Daily Archives: May 11, 2006

Operation Global Media Domination: Technorati kneels

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TIAThe view is more beautiful now that it is mine.

Technorati Rank: 196,923

I suppose two pretty much solid weeks in the WordPress Top 100 (out of 179,000)kinda suggested to Technorati that they maybe needed to think about updating their data and poof! All of a sudden I've gone up by a quarter of a million places in the blogosphere. If only it happened in real time, but that would be awfully Web 2.0 of them. I suppose batch processing once a month isn't that bad, it's just that much worse than their PR.

Update: And today, thanks to Chaucer's dirty bits and a Fleshbot pass-along, I'm #1 AND #2 on the WordPress Sex tag. My mother would be so proud!

Where they got the word “pixillated”

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Honestly, digital distortion just makes this even better. Sometimes dropping acid is just redundant…like when you’re watching the Banana Splits perform “You’re the Lovin’ End.” With stuff like this forming the backdrop and soundtrack to my childhood, is it any wonder I turned out this way?

Hillary Justifies Her Existence

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Workers of the World Unite! Even Guvmint!S 2725 IS

109th CONGRESS

2d Session

S. 2725

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an increase in the Federal minimum wage and to ensure that increases in the Federal minimum wage keep pace with any pay adjustments for Members of Congress.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

May 4, 2006

Mrs. CLINTON (for herself, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. JEFFORDS, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. HARKIN, and Mr. OBAMA) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions <hr>

A BILL

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an increase in the Federal minimum wage and to ensure that increases in the Federal minimum wage keep pace with any pay adjustments for Members of Congress.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the `Standing with Minimum Wage Earners Act of 2006'.

Senator Soft...or do I repeat myself?

SEC. 2. MINIMUM WAGE.

    (a) In General- Section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 206(a)(1)) is amended to read as follows:
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      `(1)(A) except as otherwise provided in this section, not less than–
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        `(i) $5.85 an hour, beginning on the 60th day after the date of enactment of the Standing with Minimum Wage Earners Act of 2006;
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        `(ii) $6.55 an hour, beginning 12 months after that 60th day, adjusted for that year as provided for in subparagraph (B); and
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        `(iii) $7.25 an hour, beginning 24 months after that 60th day, adjusted each year as provided for in subparagraph (B); and
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      `(B) the wage provided for under clauses (ii) and (iii) of subparagraph (A) shall be automatically increased for the year involved by a percentage equal to the percentage by which the annual rate of pay for Members of Congress increased for such year as provided for pursuant to the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 31).'.
    (b) Effective Date- The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act.

Solidarity...even with politicians

Hottest Pickup Lines of the Fourteenth Century

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Is that a longsword in your pocket?Apparently there's some kind of Medieval Scholar Knees-Up/Conference going on this week, and in the spirit of contributing to the occasion (although he is long dead), Geoffrey Chaucer has posted in his blog some of the best pickup lines of the late Middle Ages. Use with care; we assume no liability, etc.

Warning: as one commenter says, some of these were old even in G-Ch's time.

GALFRIDUS CHAUCERES LYNES OF PICKE-VPPE:

-Yf thou were a latyn tretise ich wolde putte thee in the vernacular.

-Nyce bootes. Wanna swyve?

-Shulle we maken the cindreblokke to synge?

-Woldstow haue me shyfte thyne voweles?

-Were thou yn my seisin, ich wolde nevir escheat on thee. 

-The preeste telleth me that we aren more than VII degrees of consanguinitee. Game on!

-Ich notyce that myn demense and thyn do abutte. Wolde yt plese thee to consolidate ovre powere-base in the midlands?

-Makstow a pilgrymage heere often?

–By my soule, thou art a verye mappe of helle. For The Hot Tubthy face lyk the rivere Styx wil make me swere oothes neuer to be fforsworn, and thy embrace lyk the Lethe shal make me foryet al else, and lyk vnto the Flegeton thyn arse ys ON FYRE!

-Howe abovte a blancmange and the acte of Venus? Whatte, blancmange pleseth thee nat?

-If ich sayde that thou hadde a bele chose, woldstow holde it ayeinst me?