In "The Zen of Drinking Alone: Using Alcohol to Bring Out Your Inner Monkey "

I second DrPres! The perfect complement to a Dogfish Head Raison d'Etre (or 2... or 3, not sure... I started a couple hours ago and stumbled upon this post, while taking a break from housecleaning. The house can wait.). Great link, Mr. G.!

In "PSSSSSST! That superstar of the Democratic convention? We think he might be the Anti-Christ."

Thread was started by "His Grace": doesn't that mean he's impersonating the Pope or something? Nice icons, though: sort of like a geek code for fundy End Timers. and Wow, again.

In "Ordering pizza in a surveillance society."

Thanks, homunculus, for posting this here as well as "the other -Filter." While I am an ACLU member, I do think this scenario is over the top. However, I found that paying cash as a walk-in was no escape from the "feed our database" drill at a Papa John's near my house. The last time I went in there ("last" as in "final" not "most recent"), the counter guy asked for my phone number. Thinking he doesn't need that for a walk-in order, I give him the 555-1212 time/weather number. He punches a few keys, and then smirks and says, "Welcome back, Mr. Pizza Lover" The entry had an address and everything. I was laughing so hard trying to figure out whether it was test data put there by the programmers, or if someone had beat me to using that phone number, I almost forgot being annoyed at the question in the first place. But I've never been back. It's a pizza, for God's sake! What do they need to keep track of?

In "WTC "Attacks""

Gyan, thanks, point taken. All I was saying is, Where's the "Ur-Link" back to the source? Of course, about 5 seconds after posting, I got the bright idea to google "Convar+Reuters" and found a link to Convar's News/Press Release archive with the same article in your link, and a big official Reuters logo right on it.

Not to further muddy the waters but can anyone find corroboration this was a Reuters story? The FPP goes to unknownnews, and the "Reuters" link there goes to indymedia. Anyone find the original story?

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