Friday, March 30, 2007

Ancient riddle of the Great Pyramid's construction solved?

A French architect will unveil the fruits of eight years' work and announce at a conference in Paris tomorrow that he has finally solved one of the most puzzling construction problems in history by working out how the ancient Egyptians built such a massive structure without the benefit of iron tools, pulleys or wheels.



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Thursday, March 29, 2007

Darth Vader gargoyle watches from Washington National Cathedral

Everyone knows who Darth Vader is but not that many people know that his likeness adorns the Washington National Cathedral.



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50-Foot Michael Jackson Robot may roam the Vegas Desert!!

It's true! Along with a come-back Vegas show, plans are being discussed for a giant Jacko Robot that will fire frickin' laser beams from it's head, and welcome flights into Las Vegas. I kid you not....



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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Ask Jason Anything XII

You people must have questions you need answered, and I'm more than willing to use my vast intellect to answers those questions for you. So fire away.

And for heavens sake, someone other than Gwenhwyfar ask something for a change.

Answers in a few days....

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Just noticed...

I know a couple of my readers are big Penn Jillette fans like I am, and might be interested to know that he has been updating his blog thing at P&T.com a little more often now that he doesn't have the radio show (3 posts this month as compared to 2 posts all of last year).

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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Yep, really liking Lio


Another excellent strip.

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Police: Man swiped 1,500 women's undies

Police found enough underwear in the 24 year old's bedroom to fill five garbage bags. "He said he had a problem," police said. YOU THINK?



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Time Magazine Prints Different Cover For US Edition

TIME's cover story in every edition but the American one is "Talibanistan", a story about the resurgence of the Taliban. TIME's cover for the US: "Why We Should Teach the Bible in Public School".



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A word of advice

If you own a $1.5 million dollar car don't let a Z-list actor drive it.

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Monday, March 26, 2007

Lio - Newish comic strip



I hadn't heard of Lio until today, when I saw yesterday's strip posted on one of the For Better or For Worse hater websites. I haven't jumped fully on board the "I hate FBorFW" bandwagon, but some of Lynn's plots as of late have been somewhat ham-fisted. Lio however is terrific, I went back and looked at a few weeks worth of strips. It's different, in that it is an all visual gag strip that never has dialougue (this example excluded of course).

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Vacation Policy at Netflix: Take as much as you want

Salaried employees at the online movie retailer often leave for three, four, even five weeks at a time and never clock in or out. Vacation limits and face-time requirements, says Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings, are "a relic of the industrial age." What a great policy. I can't picture many other companies adopting it, but it would great for any workplace with a mature hard-working staff.



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10 Strange Facts About Einstein

So you think you know Albert Einstein: the absent-minded genius who gave us the theory of relativity (two of them, in fact, special theory and general theory of relativity), but did you know that Einstein was born with an especially large head that his mother thought he was deformed? Or that Einstein had a secret child before he was married?...



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Amazing UFO-shaped Complex to be Built in Moscow

Moscow's South West area will be graced by a giant "flying saucer"- shaped building "Galaktika" (Galaxy), which will "hover" over the busy intersection of Michurin and Lobachevski streets. It will include a shopping center, hotel, plenty of parking and even helicopter landing pads.



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Sunday, March 25, 2007

Tolkien's son finishes final Lord Of The Rings book

The first new LotR book in 30 years is set to be published worldwide on April 17th



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RIAA, Dissatisfied with suing disabled woman, goes after 10 Yr-Old daughter

Seriously, someone needs to do something about these asshats.



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The award for most phallic logo goes to....

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Sister of Dying Man Refuses to Donate Bone Marrow to Save His Life


Crazy, I'd cough up whole organs to save a lot of people I'm not even related to and this crazy bitch won't even give some marrow to save her brother who has 3 small children. People like that make me hope there is a hell. She definitely deserves to be Douche of the Week.



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Saturday, March 24, 2007

Would You Pay 14,000 Dollars for A Handful of Green Tea?

A Chinese man pays 14,000 dollars for just 200 grams of green tea. What is it about the tea? Is the Dragonwell tea worth that much money?



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Harry Houdini's Body To Be Exhumed, To See if He Was Murded

For all of his death-defying stunts, Harry Houdini couldn't escape the Grim Reaper: the unparalleled performer, age 52, expired on Halloween 1926. Many of his trade secrets went with him to the grave - but rumors that Houdini was murdered soon took on a life of their own.



