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You haven’t seen origami until you’ve seen Robert J. Lang’s origami. Amazing…

Think Progress reports that a recent W PR event on the war on terror “went off-script when a man named Harry Taylor took the microphone.” Here is one of the best excerpts, although he was allowed to go on for a surprisingly long time:

“I feel like despite your rhetoric, that compassion and common sense have been left far behind during your administration,” Taylor said, standing in a balcony seat and looking down at Bush on stage. “And I would hope from time to time that you have the humility and grace to be ashamed of yourself.”

Definitely visit the post to see the rest of his “question” or to see a video; the full, “official” transcript is available here.

Yo, W just got served! 😉

Stephen Colbert offers some advice on preparing your taxes. Check out the YouTube video in the embedded player below:

Update: As of October 2006, Comedy Central has been pulling video clips from YouTube :-(, and I’ve been unable to find an alternate link. If I do, I’ll post it here…

Skyscraper News presents the world’s tallest buildings:

Imagine the tallest 25 buildings in the world all in one skyline giving something of Blade Runner proportions. Well here they are complete with a key on what’s what in scale standing alongside each other.

Definitely visit the site and check out the full-sized image…

Vanity Fair has an interesting article about White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan entitled Words Fail Him. It’s a long article that tries to delve into the motivations behind wanting such a thankless job and why W’s administration might have chosen him:

Now that the daily White House briefings are instantly available online, Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s mangled sentences, flat-footed evasions, and genial befuddlement have made him the butt of a thousand blogs, as well as of an increasingly savage press corps. Is he a victim, a pawn, or a P.R. disaster?
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Putting someone as strikingly out of his depth as McClellan into this job (and keeping him there) could well be part of this administration’s contempt for the press. But while that contempt is surely real, installing McClellan here may actually, in another self-awareness gap, have been the administration’s idea of a generous act.

Definitely worth the read. By the way, rumor is that the current administration shake-up may include McClellan. We’ll soon see, I think…

Entertainment Weekly has some bad news to report about the future of one of my favorite TV shows, Arrested Development:

When Fox canceled its critically acclaimed sitcom Arrested Development after three seasons of low ratings, the show’s loyal fans had reason to hope: The pay cable channel Showtime was considering picking up the series. That glimmer of hope faded on Monday when the show’s creator, Mitch Hurwitz, announced that he was ending his involvement with the series, thus virtually guaranteeing that AD would go off into the syndicated limbo of series that shoot fewer than 100 episodes.

This really blows. The rest of the linked article contains a full interview with Hurwitz…

Boing Boing reports:

There are many strange video clips in the nuclear test footage archives at the US DOE website, but none so weird as this montage of mushroom clouds set to the Lone Ranger’s theme song (G. Rossini’s William Tell Overture).

Theme Tunes Online has hundreds of TV theme songs available for download as .mp3 and .wav files.

If you can stay up after midnight tonight and have an appropriate digital clock/calendar, you might see this interesting display:

01:02:03 04/05/06
OK, so that was probably quite anticlimactic considering the post title… ;-p

Wikipedia has a frighteningly thorough article on “Leetspeak”, also known as “L33t5p34k” etc., “a linguistic phenomenon associated with the underground culture centered around telecommunications, manifested primarily on the Internet.”