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Arianna Huffington's stories to forget. I often don't agree with her, but her list is pretty damn good.

I'm going to try and put together a pic of the year polling session. So go through, find the pics you like best, and either put 2004 nominated in the captions or put the link in the comments for this post. No need to nominate twice.

Why Sideways is overrated. The author thinks it's because so many critics identified closely with the main character. I've seen the flick, and it was good, but it's not something where I thought 'wow, this is the best flick all year'. I'll throw another log on the fire - the praise is cumulative for most critics' previous adoration for American Splendor and the public shunning it received.

These are the nominees for best Comedy or Musical for the Golden Globes. Drama will be next.

DropLoad.com - File transfer made easy. A really easy way to transfer files up to 100MB. You login, upload the file, then an e-mail goes to the recipient. They go get it, and then it's erased. Avoids FTP issues and e-mail size limits. Neato.

Lots and Lots of Photoshop Tutorials. At the risk of offending any beesigners out there, this may help the rest of us create something useful. Although, I realized last week that the greatest thing in the world may be doing screen shots of Powerpoint presentations and then hacking those up. And yes, that's just sad.

If you're headed to New Orleans and need a spot in a room or have a spot available in your room, please post in the Comments. To get the ball rolling, Kyle K and Mr. Campen are looking for room. Preferrably at the Welshley Arms... luva.

Mexican government publishes comic book to aid border jumping. Jaiman sent this one in.

New Family Guy Episode titles. It's coming back to Fox in March '05.

Satan's HotPocket. I heartily endorse the use of eBay for comedic purposes. Be sure to watch the video.

Court TV 20 Wackiest court moments of 2004

10. Oklahoma judge Donald Thompson was accused of using a male enhancement pump beneath his robe while sitting at the bench during numerous legal proceedings, including a murder trial. After the 57-year-old judge was caught in the act by a clerk and trial witnesses, the state's attorney general sought his dismissal from the bench.

19. After pleading guilty to aggravated assault on St. Patrick’s Day, Ray Mason called out to the judge at a Texas courthouse: “Hey, judge, look at this.” Mason then dropped his pants and mooned the judge, who promptly tacked on another six months to Mason’s eight-year sentence.

Thanks to derek for both of these.

BBC's 100 things we know now we didn't know a year ago. A pretty interesting / amusing list of random stuff that came to light this year.

9. Some pigeons follow roads and turn off at motorway junctions to navigate their way round.
38. Yoda was based on Albert Einstein.
43. In 1911, Pablo Picasso was one of the suspects arrested for the theft of the Mona Lisa.
74. Lasagne has replaced chicken tikka massala as the favourite dish of Britons. Sainsbury's sold 13.9 million lasagne ready meals and just 7.4 million chicken tikka massalas last year. Tesco sold 9.8 million lasagnes and 6.3 million chicken tikka massalas.
96. One in four 16- and 17-year-old girls in the UK is on the contraceptive pill - more than ever before.

Thanks to Shoof for this one.

25 Dumbest political quotes of 2004. Some of the runners-up are pretty good, too.

Man surfing during Tsunami out surfs wave. So I guess Tsunamis can be out surfed. Thats good to know. Thanks to jew for this one.

eBay comes through again. Everyone's good at something, I guess. Thanks to JT for this one.

Rent-A-Midget.com It's for real. IF you're in the LA area, you can get a little person to 'start shenanigans'.

Visual representation of discretionary spending within the federal budget This does not include Soc. Security or Medicare. Large download. Related metafilter comments.

Move through a maze of rotating wheels. Cool, simple little game. Collect the dots.

Use Google to find torrent files. If you can use it, you'll know, but with suprnova going down and the successor super-duper distributed sentient client a week or two away, this may help. Convenient link to torrents of the Incredibles provided. Yoi.

Crazy Portrait Maker The interface is a little goofy, but the results are kinds of fun. I think there's enough elements to make an anime version of yourself as well.

Ryne Sandberg voted to Hall of Fame. Some guy named 'Wade' made it too. Thanks to CB for this one.

His .989 fielding percentage is the highest of any second baseman. He also holds major-league records for consecutive error-free games in a season (90 straight in 1989) and over two seasons (123 games in 1989-90).

Terry Nichols defense cost Oklahoma $4 million. The trial was moved, so the attornies had to travel, and they paid just under a 1/2 million for security. But still. Thanks to Oof for this one.

Schumacher donates $10million to tsunami relief. It's also a lot of Euro.

The B.C.S. Is a Travesty, a Sham and a Mockery, and That's No Joke From the NY Times. Be careful, it's full of liberal bias. Thanks to Nino for this one.

Two quick fixes: single quotes were breaking the article submission thing. That's fixed. The link back to the main page when viewing photo galleries (albums) brought you to www.bhendrix.com no matter what, and that screwed up all the cookies and the 'New Comments' tags. So that's fixed.

If there's anything else you see going wrong, can you please post in the comments or shoot me an e-mail?

New Mustang Convertible. Bharath sent this in, and added it still amazes me how Ford got it so right, and why chevy didn’t do the same thing with the camaro.

Motorola and Burton to build cell phones into jackets. Bharath sent this in, letting everyone know it's not for the brown at heart. Burton's been doing this for a while with the iPod, and with rumors of Motorola and Apple getting together on a phone, is this some sort of sick love triangle. Throw on top of that the desire of the big B to become a year-round lifestyle brand, and I'm not only throwing up in my mouth, it's coming out the corners, too.

Bulgarian has .94 BAC. That's not a typo. For those not up on such things, .08 is the drunk driving limit in most states.

