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All from boot

UFO hovers over O'Hare for a bit. It then peaces out.

To fly 7 million light years to O'Hare and then have to turn around and go home because your gate was occupied is simply unacceptable.

KITH explanation. (sound doesn't sync well, but it's still a classic).

All from jm.

Fat lady traps self and 22 others inside cave. They had to grease her up and use a pulley to get her out.

Massachusettes may get to vote on gay marriage ban. The legislature voted to move it forward. Still needs approval from the next legislative session. The article is confusing as hell, but it looks like current gay marriages would be grandfathered in.

Remember the Mads Jonsson hip jump? Here's the video. Make sure you have your Depends on.

If you've got a 1/2 hour, The Shaun White Album isn't a bad way to waste it.

Somebody decided to sell 5 copies of the 3 EPs by the Beta Band while mashing up Nicolas Mueller footage. The original footage is pretty cool.

Check out Jeremy Jones' rail part. If nothing else, jump to 4:45.

If you're still hanging in, check out the Burton promo video from '04.

New HIV drugs prove to be extremely effective. Obviously not a cure, but it'll keep you alive.

The Freakanomics guys point out some new information about Africa and AIDS. 1. It's the wrong disease to attack. 2. It won't disappear until poverty does. 3. There is less of it than we thought, but it's spreading as fast as ever.

Guy seizes and falls on subway tracks. Second guy jumps down and covers him while train rolls over them.

There's more to it, but good lord. As someone on Fark said, I'm surprised his balls fit under the train.

For those of you who haven't already downloaded it, Eddie Murphy's Delirious is finally coming to DVD.

Brought to you by boot.

Dudes building plant to produce fuel from chicken fat.

Alternate title: Colonel Sanders To Open a Gas Station

Decker has furnished this bit of afternoon comedy.

I fixed a couple of things with the site.

The debug info is gone from the comment display.

There was a javascript error the first time you viewed the page on a new machine or new browser (or if you don't have cookies turned on). It prevented you from doing all kinds of stuff. That's fixed.

If you didn't have javascript turned on, the comments wouldn't appear. They should now appear for the individual stories. You're still SOL for the Latest Story Comments.

If anybody sees any problems cropping up (old or new), lemme know.

And if you can't seem to post comments, please let me know. You may be getting caught in the spam filters, as Marissa found out.

-bth

I'd like to welcome THendrix and his future permanent lady friend to the dark side.

From Bob: A guide to winter X games slang. Some highlights:

Axl Rose, n. - indigenous male of the mountain species; one who wears jeans and a bandana while skiing. Female version: Jordache. Frequently seen at East Coast destinations like Hunter Mountain, N.Y. and Mountain Creek, N.J.

trustifarian, n. - a cheesy, rich grom decked out in the latest, most expensive gear. plural: trustifari.

I can't believe there's no mention of Starter jackets in there. -ed

Thanks.

Your pal,
Brian

Working out... or having sseeeeexxxxx?

This one's from Shoof (including excellent tag).

There are no dumbbells here, that's just my balls. -ed.

Cowher to announce resignation today.

Possible replacements include that one Theta, the appropriately named shark, and this guy:

From decker: Speaking of retirements, my dad retired and it was mentioned (briefly) in the Washington Post, which I thought was cool. Begrudgingly filed under "Tech."

I think we all know what the 'F' stands for. Congrats to dave's dad on his newfound ability to bone dave's mom whenever he wants. -ed.

As the Freakanomic filter guy, here's one about how car seats don't really help if the kid is 3+. It's a companion to their latest blog about car seats that fall apart in 35mph crashes. There's a link to consumer reports identifying which ones.

This always makes me think of the Car and Driver article by editor in chief and MIT grad Csaba Csere debunking the kids in the back seat crap.

Possible restrictions on NY Commuter rail booze.

This PSA and protest alert has been brought to you by Nino.

From miolla: This should prove to do the trick. This shows you what interests those people who smell like ass and smoke like chimneys.

