Paignton Ice Skating for Cars (via wynne1975)

A mom offering Fake Xbox360 for her kid (via eltargrim)

Ever wonder why kids grow up to one day murder their parents? This is why.

On the environmental front, Copenhagen hosts a massive international conference aimed at halting manmade global warming, attended by thousands of delegates who flew to Denmark on magical carbon-free unicorns.

Dave Barry’s year in review: 2009 - 12/26/2009 - MiamiHerald.com

I almost fell off my chair, ROTFLMAO

I Am a Mole (via laughingsal)

@earwormremedy just sent me this video hoping it can cure my #earworm problem.

John Lennon - Oh Yoko! (via ginac715)

Weirdest #earworm of the year (for me) since as a norm I don’t listen to John’s work regularly.

Def leppard - Stagefright (via EddieVg)

More show opening #earworm goodness.

Queen Rock Montreal Let Me Entertain You (via cryptotom)

This is a semi #earworm for me, I got a few songs cycling in my head, all of them are show opener tunes.

Holiday Rick Roll - Busted by Parents (via copyrighthater)

If you believe in Santa, stop reading now.

Everyone else, remember that gap from when you stopped believing, until the influx of gifts shifted from toys (read: cool stuff) to socks and sweaters? Remember trying to open the wrapping just a tiny little bit, trying to see enough of a hint to know what was inside of the package?

Watch this video, we are obviously a lot older than what we think we are. Kids nowadays have access to iPhones and other camera phones that can read and look up a barcode. What’s next? X-ray vision?

Robert Earl Keene’s Merry Christmas from the Family (via RTannamal)

Jack Bauer Interrogates Santa Claus (via bristow8411)

Norway Cloud Spiral - Simulation of possible explanation (via unmannedspaceflight)

Browse Inside Coraline by Neil Gaiman, Illustrated by Dave McKean

That’s sad. You know whoever buys the brewery is just going to cut costs and make shitty beer.

Pabst Up For Sale | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source

Dawning horror tinged with self-loathing crept slowly over the face of claims adjuster Robert Pettlebaum, 42, as he described his job and by extension his life to others during a seemingly innocuous Tuesday lunch meeting. “Mostly what I do is I seek out discrepancies in the property appraisal versus the claimant’s estimate of worth and then I…then I defer outpays…with…oh, God…,

Increasingly Horrified Man Listens To Self Explain What He Does For A Living | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source

Let’s try this:

I am a lead web applications developer. My job is to read my customer’s mind to figure out what she really wants, which is usually different from both what she wrote in the email and what she told my boss she wanted. I then decide the proper course of action to deliver as close as possible to the request, well knowing that since my boss was told a different story, I will have to convince him that I am not retarded and that I am actually doing what the customer wants. Then I have to show it to the customer and convince her that this is what she wanted me to do and that yes, we can make that font bigger if needed. I will then spend the next 70% of my budget on providing the right functionality, only to be pushed on a side track because my customer’s boss didn’t like the look and feel and the whole thing has to be redesigned, regardless of how well the functionality actually performs. Finally, I have to orchestrate the transition from the current product to the new one, a comedy of horrors that involves a week of planning, dry runs, lots of CYA and about 15 minutes of pure horror.

And that is assuming that I am the only one doing the programming.

If there is more than one programmer, then it gets interesting. I have to worry about my own work, plus I have to worry that the right information is delivered to my coworkers so they can do their job, while at the same time making sure that the customer doesn’t confuse/annoy either my boss or my coworkers.

I also have to worry about blending all this work together, which thanks God is not that big of a deal because all of the programmers know what the hell they are doing, so it is mostly a traffic management exercise. Some of my peers at other companies don’t enjoy this luxury, so this step of the process is usually described as “herding cats.”

Many years ago I was told that in a software programming project, no more than 20% of the effort is spent writing code. I thought that was bullshit but now I know better. Am I horrified? No, but I know people elsewhere that are not going to make it long in this field simply because they can’t grasp this idea.

I have not yet begun to procrastinate.

