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Air Force Jet makes surprise appearance on highway. Thanks to JT for this one. In case you were wondering how big this thing is, check this out.

A C-5 with a cargo load of 270,000 pounds (122,472 kilograms) can fly 2,150 nautical miles, offload, and fly to a second base 500 nautical miles away from the original destination -- all without aerial refueling. With aerial refueling, the aircraft's range is limited only by crew endurance.

A Crazy Guy This one's blocked for me, but Bricker sent it in, so put your faith in him and click through.

Because you guys are all dorks...

A Foxtrot Christmas card Thanks to Derek for this one.

Hooters India Web Site. Shek sent this to me with the advice that it's like a car wreck - you don't wanna look but you are drawn to it.

Fez is back with Mandy Moore after Lohan breakup. Normally I don't pay much attention to this stuff, but what is this guy doing to be up to his eye-balls in tail? Are they putting something in the water over at That 70's Show? And on a side note, I'd like to nominate Lohan's boobs for best supporting actress in a comedy.

Cave Explorer invents rebreather. Encore is mission to Moon - of Jupiter. He wants to build a robot that will go to Europa, get through 6 miles of ice, then explore the ocean below.

With a doctorate in structural engineering and 11 patents to his credit, Stone is the archetypal modern-day explorer, a multidisciplinary maverick constantly inventing tools in the name of discovery lust. ... Stone has published more than 220 papers on topics ranging from seismic resistance to spacecraft development.

Congress cuts National Science Foundation Money - increases pork. Sent in my Andy, Mr. Jackson if you're nasty. He adds "it's just more proof that everyone is stupid" Couldn't have put it better myself.

Does anyone have a GMail invite? My web-mail system blows, and I want to just set up an auto-forward.

An Open Letter to Porn. This made the best of Boston list.

Financial Breakdown of the NHL. The owners are crying poor, but they're not as poor as they say.

15 Kids... more to come.

Priest gets 4.5 - 5 years in prison for raping altar boy. That was for four counts. I hope on the first day he gets gang-raped, and then every two weeks thereafter. Then on the last day before his parole, someone shivs him. Good thing the church put him on administrative leave. Fuck this shit.

$10,000 martini available. It has a diamond at the bottom that you pick out three days in advance. Thanks to Weinstein for this one.

Giambi says he was on 'roids. In case this is a shock to anyone. Mr. Bonds, your turn.

Burt Rutan, X Prize winning aeronatucial genius, speaks his mind.

A NASA-funded study estimates that if the price of a ticket to space approached $100,000, close to a million people would buy one. That's a $100 billion industry. Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gave me $20 million in startup funding to go after that market. What I learned is that you don't really need government resources to achieve suborbital space travel.

Dodgers pitcher forks over $500k to woman he gave herpes to. Losing the money is bad. Infecting someone else with a disease is bad. Having that broadcast on the web is really bad. Thanks to Will for this one.

JFK Reloaded
The entire plot of the game is to hit the bullets exactly like Oswald did. Let the moral outrage begin. Thanks to Derek for this one.

New Report on errors in abstinence-only education. This one's from Rep. Waxman, with appropriate cites from the CDC contradicting the claims made by the educational materials. This would be a follow up to this flame war.

Amazing illusions. From Rollins who sums it up thusly: This guy is awesome. Watching these videos felt like my eyes were punching my brain in the nuts.

New MLB scheduling supplier selected. They're based around Pittsburgh, and they beat out a husband/wife team that have done it since '81. Thanks to the white Tony Paez for this one.

In fact, Doug Bureman, co-founder of the Sports Scheduling Group, teamed up with a business professor from Carnegie Mellon University and a professor of industrial and systems engineering at Georgia Tech to put together the winning proposal.

Mr. Leon is throwing a bash in Boston on the 18th of December at 'Felt'. Moet has thrown in $750 of champagne, KISS 108 will be there, and there will be free appetizers. It's a Toys For Tots Drive, so show up with a toy or some cash. Last year they raised $3000, so let's see if that can be beat. Let your friends know as well.

Bonds 'unknowingly' juiced. Yea, right. And I've got a bridge to sell. Bring on the drug testing.

Bonds said that Anderson had so little money that he "lives in his car half the time." Asked by a juror why he didn't buy "a mansion" for his trainer, Bonds answered: "One, I'm black, and I'm keeping my money. And there's not too many rich black people in this world. There's more wealthy Asian people and Caucasian and white. And I ain't giving my money up."

44% of people want to get it on at holiday parties. 15% actually have. It's with their sig. other, but still. Watch out for the coat cloaset. Thanks to Nino for this one.

Holiday parties are also the place to find your true love, or at least a lusty fling. Of those surveyed, 47 percent found love or lust at a holiday party.

Christian Right Lobbies To Overturn Second Law Of Thermodynamics Via a guy and originally from the Onion.

Tons of beer bottles and cans from around the world. Worth a look.

Japan's massive underground water-control system. Rollins sent this in, along with this: Check out the photo gallery in the link. If anybody ever wanted to film a motion picture based on an FPS game, this is the place to go. I have to agree. I thought it was fake until the last picture with the little girl. Since she didn't look like someone from Final Fantasy, I knew it was legit.

