Opening Day
The Line-up: 1. Jacoby Ellsbury, CF 2. Dustin Pedroia, 2B 3. Carl Crawford, LF 4. Kevin Youkilis, 3B 5. Adrian Gonzalez, 1B 6. David Ortiz, DH 7. Mike Cameron, RF 8. Jarrod Saltalamacchia, C 9. Marco Scutaro, SS How does this season look? Gooooood: As the Major League Baseball season hits full swing this weekend, a Massachusetts professor predicts the … Read More
Other April Fools Pranks This Year
NOTE: These links won't work tomorrow. Or rather, the links will work, but the gags won't be there. (1) Funny or Die website is all Rebecca Black. (2) YouTube takes a look at YouTube back in 1911. (3) Hulu.com goes back to the 1990's (90's web look, 90's TV shows….) (4) Kodak is offering photo tattoos. (5) Wikipedia's featured article is … Read More
Google’s April Fools Day Pranks
What? You thought the announcement of Google Motion was the prank? Yeah, that was kinda funny. But it isn't all Google has in its fun bag for today: (1) Searching 'Helvetic' on Google changes the font on the search page to everyone's favorite font: Comic Sans. (2) Google has added various wild animals to its maps on Google Earth. For example, … Read More
Dear Netflix
It is so COOL that I can get videos streaming to my TV, for a flat fee per month. And I get your RSS feed which tells me all the news things you have on "Instant Queue", like Glee (Season 1), Ken Burns' Baseball and The Graduate. I was especially glad to see Spaulding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia on the … Read More
3eanuts
Eliminating the last panel from any Peanuts cartoon plunges Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy and the whole gang into a pit of existentialist despair. Yeah, there's a website devoted to this.
Awkward Family Photos
You should visit more often.
Bachmann Follies Part LXVIII
No, Michelle, the Battle of Lexington and Concord didn't take place in New Hampshire. UPDATE: Video
Art Of The Day
Activists of the militant-feminist wing of Russian renegade art group Voina, the guys behind the penis bridge stunt, attack female police officers with kisses.
Angry Birds — Letters From The Front Lines
Dearest Martha, It has been some time since I've had the opportunity to write you, perhaps seven or eight levels. The green pigs have fortified their defenses and there seems to be no end to this madness. They are an industrious lot who have remarkable construction skills in spite of their lack of arms or legs. They're a formidable enemy … Read More
A Middle Age Man (Me) Reacts To The New Britney Spears Video
Oh, my. An asteroid heading toward Earth. This can't be good. Whew. Apparently the asteroid was merely providing power for this video. They started shooting this video before the backup dancers were dressed. How embarrassing for them. One would have thought that Britney could afford a larger stage. Britney in a wedding dress is defying gravity on the set … Read More
Follow-up: It Was A “Complex Migraine”, Not A Stroke
Serene Branson, the reporter at the Grammys, I mean.