Video with sound. Absolutely nothing of interest happens during the video, so once you get the gist, there's no reason to stick around. It's like those parts of Cirque du Soleil that make me want to kill someone. -ed.

1100 pound pig shot outside of ATL suburb. (Insert joke involving basement and Two Times here). The video's got some pretty sweet accents.

All from jm.

Guys walking buy catch baby that falls from 4th story fire escape. They're apparently not of relation to the subway savior, but they could probably get in on some sort of group statue or something. Stolen from BoingBoing.

Top Ten D-Bags of the year. Fairly entertaining rundown of the year's worst. Mr. Cook tops the list, if that tells you anything. Stolen from Fark.

On a semi-related note, did anyone catch the shot Scrubs took at him last night?

A cool NPR interview with Sach Baron Cohen, nearly an hour long though.

So that was the second time I had been booed in Alabama by over 60,000 people.

From Oof.

Hilarious Dane Cook impersonator. He may actually be funnier than Dane.

Britney and Abigal the Conjoined Twins (a.k.a. Two headed monster)

And finally Dick in a Box song parody. Also seen on http://www.myboxinabox.com

All from miolla.

Dhendrix sent in a couple ridiculous vids to follow up on the hill climb I posted a little while ago.

Unbelievable hill climb.

Icelandic formula off road.

Somebody mentioned Talib Kweli to me a while ago. I think it was Shek. Anyway, he just released an album for free download. It's not really my thing, but it's pretty good nonetheless.

Interview with Adam Savage from Mythbusters.

And one of the researchers called up a forensics laboratory about an hour from here, and their response was "The MythBusters need ballistics gel?? We'll bring it right over!"

Mom and Pop jewlers scared of internet site Blue Nile. They sell diamond rings online. Cheap.

I'm almost surprised DeBeers hasn't stepped in to stop all of this, but apparently Blue Nile is the No.2 retailer behind Tiffany's. And that might get them banned from operating in the US. Again.

Bring on the man-mades and we'll see how worthless we can make these fuckers.

Mysterious odor hovers over Manhattan. Burch and Bharath have been dispatched to deal with the problem in the most sensitive manner possible.

The entry is from jm. I screenshotted it because it's too funny to let go. -ed.

Van Halen and R.E.M inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame among others....

From shek

What do you get when you cross a New Camaro with a Corvette????

The NextGen Acura NSX concept.

Somebody submitted this but didn't claim it.

In related news, the not-too-bad-looking Lexus IS-F came out. 400+ HP from a 5L V8 with the 8 speed tranny from the LS. There's something odd about the stance, but I can't quite figure it out. Need to see it in person.

As if spanish only schools weren't bad enough, an Austin pizza joint, Pizza Patron, will try taking pesos as payment.

This one's brought to you by boot.

I don't really see a problem with this. I'm guessing they'll probably make a little money off the exchange as well. -ed.

Rumor has it that A E Pi already bought out the first run. Oh, it's an RD2D multimedia unit. Everything that you could imagine this thing could do, it likely does.

From miolla.

The Millenium Falcon remote is a nice touch. -ed

A couple video clips to keep your morning going:

F'n with the DMV. From Bricker.

Part I

And there's the follow up news report.

It's here!

And here.

Brick has brought us this news from the Land of Steve.

I kinda like the 'real' keyboard on blackberrys, but the interface on the iphone is much better. The price seems really high, but I paid $80 for my last phone, so there ya' go. -ed.

Polega's putting up the ECE bat symbol: Looking for a junior ECE in Austin with some chip design experience. Bharath and I probably know all the people here already, but I don't know as many of the new guys. Do they even let ECEs in the house anymore?

Email jeff_polega@yahoo.com if interested.

From JT: Coach accused of a variety of things, including hitting is players in the groin. Be sure to read through the 3rd paragraph.

Is it wrong that I laughed? Probably. -ed

'Cause it's CES time. I think I missed an option.

The greatest drunk of all time from derek.

Wooo! -ed

All from boot: Target to stop selling drinking games

Fortunately linens and things hasn't caved and still sells 'Keg Pong' and 'Shots and Ladders'

I won't lie -- i'm amazed they made it into Target in the first place.

