1. "The Cal State Long Beach cheer team was stripped of its national title after it was discovered that one of the competing members was not a student."
2. Funny post about comic strip writers who post idealized version of themselves, with possibly the most cringe-inducing Peanuts strip I've ever seen. (I actually made a similar, albeit more subtle observation about James Kochalka a while back.) Via.
3. OK, file this one away for when the reviews come out. Kotaku says, "Raise Your Expectations For The Captain America Video."
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Showing posts with label dumb move. Show all posts
Link roundup
1. Jason Chalker's looking for commissions, starting at $30.
2. Supposedly John C. Reilly is the front runner for to play Haymitch in The Hunger Games. Too bad, I thought Russel Crowe would have been perfect. (Like an informal sequel to Gladiator.)
3. The University of Maryland's medical school is teaching homeopathy?
2. Supposedly John C. Reilly is the front runner for to play Haymitch in The Hunger Games. Too bad, I thought Russel Crowe would have been perfect. (Like an informal sequel to Gladiator.)
3. The University of Maryland's medical school is teaching homeopathy?
Link roundup
1. LA Times:
2. Animated gif featuring Jesse Venture and Old Painless from Predator.
3. A claim that Jim Shooter's blog is filled with lies.
*Buy Tattoo of Death (Choose Your Own Adventure #22) at Amazon.
Gang tattoo leads to a murder convictionVia.
Inked on the chest of a Pico Rivera gang member was the detailed scene of a liquor store slaying that had stumped an L.A. County sheriff's investigator for more than four years. It leads to a jailhouse confession from Anthony Garcia — and a first-degree murder conviction.
2. Animated gif featuring Jesse Venture and Old Painless from Predator.
3. A claim that Jim Shooter's blog is filled with lies.
*Buy Tattoo of Death (Choose Your Own Adventure #22) at Amazon.
Link roundup
1. The WSJ:
2. Digital subscriptions are for suckers:
When Rabbi Naftali Marrus does his spring cleaning, he doesn't use a mop. He rolls with the Inferno.Maybe next April's art contest should be designing a logo for the rabbi and his Inferno? Via.
The Inferno is a three-and-a-half-foot-long propane torch Rabbi Marrus uses during the critical days before Passover to scour commercial kitchens catering to observant Jews and obliterate the smallest particles of bread and other leavened foods, which are forbidden during the holiday that commemorates the Jews' flight from Egypt.
2. Digital subscriptions are for suckers:
Apparently, if you're a Kindle owner with a magazine subscription, and you decide to stop subscribing, the back issues you previously downloaded are also lost—for good.3. Songwriter/music producer/former American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi has a new book to promote, in which she says that she was "date-raped by a well-known music producer" and "sexually harassed by a 'hugely successful artist.'" The article doesn't mention whether she took any steps to protect other women from the men.
Link roundup
1. The NY Daily News says, a woman won a settlement of $850 a month for life in alimony and "the couple's home by convincing a court three years ago that a 1997 car accident left her too injured to work." But her husband spotted photos she had posted about her daily belly dancing and turned them into the court. "Confronted with the damning evidence, [the woman] told the court she was prescribed belly dancing as treatment for her injuries - a statement her doctor contradicted on the stand."
2. The Awl imagines what the menu would be at Passover at Guy Fieri's House (for example, "Gefilte fish parmigiana jammers"). Via.
3. The Mortal Kombat 9 fatalities and Stage Fatalities stepped past amusingly violent and are more like short snuff films. But the babalities are very cute.
2. The Awl imagines what the menu would be at Passover at Guy Fieri's House (for example, "Gefilte fish parmigiana jammers"). Via.
3. The Mortal Kombat 9 fatalities and Stage Fatalities stepped past amusingly violent and are more like short snuff films. But the babalities are very cute.
Art Contest: Fix the Nintendo 3DS's red screen of death
Apparently this is the Nintendo 3DS's red screen of death. Kind of hard to believe that in 2011, Nintendo would design such a cold message instead of its own version of the Fail Whale.
Your challenge is to create a delightful error page for the Nintendo 3DS. As inspiration, check out the creatures The Oatmeal created for Tumblr:
Submit as many entries as you'd like. All entries must be submitted by midnight Los Angeles time Sunday May 8, 2011. Best entry will win a $100 Threadless credit.
And of course, you can buy the 3DS at Amazon.
Link roundup
1. My son's reaction to last night's interminable season finale to season three of The Clone Wars: "What's taking so long?"
2. How to make Minecraft-esque building blocks for the real world. Via.
3. "A USA Today investigation found what appears to be compelling evidence of teacher cheating in Washington, D.C., schools that were heralded as major successes due to test score increases." Via.
2. How to make Minecraft-esque building blocks for the real world. Via.
3. "A USA Today investigation found what appears to be compelling evidence of teacher cheating in Washington, D.C., schools that were heralded as major successes due to test score increases." Via.
Link roundup
1. G4TV: We've been paying someone to post our articles at Reddit for ages and are really sorry we've been exposed.
2. Video shows how to throw a knuckleball.
3. The new Amazon Cloud Drive is incredibly easy to use, but uploads are very slow.
2. Video shows how to throw a knuckleball.
3. The new Amazon Cloud Drive is incredibly easy to use, but uploads are very slow.
Link roundup
1. The Big Lebowski Monopoly board.
2. Sarah Lane, the ballerina who served as a dancing double for Natalie Portman in Black Swan (and who apparently never wants to get another job in Hollywood), told Entertainment Weekly that she performed 95% of the dancing in the movie and that Portman's face was digitally grafted onto her body. Via.
