Month: January 2006

Since The State Of The Union Address falls on a work night as usual, I probably won’t fully engage in a Drinking Game. However, I can tell you that I’ll need a couple to get through it. 😉 Here are some suggestions for those of you that do want to play along:

• The State Of The Union Drinking Game 2006
• The George W Bush 2006 State of the Union drinking game
• State of the Union 2006: Make Your Party Plans Now

Enjoy! I know I’ll be nice and surly… 😉

The Borowitz Report reports that “For the first time since he was elected President of the United States, George W. Bush’s State of the Union address tonight will be simulcast in English, the White House confirmed.”

• “Project Censored” News Stories of 2005 [commondreams.org]
  “Project Censored specializes in covering the top news stories which were either ignored or downplayed by the mainstream media each year.”
  (tags: 2005 list politics military conspiracy news business)
• Senators figure out the Broadcast Flag, curse it as an abomination! [Boing Boing]
  ‘bout time they got their heads out of their asses and realized what a joke the RIAA (and MPAA, for that matter) is…
  (tags: drm politics)
• Comparing Christian beliefs in U.S. with those of other countries
  interesting survey of 17 countries…
  [via reddit]
  (tags: religion)
• Soviet Moon Images
  “Russian probes returned the first images of the Lunar far side and the first images from the Lunar surface. …the final phase of Soviet exploration included a number of impressive robotic missions, returning samples and roving the surface.”
  (tags: space astronomy images photography)
• Guardian Interview With Joshua Schachter, Creator of del.icio.us
  [via Slashdot]
  (tags: del.icio.us www yahoo)
• Wikipedia Entries “Cleaned” By Political Staffers [Slashdot]
  “U.S. Rep Marty Meehan’s staff has been heavily editing his Wikipedia bio, among other things removing criticisms.” And he’s not the only one. I love Wikipedia, but this is typical of the abuse that is possible because of its openness.
  (tags: politics dick reference)
• Milestone: “Scrubs”
  Nice article on “Scrubs,” with this interesting info: “There is strong talk that ‘Scrubs’ could be heading to ABC after this season, which would only make sense given that it’s a Touchstone TV production and therefore an ABC cousin…”
  [via Blogniscient]
  (tags: tv)
• Separation of Church and State Quiz
  [via The J-Walk Blog]
  (tags: religion history game)
• Public Image Ltd on American Bandstand [Screenhead/YouTube]
  (tags: music video 80s tv)
• State of the Union 2006 [YouTube]
  funny video predicting what tomorrow’s State Of The Union might be like… 🙂
  [via MetaFilter]
  (tags: video humor politics w)
• Bush Whacked 2 [Google Video]
  another State Of The Union satire, this one taking some liberties with footage from the 2003 address…
  [via MetaFilter]
  (tags: video humor politics w)
• Gallery of Demonic Tots and Deeply Disturbing Cuisine [Plan59]
  As Boing Boing states, this gallery “features scans of vintage food advertisements in which children leer at plates of foood with expressions that transcend mere eagerness and shade over to scary, demonic malice.”
  (tags: images ads weird)
• Fear of Girls [Google Video]
  Check out this hilarious short film chronicling the lives of two Dungeons & Dragons devotees… 🙂
  [via Slashdot]
  (tags: humor video)

Screenhead unearths an unusual video of Public Image Ltd.’s appearance on American Bandstand:

Johnny wanders around for a bit not lip-synching the song Poptones, which pisses off aptly named Dick Clark. Possbly the best thing on American Bandstand. We’ve had this on before, but the link died quickly after being featured. Probably our most requested clip, here’s YouTube to the rescue.

I love this kind of stuff… 🙂

• IMDb.com adds TV show seasons on main details page
  “While the info has always been there, IMDb has added Season Numbers on their main details page for easy access to guest star info, trivia, cast, and general episode info.”
  (tags: tv movies reference)
• Beer Pouring Robots [OhGizmo!]
  “If you live in Japan however, you should know that Asahi is running a promotion where they’ll be giving away 5,000 fully stocked refrigerator robots.” The robots can also pour a mug full of beer. Sweet…
  (tags: beer hardware)

