When I Look For Condoms...

...I look for Japanese condoms. This article features 10 of the best, including Fe+Male condoms, and "Skins Mobile."

Best First Sentence Ever In A News Article

" BATH — Except for a tragic accident, the 35th annual Bath Heritage Days parade went off without a hitch."

Here.

2008 Election

There is really only one candidate worth voting for.

Patton Oswalt (old women giving birth and KFC)

Good bit from Conan

PSA

just so everyone in the world knows... they might be giants new album, "The Else," is now available on emusic.
hell yes.

If you can't beat 'em...

... drop them. Nice, Sprint. Nice.

Holst + JASRAC =

Hilarity. This is the English version of a song protesting JASRAC.

Sierra Club

A very good article about WWII conservationism and a wartime change in lifestyle. I printed 50 color copies of it in size 26 font. I'm going to burn them on randomly selected desks today to show my support.

That reminds me, I left the a/c on 65 this morning. At least my room will be nice and cool when I get home to eat my nightly sirloin steaks (2)!!

It looks like WHAT??? No, no, no..

...you've got it all wrong! It's supposed to be a FLOWER!

The Role of Indie Retail in the Music Industry

Very good post by Glen Coolfer (which itself is a commentary on a Guardian article) regarding how indie retailers are not only weathering the changing music industry landscape, but actually thriving.

more qvc magic

when a slightly charismatic salesman takes the super late night circuit selling absolute crap to anyone who happens to be watching at 3 in the morning, the results are whacky!
The Lava Lamp
The "Katsack"

best youtube series ever!

so, it never occurred to me that on home shopping channels (ie. qvc and hsn), they sometimes sell things that can be dangerous... and therefore, the salesmen are likely to commit some folly which will end in their hilarious injury. that is, it never occurred to me... until now!
The Ladder
The Katana

salad days

according to wikipedia, salad days is the "longest running musical in british history..."

Jane (originally played by Eleanor Drew) and Timothy Dawes (originally played by John Warner), meet up in a park to plan their lives soon after their graduation. Deciding that Timothy must take the first job he's offered, a passing tramp offers them £7 a week to look after his mobile piano. Upon accepting, they discover that when the piano plays it delivers all within earshot an irresistible desire to dance! After attempts to ban the music by the Ministry of Pleasure and Pastimes, the piano vanishes, and Timothy enlists his Uncle Zed to take them in his flying saucer to retrieve it.

monty python made fun of it and sam peckinpah in one of my favorite skits.

Some Good Creationist Logic

Apparently the fact that a caterpillar turns into a butterfly is proof that God created all the animals without using any kind of evolutionary processes.

...and there were dinosaurs on the ark. And...apparently the poles were sub-tropical before the Flood.

20 Net Acronyms EVERY Parent Should Know

I don't even know where to start with this.

It all seems like a pretty tame tip for the 'rents until:

#12: IWSN (I Want Sex Now)

Woah there, kids. And how about:

#14: GYPO (Get Your Pants Off)

A little demanding, aren't we?

And I do love me some acronyms (LMSA), but now it's just getting gratuitous:

#20. NALOPKT (Not A Lot of People Know That)

TTYL Sublunar Minds.

flight of the conchords

if you haven't seen this show yet, what the hell is wrong with you?

Lesson: Cats Transport Cheaply

And you don't need to feed them for weeks at a time. I think that's pretty much the main point of this article.

Key quote: ""It's always a good day when the cat's alive," said Escamilla."

This is Not Disconcerting

Not at all.

I guess we'll just let Canada handle it.

Transformers Clips

Good Stuff!! From the (original) movie...Optimus Prime v Megatron
Death of OP
And back to life

Oliver Stone Comeback

Pretty Good