WTF?

Someone in the Bhutan government was searching on Yahoo for “tiny young japanese sex.com” and somehow came across my blog. The best part? I can’t figure out how they got here, as if you run that search, I don’t come up. But, thanks to this entry, I probably will now though. (Other fun with server logs.)

Reuters: The U.N. panel of 2,500 scientists said in February that summer sea ice could almost vanish in the Arctic towards the end of this century. It said warming in the past 50 years was “very likely” the result of greenhouse gases caused by fossil fuel use. “There may well be an ice-free Arctic by the middle of the century,” Christopher Rapley, director of the British Antarctic Survey, told the seminar, accusing the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)…

WashPost.: South Carolina’s Republican Party will move its 2008 presidential primary forward to Jan. 19, sources said yesterday, a decision almost certain to spark a cascade of calendar changes that could push the start of voting to New Year’s Day or even to before Christmas. The move, set to be announced today, is likely to cause the New Hampshire primary and Iowa caucuses to be shifted at least to early January, and other states are actively angling to stake out…

The New York Times: Like most of her neighbors, Ms. Baranski splurged most on a house in a community studded with some of the most expensive real estate in the country. Early in 2001, when Ms. Baranski seemed richer than she was, they paid $1.95 million for a dilapidated house in Menlo Park, knowing they would tear it down. They spent $1 million over the next few years building their dream house. Ms. Baranski recognizes, of course, that she is…

Wednesday: Linnar Viik‘s Skype van: turns out, he also loves windsurfing, and apparently needed a vehicle big enough to carry his and his buddies’ gear to reach the best spots. So what did he do? He bought a big, fuck-off SWEDISH MILITARY TRANSPORT vehicle at auction, from a colleague who bought it at auction. (Thanks to Siim Teller from Skype for setting me straight!) Oh, and it has on-board CDMA/WiFi, and power outlets, naturally. Wednesday: There’s this neighborhood on the…

FP Passport, via David J. Kilcullen, a senior advisor to Gen. David Petraeus in Iraq: “At present, the U.S. defense budget accounts for approximately half of total global defense spending, while the U.S. armed forces employ about 1.68 million uniformed members. By comparison, the State Department employs about 6,000 foreign service officers, while the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has about 2,000. In other words, the Department of Defense is about 210 times larger than USAID and State combined—there…

So my flight to Amsterdam got delayed. While I was waiting for them to put up the flight status on the monitors, I went to grab a sandwich at Upper Crust. Seeing as I’m spending as little time in the UK as possible, I don’t have any British pounds on me — just dollars and euros. My first instinct was to whip out my credit card, but the clerk informed me that they only accepted pounds, euros, or dollars. No…

Man, these stories just keep getting better: The Stanford Daily: Kim — the 18-year-old from Fullerton, Calif. who was revealed by The Daily last Thursday to have been squatting in Stanford dorms since September despite not being affiliated with the University — duped ROTC officials into thinking she was an honor-roll Stanford student for eight months. She took classes on Army tactics and history, received military equipment worth more than $1,000 and even earned official military awards for her top…

That friendly junior college down on the Peninsula has just caught a girl who was squatting in a dorm, faking the fact that she was a student for the better part of an entire school year. But better than that, points out SFist, is that there’s another fake student afoot: And this is the best part of the whole story! There’s another fake student at Stanford! Apparently a woman’s been squatting in one of the theoretical physics labs. For four…

So I made it back to the good ol’ US of A, and I was greeted with these two events: First, an Oakland freeway connector collapses. I take this stretch pretty much every time I drive home from San Francisco. Now I’ll have to take a different route via surface streets, which will make my drive home take an extra 10-15 minutes or so. But I’m glad that I don’t have to drive over this area every day. Second, today…