Wow! Down the (404) Memory Hole

DOTPOTUS Malia Obama and twelve of her friends are vacationing in Mexico (on our dime, no doubt), and it seems that stories about the trip are disappearing down the Memory Hole at an alarming rate.  So far the Masters of the Universe haven’t been able to disappear Mexican reports.

After all the travel advisories from the State Department and the Texas Department of Public Safety, this seems to be a bit of “Do as I say, not as I do.”  Just what I’d expect from our political class.

Tip from the Instapundit, who’s too famous to disappear quietly.

Update (19 March).  Never mind.  I think she’s just went to Mexico to find cheaper gasoline.

Update (20 March).  The White House ‘fesses up. After it was all over Drudge.  But wait, it gets better: the Double Scrub.

Leaping Lizards!

 Dealing with an odd-sized year (365.024219 days) is not as easy as you think.  Not only do we have the popular Gregorian Calendar (4-year cycles, with “by-years”), but some geek gurus have proposed the Earthian Calendar (33-year! cycles).  There’s even a connection to Stonehenge.

Update (3 March).  A careful look at the Earthian Calendar site reveals a calendar generator!  This year’s calendar reveals the 2012 leap day as 11 Pisces 0004 Earthian (or Copernican, as the author prefers to call it).

Tips from Gizmodo and The Geek Press.

Greenies care about the fish, but not the fishermen

Debt slavery is alive and well in the (Korean) commercial fishing industry.  And some of our hippest destinations, from P.F. Chang’s to Whole Foods, are aiding and abetting.

Tip from Via Mead.

He’s making us crazy!

First it was Time Tebow, now it’s Jeremy Lin.  They’re driving the glitterati crazy, ’cause they won’t Play the Game:

As an expression of the collective consciousness of the cultural elite, the media’s memes are nothing less than a kind of insanity; a window into an dreamscape  in which everything is inverted; where ordinary people are seen as freaks and freaks are seen as paragons of sanity.

“…go to Europe and America and get a good education.”

Progressives pounce on hipocrasy as a cardinal sin.  They should have a field day with this guy.

Tip from Via Meadia

Good for what ails you

Naw, it can’t be that simple.  But it is.

Tip from American Digest, where vanderLeun almost learned this too late.

Update (16 February).  “Everyday I’m shuffling” probably isn’t the key to longevity.  Not unless you do it LMFAO-style.

Look out, custodians!

UTSA’s University Center is starting a demonstration of a new SMS-based feedback system, so clients (mainly students) can report on the quality of meeting rooms and restrooms.  I suspect the restrooms will quickly become a lot tidier.  I hope the system is not so successful that it gets cancelled…