(via loveliftedme) (via karlaakins)

Me either.

Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail.  The JCT letter  makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.

House Committee on Ways & Means - Republican

Ouch, more change we can believe in.

Michael Grippo, a 95-year-old Bronx native, told reporters Wednesday that he is “worried sick” that he won’t live to see the Yankees win another 27 World Series titles. “We came so close in 1955, 1960, 1976, 2001, and 2004.

95-Year-Old Yankees Fan Afraid He’ll Never Get To See Team Win 27 More World Series | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source

The USS New York (LPD 21), built with 7.5 tons of steel from the World Trade Center wreckage, sailed into New York City on Nov. 2. The San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock will be commissioned into the U.S. fleet at 11 a.m., Nov. 7, at Piers 86 and 88 in New York Harbor.

USS New York to be commissioned Saturday | American Legion

(via bing)

Fantastic homage to Stanley Kubric, it was awesome.

The Pinker Tones “Karma Hunters” (via Nacionalrecords)

A reminder that today is Election Day. GO VOTE.

Thanks to Alex Esoterica for reminding me about this song/video.

Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
~Ann Landers

(via iwannotowidigdo) (via karlaakins)

I always assumed it was adoration, not admiration. In all my life I never felt like any of my dogs admired me much, but all of them loved me to death.

Let this serve as a warning to us all. Iceland has universal health care and now they have no more McDonald’s.

McDonald’s Abandons Iceland | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source

Today’s #earworm. I even made a ringtone with it.

The House health care bill unveiled Thursday clocks in at 1,990 pages and about 400,000 words. With an estimated 10-year cost of $894 billion, that comes out to about $2.24 million per word.

House health bill clocks in at 1,990 pages - Jonathan Allen - POLITICO.com

$2.24 million per word in that bill. WTF?

Dress your child in all-black costume to make him/her virtually invisible to potentially dangerous motorists.

Halloween Safety Tips | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source

Windows 7 Dominoes!!!!! (via archisgore)

Eh, fail around 1:25.

Mister Sandman - The Chordettes (via PomplamooseMusic)

It pisses me off to see so many talentless hacks out there with record deals for mediocre “music” while the truly talented stay underground. There should be a line of record executives begging Pomplamoose for the privilege of distributing their music for an obscene amount of money.

Dumbasses.

If you think this video is awesome, you should also check their Beyonce cover. It is simply brilliant.

Last year, armed UAVs circled Iraq and Afghanistan for 135,000 hours — about fifteen years of nonstop flight time. This year, they will fly 190,000 hours, double that if you include all of the military’s unmanned planes. Even as troops come home from Iraq and Afghanistan in coming years, the Air Force figures it will need more than one million UAV hours annually to be prepared for future wars. There are also drones flying antidrug missions in South America, keeping watch over ships in pirate-thick waters, and patrolling the U. S.-Mexican border. This year the Air Force will train more UAV pilots than fighter and bomber pilots combined. And the proof that warfare will never be the same again can be found in the Pentagon budget: Next year, the United States will buy more unmanned aircraft than manned, as it expands to fifty combat air patrols over Iraq and Afghanistan, flown from Creech and bases in Texas, California, Arizona, North Dakota, and New York.

Unmanned Aircraft - Future of Drone Aircraft and UAVs - Esquire

Here it is, with hard numbers: Almost FIFTEEN frickin years of accumulated unmanned combat operations in just one year. And the USAF is ramping up their estimates to over a million hours of unmanned flights per year.

W.E.B. Griffin jokes that if you want to fly, you join the Army, not the Air Force. Why? Because the Army has more aircraft. This is probably going to change now, especially since the physical requirements to fly from a desk should allow more otherwise qualified candidates to go through flight school. That is unless some dumbass USAF general decides to force them all to pas the same requirements, which is costly and simply stupid.

And let’s not forget the political side of this: if you shoot down one of our UAVs, all you are doing is costing us money. There is no flag-draped casket on the news, or POW reading your manifesto on videotape with a knife to his throat. Nope, it’s just money.