From oof's junk: David Beckham coming to LA to play in MLS

Key assists from JT (Posh Spice is letting her husband play for the LA Galaxy...), Anonymous (LA gets its own Spice Girl ), and bob (I bet I am at least 7th or 8th to submit this Only 4th. -ed).

From Caldeira: If only those damn pledges would've seen this site before the first and only "Oh my God I can't believe we duct-taped the president to the ceiling" party. Live and learn.

Pledge - pick a pledge. -ed.

Update Link fixed.

50-cent condoms from Leon.

Here's hoping they don't have 9 holes in them. Hi-yo! -ed

MetaFilter post about a bank deciding a yarn club is a scam. This really is dumb of the bank, but I keep laughing because the whole thing is abut knitting. It'd be the most ridiculous scam in history.

Anyway, if you don't feel like sorting through it, check out this blog entry.

The Burqini - swimwear for the active Muslim woman.

This was definitely one of the strangest things about visiting Morocco - women in full, uh, garb, at the beach. I guess this, uh, solves? the problem. From Metafilter.

Book about women in CS at CMU. They apparently interview lots of CS students but the focus is on how the women do. Or don't do. Anybody read this or know more about it?

From boot: This is the view out my front door this morning

Needless to see, the entire city is shut down.

For those playing along at home, boot lives in Austin. -ed

All bean: Kepler's Conjecture solved by guys at Pitt.

Actually, they solved it in 1998, but The Nerdery took 8 years to confirm the proof's certitude.

US States renamed according to countries with ~equivalent GDPs.

Good Lord. I guess Maine and Morocco have more in common than just me. And before you harp on the spelling, it was created by a Norwegian. Or should I say 'Minnesotan'? -ed

From jjc: Isn't national pride and tourism more important than a little uncomfortable sex, Lin Hui?

Might be mildly nsfw based on article title.

"Zoo officials have even talked of introducing panda porn — videos of other pandas mating — to get Chuang Chuang, left, and Lin Hui in the mood."

Obviously this is going on in the capital of Thailand. Maybe they should give her a few cocktails. -ed.

You just lost my vote.

I'm really trying hard to stay out of all this '08 presidential bullshit because, well, it's January '07.

After doing quite a bit to distinguish himself as a reasonable, centrist, old-school Republican, Mr McCain's been flipping and flopping and pandering so much lately I think he's gonna need knee pads.

I can think of no better endorsement for a Presidential candidate than the disapproval of Jerry "My fake college lifted the ban on interracial dating in 2000" Falwell.

If McCain needs money and support so badly that he has to go begging to these assholes, maybe he should consider running independent.

So now that Giant Douche is out of the running, bring on the Turd Sandwich.

Sacha Baron Cohen's acceptance speech. CG sent me the text, but this is the youtube. You sorta have to watch it.

As an added bonus, Hugh Laurie's (House) speech. And on a side note to the added bonus, the aussie doc and the hot girl doc from House are getting married. Consider her off my list.

Philippe and Jon's 30th Birthdays

As someone pointed out around 1:30 Sat. night, "Man, this is like a reunion or something." I think everybody had an awesome time. And we know Philippe had an awesome time.

Thanks to Jimmy Steel and CG for the accommodations, a higher power for the food, everybody for making the effort to get out, and Jet Blue for DirectTV.

No thanks to JFK's scheduling system and the kids on my flight home.

If you've got some pics and you wanna share, lemme know.

Do not despair. Perhaps there is hope...

Unity08 is a new political party. However, unlike other parties, usually formed by people too crazy to be in one of the mainstream ones, this party is all about the middle. Maybe this is something we, those fed up with the partisan horseshit, or, in the very least, the primary elections process can participate in. You don't even have to leave your original party to be a member of this deal. You can't lose. Actually, I guess you could lose twice.

jm has sent this uplifting message.

What could have been bought with the money spent on Iraq. Apparently it's somewhere between $1,000,000,000,000 and $2,000,000,000,000, depending on what you count. The author settles on $1.2 trillion so far.

