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Tha Pope?a Says!
2007-06-19 16:05:00
The Vatican must have found a burning bush over the weekend, because they have come down with a new set of commandments, the Motorists’ 10 Commandments! God be praised, maybe now people wont be complete knobs on the roadways… well, they’ll still be knobs, but they will BURN IN HELL FOR ETERNITY for it ...
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Now pitching? The Lefty-Righty
2007-06-15 00:52:00
Even if you’re not a baseball fan (communist)… you gotta admit this is pretty freakin’ incredible. There’s this kid pitching for the Creighton University baseball team who can pitch with both arms. And he’s pretty darn good with each. His name is Pat Venditte, and he’s a junior who, as you can imagine, is ...
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Loss of the Wizard?
2007-06-13 14:53:00
Don Herbert, more notably known as Mr. Wizard died Tuesday at the age of 89. I remember watching him all the time a a kid and loving it. Who will make things explode or burn up for the sake of education now? check the Yahoo! news article Technorati Tags: Don Herbert, Mr. Wizard
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Join the Band!
2007-06-08 16:43:00
well, its not a band yet… but you can pretend it is with the Band Bio Generator at the 2007 Bumbershoot website. Click here for immediate gratification You simply enter a band name, genre, and some other information and it generates a unique band bio for your awesome rocking group! try it, have some fun… then see what ...
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Beat your chest, and KRUMP
2007-06-08 15:49:00
Krump started with clown dancers in South Los Angeles’s African-American communities. As an alternative to sports, drugs or gangs kids and young adults have taken to clowning and clown dancing as a positive activity outside of school. Known for starting Krump, Tommy the Clown, set the standard for the activity (even if it is ...
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The Great Equalizer
2007-06-07 07:06:00
You like music? You like t-shirts? Then the T-Qualizer is for you. It’s a t-shirt with an animated audio equalizer built in. Impress your friends at the club, or amuse yourself home alone on a Friday night. Powered by 4 AAA batteries, the color equalizer moves to the dopest block rockin’ beats of the Captain and Tenille. And only $40. Technorati Tags: T-Qualizer
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Your contacts are safe with us
2007-06-07 06:33:00
ed. note: in the interest of full disclosure…author works for U.S. Cellular. If you’re like most folks today, you can’t be bothered with remembering people’s phone numbers. That’s why cellphones come with a capacity for at least 300 contacts. And, if you were ever to lose those contacts, you’d be S.O.L. In the last couple weeks, regional cell phone company U.S. Cellular launched a pretty slick little application to ease your troubled mind. It’s called My Contacts Backup, and it backs up your contacts to a website. That’s not the unique part. It’s different because a) they don’t charge extra for it (assuming you have data capabilities on your phone) and b) if your phone is ever lost or stolen, you can zap it so that your contacts don’t fall into nefarious hands. Then, when you get a new phone, you can download them and be on your merry way. Plus, the My Contacts Backup Web site allows you to view, manage, edit a...
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Ian… FREEZE!
2007-06-06 18:50:00
For those of you who prepare for the worst, and believe Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park book/movie and will not purchase a vehicle that goes under 45 mph to make sure you can out run a T-Rex… prepare to breath a sigh of relief and break out those old school roller skates, because we have new information for you. The Tyrannosaurus rex did not run at 45 mph. In fact, that 13,000 to 17,000 lb. dino could probably only run at 25 mph max according to LiveScience.com. I could run that as a child in crappy shoes on gravel. On top of that, due to that bipedal monstrosity’s center of balance he also has turning issues! So, your safe… unless your morbidly obese and can’t move very fast… then your screwed… and lunch. Why stand still and hope the beast walks by, when you can hop on your bike and pedal away into the sunset as the beast behind you trots along… oh, flip him the bird while your at it, because that would be cool… and i...
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Get back in your bubble!
