A film translated from English to French...then to German, then French again, and then back into English - using Babelfish.
The result is amusing.
Monday, October 8, 2007
a wicked deception
8 Important Lessons Learned from '80s Cartoons
We'd like to point out that we're aware of the fact that some of the cartoons listed below did not originate in the '80s. However, they were on during the '80s, that's when we watched them, so they're '80s cartoons to us. It's like when we refer to bedwetting as "late '90s behavior." Without further adieu...
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happy columbus day
Columbus Day is a holiday celebrating the anniversary of the October 12, 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbus to the Americas. Columbus Day commemorates the discovery of the Americas in Columbus's famed expedition to the West, in which he hoped to find a naval route to India.
Instead, he found an entire continent that was mostly unknown to Europe, Africa, and Asia at the time. While other Europeans had sporadically visited the Americas earlier, and there are varied theories of even earlier contact by East Asians, Phoenicians, and others, Columbus's expedition triggered the great wave of European interest in the New World.
Unlike the earlier visitors, Columbus aggressively popularized his discoveries and arranged for return voyages. While controversy remains about many of the actions of the era, the colonization of the Americas is still seen largely as a good thing and thus worthy of celebrating.
Sunday, October 7, 2007
connecting with people when actually you're just not
Crackbook is an addictive social utility that makes you feel that you're connecting with people when actually you're just not.
browse profiles • get the latest inane news from your friends • post videos • take them down in a huff when nobody comments on them • tag your friends • like they're objects • use privacy settings to keep MySpace scaries out • install lame applications
pee wee's playhouse was cancelled for less
Idaho Senator Larry Craig issued a statement this afternoon following the court's ruling rejecting his request to withdraw a guilty plea for disorderly conduct stemming from his arrest in a Minneapolis airport men's room in June:
"I am extremely disappointed with the ruling issued today. I am innocent of the charges against me. I continue to work with my legal team to explore my additional legal options. I will continue to serve Idaho in the United States Senate, and there are several reasons for that. As I continued to work for Idaho over the past three weeks here in the Senate, I have seen that it is possible for me to work here effectively. Over the course of my three terms in the Senate and five terms in the House, I have accumulated seniority and important committee assignments that are valuable to Idaho, not the least of which are my seats on the Appropriations Committee, the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the Veterans' Affairs Committee. A replacement would be highly unlikely to obtain these posts. In addition, I will continue my effort to clear my name in the Senate Ethics Committee - something that is not possible if I am not serving in the Senate. When my term has expired, I will retire and not seek reelection. I hope this provides the certainty Idaho needs and deserves."
desperately seeking paranoia
As the theater version of Desperately Seeking Susan prepares to open in London's West End (featuring the music of Blondie), Debbie Harry says Madonna stole her look back in the 80's:
"I came right up against the Madonna thing. Maybe it’s my paranoia but she had a lot of my looks. If you look closely, sometimes there’s pictures of her and me that completely overlap. She [Madonna] was getting such a huge push from Warners, I was definitely on the B-list. It was a hard period for me. I don’t think anybody knew how to market me or what to do with me. I was like a fish out of water."
"I came right up against the Madonna thing. Maybe it’s my paranoia but she had a lot of my looks. If you look closely, sometimes there’s pictures of her and me that completely overlap. She [Madonna] was getting such a huge push from Warners, I was definitely on the B-list. It was a hard period for me. I don’t think anybody knew how to market me or what to do with me. I was like a fish out of water."
in to depp
This preview for Sweeney Todd (the Tim Burton remix) is dark and creepy and beautiful and Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter are going to be so, so very perfect for this. I did have a brief terrifying moment where, after a good minute of footage with absolutely no singing, I started to think maybe I'd dreamed that part, that this was somehow a non-musical adaptation (what? how would that even be possible!). Luckily at the 90-second mark Depp bursts into song, and I managed to get my heart-rate back to normal.
2,215
The number of days since 9/11 that Osama bin Laden has been on the loose.
Remember how Bush pledged to get bin Laden “dead or alive.”
do ask, do tell
even though i'm a hilary guy.........
At a campaign appearance in Charles City, Iowa, Barack Obama called for the repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy that prohibits openly gay and lesbian Americans from serving in the military.
"Anybody who is willing to serve our country and die on a battlefield for us and our patriots, that’s the criteria for whether or not they should be able to serve in our military. England doesn’t have this policy. Israel doesn’t have this policy. It’s an outdated policy."
play mcdonald's (instead of eating there)
The satirical game, operating on several levels at all times, is presented as a McDonald's management training exercise. Play online, or grab a free PC or Mac (well, of course) download. Don't forget to wear a paper hat.
Play: McDonald's Video Game
2 sheets 2 the wind
Albino Octopus says: "This artist is based out of Austin, TX and has very unique photography. He gets people to jump underneath sheets and fabrics and catches them in mid-air and completely hidden behind the fabric. The results are hilariously cool!" Link
oooh that smell
CARROLLTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. - These are the salad days for one lucky skunk. Officer James Kellett said a skunk whose head was stuck in an empty salad dressing jar wandered into the police station's parking lot Thursday in Carrollton Township, near Saginaw and about 80 miles north of Detroit.
Kellett wanted to serve and protect the white-striped weasel, but wasn't interested in any resistance — spray or otherwise. So he grabbed a BB gun used in hunters' safety courses and shot at the jar from about 40 feet.
The shots cracked and shattered the jar, leaving a glass collar around the skunk's neck. With its head free, the skunk ran off.
"I didn't want to use deadly force, and it is a residential area," Kellett told The Saginaw News.
"The way he was when he took off, he was able to eat, breathe and spray — and do anything else skunks like to do."
Kellett didn't get much in the way of gratitude, but he's grateful the skunk didn't spray. And the makers of T. Marzetti's salad dressing are sending the officer coupons good for free dressing as a reward
it was 158 years ago today
158 years ago on this day, Edgar Allan Poe died. Here's Vincent Price reading "The Raven"
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