Time to lose your faith in humanity

It gets worse every day.

He's the biggest and the strongest

so of course he can drink the most.

BONUS LINK to content that is related but all of you have probably seen by now anyway.

CHILD VS. LEWIS C. K.

LINK

Era of the Fan-Doc

LINK

"Timothy McVeigh Finishing School"

It's pretty well understood that the Iraq war will have some far-reaching negative consequences. One of them happens to be that relaxing military recruiting standards has lead to infiltration of the military by far-right extremist groups.

Yes, it's an ad.

But it's so well done that it's also a pretty cool stop-motion music video. Seems like there's a rekindling of interest in stop motion and almost a yearning for older, seemingly simpler times. Whether it's all just a dream, a collection of fondly recalled memories...well, I'll leave that for you to decide.

We need more commenting! Let's turn this not only into a links page but also a discussion board--who's with me?

(If you're not, comment anyway.)

recursion

I saw this on digg and it made me laugh.

Did you mean recursion?

Always Be Watching Stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFQkMAPVoIo

The problem is always with the product

What do you get when you make your tech support folk write up "problem/improvement" reports after every consultation? Comedy gold.

Israeli cell phone commercial, internet response

Recently a cell phone commercial has caused outrage in Israel and Palestine. It features a friendly game of soccer over the separation barrier. This type of commercial is not uncommon; Coca cola typically only shows this type of commercial, in which the apparent message is Coke == love.

This ad is pissing folks off because it implies what a lot of folks would like to believe: everything is hunky dory in Palestine, and the wall is A-OK with them.

In response, some Palestinians tried the stunt by kicking a soccer ball over the wall. What they got back wasn't a soccer ball.

TV Party Tonight

Ethan says I need to post more, so here is this:

http://warmingglow.uproxx.com/2009/07/the-complete-jordan-schlansky-oeuvre/#more-4358

Geography trivia

A colleague at work recently introduced me to this geography game.

One minor complaint is that the map is tiny, which hinders efficient clicking - but aside from that, the game is addictive.

Oh no, keyboard cat!

Read about Warner Music Group's excision of a Hall & Oates/keyboard cat YouTube collaboration.

Fake technophobes

Is being a luddite of convenience in fashion?

This person is reacting to the reaction to the news of adult stem-cell generated artificial sperm, but there are lots of knee-jerk slippery-slopists out there.

For only pennies a day,

you too can save a print journalist.

Ada Lovelace:

Important person and crime fighter.

New Old Photographs

Also, in case anyone was interested, I've started going through my photos from college and am building up albums of the best ones by theme. Check out the first one, and other photos, here.

The new album is F&M Speakers. Let me know what you think, if anything.

Check it out--Reverend Billy says so.

Ebay, but more addicting

The logical fallacy of sunk costs have always flummoxed people and is consequently used in various marketing schemes all over the world. But I've never seen something that exploits it quite as effectively as this website does. Check out an article on it here.

Looking for a job?

Steve Machell builds sand castles for a living. And not just castles... also sand turtles, sand mermaids, and sand dragons!

Though it appears he hasn't updated his website in a while, you can still see some nice shots of his artwork.

West Philly Phun map

Speaking of our fair city, my housemate/soon-to-be-roommate Joe made a great Google map of West Philadelphia sites - bookstores, restaurants, grocery stores, parks, public transportation stops, and much more. The map may be very useful to anyone moving to West Philly (you know who you are), or those of you who are just visiting us.

Plus, Joe's Google avatar is a photo of himself wearing a bow tie and being hit in the head with a fiery bolt from above. How awesome is that?

Rave

It's great being in Philadelphia. Most of my friends are here, there is always some tasty food to eat, and there is also a zoo and lots of entertainment. The best part is that it's always sunny.

Yes sir: Philadelphia is the place to be in the summer time, or any time.

Rant

Seriously, fuck Maine. It has rained nearly every day I have been here. When it does not rain, it is 90 degrees and humid, and when it does rain, it is about 55. Sometimes the rain comes out of God damned nowhere and ruins a days worth of painting. So, fuck Maine.

Energy conservation in Japan

This article is a few years old, but there are some interesting tidbits about Japan's resources and its history of energy consumption (or lack thereof).