Interview with former Nintendo president. No mention of Nester, however. There's rumors going around this is some sort of prank by the guys at wired, but who knows? Thanks to Fark via JT.

Southwest Airlines coming to the Burgh.

Southwest Airlines will have flights to and from Pittsburgh beginning in May. Apparently someone forgot to tell them that Carnival is one month earlier. I'd love to credit someone with this, but they didn't say.

New Viper coupe. It's a Z06 fighter, but for at least $20k more, will it really be?

More pics of the new Jetta. Anybody know what the new just-out-of-college-with-a-job will be? Guesses?

Tucker Carlson dropped by CNN. It looks like he'll be going over to MSNBC, but that's still a rumor at this point.

Ralph Wiggum Sound Board From JT

So you can click through these 11 pics of Sri Lanka, then toggle between a Before and After to see the mayhem of the tsunami. Oof sent this one in.

Somewhere on sportsillustrated.com I came to a link for this http://www.perry-tales.com/ Steve Perry (of the musical "group" Journey) fan fiction. I was looking for a witty title for this, but instead I found this: The Journey Atari Game. Here's where an "Ultra stupid" Category would be useful. Thanks to Derek for all of this.

How much athletes make.From naj - this is unreal, not sure if you posted this yet (don't think so - ed.) cause i haven't checked the site in a while but check out michael jordan. 3 or 4 years after retirement and about 7 or 8 years from when he was dominating and he's still that high and the only reason he isn't a spot higher is because peyton got a 34 million signing bonus this year.

Canadian dude goes toe to toe with a wolf. And wins. Includes pic of the burises the wolf left. Okay, so this guy decided to run the 3 km back to camp from his shift at the uranium mine. I'd say the wolf can't pick 'em. Thanks to oof for this one. And somebody call Maddox.

When his chance came again, Desjarlais made good. He locked onto the wolf's back and threw his arms around the animal's head, putting it into a headlock.

Fun With Sound from JT
Excellent Don Mattingly Home Run Call
Samir Swearing
Lee Elia Explaining Cubs Fans (for Shoof) (if at work, wear headphones)
Carl Lewis's National Anthem
Sexual Chocolate (from Coming to America)

A Deer loses a car collision. This is not for the faint of heart, those who like deer, or those who have eaten in the past hour. I just can't believe how the blood got all the way to the back. Thanks to Mr. Rollins for this one.

Dude sues Apple 'cause he thinks you need an iPod to listen to iTunes Music Store files. He's suing because it 'locks people in' or whatever. Anyway, he's a moron. The most interesting conspiracy theory I heard as that he was funded by one of Apple's rivals, which is entertaining. Thanks to Oof for this one.

The Best Condoms list is out. Shoof sent this in.

Nickelback can't buy another hit. From shoof - This NPR reports talks about Nickelback, and how they copy off of themselves on their "new, original album" There is a great demonstration as well when they lay 2 Nickelback songs on top of one another and they sound the same. not kidding. huh, and to think i actually bought the first album.

Big Ben is dating hot golf chick. This one has a picture. Nice job Ben.

Autoweek's Detroit Auto Show coverage. As Bharath pointed out, you could probably spend the rest of the day here. Happy Friday.

Red Sox asshole keeping final World Series ball. bw and boot both sent this in, with boot adding

Best Quote Ever from a harbinger of Low Expectations:
"I know this ball has a lot of sentimental value," Mientkiewicz said. "I hope I don't have to use it for the money. ...But I can be bought. I'm thinking, there's four years at Florida State for one of my kids. At least."

The Batman Begins Full Trailer. Features that dude from Star Wars. Looks cool.

Krugman on the bad novel that the US has become. In case you were wondering, the 'man on dog' guy was our (PA's) very own Rick Santorum. Be careful, it's in the NYT, there's bias!! Bias I tell you!!

The birthing siumlator from Johns Hopkins. It's so OBs can practice their love before they have to practice their love. The requisite video. All this was stolen from money not art.

Mr. Mayes is coming up on his 1000th post, which is just a little nuts, so the editorial staff here decided to put together this little number. If you're new, please refer to the previous 950 posts.

The Consumer Electronics Show is going on now, and with it come all sorts of crazy new toys I will be lusting after for some time. Head over to Engadget, Gizmodo, or CNET for full coverage. One page linked off of Engadget is the new iPod gadgets. My favorite amazing gadget so far - the SmartDeck.

The SmartDeck. Like any run-of-the-mill cassette adapter, the SmartDeck will allow you to listen to your iPod through your car’s cassette deck. What pushes the SmartDeck over the super-cool line is that it lets you control your iPod using the cassette deck’s controls. You read right: The SmartDeck actually plugs into the remote/headphone jack on 3G and later iPods; you can then use your car stereo’s controls to play, pause, skip forward, and skip back. All for the surprisingly low (estimated) price of $25. No estimated ship date was given.

Gabe from Penny Arcade defends web comics.

Six years ago my friend and I started publishing our comic strips on the internet. Now Penny Arcade is translated into five different languages and read by 3.5 million fans in countries all over the world. When we have a convention to play video games and talk about Penny Arcade, over 3000 people show up. When we ask our fans to donate to charity they give $310,000 to the Children's Hospital. Newspapers like the New York Times write long articles about how fucking awesome we are. Huge companies pay us to create web comics based on popular license like Tom Clancy and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. All of this came from publishing our silly little comics on the internet.

I guess what I’m trying to say is, fuck you and fuck your stupid newspapers. We don’t need you.

Saturn new roadster - the 2007 Sky. Jaiman sent this one in. It's based on the same platform as the Solstice. Awesome for a Saturn. Lexus LF-A concept. More pictures over here. Looks like a cross between an S2000 and a Ferrari. Jaiman sent this one in as well.

