3.30.2007
TRUTHINESS //
I was watching The Colbert Report the other day and he was interviewing a 30 year old African woman who was raised Muslim and was now a member of parliament in the Netherlands. She made an interesting comment about her atheistic beliefs. She said that she chooses not to believe in God because she doesn't like the idea of having to submit to anything. I don't like the idea of women brazenly undressing me with their eyes but it doesn't make it any less true. Actually it's not true at all. My point isn't theological, but that thinking something is true or not based on desire is absurd. And not because I want to be absurd, because it is absurd.

If you will excuse me now I have to take my pre-game shower and and brush my teeth five times in order to keep Yao from blowing out his ACL.



3.28.2007
WEEKLY DIGG //
This Peyton Manning SNL sketch has become an instant classic.

What's really in a Chicken McNugget? Some of it is flammable.

Toys that should have never been made.

A photo evolution of Michael Jackson.

Some great tips on getting really cheap plane tickets.

Here are the specs of the Global Icon's new diggs.

The ultimate question for those in a market for a new video game console.

For those of you who thought the PS3 was anything more than a glorified BluRay dvd player.




3.21.2007
WEEKLY DIGG //
Check out these pretty funny real classified ads.

These are actual word for word things people have said in court.

Think your job sucks? It could be much worse.

Safety First. Here are some Internet safety tips.

For the first time in the history of Jeopardy.

Resistance Fall of Grandma. Here is some video of a 70 year old grandma going ballistic while playing video games.

Homeowner exercises his right to resist by beating up two cops.

This is what $200M in cash looks like. Can you imagine the $8B that the government lost in Iraq?

Instant cure for a sore throat.

Who knew Super Mario Brothers had lyrics? Here it's performed along with a big band.

The movie 300 is amazingly close to the comic.

Are you the type of person who meticulously plans out your daily bathroom breaks or buys gifts 6 months in advance? Then you'll enjoy this puzzle game.



3.18.2007
BRACKET BUSTED //
When I lived in China last year I was really bummed that I missed the Astros going to the World Series, but especially having the Horns win the college football championship. It's almost been a transcendent sports experience to be able to watch our basketball team this season, or rather watching Kevin Durant. There's not an adjective that hasn't been used to sportscasters to gush over this phenomenal talent.

Sadly I may have just watched his last game in a Horns jersey. You know that feeling you get when you're nauseous and you have to throw up, but you can't so you're just miserable? Well that's how I just felt for the last 3 hours of UT crapping the bed and getting blown out by USC. The only talk of Durant and Tremendous Upside Potential I want to hear now is for the Horns next year because (of the remote chance that) he's coming back.



3.14.2007
WEEKLY DIGG //
Yeah there's like thousands of personality tests out there, but this is a quick one where you just select pictures that meet your tastes and then you hear great things about yourself. Plus it's pretty.

Here's a photo collection of some of the most bizarre toilets and sinks around the world. A few are creatively perverse.

A family refuses to sell out to corporate developers. Developers are forced to work around them.

This is sort of the Darwin Awards Hall of Fame listing strange deaths by famous people in history.

A good interview is an artform. These are some notable train wrecks. If you've never seen it before, the #1 most awkward interview is the one that launched Jim Rome's career.

When people get divorced the wife gets half of everything. In this case the man took his half, with a chainsaw.

Thursday March 15th from 10am to noon, Starbucks is giving away free coffee. Be prepared for long lines though.

Some photos of really cool subways carved from underground caves in Stockholm.

You know how in every movie you just want to kill reporters? Well Putin just offed another. Two more and he gets the honey baked ham.

Rotten Tomatoes countdowns the worst 100 movies ever made. I was saddened that Battlefield Earth didn't crack the top 10.



3.12.2007
BRACKETOLOGY //
March Madness is probably the most exciting tournament in sports. It rewards unemployed people with great day time college basketball games and punishes obsessive gamblers with its unpredictability. Even small schools like Texas A&M Corpus Christie and Long Beach State are in it. I love that with a little craftiness and hard work that anyone has a chance. It's like online dating.

If you haven't set your bracket yet, don't forget to do it by Wednesday. If you haven't joined one yet, create a yahoo account and join mine (group id#:6628//password:horns). Even if you're a chick who thinks an over-and-back-violation is something that happens in prisons you can still participate. I've seen girls whose bracket won it all using logic like, "I picked Davidson over Maryland because my best friend in high school's brother once bought us beer during her sweet 16 slumber party. He owned a Harley Davidson motorcycle. Plus I went to Maryland once for a wedding and my hair was awful so they're definitely out."



3.7.2007
WEEKLY DIGG //
If you aren't sure if you're a winner then you're not. To ensure that you are, here are some tips to winning every argument (even if you know nothing about the topic).

I don't want to sound like a hater, so I'll just link to someone who is (about MySpace at least).

Bored? Have some black nylons and a sleeping bag laying around?

Ex-boyfriend breaks into ex-girlfriends apartment with a sword. Runs into someone else with a sword.

I need teepee for my bung hole. uh huh huh.

A doctor crashes his bike into a little girl. Then sues little girl. Ass.

Are you all that and a bag of chips? Then this is your official potato chip.

Pigs flying. It has happened and will happen again. The key is getting them liquored up first.

Amazingly Japan still refuses the atrocities it committed against China in WWII.

Quick tips on searching Google like a pro.

For those of you who never got to finish Day Break, ABC has finally put all of the episodes online.



3.5.2007
INCONVENIENT TRUTHS //
If any of you saw the Oscars last week then you were treated to a liberal lovefeast; actually orgy is more acurate and Al Gore was the guest of honor. Many gushed about how he was an inspiration. Leonardo proudly announced how it was the first ever Oscars that went "green." Meaning that all of the ballots were printed on recycled paper. After that self-congratulatory high five all of the stars drove their stretched SUVs to after parties where they drank $3000 bottles of Cristal then flew in helicopters back to their multi-million dollar mansions.

Some outside of the Hollywood elite though call Al Gore a self-serving hypocrite. It was recently reported that not including his private jet, that one of his several homes consumes 20 times the average use of electricity. What a vicious partisan attack. I mean I could only accept him being a hypocrite if say he said something ludicrous like he was off setting his "carbon footprint" by paying a company money to plant trees to cancel out his waste; a company that he was calling everyone else to use; a company that he actually owns. Oh wait.

And what's with this whole Global Warming deal anyhow? Fact or fiction? It sounds like evolution. A nice enough theory that scientists are still searching for the Holy Grail to prove, but will swear to God that it's true. All I know is that 25 years ago the global scientific consensus was convinced of Global Cooling. So did we do too good of a job fighting that? I have a hard time buying into Global Warming when I'm wearing long johns during a Texas March and there was 11 ft of snow in New York a few weeks ago.

If the environmentally conscious want others to conserve; especially Chinese people, then they have to stop anthropomorphizing Mother Earth. The emphasis shouldn't be "save the planet" but "save more money." There was a guy my parents knew who wouldn't let his family flush the toilet unless it was number 2, and if the TV was on then all of the lights were off. He scrounged over a million dollars that way. Now that's an inspiration. I guess.