From Francis Ford Coppola, named after his daughter.
Link: KR Washington Bureau | 12/29/2005 | On New Year's Eve, pop the top: It's champagne in a can
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Nice photo series...
Yet.. As much as I love our aerospace technology, one thing that always struck me funny was the Nighthawk's "F" designation (fighter), when all I've ever heard about is its successful bombing campaigns.
I'd hate to see this jet actually engage any other modern fighter jet that could see it.. Surviving that would earn its "F" designation; meanwhile, I don't think it could outmaneuver my cat.
That's fine, except we still had to shell out billions more for the actual "B" (B = Bomber) stealth jet, the B2 Spirit, which isn't supposed to maneuver at all.
But whatever, it's just taxpayer dollars, right?
Methinks they're both bombers, but our gov't was too weak paranoid corrupt to deny one large war-mongering corporation (Northrop-Grumman) a contract in favor of another (Lockheed-Martin), and unable to get two "bombers" in the budget, they simply passed this off as a "fighter".
Link: RIAT 2002 F117 display
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*edit 5/1/08 - The F-117 is retiring. I learned about it in this thread, and I agree it's early for any military aircraft; the old carriers still launch planes older than me.
It was a subsonic bomber with a tiny payload with one mission (suppression of air defenses), that it could perform only at night. Everything the F-117 could do, could be done better and cheaper with Tomahawk missiles and GPS-guided munitions, and none of the F-117 technology was used in future iterations of stealth designs (the B-2, the F-22, etc).

Every Billboard Hot 100 song since 1958:

The 857 songs used to make the piece are analyzed digitally and a spectral average is then derived from the entire song... The spectral average of each song used in Billboard plays for one second for each week it stayed at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Thus we run about 52 seconds per year, for a grand total of a 37 minute sound work.

Link: Billboard
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Link: The Decemberists - 16 Military Wives

Steve Martin posted his first entry to his new blog today. He's come a long way since being born a poor black boy.
Link: The Blog | Steve Martin: Leap Second Lovers are Traitors Says Bill O%u2019Reilly | The Huffington Post
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So, since greasemonkey doesn't work w/1.5, some favorites are gone, yes? Well, these aren't much, but they give you the prev & next buttons on StrongBad emails, and the other gives the fullscreen option! That's good enough 4 me!!
Link: StrongBad Emails: Prev & Next
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Full Screen Homestarrunner

Great new email from the, er, great Strong Bad! Don't forget to hover for easter eggs!!!
Link: Miss ShellBra!
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Sweet fast paced game, you can read the instructions, but just keep clicking!!!!
Link: Hand Jibe
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This post is for Boyd! (Yes, I know this is really old, but it's guaranteed to ruin make his day)
Link: Banana Man
Link: Banana Phone
Link: Banana Museum

Can't wait to get this at Walgreens!!!
Link: iPod Chia
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The Aristocrats (previous post) comes out on DVD January 24th.
Here's another clip from the film, where the joke is told with cards.
Link: The Dirtiest Card Trick in the World
(lower quality windows media version here)

A photographer has come under fire in China for his pictures of a man falling off a bicycle.

Link: Ananova - Photographer criticised
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Link: EarthCam - 25 Most Interesting Webcams of 2005
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"Dave responded to my thoughts of love, and, on his show, in code words & obvious indications through jestures and eye expressions, he asked me to come east"

Link: Letterman issued restraining order to stop bothering loony fan
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Interesting..  I'm using this extension now to make this post. Read more..

Link: Vote for The Best Web Games of 2005
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Link: Merry Religious Assimiliation Day
Link: Churches closing because Christmas is on Sunday this year
Link: Santa shows his house on Cribs
Link: South Park - The Spirit of Christmas (NSFW audio)
Link: Teen Girl Squad - Christmasween
Link: It's a Wonderful Life in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies.
Link: A Christmas Story in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies.
Link: Santa busted by Cops
Link: The Most God Awful Christmas Displays Ever
Link: Museum of scornfully bad holiday ornaments
Link: The Physics of Santa Claus
Link: Christmas legends quiz
Link: What the twelve days of Christmas would actually cost this year
Link: Use the arrow keys to control Sober Santa

Merry Christmas all!

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