Bad Lip Reading does Newt Gingrich:
It’s about time that a visionary work of sci-fi accurately predicts our inevitable future. Iron Sky is this movie.
That’s it for me. — KW
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6 Real People with Mind-Blowing Mutant Superpowers.
Pin Up Calendar Ladies Survive the Sex Apocalypses.
The Sexy Side to Being Buried in Garbage
Man Dies Gaming at Internet Cafe and goes Unnoticed forNine Hours. Gamers are very intense.
A class M Planet discovered practically next door to us. Let’s move!
I just have to add these:
First, the best Super Bowl ad you didn’t see–
Second, a poet who is also a public school teacher–
And we were talking about body painting the other day, and this song caught my eye–
—Michigoose
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It’s a new video. This time, it’s Rick Santorum!
A new study links low I.Q. to prejudice, racism, and conservatism. To paraphrase my intellectual better, Forrest Gump: “I may not be a smart man, but I know what bullshit smells like.” A liberal quasi-dissents, but sort of agrees. The conflation of conservatism and racism is everywhere. Can you tell it’s an election year?
NASA films the dark side of the moon. No evidence of giant Transformers or secret moon bases.
What happened before The Big Bang? Johnny Galecki was unemployed! Bad-dum-dum! I’ll be here all week, folks.
Finally, they’re planning a broadway musical based on Back to the Future. About damn time.
You know what’s unbelievably cool? $1 billion dollars in profits. Emphasis on the unbelievable.
— KW
by Ashot
Somehow I feel like this video is perfect for the ATiM crowd.
And I thought this was funny, too.
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The days fly by. Already hump day, and I haven’t finished the stuff I meant to get done on Monday.
Startfire Sure Wears Less Clothes Than She Did When I Read Teen Titans (of course, she's not in the Teen Titans anymore).
The 5 Most Ridiculously Sexists Superhero Costumes.
Scientists say sugar is as toxic as alcohol, and there should be a drinking age for soda.
Some fly-by-night web startup called Facebook filed their IPO, which values the company at $100 zillion dollars.
Republicans direct police to detain documentary crew to keep them from filing a hearing on natural gas. Oh, that doesn’t make them look like a collect group of mustache-twirling Snidely Whiplashes.
And right under that on Dvorak, do you think Big Brother should be watching everybody? Well, now there’s an app for that.
Back to Starfire. How would someone even wear something like that? It would have to be painted on. Sheesh.
That’s it. Blessing and karma to all! — KW
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I got nuthin’, nuthin’ I tell you. Some industrious moderator, please edit this post and add a link to a funny story from The Onion, preferably with pictures. Thanks!
— KW
Even The Onion didn’t have a whole lot going on, Kevin, but here you go:
Governor Romney’s watch is missing:
“I pledge to every single Hispanic-American—whether you came here from Mexico to start a new life for your family or fled the brutality of Castro’s Cuba—that if my watch is put back in its rightful place in the next two hours, I will consider the matter closed and no one will be the wiser.” With the watch still not returned at press time, Romney begged the nation’s Hispanics, “Please don’t make me call the—how do you say it? El policío? La policía? The appropriate authorities.”
And I don’t think I’ve linked to this video before:
–Michigoose
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Work has been miserable. A lot of not great information from our Rapid Notice Service provider has made adding SMS numbers to student outreach much, much more problematic than it has to be. So I’ve been busy.
However, a U.S. Navy Ship-Mounted Rail Gun is closer to reality. It’s about time we started flinging superheated aluminum at distant objects at supersonic speeds.
Here’s an original 1982 Featurette on The Making of Tron.
Michelle Obama indulges in $50,000 shopping spree. I’m pretty sure the cost of vacationing on Air Force One is a lot higher, and the tax payers foot the bill for that.
Warren Buffett says: "I'm too rich! And so, I demand the government take your money! Mine, of course, will remain in untouchable tax shelters."
