do the square thing, do the square thing

1. How to deliver a really crappy talk.
   
   
2. Edward Burtynsky has amazing pictures of the new industrial China.
   
   
3. There's a ton of cheese deep underwater in Quebec's Saguenay Fjord, and no one can get it out. Favorite quotes: "Last month, a commander of the HMCS Chicoutimi, on a local visit, said perhaps the Canadian Forces submarine could locate the cheese." and "Undeterred by the apparent failure of this year's underwater cheese experiment, Mr. Boivin is trying again."
   
   
4. The kids can give their hair that special glow now.
   
   
5. Car Culture brings us the 12 second minivan.
   
   
6. New York has a Burke and Hare problem, without the murders. Well, as far as we know.
   
   
7. It's a marketing technique but it feels more like one of those recent Japanese horror movies: YOUR FACE ON A MANNEQUIN AAAA AAAAAAA.

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Government Can't Explain Change in 2002 TSA Contract

The modification to the contract involved switching the interview sites for tens of thousands of airline passenger screener jobs from a contractor's own assessment centers to hotels and luxury resorts.

Federal auditors eventually called into question an array of expenses, including charges of $525 for an airport shuttle trip in Tallahassee, $7,920 for beverage breaks at a Manhattan hotel and $514,000 to rent tents in Boston.

So let's get this straight. Homeland Security changed from using classrooms to using luxury hotels, we got charged $343 million for this, and no one can explain why?

I want someone's head on a plate.

The wild ride of the Stag God at 10 mph towards the BBQ

The local Christian college has one of those events where prospective students come and get a tour, etc, like most colleges.

For some reason, they use this as the banner for it on their home page:



I'm not sure why the high school outreach admissions event for a Bible college should be represented by a figure with the body of an Office Casual man in chinos and buttondown shirt, and the head of a stag. It puts one in mind of Herne the Hunter or Cernunnos rather than Our Lord. And why the hell is he on a SEGWAY?