Archive for November, 2008

Gamasutra – Prince of Persia Creator Jordan Mechner To Helm New Karateka Game If you insert the Karateka disk in upside-down, the game plays upside-down. (tags: games humor)

Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede "They're savages. It's sad. It's terrible." (tags: america) YouTube – LazyTown featuring Lil Jon NSFW and creepy as hell. (tags: nsfw video music humor)

YouTube – Sesame Street – 30 Rocks Hah, I wonder if they'll keep this as a regular feature? (tags: tv video humor)

The case of the 500-mile email Oh this is awesome. (tags: funny) Be One Less « This? Is Not the Life I Ordered! Scary but a very real concern for anyone. (tags: women medical) The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Confession: I love to fuck with car salesmen Fake Steve in his heyday. (tags: humor…

Style Rookie 12-year-old fashion blogger. Suprisingly sophisticated taste. Somebody sign this girl. (tags: fun clothes)

YouTube – I Met The Walrus Very cool illustration of John Lennon's interview with some 14-year-old that snuck into his hotel room. (tags: video music art) YouTube – Charice Celine Part 1 (HQ) In case you need a strong dose of estrogen today. (tags: tv video music) Le plus horrible jour de ma vie Tween…

Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens loses re-election bid Senator Ted "series-of-tubes-now-convicted-felon" Stevens gets outed from his seat in Alaska. (tags: politics america) Internet, I'm craving Doritos | dooce ® Heather announces to the internet. SQUEE! (tags: parenting)

Cooking and burning my arm on the oven wall.

Birthday Kid Owns The Price Is Right – YourDailyMedia.com Your dose of happiness for the day. It's a 5 minute video but this kid is having the best birthday of his life. (tags: video fun) Tina Fey – Who Will Be Person of the Year 2008? – TIME Sure go ahead and vote for that…

Gametrailers.com – Prince of Persia – Story Trailer HD (Quicktime) Inspiring if somewhat cliched choice of using Sia's "Breathe Me" for trailer music. I want this game so bad just for the style alone. (tags: games video) best of craigslist : DO NOT EAT PRINGLES FAT FREE POTATO CHIPS. THEY WILL GREASE YOUR ASS. Oh…

YouTube – Gordon Ramsey Cooks Eggs on Toast The perfect scrambled egg? I believe him. Looks pretty awesome. I've never seen that kind of consistency. (tags: video cooking) New York Times Special Edition Video News Release – Nov. 12, 2008 on Vimeo A liberal wet dream in the form of a fake New York Times….

YouTube – Getting fired up at the World Series Parade Hahaha babies. (tags: parenting video fun) Savvy? – “I kissed her…” Hot. (tags: comic) Make Cake in a Mug – Wired How-To Wiki What has two thumbs and is making mug-cake this weekend? Oh yeah, you betcha. (tags: food fun) gmcg_abidesII comments on It seems…

My girlfriend is from SoCal but she and a lot of her friends went to college in NorCal. I tell you this because for some reason it amuses me no end that I’m the only one lame enough to use the adjectives, “hella” and “hecka.” Of course, growing up in Australia, I never actually heard…

Detroiter's Obama story could top them all | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press An elderly couple were too tired on election night to wait in Grant Park for Obama. They went back to their hotel, saw the man himself and he told them he won. (tags: obama)

November 4th, at the Lincoln Memorial (tags: photo politics inspiration)

Violent Acres » Blog Archive » The Negative Effects of Child Fear Mongering It's a fine line. (tags: parenting) Screenshot Tour: Windows 7's Calculator Bundles Real-Life Uses (tags: fun) A Butler Well Served by This Election – washingtonpost.com (tags: politics inspiration) 389 years ago… | WallStats.com The Art of Information Made me cry. (tags: art…

You think I’m sick of talking about politics yet? Nope. I need to empty all these thoughts in my head. Over the course of this election campaign, some pretty awful things were said. The thought bounced around my head while I listened to McCain’s concession speech and Obama’s acceptance speech. They were very gracious and…

Obama Releases List of Approved Jokes About Himself – Borowitz Report I love the boat joke. (tags: obama humor) Day One Beautiful. (tags: obama comic) Derby Girl – A Goldendoodle, the puppy the Obama girls want…. The Obama girls want a Goldendoodle? Ok then. (tags: photo) Instant Color Schemes Enter a word, it will grab…

These are two completely unrelated thoughts. One is a memory. Just before Lachlan and Geraldine left Seattle, I took them to eat hot pot at a Sichuanese restaurant. While we were pulling in to the restaurant, I was trying out my Short Round impression on them. As we were leaving, I was doing some other…

A Softer World: 370 The day after Obama's election win. (tags: comic photo politics) BBC NEWS | Americas | US Elections 2008 | Bush congratulates Obama (tags: politics video) The Associated Press: Obama becomes first black president in landslide "Landslide." (tags: politics obama) Electoral Map by Daily Kos The best looking election map I've found…

FYI: This entry was written at 6am on November 5th, 2008. The results are in and I’ve been proven to be… cynical. All the talk of the voter suppression and disenfranchisement that occurred in previous elections was unnecessary because Obama has won the presidency with hugely strong numbers. Not to say that the voting process…

Obama Road Blog: Video: Barack and Michelle Vote (tags: video obama) My favorite place to wait for the 8 Beautiful. (tags: obama photo) :: rogerebert.com :: Opinion Man receives "grant money" for eating M&M's in a silly fashion. Awesome. (tags: funny food) Porsche breaks the hedge funds | Squeezy money | The Economist "Billionaire's poker,"…

Report Voting Weirdness CNN has a voter irregularities map. If you’re voting in a state where you think The Man is going to steal your vote away, please write the number down and take it with you to the voting booth. It may take hours to line up and exercise your right as a US…

What to Watch For | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com Got my attention: "If Obama appears as though he's headed toward a landslide victory, crestfallen conservatives might not bother heading for the polls to vote against Prop 8." (tags: politics gay) Political Irony › White Supremacists for Obama! Weird, I know. At least they're…

I bought a cast iron frying pan off Amazon recently. It came pre-seasoned and all for less than twenty bucks. The damn thing also weighs a ton. In an unrelated incident, when Lachlan was visiting he had brought a six pack of beer and we had drunk five of the six before he left. And…