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New Pictures of Abraham Lincoln

The folks at Studio Macbeth present us with some stunning images of our 16th President.

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Barack Obama – Animation Plagiarist?

On our July 4th Weekend trip to Virginia, we were with friends who have a younger child, and so we got to watch some old Bob the Builder cartoons again.

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It was a Dark and Stormy Night…

From Eric Swanson of the Penn Band, we present a dramatic reading:

I stood there on the stoop, staring down at her, and she stared back. Her promise of return had last year seemed an eternity away, and yet now it felt as if the interim had been removed by the vacuum of time, and we stood in a single unbroken moment. Though her question rattled around in my head, I could make no response, intoxicated by her presence. Her flowing green dress seemed to whisper with the promise of tomorrow, while her red hair spilled from under her fashionable beret like a waterfall of late afternoon sunshine. Again she spoke, her angelic voice shaking me out of my hypnosis, shaking me to my core.
“‘I said ‘Would you like to buy some cookies,’ sir!,” she repeated.
Yes, I thought to myself… yes I would like to buy some cookies.

What??? What were you thinking about?

You should be ashamed of yourself. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go take a shower…

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Illinois Highway Closed due to Stuff

Actually, Double Stuff:

Police say a trailer loaded with 14 tons of double-stuffed Oreos has overturned, spilling the cookies still in their plastic sleeves into the median and roadway. Illinois State Police Sgt. Brian Mahoney says the truck

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Random Acts of Blogging – 4/27/08

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

OK, so I’ve been away a while, and the list of things I’ve wanted to blog about has grown steadily. So away we go:

1) If you don’t watch The Daily Show with John Stewart, you really should. It’s funny every single night. But this past week or two, Stewart has been on fire! Here he is after Barack Obama was called an elitist:

The whole thing is funny, but the best part is around 7:25 or so. Here’s the money quote:

Doesn’t elite mean good? Is that not something we’re looking for in a president anymore? You know what candidates, come with me (to a different camera:) I know elite is a bad word in politics; you want to go bowling and throw back a few beers, but the job you’re applying for, if you get it and it goes well, they might carve your head into a mountain! If you don’t actually think you’re better than us, then what the &%*#&@ are you doing?

2) If someone from 1984, having just read Orwell’s book, time travelled to 2008 and took a New York commuter train one morning, they’d see more than half of the people with their eyes closed, in various degrees of consciousness, wearing the same white ear phones in their ears, and probably assume we were all being fed the same government-issued doublespeak. What’s funny is how wrong they’d be. Sitting on a train with 100 iPods, I wonder what the odds are that any two of them are playing the same song? I’m guessing it’s close to zero.

3) A colleague of mine pointed out to me the other day that MIT disproved time travel in 2005 by holding a time traveller’s convention, to which no one from the future showed up. Pretty convincing evidence on the face of it. If time travel is to ever be invented, you’d think someone would pop in to say hello, no? Famed scientist Tina Fey, formerly of Saturday Night Live had the perfect rebuttal:

A student at MIT is hosting a Time Traveler Party this week with the hope that people from the future will show up…too bad people from the future already know the party sucked!”

The only thing I know for sure after reading about this is that if anyone does invent time travel in my lifetime, something will almost instantly occur that will give me a killer headache.

4) SamuriFrog, the excellent blogger over at Electronic Cerebrectomy (WARNING: Link is typically not safe for work), recently posted two pictures that sum up the sad state of intelligence in our country today:

Man…there oughta be a test you need to pass before you can write protest signs…

5) Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to New York City was capped off by a mass held at Yankee Stadium. First, a quick conversation between my wife and I:

My wife:	Wow, the stadium looks beautiful. I bet the Pope is impressed.
Me:	Honey, he practically lives in St. Peter’s Basillica!
My wife:	Good point

Then, of course, there are the New York Post and the New York Daily News, who could not resist the ironic headline:

The Post:	“Communion Vendors Bring the Host to the Most.”
Daily News:	“The Sermon on the Mound.”

Gotta love New York…

6) And finally, Britain’s Office of Government Commerce, or OGC, recently unveiled it’s new logo:

Seems harmless enough, right? But then they started putting it on mousepads, pens, and the like, and people got a chance to see it rotated 90 degrees:

Wow…that’s quite the, er…um…well…what’s the word I’m looking for? Well, I guess you’d have to say it’s quite a boner, now wouldn’t you???

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Fashion Tip

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

A quick note to people who wear a tiny diamond chip about halfway up their nose (a la last year’s American Idol winner, Jordin Sparks): unless the light hits it just right, it looks like a zit.

That is all…

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The Awareness Test

Monday, March 17th, 2008

I guarantee you that you’re going to watch this video twice:

I was right, wasn’t I?
(Hat tip: Willow Gross)

 

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Press 1 for another message to Press 1…

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

A big ol’ tip of the hat to Hal Emmer, who pointed out gethuman.com in a recent e-mail discussion. This is a site listing the customer service phone numbers for (at the time of this writing) 559 different companies, along with a strategy for reaching an actual human being when you call (example: Press #; at prompt press #; at prompt press #; at prompt press 3.)

There’s also a facility for people to rate their customer service experience and report how long they waited on hold, so you can review a quick history before you dial.

This looks like a very useful tool, and one that I’ll be putting on my Cool Links page for future reference…

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