Build defenses and win gold. The compounding interest is pretty money. This one is a time evaporator. Thanks to Jay Park.

From Jacques: Ummm... could life get any sweeter for Tom Brady?... I guess a win over the Colts/Manning couldn't hurt... sweet nickname coined for him and Gisele Bundchen in this article

Update Link Fixed.

From Rollins: My wife and I are looking for a new rewards-based credit card. There are a ton of options these days.

Does anyone have any reccomendations?

I'd be curious as well. -ed

Virgin America is trying to get off the ground. I figure competition in airlines is a good thing. VA is apparently been denied initially due to lack of American ownership.

Engadget has more on their pimped out planes.

Gonzales rails on "activist judges". They should do what the president wants on national security.

“We want to determine whether he understands the inherent limits that make an unelected judiciary inferior to Congress or the president in making policy judgments,” Gonzales says in the prepared speech. “That, for example, a judge will never be in the best position to know what is in the national security interests of our country.”

I think my definition of an activist judge as "A judge who makes a decision I don't agree with" holds up in this case. Judges interpret laws. If you don't like the interpretation, change the law. If the law's ruled unconstitutional then either change it so it is constitutional or change the constitution.

I don't understand what's so hard about any of this and I don't understand where 'national security' was written into the Constitution as the be-all end-all reason for everything. Maybe it's on the back and I just missed it.

Arg.

This one's all decker: Lindsay Lohan checks into rehab. Just like the blind hooker, I didn't see that one coming.

I don't even really care, but I thought of that last joke when I read it, so it gets posted.

Best quote: "I haven't had a drink in seven days." Congratulations, Lindsay. Now please grow your breasts back.

Rehab is for quitters. -ed

From boot: Barry Bonds thinks that cheaters belong in the Hall of Fame

Is gambling on the games you manage or taking performance enhancing drugs more unethical?

Didn't Rose bet the Reds would win? If so, I really don't get why that's bad. If not, well, that's bad. Bonds deserves jail just for being a TDB. -ed

Four Democrats share house in DC

Bob sent this in, but Sam found this originally, so credit where credit is due. Bob adds I have so much more faith in the democratic senators after reading this.

Consumer Reports is recalling their child safety seat report. Apparently the seats weren't tested at 38.5mph, but closer to 70. I posted about this a bit ago, I think, because the Freakanomics guys did.

Philippe and Jon's 30th from Boot

A good time was had by all. More proof. Thanks to boot for the pics, the pic selection, and the captions.

Quick summary of what the House has been up to:

Today's legislation would repeal subsidies to oil and gas companies and creates a Strategic Renewable Energy Reserve to invest in clean, renewable energy resources. Thirty-six Republicans voted with the Dems.

To recap the first 42 hours, in addition to today's action the House passed bills to implement the 9/11 Commission recommendations, increase the minimum wage ($5.15 to $7.25 an hour over two years), expand stem cell research (expand number of lines and adds provisions to allow junk embryos to be used), lower prescription drug costs (HHS secretary negotiates with drug companies), and cut student loan interest rates (6.8 percent to 3.4 percent on subsidized loans).

From a poster at Daily Kos.

Colbert on O'Reilly

I think O'Reilly was trying to be funny and play along, but he just ends up looking like a douche bag.

O'Reilly on Colbert

Mayes/Flamant 30th from Prommel

Pics, pic selection and captions from Prommel.

In the immortal words of Mr. Z, What more can I say?

From brick: I didn't know whether to file this under Cars, Comedy, Craziness, or Douche Baggery, so I picked DB for my own amusement.

The bits with the four wheel steering are worth a chuckle. It looks like he's doing it with two wheels, which makes it even better. -ed

From Brick.

NYT article about Olbermann and MSNBC.

It's not really that interesting, except for this bit:

MSNBC’s research claims that the median age for Mr. O’Reilly’s audience is 71, while Mr. Olbermann’s is 59. (Fox and CNN both report that the only figures they get for median age of shows with older audiences is “65 plus,” and that Mr. O’Reilly’s audience falls into that category.)

