Just when you thought war couldn't get any weirder, you stumble accross a text ad on Wonkette for an "online movement" known as Operation Take One For The Country. Let's just hope they're packing condoms.

Mission Statement: To discretely provide US troops shipping out overseas with the most sensually pleasing departure possible.

OTOFTC is a movement of like-minded women (women predominantly as of right now) who have covertly organized into groups to frequent eating and drinking establishments near armed service bases where troops are preparing to ship out overseas, and take one for the country, so to speak. We are a virtual organization and have no official headquarters or charter. We believe US service men and women deserve our support and we are willing to make caring choices about making them happy.

Kelly here! WOW!! - The site is finally up and running. I guess the time had to come. This site means this organization's existence is no longer covert, but remember, our missions should still be.

Link (via Fleshbot)

UPDATE: There's some interesting social-sexual history behind this story. A BoingBoing reader writes in with background on "charity girls" from earlier wars: Link

Y-que, my favorite t-shirt store in glamorous Silverlake, LA, CA, claims to have been "gagged by Google." This is the online shop that makes all the "FREE [MISBEHAVING CELEBRITY NAME HERE]" t-shirts, and the TOTAL RETARD shirts bearing Arnold Schwarzenneger's smug mug. Free Y-Que!

From: Google:The following...items that must be removed from your site in order to continue advertising with Google AdWords:

Recall Bush - White T-shirt (with radio control on head)
Dumb and Dumber White T-shirt - Bush and Blair: The Movie
You're Fired - George W. Bush White T-shirt
Dump Cheney White T-shirt - "Halliburton" tattooed across head
Miserable Failure T-shirt - George W. Bush
Kerry sucks (too) - T-shirt"

In order to stay in business and continue advertising on Google we are moving all of our political merchandise to a separate website located at: FashionCriminal.com. If you find any offensive or negative merchandise on this website, please contact us immediately at: billw@ekay.com and we will transfer the items to the other website asap.

I'd welcome a response from Google on this. Link to Y-Que home, Link to a gallery of the "banned," politically-oriented t-shirts. This isn't the first (or the last) AdWords-related conflict. In other news, I saw a beat-up art car driving down Sunset Boulevard today with "SWITCH LIARS IN 2004 || VOTE KERRY" painted on the side.

I love this: the state of Missouri is using pizza delivery lists to track down people that owe court-imposed fines.

David Coplen, the state office's budget director, said he discovered that pizza delivery lists are one of the best sources such companies use to locate people. "There are literally millions of dollars of uncollected fines, fees and court costs out there," Coplen said. [...] Databases compiled by private companies and government agencies are a key tool for firms such as ACS, Coplen said, and "one of the databases they find to be most helpful are pizza delivery databases." "When you call to order a pizza, you usually give them your correct name, your correct address and your correct phone number," he said.

Moral of the story: if you owe money to the court, use a pseudonym when ordering pizza. Link (Via IP)

MTV dictates:

We've been deprived all these years. We've never seen Krusty the Clown popping his booty, Ronald McDonald never C-walked, and Bozo ... forget about it. He could probably barely do a jig, let alone shake his whole body like an enraged zombie from "28 Days Later."

Well, the dark ages are over. There's a group of California clowns doing the thang. We've gotten a potent dosage of clown dancing -- or krumping, as it's called -- in videos such as Missy Elliott's "I'm Really Hot" and the Black Eyed Peas "Hey Mama." Now the ringleader of the crunk circus act says the mainstream had better look out, because he's bringing more than balloons and giant shoes. The krumping era just may be upon us.

Link (Thanks, Mara!)

Green tea is an environmentally sound substitute for diamond polishing compound used in the preparation of super-smooth hard-disk read-write heads.

John Lombardi, at Ventana Research based in Tuscon, Arizona in the US, suspected that green tea might also provide be an effective compound for polishing magnetic read-write heads. This was because tannin, a chemical that gives tea and coffee a bitter taste, binds to certain ceramic and metal materials. It is this quality that causes it to stain teapots and mugs...

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Chiseen -- Cantonese for "crazy" -- is a Chinese sport in which kids in giant woks toboggan down angled moving sidewalks at night. Video here: Link Alternate QuickTime Link

"The presence of unwanted or unknown animal species in food, can have a range of effects from benign to deathly serious and is of great concern for public health, economic, religious and legal reasons. Manufacturers and consumers alike have been unable to examine the composition of food at a molecular level. However, for the first time, the bioMérieux FoodExpert-ID Array is being used to detect DNA sequences specific to an animal, allowing species composition to be determined, safeguarding the purity and authenticity of food products." Link

Here are the winners of the Iconfactory's Pixelpalooza competition. Link (Thanks Scott!)

BluePhoneMenu is a menu bar icon that displays Caller ID for your Bluetooth phone, as well as the phone's signal strength and battery power. Link    

Here's an astounding video clip that clearly shows President Bush wiping his eyeglasses on an unwitting woman's clothing during his appearance on The David Letterman Show.

How would you feel about a person who thinks it is okay to grab your shirt and use it clean their eyeglasses? That's how arrogant our President is. During a commercial break on the David Letterman show, producer Maria Pope was on stage and discussing something with Letterman, and while she was standing there in front of Bush, George leaned forward, grabbed the back of her sweater and used it to clean his glasses.

Link (Via Horkulated)