Manuary - a chick's search to get laid this month. Linked from cruel.com. It seems sort of fake-ish due to the sponsor links, but it's entertaining nonetheless. Definitely not safe for work if you're concerned about language.

I've decided to rename January 2005 Manuary 2005 because I am going to spend as much of it as possible under, on top of and next to men.

MC Hammer to officiate at Vince Neil's wedding. I couldn't help but watch that 'remade' thing they did with him. I have no idea why. Thanks to naj for this one.

Two Missippi counties ban 'America the Book' This would be the Jon Stewart / Daily Show one. Reason is the naked pics of the supreme court justices. The teacher quoted at the end of the article sums it up best:

"It just really seemed kind of silly to me," she said. "I don't think the Supreme Court justices have filed any defamation of character or libel suits. It's humor."

Tech glitches mar Bill Gates' performace at CES. Say it with me Nelson... And when did Conan become such a complete whore? I mean, really man, don't they pay you enough? Thanks to marty for this one. The dude responsible for the presentation had his explanation posted on Slashdot. Interesting read as well.

Andy sent the pic in, hoping for a little levity in the face of tragedy.

Wendy's lets you substitute healthy(er) stuff for fries. On second look, some of it is just different, not healthier. Mayes sent this in along with the following lament and commentary: sadly nugs are not included. (bugs on my nugs! -ed.) I'm think we run 2:04.31 if this were available in 1999 -2000

Mike Moore picks up Best Film. Mel best Drama. F9/11 wasn't the best movie I saw that month. And Shrek 2 wasn't better than the Incredibles. Ah well. The people have spoken.

GM trots out another prototype Hydrogen fuel cell car. Yea for them, I guess. The article makes the very valid points that GM never puts these things into production, and when it does so, it's only due to massive government regulation. They're the ringleader against all efforts to increase mileage standards and other environmental reform. Interesting bit on the third page about how GM has a $60 billion liability for health care in 'the coming decades' whereas Toyota has virtually none. Thanks to sperl for this one.

Judge strikes down Jacksonville's open container law.

2 and a half weeks before the superbowl, sales and drinking of booze is totally cool on city property, no red cups needed. Thanks to derek for this one.

American Family Association pissed off about Kid Rock performance at inauguration. Keep in mind these are NOT the people that give out $10 million. That said, this is tremendous. Do they realize that he's done multiple USO tours to entertain the troops and that the troops seem to really like him? The e-mail you can send in protest says If Kid Rock does appear, it will seriously erode the trust that Values Voters have in your party. Where are all these Values Voters going to go next time around? The democratic party? A third party? Yea, right. Thanks to mayes for this one.

No - Jeep Hurricane has two. It's also got the ability to rotate within it's own length and drive sideways. Oh yea, and a full carbon fiber body. Jaiman sent this in yesterday. It reminds me of the rock crawler the guy built in his garage like 6 or 7 years ago with the air bag suspension and the hand-bent tubes. I can't remember the name of it, but anyway, similar idea.

Missippi county reverses ban on Stewart book. Follow up to yesterday's seething indictment of all things South.

Vince Neil's best man 'mysteriously injured' before wedding. Now we have something to live up to this weekend - mysterious injuries. naj sent this one in along with this tidbit - I will not be wed until a girl can get Hammer to do the ceremony and scream out "can't touch this" before it starts. Ladies, you have your mission.

Jeff Garcia's girlfriend beat up his ex-girlfriend. Oh yea, and his current girlfriend is playmate of the year. Two of Hine's friends testified they saw DeCesare (current JG Girlfriend) grab a dance pole for support and karate-kick Hine in the head. Capital C Capital F Cat Fight. Campen sent this one in.

Follow up to the comedy / musical category. I've seen exactly one of these, so who knows?

Link One. Link Two. Jeanine sent these in with the assurance that they're really funny, but Not Work Safe. As I'm at work at the moment, I have not looked at them. You're on your own. Thanks Jeanine.

View everyone's posts I configured the comments page so that it will display a particular user's post. Just hit the [View] link next to someone's name / profile and whoila.

NY Times Profile of dry life in a fraternity. Interesting account. From Gabe. Watch out, though, it's the Times. Bias alert!!! Bias!!!

Interview with dude that trashed Verizon store. This actually happened.

Give us the blow-by-blow.
I threw my phone from 10 feet outside the store and it drilled the guy behind the desk right in the shoulder. Hard. Then boom, I just lost it.

I understand you removed your shirt for maximum destruction?
Yeah. That's when the employees locked themselves in an office. The 25 or so customers scattered.

Comedy Central spoof on the MasterCard commercial theme Boston Red Sox fans loose their earthly possessions for a good cause. Thanks to carrema for this one.

Ex-girlfriend rips off guy's nut after he denies her sex. Ow. Just plain ow.

Another struggle took place and Monti was knocked to the floor, from where she pulled down Mr Jones's shorts. Monti initially tried to hide the testicle by putting it in her mouth, but released it.

Long Island-sized iceberg to colliide with glacier in Antarctica. It's gonna hit in the next three days or so. Includes cool animations and the phrase 'ice tongue'.

Coverage of the coverage given to the Brad and Jen split. Everyone in this article needs to GET A FUCKING LIFE. They're people. They split up. It happens. Cover some actual news, or at least treat your job as what it is - the professional equivalent of the bitch in high school that no one liked because she gossiped all the time.

Said People's Hackett: "We treat this stuff as if we're reporting on arms negotiation treaties or sports or politics. That's the way we tell a story."