• Google pulls ‘we don’t censor’ statement [The Register]
  quite disappointing…
  (tags: google politics)
• Stephen Colbert Interview – The A.V. Club
  Great interview by The Onion…
  (tags: humor tv politics)
• 7 myths about the Challenger shuttle disaster [MSNBC.com]
  20 years later, “Historians, reporters, and every citizen need to take the time this week to remember what really happened, and especially to make sure their memories are as close as humanly possible to what really did happen.”
  (tags: nasa space science politics engineering)
• James Frey Kicked Out Of Oprah’s Book Club On Her Show [New York Times]
  (tags: tv literature)
• Motion Picture Ass. of America makes ass of itself [The Register]
  “If it’s your job to stop people pirating movies, you should really be very careful not to get caught making pirate copies.”
  (tags: movies politics drm dick)

links for 2006-01-26

• Bush the Incompetent [Washington Post]
  Iraq, Katrina, and Medicare, oh my!
  (tags: w politics health military dick)
• New Nano Material Is Tougher Than Diamond [Jerusalem Post]
  “The team broke the world hardness record by combining quantum mechanics, chemistry and mechanical engineering. They synthesized polyyne, a superhard molecular rod comprised of acetylene units – that resists 40 times more longitudinal compression than a diamond.”
  (tags: engineering)
• TiVo undelete forthcoming [Engadget]
  It’s pretty difficult to accidentally delete a TiVo program, but I guess on occasion I wanted to keep something that I deleted.
  (tags: tivo tv)
• DuckHunt 1945
  Check out this cool mashup of Duck Hunt and 1945…
  [via BoingBoing]
  (tags: games flash videogames arcade 80s)
• fastr – a flickr game
  game in which you guess the flickr tag based on images tagged as such. addictive…
  (tags: games flickr photography images)
• “When I Wake Up” – Wintergreen
  A bizarre video chronicling the horribly crappy Atari 2600 E.T. game and a quest to find where millions of returned cartridges got buried.
  (tags: video music videogames 80s)
• 2005’s 101 Dumbest Moments in Business [CNN Money]
  (tags: business 2005 list dick)
• NASA’s Solar System Exploration Top 10 Photographs
  (tags: nasa photographs images astronomy space list)
• David Letterman’s Top 10 George W. Bush Moments
  Funny and sad at the same time… (embedded Windows Media Video)
  (tags: humor video w politics tv)

If you think the above photo “Mars Over Moon” is cool, check out the rest of NASA’s Solar System Exploration Top 10 Photographs.

• Chinese Use Adult Diapers on Long Trips
  “Sales have soared ahead of the holiday as travelers prepare for long trips home aboard trains so crowded that even the toilets are jammed with people.”
  (tags: weird)
• Actor Chris Penn Found Dead [CNN]
  (tags: obituaries movies 80s)
• DrikoLand: Chris Penn Dead At 40
  (tags: obituaries movies 80s drikoland)
• “Ultimate” Lost Theory
  From Hans Oersted to Hannes Alfven, one fan of the TV show “Lost” has come up with quite an elaborate set of theories to explain the events occurring on the show. Although a bit out there, there is actually some plausibility here…
  (tags: tv conspiracy science)
• Car Soccer [Google Video]
  Although it’s obviously a veiled commercial for the European Aygo vehicle, staging a soccer game with cars was pretty fun, and the Aygo did show off its maneuverability…
  [via reddit]
  (tags: video auto ads sports)
• New Text Messaging World Record [Gizmodo]
  A new text-messaging record was set, 26 words in 43.24 seconds. The sentence? “The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.”
  (tags: language hardware weird mobile)
• An Imperfect Ten [Coudal Partners]
  Check out this short film, “Wherein one man breaks all ten commandments before breakfast.”
  [via Boing Boing]
  (tags: religion video movies humor)
• Evangelical Zen [Boing Boing]
  A plethora of, um, interesting religious links…
  (tags: religion humor politics weird)
• Ask A Ninja
  “You’ve got questions, ninjas got anwers.” Too funny…
  (tags: humor video blogs flash)
• Stewie hosting Web talk show [Yahoo! News]
  “The tyrannical tyke in the Fox animated series ‘Family Guy’ will be the virtual host of a talk show being developed strictly for the Internet later this year.” It will apparently appear on familyguy.com…
  [via digg]
  (tags: familyguy video humor www tv)
• Gravity theory dispenses with dark matter [New Scientist SPACE]
  ‘A modified theory of gravity that incorporates quantum effects can explain a trio of puzzling astronomical observations – including the wayward motion of the Pioneer spacecraft in our solar system, new studies claim.“
  (tags: astronomy science space)
• TurboTanks Tank Game
  an older link, but still a fun, addictive game
  (tags: games flash videogames)

CNN reports that actor Chris Penn was found dead in his condominium yesterday, with no immediate cause of evidence reported. Chris Penn was often overshadowed by his older brother Sean, but he was an underrated actor in my opinion. Some of his movie credits include Reservoir Dogs, Mulholland Falls, Rumble Fish, Footloose, and Rush Hour. I’m pretty sad to hear of this…