3. Kristin Tercek is auctioning off a new painting at eBay to benefit Japan.
2. Sarah Lane, the ballerina who served as a dancing double for Natalie Portman in Black Swan (and who apparently never wants to get another job in Hollywood), told Entertainment Weekly that she performed 95% of the dancing in the movie and that Portman's face was digitally grafted onto her body. Via.
3. Kristin Tercek is auctioning off a new painting at eBay to benefit Japan.
Link roundup
1. Cat likes taking showers.
2. "CNN alone will have a team of roughly 400 reporters, cameramen and crew assigned to [Prince William's] wedding. The network has 50 people on the ground working on the breaking news in Japan, plus others scattered in Bahrain, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt."
3. More great stories from Jim Shooter about working for Marvel in the 60's.
2. "CNN alone will have a team of roughly 400 reporters, cameramen and crew assigned to [Prince William's] wedding. The network has 50 people on the ground working on the breaking news in Japan, plus others scattered in Bahrain, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt."
3. More great stories from Jim Shooter about working for Marvel in the 60's.
Link roundup
1. The April Fool's Day episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold will be a Scooby-Doo crossover.
2. Etsy is the latest company to decide that its users have no right to privacy.
3. NY Times article complaining about the fonts on new road signs in London.
2. Etsy is the latest company to decide that its users have no right to privacy.
3. NY Times article complaining about the fonts on new road signs in London.
Link roundup
1. Best Buy decided it was a bad idea to give away free corsets with copies of the rated PG-13 movie Burlesque. Via.
2. Pin-up featuring Carmen Sandiego as a sexy spy.
3. Watch as a a month's worth of labour is compressed into three seconds of screentime of Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
*Buy travel posters at Amazon.
2. Pin-up featuring Carmen Sandiego as a sexy spy.
3. Watch as a a month's worth of labour is compressed into three seconds of screentime of Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
*Buy travel posters at Amazon.
Link roundup
1. I choose to assume this is not a hoax - - Mazda is recalling thousands of recent models because spiders like to build webs in their cannister vent lines.
2. Scary story about Ivan Lendl's dogs.
3. Allegedly, the Phoenix, Arizona police department greatly exaggerated the number of kidnappings in the city in order to obtain more federal money.
2. Scary story about Ivan Lendl's dogs.
3. Allegedly, the Phoenix, Arizona police department greatly exaggerated the number of kidnappings in the city in order to obtain more federal money.
Link roundup
1. Guinea pig in a dragon costume. Via.
2. Techcrunch: "Forbes Accused Of Link Spam, Plays Dumb, But Forgets To Delete All The Links."
3. "San Francisco entrepreneurs Eve, Kathleen and Clem of Fat Cookies deliver their oven fresh product (baked in their second story apartment) to their customers below by way of an ingenious bag and string hoist."
2. Techcrunch: "Forbes Accused Of Link Spam, Plays Dumb, But Forgets To Delete All The Links."
3. "San Francisco entrepreneurs Eve, Kathleen and Clem of Fat Cookies deliver their oven fresh product (baked in their second story apartment) to their customers below by way of an ingenious bag and string hoist."
Link roundup
1. Wired examines "How a Remote Town in Romania Has Become Cybercrime Central." Via.
2. India's foreign minister accidentally gave a speech to the U.N. Security Council, and didn't notice until someone told him that he was reading the official statement of the foreign minister of Portugal (who had left the speech lying around). Via.
3. Looks like a photo of the abandoned tunnel in Spirited Away.
2. India's foreign minister accidentally gave a speech to the U.N. Security Council, and didn't notice until someone told him that he was reading the official statement of the foreign minister of Portugal (who had left the speech lying around). Via.
3. Looks like a photo of the abandoned tunnel in Spirited Away.
Link roundup
1. Hilarious: Lindsay Lohan might not have committed grand theft (stealing something worth more than $950) because although the price tag on the necklace was $2,500, it wasn't even worth half that much. Via.
2. And speaking of Valentine's Day-related scams, read about this one involving Groupon and FTD.
3. Finally, zombie and stalker-themed Valetines.
*But I'm sure the deals in Amazon's jewerly store are always good deals.
2. And speaking of Valentine's Day-related scams, read about this one involving Groupon and FTD.
3. Finally, zombie and stalker-themed Valetines.
*But I'm sure the deals in Amazon's jewerly store are always good deals.
Cute kid recounts Commando in ill-conceived campaign
This is a video of a very cute boy describing the plot of Commando. Now the boy is adorable, and I'm preconditioned to like the video because I love the movie (the mall in the movie is the one I hung out in as a child - - it's since been completely torn down and rebuilt).
But.
The video is the first in a series called "Stop the pity. Unlock the Potential." The point of the campaign is to make people stop thinking of "war" and "genocide" when they think of Africa.
A video of a young boy totally enraptured by an extremely violent movie is probably not going to get the job done.
They couldn't find a cute kid that liked a Disney movie?
Link roundup
1. Wargaming miniatures giveaway.
2. You can officially not be jealous of Tom Brady. Here's why Gisele Bundchen does not wear sunscreen:
2. You can officially not be jealous of Tom Brady. Here's why Gisele Bundchen does not wear sunscreen:
'I cannot put this poison on my skin,' the 30-year-old said. 'I do not use anything synthetic.' As a compromise, Bundchen claims she only exposes herself to the sun before 8am when it is still too weak to do any damage.3. According to reports, the guy who robbed the Bellagio of $1.5 million in chips is apparently the son of a Las Vegas judge, bragged about the crime, and returned to stay at the hotel.
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