Why Los Angeles drivers sometimes go insane

The top sign is so high it appears enshrouded in fog. A quick reading of it and you might think parking was ok any time on Sunday. Only to find the parking trolls had been by, cackling fiendishly, as they left you a $50 ticket, then scuttled off to upset someone else’s day..

And what are we to make of the bottom sign? Today is July 24, well past the date for the “new regulations”. Does this mean the above signs are now obsolete? Or that new not yet posted rules are in effect? Do you hear the parking trolls howling in delight in the distance?

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Hmmm

Cringely wants to know - given that a major story on possible voting machines irregularities appeared all over the Net - why has no major U.S. media deemed the story newsworthy? Or even mentioned it?

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In humor, there is much truth

Donald Rumsfeld died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St.Peter at the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him.

He asked, “What are all those clocks?”

St. Peter answered, “Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone on Earth has a Lie-Clock. Every time you lie the hands on your clock will move.”

“Oh,” said Rumsfeld, “whose clock is that?”

“That’s Mother Teresa’s. The hands have never moved, indicating that she never told a lie.”

“Incredible,” said Rumsfeld. “And whose clock is that one?” St. Peter responded, “That’s Abraham Lincoln’s clock. The hands have moved twice, telling us that Abe told only two lies in his entire life.”

“Where’s Bush’s clock?” asked Rumsfeld.

“Bush’s clock is in Jesus’ office. He’s using it as a ceiling fan.”

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Polar bear turns purple after medication

Would (could?) I make this up?

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Kraftwerk is back!

And they will have a new album out real soon now.

“Like the Beatles, it is impossible to overstate their influence on modern music. It’s the five albums they made between 1974 and 1981 that really matter: Autobahn, Radioactivity, Trans Europe Express, The Man Machine and Computerworld.

In their clipped, weirdly funky rhythms, simple melodies and futuristic technology, you can hear whole new areas of popular music being mapped out.

Kraftwerk were so far ahead of their time that the rest of the world has spent 25 years inventing new musical genres in an attempt to catch up. House, techno, hip-hop, trip-hop, synthpop, trance, electroclash: Kraftwerk’s influence looms over all of them. It’s difficult to imagine what rock and pop music would sound like today if Kraftwerk had never existed.”

In earlier decades they had huge influence on such disparate musics as disco and industrial, which certainly spans some territory!

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