04 Dec 06 Fix You

03 Dec 06 Net Crap (12/4)

• “…Microsoft’s new Zune media player, despite heavy marketing, came in only at No. 75 on Amazon’s list of 100 best-selling electronics, trailing items such as Apple’s $29.99 iPod USB power adapter, at No. 65.”
  *snicker snicker snicker snicker snicker*
  (tags: music hysterical microsoft)
• Iraq soldiers are using silly string to detect trip wires in Iraq. But sending it to Iraq is costly due to it being an aerosol.
  (tags: goodideas cool military)
• “Under the changes, complaints of rape and adultery will be dealt with under the country’s civil penal code rather than under an obscure Islamic sharia ruling imposed in 1979 that demands that four male witnesses testify before a rape charge can be proved
  “Negotiations over the bill follow two days of fury in mosques across the country, with Muslim priests leading attacks on the changes, denouncing them for their ‘Western values’ and attacking those who supported the reforms.”
  (tags: religion whaddafuck dumbass horrifying)
• The Washington Post writes about Wikipedia’s Articles for Deletion venue.
  What, slow news day?
  (tags: weird)
• Benny Hinn: “God wants you to buy me a Gulfstream G4SP plane.”
  “Purchasing this incredible ministry tool is monumental and historic. We have never bought any plane with this much range or capability that will crisscross the globe repeatedly … ” (I assume they’ve bought other planes that DON’T have that much … ?)
  (tags: hysterical corporatism hypocritical dumbass religion)
• The Mii Lebowski
  (tags: movies video games funny)
• The TSA wants to look at you naked. Seriously.
  (tags: annoying images)
• The Top 15 Sexiest Sci-Fi Babes
  I find it extremely insightful that Kaylee is the ONLY ‘Firefly’ babe to show up on the list.
  (tags: homina funny tv scifi)

03 Dec 06 YouTube Compilation

Eleven Saints:

Harry Belafonte and the Muppets and the Banana Boat Song (love the Muppet Tarantula):

I dare you not to laugh yourself during this video:

Tony v. Paul:

The infamous ‘Wilhelm Scream’:

