Month January 2008

…And The Mask Slips

UPDATE: The Jake Tapper article used as the basis for this post misconstrued/misquoted Bill Clinton’s statement. See comments below. -ed. I wonder just how long it’s going to take someone from the Hillary campaign to smother Bill in his sleep,…

BECAUSE YOU ARE HEADCRAB ZOMBIE

Failing American public education system + one overenthusiastic nine year old’s ambitious fan fiction + Source engine + Garry’s Mod + college students with too much time on their hands = endless ironic entertainment. Heh. “zombie goasts leave this place!”

Thompson Giuliani Romney Or Bust.

I’ve continuously bemoaned John McCain’s frontrunner status in the GOP primary race and have held forth with friends and family as to just what bothers me about Ol’ Straight-Talkin’ John. Rather than repeat myself, though, I’ll let Mark Levin’s editorial…

Thank Heaven For Engineers

Engineers like the folks over at Mana Energy Potions that brought us the Robo-pult: Or, most especially, Johnny Lee and His Wonderful World of Wii: …For without them out there, being Dudes Of Unnecessary Science and abiding for the rest…

Pak. Chooie. BOOM.

Does it make me a horrible human being for cracking a smile at this story? Suicide bomber falls down stairs … A WOULD-be suicide bomber fell down a flight of stairs and blew himself up as he headed out for…

Zounds! Google To Buy WordPress By Proxy!

Well, okay, now that I have that little bit of headline rumor-/scaremongering out of the way, I’ve got to say: interesting things are afoot in the Automattic/WordPress world these days. First off, Matt Mullenweg announced a few days ago that,…

Risky Bidness

So I don’t know if y’all have seen the depths of insanity to which Tom Cruise has been driven by the neo-Gnostic Cult O’ Hubbard, but Gawker has a long video of 1/2 of Tomkat blathering on about just what…

My Friend Flickr

If you’re looking for something to while away a Wednesday afternoon, you could do far worse than the following photosets on Flickr: Understanding art for geeks and Andy Ihnatko’s awesome behind-the-scenes tour of Alcatraz. Well worth your time, both of…