And if you're comparing sports reporting and gossip rags to arms negotiations, go stick your head in the oven.

New York Times article on the Steelers and Pittsburgh. Thanks to Ms. Minardo for this one. Standard NYT warning - Bias!!! It's all biased!! What a world!!

Gearshift productions - making of the Eastern Motors commercial. Click on Eastern Motors, or just click this link. Many thanks to will for this one.

US gives up search for WMD in Iraq. Maybe they should look under the couch in the oval office again.

All three Marathon games available for free download. Ah, room 32.

ESPN's Hockey League. They put together a list of changes they would make if building a hockey league from scratch. Seems to make a lot of sense. This is from rcr who adds

My favorite parts are the smaller leagues, and smaller teams with no fighting, it'd be all skill players and the level would be on par with the Olympics. Shorter season is a solid idea too.

Fewer sexually active women using contraceptives. So that's a little scary. Thanks to ryan for this one.

da Vinci's hidden laboratory found. It was part of a monastery in Florence. Makes you wonder what else is out there.

The facts about Bush's lack of service. In the wake of the CBS 4 getting canned, here are the actual facts about how the Commander in Chief was AWOL.

Subliminal Messages from Pepsi. Thanks to Jt for this one.

Ebay Mugging Sale : Any and all monies collected from the sale of this shirt go towards alcohol and the security deposit on my next apartment. Thanks to Philippe for this one. Note: I don't know this person.

Advice for stripping. At a career day for 8th graders, s speaker brings up the career of exotic dancing/stripping. Quote: "For every two inches up there, you should get another 50,000 dollars on your salary" Thanks to shoof for this one.

Ali G escapes potential riot at a rodeo. After telling the crowd he supported America’s war on terrorism, he said, “I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq, down to the lizards ... And may George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq.” He then sang a garbled version of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Thanks to derek for this one.

Doug Brien's recipe for success. This one's from Ryan. His favorite part:

"I believe my greatest strength is my ability to focus. I pride my myself on being a consistent kicker and consistency comes down to be able to be totally focused on every kick throughout an entire season. I also think my focus has made me a good long-distance field goal kicker. I do not have the strongest leg in the league by any stretch of the imagination; however, I can 53 and 54 yarders as consistently as I make kicks in the forty-yard range – and not many kickers can say that."

For those of you playing along at home, the Steelers won via minor miracle on Saturday.

Apparently Mini Me is on this season of the Surreal Life... and he gets drunk, gets in a naked scooter accident, and pees in the corner of a room. Pure gold. Thanks to JT for this one. Here's a little more info.

US DOD funded study to decrease moral in troops. Turning them all into homosexuals was suggested.

The Shrinking Deficit This brainiac is saying that the budget is following exactly what it was forecast to do. He credits all economic improvement to Bush's tax cuts. The way he phrases all sentences with (excluding homeland security and defense) is great. That's like me saying I'm running a huge surplus this year (excluding mortgage, and car insurance). And last but not least, he throws this out there, like it's a good thing.

According to reporter Jonathan Weisman, the administration’s first really tough budget request (due out next month) “would freeze most spending on agriculture, veterans and science, slash or eliminate dozens of federal programs, and force more costs, from Medicaid to housing, onto state and local governments.”

Because there's a magical money fairy that pays for state and local programs. Thanks to JT for this one.

Krugman on the similarities of Bush's plain with Britain's Social Security mess. Many Britons were sold badly designed retirement plans on false pretenses. Companies guilty of "mis-selling" were eventually forced to pay about $20 billion in compensation. Fraud aside, the fees paid to financial managers have been a major problem: "Reductions in yield resulting from providers' charges," the Pensions Commission says, "can absorb 20-30 percent of an individual's pension savings."

Everyone knows there's no greedy pigs that would feed off of someone's retirement savings. Just people that would change stock ratings to get their kids into a preschool.

Construction worker has nail stuck in head for six days. It wasn't just a nail. It was a 4 inch spike. Thanks to CB for this one.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, please don't vote.

ESPN & EA sign 15 year deal. This could be the end of the game being called 'Madden'. Thanks to derek for this one.

Report says poverty could be eliminated by 2025. Aid would need to be doubled by the world's richest countries. So two things jump out. 1) Isn't there always going to be someone in poverty, by definition? 2) In many of these countries, as we're seeing in tsunami relief efforts now, the levels of graft, bribery, and outright theft by government officials and those involved in the aid food chain are almost unbelievable. What would be done to ensure that the money given doesn't just go to make some ruling family rich? Thanks to derek for this one as well.

The Badonkadonk Land Cruiser Thanks to derek for this one.

Picasa - photo management by Google. It can index and manipulate all of your photos. Does pretty much everything you can think of for photos. You can use this to re-size your 12124x11564 into something you can send me (640x480) for posting. Select the photos you want to send and then hit Export. Can also e-mail directly as well.

VW add for the Polo. Quicktime video. Just watch it.

Vermont high school BBall game totals 7 points. There's no shot clock in Vermont high school games. From bw, master of the obvious, who adds The next high school baller going to the NBA is not going to come from Vermont....

Lil John to make pornos. He's working with Vivid. Curiously, the word 'crunk' does not appear in the titles. It is in his quote, though. Thanks to derek for this one, who submitted it under the 'Art' category.

Brian research may help economics research. Stick somebody under an MRI and see how rational they are when money is on the line. This was on Slashdot. Update: That should read 'Brain research'.

Doug Brien up for sale on eBay. Not terribly creative, but amusing nonetheless. Thanks to mayes for doing this Brien research. (sorry, I couldn't resist)

Custom car / fridge ribbon magnets. Some excellent slogans available, or make your own.

