Who's gay today?

Trent Lott and Hillary Clinton.

Giuliani deals with corruption charges as mayor

"You're all a bunch of morons! ... If you accuse me of corruption, the conversation is over."

Never imagined it'd come to this

I just saw a clip of "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader". That's what I never thought would happen. What I more or less imagined would happen was what happened on it. Hey kids, that's our electorate.

What do you get...

when you take some awesome writers and tell them to write the worst show ever made... possibly about a hospital where supernatural goings-on go... on...
well, you'd get Garth Merenghi's DarkPlace
i'll post some clips later. my roommate's asleep so i can't choose discernibly.
update:
Acting
Saving the Baby
The Argument
Chased By a Stapler
Reading an Excerpt from His Book
you should really just watch an episode if you've got half an hr to spare. or read the wikiquotes page.

Some people just have too much free time...

...take this as an example.

Mario Paint Punch Out!

Mario Paint Cold Play

Mario Paint Mega Man 2

Mario Paint Legend of Zelda

Mario Paint Tetris

Kucinich announces running mate

This one's going out to you, DrkHorse. Kucinich just announced that if nominated, would like to run with ...
...
...
...
Ron Paul.

Olso in the Summertime

Watch this scene cut from Sicko describing paradise. That is, Norway.

New Order: True Faith

Great song, strange video.

I think my favorite part are the two guys slapping each other!

Want a sneak peek at the TOP summer jam for 2008?

Well here you go.

Time for a heartfelt ballad

May I present: Riskay. I'll leave the song title to those brave enough to follow the links.

First, the original.

Next, an acoustic cover.

Thanks (?) to Gustav.

A good note from Ben Stein.

You may have seen this before but it is worth reading again. There is a lot of truth in this! I'm not trying to turn this blog into my personal platform for religious views but this was too good to pass up. The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on a CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.

My confession:

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against.. That's what they are: Christmas trees.

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Brittany and Kevin and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Brittany and Kevin came from and where the America we knew went to.

In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking...

Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Katrina) Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?'

In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK.

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves. Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding God, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.

Are you laughing?

Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it. Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us. Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.

My Best Regards,

Ben Stein

We must protect

Our precious bodily fluids!

Just in time for the holidays....

a cute, yellow, dancing robot. No seriously, it's cool.

Remember the Bulwer-Lytton?

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, author of the immortal, "It was a dark and stormy night..." is often hailed as the worst writer of all time.
Charles Dickens, author of the equally immortal, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." is often hailed as the best writer of all time.
Can you tell the difference between their prose?

Procrastination flowchart

I was going to just post this later, but Casaubon talked me out of it.

Back To Our Roots

A refresher in Charles Piazzi Smyth's Pyramid theories. Happy Thanksgiving.

"Smyth claimed, and presumably believed, that the pyramid inch was a God-given measure handed down through the centuries from the time of Israel, and that the architects of the pyramid could only have been directed by the hand of God. To support this Smyth said that, in measuring the pyramid, he found the number of inches in the perimeter of the base equalled one thousand times the number of days in a year, and found a numeric relationship between the height of the pyramid in inches to the distance from Earth to the Sun, measured in statute miles. He also advanced the theory that the Great Pyramid was a repository of prophecies which could be revealed by detailed measurements of the structure"

I'm willing to bet...

That most of us (the readers of this blog) are fans of Everyman's Library. Well, wouldn't it be great if they published whatever you wanted in Everyman's Library form?
Wouldn't it?!?!!?
yep yep.

Philosphy in Video Games

Oh, it's SO true! One world, one nation, one religion (video games). Teach us thy ways!

Great idea for a facebook app

"Honest box"

In almost every way, identical to the anonymizing "Honesty box" app, except it isn't anonymizing. Fun for everyone!

Two fun graphs

First, a comparison of money spent on the war in Iraq vs. funding for various kinds of energy research. Second, the Food Pyramid vs. the Food Subsidy pyramid (the more surprising one, in my opinion, but they're both on the same blog post and that one is second).