Half of O'Reilly's audience is over 71? The mind boggles.

Roe vs. Wade was decided 34 years ago today. Hooray for that.

Planned Parenthood gives us five sensible ways to prevent abortions.

I hadn't looked at the most popular pictures in a while. Glad to see the 'Gay-->' one holding strong at #1. Most of these I understand to a degree. Google was sending a lot of people here for the Jesse James pics, asses (male and female) are always popular, several are frequently commented on. But some of them I'm at a complete loss to explain. Dude cooking? 'Ferris Bueller' at Wrigley? Ah well.

Also, if you look at the album index, you can see the hit counts for the albums. The winner? The Chicago Auto Show from a couple years ago with 8,000. Yea.

Some scientists believe they've oversold it. From decker.

Cool Stuff being made Lots of videos showing how stuff is made. A nice compliment to the "How Stuff is Made" TV show. Love that show.

The MacGuyver Toolkit

Also, Caldeira wants to know who approved this logo.

Oscar nominations

I really dug Little Miss Sunshine. I thought Steve Carell deserved something. Guess not.

Children of Men was also excellent. Thought it deserved more than Cinematography, script, and editing. Cinematography is actually going to be tough because The Illusionist, which was pretty good, had pretty awesome (and DVD-player confusing) cinematography.

I haven't seen most of the others, so there it is. Anybody see 'Pan's Labyrinth'? Any good?

Star Wars Audition Tapes. Christopher Walken as Han Solo would have been the greatest move ever. It would have turned Star Wars into Battlestar Gallatica.

All from miolla. Thanks miolla.

Check out Takara's killer iPod speaker dock.

All from Brick.

This may only interest Miolla, but Bong Soo Han, aka Dr. Klahn, has died.

Rollins sent this along.

It was a fighting force of extraordinary magnitude. -ed

101 Dumbest business moments of 2006. This one's Sperl/Bob co.

TradingMarkets - a Web site that provides its subscribers with professional stock-market expertise for as much as $100 a month - in January invites 10 Playboy models to participate in an investing contest.

When results are tallied toward the end of the year, 40 percent of the bunnies deliver better returns than the S&P 500, compared with just 29 percent of actively managed mutual funds.

Ryan brings us this burgh-tastic update:

1) We hire our first black coach, the day after two make it to the Superbowl

2) CMU may ban smoking indoors and out

and

3) North Allegheny teacher suspected of 'tryst' with student.

A coworker went to high school with her and has testified under oath that she was cute in school. I can't wait for the pictures.

The minimum wage increase was defeated in the Senate. This article is confusing the hell out of me. 54 Senators (all the dems+the Mainers, Specter, and two others) voted to end debate and vote. Presumably they wanted to vote for it. They needed 60 to make that happen. But then the article says "supporters of the House-approved bill lost by 17 votes."

Does anyone understand what's going on? I thought I had it until that 17 vote quote.

Kordell Stewart sighting!... and not in a Schenley Park kinda way...

This one's all will.

“The glass isn’t half empty - it’s 68% empty. There’s still some fluid in there, but I wouldn’t drink it.”

Video of Steven Colbert's appearance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last April. From "Music...to my ears".

A new type of custom bike, using Suzuki hayabusa motors. From Jay Park.

I've seen at least one other similar effort and found one on the web, but no telling who's first. -ed.

Bam Bam Bigelow passes away...

Now Jersey has one less thing to brag about...

From boot.

Homersapien and Spidersapien available soon. They're Robosapiens with different bodywork.

Please look forward to more of my business in the future.

-Brian

As an aside, another article when this first happened mentioned that the kid had ear surgery a month prior to the flight. Brilliant.

Japanese dude makes a real life Star Wars Walker (not Imperial but you are awarded no points if you know what the actual name is). From miolla.

Apparently you can DIE. Also from miolla.

"A woman who competed in a radio station's contest to see how much water she could drink without going to the bathroom died of water intoxication, the coroner's office said Saturday."

