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Apparently this represents power and stamina. Which is nice.

Satanic messages in rock and roll. I particularly like Stairway to Heaven and Another One Bites the Dust. Nice.
Found at MetaFilter

New research shows that 64% of people called George Bush will be voting for Kerry, while only 45% of people called John Kerry will…
Found at Waxy.org.

Which (middle) class are you?

The International Association of Altered Book Artists do exactly that - they alter books to create new pieces of art. I don’t like altered art in general (cheap, tatty, folksy, wrong), but somehow the idea of altering books specifically actually quite upsets me. I feel like it’s desecrating something. Owning a book is a responsibility - even if it’s an unwanted gift or no longer to your taste you should make sure it ends up in the hands of someone who wants it (try book crossing for a start, if not your local charity shop). The idea of ripping out pages and taking the glue, glitter and poster paints to it is just totally wrong.

I’m actually surprised by the strength of my reaction to this, so I’ll stop now

Have your say in the US election (even if you’re not American) at globalvote2004 (you need to give them a valid email address to vote)…

Now this really is cool. Figleaves.co.uk offer a blame it on us service… Cover that forgotten anniversary in style.

Simply select the gift you would like to give to that special person. At the checkout, when you are paying for your goods, just select ‘Blame Us’ as the gift wrapping type and we will include a card that takes full responsibility for the late arrival (we will blame problems in our warehouse).

Butt can plug Gerrard hole

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Edit: It’s gone already. It was funny too. Ah well.

Found at Daily Reasons to Dispatch Bush… Reason 127:

One-third of the tax cuts created by President Bush in the last three years have gone to the richest 1 percent of Americans, who earned an average of $1.2 million annually, according to a report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. That 1 percent received an average tax cut of $78,460; those in the middle 20 percent got only $1,090 on average. The average after-tax income for the top 1 percent climbed 10.1 percent; that of those in the middle 20 percent climbed 2.3 percent�and their share of the overall tax burden went from 18.5 percent to 19.5 percent. The after-tax income of the bottom fifth rose only 1.6 percent. Independent analysts have argued in the past that Bush’s tax cuts favored the wealthy, but the CBO, run by the former chief of Bush’s own Council of Economic Advisers, is considered authoritative.