http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/This is a blog about the stuff I pick up on the sidewalk of the internet. See also: my website & blog.Tumblr (pandemicsoul)<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ylITNTv_sk"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0ylITNTv_sk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>KO Special Comment: Bush, The War, and His Golf Game Pt 2http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34962155http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34962155Thu, 15 May 2008 20:27:12 -0400“<p>The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.</p> <p>No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this…</p> <p>For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people.</p>”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/13/einstein-religion-is.html">Einstein: Religion is “childish,” “primitive” - Boing Boing</a></em>http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34948490http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34948490Thu, 15 May 2008 17:57:00 -0400<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/15/AR2008021502901.html">The Dumbing Of America - washingtonpost.com</a>http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34941061http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34941061Thu, 15 May 2008 16:21:57 -0400<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200806/college">In the Basement of the Ivory Tower - The Atlantic Online</a>: <blockquote>The idea that a university education is for everyone is a destructive myth. An instructor at a “college of last resort” explains why.</blockquote>http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34939120http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34939120Thu, 15 May 2008 15:56:55 -0400<a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/energy/5781966.html">Pickens' Panhandle wind project to order 667 turbines - Houston Chronicle</a>http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34929504http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34929504Thu, 15 May 2008 14:19:49 -0400<a href="http://www.wisebread.com/welcome-to-container-city-how-shipping-containers-are-recycled-into-green-dwellings">Welcome to Container City - How Shipping Containers Are Recycled into Green Dwellings - Wise Bread</a>http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34918755http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34918755Thu, 15 May 2008 12:33:30 -0400<a href="http://consumerist.com/5009100/woman-wrongfully-targeted-by-riaa-lawsuit-awarded-108000">Woman Wrongfully Targeted By RIAA Lawsuit Awarded $108,000</a>http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34918657http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34918657Thu, 15 May 2008 12:32:11 -0400<a href="http://www.oculture.com/2008/05/burning_issues_inside_the_arab_world.html">Burning Issues Inside the Arab World - Open Culture</a>http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34915667http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34915667Thu, 15 May 2008 12:01:00 -0400<a href="http://io9.com/390604/wall+e-has-gotten-loose-and-is-roaming-la-streets">Wall-E Has Gotten Loose And Is Roaming L.A. Streets</a>http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34913328http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34913328Thu, 15 May 2008 11:38:23 -0400<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/14/beck.collegeendowment/index.html">Tax-free hypocrisy from higher education - CNN.com</a>http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34903099http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34903099Thu, 15 May 2008 10:03:27 -0400<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N782wpoI0D8"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/N782wpoI0D8" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>“That’s What She Said”http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34868730http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34868730Thu, 15 May 2008 02:50:44 -0400<a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/05082008/news/regionalnews/subways_blood_bug_invasion_109879.htm">SUBWAYS' BLOOD-BUG INVASION - New York Post</a>http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34855983http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34855983Wed, 14 May 2008 23:46:53 -0400<a href="http://wordsmith.org/words/vandyke.html">vandyke - A.Word.A.Day</a>http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34850318http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34850318Wed, 14 May 2008 22:41:09 -0400OMG, some dude just walked past me on the street wearing a full-on biohazard gas mask. Crazy!http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34843788http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34843788Wed, 14 May 2008 21:25:53 -0400<a href="http://www.thepost.ohiou.edu/Articles/Opinion/Your%20Turn/2008/05/13/24478/">Prejudiced peers leave gay undergrad without home next year</a>: The comments are interesting.http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34834022http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34834022Wed, 14 May 2008 19:26:17 -0400<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/GkoIePvks9032myeI9W0My9B_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><a href="http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/05/14/funny-pictures-sends-his-minions-thru-ur-drain/">Basement cat « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures - I Can Has Cheezburger?</a>http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34833604http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34833604Wed, 14 May 2008 19:19:56 -0400<a href="http://io9.com/389563/pollution-levels-going-down-in-us-coastal-waters">Environment: Pollution Levels Going Down in U.S. Coastal Waters</a>http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34824663http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34824663Wed, 14 May 2008 17:12:39 -0400<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/GkoIePvks8zyhxgzleUY1SU2_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/12/cameras-as-guns.html">Cameras as guns - Boing Boing</a>http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34824596http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34824596Wed, 14 May 2008 17:12:06 -0400<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/11/anti-genital-mutilat.html">Anti- genital mutilation ad campaign features blowup love dolls - Boing Boing</a>http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34823751http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34823751Wed, 14 May 2008 17:04:07 -0400I’m looking forward to more stress eating over the coming days.http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34817696http://pandemicsoul.tumblr.com/post/34817696Wed, 14 May 2008 15:51:06 -0400