Literal Barrage

This is just too funny. What do you get when you cross every John Romero movie with a bit of Evil Dead/Army of Darkness and the BBC's The Office? Why, Shaun of the Dead, of course.
From the looks of the trailer, it should be a riot.

I've been in the market for a new powersupply (450W) for my computer for a while and I happened upon a special over on DealSonic the other day which gave me the opportunity to buy a whole new case for less than a 450W power supply. I jumped at the chance.
FedEx was supposed to [...]

An emailer over at Instapundit commented on just how much the mainstream media's coverage of political affairs resemble a hometown sports page, to which another replied:

The comparison of partisan journalists to sports fans in a recent post led me to a partial solution to the problems of mainstream journalism.
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Teen Jeopardy is a fascinating look into just how lousy our public schools have become.
It is a sad, sad indicator of personal insecurities if you feel validated by knowing the answers on Teen Jeopardy. Not that I'm speaking from personal experience or anything.
Alex Trebek is a very patient man and it does him [...]

In a stunning announcement today, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has offered any and all potential "peaceful protestors" at the Republican convention buttons that will gain them access to discounts at a series of NYC restaurants, stores and museums.
In other news, the mayor of Athens promised steep discounts on ouzo, gyros and official Olympic [...]

I came across an interesting summary of the state of things in the blogosphere, at least in relation to the tools used by bloggers.
Executive summary:
Blogger holds the current lead with ~30% of bloggers using its tools, whileLive Journal trailing it by a bit.
Good old WordPress (the system that I use) is down around 4%, which [...]

We just got a new Flavia hot beverage machine installed at work and, for the record, while idle, it makes a sound almost identical to the one made by that freaky Zoltar fortune telling machine in Big.
I'm almost too frightened to check whether the Flavia Flav is actually plugged in, for fear of the potential [...]