list-en up, America

Americans love lists
The results are in. Apparently we love lists, and whether you do or not, you still might enjoy Goodiebag's fast-talking, tightly-edited online stand-up routines...
http://www.goodiebag.tv/episodes/05.htm


Herstory lesson?
Maybe "The View" keeps Sherri Shepherd around for comic relief because the resident born-again Christian has nothing intelligent to contribute. Some are surprised that the Almighty Himself hasn't contacted Barbara Walters about firing her clueless self for making all Christians look like ignorant fools. Now, I don't know who she is nor have I ever seen the show, and boy am I glad for it. On the other hand, more comedy is good, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psGLXqW1kUs


QuOTeD
This guy's got balls...
"Let’s get the CEO of every cup company. You put your cup on, and I’ll put my cup on, and we’ll see who’s left standing."
– Former major leaguer Mark Littell — who has designed a high-tech athletic cup called the NuttyBuddy and, as this video shows, stands behind his product — issues the sort of challenge that should be used to settle every Silicon Valley hostile takeover bid.


The Morality Quiz
These quascientists believe that the deepest foundation on which morality is built is the phenomenon of empathy, and are using these dilemmas to study human morality. Here's a quiz where you can test your moral mettle and do a little extra credit reading if you so desire.
http://www.time-blog.com/graphics_script/2007/moralityquiz/index.html


Quick pic: Puppies on the go
Don’t you wish someone could carry you around like this?
http://www.internet-memes.com/images/puppiesonthego.jpg


Real-life game remake shows human stupidity in 8 bits
This remake of Donkey Kong takes the game to new levels of realism - and reality - by having humans fill the roles. And while I could never reckon how a "donkey" figures into this, it's no coincidence that ass is synonymous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KyIpMtvJvE

The tree is up and it's...good

AJUK wrote in with good news: "It took all weekend, but I finally got the tree up." I'll bet Santa's going to hit his house early (and often).




So that kicks off today's issue including a few bits of Christmas cheer....

How Disney really feels about Christmas
Ladies and gentlemen, with the Christmas season more than officially in full swing -- trees, tinsel, lights, gift wrapping, and crowded malls -- apparently even Disney can’t quite handle it.
http://www.jibjab.com/view/214756

Is it Christmas?
If you’ve lost track of time, this website will give you a quick and definitive answer to the question, should you need one.
http://www.isitchristmas.com/

QuOTeD
"When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about." - Albert Einstein

PSA: Putting the "green" in your Christmas tree
Instead of buying a tree, these nice folks will let you rent one. They bring a potted tree to your house, and after Christmas they pick it up and plant it in areas that were destroyed by the recent San Diego county fires. Seems like one of those dreaded "win-win" situations.
http://www.adoptachristmastree.com/

Tesla tree
Fifty hours and 91 seconds later, a Christmas "tree" made from a real functioning Tesla coil.
http://tesladownunder.com/Xmas.htm

X(mas)-Game: Sprouty Christmas
Eyegas, a man with leguminous/festive proclivities is back with a sort of sequel to his 2005 opus, "Attack of the Sprouts". Eat as many sprouts as you can, while venting wind to avoid a nasty explosion.
http://www.eyegas.com/sproutifarts/

PSA2: Amazon Filler Item Finder
Certain items at Amazon.com qualify for free shipping, but sometimes purchase fall short of the minimum $25 needed to recieve the free shipping. Enter the amount you need to get free shipping in the box above to see a list of products that will get you free shipping.
http://www.filleritem.com/

Elf yourself
Silly little thing for which you need a photo (headshot) and a strong stomach. Let the elfamorphosis begin.
http://www.elfyourself.com/

Road to nowhere

Discrimi-Nav GPS system
Now, I don’t have a GPS but I’ve seen them on TV. (And Lord knows I could use one.) Here's a fake commercial for one such device -- and I think you'll know where they're going with this when you start watching -- that helps you avoid those "marginal" neighborhoods. Marginally funny, but definitely at least a little equal-opportunity offensive. (Thanks Bomser)
http://www.jibjab.com/view/79837


