Did Ignignokt really shut down Boston yesterday?

See what happens while I'm away?

Engadget has a good picture of one in place.

I'm thinking you'd have to be shit-faced to think that was a bomb. Of course (I'm proud to say) that's not a problem here in Boston We have plenty of drunks to go around. Still, I can't imagine how much whiskey I'd have to work my way through to mistake that glorified lite brite for a city crippling bomb. I would probably call it a night and crawl off to bed long before I got to that point.

There's one for sale on eBay:

eBay: Mooninites (Ignignokt) LED Advertising Bomb (item 130075321405 end time Feb-07-07 17:07:32 PST)

And a ludicrous one at that…

"School officials said the list, discovered in a classroom trash can, mostly named students and faculty members but also included Tom Cruise, Oprah Winfrey and the Energizer Bunny."

The classmates part is obviously an issue, at some level, but the inclusion of the Energizer Bunny on the list and the lack of any concrete plans or weapons makes me think that this threat might not be the most credible.

Girls charged with conspiring to kill classmates, Oprah – CNN.com

The Sun Online – Bizarre: Cruise 'is Christ' of Scientology

"And leader David Miscavige believes that in future, Cruise, 44, will be worshipped like Jesus for his work to raise awareness of the religion."

You can't make this stuff up. Of course, you can, since L. Ron Hubbard did, but the reality of what his creation has become is just too rich for words.

Without the Internet, I would never have seen this photo:

Wherever those dudes are right now? That's the last place on Earth I want to be.

Warren Ellis posted this on his blog. I cant be alone in the misery of possessing this knowledge.

"Police and firefighters yesterday rescued a Long Island man who had been trapped in his bedroom for four days after piling up a 7-foot-high mountain made up of bags of his own feces, jars of urine and other debris.

"An officer responded to Charles Ruoff's dilapidated home in Centerport around 3:30 a.m. after receiving an anonymous 911 call asking police to check up on the 64-year-old veteran who hadn't been seen in days.

"As he explored the house, the cop heard Ruoff calling weakly from a second-floor bedroom where he had walled himself in with a mountain of his own filth. He said he had been trapped since Tuesday."

*yeah, that's a nasty fucking pun. Shoot me.