2007-06-06 15:35:00
No one is safe from “crazy” people. the title of ‘mentally unstable’ is being used by the Vatican spokesman to describe the man (well, Mental imbalance, was the quote). Well… he was wearing pink… A (how would someone describe this person?) fanatic person along the driving path of the Pope decided it would be worth the trouble to leap over the barricades and try and crawl into the open air popemobile with the pope. He almost made it too, before being detained by about 8 security guards in spiffy suits. Stuff like this is a major concern for the Vatican of course. People will remember when Pope John Paul II was shot in 1981 (well, I don’t since I was a little too young to care) and this can only make people think of the worst, even if all people who are let into St. Peter’s Square are checked with metal detectors and possibly searched. Technorati Tags: Vatican, Pope, popemobile, St. Peter’s Square
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End of an Era in TV
2007-06-06 15:23:00
Bob Barker and the Price is Right will be taping their last show today. Bob has been hosting the show for 35 years. There have been spinoffs and they have tried using other hosts, but nothing came close to Bob and his show. Most of us grew up with the Price is Right, with all its 70’s technology and design. Even I was at a live taping of the show about a year ago. It has become something of a popular culture icon over time. In high school I was attending a One Act festival at UW Whitewater, wait, maybe it was a Jazz festival… Anyway, During lunch in the cafeteria Price is Right was playing. They had all the people spinning the wheel win big. I was the first to be overboard excited about it… but once others understood why I was excited, oddly enough almost the whole place got into it. That was the power of Bob and his show. I hope, to all that is holy, that the Price is Right will be put to rest after this. Yahoo! News says that Barker’s replacement...

He likes sushi… but how does he feel about Pr0n?
2007-06-05 17:35:00
yeah… I wrote Pr0n… twice now… ugh… Anyway, our lovely friends in Japan have been working their hind ends off trying to create battle androids in disguise of maids for the world and here is evidence. There is a robot that now has facial expression which reacts to words said to him. He knows how to react by basically being an internet whore. He complies searches of the words he recognizes and reacts according to what words are associated with it… So… he likes Sushi… he fears the President… but I would love to see what he thinks about more risqué words. Here is the Yahoo! News article on the new ‘roid Technorati Tags: Japan, android, robot, expression
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World of Apple
2007-06-04 15:28:00
Three things are coming from the world of Apple Computers • Apple TV will allow the browsing and viewing of Youtube videos on your television If it’s on iTunes, it’s on your widescreen TV. • Were you one of the people upset that iTunes allows you to only download encrypted music files that are only compatible with iPods? Well, now with iTunes Plus which will allow users to download DRM-free music (non encrypted) for a slightly higher price ($1.29 per song as opposed to the $.99 per song). There is also the ability to upgrade your purchases you have already made for $.30 per song as well. I have heard that EMI is onboard, but I’m not sure about other music publishers. • The new iPhone will launch on June 29th. Big version will be priced $599, and a slightly smaller version for $499. Its a pretty damn cool device, too bad its so expensive. Maybe Cingular will offer one up for free with a new subscription… (err… I mean AT&T… whatev...
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Re-Mission
2007-05-30 17:39:00
Cigna, will offer HopeLab’s “Re-mission” video game free of charge on its website. This game is designed to help teens and young adults deal with cancer while blasting it in a virtual environment - while also giving them lessons on how to improve the odds of beating the disease. “‘Re-Missi on ’ works. It gives young people ...
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Creationism
2007-05-29 21:36:00
    On the first day… god created… yatta yah… On that day back when god was bored, he accidentally made a platypus. Then, in 2007 man created the Creation Museum.  A high tech museum dedicated to making science and the bible match up.  The museum, as I saw it on the news Friday morning on GMA (good morning america), ...
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fish
2007-05-29 21:15:00
two things are happening around Wisconsin that are alarming to me on a certain level. 1-  There seems to be so much resistance in cleaning up the mess that the local factories have dumped into our waters.  There are signs posted all along the Fox River stating the fish, and that you can only eat 1 ...
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Video Game movies?
2007-05-25 14:58:00
Sometimes, video games should not be made into movies… The Sims, is one such video game that should not be made into a movie… yet, someone thinks it should… and surprise, its not Uwe Boll! Check the Link Pong on the other hand makes a great movie! Well, at least a nice little flash video. Technorati Tags: ...
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CAVEman
2007-05-24 16:07:00
The Canadians have made their move! What is it? Its what they call a “4D” image of the human body that is projected in front of the viewer who is wearing special glasses and in a special viewing room. ( I would have inserted an image here if the internet would be agreeable ) CAVEman not only ...
