that transports space shuttles to the launch pads.

APOD: 2006 November 22 - A Bucket Wheel Excavator on Earth

Now that the election is behind us, and the Democrats control both houses of Congress, there's no reason not to admit it: the Right was right about us all along. Here is our 25-point manifesto for the new Congress:

3. Introduce the new Destruction of Marriage Act

4. Border fence replaced with free shuttle buses

6. Withdraw from Iraq, apologize, reinstate Hussein
9. All taxes to be tripled

10. All fortunes over $250,000 to be confiscated

12. Tofurkey to be named official Thanksgiving dish

13. Freeways to be removed, replaced with light rail systems

15. Stem cells allowed to be harvested from any child under the age of 8

18. God to be mocked roundly
21. Outlaw all firearms: previous owners assigned to anger management therapy

22. Texas returned to Mexico

23. Ban Christmas: replace with Celebrate our Monkey Ancestors Day

the Right Was Right

For his new book, the 1,000-page "Against the Day," publisher Penguin Press didn't even issue a formal announcement, but assumed, correctly, that simply including it in the fall catalog would take care of the job.

Pynchon fans eager to feast on new novel - Yahoo! News