The next time somebody says "Dinosaurs SUCK!" you say....

"You're right! They do!"

Then point them to this article and laugh in their face. Oh sweet victory!

Important Nudity Related Issue of The Day

Topless Bathers Fights For Rights

A network of female Swedish activists is leading the charge to win women the right to swim in the country's pools sans bikini tops.

The group, Bara Brost -- which translates to Bare Breasts and Just Breasts -- was incensed by an August incident that involved two young women who were asked to leave a pool in the city of Uppsala when they refused to cover their breasts, The Local reported Tuesday.

"It's a question of equality," said Ragnhild Karlsson, 22, one of the women asked to leave the pool. "I think it's a problem that women are sexualized in this way. If women are forced to wear a top, shouldn't men also have to?"

"We want our breasts to be as 'normal' and desexualized as men's, so that we too can pull off our shirts at football matches," Bara Brost spokeswomen Astrid Hellroth och Liv Ambjornsson told Ottar, a magazine published by the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education.

The group has since staged two topless swims in southern Sweden pools. In both cases, the women were asked to leave.

Sweden's Equal Opportunities Ombudsman is scheduled to decide this month whether to back the women's cause. (c) UPI

Link to article

Harry Potter Sneak Peak!!

Movie number 6 is going to rock!

Now this is a fine example....

of a responsible adult looking out for her nephew-friend-son-whatever.

Fat Kid on Rollercoaster

It's not really funny to laugh at someone else's terror but... oh wait... yeah it is. Janice should definitely win "Caring Adult of the Decade" for her fine performance.

ren and stimpy

who knew they'd take on such awesome issues!!!
CAPITALISM VS. COMMUNISM!
really really good. watch it now!

Oh, DFW

Can't wait to fly through here again.

transformers, my ass!

The Incredible Change-Bots by Jeffrey Brown looks like a scathingly brilliant comic. just thought i'd pass it along.
the change-bots have names like balls and soupy.
i'd like to flip through a few pages to know for sure, but so far all i've heard are good things.

It was a dark and stormy night...

by friggin snoopy... bitch...

have you ever been afraid of lamps?

how bout laundry folding machines?
no?
how bout vending machines?
beds?
check this list of ridiculous horror movie villains and know the meaning of fear.

update: the killer baboon part may be the greatest thing... ever crafted by human hands. ever. shakma!
flinthearted: turn off scripts before you click the link. just to save you some heartache.

It's A Whole Different World

Wow. And what a name.

And speaking of "So what"

There are so many things I love about this video:

1) The music
2) The fashion (nobody looks cooler than a young Miles)
3) The fact that it is in black and white
4) Watching these masters create their art

So enough of my yabbing! Here you go: Miles Davis & John Coltrane- So What

I wish real music like this was still playing on popular radio stations instead of the piles of crap that get shoved our way on a daily basis!

If only for the music video

This sketch from The Mighty Boosch will blow your freaking mind.

Bald?

So what.

(sent this way by Viper).

The best thing about Patrick Stewart

Is how classy he is.

Wow, this is some great playing!

I always did love stide piano, and this guy doesn't I always did love stide piano, and this guy doesn't disappoint! Watch that left hand fly! Enjoy!

Do-Re-Mi (stride piano version)

If Dreams Come True

Ladies and Gentlemen, Your Next President

Please allow me to introduce: Brunswick County Commissioner Cap Fendig.

GodTube?

This may be the worst site on the internet. The Christian version of YouTube. Here's one typical example of a Christian video. And another one wondering if Nicole Kidman is promoting atheism.

NEWS!!!

for real people! the best news in years:
joel hodgson and the original mst3k guys are movie riffing again!

for fans of stella

michael (ian black), michael (showalter), and david (wain)...
now in two languages!
english!
spanish!
hilarious.

In case you missed it, Junior Senior

Here it is, the greatest music video of 2003. (Thanks to Whitebear). Also note: this.

So Scary You Will Wet Yourself

Known to be the first horror movie ever made, this 50-second short had audience members in 1896 running from the theater fearing for their very lives.

