Offmessage

Girls who inspired WWII USAAF art.

I had noticed on my trips to Toys’R'Us that they looked… well… different. Here’s the proof.
Found at things

Ah, the joys of ebay

Three Medford school teachers were threatened with arrest and escorted from the event after they showed up wearing T-shirts with the slogan “Protect our civil liberties.” All three said they applied for and received valid tickets from Republican headquarters in Medford. “The women said they did not intend to protest. “I wanted to see if I would be able to make a statement that I feel is important, but not offensive, in a rally for my president,” said Janet Voorhies, 48, a teacher in training.

“We chose this phrase specifically because we didn’t think it would be offensive or degrading or obscene,” said Tania Tong, 34, a special education teacher. Thursday’s event in Oregon sets a new bar for a Bush/Cheney campaign that has taken extraordinary measures to screen the opinions of those who attend Bush and Cheney speeches. For months, the Bush/Cheney campaign has limited event access to those willing to volunteer in Bush/Cheney campaign offices. In recent weeks, the Bush/Cheney campaign has gone so far as to have those who voice dissenting viewpoints at their events arrested and charged as criminals.”

Full story here

At last, a USB memory stick that looks like a piece of sushi. I knew I was waiting for something, I just didn’t know what it was!
Found at the Raw Feed

I shouldn’t really joke about this one. peak oil actually is a real concern, but this beautifully cynical essay on Y2K, peak oil and a horrible sense of deja vu did leave me chuckling (in a cynical, we’re-all-going-to-die kind of way).

It’s a world gone mad… When I visited this there were a million people all trying to spell fuck, but it’s a nice idea nonetheless…
Found at waxy.org

Costs ~US$5 &
comes with a user friendly bamboo handle that suits WLAN fieldwork – if you can handle the curious stares!

Very nice music video of a song sung by one George W. Bush. You need the sound on, and you need to be listening…

And today’s prize for the weirdest story goes to El Reg for this classy little number:

Electronic underwear sensitive to fluctuations in the wearer’s heart rate has been developed by the Philips Research facility in Aachen, Germany.