Linkdump: Ming Coat
··· Boingboing sez: Man who set up alternate email for [Bush] White House dies in plane crash. Note the linked article at the end, in the update. He was piloting his own small aircraft, and apparently he's had to cancel planned flights twice in the past because of suspicious problems with his plane.

I'm no nutcase conspiracy theorist, but a whole lot of things that have happened during this administration have seemed mighty convenient. There's 9/11 and many surrounding events (I know, I know, so don't ask unless you're actually interested). There's the fact that oil prices spiked for a while near the end of the administration—an administration full of people with heavy financial interest in and knowledge of the oil market—then shot down super-low in time for the election. And now the man who set up an alternate email system for off-the-record communication—a very experienced pilot—dies in a plane crash. I'll put it this way: I don't have enough information to believe that any of these events were planned or intentional, but I have enough information that I won't discount the possibility.

Oh, hey look, turns out he was set to testify in a case alleging election tampering in 2004 in Ohio. Here's a great blog entry on the thing that actually got a statement from Ohio's Attorney General the plaintiff's lead attorney regarding the vote tampering case. I'm still working on finding a mainstream media source that says something, anything, about the man being set to testify about 2004 Ohio vote rigging, but I can't find one. Awesome job, ABC-CNN-Reuters. Here's another not-mainstream one. Oh, hell, here's the Wikipedia entry on Michael Connell.

Update: No Attorney General was quoted in the Bradblog link. My editor has been sacked. Also, best mainstream article yet, via steamingturd.

Update: Just got this Yootoob link from jakeodd. Very eyebrow-raising. Mine are floating a couple inches above my scalp right now.


··· The Wunder Boner! Via Wil Wheaton, who thinks it's Mike Rowe doing the voiceover and that all parties involved knew exactly what they were doing. I tend to agree. This does not make it less funny.


··· Great pic: Bunny = fail.


··· Yootoob: "Who Says Words with My Mouth." I have to admit that I was paying more attention to the film than the poem. I've seldom seen footage of mixed horse, automobile, foot, and streetcar traffic. Makes it seem more real slowed down like that.

Update: I was just told that this is Market Street in San Francisco. The cablecars should have clued me in, but they don't run down Market Street anymore—haven't for a long time.

Link and update via jakeodd.


··· Cool little alcohol stove from two soda cans. I've heard of this before, but this is the best tutorial I've seen. The wad of fiberglass insulation is a great touch.


··· One Sentence. True stories, told in one sentence. This feels a lot like Postsecret without the visual distraction. And there are a lot more of them.


··· MTBA hackers asked to partner with transit agency to secure system. I remember when this debacle first surfaced. If MTBA fuckers were smart, this would have been a first move rather than a last resort. Lots of money was wasted on this.


··· Awesomest. Beard. Evar.