And Finally Slash!

I could watch these all day....

I Give You Spinal Tap Mark II

Now with Carlos Santanna

Steve Vai Channels Nigel Tufnel

And he really sells it too!

Comedy By The Numbers

This formulaic book, website, and set of promos by bob odenkirk, is proclaimed to be appealing to both funny people and people who are not funny, thus it is marketable to 100% of the world. enjoy.

Oh, Apple

I think the problem is that your marketing department is so original, it's almost stealing.

If you weren't already terrified of Giuliani

You probably never heard him speak. Key quote: "Freedom is about authority."

Mitt's Innocent Little Mistake

Confusing an audiotape purporting to be Osama bin Laden's instructions to jihadists with a speech by Barack Obama. I mean, what's the difference, really?

Oh, but the best part was when his campaign then claimed - after he specifically attributed bin Laden's comments to the "wrongheadedness of the Democratic party and its candidates" - that all he did was mix up two people's names that are only one letter apart. For some reason I think it was a slightly larger error than that.

Daily Cooking Tip

Fun AND Practical!

Wow, this is SOOOO bad...

but FUNNY!!

This is also pretty good. Star Wars Kid vs. Star Wars Trumpet

Amazing how bad some things can really be.

Enjoy,

Viper

Christianity and Cryonics

Obviously, God would rather you pay $150,000 to have your corpse decapitated and filled with a toxic fluid before being dumped in a massive dewar of liquid nitrogen than accept death and bequeath your estate to charity.

Umberto Eco to speak at NYPL

If you're in New York November 15, you should go see Umberto Eco speak at the NYPL. I'm still kicking myself for missing his comments on writing at an author's convention in Denton a couple years ago. Don't end up like me!

What do you do when the little monkeys gang up on you?

Get your own, bigger monkeys. This is especially helpful now that the monkeys have started killing off government officials with anti-monkey platforms.

Rylz: i kind of feel sorry for him... thousands of americans are laughing at his death
Flinthearted: didn't you?
Rylz: of course
Rylz: but that doesn't change the fact that i feel sorry for him

Columbia University, 1980

An enlightening tour of the Ivy League tradition. Thanks to (Columbia student) AkulaAlfa.

Flinthearted: i am impressed they could operate the editing equipment in this state of mind
AkulaAlfa: simpler days

Harry Potter Secrets Revealed!

Believe it or not, HP fans - the big "D" is officially out of the closet.

Globemaster

Pretty amazing comic, if you have ever used the Internet.

The Making of Marcel Proust's "A la recherche du temps perdu", the Three-Minute Abstract Short Film

Lovingly crafted for the Apple Insomnia Film Festival 2007 in around 10 hours, this presentation is a heartwarming white-knuckled thrill ride from hell for the whole family.

UPDATE:

It is now up for ranking on Apple's website! Go watch and rank it!

Are Your Lawmakers Fat?

Then give them a swimming pool!

Television Mishap of The Week

Those crazy Brits!

Crucial Fridge Updates

Let's not play games. This is important stuff.

(wow, I've been gone for a while!)

Tim and Eric Awesome Show- Good job!

Wow, it has been a very, very long time since I've watched something as funny, strange and wonderful as this show!

Here are some of my personal favorites:

Merry X-mas!

Big Ben 2

Time Travel

Get in Shape

Dr. Steve Brule on Fruits and Vegtables

Pure GENIUS!!

Stephen Colbert sits in for Maureen Dowd

A modest bid for the presidency in is first-ever New York Times editorial. (Thanks to Missy)

Best Amazon.com Review Ever

Why Cormac McCarthy sucks. Thanks to Job.

Trial Records of the Knights Templars Released

After 700 years of secrecy, a leather-encased set of genuine reproductions can be yours - for only $8,750. They say the main reason they are publishing is to quash rumors started by trashy novels without subjecting rare centuries-old documents to undue stress and handling.

Australian doctors

Saving a suicidal man the only way they know how - with vodka.

