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This ad is so hilarious. I also find it really telling. I mean, maybe it's because I am not super-attached to the fight for LET'S ALL GET MARRIED but you know, I like observing it from a ways away and I'll root a bit and whatnot. I'm sure some really invested people would be more "this is terrible, ugh, they just don't stop with this crap!" about ( Read more... )

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Flash mobs are fun and all, but the phenomenon has apparently gotten to the point where jerks who don't think about how someone is going to have to clean up their mess are in the process of ruining it for everyone. Apparently the organizers of this spontaneous event text-messaged everyone to say "Practice responsible fun. Clean up after yourself!" ( Read more... )

Well, there are more stupid ones. But this is probably the stupidest "SEXAY" one. I mean, what? Is this someone's fantasy? Girl with functional-looking white underwear and baggy pants that just won't stay up? She's got that belt cinched exactly right so her pants stay right there (which I'm sure they do, in the game) but somehow she can walk around ( Read more... )

I'm going have to go with "both" on that dilemma

This has got to be my new favorite theory in physics: the universe may be a giant hologram.Take that, Plato! He had it totally backwards: the wall in his cave is where "reality" actually happens, the utterly distant edge of space-time, and everything else in our experience is just scattered particles inside the great hollow space that is the ( Read more... )

It's been cold this winter and as a result I've been spending a lot of time inside my own head. I have been rattling around and reading lots of philosophical papers and the like, with the result being that I have formulated a new set of beliefs for myself:

• things worth paying good money for include (but are not limited to) strong garbage bags, ( Read more... )

Well, not since the mid-80s at least.

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I mean, this video is shot on top of the Silvercup building in Long Island City, and features Freddie Mercury dueling with the original immortal swordsman, Christopher Lambert. And some of the most overblown Queen lyrics ever. What's not to like ( Read more... )

What does it say about our species that one of the first things we program robots to do is to PRETEND that they are dissatisfied with the demeaning jobs we ask them to do, even though they don't actually have the capacity to be dissatisfied?

This is the most hilarious video I have seen in a while.

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What makes it especially hilarious is that the main guy talking is none other than TED HAGGARD.