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They must have been members of the underwearworld:

Police are looking for two men they say covered their faces with women’s thongs to rob a convenience store. Police released a surveillance video of the two men this week as they roamed inside a gas station during the robbery.

Updates here.

It’s after 9:00 p. m.

A FedEx Ground truck just went down the street.

Last time we saw delivery persons this late was Christmas.

Also seen on the highway:

License plate, state, or nationality hidden by a Philadelphia Eagles license plate frame, with the license number UK1 with a Union Jack to the right of the license number.

UK1

Anyone know of any US states that issue UK vanity plates?

TPM on the “nuclear option:”

Jon Swift figures Obama is done:

It’s funny that so many bloggers, who are as young and naïve as many of Obama’s idealistic young campaign workers, think that Obama has the nomination in the bag. They don’t realize that we are at the point in the narrative where the Terminator has been left for dead only to rise one more time, that Carrie is just about to stick her hand up from the grave, that Glenn Close is just about to rise up from that bathtub and attack Michael Douglas again. If the Obama children have any pet rabbits they might want to request Secret Service protection for them.

Even more telling, many pundits seem to believe that Obama is already the nominee. Is there anything that pundits haven’t been wrong about this year? Remember when they said that Rudy Giuliani was the frontrunner? And that John McCain was washed up? And that Fred Thompson was the new Reagan? If all the pundits agree on something you can almost be certain that they are wrong.

Meanwhile, 23/6 explores Senator Clinton’s thought processes:

Addendum, Later That Same Day:

John Cole has more.

No, I can’t do this.

Road workers in a small New Zealand town got their wish granted when a woman stripped saying she was fed up with their wolf-whistles.

The Israeli tourist was about to use an ATM in the main street of Kerikeri, in the far north of the country, when the men whistled, the New Zealand Press Association reported.

She calmly stripped off, used the cash machine, before getting dressed and walking away.

See this and this.

The answer is, of course, no. Computers are machines. They are, in fact, remarkably stupid machines.

They do exactly what they are told to do. They just do it very very fast.

If Moody’s screwed up, Moody’s people are culpable, not Moody’s machines.

Furrfu!

. . . or not.

I won’t even try to excerpt this. Just go here. It’s well worth a click.

Why is a pack of standard staples longer than a standard stapler?

Google is your friend.

Non Sequitur:

There has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth amongst certain quarters about Grand Theft Auto IV.

The Mrs. Grundy’s amongst us are concerned that players might learn about sex and violence and drunk driving from the game.

Hell, they can learn about sex and violence and drunk driving on the gossip page.

Not that I’m a fan of the game, but, honestly, grow up.

Those who are concerned that there are hookers in the game should read this story and relax. Kids are ready for what they are ready for when they are ready (emphasis added):

A 13 year old from Texas who stole his Dad’s credit card and ordered two hookers from an escort agency, has today been convicted of fraud and given a three year community order.

Ralph Hardy, a 13 year old from Newark, Texas confessed to ordering an extra credit card from his father’s existing credit card company, and took his friends on a $30,000 spending spree, culminating in playing “Halo” on an Xbox with a couple of hookers in a Texas motel.

The credit card company involved said it was regular practice to send extra credit cards out as long as all security questions are answered.

The escort girls who were released without charge, told the arresting officers something was up when the kids said they would rather play Xbox than get down to business.

A tip of the hat to the person who finds the grammatical errors in the quotation above.

H/T to Second Son (who happens to be playing GTA IV in multiplayer format right now–I can hear the AK-47s) for the link.

It’s not just a jeep. (Oops, that was Willis. This is a Clinton, sort of.)

Via Phillybits. If YouTube pulls the video, go over to his place for the alternate link.

Via El Reg:

Forth Worth police earlier this week slapped the cuffs on a 21-year-old music biz wannabe who decided the best way to raise some venture capital was to cash a dodgy cheque for $360bn, NBC 5 reports.

From the BBC.

Via El Reg.

Maybe that’s how I can break into pro sports. Now, where’s that bottle of MD 20/20 . . . .

Boozer helps Jazz defeat Lakers

In other news, this is a good read.

Via Phillybits.

Or, more properly, his anatomy. Via the BBC, evidence that sometimes the price of high-tech is too high:

Police in Malaysia are hunting for members of a violent gang who chopped off a car owner’s finger to get round the vehicle’s hi-tech (biometric–ed.)security system.

H/T to Mithras for telling me this story the other night.

Great commercial. Low production values, stupid costumes, silly plot.

Kind of like Fox News, but with some little bit of truth in the message:

Of course, I use Paramount and am quite happy with them.

But it’s still a great commercial.

Why do hotdogs come in 10 packs and hotdog buns come in eight packs?

Aside: The best hotdog in the country.