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Atheists give free hugs to fellow students; jerk says they're hellbound

"Free Hugs from Atheists" event was confronted by crazy-ass preacher who refused to be hugged and condemned them all to Hell. Way to show the Christian Love, Frank!



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Friday, March 23, 2007

Mel Gibson Says -- "Lady, F**k Off!"

Mel Gibson exploded in anger last night on a college campus after an expert on Mayan culture acussed him of racially stereotyping the Mayans in the movie "Apocalypto." I thought Mel Gibson had gone away and we didn't have to hear from him anymore...guess I was wrong.



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Study: Alcohol Worse Than Narcotics

New "landmark" research finds that alcohol and tobacco are more dangerous than some illegal drugs like marijuana or Ecstasy and should be classified as such in legal systems, according to a new British study.



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The ultimate Aston Martin is coming: The DBX

The DBX will come equipped with a V12, producing over 700 HP and dispatching the sprint to 60 in under 3.7 seconds. Take that level of performance and match it with Aston Martin's gorgeous lines and you've got the ultimate mechanical pin up.



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Massive solar storm coming in 2012

The last time we had a solar storm this big (1958), northern lights were seen in Mexico!



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Thursday, March 22, 2007

Light Echoes From a Red Supergiant

Light echo reveals amazing dust patterns around the the star V838 Monocerotis



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Larry "Bud" Melman Dead at 85


Calvert DeForest, the roly-poly character actor with the black-framed glasses and seemingly clueless delivery who developed a cult following as Larry "Bud" Melman on "Late Night with David Letterman" in the 1980s, has died. He was 85.



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75 per cent of Google's blogspot blogs are spam

75% of blogs on Google's blogspot.com are spam - this was the conclusion of a survey conducted by the WebmasterWorld. It showed that some of the top sites providing free space for bloggers are sometimes exclusively spam.



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Top 15 Unintentionally Funny Comic Book Panels

Comics are great because as they get older not only do they get more valuable but they also get funnier.



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Elton John signs entire back catalog exclusively to iTunes

Elton John did what everyone expected the Beatles to do: made his entire career's worth of music available online, exclusively through iTunes.



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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Coolest toy ever...

I am so buying one of these:

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Teacher suspended for running pro-gay editorial in school paper

My favourite quote from the article "They were then directed to assistant superintendent Andy Melin, who claimed that the opinion piece was biased." Uhhhh...no shit, it's an opinion piece, every single op-ed piece ever published has been biased.



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Director David O. Russell Goes Nuts

From the set of I Heart Huckabees.

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Dumb things people say in court...

My favourite:

Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?

A: No.

Q: Did you check for blood pressure?

A: No.

Q: Did you check for breathing?

A: No.

Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began
the autopsy?

A: No.

Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor?

A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.

Q: But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?

A: It is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere

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Beware Canned Atlantic Herring in Russia (PICTURES)

Chernobyl brand?



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SpaceX Successfully Launches Falcon 1 Rocket

Privately owned space exploration company SpaceX moments ago successfully launched its Falcon 1 rocket. The rocket was developed entirely by SpaceX. According to company founder Elon Musk, who previously co-founded Zip2 and PayPal, the Falcon 1’s success will drive the cost of space access down “ultimately by a factor of 10.”



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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Just in case...

If anyone from the good old US of A sees this today, don't forget to vote for Sanjaya on American Idol tonight, his winning the completion should finally kill that show.

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Tim Kring talks Heroes

Heroes creator talks a little about this season's 3 part season finale and season 2.



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Marvel Theme Park Coming to Dubai

Too bad I have zero desire to vacation anywhere in the Middle East.



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I need some help here...

Can someone explain to me how a budget that gives us almost 3 times as much new money per capita as any other province is a bad thing? Everyone was getting their panties twisted in a knot demanding that the feds cough up a fairytale like $800 million. The incompetent provincial government wouldn't even know what to do with that much money. As it is they'll likely just flush the money they got on a potato processing operation, pulp mill or to reward government managers convicted of assaulting their employees.

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The Ant and the Grasshopper

******Note this is a humour post, not commentary on race relations******

*OLD VERSION*:


The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

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*TODAY'S MODERN VERSION:*

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.

CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, "It's Not Easy Being Green."

Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome." Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.

Nancy Pelosi & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.

Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients.
The ant loses the case.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it. The ant
has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote

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Wikimedia Chooses Picture of the Year

Some stunning picures in this group...



