No doubt you have heard that Sam, the world’s ugliest dog, died last week at the age of 14. And as you can see, he was indeed a very ugly dog. Sam, a tiny hairless crooked-toothed Chinese pedigree, was the three-time winner of the World’s Ugliest Dog competition. Apparently, he had a very pleasant disposition. You can read MSNBC’s story … Read More
Why I Am A Liberal
The Viscount LaCarte explains.
Blue Balls
This Internet timewaster is pretty cool. (Turn up the volume a bit)
Woman Sells Herself With House
I guess this is real. Deborah is 48 (although you wouldn’t know to look at her) and she has a house in Denver that she wants to sell for $600,000. To sweeten the deal, she is selling herself with the house. According to her website: I had not met that special someone to share this house with. My attempts included … Read More
Email Time Capsule
Forbes has a free service where you can send an email to yourself, and have it arrive in 1, 3, 5, 10, or even 20 years. An interesting idea. I don’t expect to use it, since I doubt I will have my email address 20 years from now. But it does raise a question: what would you write if you … Read More
Viral Video
This video of two Chinese students lip-synching to the Backstreet Boy’s "I Want It That Way" is the latest in "viral video" — homemade videos that, for some reason, get passed around, emailed, uploaded, downloaded, and talked about. Why everybody loves these silly homebaked videos, I do not know. But they are strangely compelling, like a bad car accident. Still, … Read More
Bored?
Then try to draw yourself as a police sketch.
Hurricane Farce
Read Billmon’s satirical "Hurricane Force" please.
Useful Database
Tired of being caught up in a big company’s automated recorded voicemail (also known as "voice-jail")? Want to speak to an actual human being? If so, then check out this online database. It shows you the phone "shortcut" so you don’t have to listen to all of the ridiculous menu options. Some examples: Astoria Federal Savings — 800-ASTORIA — When … Read More
This Guy Doesn’t Like Horses
No fan of the horsies, he.
Overheard in New York
I’m becoming a big fan of this website, whose name is self-explanatory: http://www.overheardinnewyork.com. Check it out. Speaking of New York, why can’t Ann Coulter shut up? UPDATE (8/29/05): Apparently conservatives are thinking the same thing. The Arizona Daily Star has dropped Ann Coulter as a syndicated columnist, with this explanation: Finally, we’ve decided that syndicated columnist Ann Coulter has worn … Read More
Please Help
Sigh. I really dislike those people. You know who I am talking about. I’m talking about people out there arguing for tax cuts for the rich, and whose idea of "supporting the troops" is to put a yellow ribbon on their car, and that’s it. Those people and their faux patriotism annoy me. And stuff like this is why. Grim … Read More
Bored?
Cynical-C has some web recommendations of interest: First, an animated gif of a plane getting hit by lightning, pictured here: And then, a website devoted to death row inmates’ last meals. Have fun!
Your Life’s Theme Song
Go here, enter your your birth date, and find out what was the #1 song on the charts for that day. Alternatively, you can determine your “life’s theme song” by entering the date of your 18th birthday. My birth song? “Sherry” (The Four Seasons) My life’s theme song? “Upside Down” (Diana Ross). Ummmm . . . okay . . . … Read More
Somebody’s In Deep Doo-Doo
This RealPlayer media file is nearly an hour long. It is a lecture from a biology class at Berkeley. The real fun begins at timestamp 48:45 or so. That’s where the professor explains the terrifying consequences that will soon befall the student that stole his laptop. Seems like the student (whoever he was) made a gross error in judgment, to … Read More