Since when did the “headlines” on cnn.com become merely a plethora of non-news bookmarks akin to something you’d expect to find on Digg? Yesterday I saw a link for JibJab’s Star Spangled Banner on CNN’s homepage; it was tucked away at the very bottom of “Latest News.” I guess CNN didn’t get enough hits from it because today they decided to bump it up a few notches, just below a story about five cheerleaders being killed in a “fiery” crash and just above another newsworthy piece on, you guessed it, Paris Hilton!
CNN should just introduce a rating system that allows people to rank “news” stories. They don’t need anything complex like Digg’s ranking system. A simpleton system similar to “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” would suffice. May I suggest “News It” or “Lose It.”
czech it: JibJab’s Star Spangled Banner(0)
Here’s a circumstantial case for Nancy Drew that requires no hard evidence: CNN and Court TV moral agency narc, Nancy Grace, 48!, who just got hitched on April 21, is four months pregnant. Despite one comment on reddit that speculates that the pregnancy could very well be the result of Parthenogenesis,the father of said [...]
(noun) \ˈan•əˌ•gram•ˈkrak•ər\
1. A graham cracker that can be formed by rearranging another cracker.
2. A person who can decipher anagrams without delay.
There’s this little boutique in Brookline that sticks out like a sore thumb, right next to my favorite place to get cake, Party Favors. It’s basically a Victoria Secret but for older, not as sexy women and moms. As you can see from this picture, the window displays are not enticing [...]
This week I picked Continental Airlines as the world wide freak for reasons that some of you may have already read. It appears that over 200 passengers were held in conditions usually reserved for public schools and Abu Ghraib on an overseas flight when the sceptic system overflowed causing sewage and human excrement to [...]
Oh man. One of my favorite childhood films is finally hitting DVD and I can’t wait to own it. It’s been so many years since I’ve seen The Monster Squad and I’m sure it’s just as rad as I remember.
“Bo-gus!”
Yesterday Corey, Droo, Dave and I traveled to Hull, MA to spend a day at the beach. When we first arrived, Droo had to find a bathroom while the rest of us had to find an ATM so we could purchase gray hamburgers to eat. After finding one ATM at an arcade that [...]
If you’re planning on heading down to Delcambre, Louisiana anytime soon, and I can’t imagine anyone is, make sure you pull your pants up. The Mayor of Delcambre, Carol Broussard, who is not a woman, doesn’t want saggy, baggy pants exposing any “private parts” in his fair city. If you do break the [...]
These eleven (hopefully) empty pizza boxes are not even the most boxes that we’ve had stacked up in our kitchen. Jenny informed me that at one time we had nineteen pizza boxes blocking out the sun in our kitchen. We like pizza a lot.
Ryan entre dans le café. Monique est seul à une table.
MONIQUE: Ryan! Ici!
RYAN: Salut Monique.
MONIQUE: Comment vas-tu?
RYAN: Comme ci comme ça. Et toi?
MONIQUE: Très très mal.
RYAN: Très très mal? Pourquoi?
MONIQUE: J’ai tombé de mes patins a roulettes!
RYAN: C’est drôle.
MONIQUE: Ce n’est pas [...]
Long before Bill Nye or Beakman’s World, there was Mr. Wizard on Nickelodeon. As a kid I always wished I could have had a science teacher like him. They don’t have shows for kids like this anymore.
Interesting side note: Copyright of Mr. Wizard’s World is now held by a corporation that prohibits the free distribution to today’s youth.
Los Angeles Times:
Don Herbert, who explained the wonderful world of science to young baby boomers on television in the 1950s and ’60s as “Mr. Wizard” and did the same for a later generation of youngsters on the Nickelodeon cable TV channel in the 1980s, died today. He was 89.
The Japanese have taken Tetris to an all new level of awesomeness using real people and cut out silhouettes in moving walls. It makes sense when you see the video.
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Two summers ago I had a run-in with the Coolidge Corner Animal Abuse Lady. Since then I have learned that no matter what, there will always be a craxy person yelling at people in Coolidge Corner. It’s just too good of a spot. I haven’t seen the Animal Abuse Lady in a [...]
This junk email caught my eye because I know an Ashley Long.
FROM: Elvin Stark <akstcsexodelujomnsdgs@sexodelujo.com>
SUBJECT: Re: RC1
Ashley Long works for a mad doctor in Las Vegas. There a few details that Ashley should be aware of and those are that there are glitches in the machine.The curious Ashley plays with and BOOM: There two dudes [...]