Un-PC you'll see
In this age of "PC enlightenment", they might seem like outrageous anachronisms. At the time, they might have been considered truth in advertising...blatantly politically incorrect ads from the time equality forgot.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=496827


Two-for-one cubed
An impressive achievement in double-fisting the cube, Dan Dzoan, world champion at one-handed Rubik's Cube-ism, solves two at once in under 45 seconds. Geek chic, fo' sho'.
http://www.snotr.com/video/481


QuOTeD
"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired." -Jules Renard


Slow Exposure
Check these still shots of moving subjects where the photographer captures the movement as blur rather than freezing it. The dreamy atmosphere makes for some good art.
http://content3.clipmarks.com/view_clip.aspx?guid=F5FADD52-739C-4426-A97E-A0BA1B59A103


Friday game: Think you know what's where?
Geography Quiz - http://minijuegos.com/juegos/html/index.php?id=5974


Organic music
Worldwide and one of a kind, the Vegetable Orchestra makes music with edible instruments. Turnip the volume -- this one's in the key of squash flat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpfYt7vRHuY

It's hammer time

Go for the juggler
My wife watches those home improvement shows from time -- you know the ones where they completely remodel a house in three days for a mere 75 bucks -- but I don’t get roped in. But maybe I would pay a little more attention if they occasionally threw in/up something like this. (Thanks Edwin)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJmZvifrO9Y


Card-iac kid
Bryan Berg, the acknowledged inventor of cardstacking on the grand scale, embarked on a month-long project with The Texas State Fair to create a new Guinness World Record for the World's Tallest House of Playing Cards. No tape, glue, or other tricks -- just 1,800 decks of freestanding playing cards (and some scaffolding) to finish this 25-foot tower.
http://www.cardstacker.com/index2.html


All the crap in my wallet
Speaking of lots of cards, some men seem to believe that the bulk and heft of their wallets is a direct reflection of their manhood, stuffing them full of every receipt, ticket and scrap of paper that passes through their hands. But when the time comes that there's no more room for money, a cleanout is required. This dude thought that documenting all the crap that he fished out of his was a worthy venture.
http://www.allthecrapinmywallet.co.uk/


QuOTeD
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." - Peter Drucker


Re: Cat Talking, Translation
And here's what it sounds like if you have your babel fish in your ear translating for you. A short clip that seems a lot like MST3K meets America's Funniest Videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JynBEX_kg8


Quick pic: hair trigger
I suppose you could say we're setting a bad example for the rest of the world with this product. Do you feel lucky, punk?
http://www.nodaya-net.com/11438.htm


Pixel art
How creative can you be with 16 colors and 32x32 pixels? Check this pretty basic 'make your own pixel art' site with the extrabonus of being able to see everyone else's tiny creations too.
http://pixelarts.6x.to/

Amazon hates US

Customers who bought this also bought....
So apparently Amazon wants to hasten the demise of this great nation (or maybe some other, but what are the odds of that). Get it while it's hot. (Thanks Joe)
http://www.amazon.com/Uranium-Ore/dp/B000796XXM

Achmed the Dead Terrorist
I've received this from enough folks that I now feel obliged to mention it. Enjoy a routine from Jeff Dunham as seen on Comedy Central and his new DVD. (Thanks rasric, tedm, et al.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwOL4rB-go

Where's Oil
Finders keepers, users weepers.
http://www.civicactions.com/sites/home2.civicactions.net/files/map01_1024.jpg

QuOTeD
"I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
- George Bernard Shaw

Apocalyptic Manhattan
Cool and eerie scale model being created in some dudes' apartment.
http://z11.invisionfree.com/Work_In_Progress/index.php?showtopic=9485

Double-secret probation photos
Visit a museum these days and there's bound to be a sign saying "no photography", which is a bit snitty, as it's simply a way of getting punters to pay for crap postcards in the gift shop. So (lens) caps off to strictlynophotography, it's like Flickr for camera phone anarchists. Up the revolution, kiddos.
http://strictlynophotography.com/

