Literal Barrage

I'm once again in solid paraphrasing territory here, but

T. Rex, while known for his biting prowess, was also reputed to be diligent in studying his Bible.

The logistics of a sizable thunder lizard being able to use his puny hands to turn the pages of said Bible were left unvisited.

Merlin Mann has been on a bit of a That Mitchell And Webb Look-posting tear recently and, as such, he brought up two of my favorites, well worth posting (or re-posting, even).
First, "Bronze Age Training Day":

Then "SS Officers/'Are We The Baddies?'":

Cracking.

So I have my problems with the Honorable Gentleman from Arizona — amnesty, Gang of 14, class warfare rhetoric in opposing Bush's tax cuts, Gitmo idiocy, that execrable McCain-Feingold, etc. — but something strange is afoot. See, I somehow got onto his direct email list and some rather funny things have been slipping through [...]

Rotten Tomatoes' list of the 20 greatest movie fight scenes of all time fortunately saw fit to include this gem from Tony Jaa's The Protector (which really ought to be viewed, posthaste, by anyone with a love for good martial arts cinema).

And yes, I know I've shown it before, but it's relevant, people!

Good idea: Defending your intellectual property via every means necessary.
Bad idea: Defending your intellectual property via every means necessary by threatening to sue a competitor whose president is a former lawyer and who has the law on their side.
Good idea: Reading Dave Barry's Tax Day column.
Bad idea: Reading Dave Barry's Tax [...]

defective yeti penned an amusing post in which he first lays out the central problem of LOST's continuing (over)use of a certain plot development ploy, namely: an unending stream of mysteries designed to confound the viewers beyond measure. (Mild profanities redacted in this quote; note that they remain in-place at the actual article.)

Here's a [...]

So last week was fun, traffic-wise. Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds posted a link to an older entry of mine on the same day that he opined about the prevalence of "Can't connect to database" errors that WordPress-powered sites tend to throw under load. Fortunately for me, I had anticipated just such a meteoric rise [...]