I Am America

(And So Can You)!
here's an audio excerpt from colbert's book.
Class War

I think Gershwin would have...

love this. It hasn't aged badly at all, and all it needs are some dancing girls thrown in. Too bad the piano player looks rather bored. Perhaps he isn't bored, but thinking "I'm going to KILL my agent!" Rhapsody in Disco

the best 72 seconds of my life

check out this clip from tom goes to the mayor, and tell me if you agree that it's the greatest 72 seconds in existence.
(special guest: Michael Ian Black)

I've already got my tickets!!

Rubik's cube WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2007!! LIVE FROM BUDAPEST!! Oh, this is going to be a close one folks so DON'T CHANGE THAT DIAL!

Larry Craig's Specialty Recipe?

The Super Tuber. Otherwise known as "an Idaho potato with a hot dog jammed inside."

Restore Patriotism to University Campuses Act

H.R. 3675: To prohibit Federal grants to or contracts with Columbia University. No, i'm not making this up.

Ardour 2.1 released, native OSX support

Apparently the port of gtk at aqua is far enough along that the latest version of Ardour can be run without X11 installed. Which is a pretty big deal, because X11 support on OS X blows, and almost nobody has it installed. So if you have a Mac and have been wanting a super-stable high performance multitrack recording studio that also happens to be free and open, now's the time to check it out.

ok...

so... this game looks in-frekin-credible.

Legos and video games:

This is really creative and cool! Check it out!

Jack Chick's Tracts

Today's Dr McNinja wins for reminding me of an old dear friend, Jack Chick, by referencing his insightful commentary on D&D.

Update: The Pirate Bay

Sweet!
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Pirate Bay Pursues Criminal Complaint Against Major Media Companies

The Pirate Bay is now pursuing a criminal complaint against several major recording labels and studios, a bizarre role reversal. Last year, the Pirate Bay was being aggressively chased by Swedish authorities and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), though the slippery group deftly survived the attack. Now, the Bay is prodding Swedish authorities to proceed with a criminal case against ten major media companies based on recent evidence of questionable behavior. Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, and EMI Music were among the companies named.

The damning information first flowed last week, when reams of internal emails from anti-piracy firm MediaDefender suddenly became public. The communications revealed sensitive details about anti-piracy initiatives and a number of devious strategies. That includes the proliferation of fake - or spoofed - torrent files, the creation phony user accounts, and the execution of denial-of-service attacks. "While browsing through the emails we identified the companies that are also active in Sweden and we have tonight reported these incidents to the police," the organization posted on its blog on Tuesday. "The charges are infrastructural sabotage, denial of service attacks, hacking and spamming, all of these on a commercial level."

Permalink: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/092507pirate

AIDS Conspiracy Related Stat of The Day

In a 1990 poll, 29% of black New Yorkers believed AIDS was deliberately created in a lab to infect black people. (New York Times, Oct. 29, 1990)

(from "Swallowing the Camel" Blog)

Conspiarcy Theories of The Day

A list of the "weirdest/stupidest" conspiracy theories. I prefer to think of them as the "coolest." Here are some to mull over:

• The driver shot JFK. (the late William Cooper)
• Stephen King killed John Lennon. (Steve Lightfoot)
• WWII was staged. It never really happened. The Illuminati employed elaborate special effects, stage magic, and phony journalism to scare the world into pacifism. (Donald Holmes)
• Queen Elizabeth I was a man. The real Elizabeth died as a child.
• A really old one that just won't die: Jews drink the blood and eat the flesh of Gentile children during Passover. Some Catholics still revere the relics of Medieval child saints supposedly slaughtered and devoured by Jews.
• The doomed Franklin Expedition was sent to the Arctic not only to find the Northwest Passage, but to secretly investigate UFO sightings that had been reported since the 1700s. The men were captured, experimented upon, and eaten by giant aliens. (Jeffrey Blair Latta)
• Denver International Airport was built expressly to conceal a vast underground complex, headquarters of the New World Order elite. Clues are hidden in the airport's peace-themed mural.
• Nation of Islam: White people were created in a lab.
• Jesuits sank the Titanic to kill some of the world's richest, most powerful Jews.
• The early Middle Ages (614-911 A.D.) never occurred. Everything that supposedly happened during those years was either a misunderstanding, an event from a different era, or an outright lie - Charlemagne, for instance, is a fictional figure. And we are actually living in the 1700s. (Herbert Illig's phantom time hypothesis)
• Shortly before he left office, Bill Clinton secretly signed into law the National Economic Security and Reformation Act (NESARA). This act would have completely restructured the U.S. government by - among other things - forgiving all personal credit card debt and mortgages, abolishing the IRS, restoring constitutional law, and somehow ensuring world peace - but the Supreme Court placed a gag order on it, and threatened death to any government official who breathed word of its existence. NESARA activists around the world are agitating to get the act announced and instituted.

