Google Uses More Power than Salt Lake City: http://bit.ly/nBIBcY That means that we the users are using more power than Salt Lake City for searching, emailing, Google Plus-ing, photo sharing and page hosting. This revelation raises questions about how much energy Facebook and Twitter and MySpace are using through our use — not to mention WordPress … Continue reading Google uses more power than Salt Lake City
Author: chris page
Author of the novels Another Perfect Day in ****ing Paradise, Sanctioned, Weed, King of the Undies World, The Underpants Tree, and the story collection Un-Tall Tales. Editor, freelance writer, occasional cartoonist, graphic designer, and all that stuff. At heart he is a London person, but the rest of his body is in long-term exile in Osaka, Japan.
The Onion today
U.S. Commemorates 9/11 By Toasting Stable Afghan Government From Top Of Freedom Tower
Where there’s a willy, there’s a way
Two extracts from a recent Harper's Review. The first says something about commodity fetishism that perhaps Marx had not intended. The second just says something ... ... a Louisiana man told police he exposed his penis to a Ford because he's aroused by Walmart. A Texas jury sentenced religious fundamentalist Warren Jeffs to life in … Continue reading Where there’s a willy, there’s a way
Don’t breath the food
A woman has died and nine other people have received hospital treatment after breathing in toxic fumes at a McDonald's restaurant in the US.
Starved dogs eat owner in literary reference
In a moment where real life imitates literature, several dogs in Indonesia have eaten the owner who starved them. It might have been a homage to the novel The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek, but they were certainly just hungry.
Onion of the day: Nation Would Rather Think About 9/11 Than Anything From Subsequent 10 Years
Nation Would Rather Think About 9/11 Than Anything From Subsequent 10 Years
The Onion gets it right yet again
New Cheney Memoir Reveals He's Going To Live Full, Satisfied Life Without Ever Feeling Remorse And There's Nothing We Can Do About It
Not a haboob, but a haboob
Residents of Arizona objected to recent dust storms being referred to by meteorologists as "haboobs." "While other countries in the world may call them that, this is the United States," wrote one reader of the Arizona Republic. "This is Arizona, not some Middle Eastern nation." — From Harper's Review Other versions of the story here … Continue reading Not a haboob, but a haboob
Wet underpants
Don't get excited yet. This is going to be a froody site full of fun and irreverence but not for several weeks yet. When you hear the trumpets, you'll know we're online and doing our thing. Hey, it's something to look forward to in this dismal world, innit.
The Cannibal's Gazette 