Also, there’s more: we are making smaller and smaller air-to-ground rockets. Miss a drop on a 500-pound bomb and you may end up blowing up a school or hospital by accident. Newer munitions are tiny in comparison, and much more accurate. It’ll be much harder to miss, and if it does, it will be a lot less damage.

How is the anti-war establishment going to adjust to a war in which we are the ones doing the killing, our service members are safe and there is no real collateral damage? We will see about that.

From The Onion

I really hate when people say they found something in the last place that they looked for it. OF COURSE YOU DID!

When I get to the bottom
I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop and turn and I go for a ride
Till I get to the bottom and I see you again
Yeah, yeah, yeah

The Beatles - Helter Skelter Lyrics

Burning AK47 - 300 Rounds & on Fire (via d33psky)

I thought it was a joke, but it did catch on fire.

This is ridiculous — embarrassing, even. I admire President Obama. I like President Obama. I voted for President Obama. But the peace prize? This is supposed to be for doing, not being — and it’s no disrespect to the president to suggest he hasn’t done much yet. Certainly not enough to justify the peace prize. “Extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples?” “[C]aptured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future?” Please. This turns the award into something like pee-wee soccer: everybody wins for trying.

PostPartisan - A Nobel for a Good Two Weeks?

The #earworm of the day is brought to you by my Netflix instant queue, I am watching a movie where Joan Crawford is an axe murderer.

Baby Dancing to Beyonce (via CGElliott09)

I LOL’ed.

Good News - Windows 7 Commercial (via WindowsVideos)

Bad day to be working for whatever ad agency handles Apple marketing. The ad is simply brilliant.

Senator Al Franken draws map of USA (via MPRdotOrg)

This is pretty cool, I would love to know how many US senators can do that.

Nina Simone ‘Mississippi goddam’

(via wihimvandorst)

Read the history of this important civil rights anthem here.

Incredible, amazing, awesome Apple (via justanotherguy84)

This video is incredible, I swear. And it is amazing too.

Toto - Stranger In Town Video (via fantoto)

#earworm of the day, courtesy of Toto and lack of sleep.

Researchers have developed a device that can automatically identify autistic children as young as 24 months using the vocalizations they make during a normal day at home. Instead of waiting months or years for an appointment with a specialist, parents could get an objective diagnosis by mail in a couple of weeks.

Technology Review: A Device to Spot Autism Early

What could Barack Obama do to help Massachusetts? He owns a 14-room, 6500 square foot house in Chicago (using fossil fuels to heat 6500 square feet for a family of four in one of the coldest parts of the U.S. is apparently a demonstration of one’s commitment to reversing global warming) that presumably sits vacant nearly all year. The house is guarded 24/7 by Secret Service agents. The street is closed to non-residents. Why can’t Aunt Zeituni live there? She wouldn’t be bothered by the rabble or the press. She wouldn’t be a drain on Massachusetts citizens.

Philip Greenspun’s Weblog » President Obama: Please take your Aunt Zeituni off our hands

Fantastic essay by Phil Greenspun. He even offers to pick her up at her public housing, drive her to the airport, buy her a ticket and arrange for a friend to pick her up at the airport.

U.S. Condemned For Pre-Emptive Use Of Hillary Clinton Against Pakistan

Oh, the horror.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date With The Night (via universalmusicgroup)

This is my #earworm for the morning. It could be worse, at least it is a song I really like.

Whitesnake - Still Of The Night (HQ) (via T00TALL)

Funny how them #earworms creep up on you when you least expect them.

Glenn Beck, to date, has not commented on drawing a cartoon depiction of the prophet Muhammad on a cocktail napkin at Lefty’s Pub in the early morning hours of 17th September, 1990.

Unnamed source, when asked about the new Glenn Beck internet meme.

One of these things is not like the other things. (via yumchuckit)

Also known as the “programmer’s song.” It is a dirty little secret for those of us that debug code for a living.

And yes, we sing the song while troubleshooting, and yes, we say “I’m so smart!” when we find the bug.

My job is so farking unbelievable. I’ll try to sum it up by first telling you about the folks I work with:

First, there is this supermodel wanna-be chick. Yeah, okay, she is pretty hot, but damn is she completely useless. The girl is constantly fixing her hair or putting on makeup. She is extremely self-centered and has never once considered the needs or wants of anyone but herself. She is as dumb as a box of rocks, and I still find it surprising that she has enough brain power to continue to breathe.

The next chick is completely the opposite. She might even be one of the smartest people on the planet. Her career opportunities are endless, and yet she is here with us. She is a zero on a scale of 1 to 10. I’m not sure she even showers, much less shaves her “womanly” parts. I think she might be a lesbian, because every time we drive by the hardware store, she moans like a cat in heat.

But the jewel of the crowd has got to be the farking stoner. And this guy is more than just your average pothead. In fact, he is baked before he comes to work, during work, and I’m sure after work. He probably hasn’t been sober anytime in the last ten years, and he’s only 22. He dresses like a beatnik throwback from the 1960’s, and to make things worse, he brings his big farking dog to work. Every farking day I have to look at this huge Great Dane walk around half-stoned from the second-hand smoke. Hell, sometimes I even think it’s trying to talk with its constant bellowing. Also, both of them are constantly hungry, requiring multiple stops to McDonalds and Burger King, every single farking day.

Anyway, I drive these farktards around in my van and we solve mysteries and shiat.

FARK.com: (4608830) Man in a van collecting stories of the recession, living down by the river,comment by McKeesport Beer Baron

Santigold - Lights Out (via ShootUpTheStation)

#earworm of the day. And I have a migraine, I am amazed that it is a relatively soft song and not some heavy metal.

Blue Man Group - One of These Days - Pink Floyd cover (via Krillinish2)

I ran into this completely by accident, we were looking for shitty covers of Pink Floyd songs.

This isn’t one of them.

LEAKED: New iPhone Commercial (via IIadamSACKSII)

There’s an app for that.

A Freudian slip is when you mean one thing, but you say your mother.

The #earworm of the day is actually a Freudian Slip: I was in a conference call with my boss and my ops manager and I started humming it, without thinking about the title. The boss asked me if I was humming that for the customer that I was complaining about just a minute or so before.

Song stuck in my head + busted deadline <> fun

thedailywhat:

Epic Failure of the Day: Figuring out how to operate foolproof technology — UR doing it rong.

Best part? He’s supposedly an engineering student.

[via.]

I can’t believe even my dumbest classmate in engineering school doing something THAT stupid.

Skip James - Crow Jane (via IplayBanjoNow)

This is a modern rendition of the song I posted a few minutes ago.

Skip James sings “Crow Jane” (via ledzepp461)

If you like Eric Clapton’s music, you need to watch this video of one of his strongest influences.

Cuban Pete (via AceGamer)

My earworm strikes again.

Incubus - New Skin (Morning View Sessions) (via jeffytsujin)

Got this stuck in my head since I woke up.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

Carl Sagan

Watch the pilot of ABC’s Defying Gravity on Hulu. I just finished it and so far it looks great. Let’s hope that it survives at least two seasons.

“Weird Al” Yankovic - Craigslist (via alyankovic)

Fantastic homage to The Doors, and Ray Manzarek is playing the keyboards!

Wake up too early + song stuck in my head != fun

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

Clifton Fadiman

South Park - Kyle’s mom is a bitch (NSFW) (via kanew1992)

I don’t understand why, but I started singing this song while playing Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10. Worse, I was actually doing great in the game, no idea what triggered this.

Laura Veirs - Phantom Mountain (via dougsavage)

This music video was made by Dough Savage, the creator of the Savage Chickens post-it comics.

Star Wars vs. Saul Bass (via bhilmers)

This is pure genius. What would the Star Wars title sequence look like if it was filmed two decades earlier?

Keyboard Cat does The Shining (via somegreybloke)

This is so wrong that it rights itself.

If I hit it right, it’s a slice. If I hit it left, it’s a hook. If I hit it straight, it’s a miracle.

Unknown

Windows 95 on iPhone (via pavelegorkin)

This is just, well, wrong.

Migraine + song stuck in me brain != fun.

Be the lamb or be the knife. Try to be both and you may end up slaughtering yourself.

This is a line from Kings episode 1.9, I would love to know if the writers just lifted it from the Bible or elsewhere.

An interesting thing about golf is that no matter how badly you play, it is always possible to get worse

quotes about Golf

The sport of choice for the urban poor is basketball. The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is bowling. The sport of choice for front-line workers is football. The sport of choice for supervisors is baseball. The sport of choice for middle management is tennis. The sport of choice for corporate officers is golf. Conclusion: The higher you are in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls become.

Author Unknown

Tiny Dog Has Been Barking Nonstop For 6 Years

Have had this song stuck in my head since Michael died.

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

James Nicoll (via srsly)

For Karla.

The Maury Povich Home Paternity Test (via sanspantsproductions)

A prize in every box!

Paul Simon - Kodachrome (via ann6079)

Mama didn’t take my Kodachrome away, but Kodak just did. Do I miss it? Not really, Kodachrome was always a bit too expensive for me, so I shot almost all of my slides in Elitechrome. Plus I lost interest the second I was allowed to shoot some samples with what almost immediately became my first digital camera, a Sony DSC-S70.

Midnight Special - Creedence Clearwater Revival (via kvs123)

Got this song stuck in my head. Yeah, you’re welcome.

Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.

Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers.

Dave Barry

Hulu - The Colbert Report: Mon, Jun 8, 2009 - Watch the full episode now.

Colbert visits our troops in Iraq, gets his head shaved By Order of the President.

I can’t get wolfram alpha to tell me how many nobel prize winners were born under a full moon, so I’m calling bullshit.

WorkinGui

Baby never born, mother never pregnant

Coded message from Allen Dulles reporting back to the OSS that the Nazi nuclear bomb program never really took off.

Total Eclipse of the Heart: Literal Video Version (via dascottjr)

Mullet with headlights?

Thanks to Paul for ruining my keyboard.

tuneage:

Regina Spektor - “Dance Anthem of the 80’s”

Off her latest album, Far, out June 23rd.

In a shocking, SHOCKING, turn of events, there are still some artists out there that sound distinctly unique instead of the homogenized crap that is being fed to this generation’s kids. The sad thing is that artists like Regina Spektor are maybe one in 200.

Worse it is to look back at the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. Even with all the crap, there were still a LOT of talent acts out there. I guess that music is also going through some kind of recession.

If you haven’t tried it, check out some of her previous work. Regina Spektor is a fantastic musician, not just a pretty face singing somebody else’s lyrics to the tune of somebody else’s music.

MV CoilMaster Mark1 coilgun - Featured on Hacked Gadgets (via TeslaCommander)

Nerdtastic!

If Nintendo Made Halo 3

Thanks to Paul.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right!

Salvor_Hardin

V - Upfront Trailer (via rabbidtelevision)

This is too awesome. I guess Holywood did run out of ideas, so it is OK to stop trying and instead start remaking everything.

The funny thing about remakes is that there’s always a camp that will resist them with furious anger. Just take a look at Star Trek: awesome remake, anda small segment of the fans hate it under general principles.

Galactica? same thing. And now “V.”

These children had a meeting with the President of the United States and were told to be there by 9:30 AM.

The staff waited for them until 10:30 AM. When they finally showed up, more than one hour late, they were of course turned away because President Obama HAS TO GO BACK TO THE BUSINESS OF RUNNING A COUNTRY, and can’t sit with his thumb up his ass waiting for people to show up for their meetings, late.

Lesson learned: be on time. You can’t possible tell these kids it is OK to show up one hour late for something that is so important, then whine when you lose your appointment. The real world does NOT work like that.

You schedule a meeting with me and you don’t call me to tell me that you are late, I won’t move anything in my schedule to make room for you, regardless of who the hell you are. If I find a hole later, fine. If not? Not my problem, I was at my desk on time.