But does hirsute suit her?
"Call it testosterone. Call it the great acne-scar cover-up. Or call it Z.Z. Top envy. But the fact is, some men sprout facial hair that would put a peacock's tail to shame. These best of the best have only one place to go with their cheek-covering plumage: The World Beard and Moustache Championships." How can you pass up something with a billing like that?
http://www.worldbeardchampionships.com/

But I Could Be Wrong

Tim Wilson ain't f%#$&ing wrong
One of the better "songs" I've heard in a long time, if nothing else because I share the sentiment. I don't think he leaves anyone out of this barrage. Profanity a plenty, but in a real funny-like kinda way.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q-5d5IfdYK4

Best wedding first dance ever
They can look forward to a long and goofy marriage. (Thanks Lynette)
http://www.glumbert.com/media/weddingfirstdance

QuOTeD
"Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth." -- Rex Stout
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of." -- Jane Austen

Lost Mac Ads
Some people apparently enjoyed the new "Get a Mac" ads, though I believe this is the exception. For everyone who ever wanted to kick that pretentious Mac guy's ass, here's a sketch you'll enjoy.
http://valleywag.com/tech/apple/the-lost-mac-ads-somewhere-justin-long-is-curled-around-a-dodgeball-and-crying-186353.php

Game on: PacMan meets Zork, apparently.
Pac-Txt -- http://pac-txt.com/

What Happens Behind the Scenes
Also on the marketing front, when a company wants to persuade you to perceive things a certain way, they have a number of standard techniques ( a.k.a., tricks) at their disposal. Here's a little practical knowledge to use in that battle.
http://www.chemistryland.com/CHM107/Introduction/BehindScene/StepBehindScene.html

Mondo Brawndo
And lastly, here's some real, good marketing. And actually, it seems like it's got what pants crave. (Thanks Joel)
http://www.drinkbrawndo.com/

Should we consider eating our young?

Not old enough to drink, but old enough to sue? There ought to be a law.

18-Year-Old Kathleen Holtz Passes the California Bar
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/11/19/18-year-old-kathleen-holtz-passes-the-california-bar/

SoCal Woman Becomes a Lawyer at Age 18
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=5773175

American ingenuity

Is Europe a country?
Apparently some people aren't smarter than a fifth grader. God bless a nation where such a person could survive. I have my theories on that...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juOQhTuzDQ0

Light my fire
These guys piled up a huge stack of wood and then wheel in a jet engine to start the fire. A fifth-grader might even think twice about this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbjoHdT79Sw

QuOTeD
"Well, I had a wonderful evening. It just wasn't tonight."
-- Groucho Marx

Don't mix business with pleasure
Isn't technology great? Careful when using a laptop for a work video-conference.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M60bQrWyH8g

Control Poll
The BioManage Consortium is conducting a study to determine which consortium member holds the most power over the planet earth. It's a simple one multiple choice question. Strangely, my wife is not one of the choices.
http://www.biomanage.com/control-poll.shtml

Game break: "Game Game" is a strange yet somehow appealing game. I'm not sure how you know whether you are playing it correctly.
http://www.secrettechnology.com/gamegame/gamegame.html

Tesla coil Super Mario duet
Two dudes built a couple of Tesla coils and in protogeek fashion programmed them to play the Super Mario Brothers theme. Who says American ingenuity is dead?
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/11/tesla_coil_super_mario_du.html

Everything is Caused by Global Warming

My pops sent me an interesting article from American Thinker. Then I saw this quote somewhere:

"Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had." -- Michael Crichton, at a Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003

The moral is: Beware media hysteria. Scientists can play, too.


Everything is Caused by Global Warming (600 links)
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/11/everything_is_caused_by_global.html

"Dr. John Brignell, a British engineering professor, runs a website called numberwatch. He has compiled what has to be the most complete collection of links to media stories ascribing the cause of everything under the sun to global warming. He has already posted more than six-hundred links.

