Dystopia Box

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30348752008-10-01T11:00:30.584-05:00Dystopia BoxArticles. Documents. Quotes. Silly Lists.Dystoposhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03260393043017273699noreply@blogger.comBlogger519125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034875.post-61351598414398675702008-10-01T10:43:00.002-05:002008-10-01T11:00:30.591-05:00Mortgages

There are just over 305 million people in the United States. A $700 billion bailout distributed equally would provide about $2,295 per person. In 2005 just under 100 million individuals who filed tax returns owed taxes to the IRS. A $700 billion bailout distributed equally to taxpayers would provide right at $7,000 each. In 2005 there were 48,394,000 mortgages in the United States. Rounding up

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Here's my 2007 Homicide map for Birmingham, Alabama. The full listing is maintained on BhamWiki.com (Bhamwiki:List of Birmingham homicides in 2007) View Larger Map

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5 years gone I re-read my postings from five years ago. I haven't changed my mind.

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There's a 46% Chance your State's Official Dance is the "Square Dance" According to Wikipedia 22 of the 30 U. S. states that have enacted an Official State Dance have chosen to honor the "Square Dance". Exceptions to the rule include California (West Coast Swing), Hawai'i (Hula), North Caroline (Clogging), Pennsylvania and Wisconsin (Polka), South Carolina (the Shag), Texas (Texas Two-Step), and

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Ignore this announcement I've started a new website called bhamwiki.com It's like Wikipedia for Birmingham.

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I don't get it "Cloyd told a witness they set fire to a church 'as a joke and it got out of hand.' "

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } large magic city logo, originally uploaded by Dystopos. The Magic City Flickr GroupStop by and see Birmingham through the lenses of its flickrites.

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Alter Your Environment By peppering nearby metal surfaces with self-contained LED's (via Gizmodo, via BoingBoing)

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It's too late Animal-Man Hybrids in the Department of Homeland Security

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Alberto Gonzales, imbecile? In defending the Bush administration's argument that a state of [undeclared, perpetual] war gives the President the authority to ignore the laws of the United States [which he has sworn, on a Bible, to uphold] had this to say regarding precedent: "President Washington, President Lincoln, President Wilson, President Roosevelt have all authorized electronic

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History of the World Wide Web, Appendix G "Google does not censor results for any search term. The order and content of our results are completely automated; we do not manipulate our search results by hand. We believe strongly in allowing the democracy of the web to determine the inclusion and ranking of sites in our search results." Well. No more. -Entry at Google Blogoscoped.

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Hi, I'm a Dinosaur. I lived in the Garden of Eden "creationists have been buying roadside dinosaur parks around the country and turning them into anti-evolution museums." - article at Reason Online.

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Current Administration Policy They're allowed to see what you're doing, but you're not allowed to see what they're doing.

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The Google Robot FAQ: (Last update: November 1st, 2030) Q. A Google Robot was unwilling to help me find my lost car keys. Why? A. As trying to locate your keys may involve a violation of your privacy, only subscribers of the My Public Life™ program may use this feature.

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Nixtamalize This Nixtamalization on Wikipedia.

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Save 5% of the Planet. Pump some BioWillie Can't wait to get on the road again? Get yourself some of Willie Nelson's Biodiesel (made from Diesel fuel with a splash of veggie oil grown by America's struggling family-agribusinesses) and go places you've never been and see things you may never see again.

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The Corporation of Very Little Brain "Guess who's coming for honey? As part of a barrel-full of Winnie the Pooh anniversary events, Disney is working on a new animated series that will replace Christopher Robin with a 6-year-old girl. Details are sketchy on the as-yet-nameless new arrival, who will make her debut in the 2007 computer-generated series My Friends Tigger and Pooh. Disney execs

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Six Degrees of Wikipedia How many wikilinks does it take to connect Kevin Bacon to Bacon? Three.

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } , originally uploaded by whileseated. No Flash Cornerwhileseated's continuing series of candid portraits taking in reflected sunlight on the streets of San Francisco are amazing. This girl looks a lot like

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Cool Faces / Cold Shoulders "Yet rather than address serious issues like housing, schools, transport, jobs and security, mayors and policy gurus from Berlin and London to Sydney and San Francisco have adopted what can be best be described as the 'cool city strategy.' If you can somehow make your city the rage of the hipster set, they insist, all will be well." - Joel Kotkin. Uncool Cities.

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Structures and Monuments in Which Alabama Stone was Used Birmingham, Alabama - Arrington's Tomb (photographs and history) presented on the Birmingmaster [sic] web site. This article was published on September 26, 2001. It describes the tome [sic] being constructed as a memorial for Mayor Arrington constructed in the shape of a pyramid. The article indicates that construction is expected to

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They lied. Did they? The Annenberg Political Fact Check reviews White House administration statements quoted in an anti-war newspaper ad and finds that even if the factual basis of their precise words is debateable, their intent to deceive is not. They lied. They started with what they needed people to believe in order to win support for a cynical and greed-fueled military agenda, and then

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He didn't make it My friends took this fetal squirrel to the Alabama Wildlife Rescue Center at Oak Mountain State Park a couple of weeks ago. The good folks there did what they could, but he didn't survive. (On a side note, Oak Mountain is also a refuge for several evacuees from Hurricane Katrina)

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Low Key response Even on Tuesday, as still-rising waters covered most of New Orleans, FEMA official Bill Lokey sounded a reassuring note in a Baton Rouge briefing. "I don't want to alarm everybody that, you know, New Orleans is filling up like a bowl," Lokey said. "That's just not happening." - quoted in Katrina trapped city in double disasters by John McQuaid. New Orleans

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