Better Living Through Blender Defenders?

[ 1 Comment ]Posted on October 20, 2008 by admin in Technology

Confession: I just wanted to post the funny cat video.

I was just saying to a friend the other day that if all the technologically creative minds in the world focused specifically on ideas that really mattered – like cleantech or election monitoring* – we could probably wipe out some of the world’s biggest basic problems. Sure, we might suffer slightly in personal ways if we had to go without radio-controlled golf balls, swimming pool snack caddies, or motion sensor blenders that keep our cat off the counter, but mightn’t it be worth it? By the way. Is it just me, or does that seem like a slightly cruel way to go about keeping your cat in line? Or is it just the fact that the guy seems obsessed with videotaping it?

* Ironically, that International Election monitoring link excludes North America

Colin Powell Endorses, Gives John A “Gotcha”

[ Comments Off ]Posted on October 19, 2008 by admin in Comics

Building A Dummer Hummer

[ 2 Comments ]Posted on October 19, 2008 by admin in Lifestyle & Culture

Don’t be a Hummerdinger, be a Hummer-dummer-er

Hummer-bashing is so 2002, but still amusing. You may have already seen fuh2.com, where people post pictures of themselves flipping off Hummers. Funny, but typically ineffective sissy treehugger protesting. Why not get a little more hands-on with tagadummer.com, where they provide you with a handy template to print the “D” that will make Hummers “Dummer”. But don’t get too hands on, it can be a felony. It’s also kind of fun to peruse flamed-out discussion threads with posts like “What would Jesus Drive?. A HUMMER. This one will take you across the desert, never getting stuck, would hold many Disciples and get you anywhere you need to be when God calls” . Nice argument, Cletus. Anti Hummer images run the gamut from the morbid 12 miles per gallon, 2 soldiers per day to the humorously Freudian now everyone will know. Personally, I’d recommend getting one right now, while petrol prices are down. There seem to be a lot sitting on the lots.

When Men Were Men, Women Were Chained, And Everyone Chain Smoked

[ 2 Comments ]Posted on October 19, 2008 by admin in Popular Media

…and your doctor could still recommend a good brand of cigarettes

I smoke and drink at the office, flirt with my secretary every chance I get, and my wife has dinner on the table every night when I get home from work. That is, if I get home from work. Maybe I stopped at my secret lover’s house on the way home, pretending I worked late and fell asleep at the desk. The world is full of bullet bras and men’s mags, but being divorced is considered scandalous. I smack my friends’ kids on the face when they misbehave, and no-one objects. Who Am I? I am a Mad Man. Or rather one of the Mad Men. I can’t stop watching this show, not because I’m a chauvinistic, chain-smoking, child-abusing alcoholic (although I may be one or two of those things) but because the creator of the show (primarily Matthew Weiner) has done such a brilliant job of capturing that weird sixties vibe of sexual/moral repression mixed with the new-found freedoms of the “modern life”. And done so with exceptional attention to style and detail (except for the typefaces, apparently). It’s like peeling away the simulacrum that was “Bewitched”. Instead of magic and a bumbling Darrin Stevens, we get reality and Don Draper. I think I’ll be obligated to buy the Zippo DVD/Lighter combo, but for now I’m torrenting the first few episodes.

Jonas Brothers Draw Over 100,000…

[ Comments Off ]Posted on October 18, 2008 by admin in Politics

…but not expected to be living in the White House next year, unlike the fellow in this amazing photo taken in Missouri this weekend. In case you can’t make out his face, that’s Barack Obama on stage.

…but not expected to be living in the White House next year, unlike the fellow in this amazing photo taken in Missouri this weekend. In case you can’t make out his face, that’s Barack Obama on stage.

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