The site's stated mission is to expose all the "scares, scams, junk, panics and flummery cooked up by the media, politicians, bureaucrats and so-called scientists and others that try to confuse the public with wrong numbers" Professor Brignell's motto is "Working to Combat Math Hysteria."

And everything in its place

View to a Shill
Barbarian at the gate, thy name is advertising. In this Worth1000 contest, product placement becomes blatant.
http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=17339

Japanese magician talent show champ
He won this competition heads down.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1jhtt_talent-japonais_events

Top 10 Movie One-Liners Of All-Time
They infest our daily dialogue, having "evolved" from the elegant "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" to the now trite "You're terminated, f%#&er".
http://unibrow.uber.com/oneliners

QuOTeD
"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."
-- Niels Bohr

Petition to ban water
Not new but still amusing, in this prank Penn & Teller get well-meaning-but-stupid tree huggers to sign a petition aimed at banning the use of that most versatile and necessary of liquids. There's a moral here, but the gag is enjoyable enough even without it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3erdgVVTw

Game break: Cat bowling
http://www.itsga.com/fun/cat_new.swf

Airborne cats
One of the cooler photo shoots (that's right -- it's stills and not a video) capturing those special moments of feline flight.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/junku/sets/303691/

iPhone Smacked Down
You knew this was going to happen, didn't you? An iPhone-toting passenger takes on the flight crew over weather.
http://www.planebuzz.com/2007/11/we_knew_this_was_going_to_happ.html

Happy little droids

Bob Ross paints Star Wars
See -- instructional videos can be ridiculous. Much spoofidity.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=21169146

Twerpintine
Create a painting based on your personality. Requires only about two minutes and absolutely no artistic talent.
http://www.bored.com/createpaintings/index.php

Mega-portrait
A portrait of, well, a whole bunch of people you'll recognize.
http://pictures.pichaus.com/c9d38d208ff23b09329b8ea3604c5c01869d82de

QuOTeD
"A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5- by 11-inch paper cannot be understood. "
-- Mark Ardis

look at this f%#&ing massive printer
It's obviously fake, right? Check again. Or just write a $630,000 check for an HP Scitex TJ8300. Hey, it's only like a buck a pound.
http://deputy-dog.com/2007/05/20/look-at-this-fucking-massive-printer/

Quizzical: Test your mettle on the past couple and a half decades of movie goodness.
http://www.filmcritic.com/movie-quiz/index.html

Opt till you drop
A great collection of optical illusions.
http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/

Elephant darts

Elephant darts
Darts contest between a human and an elephant. Interesting that there seems to be a definite correlation between one's weight and one's proficiency at the noble, winged sport.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5YO56LD_dY

Towelephant
Got a spare towel? Need an elephant? Help is at hand with this guide to creating an elephant out of a towel. You can definitely beat a pachyderm at this vaguely related activity.
http://www.wikihow.com/Fold-a-Towel-Elephant

Pop Up Problem
Annoying ads got you down? Conan O'Brien's writer knows how to fix the problem: Go to the source: India. A bit long by web standards, but amusing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3M2_2YZG9s

QuOTeD
"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
-- Don Marquis

Oscilloscope demo
Impressive graphics display from a dude with an oscilloscope plugged into his PC. It's a low-tech phantasmagoria and you can imagine the technical instrument salesman trotting out this beauty to wow his labbish customers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1eNjUgaB-g

Quick pic: 'Money shots'
Imaginative use of dollars, lining up the artwork with the public monuments depicted. For bonus points try with foreign currency.
http://de.fishki.net/picsw/112007/19/bonus2/2.jpg

Go with the flow
Oh, and I keep meaning to post this one: the Procrastination Flow Chart. You can look at it either now or later.
http://projectsidewalk.com/flowchart/

Casting a wide net

Casting gags
Marketers -- if you're stuck for a idea for a web viral, then hold an open casting and edit up the crappiest participants. It never fails. This one: looking for an overacting badass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaUbdIDowJQ

Baby Queen
After watching this, I couldn't hold it either. Freddie Mercury is no doubt rolling in his grave.
http://users.telenet.be/leukelinks/flash/queen.htm

QuOTeD
"Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."
-- Ambrose Bierce

Curiosity canned the cat
Thankfully, I didn't see any of this at the Thanksgiving dinner table. But then again, who doesn't like a little Jellied Eel or Silkworm Pupa?
http://funfever.blogspot.com/2007/10/most-curious-canned-foods-found-online.html

Game-stop: Black is White. White is Black. Enjoy some mind twisting insanity.
Yin-Yang - http://www.addictinggames.com/yinyang.html

Cat cutlery
The key phrase here is "after her children left home"; this woman trained her cat to eat with cutlery so that it could dine at the table with her and her hapless husband. Un-forking-believable -- she must have been extraordinarily bored. Anyway, now she believes that cat would like to be in films and to meet Tiger Woods. Hmm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkUdDdY_U-A

Fat Thursday

Collapsing shop page
"Cyber Monday" came early for this cleverly set-up website for a Dutch retailer. Looks fairly nondescript, but mouse-over the blue cup on the right... pandemonium!
http://producten.hema.nl/


What's in your fridge? And why does anyone care?
Appropriate for such a food-focused holiday, Fridgewatcher.com is a project where people open their fridges to others. 'Cause every fridge tells a story. And they want to know yours.
http://www.fridgewatcher.com/


Quote of the Day
"If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners."
-- Johnny Carson


PSA4U: Catalog Choice
If your mailbox is anything like mine (bulging at the seams), it would surely ask you to save a tree and take yourself off the lists for any unwanted catalogs.
http://www.catalogchoice.org/


Ham I Am
Jones Soda Co., a Seattle-based purveyor of offbeat fizzy water is selling holiday-themed limited-edition packs of sodas that include flavors such as ham and latkes. It even will be kosher, the company says - including the ham.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2007-11-10-holiday-sodas_N.htm


Game-ish: Feed the head
A holiday-appropriate online toy that we all loved so much in yesteryear. Keep poking around the animated head and see what happens. Kept me amused for a fair time.
http://www.feedthehead.net/


Fall Foliage Web cams
Let the leaves fall where they may...
http://www.earthcam.com/events/fallcams/2007/


Mark Steyn: World should give thanks for America
A well put Thanksgiving sentiment in another great piece of writing from Mark Steyn, who's Canadian by the way. (Thanks Pops)
http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/americans-world-thanksgiving-1924033-europe-europeans


Enjoy, have a happy Thanksgiving, and eat early and often. (To the rest of the world, Happy Thursday.) God bless America.

Mutated moo

Mutated moo
We know it's cliché to look at web animation and say the author is wrong in the head -- but Cyriak is. (He is. Wrong. In the head.) Cows are always getting abducted by UFOs, right? Now you know what happens.
http://www.cyriak.co.uk/moo.html


Misheard Bollywood lyrics
We've seen an awful lot of those "misheard lyric" things on the interweb, so by now your tolerance might be fairly high. But it's tough to hold back at least a grin at this epic production -- a very classy number, combining elaborate dancing, garbled words and some excellent comical posing as a bonus. Have you been high today?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw


Quote of the Day
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-- Robert Frost


Top ten geek haircuts
Hats off to the nerds on this list for sporting first-rate dork hair-dos. This is one occasion where I’m not jealous.
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/0,39029477,49293713,00.htm


Game-y: a less enjoyable -- though maybe more challenging -- version of whack-a-mole. (This may be more a test of your pointing device than of you.)
Reaction Time -- http://mindbluff.com/reaction.htm


Pointless
What started as an exception may soon become the norm if recent trends are anything to go by. Pointed ears, made famous by Mr. Spock, seem to be the choice of many music-loving youngsters in New York. It appears they are resorting to plastic surgery -- ear sculpting, they call it -- developed by Hungarian plastic surgeon, Dr. Lajos Nagy. The claim is they enhance the music listening experience. No excuse.
http://www.plasmetic.com/latest-trends/ear-surgery/enjoy-music-get-pointed-ears-.html


Why We Do Dumb or Irrational Things
Philip Zimbardo, who once lectured me a couple things about psychology, says: "I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?" Now for your consideration and voting, here are 10 influential social psychology studies.
http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/11/10-piercing-insights-into-human-nature.php

Signal-to-noise

This is an interesting bit of technology I read about in GMSV. And check out the random examples of stupidity on their website. Now if they could only get this technology to apply to the real world.

