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Tomorrow (Monday, Nov 6) at 6:30 ET and PT, HGTV's "Offbeat America" will look at some imaginative edifices, including the "Comet House" built by my brother-in-law in the Colorado Rockies. The house was designed so that when viewed from above, it resembles a comet. When other contractors blanched at the plan -- with very, very few right angles or straight walls -- Drew couldn't wait to get his hands on it. I've seen it: it's a bloody work of art. I'm setting the timer for it. "Next, it's off to the rocky mountains of Colorado to visit a solar-powered house modeled after a comet." According to the schedule, it's part of a show called "Eyeball House." (Eyeball house? What kind of weirdo... well, never mind.)

Then, while I was thinkin' about stuff, it occurred to me that other folks might like to see a photo page my friend neonnurse has put up concerning a recent trip to Lakeside Amusement Park in Denver. The park is about 100 years old, and still has some of the old stuff stuck away here and there, and that's just what the itchy shutter finger of neonnurse has zeroed in on, much to my delight. I know we have some lovers of demised amusement parks here, and perhaps some of them also like to see a functioning park with some of the old bits tucked out of public view, like the boat piers, some rides indefinitely "closed for renovation" (yeah, sure), and Lakeside Speedway, which I used to hear ads for on the radio all the time.

Heh. Telemundo is showing Disney's Tarzan of the Happy Meal Toys now, in Spanish, of course. We can watch the fairly good animation and not have to listen to the elephant stylings of Rosie O'Donnell. Well, except that when I finish typing, I'm putting on the tape of the Simpsons episode for the month, "Treehouse of Terror MCMXLVII" or whatever number it is.
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After having pages of detailed how-to-build-an-atom-bomb plans up on the Web for about a month, in an effort to score some political points, and finally taking them down only when the New York Times shames them into it (and of course, their reaction is "How dare they mention that we did that?"), I keep seeing footage of George W. Bush on a campaign stop in Missouri. He's strutting and fretting on the stage, wearing his "just folks" blue shirt with the sleeves rolled up just so, and all over the place are these big signs that say "SHOW ME."

"SHOW ME." Okay, maybe it's not even funny-ish.

"SHOW ME." All through September, they had diagrams, formulas, test data, a regular road map of how to make your own nukes. Right up there in a bunch of "Operation Iraqi Freedom" web pages. To his credit, Negroponte tried to tell them it was a bad idea, but George overruled him and those intelligence pansies who didn't think we should be doing it.

"SHOW ME." Nuke plans on the web.

"SHOW ME."

Show them on Tuesday.
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Where do good little rejected Wikipedia articles go for their heavenly reward?

The Wikipedia Knowledge Dump.

Thanks again to boingboing.
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