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Ask Jason Anything: Round 11 Answers

Apparently Gwenhwyfar is the only one in search of knowledge this week.

Why the fuck is my stupid connection so fucking bad right now? grrrr... stupid slow internet.

meh? Mine has been fine as of late so I'll blame on your silly fruit computer.

Heard any new music lately... that doesn't suck?

Loving the debut album from Mika, Life in Cartoon Motion.

For that matter, heard any music that does suck?

Anything emo.

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The Big Ten List of Little People

Love them or hate them, join me as we celebrate the world's greatest midgets.



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Sunday, March 18, 2007

Anyone else?

Anyone else out there do the Test the Nation IQ test on CBC tonight? I scored a mostly respectable 130 (this is in line with scores I've gotten on previous IQ tests)...although I'm kicking myself for missing a couple of fairly obvious answers.

You can take the test online at the CBC's website.

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Looks Like 'Bond 22' Will Indeed Be Direct Sequel to Casino Royale

Production designer Peter Lamont, who has worked on nearly every Bond film in some capacity, briefly discussed Bond 22 at a tribute to Pinewood Studios in France last week and confirmed the sequel approach.



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How others see me...

A sketch on an envelope by my cousin. Ya, my family loves me :P

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Photo of what China claims to be the 'world's largest bus'

Methinks the Chinese are overcompensating for something...



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Saturday, March 17, 2007

What does $200,000,000 look like?

Something like this apparently, from a recent raid on a Mexican meth cartel. The money is mostly US $100 bills and weighed a little over 2 tons.

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They say it's your birthday...

Happy Birthday to "she who can't be named on this blog". Love you sweetheart.

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Jeopardy History: March 16, 2007


So my theory is that champion Scott Weiss realized that he can crush the other 2 players any day of the week and thusly wagered the way he did so he could have a rematch and line his pocket some more (excellent game playing tactic by a Computer Science professor).

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Why did your employees ejaculate into my grandmother's milkshake?

An actual question in the FAQ section of the UK McDonald's web site. How often has this question been asked to get on the FAQ page???



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Friday, March 16, 2007

Creepy photo series of two-headed creatures born in China in 2007

Already this year: humans, pigs, cows, turtles, fossils ... and it's only March. Don't drink the water!



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Tumor V. Pot... Government Picks Tumor.

***Link is to suicidegirls so some of the ads may no be safe for work***
Gotta love the US government. Poor woman is dying of cancer, lives in a state where medicinal marijuana is legal and has a prescription, yet the federal government wants to prosecute her anyway. Why are states even allowed to make their own laws if the feds are just going to walk all over them?



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Girl finds missing dog's head in box on doorstep

Seriously, what the fuck is the matter with people?



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Thursday, March 15, 2007

RIAA lawsuit hits family with no computer or Internet access

Yup, love the RIAA. They aren't too insane.



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Reality Check - 03/15/07



Rapidly becoming one of my favourite comic strips.

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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Russian man grows penis on arm!!

Yes there is a picture. May not be safe for work, depending on your workplace's stance on arm-cock.



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Ask Jason Anything: Round 11

Fire away Mofos. Answers in less than 10 days this time.

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The Return of Ask Jason Anything: Answers

Ya I was being slow and lazy at answering questions. So what!

Jason writes:

"How many Jason Doans can you find?
I have found 4, including myself?

Can you do better?

-Jason Doan
Montreal, Quebec"


I found 37, let me know when you've tracked them all down and I'll try and do better.

Gwenhwyfar writes:

"Why does my co-worker have to be such a bitch? "

Who's more bitchy? The bitch or the bitch who bitches about the bitch? I think it must have something to do with the workplace itself as everyone I've met who works there has been bitchy, except that girl at your birthday party who wears pink and smiles a lot, but she cleary has a serious meth addiction.

Where the fuck are the answers?

Right here. Duh.

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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Pictures of real jackalopes

Seeing these pics will change your impression of the "cute little rabbit". They're just really, really weird looking.



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US Rep Defends Mixtapes and Mashups on Floor of Congress

Pennsylvania’s Democratic Representative Mike Doyle made a moving statement on the congressional floor last week in defense of music mashups and mix tapes. Doyle discussed remix artist Girl Talk, arrested mix tape maker DJ Drama and even Paul McCartney’s admission that he used a bass line right out of a Chuck Berry song.