Momma says stupid is as stupid does

It sounds like something that anyone who’s run a forum or a blog has longed for at one time or another: a stupidity filter — something that would scan incoming comments and, when necessary, prompt the would-be contributor with something like this: “This comment is more or less unintelligible. Please try to restate it.” What a boon it would be for the signal-to-noise ratio, but given the scope and diversity of the adversary, where would one begin?

Well, the folks behind StupidFilter are trying to take a shot at it. As explained on the Web site, “The solution we’re creating is simple: an open-source filter software that can detect rampant stupidity in written English. This will be accomplished with weighted Bayesian analysis and some rules-based processing, similar to spam detection engines. The primary challenge inherent in our task is that stupidity is not a binary distinction, but rather a matter of degree. To this end, we’re collecting a ranked corpus of stupid text, gleaned from user comments on public websites and ranked on a five-point scale.”

Since it isn’t true artificial intelligence and has no awareness of context, humor, irony or sarcasm, the immediate goal of the filter is relatively modest: to detect “comments with too much or too little capitalization, too many text-message abbreviations, excessive use of ‘LOL,’ exclamation points, and so on.” And as the FAQ explains, “We consider the StupidFilter’s irony-ignorance to be a feature, insofar as even if an allegedly-smart person makes a short, stupid comment, their smartness doesn’t make the comment any less stupid.”

Clearly, these folks have an immense task ahead of them. Any suggestions for other red flags that would clearly identify a comment as stupid?

Ask (the web) and ye shall receive

Ask the web
It's Monday again and I can’t decide which pair of boxers to wear. Well to help with such decision-making, behold a site where you can upload two pictures to create an instant public poll. The real draw, though, is the weirdness of things that other people seek guidance on. Something to bear in mind, ladies: careful with asking questions like, "What outfit should I choose?". You know how the interweb nerds are likely to vote.
http://www.thisonethatone.com/


UC band, I see geeks
Coming off another big football weekend, this bit of recent history must qualify as the geekiest band performance you've seen in a while. And surprisingly it's not from MIT -- it's the Cal Berkeley Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuRfQlMu2VY


Quote of the Day
"Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?"
-- Jay Leno


Trick family pictures
Endearing gallery of family photography, with an inventive special effect. Surprisingly effective and dreamlike, considering the budget. Check the Ghostbusters one.
http://www.janvonholleben.com/dreams_of_flying.php


Cowbell hero
As the web takes recent console game Guitar Hero III to heart, you wonder quite why Activision is bothering to make any marketing material when fans will do it for them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlqLLZQLNiA


Pudding on the Ritz
Enjoy this heartwarming story of arithmetic and pudding as a clever consumer earned a lifetime of free air travel by taking advantage of a Healthy Choice promotion.
http://www.snopes.com/business/deals/pudding.asp

Crackberry

Crackberry
There comes a time to rest your thumbs, look up, and admit you may be a chronic mobile messager.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMMCwaN2LqA


MadTV iPhone
In a similar vein, an amusing sketch about Steve Jobs and the iPhone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgZKjJt-TkU


Quote of the Day
"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three."
- Alice Kahn


Unnecessary censorship
Here's an idea: censoring innocent TV clips to create the impression of naughty concealed goings-on. A little long, so your mileage may vary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc6w4SzIUN0


Friday game: Move the brown block to the end of the maze. Sounds simple, right? Good luck with this frustrating PitA.
Blocked out - http://www.addictinggames.com/blockout.html


Inappropriate quotation marks
Always use quotes for emphasis. Or ignorance.
http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/