Foosball Champ.

Ridiculous...absolutely ridiculous. Thanks to Derek for this one.

Men who look like Kenny Rogers.com 'nuf said. Thanks to JT.

Pictures of Bonds through the years. As naj points out, he either knew or is the dumbest person on earth. I've heard that if you're juicing that the tell-tale sign (aside from having ridiculous muscle mass) is that your face changes shape in ways regular aging never would cause. Check his out. Freaky.

Phil in the news. Thanks to JT via Fark.

Orgasms from around the world. Flash animation. NOT SAFE FOR WORK. Notice the caps? Okay.

The many signatures of Ken Jennings. KenJen wrote his name differently every day he was on Jepardy. And here's a sample.

McCain threatens MLB with congressional action if they don't clean up. If our leaders don't have anything better to do than regulate a bunch of overpaid gorillas and their drug habits, can they please give me a call? I've got some ideas on what they can spend their time on.

Reality shows are actually scripted. Not word for word, but in some cases, pretty close. pwd/user id is: passfree/passfree

Jessica Simpson as Daisy Duke. Ummmm... yea. More pics are here, here, here, and here. These came from Cheap Ass Gamers Forum, Filmrot.com, and metafilter. Whew.

Tyco of Penny Arcade likes Mario Party 6 Last paragraph on that one. Then read Gabe's response. Classic. CITKB!!

America: The Book named best book of the year. Huzzah! And dare I say, kudos. Thanks to Bean for this one.

New supercars coming soon. The 507HP M6, 460HP 911 Turbo, and 425HP Audi RS4(!) will all be available soon. Oh yea, and the 610HP Audi Le Mans. Oh, to have $100k for a car...

BCS Sucks.com Throwing more fuel on the fire. The site could use a little help, but there ya' go.

Monzy.org - fun for all ages. This is not to be confused with Monzy.com, although they're both from the same guy. His Unsafe Search just got posted to Cruel.com, so look out.

He's Just Not that Into You will be a movie. So really, it's like the Sex and the City movie actually is being produced. This would be a follow up to this post.

Sounds and Vision magazine gives out 'best of' awards. While a lot of stereophile bullshit is just that, this is a cool roundup of products. The DVD library thing is neato.

Creationist museum plans. Wow. This would be a follow-on to the creationist science fair and the Wisconsin town teaching creationism bullshit.

Criminals report stolen weed. mayes sent this in, adding "I'm just glad it's no one I know or am related to." Panhandle represent.

Teen Pregnancy rates by state. Includes helpful red/blue state breakdown. Nice job New England. Stolen from Daily Kos, wherein he tells the Red states to shove it.

This one's thanks to Bob's question in the comments. Take II

Caption Madness Haven't done this in a loooong time, so I thought I'd throw this out there. For those of you who are new: put a funny caption with this picture. That is all.

T-Shirt and pin set so you can 'go Canadian' Bob sent this in so he could point out that mayes said he was from saskathewan or some shit to everyone we met over there... the puss Yea - if you're going to Europe, pick up one of these. Same difference.

Dean, sperl, Tony, Pro, and Danny were all down in Miami for the game this past weekend, where it rained, and they didn't have a good time.

	From Dean: According to Tony, as he returned to our seats, he heard the entire section in a frenzy and figured Miami has scored. To his disappointment, it was just the crowd cheering for Danny and the bottle Sam had balanced on his head.

Kilborn replacement is Craig Ferguson from 'Drew Carey' This would be a follow up to this post regarding Mr. Black from The State.

Advocacy groups account for just about all FCC complaints.

Through early October, 99.9 percent of indecency complaints - aside from those concerning the Janet Jackson "wardrobe malfunction" during the Super Bowl halftime show broadcast on CBS- were brought by the PTC, according to the FCC analysis dated Oct. 1

For fun, check out the PTC web site. They have an entire campaign devoted to MTV. Beautiful. The article makes brief mention of the study showing how few people sent in complaints that was posted a bit ago.

Jesus baby head Flash thing. The eyes follow you and then it gets upset and stuff. It's kind of creeping me out. Update I got this off of some random guy's site, then saw BoingBoing had posted it. Anyway, BoingBoing is now saying it's a spoof. Not that it becomes any less creepy, but there ya' go.

Caltech changes flip-card signs in Rose Bowl. So the Yale thing wasn't the first, and I think the older one might have been more clever. Anyway, nice job nerds.

Cheesiest movie moments / lines. It was a survey done in the UK, so their answers are maybe a little different.

2. "Dirty Dancing": Patrick Swayze's "Nobody puts Baby in the corner."

Original Transformers are back. They're a re-issue using the original die-cast parts. Even includes the stickers that change with heat. Thanks to Oof for the heads up. Amazon is getting hammered at the moment, but there ya' go.

Random party with co-eds, Kid Rock, and some hockey players. You guys, right here, are real. This... is real. Thanks to Will for this one.

States and Capitals Games. Some of the state placement ones can get hard - e.g. place Nebraska with no other references. Anyway, entertaining and eductational, which is what all of us here at bhendrix.com strive to be.

Glow Thong.com It's a thong made of those necklaces you get at fairs, etc. that glow. Freaky. Thanks to Najeh Davenport for this one. Not Safe For Work.

