(aka Sudafed PE and related so-called cold meds) Don't buy it! Useless. Worse than useless, not even a placebo effect. Take the damn ticket to the pharmacy, tell them that no, you're really not running a meth lab, and get the real thing.

Update: Real pseudoephedrine (in DayQuil) + coffee = loopy sulli!

with the motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking blog!

(they are pretty cool though.)

And you, and you, and you! I half expected the Portugal/Netherlands game to be down to just the goalkeepers by the end. Fun game to watch, though, unlike the Bore Them Like Beckham squad.

With all those guys sent off and suspended, though, England should have a good chance in the quarterfinal.

World Cup, wireless, coffee, and apple pie in a gleaming chrome New Jersey diner. (Don't miss it or you'll need to take two jughandles two miles apart to get back!)

A man with his head stuck in a wall.

Well, the USA sure stunk up the place, didn't they? Except for Reyna's near miss and a few minutes of proper passing and such, and some nice play by Eddie Johnson, they looked like AYSO out there. Let's hope our boys get their act together before Italy, or this will be a real short tournament.

Your tax dollars at work.

You caused an abortion that could easily have been prevented. Morons.

Just stumbled across this unfortunate bunch of people. What's important for them to keep in mind -- between the five calls a day from a fake phone number attempting to get their credit card information or trying to help their elderly parents recover from the same scam -- is that when they turn on their television or their radio they can be assured no prurient or otherwise entertaining content will sneak through.

Well, a number of my choice, actually. I saw this bit of conceptual art on boingboing and thought I'd buy one. Your number may still be available!

So I am about 100 years behind the times, but if I wanted to get a Dance Dance Revolution kit for home use (maybe on craigslist, I'm cheap) should I get it for Xbox, PS2, or what?

Of course this is what I really want. But the neighbors might object.

Well, I don't, but the majority of Americans does.

Appalling.

Now Congress wants to give people a gas tax rebate, or even worse, suspend collection of the gas tax?! On the contrary, now is the time to raise gas taxes because oil company profits are so high they will be more likely to be absorbed rather than passed on to the consumer - and higher taxes will provide better incentives to save fuel and reduce our dependence on petrostates like Saudi Arabia, Russia, et al.

Of course Congress is pandering to the crowd and probably none of this will get passed. But it's still moronic. At least they're not bringing back price controls and gas lines! (For those of us whose time is a lot more valuable than a freaking $3 gallon of gasoline, a fair price for gasoline is NO PROBLEM, but delays getting it are another story altogether.)

Boing Boing reports on an article in The Week magazine advocating plug-in hybrids (a good idea) but then bringing out the old canard urging a "new Manhattan project" to encourage these, rather than simply extending current tax breaks and encouraging aftermarket producers to build kits to let users upgrade their cars.

Why not simply let users upgrade and let the smarter automakers figure out the opportunity, instead of sending a bunch of tax dollars to GM, Ford, and DaimlerChrysler, who will waste them on the Job Bank?

Jeff "Hemos" Bates, cofounder of Slashdot: News for Nerds, Stuff that matters and of Everything2, Vice President of Editorial Operations at OSTG, and Executive Editor of Slashdot has joined the Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Board. He joins luminaries nearly as important as him such as Frank Wilczek, winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, and Sir Clive W.J. Granger, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics. The Lifeboat Foundation is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization, dedicated to ensuring that humanity adopts the powerful technologies of genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics safely as we move towards the Singularity. This humanitarian organization is pursuing all possible options, including relinquishment when feasible (they are against the U.S. government posting the recipe for the 1918 flu virus on the internet), and helping accelerate the development of defensive technologies including anti-biological virus technology, active nanotechnological shields, and self-sustaining space colonies in case the other defensive strategies fail.