Bill Gates Teen Beat-style poses. This one's from Mexico (?), who adds Man how different would this world be had this career of his taken off instead. These have been all over the web today, and I'll do you the favor of warning you that they're pretty damn creepy, and you won't be able to get the image out of your head.

Circle rotation game. This one's from Rollins, who adds basically you spin a group of circles to match the image shown in the magnifier. no instructions but takes about 15 seconds to figure out. i cannot get past level 6.

Onion's What Do You Think about Evolution Text Book Stickers.

"I hope they replaced the old stickers with new ones that read, 'Do not burn.'"

Bush stops calling Ben Nelson 'Nellie' No word on if Nelson went into persecuted Ben mode. Our president has a habit of giving his colleagues nicknames... including Vladamir Putin. Thanks to JT for this whole thing.

Rate My Network Diagram.com So I thought this would be a big joke/parody, but they're serious. I must say, there are some impressive diagrams here.

Carson sends Letterman jokes. Something about this is just really cool. Interesting that he shuns leno for dave.

Lawyer dives into shallow jury pool. The case involved a woman accused of hitting her brother's girlfriend in the face with a brick. It goes downhill from there. Thanks to derek for this one.

New Orleans Bachelor Party Pics This is round one, from Bill and me. They're a little out of order in spots, but so it goes.

The West Side Nut Club Fall festival guestbook Sample Quotes: "I LIKED THE FOOT LONG HOTDOG BUT THEY WERE NOT THERE THIS YEAR" & "i wood like to come to see the fall festivall but i cant right.i all was liked it we use to lve in evansville we live in paducah ky now." This bit of surreal comedy is from will.

Goodie Box Of Misc Electronics, A Cane, And A Small Bat from police seizures. This site has all sorts of random stuff. I think this was the most random, aside from maybe the cell phones by the pound.

Inappropriate toys for kids. Includes the Cigarette making kit and the Pro Sports Physicians' kit.

JT requested a thread to talk about the NFL Conference Games. So here it is. Easy Peasy. I, for one, am predicting a Red Wings / Rockies Stanley Series.

kids songs volume 2 This one's from derek. I haven't watched it yet, so trust in the daily derek.

How to fix / maintain a bicycle. Awesome site from the tech editor of Bicycling. Includes everything from bike cleaning to bearing overhauling.

New JibJab - The Inauguration. Flash animation with sound. A sad reminder that we'll be dealing with the douche bags for four more years. Thanks to CB for this one.

Sen Barbard Boxer throws down on Condi during confirmation hearings. Rightfully so. The full transcript is also available.

And I personally believe -- this is my personal view -- that your loyalty to the mission you were given, to sell this war, overwhelmed your respect for the truth. And I don't say it lightly, and I'm going to go into the documents that show your statements and the facts at the time.

Brazillian woman gives birth to 16.7 lb baby. Thanks to JT for this one, who adds Reason #765,234,000,006 Why I'm Happy To Be Male. Agreed.

Rolling Stone interviews Krugman on Social Security. Got this from the crooks and liars site that had the video.

Once the whole baby-boomer generation is into the retirement pool, Social Security's share of the gross domestic product will only increase by about two percent. Well, President Bush's tax cuts are more than two percent of GDP -- and they're happening right now, not fifty years from now. So the idea that there's this Social Security thing that is a huge problem is just wrong.

They're basically saying, "Let's assume that pigs can fly." And when you say, "You know, it's not good to assume that pigs can fly," they respond by saying, "What's wrong with you? Don't you understand the enormous advantage of flying pigs?"

If you really want to get scared about something that can happen between now and 2052, you should talk about Medicare and Medicaid. The entire system of private health insurance is gradually collapsing.

More in his column from Tuesday and ThereIsNoCrisis.com

Made a couple quick changes to the site. 1) Fixed the Navigation arrows on the story page. Thanks to Will for his help with that one. It was pretty borked. 2) Added capabilities to do a Not Safe For Work icon. The icon is kind of dumb, but if you see it, consider yourself warned. I'll continue to put stuff in the text as well, but hopefully no one will get fired now. Think that's it. As always, lemme know if other stuff is broken. I'm working on v19.2 of the auto-link. Should be done by September.

Great NBA Stats Page - 82Games.com JT sent this one in via Sports Guy, with advice to look at the +/- numbers as well...

John Basedow possibly swept away by the tsunami. He's the super-cut fitness guy. Here's his web site. Jaiman sent this one in, adding Sometimes the Tsunami makes the world a better place. Update This is a big hoax. There's a message on his web site. Sorry.

Is there a contest for the receiving end of The Contest? Because I think this could be our first contestant.

Beer fights cancer. Aside from the Modern Drunkard crew, this crew is gonna live longer than anyone. Not sure how valid this study is, but who am I to argue with science? Thanks to brother Bharath for this one.

More from Stereolabrat. I'm gonna mark it not safe just for language, but the topic is the fact that some group declared SpongeBob pro-homosexual. Anyway, best part is a comment:

My ex-girlfriend had this theory that Spongebob was actually a contraceptive sponge:lived in Bikini Bottoms, best friends are a clam and a starfish....

Elephants trained to use giant toilet. This is for real. Picture included. Stolen from jwz.

AV Club interview with Rick Rubin. Interesting take on early days at Def Jam and what he's done lately, especially with Johnny Cash. If you can get over the brain-dead angle of the piece, there's an interesting profile at MTV.

50 Most Loathesome People of 2004. I agree with pretty much the entire list, if that says anything.

Pentagon increases ability to operate without oversight. Long New Yorker piece on the ability to step around the CIA and Congress in the Global War on Terror. Piece goes into detail about Iran and the situation around their evolving nuclear program. This ones from s, who adds It all comes down to the elimination of separation of powers. rcr also sent it my way.

In light of the many, many weddings this year, this came up.

Flooded high end cars. They were just awaiting delivery. What did they ever do to anybody? Why? Why? Jaiman sent this one in.

Firewheel rubber band machine gun review. At least check out the promotional video. Those crazy Aussies. Update Link is fixed.

Recursive graphic. Safe-ish for work... but scary. Mp sent this one, so thank him.

The Creationist Fossil Shop. Good for a chuckle.

Okay, here's the deal. Just about everyone in New Orleans had a camera. If you have pictures, PLEASE send them to me. If you're going to put them on your own site, that's cool, but at least send me the link. I don't take many pics when I see that others are doing so as well, but then, of course, only a few people ever see them.

I don't care what size they are, what format, whatever. I will convert them. Send them to me!

How to send them?
1) Break them into 10MB pieces (.ZIP or .TAR or whatever) and send them to hendrix.brian at gmail.com
or...
2)Use DropLoad.com. You can put up to 100 MB of files there. Set my email to hendrix_brian at hotmail.com, brian at bhendrix.com, or hendrix.brian at gmail.com
or...
3) FTP - if you have a client, let me know and I will get you the login info.
or...
4) Print them all out, strap them to a carrier pigeon. Send it to the burgh. I'm here until Sunday.
or...
5) Other. Anyway you can think of, I will work with. I swear. I'm a total nerd.

Seriously, I don't care if you took 5 pics or 500. Send them my way. Please.

Some puzzles from kuro5hin. K5 (it's a take-off on corrosion) is like Slashdot's more politically-minded brother. Maine represent. Anyway, s sent these in. Thanks to him.

Screw all those mini games... this is a little ridiculous... www.everyvideogame.com will sent this one in, pointing out that This is not good for productivity The real meat of it is in the right-side menu marked 'Play.

Maddox's 11 Worst Songs for 2004 This one's from Brick. Thanks to him.

25th RAZZIE Nominations for really, really bad movies Catwoman lead the way. Thanks to derek for this one, who also sent in the tremendous title.

FCC says Saving Private Ryan is decent. Well, they're not gonna fine for running it, anyway. No word on Shaving Ryan's Privates. This would be a follow-up to this cleverly-titled previous post.

NPR interview with Steven Colbert. I continue to slober on the collective hog of the daily show.

For 'drunk shamers,' no gutter is sacred. JT sent this whole deal in.

"The standard rule is, if you fall asleep with your shoes on, you're fair game"

"Kid thought he could handle it . . . he needed someone to put him back in his place," says the caption underneath a close-up of a guy in a blond wig, a cigarette dangling from one nostril.

But if kids are going to send in pictures, he adds, he's happiest if they're high quality. He likes seeing the more adventurous shamings, like the one where a kid was locked to a bicycle post.

The Napolean Dynamite Sound Board It's difficult to convey how awesome this is. Words are failing me. Thanks to derek for this one. If you haven't seen the movie, it is HIGHLY recommended. The parent site is probably Not Safe for Work, so if you go exploring, you've been warned.

$80 Billion to Iraq and other causes. About $70 Billion is going to Iraq.

The package would be in addition to $25 billion already approved for 2005, and would push the total provided so far for those wars and for U.S. efforts against terrorism elsewhere in the world to more than $280 billion since the first money was provided shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

McGruff the crime dog's album. It's in MP3 form. Not to be confused with Fred McGriff, the crime baseball player.

Anna Pornikova Naked See the icon? No desks. Not Safe for work. This one's from Miolla, who adds Could it be? Is it? Really? *Boing-oy-oy-oy-ing*

Dude auctioned forehead for advertising space - got $40k Stow with no e sent this in, adding Everyone on Ebay is copying this guy, I'm tempted to bid on some of the idiots with no minimum.

Napolean Dynamite does Letterman's Top Ten List. All from miolla (including pun at top) - It's pretty sweet. It's awesome. I mean it's incredible...

PREVIEW: 4. Lord of the Rings Figurines - 50; Friends - 0

Lance Armstrong may go for the hour record. The greatest athlete in the world may see how far he can ride in an hour. Ow.

New Yorkers enjoy the hooch. Neighborhoods with particularly high rates of excessive drinking include all neighborhoods below 96th Street in Manhattan; Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, and Maspeth in Queens; Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene and Park Slope in Brooklyn; and northern Staten Island.

1) The link submission page is working pretty well now, so let me know if you see any problems. Thanks to dp and JT for their help in troubleshooting/reporting

2) The random picture mechanism was only using about 2/3 of the pictures, so the oldest 1/3 were being ignored completely. I fixed it a few days ago, so now you'll be able to enjoy T&C, Whistler, etc. on a random basis. Also, some of the photo data wasn't available via the photo search, and that's been added.

In honor of the Sports Night story line. In this case, 'date' means introduce them to your friends/co-worker friends, not just bang.

Car Design News.com It focuses (obviously) on design. I don't really care for it for the same reasons I don't like 'Automobile', but thought others might dig it.

Sex gets you good grades. In less-than-obvious ways.

Lemmings in your browser. It's back.

NY Times Articel on Vodka. As a follow-up to the vodka filtering article, I submit the following link for the best vodka...and it's cheap! If you don't want to read the whole article, skip to page two for a summary. This is all from Amy.

Jon Stewart for President. This is from Brick, who adds So obsurd that it's brilliant! I'd vote for him.

