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In case you didn’t hear, one day floating cities will house all the climate change refugees.

That makes sense, because I’m pretty sure that when the sea level goes up 50cm, it will be a lot cheaper to build floating cities than for people to move 400 yards inland. Unless of course the climate change pisses off the space aliens, who bring a lot of water through a worm hole, which causes a rise in sea level large enough to flood Denver.

That’s what I’m really worried about.

In case you woke up craving a greaseball breakfast to settle your stomach from last nights bender

It’s supposedly called the “Luther Burger”. A stroke inducing bacon cheeseburger between a pair of heart stopping  Krispy Kreme  doughnuts.

In case you didn’t know, tomatoes are evil. Evil. Very evil.

And it case you didn’t know this either, George W. Bush promotes the evil tomato industry.

According to dailytech, the iphone was created to spread hatred of women and fat people. As our heroine for today puts it:

Erica Watson-Currie of Newport Beach, Calif., a consultant and lecturer, is among the women up in arms that the iPhone won’t respond to their long fingernails.  She states, “Considering ergonomics and user studies indicating men and women use their fingers and nails differently, why does Apple persist in this misogyny?”

Its been proven that iphones make you gay. Now they turn you into a misogynist too.

Ban the iphone.

The following was posted on a slashdot forum regarding the digital battlefield:

We have a quote of the week on our agency’s intranet page (which sometimes stays up for two weeks). Earlier this month, the quote was:

If you tell people where to go but not how to get there, you will be amazed at the results. - General George S. Patton, Jr.

Another version of the quote is:

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Regardless, the point still stands. Micromanagement can be a killer both in the private sector as well as the military (though the military version is a bit more serious). Interestingly enough, Erwin Rommel actively pursued the less-is-more command style. He started the process when he first became an officer, wrote about it and refined it over the years. Since Patton was known to read Rommel’s books, it is most likely that in addition to his own views on command, Patton learned and applied what Rommel (and others) had written. As any good leader should do.

Based on your comments, it appears there are officers who should also be reading, and heeding, Rommel’s words.

It was followed up with this remark:

NO WAY!

My experience with StarCraft, a ‘real-time strategy’ simulator, taught me that micromanagement was the KEY to winning!!

Exactly. Now we just have to wait for the World of Warcraft MBA program to come online.

There is a roaring business converting the postage stamp size backyards in urban San Francisco to super hippie feel good gardens. At least that is what SFgate says in this article. The coolest thing is that these compost heads actually think that they are saving the world by growing 15 tomatoes and 23 pumpkins. As the author says:

Having a farm in your backyard tends to soothe fears about salmonella-tainted tomatoes, rising food costs and the melting polar ice caps.

Oh yeah, that’s right, spending 600 bucks to grow 11.5 tomatoes is going to stop the melting of the ice-caps. What a maroon. Listen up all you feel good liberal San Francisco pains in the asses. If you want to stop the melting of the ice caps, shut your cake holes and all the hot air they produce. If for some reason you want to reduce CO2 emissions, build a house in your backyard for all the poor Mexican gardeners that have to drive all the bloody way from Gilroy to cut your frickin lawn.

And it gets better:

Founder Trevor Paque, 29, envisions what he calls a decentralized urban farm - a network of backyard organic vegetable gardens that will free urbanites from their reliance on food trucked in from the country.

This guy is either a complete idiot or a super-genius. He would be the latter if people actually pay him for his insight. If he truly believes this he should go see an actual fricking farm. I want to see one pain in the ass San Francisco liberal live for 1 month of the food that they can grow in their backyard. No mid-afternoon trips for a portebello mushroom arugula bagel allowed.

This all reminds me of the old communist days in Russia and China where the 1% of the land held in private plots could outproduce the 99% of the land managed by the government. It’s almost like communism is making a comeback.

Oh wait…this is San Francisco…

It has come to our attention that we are not be taken seriously here at Traumady.com. Ever since the controlled demolition of the World Trade Center by Haliburton subsidiaries acting on behalf of Jewish bankers acting on behalf of neo-nazi’s acting on behalf of shifty neoconservatives, organizations like 911truth.org have had a monopoly on internet legitimacy.

Well no more, because Traumady.com is stealing their slogan. We’re now “Traumday.com: Investigation. Education. Accountability. Reform. ”

So there.

Finally, scientists writing in Nature have figured out what everyone already knows. People, and I use that term loosely, who slap all sorts of bumper stickers, tinted windows, fuzzy dice, and giant amplifiers all over their vehicles drive like a-holes. We’ll they don’t just drive like a-holes, they are a-holes.

Sociology is SOOOO cutting edge.

Saudi Arabia will supposedly increase their oil production to help lower the oil price. At the same time they ask the Europeans to cut their gas taxes.

Next month, the Saudis will be pumping an extra half-a-million barrels of oil a day compared to last month, bringing total Saudi production to 9.7 million barrels a day, their highest ever level. But the world’s biggest oil exporters are coupling the increase with an appeal to western Europe to cut fuel taxes to lower the price of petrol to consumers.

Well, that makes sense from the Saudi perspective. They will raise production, but only if we cut the fuel taxes and therefore raise demand to compensate for the increased production. That way, the prices stay high even with the increased oil supply, and they get an even bigger chunk of profit. Well done Saudi dudes!