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This hilarious ad may be for condoms, but it is SFW. (links directly to MPEG video)

I made a post to this effect a while ago, but this isn’t exactly an earth-shattering idea; the man is a moron. Finally, the online community has taken him to task after he recently went off on the Internet in one of his typically unsound, Morton Downey-like tirades. I think the title of the Washington Post article says it all: “O’Reilly’s Online Spanking.” 😀

until I read this New York Post story about him. Apparently, now that he is referred to as “reigning King of Young Hollywood” and is going out with none other than Demi Moore, he’s gotten quite full of himself. The story reveals that he is:

likening himself and his buddies to Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack. Apparently the unholy incarnation has Kutcher’s new best friend P. Diddy as the Chairman of the Board – and Kutcher and his cronies even call Diddy “Frank.” The other night at Dolce in L.A., Kutcher and his “That ‘70s Show” co-stars Wilmer Valderama and Danny Masterson (Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin?) greeted Diddy with cries of “Frank! What’s up?”

I can’t begin to describe my disgust at this, and don’t even get me started about P. Diddy…

Update: And please please tell me that this story about him being the next Batman isn’t true…

I have been visiting the vote.com website for many years, and I find it interesting, but a little too simplistic at times. It is a good concept, but I found a site that takes online polling and notification one step further. moveon.org has set itself up as a PAC with its direction and goals voted on by its registered members. The site was borne out of an online petition to get past the Clinton sex scandal in order to demand “Censure and move on.” Well now they are setting their sights on the Democratic Primary. They will host an online “primary” this week in order to determine whom will be their candidate for the 2004 race. I registered at the site in hopes that this grand experiment in grassroots political organizing might make a difference. Call me a starry-eyed dreamer but I hope that this kind of effort catches on and we can see a more representative government. So go to moveon.org and see if you want to be part of it.

Shaft’s recent post concerning the public’s misconception about WMD in Iraq reveals some startling statistics. Bob Harris took it a step further in his post at This Modern World, which randomly sampled some statistics at PollingReport.com, revealing some startling ignorance among Americans. I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised, but take a look and see for yourself how low the bar has been set…

Jason Kottke presents a hilarious Flash movie delving into the relationship between W and French President Chirac:

Seeing U.S. President George Bush and French President Jacques Chirac get all buddy-buddy at the recent G8 Summit inspired me to make a silent film about the sometimes-tender / sometimes-turbulent relationship of these two powerful men. Witness the giddy highs and depressing lows of a very public love. The film is called Ceci n’est pas une guerre (c’est l’amour), or This is not a war (it’s love), and I hope you enjoy it. (Flash 6 required, ~580KB, best viewed with sound on.)

Yes, you read correctly; I did a doubletake too when I first came upon this story. The North American Eagle team aims to break the British land speed record with a craft based on the chassis of an F-104 Starfighter:

A group of speed-crazed men from Pierce County wants to break the world land-speed record with a jet plane-turned-three-wheeled-vehicle they are building in a hangar in Spanaway… The vehicle has elements of a potential world record-holder: It’s a former Air Force plane re-engineered for subsonic speed, with a jet engine that generates 39,000 horsepower and solid aluminum wheels machined for desert surface.

This should prove to be quite interesting…

It brings to mind the decidedly less ambitious effort that Shaft and I came up with oh, about 15 years ago: to explode an F-104 Starfighter plastic model by strapping model rocket engines onto it and lighting different types of fuses to ignite it. It’s probably a good thing that you can’t ignite those engines with a flame, and as such Shaft and I have all 10 of our fingers. And to think that we didn’t even drink back then… 😉

The Harrison Ford Finger Gallery is only a small part of the Harrison Ford: A Web Guide to the Films site, but it’s probably the most amusing.

According to this site’s research, Senator Hatch’s computer may need to be destroyed. I vote for two Pintos backing into each other with the computer in the middle…

Lisa e-mailed and asked me to publicize the upcoming a-ha U.S. Fan Convention in Hollywood, CA on July 12, 2003:

We’ve got fans of the band traveling in from Ohio, Virginia, Texas, New Mexico, North Carolina, Washington state (or far)… Please help us spread the word? We’ve got a DJ/live band and dance floor to party all night long to 80’s/New Wave remixes and of course, a-ha! 😉

That’s a bit far for me to travel to see a-ha, but it sounds like a fun time…