PVP Web Comic This one's from JT via a Penny Arcade! recommendation. He adds The first comic I saw is worth a chuckle. Jeremy H mentioned this way back in April, but it deserves a look.

Review of the new Jetta. It's better all around, but loses a turbo engine and looks like a Corolla.

Review of the Bose QuietComfort 2's They like the noise cancelling, but feel the music production isn't as good as it could be.

I got a pair of these for christmas, and someone will have to pry them out of my cold, dead hands. The music quality is great. I have it attached to my iPod or laptop, so the source is the weak link in the system. I often use them for just noise cancelling (airplane 'sleep'). Anyway, I hate to be a schill, but these thing rule.

Tonya Harding - Boxer. Tonya harding has "hit" a new low, after gaining massive amounts of weight, she is now being productive with her violent nature. Thanks to Jay Park for all of this.

"This is Philadelphia," she [crowd member] says. "We boo everybody."

Interview with Seth Macfarlane He's the creator of The Family Guy. Not to be confused with Spawn creator and baseball buyer Todd MzcFarlane. Thanks to JT for this one.

Japanese kid is awesome at GT4. WMV Video 1 | WMV Video 2 This kid can't be more than about 3 years old, and is amazing at GT4. In both videos, he earns a gold medal for the run. This video clip is being reviewed by many websites to test the validity, and so far, it has checked out to be legit. Again, this is all from Jay Park.

Musicians and Movie Studios sue over file trading. They want Grokster et. al to be liable for what people do using their product. This one's from oof, who adds, Look what my employer is up to... I often fail to see why musicians even bother with this, because they really don't see any money from recording revenues. If they have writing credit, they suffer a little, but I believe most of that money comes from radio, which isn't hurt by trading.

Katie Couric finds out what 'friends with benefits means' She's talking to some younger kids about the humpin' and the bangin' and the whatnot. Will sent this in along with the tremendous title and this summation: Here's something to watch on T.V.... it's about the kids these days and how they're all hoes

Flash video of a dude doing the Rocky thing.

OSU Researcher documents high school hookup web. There's a diagram. It was more of a long chain rather than a hub and spoke.

Richard Linklater making new hybrid animation / live action film. He would be the genius behing Dazed and Confused. Stills toward the bottom. Reminds me of Sin City at this point.

Sandisk MP3 player vs. iPod Shuffle.

So which one do you think is the better deal? For $16 less I am getting a FM Player, Built in display, Built-in Equilizer, Voice Recorder and free arm band! Yes you have to add batteries to this unit, 1 AAA but remember what Apple says the rechargable batteries will eventually die. Overall the Sandisk will stay in my wife's hand and my new iPod Shuffle will be placed on Ebay. Sorry Apple . . .

This whole thing is from Philippe.

This is hard to judge, but the quick release (of four Gitmo detainees - ed.) by the UK makes you wonder how many more of these cases exist. Also, if someone was innocent and this happened to them, would they then want to become a terrorist? In essence, are things like the patriot act and false imprisonment actually creating more future problems than protecting lives?

PBS taken to task by education secretary. They had the audacity to put lesbians in a cartoon whose premise is ... wait for it ... Buster carries a digital video camera and explores regions, activities and people of different backgrounds and religions. CB sent the link in. Shouldn't this woman have more important things to worry about? Like how many stupid people currently reside in the US?

Moan Tones now available. Jenna Jameson recorded herself moaning and is selling it for $2.50. God bless capitalism. Thanks to naj for this one.

U.S. users will have to wait to get Jameson on their phones as no mobile carriers in the United States have expressed any interest in carrying the service.

Ted Turner critical of Fox News. This one's from Philippe, who adds I love Fox's reaction to the statements made by Ted Turner.

Pittsburgh drive-through strip club on eBay. This one's from naj, who sums it up thusly - All of my life was spent leading up to this point. i have realized why i was put on this earth.

World's longest chopper for sale on eBay. Proof that you can take something too far. Only $75,000. Woo-hoo. Thanks to oof for this one.

NY Times on Chile's Private Pensions This one's from Nino. In short, the private system isn't working as well as the previous government-run program.

"For those remaining in the government's original pay-as-you-go system, the maximum retirement benefit is now about $1,250 a month. The National Center for Alternative Development Studies, a research institute here, calculates that to get that same amount from a private pension fund, workers would have to contribute more than $250,000 over their careers, a target that has been reached by fewer than 500 of the private system's 7 million past and present contributors."

MGM hacked up their 'widescreen' DVDs. They aren't truly widescreen. You can exchange your copy for a better one or get $7.10. The movies include Silence of the Lambs, and Bill and Ted's (both), Spaceballs, UHF, Princess Bride, Hoosiers, some James Bond stuff, and some spaghetti westerns. Suck. Update You can't necessarily get a copy of the movie you have, there's a list of 325 to pick from. Thanks MGM! Update II Read This. Apparently this is much ado about nothing. I got swept up in the hysteria that is slashdot. My bad.

P&G buys Gilette. Prabhath sent this in and added Basically my company just bought a sh*tload of our biggest competitors (Oral-B, Braun, Gillette itself). Woohoo! Free razors for me! And $10 6 packs for the rest of us.

Armor plate your iPod. Nice job on this one. Nerds everywhere should be proud. Although the practicality is a little lacking. This was on engadget.

Budweiser commercial networks rejected. It won't be shown during the super bowl.

9 year old soccer phenom from Brazil. Includes links to an unbelievable video. This is the same kid that was in the SI article.

Vintage video game commercials.From derek, who adds also check out vanilla ice in the downloads section Also a tune from the Neskimoes there as well.