Warren Buffett is not an oracle of public finance. It covers a lot of the stuff we touched on previously. But here it is again, if you just can’t get enough.
If you don’t use coupons, you’re leaving money on the table. Why not set some cash on fire, while you’re at it?
UPDATE! The Muppets respond to Fox accusing said Muppets of advancing an anti-oil, anti-capitalist agenda:
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Here are 5 People Who Succeeded Long After They Should’ve Quit.
Robert Hooke was the Steve Jobs of the 17th Century.
It doesn’t look like things are going to improve much in North Korea. North Korea makes it a war crime to use a cell phone during 100 day mourning period.
Everything Lee Stranahan’s learned about business, he learned from playing Monopoly.
Not that any of you need any more reasons to avoid swinging drug-fueled orgies with strange couples, but now you have one: bear mace.
Survivors of the Costa Concordia are being offered money to shut up and sign a liability waver. At least, that’s my assumption. Given that Carnival Cruises, who owns Costa Cruises, has a lot of money, I’m betting not everybody takes them up on that offer. I’d at least assume that’s a first offer, and return with: “Well, I’m talking to my lawyer, and he says the whole thing was a lot more traumatic than that.”
The Costa Concordia After Captain Ignored Both Maps and Procedures to "Wave at people"
That’s it for tonight. Hope you have a great Friday Night! — KW
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I linked to this song before, but now the actual music video is available. “Man or Muppet”, from The Muppets, one of my favorite movies this year. Of course, I love the Muppets.
Love it.
Um. How about the Angry Video Game Nerd reviews Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker for Sega Genesis? Profanity abounds.
Yeah, I’m low on content tonight. Feel free to add.
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You probably won’t want to watch the whole thing. It lasts over 2 hours.
In 2009, Casey Pugh asked thousands of Internet users to remake “Star Wars: A New Hope” into a fan film, 15 seconds at a time. Contributors were allowed to recreate scenes from Star Wars however they wanted. Within just a few months SWU grew into a wild success. The creativity that poured into the project was unimaginable.
The 5 Online Petitions that Prove Democracy is Broken. Like that was really necessary.
Coming up with stuff to link to would be a lot easier if the Net Nanny here didn’t block The Onion. Someone link to something from The Onion.
Will this be Apple’s First $40 Billion Quarter?
I miss Bloom County.
For you physicists and metaphysicists in the audience . . .
Click on it to actually see the whole thing. All right. That’s it for tonight. Just somebody link to something in The Onion.
— KW
And, by the way, the FAQ page is up. Look it over and let me know what you think–and feel free to add (or just leave it in a comment and I’ll add it either tonight or [more likely] tomorrow)!
— Michigoose
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It’s okie’s birthday and we’re throwing a party!
Ever wonder what was going on the year you were born?
6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1… it’s 1952. There’s TV noise coming from the second floor. Someone turned up the volume way too high. The sun is burning from above. These were different times. The show playing on TV is Kukla, Fran and Ollie. The sun goes down. Someone switches channels. There’s The Ed Sullivan Show on now. That’s the world you were born in.
It’s The Bark Side. I wonder how much Volkswagen is paying to air this during the Super Bowl. —KW
Current Events from 1952, even though Okie won’t remember them, having just been born and all.
The first commercial jet plane, the BOAC’s Comet, is put into service.
The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio
In a radio address to the nation from the White House, President Harry S. Truman calls for the seizure of all steel mills in the United States in order to prevent a nationwide strike.
U.S. lieutenant colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict land a plane at the geographic North Pole.
The concept for the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.
The United States successfully detonates the first hydrogen bomb, codenamed “Mike” , at Eniwetok island in the Bikini atoll located in the Pacific Ocean.
U.S. presidential election, 1952: Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democrat Adlai Stevenson.
Agatha Christie’s murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London, still the longest continuously running play in history).
Great Smog of 1952: A “killer fog” descends on London (“Smog” for “smoke” and “fog” becomes a word).
And because we can…..Here’s to you Okie
lms
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