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Post #400

In keeping with my tradition of marking anniversary posts with new features on the blog I've added a new widget on the right hand side of the page.

I recently started reading a lot of blogs and news sites using Google Reader. Now anytime I see a story or post that I like and want to share I just have to click on the share button on the story and it will pop up on that bar. Clicking on a headline will take you to the article o whatever site it's from. Clicking on "Read More" at the bottom of the frame will take you to a page with all the stories I've decided to share.

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Cruel?

Likely, but I don't exactly feel sorry for her.

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Animated Atari Pong T-Shirt

Sweet!



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Top 30 Strangest Deaths in History

My favorites: Death by Drowning at Lifeguard Party and Death by Garbage



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True dat...

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Zero Credibility

I was just checking out the winners of the 2007 Bloggie awards. Can someone explain how it is even remotely possible that Postsecret lost to this pile of crap, in the Best American Blog category, but went on to win Weblog of the Year? How can Flickrblog, a site with no original content that is updated maybe twice a week, win the photography blog award over a site like Stuck in Customs? How can PerezHilton.com win the GBLT award? Just because he is constantly trying to out people the homos wish were gay?

This is what happens when you let the public vote. Popularity is mistaken for quality.

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PICTURE: Solar Eclipse Viewed From Spacecraft

The fantastically-colored star is our own sun as STEREO sees it in four wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light. The black disk is the Moon. "We caught a lunar transit of the sun," she explains.



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Monday, March 12, 2007

Pictures of the Craziest Urinals From Around the World

Odd. Just odd.



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Sex Theme Park (Pics)

Koreans are weird. Oh and this is probably Not Safe For Work.



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PICTURES : Amazing Storms

A collection of pictures of impressive storms.



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FUTURAMA: BENDER’S BIG SCORE - Title to new Futurama movie!

Obey the Hypno-Toad!With production chugging on the new FUTURAMA direct-to-DVD movies, Matt Groening spilled to iF Magazine about what's to come and the extras that'll be added to make them into a new season of FUTURAMA for Comedy Central. The first movie, BENDER'S BIG SCORE, hits in December. "Everybody Loves Hyptno-Toad," is in your future!



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Ya, that seems about right...

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Sunday, March 11, 2007

Girls suspended over "Vagina Monologues"

A public high school has suspended three students who disobeyed officials by saying the word "vagina" during a reading from the "Vagina Monologues", a well-known feminist play. Since when is "vagina" vulgar? Should they have said "cunt" instead?



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Richard Jeni Dead: Comedian Found Shot, Self Inflicted?

:("The way I see life, is like we're all flying on the Hindenburg...Why fight over the window seats?" - Richard Jeni



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Some 'Dark Knight' Developments

Some cool new developments for next year's Batman flick 'The Dark Knight.' First up, Maggie Gyllenhaal is in final talks to star opposite Christian Bale as Rachel Dawes. Katie Holmes, as you may grudgingly remember, played Rachel in 2005's Batman Begins, but dropped out of the project earlier in the year.



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PICTURES: Beijing Olympic Stadium

The futuristic architecture of the main stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing is absolutely stunning.



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Saturday, March 10, 2007

Weirdest Fetish Ever - Mechanic has sex with his cars

Literally. I wish I could make something like this up.



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Brilliant!

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Friday, March 09, 2007

Continuing with the comic theme...

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I laughed out loud...

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Another Quiz

You scored as Libertarian. For you, government has no right to limit personal or economic freedoms whatsoever. You want government off your back and out of your pockets! For you, national government should be as small as possible, providing only essential services, such as mail delivery and national security. Local authorites have a better understanding of the needs of its citizenry.

Libertarian


83%

Fascist


67%

Liberal


58%

Anarchist


58%

Conservative


50%

Centrist


42%

Socialist/Marxist


33%

Environmentalist (Green)


0%

What is your true Political Ideology?
created with QuizFarm.com

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Things on Earth

This series of photos include the largest seed on earth, the longest residential building, Largest Quicksand, Largest Flower / Parasite, Deepest Cave, Largest impact crater, Lowest Elevation, Windiest place, Highest Elevation, Hottest place, Wettest place, Smallest Park, Tallest water fall, Thickest Ice Sheet, and Most populated city



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Coolest socks ever!

