My friend Stacy tagged me with this little “Meme of Five” thing, and I decided to go along. Here are the rules:
The rules of the game get posted at the beginning.
Each player answers the questions about themselves.
At the end of the post, the player then tags five people and posts their names, then goes to [...]
Mike Norman, a bar owner in Marietta, Georgia is selling “Obama ‘08″ T-shirts featuring a monkey eating a banana at his establishment. It’s crap like this that makes me doubt that we’re living in the twenty-first century and still stuck in the nineteenth:
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Norman sees nothing wrong with the t-shirt’s imagery:
Norman [...]
Click the image to see it on its original page at ffffound!.
Found via The Triumph of Bullshit, via The War on Folly.
I’ve been enjoying my friend Cory’s latest book, Little Brother, reading it in bursts between work and all sorts of other things I’m doing. I certainly wish there were socio-politico-techno thrillers like this when I was a young teenager! I’m sure my friend Stacy, who gave it a good review on her blog, Booktopia, thinks [...]
I absolutely love this clip:
Here’s a transcript of the last bit of the clip:
Colbert: When you see or hear things that are bad are going on in your church, you get up and you walk out! That’s what Catholics like me, and Papa Bear [his nickname for Bill O'Reilly] and Sean Hannity understand. You leave [...]
Update, May 13, 2008: The original video got yanked, but I’ve posted another copy in its place.
Here’s a great video that’s making the internet rounds: right-wing attack dog Bill O’Reilly, losing his cool and turning into an eight-year-old upon encountering the phrase “play us out”, a term that anyone who’s been in a TV studio [...]
Dutch blogger George Maschke reminds us that although our gas prices may seem high here in North America (it’s about CDN$1.23 / litre in Accordion City) — high enough that Republican presidential candidate John McCain has suggested a gas tax holiday — they’d be considered a king-sized bargain in the Netherlands. He took this photo [...]
The Director of Communications corrects me, and I apologize: the TTC used their safety poster design (shown below with NYC’s MTA safety poster) with the MTA’s permission.
The question remains: did they have to mimic it so closely? You might as well put up a sign that says: “Toronto: We’re too dumb to come up with [...]
[This was also posted to Global Nerdy.]
Local tech evangelist David Crow points to The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need. Unlike What Color is Your Parachute? or Who Moved My Cheese?, Johnny Bunko is in manga form — that’s right, it’s a Japanese-style comic book.
An unusual book needs an [...]
It’s not plagiarism; it’s just lameness. Be sure to read the “Updates” sections at the end for details.
Take a look at these suspiciously similar subway safety posters. The one on the left is from the Toronto Transit Commission, the one on the right is by New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority:
Click the photo to see a [...]
I should let Angry Asian Man know about this one — a pair of joke glasses in the same racist spirit as “Commander Riker” in this poster:
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Look closely at the package: it says “Made in Hong Kong”. Yowch.
Back in high school, after reading Space-Time and Beyond for the umpteenth time and drinking one too many zombies with my friend Henry, we came up with a theory:
In the infinite set of universes, there had to exist a particular universe in which the events in our lives were being watched as a TV show.
We then made a solemn vow to live the kind of life that got high ratings.
This is the continuation of that story.
