This is just plain creepy.

1 in 100 American adults are in prison. If it weren’t for the fact that it was in the New York Times, I would never have believed it.

That’s just a shocking amount of people in prison - how can such a level of imprisonment possibly be sustained?

At what point do you completely devalue the sanction of prison? A good amount of the punishment of being sent to prison is the social stigma, being set apart from normal society and having such a black mark following you for the rest of your life. If 1 in 100 people are in prison RIGHT NOW in the US, how many people have a record of being in prison?

I figure, if the rate of incarceration keeps increasing the way it has been, prison will lose its negative connotation. If you know several people, personally, who’ve been put in prison (maybe for something stupid, like possessing a few joints), how can you see “ex prisoners” as horrible people?

If the general population thinks that prisoners can be pretty good chaps; what’s the point of prison?

I’m not really sure what the text is all about; but the message seems pretty clear - in a pinch, you’ve gotta take care of your inlaws.

It’s pretty nice, seeing something simple and wholesome on Youtube now and again.

Looks like this is one of the more interesting eye tests out there.

No trick, look at the picture; you can definitely tell that it is indeed a man who’s selling that table on ebay.

I have never seen this before:

Has anyone else run across this?

Submitted to digg.

Man… poor guy

Ironic, I know. I’m also lazy, so here’s an email I just sent:

Like I said, access will be spotty for the next few days - as soon as you see my blog out of maintenance mode, you’ll know your DNS has changed over.

If you just can’t wait, you can configure yourself to use OpenDNS; the DNS addresses are “known correct” with that service.

If you don’t feel like messing with a bunch of settings, just wait a while, and all will right itself.

We had an issue with character encoding which we’re still playing with, however - you may want to lay off of posting new things for another day or so. In some cases, apostrophes were replaced with question marks in black diamonds. We’ve found a workaround; but basically any posts and comments you make tonight might be lost (I myself lost two posts, and two comments from caleb - sorry dude).

There also seems to be a bit of an issue with uploaded file URLs; the files you have uploaded are on the server, they’re just not exactly where they used to be, so some wordpress posts that link to uploaded files will have broken links (however a lot of them, inexplicably, seem to still be working). I regret to say that I don’t think we can come up with a clever fix for this. On the whole though; it seems to be a pretty limited problem (for example, in Jordan’s blog, all images seem to be working except for his recent shaved head pics. Pics in other posts seem to be working just great).

So, to sum up: Stuff’s working pretty good; one bump will be solved in the next 12-24 hours; the other bump looks to be pretty minor. Everything else looks to be working great.