i usually try to abstain from posting metafilter bits here because, well, you’ve probably already seen them. but the one on “Sewage machine company warns about ‘Finding Nemo’ flushes” is going to make the cut, for reasons that may or may not be apparent:

“A company that manufactures equipment used to process sewage issued a press release Thursday warning that drain pipes do lead to the ocean — eventually — but first the fluid goes through powerful machines that “shred solids into tiny particles.”

“In truth, no one would ever find Nemo and the movie would be called ‘Grinding Nemo,”‘ wrote the JWC Environmental company, which makes the trademarked “Muffin Monster” shredding pumps. “

cameron

mentions a debate which i never thought was debatable –

which spice should go in the shaker with more and/or bigger holes

. of course, everyone knows that salt goes in the shaker with more
holes so you can get right to the business of coating all manner of
frieds goods with a yummy layer of salt. or so i thought.
apparently there are more than a few confused individuals who think
it’s actually pepper that deserves the bigger holes. blasphemers.

luckily the issue is quickly laid to rest by a commenter who points
to the

The International Guild of Professional Butlers FAQ

:

“Protocol and Etiquette Consultant John G. Robertson
responds: The salt shaker may be distinguished primarily by the
size of the holes, and then by the number of holes. Salt is coarser
than pepper, and needs the larger hole. It is also heavier and
flows much more freely than pepper, accordingly there are often
fewer holes on the salt shaker to help control the flow. However,
there is no manufacturing standard.”

what’s amusing is how it really almost isn’t even noteworthy:

“Scientists have grown chicken embryos with teeth which may lead to a breakthrough against baldness.”

what next? i literally can’t imagine.

yeah, sometimes i feel like saying something like this:

“”Our actions will advance our goals of diversity and localism,” FCC Chairman and noted sniveling GOP errand boy Michael Powell actually had the nerve to say, in public, as lightning, surprisingly, did not strike him dead on the spot.

And if you don’t laugh at this, if you don’t absolutely insist on enjoying the bitter ironies of the massive shameless corporatization of this nation like Satan enjoys shrieking root canals, if you don’t passionately demand that your soul view U.S. political culture as a massive reeling circus masquerading as a solemn drama, you will be compelled to scream and narcotize and run off to the woods with a case of Grey Goose and the collected W.H. Auden and an iPod loaded with only Metallica and Chopin, never to be heard from again. “

justin frankel’s .plan elaborates on his unsurprising decision to leave nullsoft:

“The company controls what I do with my code [in the past, it seemed I had freedom, but it turns out all of that was not really the case–rather, I was somehow avoiding the control illicitly (for 4 years)]

The company controls the most effective means of self-expression I have.

This is unacceptable to me as an individual, therefore I must leav.”

i just wanted to apologize to regular readers for all the spelling mistakes and grammer issues in recent posts. i went to college. honest.

read it, love it, learn it.