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Archive for August 12th, 2008

The Authurian Omen

August 12th, 2008 | Category: Books, Writing

Reviewed over at BNN.

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“The Jewel of Medina” and the Cowardly Surrender of RH

August 12th, 2008 | Category: Politics

Well, that’s nice, but it’s all beside the point. It doesn’t matter a damn what the Koran says or whether the novel is offensive to Muslims or not. The very need for such apologias and the very fear felt by Random House condemn the violent principles of the gangsters they’re appeasing.

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Emo baned? It could happen in Russia!

August 12th, 2008 | Category: Music, Politics

A new Russian law could make being an emo kid illegal in the eastern European country.

Andrew says: Yes we agree that Emo can be rather annoying but to be so draconian against them is a bit much.

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Via: Ham Blog

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Cake Wrecks

August 12th, 2008 | Category: Amusements, Gnotalex

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This cake is so disturbing, I’m almost glad the picture doesn’t include the whole thing. The plastic clone babies wearing naught but mohawks is bad enough, but then they’re also riding carrots. What do you do with that? It looks like some kind of perverted vegetable rodeo, or maybe a bizarre clone military exercise, what with their little plastic fists raised high in identical salutes.

Cake Wrecks is an entertaining look at cake designs that fall somewhat short of the sublime.

And by “somewhat short” I mean that you’ll laugh until you cry, though that’s more of a tribute to the blog’s writer and commenters, who have a wonderfully-droll style.

For more conventional notions of cake pulchritude, see here.

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