Born on State Highway 1

The leaked FBI transcript between Rahm Emanuel and Rod Blagojevich (pronounced “Blagojevich”) is highly entertaining.

BLAGO: Hey, come on Rahm, let’s not act like I’m a stranger here.

EMANUEL: Did I call you a stranger? If I thought you were a stranger, you think I’d be interrupting my important fucking business to take this fucking phone call?

BLAGO: Hey you don’t have to get curt with me, Rahm.

EMANUEL: This isn’t me being curt, Gov, this is me being fucking busy. Now what did you call about?

I like how Blagojevich subtly slips in his dodgy intentions.

Another great find from Sociological Images, here is
a guide to picking winners of beauty pageants in 1959.

Nothing to do with Dave Letterman, Listverse has top-ten lists. Many of them. They just keep on going. Besides being vaguely informative, you also get the watching-a-game-show entertainment of complaining when something isn’t on a list. Like when Krull is somehow left off the Top 10 Fantasy Classics of the ’80s. I think the first thing I read there, having Stumbled Upon it, was the Top 10 Out of Place Artefacts, which is the kind of thing I love. Jamie, the mad compiler, is living here in New Zealand, so there’s also 20 Cool Facts about New Zealand. Though none of them should be any particular surprise to Kiwis.

Somehow, this is an argument for decriminalisation.

Strangely compelling, Running From Camera is a blog full of pictures of… people running from their cameras. “The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on 2 seconds, push the button and try to get as far from the camera as I can.” It originates, and the pictures are almost entirely from, the Netherlands. No huge surprise there. “Bro. Shit. Listen. Fuck. I just had the best idea.”

Of course, futurologist rebelliant innovator and B-grade horror writer Garth Marenghi was once again ahead of his time, realising the threat of the Dutch Menace long before anyone else did: