Heh.

Sounds just like the response you get from Obama supporters on how exactly Mr. Hopenchange will usher in the new utopia on Earth:

(h/t The Canadian Republic)

If you ever wanted more cowbell and Christopher Walken in a favorite song of yours, then here’s the place where you can make that dream a reality.

(l/v RSM at TAS)

The Springsteen and Lauper impersonators are pretty dead on:

Covering the period 1840-2008, courtesy of Voting America, a project of the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond.  You should, however, take the warning about long download times seriously.

Pretty funny.

Awesome 40 minute film by Joss Weldon, creator of the Firefly and Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series. Watch it here.

Hysterical satire of the 2008 presidential race by the folks at JibJab:

(h/t RedState)

You should get a smile from R.S. Gwynn’s “Fried Beauty” , a riff on G.M. Hopkins’ “Pied Beauty.”  (You can brush up on your Hopkins here.)

A pretty interesting device, though don’t the facts that

(a) it is made by a company named Cyberdyne

(b) the suit itself is called HAL

cause any one to worry?

Perhaps one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while:

h/t TechRepublican

(In case you missed it, it’s a parody of this)

Tetris theme as performed on empty bottles.

The first digital camera.

“What every man whats in bed.”

There’s a pretty strong correlation between the success of a programming language and the amount of facial hair of the inventor.

Very funny…well, at least to a programmer such as myself.

Obviously.

As hard as it is for me to get out of bed in the morning, I might need to get me one of these.  It’s an alarm clock that will donate money to your most hated charity/organization every time you hit the snooze button.  Of course, mine would be the Yankee Society of Wearing Black Socks with Sandals and Shorts At the Beach.

Nanotube: This will definitely test your reflexes.

Questionaut: Geared toward the older grade school / middle school crowd, but a really interesting game nonetheless.  I could listen to level 6’s soundtrack all day and level 8 is pretty clever.

This really tickled me.

Trivia round 2…  Supreme Court.  Who was the first rejected nomination to the Supreme Court?  Which Justice(s) was(were) nominated and confirmed, but never sat?  How many justices have left the bench (of the Supreme Court) to run for political office?  Who is the only man to have headed two branches of government?  What President nominated the most members of the Supreme Court after 1800?  Who was the longest service justice?  Shortest serving?  Which justice(s) were impeached?  Convicted?

Let’s try to have our reader and blogger cocktail hour tomorrow night (Friday night) at 7:00 here at the Mayflower in the Town and Country Bar.  If you can drop in, please do.  I’ll buy the first round. 

this.

An old standby of mine, some trivia…  When, since the passage of the 17th Amendment, has the House changed hands but not the Senate (two right answers)?  What Presidents were not sworn in?  Finally, in what case, prior to Marbury, did the concept of Judicial review appear?  (may be several, I only know of one).

Done as if it was a thriller.

(h/t The Corner)

Now you, too, can be a virtual minuteman (or gal) by logging in at the Texas Border Watch test site. The welcome page explains….

As part of the Virtual Neighborhood Border Watch Program, the State of Texas has been testing video surveillance cameras in different environments along the 1240 miles of Texas/Mexico border using the internet to transmit the images. The last stage of the test is to stress the system by providing public access to numerous surveillance cameras.

Firefox users are out of luck but those of you with IE browsers could give it a spin. I suppose it will be like watching paint dry.

Yep, a flamethrower made out of mostly LEGOs. In the video it looks like the guy is demonstrating it in the middle of his apartment. Can’t say that’s smart thinkin’.

Everyone should celebrate this day by watching this inspiring clip from Kenneth Branaugh’s Henry V.  The feast day itself has nothing to do with the Battle of Agincourt, fought on October 25, 1415, but any excuse to watch this clip is a good excuse.  You can read about St. Crispin and his brother St. Crispinian here.

Will the ACLU stand by and allow such torture of Texas inmates?

They wore pink jumpsuits and pink slippers, and one was wrapped in pink sheets. They were surrounded by pink bars and pink walls….. They were not comfortable.

Mason County, with about 3,800 residents, is about 100 miles southeast of San Angelo. The jail is in Mason, the county seat.

[Sheriff] Low got the idea of pink jumpsuits from a sheriff in Arizona, Joe Arpaio, who bought pink boxers to keep inmates from stealing the underwear and other clothing. In Mason, Low dyed the jumpsuits and slippers pink, and the color later bled to sheets, underwear and other articles during washings.

Low, who was a deputy in Mason before being elected sheriff, estimated the re-offense rate in the county is down 70 percent since he switched to pink jumpsuits for the inmates. He also said there have been no fights between inmates in the jail since it was painted.

Here is a interesting/fun story from the National Website of Wales:

IF YOU think your man is a neanderthal, research by a leading DNA expert may mean you’re closer to the truth than you ever realised.

Prehistoric man died out in the UK 30,000 years ago.

But Bryan Sykes, a professor of human genetics at Oxford University, says the last of the real neanderthal bloodline could have been carried by a pair of Mid Wales twins who died in the 1980s.

A mysterious debris field around the space shuttle is vexing the NASA folks. Magnified image of the space bag revealed……

(more…)

Methinks not. To the extent that I think it’s complete crap that USC jumped them in the USA Today poll…esp. after a bye week.

Me: And, bear in mind, I’m a Notre Dame hater…