This is something that I am glad that the US Army taught me. The whole idea of being late for anything, be it a work appointment, or even a routine checkup at the dentist, is foreign to me. I live 2 miles from my dentist, if I have an appointment and I know I am not going to walk into his office 10 minutes early, I call to let them know.

All it takes is a phone call, and maybe they can use that time to handle another patient while I am trying to make it to his office.

SEBASTIAN’S VOODOO (via nfb)

A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death.

People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.

Calvin & Hobbes quotes

I totally get this.

Obama money (via rootsarama)

“We are out of money now” said Obama in his interview by Steve Scully on CSPAN.

Chinese Stuff Live Panda into Time Capsule!

Oh boy, has anyone seen Darth Panda?

I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.

George A. Romero

NHL Tries To Woo Fans By Increasing Scoring With Bigger Nets, 3-Point Line

For @BebeZed

All Domain Names Are Not Created Equal

I blame Paul for this one.

Finally the man does something I can agree with 100%.

If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle:
1: Take two aspirin
2: Keep away from children

Unknown

Sometimes it pays to stay in bed in Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday’s code

Dan Salomon

Let Me Entertain You Queen

Not only do I have this song stuck in my head, but it is the version from “Live Killers” instead of the one from “Jazz.”

July Morning - Uriah Heep

Back in the dot-com days I used to share an office with a really nice guy who by pure chance happened to share my weird tastes in music. Probably in part because back when we were younger and dumber he used to play for a glam metal band (and as far as I can tell, he still plays to this day).

We would close the office door and blast Uriah Heep and Deep Purple for hours, we used to call it our “decadent music” time, which was great because nobody bothered us except whenever we annoyed the people in the offices at either side of our hall.

Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

Bill Watterson

“Jam Wow” featuring Vince Offer (Steve Porter’s Sham Wow remix) (via djsteveporter)

60% of the time I say WOW every time.

Possibly The World’s Smallest Car (via 6MadeInEngland9)

Good luck trying to drive anywhere in a place like DC in one of these things.

In this galaxy there’s a mathematical probability of three million Earth-type planets. And in the universe, three million million galaxies like this. And in all that, and perhaps more…only one of each of us.

Dr. McCoy, Star Trek, “Balance of Terror”

The Greatest Star Trek Quotes

Disturbing Strokes (via MontyPropps)

Martha My Dear - Phish

I got this song stuck in my head, was pleased to see how Phish managed to mangle the hell out of it while it still sounding very close to the Beatles’ original. This is the true mark of a great cover song.

Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As ‘Fun, Watchable’

You simply can’t make EVERYONE happy, can you?

Cold Blooded - Rick James

Mayo Clinic atrium piano, charming older couple… (via jodihume)

Fran & Marlo Cowan (married 62 years) playing impromptu recital together in the atrium of the Mayo Clinic.

Wii Music Zelda Theme (via 23Makoto23)

I got the stupid Zelda theme stuck in my head.

There’s a little box on Amazon that reads ‘Tell the publisher I’d like to read this book on Kindle,’ ” she said. “I hope no one tells the publisher.

Is a Book Still a Book on Kindle? - NYTimes.com

Am I the only one that read that and ran straight for Amazon to click on the damn checkbox?

Disney templates fail! (via WETR0X)

You have three people telling project engineers what to do, and nobody’s fucking doing anything,” Bartz said on a conference call with analysts. “We have to … get them focused on the right stuff. That’s the most important thing Yahoo’s going to do to become a big, strong, growing company.

Yahoo to cut 5% of workforce - Apr. 21, 2009

It is sad that this kind of leadership was brought into the company so late. I especially like how she finds bloated management offensive.

Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix (via bd594)

Pure genius.

1983 Ronnie James Dio “Man On The Silver Mtn” (Rock Palace) (via music3874)

I managed to get Pink Floyd’s Echoes unstuck from my head, but now I gotta deal with this crap. GRRRR.