Bowl-bound teams fall short of average graduation rates. In some cases, way short. MSNBC summary blurb is here.

The Pro Bowl Ballot JT sent this in.

Corporate America needs remedial writing help. Please keep in mind that I don't write like this at MY job. Postings to bhendrix.com aren't what they're talking about, so we're off the hook... for now. Got this off of Slashdot, and they're discussing it.

DVD Association sues Kaleidescape - the DVD jukebox folks. I hadn't heard of this until two days ago with the 'Sound and Vision' awards, but thought it was a cool product (if expensive). They've been working with the DVD Forum and the studios to make sure it's all on the up and up, and they're still getting sued. Nice move, hollywood.

Disgruntled driver lets people raid beer truck. Thanks to JT for this one. And if you ever want to hear some entertaining stories, talk to beer delivery guys in urban areas.

A look at a different way to rate running backs and QBs It goes on the premise that not all yards are of the same importance. Thanks to JT for this one.

Measuring quarterbacks by this method, Manning emerges as the league's top passer this season by a hefty margin: 57.3 percent of his pass plays have been successful. Minnesota's Daunte Culpepper and Tampa Bay's Brian Griese are far behind, tied for second at 52.5 percent. Bulger is ranked 16th, successful only 45 percent of the time.

8 Year Old girl suspended for bringing Jello shots to school. Again, I went to the wrong school, I guess. Thanks to CB for this one, who adds who needs bake sales anymore? Update Found a reg-free link.

Brits make nativity featuring Beckham and Posh Spice. Ms. Minogue is an angel. It's all in wax. This is from Oof, who points out the best line - God is not going to worry. He is going to cope -- but it is a bit depressing.

Girls are evil post on Craigslist. Everything seems to check out. QED.

Zoo organizes a gorilla wake. I got this from bharath, who didn't really know how to explain it. I'm still not sure of what I read, but there it is.

Krugman on the moves to privatize Social Security. He's taking a break from his break to dispell some incorrect information that's floating around. The jist: Social Security shouldn't be radically overhauled, it just needs a tuneup

Romain De Marchi Videos. (QT) You'll have to click on the video link above his head, but take a look at these clips. #1 and #6 are particularly gnarly. The rest of the riders have video clips as well. Check 'em out if you've got a few minutes.

ODB had 'bag of white substance' in his stomach. It's from the Post, so who knows, but would this surprise anyone? Dirt McGirt - drug mule.

I added a feature to the 25 Latest Comments page that highlights all of the comments that have been posted since your last visit. Looking for some feedback.

Little notes to tell people on phones to shut up. Mmmmm... semi-passive aggressive.

The full Team America sex scene. It was edited down to get an R rating. (Keep in mind these are puppets.) So now the full length one is on the net. No sound, but still. Obviously not safe for work, except that it's just two puppets in obscene positions.

Heisman trophy candidates announced. I'm sure everyone has seen this, unless you're sport-disfunctional like myself. So here it is.

Scientists grow brain in dish. It flies jet. They took 25,000 rat neurons, hooked up 60 electrodes and built a neural network. There's a little more information over here. This seems real, but man, is it freaky. I'd like to credit myself for not making any Sri-related jokes during this posting.

Meet the Fockers cast interview. I didn't really care for the first one, but I know some of you did.

Nightclub shooting

They were talking about this on Stern this morning. Apparently the guy went up on stage, said "you broke up Pantera" (the guitarist is the former Pantera guitarist), and started shooting the band memebers.

JT submitted all of this.

XXX: State of the Union. Cube replaces Vin, Samuel L keeps yelling, and the Green Goblin returns. Shek sent this to me, and points out that it may take the cake for cheesy one-liners, from the trailer alone. Oof, arjen, save hollywood. Please.

The plot against sex in America Op-ed on how the state of sexual attitudes in america and responses to Kinsey are bellwethers for other movements to suppress sexual information and rights. Thanks to S for this one.

...a public radio station in North Carolina, WUNC-FM, told an international women's rights organization based in Chapel Hill that it could not use the phrase "reproductive rights" in an on-air announcement. In Los Angeles, five commercial TV channels, fearing indecency penalties, refused to broadcast a public service spot created by Los Angeles county's own public health agency to counteract a rising tide of syphilis. Nationwide, the big three TV networks all banned an ad in which the United Church of Christ heralded the openness of its 6,000 congregations to gay couples.

Theft statistics for various cities. The burgh comes in nice and low on the list. Here's the summary.

Disney Picks Sony-backed Blu-Ray in the High Def DVD wars. From Bob:

I dont know if you have been following this whole war about the increased def, increased memory new dvd formats coming out, but its kinda rediculous. I think this is definitely one big instance where capitalism shits the bed, cause whoever buys whatever format doesnt go is gonna get killed. Remember when they had DiVX players you could get in place of DVD, or betamax.... sigh... the new discs are going to be sweet though, up to 30 somethin gigs of space...

Format wars suck for pretty much everyone but the winner, so we'll see how this goes. One interesting side note is that Toshiba made a disk that can be played on a regular DVD player. It encodes the 'standard' stuff on one layer and the hi-def on another. And of course, the obligatory slashdot thread

Denny Neagle gets busted with prostitute - picture of ho' in question. It's most likely gonna cost the Rockies $19 million because they dropped him and can't really void his contract. Oops.

The latest arrest came when police said they noticed erratic movements of the vehicle he was driving and pulled him over.

Upon questioning, a woman in the vehicle identified as Jill Russell, 40, allegedly told police Neagle paid her $40 for oral sex. According to the police, Neagle admitted he was driving in the area looking for sex.

A brief guide to the Social Security Situation. This is the companion piece to Bush refusing to condier raising payroll taxes.

Stewart on Larry King. Brilliant.

STEWART: That is honestly the saddest part about this whole thing. This is like doing the walk of shame. It's as though I actually stayed at CNN overnight. I got drunk and slept over and now I'm doing the walk of shame from "CROSSFIRE" to your show. What happened was -- and, again, this is something I haven't shared with anybody. I should explain myself. I'm on steroids, and one of the side effects is called roid rage. The side effects have been awful. I have terrible back acne, shriveled genitalia. What I didn't realize is when you take steroids, you're supposed to work out. I've just been taking them. So it's causing that kind of anger. I remember going on the "CROSSFIRE" set and saying hello to the host, and then waking up naked with my ass cheeks taped together on Connecticut Avenue. So I don't really know what happened.

Dude that covered his hotel room in Vaseline pays damages. Case closed. There's a picture of the guy. He looks a little kooky, but not freaky. I can picture him hanging out with Kramer. This would be a follow-up to a story from a while ago (link no longer good) and the smoking gun link.

Bennington college dean harshing campus nudists' mellow. He's all pissed 'cause the kids like to hang in the buff. It's an interesting article, and then it gets to the real meat:

Recently, students at Hamilton College in New York turned the pastime into a sport by forming a varsity streaking team and traveling to rival schools to cavort in the buff.

The Hamilton team streaked a dozen colleges in the Northeast earlier this fall and posted results on its Web site.

Despite being banned from Wellesley College, an all-women's school near Boston, and escorted off the grounds of Connecticut College, team members declared the tour a "massive success."

This, of course, lead me to their web site. The front page is safe for work.

Colin Powell won't run for office. A poll yesterday said he was 5 points behing Hillary and doing well in the gubernatorial race as well. Stole this one from Daily Kos.

Remember the fucktards at the PTC that sent in all those complaints to the FCC - you know, 99% of them? They say the FCC undercounted them.

Copper Mountain - Pic at the bottom You may remember Mr. Eisemann from my favorite ski pic on the site. He is a lucky bastard. We wish him well on his trip to breck, where they just got 26" of snow.

Unknown Finn beats Michael Schumacher to take home racing prize. He also beat the World Rally champion and a ton of others. They race around a crazy figure-8-ish track in a couple different kinds of cars. Low time wins. Autoweek covered it from the American perspective.

Ms. Coulter lets us know how much Canada sucks. "We're lucky we let them exist on the same continent." Again, I re-iderate my stance that this is all just an act, but man, is she messed up.

19 race formula 1 season set. Turkey was added. England and France were saved.

Celebrity iPods Christina Aguilera's will suck yo' dick. Safe for work other than coarse language.

Happy Birthday Kate!! My little sis turns 2-5 this weekend, so here's hoping it's a good one. One tip - the 'kitchen table' will fit in the Escort.

I laugh everytime he says "duck:" The Llama Song Flash animation from decker, who should be studying right now.

USB Flashcard It's flash memory with the usb connector attached. So no more card readers or transfer cables for cameras, mp3 players, etc. Plus it's royalty free.

Fun with Disney Video titles. "They're different from everyone else..." (quote on the box) - proof that Disney has absolutely no clue

Dude announces wedding to right hand on knot.com Thanks to JT for all of this.

Researchers at Rutgers develop new HIV drug that may prevent replication.

The research has targeted reverse transcriptase, a submiscroscopic protein composed of two coiled chains of amino acids. It is considered HIV's key protein.

"Reverse transcriptase is very important in the biology of AIDS," Smith said. "If you can really inhibit reverse transcriptase, you can stop AIDS."

The optimism about R278474 stems from its potential to interfere with an enzyme that the virus needs to copy and insert itself into a human cell.

Marine saves wedding band - has doctors cut off finger instead. If this guy was anything but a soldier, I'd be having a field day with this.

Star Wars Gangsta Rap SE Jacques sent this in. I have not watched it, but I'm posting it anyway.

The Batman Begins trailer is up here. Thanks to Derek for this one.

Golden Globe nominations are out. 'Sideways' and 'Desperate Housewives' racked 'em up. I saw Sideways last week, and it was good, but I didn't think it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. And I watched 'Desperate Housewives' last night, and just didn't understand why people watch it. (and yes, I know the women are attractive and slutty) Anyway, the rest of the nominees are from the typical end-of-year rush.

Some moron knocked over the Posh/Becks wax nativity figures. This would be a follow-up to this post.

Another Stereolabrat posting. This girl's postings are so random and so vulgar I can't stop laughing. Tremendous. If you've got time to kill, read the back stuff. I posted one of these a while ago, but there ya' go. Probably not safe for work, just due to language.