Massive cow shit fire rages in Nebraska. Update Ms. Pino (sorry) sent this one in, adding "those vegetarians certainly do have a point If by 'point' you mean smelly farts, then yes, they do.

www.TOhasBO.com is open for business. this is the brainchild of me and derek. we hope to sell three. it's wretched. This one's all from Will. Good luck, PKA Booth, LLC.

Man pees on snow to save him from an avalanche. He had 60 1/2 liter bottles of beer in his car, which he drank to provide enough pee to get the job done. Thanks to Jaiman, Oof, derek, and JT for this one.

Male monkeys "pay" to see femal monkey butt. Monkeys are funny. Also, Racoons humping are amusing. Thanks to jb for this one.

Unmade beds healthier for humans. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and we all know what Nietzche had to say about that. Update This one was actually from jm, the favorite son, including the tag line. Key piece of information there. Sorry jm and sorry mom.

Youth Ministry Teen Lingo Dictionary. Somethings just don't need a witty intro. Though its definition for "gank" brought back some old memories.

1. "gank" is to steal or take without permission. Same as "jack" and used the same way. "He ganked that hat from da mall." Thanks to jm for this whole thing as well.

Automatic M&M sorter. The big news is that it will do Skittles. And if you've ever witnessed the green and yellow carnage I leave behind, this is huge. Anyway, it's slow as nuts, but it's still pretty neato.

Concentration test for men. Amusing little joke. NOT SAFE FOR WORK!!! This one's from naj.

From will: This isn't a link, as much as it is an introduction to Sean Weinstock, a new spring pledge. He listed me as a friend on www.thefacebook.com (a friendster-type site). I have never met him, but he is a member of the following prestigious clubs/groups:

- Wearing your collar down is for poor people
- Yeah I went to private school... jeeves bring around the car
- Facebook royalty
- CMU's 20 sexiest guys

How many days until carnival?

Bigot that called SpongeBob gay says he didn't. He did say there's a sinister pro-homosexual conspiracy behind the video that features cartoon characters singing 'We are family'. Includes obligatory biblical quotes with verse number. Ryan, can you add this guy to the beat-down list?

So in trying to find out why he's Dr Dobson, I came across this:

Although Dobson professes to be a Christian, he continually denies Jesus Christ by adding to His Word the philosophy and false teaching of the world. He, thus, is a type of Antichrist (2 John 7). He transgresses and abides not in the doctrine of Christ. Therefore, the Scripture says he hath not God (2 John 9), and those who bid him well, support him, or sponsor him are partakers of his evil deeds (2 John 11).

Why doesn't Google team up with the anti-spyware / virus scanners to produce a desktop search / spyware product? They both just sit there and look at all your files. I guess Google only looks at human-readable docs, but I'm sure it could be changed to manage binaries, etc.

Group puts up billboards thanking Hollywood for getting Bush re-elected. Includes pics of the boards.

Billboard creator Citizens United, a group that advocates a return to traditional American values, has purchased the use of three billboards near the Kodak Theatre (home of the Academy Awards) for the month of February, which includes Oscar Night, Sunday, February 27.

Here's hoping their kids end up sucking dick for coke. Welcome to the new low.

Embyonic Stem Cells transformed into spinal motor neurons. There's some more info at Wikipdeia detailing ALS/MND.

VW sues dudes behind the suicide bomber add. Guess they really weren't behind it. A follow up to this post.

It came to my attention this weekend (though not anecdotally) that 'only 20% of people have sex on their wedding night'. So, through a bit of sleuthing, it seems that 30% of people don't have sex on their wedding night. While this is a little better, I just can't understand the logic of not getting it on on the first day EVER that every person on earth, up to and including your parents and the pope, says it's cool to get it on. Anyway, just something to keep in mind for those of you planning your big day (and night).

Why don't more companies glom onto the whole '2 months salary' thing? Everyone knows that's how much a wedding ring is supposed to cost, although they should really just measure up the dude's dick and devise a formula that involves the constant ct./in^3. and cut out the middle man, but I digress. If TV makers were like, oh yea, you should spend 2 months salary, 3 if you watch a lot of sports, that would have to go over. Or furniture makers could be like, a couch should cost one month's salary. Anyway, feel free to take this and use it for the forces of good. They could even phrase it like 'well, that's the bare minimum we recommend'.

1000 Bars blog. This guy is going to go to a thousand NYC bars this year. And have a drink at each.

VW Ad guys apologize. VW dropped the suit.

Eagles fans borrow against homes to attend SuperBowl. This is all from Ryan -

The cost doesn't bother me, and the fact that people will do crazy things to get there is ok. But look at that guys house. If you can have a home like that, shouldn't you have some sort of savings that you can tap into in a 'once in a lifetime moment'. People who aren't worried about maxed out credit cards scare me.

They also scare me, if that's any consolation -ed.

Teacher in wheelchair bites special education student. Thanks to Jay Park for this one. Be sure to check out the links at the bottom of the page for more excellence in teaching.

Would have been nice to get some extra scratch. This one's all Philippe.

Cheney doesn't dress to impress. From shoof. Okay Cheney, its cold, but could ya stand out any more as "tourist?"

Gnarly Gatling Gun video. The night scenes with the tracer fire are particularly nuts. Some of the footage is from Monster Garage when Jesse rips up the car that failed.

Girl thrown through basket. Dude, it's nuts. I can't believe they put her through that. Goes to show you that you can get a girl to do anything, unless you're rick. Thanks to jm, by way of Berlin for all of this. It's the intro video from this post. I enjoy the way the guys are celebrating while the girl nurses her concussion.