Hugo Chaves trys his hand at stand-up comedy.

Buying something to set on fire and kick around?

Kids these days have no imagination.

NB: Lithos' childhood is not intended to be some sort of instruction manual.

UK safe from scrapbooking epidemic.

I don't know why, but for some reason the idea of a person selling his entire life and walking away really appeals to me. I wouldn't want to do it right now, but it is nice to see someone willing to take a chance on abandoning everything known and comfortable rather than settling for living out a life of quiet despair.

San Francisco, I love you!

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San Francisco, I love you!

I don't think it's appropriate. It would mean that W was turning shit into something good instead of the other way around.

Clewiston Florida, the town that Big Sugar Built

I have driven through this area and it is easily one of the most depressing places you will ever see. Poverty, endless rows of sugarcane, prisons, and the highest incidence of aids in the state.

They enjoyed the benefits of government subsidies and tariffs for so long they felt entitled to them.

I though the US got most of its sugar from beets?

Butt Cam

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Meet Jeffrey Barrier. The Ohio man allegedly used a cell phone camera to snap photos of a naked woman at a tanning salon Saturday and then hid the phone in his anus in a bid to thwart police.

Can you hear me now?

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Originally posted by lithos:
I though the US got most of its sugar from beets?

No, that's Canada.

ETA: oh, only 10% from beets. I thought it was more.

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Apparently France is trying to show the world that not only Americans can put their biggest loser in office.

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Originally posted by lithos:
I though the US got most of its sugar from beets?

No, that's Canada.

ETA: oh, only 10% from beets. I thought it was more.

Heh.

The growing of sugar cane in Canada is impossible because of the climate, so the majority of Canadian refined sugar is produced from raw cane sugar imported from tropical regions including South and Central America, Australia and the Caribbean

Who's your sugar daddy, eh?

For clarification, that was a Queensland "eh" not a Canuck "eh."

But without canefields, where do Canadian musicians set their videos?

Eh, nevermind.

*fucking legs it back to The Bunker*

The death of yearbooks
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A tradition in decline

ONE fixture of college life is rapidly disappearing. Yearbooks, those beloved annual publications recording the events and people of the academic year, are suffering from plummeting print-runs, or are even being dropped altogether, in colleges across the country.

The phenomenon is due in part to the price of the hard-bound volumes, typically as high as $75. For cash-strapped students facing ever-rising tuition and living costs they are a luxury that many can’t afford. But the main cause is not the cost so much as the replacement of print with electronic media by and for the Facebook and MySpace generation. With social networks linking hundreds of friends and offering digital photographs and videos the traditional yearbook looks like a bit of a dinosaur.

After more than a hundred years of publication Purdue University, in Indiana, has published its last yearbook, as has nearby DePauw University. Even where colleges have tried to adapt to the new media by, for instance, including DVDs summing up the year along with the print version, yearbooks are attracting few students, readers or editors.

McKendree University is the oldest college in Illinois. Inside its historic buildings, some dating back to the 1820s, its 1,500 students use the latest technology. Although the university still publishes a yearbook, the print-run is a mere 150 copies, only half of which are bought by students. Being on the staff of the yearbook used to be considered prestigious: now only eight students show up for the job. The downturn in print publications has also hit magazines for alumni. These, for instance at McKendree, are increasingly being replaced by online editions.

Yearbooks are hanging on in American high schools but the future is unclear. Parents and students complain about the high prices, and a generation that has never known a time before the internet is losing interest.

Although today’s students find yearbooks old-fashioned, they may one day miss their vanished youth. Long after Facebook and MySpace have become obsolete and the electrons dispersed to the ether, future alumni might just wish for the permanence of ink on paper.

From The Economist print edition Jul 3rd 2008 | ST LOUIS

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Clewiston Florida, the town that Big Sugar Built

I have driven through this area and it is easily one of the most depressing places you will ever see. Poverty, endless rows of sugarcane, prisons, and the highest incidence of aids in the state.

They enjoyed the benefits of government subsidies and tariffs for so long they felt entitled to them.

Maybe a few days overdue, but its a perfect opportunity to share this little gem from a few years ago. It was hard to hold the camera steady when shooting it, I was laughing so hard.
Then, all of a sudden, I wasn't.

Dietary preferences a form of racism in children?

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Dietary preferences a form of racism in children?

Good luck, England! (Now I know where our crazy came from. The Pilgrims brought it from England.)