Check out the Shockwave video All Your Smurf Are Belong To Us. For those of you that don’t know what the Hell this is about, here’s a quick history of the reference.
All Your Smurf Are Belong To Us
Awesome Aviation Videos
Check out this page for some amazing videos of aircraft maneuvers, tests, and mishaps. I have yet to fully explore the whole site, but the videos I’ve seen so far are way cool…
Update: Having seen more of those videos, some of the crash footage is pretty damn scary, and the World Trade Center videos still give me the chills…
The Gospel Of Debbie
I haven’t seen anything this funny in a long time. Check out this New Yorker spoof:
Recent works like The Passion of the Christ and The Da Vinci Code seek to illuminate the life of Jesus. Not long ago, an additional text was discovered in an ancient linen backpack found in a cave outside Jerusalem, surrounded by what appeared to be early-Roman candy wrappers and covered with stickers reading “I [heart] All Faiths” and “Ask Me About Hell.” A parchment diary found inside the backpack appears to contain the musings of one Debbie of Galilee. Many of the pages are still being translated from high-school Aramaic; here are some persuasive excerpts.
New Comments Feature
Update: Thanks to the efforts of Hossein Sharifi, creator of the YACCS comment system that DrikoLand uses, I was able to add a new feature to the comments window that allows you to see the original post above the comments block. Although it’s a minor thing, I really like the fact that if the original browser window becomes obscured, you can still see which post you’re responding to. Let me know what you think…
Monty Python’s Life Of Brian To Be Re-Released
CNN and the BBC report that “Inspired by the runaway success – and public furor – over Gibson’s portrayal of the last 12 hours in the life of Jesus [in the movie The Passion Of The Christ], the creators behind the 1979 biblical satire about an anti-Roman activist who spends his life being mistaken for a prophet are planning a 25th anniversary re-release” of Monty Python’s Life Of Brian next month. I can’t really say that the Life Of Brian is one of my favorite Monty Python movies, because there were only three (Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Monty Python’s Meaning of Life are the other two), and I like them all. I think it’s really cool that people will have the opportunity to see the film in the theaters again, but I really think that the film stands well enough on its own merits that the re-release shouldn’t necessarily have been based on protests over Gibson’s film. It definitely adds an amount of levity to the whole situation…
Alphabet Quiz For “Tech Lovers”
I found another alphabet quiz, this time for logos associated with technology companies. There’s also other similar quizzes on the site that look fun…
The Onion Was Considered For A Pulitzer Prize!?
According to Joe Strupp of Editor & Publisher magazine, The Onion was considered for a Pulitzer Prize for its post-9/11 issue, “Holy Fucking Shit: Attack on America” (apparently, the entire issue is not available in the archive):
The longtime editor [Zack Stalberg] of The Philadelphia Daily News was on the committee choosing finalists in the commentary category in 2002 when a submission from The Onion, the irreverent humor newspaper, came before the group.
“As it went around the table, you could see that people were blown away by this work,” Stalberg said about the entry, which included the paper’s mock Sept. 11 coverage. “But it was a little too different, a little too risky. I voted to make it a finalist, but nobody else did.”
Although it would be surprising to see the Pulitzer Board award its coveted medal to what is essentially a parody of a newspaper, such an incident highlights what some feel is the reverence – some might say restrictions – under which the Pulitzer judging operates.
The article goes on to mention the disparities in the selection processes and awards:
[N]early half of the finalists in the 14 journalism categories are among four major newspapers, according to a list obtained by E&P. The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post account for 20 of the 42 finalists on this list. Among the 22 others, none have a daily circulation of less than 100,000.
In the 87-year history of the Pulitzers, a non-daily paper has won only four times.
It’s a real shame that there is such a bias against smaller, less established papers, as it diminishes the distinguished reputation of the Pulitzer Prize when the process appears to be less than objective. I think it’s really cool that The Onion was at least considered, though…
The Rudiments Of Wisdom
The Rudiments of Wisdom Cartoon Encyclopedia is a compendium of thousands of cartoons covering all kinds of diverse topics. There’s definitely a lot of cool stuff to explore here…
Fifteen Things That It Took Dave Barry Over 50 Years To Learn
Dave Barry comes up with a very funny list entitled “Fifteen Things That It Took Me Over 50 Years To Learn:”
- Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
- If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be “meetings.”
- There is a very fine line between “hobby” and “mental illness.”
- People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
- You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Never lick a steak knife.
- The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.
- You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.
- You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she’s pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.
- There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age eleven.
- The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers.
- A person, who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.)
- Your friends love you anyway.
- Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
FINAL Thought for the day:
Men are like a fine wine. They start out as grapes, and it’s up to women to stomp the crap out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with. Now..there, doesn’t that just touch your heart?
I think I can agree with all of those except #6. I don’t dance for that very reason… :-p