I know there are a couple of knitters who read my blog. On an unrelated note I have size 13 feet. Just in case anyone needed to know. For any reason whatsoever :P



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Thursday, March 08, 2007

The 'Burger King' Will Have His Own Movie ... Sigh

Apparently this ad campaign has been something special for the BK corporation -- it even spawned a series of Xbox video games that some of my friends call "addictively awful." But now comes word that the King of Burgers is about to make the leap to the silver screen. Yes, that's right: A feature film centered around a corporate mascot.



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UK Jedi fear lightsabre ban

This story tells about the 390,000 Jedi in the UK who fear that they will no longer be able to carry lightsabres in public



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Spider-man 3: 'Venom' art and production photos

Check out these kick-ass studio concepts for the next comic book villain costume to be featured in the Spider-man movie series. Topher Grace wears the skin crawling costume well from theory through reality.



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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Sadness :(

Was just catching up on listening to the episodes of Penn Radio on my iPod and hit the March 2nd episode which is the last episode of the show. Damn it! It was a great way to filter out the noise at work for an hour or so a night. On the upside, the new season of Penn & Teller: Bullshit! starts March 22nd.

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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Great Ice Cream or The Greatest Ice Cream?

Details Here

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The Top 10 Corporate Moments In Rock

"...to say that the profitable nature of the record business has skyrocketed since the days of Buddy Holly and "Rock Around The Clock" would be an understatement of gargantuan proportion"



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50,000 Galaxies in a single picture.


My, how small and insignifigant we truly are. You can read the article about the image here. Click image for larger version.

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Northwest Airlines Worker Ejaculates on Passenger

***Make up you own gels and liquids on a plane joke***



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Ya that about sums it up.

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Companies to pull ads from Coulter's Web site

At least three major companies want their ads pulled from Ann Coulter's Web site, following customer complaints about the right-wing commentator referring to Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards as a "faggot."

Again, the day after I make someone the "Douche of the Week" misfortune befalls them. Fear me Douches. Fear me.



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Canada has most positive image worldwide: Survey

Israel, Iran and the United States were the countries with the most negative image in a globe-spanning survey of attitudes toward 12 major nations. Canada and Japan came out best in the poll, released Tuesday.



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Pointless Family Photo of the Year - Pic


uhhhhh...

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Monday, March 05, 2007

Moon Eclipse Phases


Moon Eclipse Phases
Originally uploaded by Mauro Massari.
For anyone who missed the Lunar eclipse on Saturday night (of course it wasn't this visible in this part of the world).

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Saudi Gang Rape VICTIM Sentenced to 90 Lashes

A Saudi woman who was kidnapped at knifepoint, gang-raped and then beaten by her brother has been sentenced to 90 lashes - for a meeting a man who was not a relative, a newspaper reported. Always such nice news coming out of the Middle East. I don't know how some of those countries get such a bad reputation.



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Mario Communist Edition

How Mario would have looked under a communist regime.



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The Return of Ask Jason Anything

For anyone who might be new, here's the deal. You ask questions in the comment section of this post and I'll answer them in a new post in a few days. You can ask questions on any topic you'd like and if I don't know the answer I'll just make up some bullshit.

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And this weeks big weiner is:


Anne Coulter - Ok, I know it's redundant and she never stops being a giant douchebag but still, check this out.

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World's Dorkiest Tattoo

.....eh.....



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Top 10 Funniest Gadgets

If you’ve always wanted an easier way to rewind your DVDs, look no furthur than the “DVD Rewinder”. You’ll find that and more in this amusing list of gadgets.



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Cool Billboard.

You've seen some creative billboards in the past, but this has got to be one of the best.



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Saturday, March 03, 2007

10 Reasons I Didn't Start a MySpace Account

I didn't write this, but it's pretty damn accurate.



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Friday, March 02, 2007

SPIDER-MAN 3 MEETS NBC'S HEROES

Press Release

Exclusive Seven and a Half-Minute Scene from Spider-ManTM 3 Debuts Online at NBC.com Following Cliffhanger Episode of "Heroes"

Spider-ManTM 3 Scene to be NBC.com's First HD Stream

CULVER CITY and BURBANK, Calif., March 1, 2007 – As Peter Parker's Aunt May once said, there's a hero in all of us. That will be true as Monday, March 5, becomes a night of heroes – Columbia Pictures, in anticipation of the release of Spider-ManTM 3 on May 4, will air an exclusive one-minute clip from the film during the broadcast of a cliffhanger episode of NBC's top-rated new show "Heroes," then premiere seven and a half minutes from the film online, exclusively on NBC.com, for 24 hours.

