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ITEM: Japanese lingerie maker Triumph has unveiled a solar-powered bra, capable of generating enough electricity to charge a cell phone.

Like so.



Triumph, of course, is the lingerie company that gave you such high-concept bras as the chopsticks bra, the voter-turnout bra, and the bra that doubles as a shopping bag.

Wonderful things we can do with technology these days.

PRODUCTION NOTE: I don't think they've actually sold any of these. As far as I know, Triumph tends to do this sort of thing as publicity stunts, and to promote issues like environmentalism.

Sunny side up,

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THIS BLOG IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE LETTER “J”

The Yanquis are celebrating Memorial Day Weekend at the moment, and since I don’t have anything in particular to say about the holiday itself (except I was kind of hoping Danica Patrick would win the Indy 500, and why is everyone on her case for being angry with Ryan Briscoe?), now’s as good a time as any to catch up on my memes.

1. By order of bedsitter23: the alliteration meme.

Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real places, names &/or objects, but nothing made up! Try to use different answers if the person you got this from has the same 1st initial. You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl name question.

1) 4 LETTER WORD: Jail
2) BOY NAME: J. Jonah Jameson
3) GIRL NAME: Jenna Jameson
4) OCCUPATION: Janitor
5) A COLOR: Jade
6) SOMETHING YOU WEAR: Jodhpurs
7) BEVERAGE: Jolt Cola
8) FOOD: Jamaican jerked chicken
9) SOMETHING FOUND IN A BATHROOM: Johnson & Johnson products
10) A PLACE: Japan
11) REASON FOR BEING LATE: Jack Nicolson beat my car with a nine-iron
12) SOMETHING YOU SHOUT: Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick!

2. My life as a dog

You Are a Chow Puppy

Don't fence me in! You're an independent spirit that won't be tied down.

What Breed of Puppy Are You?

FUN FACT: When I was a kid, our neighbors had three (3) chows: Kojak, Baretta and Jasmine.

3. I likes me a fortune cookie.

You are aroused by fortune cookies

'What is your Fortune?' at QuizUniverse.com

Crack me open,

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JESUS CAMP (EXTREME EDITION)

I was saving this in case Obama started getting crap the next time Rev Wright said something wacky, but now that John McCain has officially renounced the support of his own wacky extremist spiritual advisor guy, I guess there’s no point.

Basically, it’s an excerpt from The Great Derangement by Matt Taibbi, in which he joins an “Encounter Weekend” for new recruits at John Hagee’s Cornerstone Megachurch to see what Christian Zionists really get up to when the TV cameras are switched off.

I have no words. Suffice to say – provided Taibbi isn’t making it all up – that they make Rev Wright look like Father Mulcahy. Seriously. These people vomit up demons responsible for everything from lust and astrology to handwriting analysis and anal fissures. I’m not kidding.

As to the Hagee/McCain thing ...

I’m not very big on the whole “You know someone who has views I find offensive, therefore if you don’t renounce them utterly, you must therefore agree with them” party line. Put another way, I never seriously thought that Obama = Wright any more than I thought McCain = Hagee.

But I have been wondering: why has Obama been under so much pressure to denounce Wright for being batshit extreme, yet hardly anyone has been bagging on McCain to denounce Hagee or being batshit extreme? And now that he has, why isn’t anyone asking him why it took him so long when info about Hagee’s batshitness has been publicly available for at least as long as Wright’s?

I’m guessing the answer is reasonably simple: it’s okay to be a batshit Christian extremist, so long as yr using Jews to get to Heaven faster and not criticizing America.

Jesus doesn’t want me for a sunbeam,

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