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finish your day with a laugh.
2007-05-23 22:05:00
With Universal Studio’s Free Photo Booth!   Technorati Tags: Universal Studio, Free Photo Booth
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Color me impressed?
2007-05-23 21:54:00
Fergie has a song that doesn’t completely suck balls, cause babies to cry, induce vomiting, or bring a great wailing and gnashing of teeth.  Here is the video for it, Big Girls Don’t Cry (Personal).    oh, wait…. apparently, the poster of this video doesn’t allow embedding… who is the user?  Her record company, Universal Music Group (its a ...
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Good Commercials
2007-05-23 17:58:00
Diet Mountain Dew has been releasing rather good commercial spots lately. I specifically love the ferret one, even if the one below is not what I saw on air… this one has more pseudo-gore, than what is actually airing from what I remember. Ferrets! Puppets. Technorati Tags: Diet Mountain Dew, commercial, ferret, Puppet
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This parade is not for the lazy
2007-05-17 07:25:00
Hey, if you’re not doing anything on Saturday, you might wanna head over to Whalan, Minnesota for the annual Stand Still Parade . Here’s the dealio… the main drag in town is barely two blocks long, which would make for a pretty short traditional parade. And with a population of around sixty, they don’t have any ...
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Finally! Someone recognizes real filth.
2007-05-17 07:07:00
It’s about time someone realizes the Bible for what it is… a collection of filth, smut, violence and the occasional story of doing good deeds. More than 800 Hong Kong residents have called on authorities to reclassify the Bible as “indecent” due to its sexual and violent content, following an uproar over a sex column in ...
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Fox News - Donkey Punch?
2007-05-16 20:17:00
Patrice Oneal isn’t afraid to split hairs over deviant sexual acts… even on Fox News I personally think Patrice has some interesting things to say, but overall he isn’t the PR person for the everyman/woman of America. He is almost right on when he questions the woman in the debate, “Who are these people?” ...
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Friday Teaser Trailer Express Edition
2007-05-11 18:59:00
Its been awhile since my last installment of this series… well, now its a series… Known as, Joe’s Trailer Preview Critique!  (I should have made the name longer for kicks) Anyway, today I will delve into the trailer for the movie Hot Rod. Trailer can be found here According to the brief synopsis of the movie, Andy Samberg ...
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UPDATE: Hamas Mickey
2007-05-10 14:18:00
Well, it appears that Hamas has pulled its children’s TV show that starred a Mickey Mouse look alike. They said something to the effect, “It did not represent their struggle properly.” Reported by ABC news Technorati Tags: Hamas, Mickey Mouse
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When everything feels overwhelming?
2007-05-09 21:28:00
You can always count on monkeys to brighten up your day! here is a video of a monkey fooling around with some tigers. Technorati Tags: monkeys, video, tigers
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Hamas? Mickey
2007-05-08 21:27:00
Hamas has started using a knock off Mickey Mouse to teach the children of their state a little bit of one sided thinking in the matter of religion and the world on the television. Its purely propaganda to keep the youth of their country involved in the fight against everyone basically ‘not on their ...
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Diagnosis: Terminal Bankruptcy
2007-05-08 19:43:00
It’s an all-too-common story… 62-year-old John Brandrick was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer and given 6 months to live. He did what many of us might, and decided to live his last days to their fullest. He quit his job, sold many of his possessions and began treating friends, family and himself to luxuries he ...
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Jingle it? just a little bit
2007-05-07 07:49:00
Ok, another quiz. This one is nowhere near as frustrating as the last one. If you’re over the age of, say… 30, or simply have a high pop culture IQ, you’ll enjoy reminiscing about all the old commercial jingles contained in the Mental Floss TV Jing le Quiz. I scored a perfect 16 out of ...
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Ma?am, have you seen these pants?
2007-05-03 22:00:00
  A single pair of pants was taken to the cleaners to be altered… sadly, the pants went missing… for a short time.  Most people would be upset over this and demand a refund for having the pants lost… But, to one man who can’t be bothered to leave the 4 block radius around his house to ...
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