Yo Gabba Gabba!: Keeping The Ska Flame Alive For 5th Wavers
By way of @hotdogsladies, we have word that Nickelodeon’s fantastically bizarre “Yo Gabba Gabba!” is doing its best to bring the gospel of ska to the pre-K set (which only makes sense, I guess, as it was co-created by the leader of The Aquabats):
Oh, and they’re keeping the reggae roots hot, too:
Sweet.
(Watch for an appearance by the full Aquabats in “Banana”…)
Sunday Schnitzels Cripples
Regular readers will no doubt recall my previous encounters with Google Voice’s automated message taking. It seems as though my experience is not unique, as the New York Times Personal Tech section’s columnist published his Voice number and asked readers to give the message transcription feature a run for its money. The results, well, are downright hilarious. E.g.:
we hope you straight to be self evident that all manner created equal apparent out by their creator with certain valuable right the money for like 430 in the pursuit of happiness this is securities rights concert instituted mobile among the and driving their just powers from the content of the covered that whatever any former governor because destructive of the and it is the right people to offer to abolish it thank you and see if you got on the 28th sunday schnitzels cripples organizing powers and such 4 at today i’m sheltie most likely to check to see if you have any
+10 EXP and a bonus to strike for anyone that can name the founding document that comes from. *grin*
Web Site Story: Way, WAY Too Much Work
Hooray for free time! Huzzah for other people using it to create amusing parodies of old musicals!
Stuff I Learned On The Internet[s], Recent History Edition
People approach me and say “Doug, we haven’t seen you post recently. What have you been learning on the Internet these last two weeks that you haven’t been posting?”*
I learned that Matt Mullenweg started WordPress partially of a desire to help out his church.
I learned that one does not mess with Finns named Simo Häyhä, particularly if one is Russian.
I learned that Guy Ritchie is making a “Michael Bay version” of “Sherlock Holmes” (“I command ‘Sherlock Holmes’ to be awesome“):
I learned that Ted Vigilante is the single best superior court judge name ever and that he will likely have to be played by Chuck Norris, should a made-for-TV movie ever be produced based solely upon his name.
I learned that Sen. Jim “R0xx0r Your S0xx0rs” DeMint is not afraid to drop the XML Bomb on his crotchety Senate colleagues. (I also learned he desperately needs a new headshot that doesn’t make him look like a goober.)
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The Machines Are Taking Over
It ain’t Skynet, but Kirk v. Khan as performed by a Kindle and an iPod certainly is dramatic:
