The most valuable supply of worthlessness on the web
Anything that catches my fancy as a topic I want to cover. Truly random crap.
Just watched an episode of How It’s Made (truly one of the greatest television programs ever), and saw this amazingly cool segment on how chicken farming chicks are brought about.
Oddly, the version we watched had the exact same narration, only it was performed by a male announcer. Anyway, this is interesting and funny at the same time. The handling of the chicks is funny, and makes me think the little birds are wondering “Dude, what the fuck?” through much of the process.
Who knew Hugh Laurie was so versatile? While catching up on reading James Randi’s web site, I learned that Hugh Laurie used to perform psychic spoon bending way back in the day.
I believe that’s fairly conclusive proof that Hugh Laurie is not only one of the finest actors ever, but an amazingly skilled psychic. 🙂
PC World has a fine write-up on the top 15 big tech disappointments of the year. Included are things like the Zune (which I recently criticized here, and didn’t even cover all the problems it has), Amazon’s unbox (for sucktastic video which you have very little convenience or access to), and the newer, more suckitude version of Microsoft’s Office suite (which I planned to gripe about, but lacked sufficient energy after fighting the interface for 30 minutes to do 5 minutes of work).
#5. The Great, The Bad, The Ugly: Apple iPhone
Yes, we know. Sliced bread only wishes it were as great as the iPhone. And aside from minor flaws like a tiny touch keyboard and lack of Flash support, the phone itself is pretty terrific. But AT&T’s broadband service? Definitely second-rate. And if you want to switch to a more reliable or faster carrier, you have to take your chances with the hackers.The $600 price tag–which soon dropped by $200 and then was followed by a $100 quasi-rebate–didn’t help. “I think the biggest debacle of 2007 is the iPhone pricing bait and switch,” says Peggy Watt, a PC World contributing editor and professor of journalism at Western Washington University. “People do expect tech prices to drop, but not as quickly as the iPhone did. Apple’s response was pretty lame, too; a partial credit that couldn’t be used for a lot of popular items (such as iTunes).”
Yet still it sells like discount “Any-area-Annie” dolls at a fetishist convention.
Overall, the list is well-built, and I really can agree with most of the list. There are 1 or 2 things I thought would make the list that didn’t, and 1 or 2 that I was surprised to see on the list because I wasn’t sure the really were that disappointing. In the end, though, this is really a good guide to what should have been better this year for those following the tech world.
You’re 50 years old. You’re married to a woman half your age who is a self-described bi-sexual. She looks like this:
For your birthday, she poses in some lesbian pictures which she gives you as a birthday gift. Is the appropriate response:
Pesonally, I’m going for option 1.) for sure, and 3.) if I can get the O.K. However, if instead you are a former Brady star, the real response is 4.) with the inclusion of complaints that the photos are a manifestation of your worst fears and that they creep you out. Since we are not, however, former (nor current nor future) Brady stars, we’ll celebrate this event with another picture of Ms. Curry along with mention that she has since repeated the momentous photo-shoot with another gal-pal for an upcoming issue of Playboy magazine. (via Fark)
[tags]Hot lesbian action, Adrianne Curry, Lesbian, Happy Birthday[/tags]
Because I am such a pig, and because I haven’t had an eye-candy image up lately, I’ll point out AskMen.com’s top 99 women of 2007 for your viewing pleasure. Look for more real activity on the site in the coming week as I either get my hosting problems resolved or move to another host.
An important tip that probably every website operator knows but which I forgot. When you can’t figure out why your site isn’t working when you haven’t made any changes, check your error logs. I have no idea why I’m having a problem, but apparently the Tiga theme I’ve been using for almost 2 years has suddenly started causing tons of errors on my site. I am checking now on what changes my host has made that might have caused this, but I don’t yet know the problem. Expect some changes in the appearance of the Blahg as I get a chance to try out new themes or figure why Tiga stopped working and get it going again.
Something is wrong with these dog treats, but I can’t quite figure out the problem. Can you?