As "Heroes" moves towards the exciting conclusion of its second story arc of its first season, viewers of the show and Spider-Man fans will get a look at Spider-ManTM 3 with a brand-new 60-second clip from the movie that contains a cliffhanger of its own. Then, immediately following the broadcast, Web-crawling viewers and moviegoers can go online to catch the premiere of a revealing seven and a half-minute film sequence that will have viewers on the edge of their seats as it is streamed in high definition at NBC.com.

"'Heroes' and Spider-Man both share a common theme: everyday people and how they deal with finding themselves in extraordinary circumstances," said Valerie Van Galder, President of Domestic Marketing for the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group. "Because of that, this is a great programming marriage – it makes for a night of event television and a rare opportunity to see a scene from one of the summer's most highly anticipated movies. We couldn't be more excited to unveil seven and a half minutes of the movie to help whet the appetites of Spider-Man fans everywhere."

"We're so pleased to be teaming up with Columbia Pictures to present our audience with such an exciting event," said Vivi Zigler, Executive Vice President, NBC Digital Entertainment and New Media. "This partnership not only gives our users an exclusive sneak-peek at Spider-ManTM 3 – a film they will undoubtedly want to see – but also increases the richness of their experience by allowing them to stream it in HD, a first for NBC.com."

The one-minute Spider-ManTM 3 clip will drive viewers to NBC.com to see the exclusive seven and a half-minute scene from the movie, which is NBC.com's first-ever HD-streamed presentation, on any platform. The event will be promoted with ads in USA Today, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and TV Guide, as well as online and on the radio. It will also be heavily promoted on NBC.

Columbia Pictures' Spider-ManTM 3 reunites the cast and filmmakers from the first two blockbuster adventures for a web of vengeance, love, and forgiveness that will transport worldwide audiences to thrilling new heights on May 4, 2007.

In Spider-ManTM 3, based on the legendary Marvel Comics series, Peter Parker has finally managed to strike a balance between his devotion to M.J. and his duties as a superhero. But there is a storm brewing on the horizon. When his suit suddenly changes, turning jet-black and enhancing his powers, it transforms Peter as well. Under the influence of the suit, Peter's pride and overconfidence take hold and he begins to neglect the ones he cares about the most. As two of the most-feared villains yet, Sandman and Venom, gather unparalleled power and a thirst for retribution, Spider-Man's greatest battle is the one within himself – he will need to rediscover who he is and what makes him the hero people love.

Columbia Pictures Presents A Marvel Studios/Laura Ziskin Production Spider-ManTM 3 starring Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace, Bryce Dallas Howard, James Cromwell, Rosemary Harris, and J.K. Simmons. The film is directed by Sam Raimi. The screenplay is by two-time Oscar® winner Alvin Sargent and the screen story by Sam Raimi & Ivan Raimi and based on the Marvel Comic Book by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. The producers are Laura Ziskin, Avi Arad, and Grant Curtis. The executive producers are Stan Lee, Kevin Feige, and Joseph M. Caracciolo.

About Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures, part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, is a Sony Pictures Entertainment company. Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America (SCA), a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation. SPE's global operations encompass motion picture production and distribution; television production and distribution; digital content creation and distribution; worldwide channel investments; home entertainment acquisition and distribution; operation of studio facilities; development of new entertainment products, services and technologies; and distribution of filmed entertainment in 67 countries. Sony Pictures Entertainment can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.sonypictures.com.

About NBC Entertainment and NBC.com

NBC Entertainment develops and schedules programming for the network's primetime, late-night, and daytime schedules. NBC's quality programs and balanced lineup have earned the network critical acclaim, ratings success, particularly among young, upscale viewers, and numerous awards, including more Emmy Awards than any network in television history.

NBC.com is the most visited broadcast television site and the online home for the most affluent and educated broadcast television audience including unique offerings, such as interactive content, text and video blogs, and more.

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Thursday, March 01, 2007

What Would Jesus Wiki?

An alternative Wikipedia written by conservative Christians has become a major target of mockery on the web.

Conservapedia, a wiki-based encyclopedia that offers the historical record from a conservative perspective, is attracting lots of derisive comments on blogs and a growing number of phony articles written by mischief makers.


"Conservapedia is a much-needed alternative to Wikipedia, which is increasingly anti-Christian and anti-American. " Ok then...



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