Fusion

Of course, why didn't anyone think of this before? Emergency calls and new-age background background music. Very much like chocolate and peanut butter, or white pepper and strawberries.

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Your iPad is So Cool Because Someone Didn't Like This Guy's Toilet Design

Jonathan Ive, the design genius behind Apple cool:

The manner of his departure for the U.S. is particularly galling to Clive Grinyer, who first hired Ive after he came to work with him on a placement from Newcastle Polytechnic. It came after a presentation of an Ive design to a bathroom-fittings company in Hull.

‘We lost a great talent,’ says Grinyer. ‘We virtually created our own consultancy, Tangerine, just so that we could employ Jony (as Ive prefers to be called). And if I had to put my finger on why and where we lost him it would have to have been one day at Ideal Standard in Hull.

Read the article and you'll see how success and vast riches are really just a matter of luck. See, it could have easily been me. Well, the first part anyway. I could have produced a toilet design failure. And that's the first half of this story of phenomenal success. I imagine I could have faked the second half, possibly.

Break-In Reported

And I Want My Jetpack

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Vintage Ad, and the Piano Man

Maybe not entirely true. But Tom is the only singer capable of getting drunk enough to recommend Luckies.

That Reminds Me

The moon is supposed to have been extra close to the earth last Saturday. I missed it but it's still probably pretty big.

I'm sorry Lord; please don't send the lightning again.

Red, Blue, What's the Difference?

I'm sure they're unaware of the error, but This Isn't Happiness got their caption exactly wrong. This picture from Birmingham Alabama is labeled "Red State". Now with the sure and certain knowledge that they're choosing to be ignorant, I'll offer this futile correction: both Bull Conner and George Wallace were democrats. In fact the Civil Rights Act's greatest opponents were Southern Democrats.

Now That You Mention It

"I think you're right. It does make me look fat."

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Marizela Perez

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I think most people who read AWL are familiar with Michelle Malkin's site, but just in case you haven't seen it, I'm posting this link to Find Marizela. Marizela Perez is Michelle's cousin and has been missing for several weeks.

I only average a half dozen readers from Washington state, but attention you six: keep an eye out for Marizela. We'll be praying for her safe return.

No Pictures

US Army 'kill team' in Afghanistan posed for photos of murdered civilians

Commanders brace for backlash of anti-US sentiment that could be more damaging than after the Abu Ghraib scandal....

That's all you need to know. For half a second I thought that this will force a bit of reality onto those who just knew that Bush policies caused Abu Ghraib. But really, I see no upside. When you've got people trying to kill each other, civility suffers. This stuff happens, and at least our guys haven't made anything to rival the Jihadi snuff films.

Could this be a teachable moment for "progressive" dunderheads? They haven't been able to admit that there's a reason for Guantanamo yet, even though their president had to. I doubt they'll learn anything from this.

It's a bad thing for the country though. I think we can agree on that. The pictures? I don't need to see them. Amazing how easy it is to ignore the urge to look at the car wreck, once you've done it once or twice. If I see these pictures, it'll be by accident.