The sinkhole that ate Texas

The 260-foot-deep sinkhole appeared and grew to the length of three football fields over just two days. The 900-foot-long sinkhole, with crumbling dirt around its edges resembling sharp teeth, has swallowed up oil tanks and barrels, tires, telephone poles and several vehicles in Daisetta, TX.

Grim Reaper Trumps Way-Back Machine

Ted Key, creator of "Mr. Peabody & Sherman" kicks the bucket.

Hulu

The site Hulu, just out of Beta, offers the concept you've been waiting for. A free, centralized, high quality dumping ground (& viewing area) for current TV shows (old bits and some movies). They have some kinks to work out, but I'm digging it.

As you may have noted, YouTube has become too unspecialised to even confront it. And on Hulu, sound and image quality are great.

The name is not very clever - Sort of, let's put "TiVo" and "YouTube" in a blender and see what we get!

Ra-orrrrr...

Wilford Brimley and his cat twins page.

Congrats to Liz and Brad!!!

Thanks again for letting us in on your surprise wedding.

Hoo doggie...

I guess what elevates this sex toy to the heights of weirdness for me is the product name "I Rub My Wormie."

...from the weirdest sextoys list, which also features.
- Alien blow-up doll.
- Wearable oral sex light
Really... you're going to have many questions after sequencing through the list.

So, can I pry the gun out of his hand now?

Chilly Reception

The "Cruzin' Cooler" is being advertised via radio, and I'm unable, as a consumer, to understand why I want to ride a cooler anywhere, let alone through piles of snow. I am however willing to pay for the inventor to get steriilzed.

Maybe it's like that old saying about locking a bunch of monkeys in a roomful of broken gadgets for eternity.

Cute-topia

While caught up in the daily grind in Japan, it's easy to forget that animation is the solution to most of your problems. So they've created a government post to promote animation and already named a mascot to the position.

In related news, Japan is now considered a front-runner for the coveted "Weirdest Culture of 2008" title.

So you went and did it.

(the official Karen and Ethan marital blog entry)

Most regretful I can't be there. I made this image for you.
All my love from Texas.

Riddle me this.

How on earth does a person make their name as a nemesis-crushing, whistle-blowing reformer (for almost a decade) while secretly indulging an apetite for pricey hookers? How do you imagine you're protected from those you've toppled, who would be looking for this exact piece of information about you?

How is NY's Elliot Spitzer capable of such unimaginable levels of stupidity?

Selct one: because he's:
a) a douche bag
b) a horn dog
c) a gas bag
d) secretly a Republican
e) more than one of the above

American Community Survey - WFT?

Should I be worried about throwing away this wildly intrusive, quasi-census form?

Frankly, they should be paying me for the time it would take to fill out not to mention all the valuable consumer info it attempts to cull.

Bush offically supports "waterboarding" torture:

The military has banned it but the CIA stills gets to employ this method of persuasion usually associated with Nazis and villains from a Late, Late, Late Movie.

Maybe GW should have been forced to subject his mother, wife and daughters to this technique before signing off on it?

And awaaaay he goes!

Ben Chapman, the guy who played the actual "Creature from the Black Lagoon", died last week in Hawaii. He was 79.

William F. Buckley R.I.P.

Conservative writer William F. Buckley (on the left... smirk), who was as full of affectation as a bad drag queen, is dead. Even Bond villains look cuddly next to him. It's not good to debate Gore Vidal on TV and have audiences conclude that you were the gay one. Here's their notorious, nasty exchange.

Still, he was often funny and very smart. At one point, as the joke goes, Laugh-in offered to fly him out to Hollywood to appear on the show, but they "couldn't find a plane with two right-wings." Buckley even laughed at that one. What a slap in the face that someone so learned (a quality not on display in the clip) had to watch impotently as the torch was passed to a complete nincompoop like Bush.

ahem...

I can't put my finger on it, but something seems wrong with Jebuz coaxing youngsters towards his light switch...

This could be the official lightswitch-plate of the Catholic church.


Actually, it probably explains the Catholic church.

Let this serve as a lesson on how far kitsch can go wrong.





[from Gizmodo]

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Interesting way to handle telemarketers:
a great phone prank.

Wave that flag, support those troops, praise that God...

...but please don't notice that our banks under a conservative, tax-cuts-AND-spending government just quietly borrowed 50 billion dollars to cover costs.

Can I drive the bulldozer?

The house that perky, creepy brother/sister team 'The Carpenters' lived in together is now owned by a hispanic couple who ain't too happy that it's a pilgrimage site, and they plan to demolish it and rebuild.

I remained outside the Carpenters revival of the nineties, cause I still think their music is insipid.

“Land of the six word motto”

Even after being mocked, England continues its search for a 6-word motto that sums up the whole British experience. Various sites here have asked what a 6-word motto for the U.S. would be. Here's a very long, pretty funny page of suggestions:

"I Can’t Believe It’s Not Democracy"
"Still Using Fahrenheit, Feet, and Gallons"
“Land of the six word motto”
"What can we screw up next?"
"Hubris: it’s not just for Greeks!"
"All your oil belong to us"
“That looks nice. It’s mine now”
“stop me before I kill again”
"I'm sorry, do I know you"
"Press one to proceed in English"
“Smart equals faggy, dumb it down”