Has anyone else seen this Netflix ad on the web? I don’t get it. The people don’t quite look like zombies, but they don’t look like healthy old people either. Sick old people don’t like Netflix, do they? But wait… I’m writing this, and you’re reading it. Maybe that’s the point. Oh well, I still think it’s stupid.
I’m generally not a person who concerns himself with impending disasters. I didn’t load up on food and water when Y2K rolled around. I didn’t duct tape my doors and windows after 9/11. Sometimes I don’t even wear underwear after a trip to Taco Bell.
However, I feel very strongly that we all need to prepare ourselves for the possibility of a zombie invasion. For many years, zombies have been little more than a nuisance, slow and stinky. In recent years zombies have become faster and stronger, though. Their speed allows them to better capture us and satiate themselves with our precious brains.
Since zombies don’t seem to be as media worthy as Asian Bird Flu or Hillary Clinton we are dangerously underinformed as to how to deal with a zombie outbreak in out country. Luckily for us, some helpful folks have put together a new website: http://www.zombieinitiative.org that tells how to prepare for and deal with a zombie invasion. Keep in mind, this site is user driven ala Wikipedia, so there might be some misinformation littered throughout this overall informative and necessary site.
Read now and save yourself later at:
http://www.zombieinitiative.org/
Not suprisingly, George Bush takes the top 3 spots. I’m not going to ruin them for you, so read the list at:
There was some naked tree hugging in Berkeley on Saturday, even though it was cold out, and someone took lots of pictures.
Seventy-eight performance artists, models, protesters and their supporters stripped down for the camera in a grove of oak trees at UC Berkeley that could fall to make room for an athletic training center. Asked how getting naked might help to save the beloved oak tree, one dazed protestor smiled and answered “Toally”.
The au-naturel visitors joined a half-dozen activists who have lived in the trees since December to protest Cal’s plan to raze the grove near Memorial Stadium.
In an ironic twist, the health of the oak grove has been waning recently. Leaves of the mighty trees have been poisoned by a leathal coating of petrulli oil.
via SFGate.com
Homer: Are you saying you’re never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Ham?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Pork chops?
Lisa: Dad, those all come from the same animal.
Homer: Heh heh heh. Ooh, yeah, right, Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.
Homer: Aw, twenty dollars! I wanted a peanut!
Homer’s Brain: Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts!
Homer: Explain how!
Homer’s Brain: Money can be exchanged for goods and services!
Homer: Woo-hoo!
If you have a full head of hair, but still like lasers, there is still hope for you.
For less than the price of the “Hairmax Lasercomb“, you can buy a green laser powerful enough to light a match, pop a balloon, or do any number of things that you should be mature enough not to try.
I’ve had my eye on a 95mw laser from WickedLasers.com. 95mw seems to be about the power necessary to burn small things around the house. However, this model does cost about $350 and my wife has nixed this purchase. Hey, we need a new duvet cover!!
Someday I’ll get my $350 laser pointer, pop a few balloons, tattoo the dog, most likely hurt myself, then wish I were bald and would have bought the “Hairmax Lasercomb” instead.
I’m all for using coins instead of dollar bills. Everyone says they are too heavy and they want fewer coins in their pocket not more. I like coins, though. I have no good argument on my behalf.
So I was excited to read that the new dollar coins are coming this week. The coins will portray U.S. presidents in the order they served, starting with Washington. Then I saw images of the first four coins to be released and was shocked at how shitty they look. Washington and Jefferson are just okay, but Adams and Madison suck. Hopefully they look better in hand than they do in the photographs, but Adams looks like some sort of a fat rodent, and Madison looks like he has a shiner.
See the images and comparisons below:
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The movie Norbit was number one at the box office this weekend. Big Momma’s House 2 and RV each brought in over $70 million last year. Deal or No Deal is a ratings success with an unfunny Howie Mandel, and Dane Cook is arguably the biggest stand up comedian in the world.
Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Robin Williams, Dane Cook, and Howie Mandel have all been funny at one time or another. However, it seems to me that with a few exceptions (Borat, and The Daily Show come to mind) mainstream comedy is in a pretty sorry state right now.
Cory Doctorow:
Goatsestickers sells, well, stickers of the hands of the infamous “GOATSE” man, suitable for putting alongside the edges of any round design or object in your life for sheer net.hilarity.
Link,
Wikipedia’s safe-for-work Goatse page
See also:
Goatse iPod case
Captain Copyright commits goatse, unattributed trademark use
Goatse tribute page
Proud owner poses with GOATSE license plate
Goatse fights for your WiFi privacy: GOATSEPEG
Flickr set of people seeing Goatse photo for the first time
Unintentionally Goatse-esque finger ring
Goatse Valentine
GOATSE t-shirt in the NYT
Goatse polo shirt
Goatse t-shirt design
Carousel Goatse
Goatses in the media
Hidden Goatse in Unreal Tournament 2004
Cthulhu meets Goatse
I Goatse’d Ron Jeremy
Goatse.cx taken offline
Goatse casemod
Persistence-of-vision bike spoke Goatse
GOATEA.cx
(Thanks, Greg!)
Original post by Cory Doctorow
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