And here's a fun one: By combining two separate conspiracy theories, you can turn Hitler into Jack the Ripper!

Theory #1: Prince Eddy, Duke of Clarence, faked his death to move to Germany and become Adolph Hitler.
Theory #2: Prince Eddy, Duke of Clarence (and/or Freemasons acting on his behalf) was Jack the Ripper.
Hence, Prince Eddy might have killed several prostitues, faked his own death, then resurfaced in Austria as Hitler.


Don't try and tell me these aren't AWESOME!

The World's Only Missile Silo Luxury Home with Runway

Title says all. A steal at $2.3m.

Spam of The Day

Evening All

If you are using GPS navigator to find road to your shlong, belive us their is a better way.

Kyvan Refvik

Mommy, Daddy...

I want THIS for Christmas! Please! Please!

Brian Regan!!

One of the best comedians around...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUU9CqrtFiU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM-HWkbnDfg&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj9KUwSGKOs&mode=related&search=

Support PETA!

By looking at nude celebrities!

Finally!

Nasa is hiring astronauts again.

the many mockeries of amadeus

the original...
the mr. show...
the family guy...

stereotype come true

i think we all knew that computer programmers have a tendency to look like serial killers... but i don't think anyone really guessed to what extent... can you tell the difference?

What do you do with noise offenders?

In Colorado, you force them to listen to Barry Manilow!

Naked Womand Related Occupation of The Day

Mr. Skin. I'm not going to spoil too many of the details here, I just want to point out a few key quotes:

"naked female flesh appears in movies -- an obsession apparently shared by millions of people."

"...publishes "Mr. Skin's Skintastic Video Guide" to "the 501 greatest movies for sex and nudity on DVD.""

""As a kid I used to tape as many movies as I could with nudity and then I'd save the nude scenes on separate tapes. I really amazed my friends with my nudity knowledge growing up.""

""We don't do male nudity. I think it's mainly because this job is so fun I didn't want to make it work.""

This guy has problems....

Leave Brittney alone you BASTARDS!

Michael McDonald Spoof Video of The Day

Rick Moranis playing Michael McDonald in a Christopher Cross spoof video. Hardest working vocalist in the business!

Super Mario World Easter Egg!

An easter egg in the Japanese version of Super Mario World -- a level that plays itself just on inertia! Check it out!

really disturbing...

...pizza commercials from a short-lived nickelodeon cartoon called invader zim. it only ran for 26 episodes, but in that short time, it developed a cult following of goth/punk kids (myself included).
based on how disturbing the commercials are, you can imagine why nick dropped it like it was hot.

More amazing signs of Oklahoma

cool song

found this mix between the streets and suburban kids, and they called it dan le sac vs scroobius pup

Condoms and Beer

Makes sense....I guess....

how much better can you get?

The Mountain Goats + Ace Of Base = Amazing.

Police Picture of The Day

Article Title: "This was just deliberate"

Exciting advance in internet medicine

IsMyBabyGay.com

Re: Your Brains

Here's a pleasant and professional little post-apocalyptic musical memo. Thanks to MrsChacon.

Creepy Self-Introspecting Robot

Watch it learn to walk, and relearn after injury.