01 Dec 06 Net Crap (12/2)

• Cory rants and raves about Evil Big DRM Business yet again, worth ignoring as usual, but the EFF attorney’s input is interesting …
  “Whether linking to infringing materials can itself create copyright liability is still a somewhat murky question.”
  (tags: copyleft reference interesting boingboingsucks)
• How to create a drill that will drill a square hole …
  (tags: science cool weird)
• A horrifying and extremely tragic first-hand account of a Toronta subway suicide.
  (tags: subway powerful tragic)
• New York Times: “Mr. Bush’s lack of curiosity was well known even before he became president, but as time has gone on and bad news has mounted, that disinterested quality has turned into a stubborn refusal to hear bad news.”
  “The country simply cannot afford it any longer. Three years of having Mr. Bush trust only his gut has plunged Iraq into bloody chaos and done untold damage to America. There needs to be an urgent change in policy.”
  (tags: military government politics neocon insightful)
• The great puzzle of what Stonehenge was has perhaps been solved. A very convincing theory that it was, in fact, a hospital.
  (tags: history insightful food4thought interesting cool)
• Pope: “You know well that the church wishes to impose nothing on anyone, and that she merely asks to live in freedom.”
  Oh, no, you’re perfectly right. The Catholic Church has never tried to impose anything on anyone. How could anyone possibly studying the history of mankind have ever thought that? *shakes head* (Sarcasm doesn’t translate well to the printed word.)
  (tags: hypocritical arrogant whaddafuck religion)
• “Some people are going to be sexually compatable with you. Some people are going to be emotionally compatable with you. Some people will be both. Decide whether the emotional is good enough to work on the sexual; if not, get out there and look for your ‘b
  (tags: sex love cool amazing reference)
• The most least-helpful Apple Knowledge Base article in existence. (Not really, I’m sure there’s worse, but still … )
  Boils down to: “Turn your router off and on. If that don’t work, give the router’s manufacturer a call.” WOW, THANK YOU, Apple! What would they have ever done before you?!?!
  (tags: geekery dumbass macintosh)
• BBC: “[Prof. Stephen Hawking] told the BBC that life could be wiped out by a nuclear disaster or an asteroid hitting the planet. But the Cambridge academic added: ‘Once we spread out into space and establish colonies, our future should be safe.’”
  (tags: cool space science)
• Al Gore in GQ: “I have a battery-powered hubris alarm on my belt. And it’s set on vibrate, and it’s going crazy.”
  “This administration has been by far the most incompetent, inept, and with more moral cowardice, and obsequiousness to their wealthy contributors, and obliviousness to the public interest of any administration in modern history, and probably in the entire
  (tags: politics hysterical)
• Affordable homes: Habitat for hustlers - Buying a House - MSN Real Estate
  “Freewheeling brokers and lenders are preying on the owners of Habitat for Humanity houses, bombarding them with offers to refinance out of their original interest-free loans.”
  (tags: evil corporatism whaddafuck)
• Heh. A blogger named “Gabe” shows how the movie studios just thought they’d stamp out BitTorrent piracy … but, er, made a slight n00bish mistake.
  *snort* *chuckle* *bwa ha ha ha*
  (tags: geekery funny)
• BoinBoing: Volkswagen’s sneaky trick to make money
  “[S]kip this ‘holiday’ payment because you don’t have enough money to pay it and buy your Christmas gifts. [...] Also, we’llchargeyou$25laterbutdon’tworryaboutthatrightnowit’sChristmasafterallhappyholidays!!!”
  (tags: whaddafuck corporatism dumbass)
• Malcolm Gladwell: “Something in our faces signals whether we’re going to shoot, say, or whether we’re lying about the film we just saw. Most of us aren’t very good at spotting it. But a handful of people are virtuosos. What do they see that we miss?”
  “Happiness, for instance, is essentially A.U. six and twelve– contracting the muscles that raise the cheek (orbicularis oculi, pars orbitalis) in combination with the zygomatic major, which pulls up the corners of the lips.”
  (tags: food4thought science cool interesting)
• “[I]f you take a really cold but still liquid beer out of the freezer and open it, the beer will freeze within seconds. The freezing trick also works if instead of opening the beer, you give the unopened bottle a sharp rap.”
  (tags: science interesting weird)
• Sen. Barack Hussein Obama … what’s in a name? Not if the Republicans have their way …
  (And a rather stupid controversy over Congress’ first Muslim Congressman wanting to be sworn in on a Koran … understandably so, given that the Bible doesn’t have the same significance to him.)
  (tags: neocon politics whaddafuck racist)
• The Wilhelm Scream
  Funny little page about the origin of the “Wilhelm” scream (named after a character) and the zillions of places one can hear it in. It’s very possible the scream was performed by Sheb Woolsey, the guy who sang “Purple People Eater.”
  (tags: reference movies funny)
• “”These were mothers with all the comfortable features of the cloth mothers, but who also had the ability to turn evil. Without warning, they would prod their babies with metal spikes or blow cold air against them so hard that they were pushed against the
  “Despite the cruelty of his ‘Iron Maidens,’ Harlow noticed something interesting. No matter how abusive the evil mothers were, the baby monkeys always came back and displayed affection towards them.”
  (tags: awful science tragic)
• Chess960: “His approach was to create a randomized initial chess position, which would thus make memorizing chess opening move sequences far less helpful.”
  “Fischer’s goal was to create a chess variant in which chess creativity and talent would be more important than memorization and analysis of opening moves.”
  (tags: geekery interesting goodideas amazing cool)
• New York Times: “A federal judge [in D.C.] ruled on Tuesday that the government illegally discriminated against blind people by printing its paper currency on bills of the same size that could not be distinguished by touch.”
  (tags: government goodideas admirable)
• Buttonless elevators have their ups and downs
  “The buttons are in the lobby, at the base of the elevator bank. Elevator riders enter their floor number on a keypad and are directed by the display to a particular car that will stop at their floor.”
  (tags: interesting weird)
• Dr. Seuss doesn’t want you to get malaria.
  (tags: images funny military)
• We may be 38.5% of the way towards the ocean burping enough hydrogen sulfide at us to suffocate all living beings on the face of the planet.
  (tags: nature d’oh awful scary science)
• Unofficial Apple Weblog: Zune 2.0: How Microsoft could beat the iPod
  Extremely insightful analysis on how Microsoft could redeem the Zune from the absolute bonafide train wreck it’s become.
  (tags: music geekery insightful microsoft)
• At dinner honoring speech, Gingrich says U.S. government may need to forbid free speech to terrorists or risk “losing a city.”
  (tags: censorship dumbfuck neocon terrorism)
• Wovel :: The Snow Shovel on a Wheel
  You may look like an idiot while using it, but at least your back won’t hurt …
  (tags: weird funny)

01 Dec 06 His Mighty AdamaStare …

I wanted to reprint these here on my blog because they’re so frakkin’ hysterical, but do not make the mistake of thinking they were written by me … they are entirely due to the brilliant comic genius of a LiveJournal author by the name of Megalomaniac2. Since it’s sizeable, more after the break …

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