Just looking makes me hungry. (via Consumerist)
[tags]Dog treats, Pr0no-pups, Nasty[/tags]
While reading my science blogs today (note: my ever decreasing time since getting a real job means this leisure-time activity is becoming less available for me), I found this story about the godlessness of The Golden Compass and how unnecessary such redundant godless-message reinforcements are.
Slimy Sal Cordova thinks that being sodomized by horses is concomitant with “Darwinism”, and Joe Blundo claims The Golden Compass is superfluous as a recruiting tool for atheists because we have the video game Grand Theft Auto, some stupid sitcom called Two and a Half Men, slasher movies, Girls Gone Wild videos
More in the full article, and bonus goodness in the comments. I’m not an atheist, but I am an evolutionist, and leaning more toward theistic agnosticism as I age. I also feel a growing need to see the movie, just to find out how bad this message really is (and for the record, I’m going in assuming all the haters are blowing it way out of proportion).
[tags]Godlessness, The Golden Compass, Sodomy, Evolution, Evilution, Atheism[/tags]
If you’ve been around a while, you know I despise Bill O’Reilly. Well, I share that feeling with Keith Olbermann, who takes the time to read a recent Tom Tomorrow comic which breaks down O’Reilly’s latest book.
I’m all for folks mocking O’Reilly. (via This Modern World)
[tags]Olbermann, O’Reilly, Tom Tomorrow, This Modern World[/tags]
When your sister is attacked by a moose, what do you do hotshot? Well, if you are a well-trained World of Warcraft player, you know to distract the moose with your actions, lead it away from your sister, then feign death until it goes away.
I’ve recently spent some time reading user reviews of the movie The Golden Compass on Yahoo. I just want to point out to all the people there complaining about the movie that a) you are an idiot if you rate a movie you haven’t even seen just because it has a different message than you feel comfortable hearing/sharing, b) America was most emphatically NOT founded as a Christian nation, and therefore this movie is not anti-America, and c) you should rate the fucking movie, not spew your own god damn beliefs and how they differ from the hidden/obvious/subtle/subliminal/obnoxious message in the movie.
I haven’t seen the movie nor read the book, so I can’t review it. I do plan on seeing the movie, and if I do I will share thoughts if anyone is interested. I happen to believe in a God with a sense of humor, open mind, and interest in people making decisions on their own. Therefore, I’m pretty sure he/she would approve of me watching the movie and deciding on my own whether or not it is a good movie.
[tags]The Golden Compass, Fucking idiots, Learn history[/tags]
Folks, I know some of you are collectors. And some of you probably have a few million dollars to spare. Of that small group of my amazing collected readership, I’m sure at least a few thousand are also historical artifact fanatics. For those few, I would like to point out the impending sale of one original, signed, limited edition Magna Carta documents, up for auction by Sotheby’s. It is one of only 2 copies known to exist outside of Britain – the other in the land of prisoners, kangaroos and dingoes known as Australia.
In the year 1215, a group of English barons handed King John a document written on parchment. Put your royal seal on this, they said. John did, and forever changed the relationship between the monarchy and those it governed.
. . .
While that original edict was initially ignored and John died the next year, its key ideas were included in other variations over the next few decades, most notably the right of Habeas Corpus, which protects citizens against unlawful imprisonment.
Of course, that most notable right is no longer honored in America, but many other democracies around the world still have ideas originated in the Magna Carta as the basis for their rules and rights.
So, how much will it be to take this treasure into your own home?
The document, which Sotheby’s vice chairman David Redden calls “the most important document in the world,” is expected to fetch a record $20-30 million.
Personally, I’m guessing it will go for more than that. In recent years, so many things of real or imagined import seem to have gone for far more than expected by the auctioneers. I’m going to peg this at $44-45 million. What say we check back in two weeks and see how much this will cost Santa to deliver to some lucky and wealthy collector? Same web-channel, same web-dork.
[tags]Magna Carter, Writ of Habeas Corpus, Birth of democracy, Sotheby’s[/tags]