“kobe the cheatin’ family man” accuses Karl Malone of hitting on his wife. Bharath sent this one. So does that mean Malone has to buy kobe's wife a huge jewel of some sort?

44% of CBS/NYT poll respondents think gay relationships should have no legal recognition at all. This whole time, I thought the argument was about the sanctity of the sacrament and the word 'marriage'. And here it turns out that it's just good ol' fashioned bigotry at work. Nice. I stole the pdf link from Daily Kos.

Woman has 66 pound tumor removed. Includes pic. She weighed 300 lbs before it started, then she lost weight. She went into the hospital weighing 245, and came out at 165. It's not like she was in a third world country, either. She was in Cincinnati. And you can start the Cincinnati jokes. . . now. Here's another account. Thanks to JT via Fark for the first one.

International Harvester CXT Pickup now on eBay. This thing is made out of what is basically a semi rig. They just slap a bed on it and call it good. Thanks to bw for this one.

Liberal Hollywood elitist speaks. Wants to know what that means.

Steven Levitan is an Emmy Award-winning writer and executive producer of television comedies. He created the long-running NBC series Just Shoot Me and is developing two series for next fall. None of this impresses his wife and kids in the least.

Book about action sports coming out. Two pieces of information got this linked:

There is a research mechanism major companies use to determine whether an athlete or celebrity is known and liked across a mass audience. It's called a TRU score and has two components: how many people know the athlete and how many of the people who know them actually like them. Michael Jordan has an incredibly high TRU score—everybody knows him and most people like him. Five years ago, no action sports athletes were in the top 50 names. "In the most recent data, at least 10 percent of the athletes are action sports athletes," Carter said. "And Shaun White recently ranked fourth on the TRU score list, behind Kobe, Shaq and Tiger Woods."

TRU is from Teen Research Unlimited, and deals with 12 - 19 year olds. In case you're wondering, this is Shaun White. And this.

Next year, Danny Way is traveling to Bejing to jump the Great Wall of China on his skateboard.

Honorable mention goes to Bam earning $40k a month on deck sales alone. They make a lot more on shoes.

Jim and Art Surprise Birthday party Jim and Art got Punk'd, but without the trucker hats. Thanks to Megan and Cara for setting them up like chumps.

Juror that condemned Scott Peterson to death also rocks the Livestrong bracelet.

6 Myths of Creativity. It's from Fast Company, so it's buzzword heavy, but I thought there were some interesting insights that rang true with my own experience.

The fact is, almost all of the research in this field shows that anyone with normal intelligence is capable of doing some degree of creative work. Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.

People were the least creative when they were fighting the clock. In fact, we found a kind of time-pressure hangover -- when people were working under great pressure, their creativity went down not only on that day but the next two days as well.

Lavar lip-synching in an ad for Easterns Motors... the look on his face is priceless. This is all from JT. Feel better ryan.

Giant Shark tows boat for an hour. Drowns. This is almost too crazy to be true, but I've seen it elsewhere. The Red Bull Icebreaker is a surfing challenge, BTW. Thanks to Oof for this.

EA gets five year exclusive license for NFL video games. Thanks to Oof for this one. And it's also on Slashdot.

Toshiba tells Sony to stuff it after peace offering in HD DVD Format war. I'm guessing the Sony offer wasn't so good. Other interesting tidbit is that Dreamworks is 'poised' to go with Sony and Blu-Ray.

Map24 - New Mapping web site. Instead of Mapblast or Mapquest. It's got a cool applet once it gets all loaded. I could do without the flash adds, as well. I'm not sure it's a replacement, but it is cool.

Wingmen (and women) for hire This is great. Thanks to bean for this one. I'm not sure if this link still works, but here's the Maxim wingman article.

Ben Roethlisberger's Monday night agenda. He goes to midget madness. Thanks to JT for this one. He's also got this website.

Autoweek 10 most anticipated I'll take an F430 and a CLS please. Thanks.

Strip Dreidel. It's a cut-out and fold deal.

State-by-state breakdown of the cost of the Iraq war. It also shows $ spent on No Child Left Behind and Homeland security. Thanks, W. Can't wait for the next four.

Australian dude uses pump to force beer into gut. Gut ruptures. Stolen from a million places.

How to stop MLB players from using steroids. Onion infographic.

PA Gov. Rendell wants to move primary up to NH/Iowa timeframe. He must be a bhendrix.com reader. With the new head of the Democratic National Committee to be elected soon, there are many other talks to rotational time periods and other schemes. Should be interesting.

Final Fantasy - the concert. This is from prabhath, who adds "I know Joiner is going to be extremely happy about this!" I think I'll just throw on the Minibosses instead. And off on that tangent, check out the Steel Cage Death Match between the 'bosses and The Advantage. And did you know System of A Down did a Legend of Zelda cover? Crazy.

Zell 'Star Wars Emporer' Miller joining Fox News. You may remember him from posts such as these. Thanks to Bharath for this one.

Glasses pierced on. They hang off of a bridge piercing. Looks kind of cool, I guess. Ow.

Lindsay Lohan's, uh, personalities are the subject of this rap. It also mentions and shows many other celebs with big ass, uh, personalities. Not Safe For Work. At All.

Alabama judge wears robe with 10 Commandments embroidered onto it. This would be the same state that had the 10 Commandments statue removed a while ago.

Mr. Rollins sent these in

The male answer to the boyfriend arm pillow. It's a foam lap. The Japanese provide me with so much electronics joy, yet so much fear of their creepiness. - Ed.

Decker's Llama's ain't got shit on the Lions of Kenya.

TSA loses a fake bomb. And, of course, it was loaded onto a flight to Amsterdam. Security theater opened its winter season with a group so incompetent, it can't keep track of a BOMB after they've already found it. Feel safer yet? Now gimme back my allen wrenches.

Gabe's report on the EA/NFL deal.

Pirate lawyer that specializes in ninja damage. Flash animation. He'll get ya' the booty ye deserve.

In light of Gov. Rendell proposing moving primary dates around, and specifically PA, I thought this would be interesting.

Putting the OD back in ODB, he kicks it due to coke and prescription drug. This would be the final autopsy report.

12 million Bees spill on highway near Vegas. Dogs with bees in their mouths, etc. Thanks to jm and arjen for this one.

Network - connect the squares to power everything. It's one of those really simple things that starts to drive you nuts. One piece of advice - the center power block (the gray one) can be rotated to supply power to different sides.

The New Passat The answer to Sam's riddle - "What happens when you take a crap on a Passat?" Thanks to him for the link. There's more info over at VW Vortex. What the hell is going on at VW? Interior is nice, though.

The new thump in tortoise shell. This is the one with the MP3 player built in. In case you were wondering, the lenses flip down. You have my permission to laugh at anyone wearing these. Thanks to Jaiman for this one.

Man Buys Virtual Island Derek sent this one. Earlier this year economists calculated that these massively multi-player online role-playing games (MMORPGs) have a gross economic impact equivalent to the GDP of the African nation of Namibia.

A video of some sort. I haven't watched it, but Jaiman sent it in, so take that as you may. Thanks Jaiman.

It's monday. My brain hurts. This one's pretty basic.

Car and Driver on the Ferrari F430 0-60 in 3.5 seconds. It's faster than an F40, F50, and a Gallardo. A Murcielago will give it a run. Jaiman sent this in with one parting thought - 1/4 mile: 11.7sec @ 123mph.

More from the Sony Qrio It plays mini-golf, does kung-fu, and all kinds of other crazy shite. Story includes some animated GIFs. I keep bringing it up. Stolen from Engadget.

Pics of Millau Viaduct It was just recently completed. Thanks to JT for this one. More info here.

Tallest in the world and taller than the Eiffel Tower, slung across the valley of the river Tarn, the Viaduct de Millau (Viaduc de Millau) is the chosen solution for taking the A75 motorway from Clermont-Ferraud south to Beziers. This is cheaper than the alternative of tunnelling through the hills flanking the river, and will shorten the journey by 100km and by up to 4 hours in the holiday season, as well as removing much traffic pollution caused by continual traffic jams for local inhabitants in Millau. The Millau Viaduct will also be the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world. It has a steel deck, rather than the more usual concrete roadbed.

Amazing Big Wave Surf video from JAWS. This was shot in the past couple days. Rob sent it in via IM because he, like me, is speechless. Wow.

Harry Potter 6 - "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" coming July 16th Bob sent this in along with this: "sick day", here i come

Flash video of the Team America theme song. Not safe for work. Thanks to Jaiman for this one.

Bush calls Rumsfeld a 'caring fellow'. That's probably why he didn't sign the letters to deceased soldiers' families and then lied directly to the troops about the armor 'shortage'. Nice try George, but defending a douche bag just further cements your own douche-baggery.

An amusing photo A little 5 second diversion in your day courtesy of Mr. Leon.

Two cheerleaders cut from Boston squad for lesbian porno. It's from the UK's Sun, so it's verity is dubious at best, but oh, if it were...

Half of the school’s soccer cheerleaders were suspended recently for arriving at a game drunk.

Dulituh Zamboni bursts into flames, causes ice rink to burn down. Bharath sent this in, along with the always flame-worthy Yet another reason hockey sucks

The Beastles A mashup between the Beatles and the Beasties. I haven't listened to it, but it was just posted to BoingBoing, so get it while it's hot.

PGH Mayor Murphy says he won't run again. This one's from Ryan, who adds this flame bait: If you combine this info with the Pats losing last night, there should be nothing but smiles in the Burgh today.

Burpl Blaster Toy drops the 'S' bomb. Thanks to JT via Fark for this one.

Frontline Report on Credit Cards. This is the PBS show. You can watch the whole thing, and there's a lot of good information on the site, including what's in the fine print and why late fees could go to $50 in the near future.

The Cool Person Test. aka My First Javascript. Thanks to shek-tastic for this one.

Salary Clock Put in your salary and see how much you make in real time. Unfortunately, you can also compare to people like Dell.

It's cheez-whiz time here at bhendrix.com

Gallery of hacked info from local news channel. The station put out a form to submit school/business closings on-line, and they don't proofread.

New York Times article on Festivus. It started in the 60's with a real family. Truth really is stranger than fiction.

Great new holiday slippers.

hese slippers are soft and Hygienic; Non-slip grip strips on the soles; Built in deodorant feature keeps feet smelling fresh; No more bending over to mop up spills; Disposable and biodegradable; Environmentally safe

Toss the Cheerleader. Mildly amusing little flash game posted on the Burton web boards. It's not Lasers, Bubbles, or Network, but it'll do, donkey, it'll do.

Bertuzzi pleads guilty to assault for hockey hit. This would be the one from a while ago.

Fastest population growth found in 'red' states Thanks to Nino for this one.

Based on the latest population estimates, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana each would lose a House seat, according to Kim Brace, president of Election Data Services, a Washington D.C., consulting firm that specializes in the Census and redistricting. Arizona, Florida, Texas and Utah each would gain a seat, he says.

Terror alerts as comedy. Ms. Minardo sent the one on the left in, and through a bit of the clicky-clicky, I found the other one, which might go over a bit better with this crew. Thanks Katie.

Planned Parenthood gets donations for each protester/picketer outside clinics. They get people to pledge, just like for people running a marathon, between $.25 and $1 for each protester that shows up. Each day they tally the protesters and send out bills. Tremendous.

Skiing in Maine My brother, his friends, and yours truly went up to Sunday River for the weekend. This is our story. Caution: graphic footage of backflips gone wrong and nerdly board protectors inside.

LiveWrong Derek sent this in.

The creators of the LIVEWRONG armband do not oppose any person, pet, or living thing that have cancer, nor do we oppose any charity that supports a cure for cancer.

Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton both got their sidekicks swiped. Insider report on when they went to get new ones the next day. Oh, all that is great and hillarious, please deliver us this christmas those sidekicks and their ridiculous contents. Be sure to check out the rest of the site. There's a couple provocative pics here and there, but nothing ridiculous.

Parent from Lebanon, Maine wants to ban Catcher in the Rye. They have a policy where kids can sit out from objectionable books, but this ignorant hillbilly wants to ban the book for all the kids. Maybe they can annex the area to New Hampshire. Oh yea, nice freaking sweater.

86 rules of being in a bar. This is from Modern Drunkard magazine, source of that famous Jack Daniels quote.

36. If you ever feel depressed, get out a bartender’s guide and browse through all the drinks you’ve never tried.
44. Being drunk is feeling sophisticated without being able to say it.
70. The patrons at your local bar are your extended family, your fathers and mothers, your brothers and sisters. Except you get to sleep with these sisters. And if you're really drunk, the mothers.
75. Beer makes you mellow, champagne makes you silly, wine makes you dramatic, tequila makes you felonious.

Opinion piece on why Lynn Swan could be governor. All this, plus we saw him at breakfast once.

Newsweek named Santorum one of 'Who's next' Summer's Eve got an honorable mention.

Woman pays $50,000 for clone of her cat. I congratulate the company that did it on fleecing this woman. Would a donation to the humane society and a free cat been any different? Yea - not so much.

Drunken Santas Brawl Those freakin' English. Thanks to S for this one.

Wedding Crashers staring Vaughn and O. Wilson. This could be tremendous, or it could be awful. I feel tremndosity, though.

Krugman on Social Security II Two arguments: 1) Privitization will reduce benefits due to increased administration costs (read: brokers' fees). 2) Lower benefits will lead to an increase in elderly living in poverty. He cites the UK and Chilean systems as models.

More than 99 percent of Social Security's revenues go toward benefits, and less than 1 percent for overhead. In Chile's system, management fees are around 20 times as high. And that's a typical number for privatized systems.

For the record, I don't think giving financial corporations a huge windfall is the main motive for privatization; it's mostly an ideological thing. But that windfall is a major reason Wall Street wants privatization, and everyone else should be very suspicious.

WEP encryption not safe. WEP is the most commonly used wireless encryption protocol, and has been around for a while. It was proven beatable some time ago, and new attacks and tools are now available for the average cracker to get onto your network. It's still better than nothing, but now, not much. Thanks to sperl for this one. There's a good wireless glossary at CNN that goes along with this straightforward guide to setting up a wireless network.

Prince is the top-grossing tour of '04. If anyone knows the people that ponied up more than $10 to see Elton John, please feel free to beat them about the head. In related news, the announcement of Motley Crüe getting back together and touring shot them to the top of the Pollstar rankings.

After realizing that 128MB flash drives can be had for $15, I realize the utility of portable firefox. If you're swapping machines a lot, it's an easy way to keep your history, bookmarks, etc. travelling with you. It also gives you a full firefox install with plugins on any machine without installing software. And lastly, it keeps others from knowing what you're surfing...

Giant whores take top 4 spots in Google popularity list for '04 They would be britney, paris, christina, and pam. Nice to see the Tour #2 in sports and lance at #5. Jim must have been working overtime to get #8 in the women's ranking. Check out the interactive thing at the top.

New Asimo details and videos. This is the humanoid robot from Honda. It can now 'jog'.

Poorest states tend to give the most. Article posits that religious giving and inherited wealth are the two main factors in determining how much/little someone gives. The report and the actual numbers/methodology they use can be found over here. Using 2002 tax data, they look at adjusted gross income vs. itemized contributions. More information is available in the FAQ and the technical notes.

