Category Archives: Scribbles

The secret of Google maps

googmapsEver wonder how they did it? Lots of busy, busy worker bees all over.

Via Failblog.

Esther strikes again?

“Originally, all eyes turned toward Israel’s intelligence agencies. Engineers examining the worm found ‘clues’ that hinted at Israel’s involvement. In one case they found the word ‘Myrtus’ embedded in the code and argued that it was a reference to Esther, the biblical figure who saved the ancient Jewish state from the Persians. But computer experts say ‘Myrtus’ is more likely a common reference to ‘My RTUS,’ or remote terminal units.

Works for me, either way.

UPDATE:  The party never ends. Heh. Take that Mahmoud!

Nanny News: Obamalot’s minutia

“A child nutrition bill on its way to President [Barry Soeto] — and championed by the first lady — gives the government power to limit school bake sales and other fundraisers that health advocates say sometimes replace wholesome meals in the lunchroom.

“Republicans, notably Sarah Palin, and public school organizations decry the bill as an unnecessary intrusion on a common practice often used to raise money.”

Federal regulation of school bake sales? Typical out-of-touch fascist government. And one more example why the federal executive branch is the country’s largest (and highest paid) employer. As well as the most oppressive.

Land of the free? I think not!

UPDATE:  Remember the bumper sticker about air force bombers and bake sales? Now both are endangered.

Speaking of girls with guns

There’s the little matter of what to do after you pump four bullets into the chest of the would-be rapist/murderer. Call 911? Have your recorded “confession” replayed endlessly by the legacy media, damaging your right to self-defense, and shaming you for life? Au contraire. You need this book.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE:  Well, judging from the reviews at the link, particularly the first one, maybe not.

Girl With Gun: Rule 5

Womens_with_guns_013Looks like a, uh, twelve gauge to me. The gun, I mean, of course, the gun.

Happy Chanukiahs

9aWe’re sticking with our old fav, the stone Maccabees.

But this traditional-design chanukiah is actually very nontraditional.

It’s made from the pieces of Kassam rockets fired from  Gaza into Israel by that allegedly peace-seeking band of despots known as Hamas.

Tehran’s Star of David

This’ll learn ’em, by gosh and by golly. Imagine the outrage.

Islam, after all, is supposed to be the culmination of the human urge to find god in nature, not be merely a new flavor of it fit only to be surreptitiously adorned by the symbols of one of the oldest.

Heh.