Last I knew something like 10 people had been fired over this and there's talk of criminal charges. -ed

The bhendrix.com calling card. I thought I had posted these before, but I guess not. Many thanks to Rollins for this one. Filed appropriately.

Trailer for "Blades of Glory" - starring Napoleon Dynamite and Ricky Bobby This could be tremendous.

I'm on his jock more than his wife, but check out Rodney Mullen's video part from 1994. I guess this was his first video part as a street skater. The tricks he's doing are just mind-boggling. Anyway, I hadn't seen this before, so thought I'd throw it out there.

Come on, come on, come on!

Crass Bears fan(s)...Worst Person in the World!

All from Brick.

A future Pulitzer winner From Bob.

Whoops there goes another Mustang...(wait 60 seconds)....whoops there goes another mustang.

This one's from bw.

Can anybody think of a Ford car or truck they actually want to buy? -ed.

10 years w/o parol for a BJ.

From oof.

The best part is that the law was re-written but not made retroactive. -ed

helicopters' new EP - Walking To Be Looked AT

[iTunes Music Store Link]

The musical alchemists that make up helicopters (including Caldeira) have turned in another group of excellent electro-synth-pop tunes. Don't miss the acoustic version of 'Mile Markers'.

From will: It's not a Friday without Arnold's total body workout. (MP3)

I don't totally get this, but here it is. -ed.

Lyrics: If you read the Bible, then you'll be sure

To get into Heaven there's no back doo-ooooooor!"

Miolla sent along this disturbing little entry.

Dog Braces

ryan sent this one along with the tag.

Family of woman who died from the water drinking contest files suit. Smoking gun has it.

Say hello to Ben Polega.

Jeff sent the following good news:

Benjamin Michael Polega was born on Saturday (1/27/2007) at 7:08 PM. He was 5lb 13oz, and 18 and 3/4 inches long. He was just under a month early, but his lungs are strong and he's been nursing well. Mom and baby are fine; we should get to go home this evening.

Barbaro was euthanized today

I can't belive how much news coverage this horse's medical procedures received...hence douche-baggery

This one was all boot.

The headline at Fark was "Barbaro's status is finally downgraded to glue". I LOL'd. -ed

some guy ranting about a dumb lady on the PIR

From Jay Park. The rest of the site has some funny stuff, but is pretty NSFW.

All miolla:All of the out takes from Jackass 2 which basically didn't make it because they were too GAY. Enjoy Fags.

If you're within 100 ft. of a building where people might be working, do not open this link. The flipping mangina is pretty impressive, though. -ed

Penny Arcade tackles Mario Party.

JT beat me to the punch.

That's a star! -ed.

There seems to be a problem in Minnesota.

Rollins sent along this PSA.

Anyone remember Police academy 4?

Well Austin didn't want to be left out of the party

All from boot.

It may not be "host of The Price is Right" but it's gotta be close...

This one's from Rollins. The curb/stop wheel turn makes me cringe. The video makes me wonder why VW/Audis have such lame quality.

Pittsburgh barbies. The pictures really make it.

Tremendous sign from a Pens fan. I guess it's from last year (?) but I laughed.

Some clever pranksters in Southampton UK decided to burn a huge cock into their school's lawn using weed killer. Hilarity still ensues. You can read the whole story here. Marked NSFW in case people are offended by large, dirt penises.

This one's all Brick. Nice tag.

JT sent the following:

I don't see how this could possibly be true, but I saw it on Fark and found it interesting enough to send it in...

One problem with this story is the whole "OMG!!! Drug companies Bad!!" hype surrounding this. I originally saw this on Kos, but didn't read much of it. I found the following links interesting:

Newscientist followed up on this. I guess clinical trials are coming around.

If you can get past his condescending douchebag tone, this guy has some more insight. Scroll down to his numbered points.

And finally, the Economist weighs in.

All these links were jacked from Fark. -ed.

Aqua Teen viral marketing goes wrong. Way wrong. Bomb squad called wrong.

If you're interested, the trailer is here.

Update Flickr set of what they look like. Stolen from Fark. Welcome to Fark-filter.