January 2008
43 posts
December 2007
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Norwegian Army Promotes Penguin →
A king penguin living at the Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland has been promoted to the rank of honourable regimental sergeant major by the Norwegian Army.
Retired Major Nils Egelien of the Royal Norwegian Guards said: “It all started in 1961 when the King’s Guard of Norway came to the military tattoo and we were very very interested in the king penguins.
“In 1972 we came back again and adopted a king...
Pilot to TSA: Let my people go! →
Patrick Smith, the airline pilot who co-writes the NY Times’s Jetlagged Blog has written a corker of an editorial railing against the bullshit “security” procedures that the TSA has put into place. Smith is hopping mad and stops just short of calling for a revolution. Man, I’d be with him at the barricades.
No matter that a deadly sharp can be fashioned from virtually...
MPAA Doesn’t Know How To Link →
OK, this is fun. I just stumbled (via Digg) onto MPAA’s webpage where they link all the resources for legal downloading, buying or renting movies.
The fun part is that they managed to mess up all the links on the page. Sure, tech savvy folks will know where they messed up: instead of “a href=”dynamic.abc.go.com”” it should have been “a href=”http://dynamic.abc.go.com”“, but the poor average user...
Shopping Cart Safety Warnings - Something Awful... →
Aperture Science Gets The Lego Treatment [Portal] →
Portal’s a lot of things, but cute? Nunh unh. Stand a baby penguin next to a copy of Portal and ask 100 passers-by which is cuter, and 99 will say the penguin (the other making an ill-advised cake joke). But Portal Lego, well, that’s another story. It’s not just cute, it’s terribly inventive as well, with real Lego portals and a cannibalized Star Wars torso helping complete...
8 Reasons to Love National Lampoon’s Christmas... →
Kara’s awesome post on A Charlie Brown Christmas inspired me to write about my favorite Christmas movies. We’ve already watched National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation three times this year, and we’ll probably watch it again during at least one of our family Christmases. I love it so much I made Christmas cards based on some of my favorite quotes. Well, I want to share the love with you guys. Here...
Oh, yeah. Eddie Murphy has two great songs...
Bush Acknowledges Existence Of Carbon Dioxide →
“We can no longer ignore the facts — carbon dioxide is real,” Bush said.
Papelbon: My dog ate World Series ball
(AP) →
AP - The World Series ball is gone, and Jonathan Papelbon has an excuse: My dog ate it. Farfetched or not, that’s what the Red Sox closer insists happened to the souvenir from the final out of Boston’s sweep this year.
Lakota Natives Withdraw Treaties with U.S. →
Johnny says:
The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States, leaders said Wednesday. Lakota country includes parts of the states of Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming. The new country would issue its own passports and driving licenses, and living there would be tax-free —...
[audio] Evel Knievel's Rocket-Coffin Launched Over... →
Onion Radio News - with Doyle Redland
For Sale: Drive Someone Crazy →
Those who are clever enough to seize the moment when opportunity knocks can profit while the rest of us spout tired adages. This is on eBay:
You are bidding on a rare chance to traumatize a treasured friend or relative with baffling, mind-numbing, mystery correspondence from abroad. Here is the arrangement: I will be spending the Christmas holiday in Poland in a tiny village that has one church...
Report Shows Hackability of Voting Machines →
Threat Level’s Kim Zetter, in a summary of a recent security survey of electronic voting machines made my Election Systems & Software:They found that a voter or poll worker with a Palm Pilot and no more than a minute’s access to a voting machine could surreptitiously re-calibrate the touch-screen so that it would prevent voters from voting for specific candidates or cause the...
“The President has said that American lives will be sacrificed if Congress does...”
– Daily Kos: Ted Kennedy on Telecom Immunity
Oregan Trail Remake Has More Cars, Less Dysentry... →
The Oregon Trail is both entertaining and educational. Sadly it’s also quite old, and in need of an update. An update like Thule Trail, which takes the basic premise of the Oregon Trail but has you and your mates on a cross-country road trip to a festival, and includes truck-stop hookers, dice games, hybrid sedans and whiny hitch-hikers. Thule Trail’s broswer-based, so you can try it...
“YouTube has destroyed my ability to know whether I am bored or entertained.”
– Patton Oswalt - The Watcher - All TV, all the time | Chicago Tribune | Blog
UPS Saved Millions of Gallons of Gas by Not... →
Here’s a smart idea: last year UPS shaved 28.5 million miles off its delivery routes and saved about 3 million gallon of gas partly by … not turning left!
It seems that sitting in the left lane, engine idling, waiting for oncoming traffic to clear so you can make a left-hand turn, is minutely wasteful — of time and peace of mind, for sure, but also of gas and therefore money. Not a ton of gas and...
The 10 Most Shameless Attempts To Win An Oscar →
With uber-legit movies like Charlie Wilson’s War and Atonement on the horizon, ‘tis indeed the season for highly manufactured Oscar buzz. What better way to celebrate two-sided historical characters and indistinguishable period pieces and A-listers playing retards than to make a list of the Top 10 Most Shameless Attempts To Win An Oscar? 10. Angelina Jolie, A Mighty Heart Tragic death?...
Games Radar - PS3 features - PlayStation 3 - Take... →
Starting January 1st, California consumers ...... →
Starting January 1st, California consumers will be able to exchange gift cards for cash once the card’s value falls below $10. [consumercal]
“The Mitchell Report, Major League Baseball’s ongoing investigation into the...”
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