As mentioned in GMN, the reason it took you so long to get to work this morning is because of the GET MOTIVATED! business seminar currently underway at the Rose Garden. Though this may come as a shock, I decided against attending this seminar… but not because I think I’m too awesome (though—let’s face it, […]
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Your Perfect Family
As you probably already realize, your family pretty much sucks. They’re kind of evil people who don’t really care about anything but themselves and their boring, stupid problems. HOWEVER! There is a family out there who is much, much better! And it is THIS family! Oh, overweight centaur—would you please adopt me? (HERE’S A FUN […]
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This Is How Close We All Came to Dying. Horribly.
Nobody wins a nuclear war… unless you’re the United States and you take a whole mess o’ them dirty red Ivans with you! That’s the cheery premise of a 1956-1957 military training film recently unearthed by the National Archives. George Washington University says this once-lost film is perhaps the only government production that ever explicitly […]
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Seen Today in PDX: CHILDREN FOR SALE
I came across this sign during a recent drive along SE 17th Ave: It definitely gave pause to my driving, as my mind wandered towards Swiftian notions of children for sale. Good thing they added that “s” in there at the last second.
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Being Catholic: There’s An App For That
Who says popes are old fashioned? The Catholic church just approved the “Confession” app (which at $1.99 is a bargain compared to the 10-percent-of-income tithe), in which you can “keep track of your sins”—w0000t. Peep the handy sinning checklist system: It’s being marketed as “the perfect aid for every penitent,” and if that doesn’t sell […]
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India’s Terminator Makes Our Terminator Look Like Poopinator
If you are James Cameron, Michael Bay, or for that matter any person currently living in the United States of America, prepared to get your ass HUMILIATED by the most AH-MAY-ZING robot flick ever. What follows is a ten minute (and worth every goddamn second) excerpt from India’s incredibly popular flick Ethiran (or Robot) which […]
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Sarah Palin Breathes…
… and it’s just as uncomfortable as everything else she does. (via The Rumpus)
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What Does the Billboard Hot 100 Indicate Anymore?
There was a piece in NPR’s Morning Edition today about Billboard’s new “Social 50” chart that tracks music sales and popularity through social networks like Facebook and Twitter. At the end of the story there was a tag about what song is currently topping Billboard’s Ye Old Hot 100 chart, a supposed indicator of what […]
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This Is Why They’re Not Hired to Talk
This Katie Couric interview with hand model Ellen Sirot is c r e e p y. I wonder if she ever stops with the balletic hand gestures and psycho-mommy soothing voice. She does have a point, though—Couric’s “sexy hands” do kinda suck ass. Via.
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Whipped Loko?
For those of you who were upset that Four Loko is disappearing or changing then I have (good?) news for you. It’s called Whipped Lightning. The Nayshun No, this isn’t a joke. It’s whipped cream infused with alcohol. The website for Whipped Lightning describes it as Whipahol. They have nine flavors of Whipped Lightning, including […]
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The 2010 Black Friday Trampling Award Goes To…
… BUFFALO, NEW YORK! Congrats to the early bird shoppers of Buffalo, who piled up in a squealing mass of humanity when the doors of the local Target store were thrown open on the biggest/nastiest shopping day of the year. Thankfully nobody appears to have been seriously hurt, except maybe for that one guy doubled […]
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Ron Wyden Puts Hold on Aggressive Copyright-Protecting Powers
rawstory.com On Thursday, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a bill that would grant the Department of Justice the power to shut down any domestic website suspected to rely on copyright infringement as “central” to its activity. A site would not need to have committed a crime to be shut down—suspicion is sufficient grounds […]