The family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has charged the foundation building a monument to the civil rights leader on the National Mall about $800,000 for the use of his words and image - an arrangement one leading scholar says King would have found offensive.

News from The Associated Press

Stay Classy!

Video: Stephen Colbert Supports Payday Lending, So You Probably Should Too

World’s Tiniest Horse Visits Patients At Children’s Hospital (via wtaetv)

Pink Floyd - Echoes (part 1) (via Ventisan)

Once again I got this damn song stuck in my head.

Reston Tea Party—Opening Remarks (via lesliecarbone)

Let me tell you about irony:

These people were doing their little tax day protest about 1/4 mile from my house. We live in one of the richest counties in the country, Fairfax County, Virginia. Not only it is loaded as hell, but it is VERY liberal (one would expect it to be as conservative as say, Midland, Texas). The people that were in this protest probably drove to it in Volvos and Audis, to complain about paying taxes, when they support a political party that believes in raising taxes and increasing government spending.

Ironic.

I would understand blue collar workers in an economically deprived city complaining about getting taxed to day, but rich people in a rich county complaining about taxes is just weird.

The US Treasury is recalling all US dollars. Now we are screwed for good.

Burger King - Surprising Combination - Texican Whopper from Burger King (via Ramacher)

One ticket please, aisle.

THE CYLONS ARE COMING OMFG THE CYLONS ARE COMING!

If life-like robots freak you out, check out the Uncanny Valley theory.

It must be really tough being a stupid company on the Internet. Once you make a silly decision and it’s out there, travelling via the Interwebs, you’ll pay for it very dearly - and probably would be paying for it forever, as it is likely to become the first thing that customers discover about you on Google.

#Amazonfail and the politics of anti-corporate cyberactivism | Net Effect

Sprint’s Now 4G Network Featuring Palm Pre & The Most AMAZING Sprint Commercial EVER! (via VivaLaBamEpisodes)

I love the part about Twitter.

Trucks Fail (via failblog)

That’s one hell of a bridge.

Got this damn song stuck in my head and I can’t get it out.

Sesame Street Layoffs

The notion that physical books are ending their lifecycle is upsetting to people who hold them to be synonymous with literature and terrifying to those who make their living within the existing structures of publishing. As an editor and a lover of books, I sympathize. But why should a civilization that reads electronically be any less literate than one that harvests trees to do so? And why should a transition away from the printed page lessen our appreciation and love for printed books? Hardbacks these days are disposable vessels, printed on ever crappier paper with bindings that skew and crack. In a world where we do most of our serious reading on screens, books may again thrive as expressions of craft and design. Their decline as useful objects may allow them to flourish as design objects.

How the Kindle will change the world. - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine

Outstanding article by Jacob Weisberg. A lot of people are freaking out about the Kindle due to a misguided idea that physical books are literature.

They aren’t. They are artifacts. Just because we have the Kindle doesn’t mean we are going to start burning our books. All it really means is that instead of having to keep a god damn wall covered with bookshelf after bookshelf of books that I bought and read once, I can keep a single bookshelf with the 50 or 100 books I own that I re-read every year or so, or books that have a sentimental value for me.

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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles tonight was as frickin awesome as Wreslin’ Abe.

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At first I didn’t understand why everyone was drinking lots of beer and wearing green today, but now I realize it’s because of Patrick Duffy’s birthday.

Happy Birthday Patrick Duffy | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source

The Boomtown Rats. I Don’t Like Mondays. (via sueuk)

Mondays should be outlawed.

…France, he said, had made peace with Germany, had forgiven Germany for the brutality of invasion and the humiliation of four years of occupation, but it could never - never - forgive the British and Americans for the liberation.

BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | France’s rendezvous with history

Very good read with the historical context of the strained relationship between France, the UK and the USA.

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Jon Stewart takes a look at CNBC (via soundofflute)

You need to watch this video so you can see how terrible economy news reporting has been for the past couple of years. It is sad that we have to rely on a comedian in order to get the unvarnished truth in the news, because all that the “real” news networks are giving us is fluff.