Animation showing path of the tsunami in ten minute increments. It's been floating all around the web.

Kicking and Screaming. The Will Ferrell soccer movie. Directed by Jesse Dylan, the dude that did American Wedding and How High.

Why rural poor and urban poor aren't that different. Read the Newsweek article he links first. It's pretty good in and of itself. I don't know this guy, but what he writes seems to make sense. Of course, he also wrote this, so who knows?

How Walmart Is Destroying America And The World: And What You Can Do About It Currently available for pre-order for 31% off list. At Walmart.

Comair's computers broke. USAirways employees screwed everyone. If anybody knows any of the piece of shit USAirways employees, can you just go ahead and punch them in the face for me? It's one thing to be pissed off about your salary being cut and whatever else is going on. It's an entirely different thing to force people to miss the holidays with their loved onces because you're pissed off. They should have rounded them all up and had them sit in the airport amid the misery and chaos I got to see on Christmas freakin' eve. Assholes. All of them.

White House to spend $30-40 Million on inauguration.

White House to spend $15 million on aid to tsunami victims. Stolen from Atrios.

Here's how you can help.

US Foreign Aid Breakdown JEW (he requested that title) sent this one in, adding It is also an interesting analysis of why countries give foreign aid.

Evidence that the Pentagon really was hit by a 757. Basically, the plane is a 13 ft. diameter cylinder, so the hole it created was proportional. Tons of pics and graphs and comparisons. This would be a follow up to the video proposing it's a hoax.

Steven Spielberg producing live-action Transformers movie. This is not from the Onion, and this is not senior Spielberg-o. This is for real. More news over at IGN

Real World/Road Rules Battle of the Sexes 2. I can't freakin' stand reality shows, but there is something about this show that puts it over the top in the train-wreck category. Classic moment this week was after Tonya got kicked off, she was in bed with some guy, and they were like, 'oh, you have my number right?' blah blah blah. Then the very next clip was him in the confessional going "Yea, I don't think there's anything there. I'm just going to let this summer thing fizzle." All this and the fact that the guys crush the girls in all the competitions and don't play the drama game.

What they call carbonated syrup-based beverages by location in the US. Really detailed map based on 120,000+ respondants. I just want to know what all the 'Others' are. This has nothing to do with Soda 'Pop' Popinski from the video game formerlly known as Mike Tyson's Punch-Out.

Profile of BitTorrent and Bram Cohen, the guy that invented it.

The only shows he watches are those he buys on DVD. He particularly loved the first season of Paris Hilton's The Simple Life. "You can watch that show for six hours," Cohen says, "and your brain is still empty."

The war in Iraq is just as deadly as Vietnam When adjusted for advances in field medicine, combat tactics and weaponry advances (mostly medicinal advances) and the subsequent suppression of the mortallity rate, Iraq is just as dangerous as Vietnam.

The casualty statistics make clear that our nation is involved in a war whose intensity on the ground matches that of previous American wars. Indeed, the proportional burden on the infantryman is at its highest level since World War I. With next year's budget soon to be drafted, it is time for Washington to finally address their needs accordingly.

Brian Berg - Card Stacker. He holds the Guiness record for tallest free-standing card tower - over 25 ft. Be sure to check out the gallery. Hope his dog tiger doesn't knock him over from behind. That would be some crazy hijinks.

Jerry Orbach dead at 69. RIP. In tribute, a few Lenny Briscoe links and the Law and Order coloring book. Thanks to Sara for this one.

Huge Beatles Mashup - 40 songs in one! This seems a bit much, but there ya' go. I haven't heard it yet. In related news, Entertainment Weekly named the Grey Album best of the year. And on a related tangent, DJ Danger Mouse has an excellent real name: Brian Burton.

A different helicopter game. Reminds me of the final mission on the original Pilotwings. Fly between icebergs to save people.

I'm gonna make my own nonsensical map.

Woman diving in Thailand during tsunami. She didn't realize anything had happened until they came up.

Testing out upload feature.

Fox News draws higher ratings than CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and Headline News combined. This one's from the Nino.

Speed up Firefox. This is not some gimmick thing. It takes about 30 seconds and makes a noticeable difference... if you have a broadband connection. It can break Flash due to a bug in the Flash plug-in/implementation, but that's the price you pay.

Marty sent these in via his brother in Waimea Bay, and I've been a total slacker about pics. I wrote a new program, though, so let the flood gates open. Marty added this:

My brother took these pictures last week (first week in Dec. -ed). I talked to him last night, and he was heading out to see these guys do their magic again. He said watching these guys mess with these waves like that is about the same as watching those two solo Blue Angels coming at each other during an air show. These are a different species of mankind. Unreal.

Two Wal-Mart employees charged for killing stray cat. They said the manager told them to do it. Nino sent it in and added To quote Will: "more proof that southern indiana is part of the south"

Robot powers itself with flies. Oof sent this in, and spiced it up with they could make a movie about this, where robots use humans as batteries... At least it would be better than Bulletproof Monk.

Snapple takes back joke about Staten Island smelling bad. It really does stink, though. Thanks to Jimmy Steel for this one.