Semisonic - Get A Grip

This music video seems just a little inappropriate...

Matchbox Twenty - How Far We've Come

Figured this song would be appropriate to post now, considering it's a year after everyone's gotten sick of it, and 2, the references towards the Democratic Party appear to be relevant to the buildup of Senator Obama's acceptance of the Democratic Party's nomination:



While I'd want to say there are hints of Democratic Party bias in the video I recognize they're shown as a larger part of the entire... "human progressive movement." The only reason I call it biased towards the Democrats would be because of the "unnecessary" footage of Kennedy (seriously, what did that guy accomplish? LOL).

Fuck you, facebook

I use facebook. That's my job. At first, I learned facebook slow. And now I know it by heart!

But when I first started using facebook the format was simple. There weren't applications, you couldn't really notice how embedded the javascripting was. Then they gave you a news feed which was annoying as all hell and you had to look for your messages in the upper corner place. Then they changed it again giving you a news feed that turned you into a stalker without you trying. When every user got butthurt over it, facebook's admins said "sorry we know what you like. Don't worry though, facebook will still be college-exclusive." Then they opened it up to other people.

Today the latest change happened to facebook which gives one the impression that their browser sucks and is giving you facebook in "printer friendly" mode. Not so. It's actually the shitty new look to facebook. They give you the option to go to the "old facebook," which is still just as awful as it's been since they changed everything in 2006. Give me the OLD facebook.

Related: This is how facebook's new interface looks and feels.

The great thing about Team Fortress 2 isn't playing it...

... it's showing everyone online that F10 is the mute menu!

Burj Dubai Almost Completed

Dubai isn't just building giant island, they're also completing the world's tallest building:

Chemical Party

I lolled:


Via Cynical-C.

BBC Reporter Mistaken for Michael Phelps

Apparently the Chinese can reciprocate in the "you all look the same" department.

Parry Phelps
by meechone

Via

Obama, Biden, and the Media Circus

The other day I predicted to a friend that Joe Biden would be the Democratic VP choice for Barack Obama. My reasoning was that Obama, being a young, black man needed someone as a running mate who could attract a different niche of the Democratic voting bloc. Biden, being a senior Congress member, from one end of the country (Obama being from the middle), would pull in more votes for the campaign.

The secrecy around Obama's decision created a great amount of hype. People freaking out, wondering, etc. Good stuff, certainly. Obama is an entertainer and can create a spectacle from anything. But what's happening here? The day of the announcement the media went crazy. Having constantly gone crazy over everything Obama does (let's face it, he does these types of things exceptionally well, building up expectations and keeping his typical voting bloc in anticipation of Obama's next step), the media seems to have become unable to stop themselves from what appears to be another repeat of the OJ Simpson trial, Michael Jackson-fest, or even worse: Anna Nicole.

Recall how the only thing on television for months was more news we didn't want to hear about Anna Nicole? The media isn't a news agency for the television, cable news networks are constantly turning their programs into new sources of entertainment. The media circus evolving around the Obama campaign is yet another step in the inundation of the average American in Obamamania.I first noticed how irrational people were following Obama's campaign back in 2007 on Reddit. Hillary fans weren't as annoying, yet Obama's seem to cram anything they possibly can down your throat to make sure you know what Barack's doing.

Americans are fickle. Example: Nobody pays attention to the war in Afghanistan, and the war in Iraq is slowly drifting away from American attention.

Americans are fickle. Example: Gerald Ford represented an extension of Nixon's administration to most American voters, even though he had no policy connection to Nixon's administration (just [un]lucky to constitutionally take the position of VP). When his (re)election came up, voters went for Jimmy Carter because he was different, relatively unknown in Washington, and a member of the other party. Remember the great times we had under Carter? Neither do I. I fear that Americans voting for Obama are doing so mostly because they want as great a change as they can get from the current administration, and seeing McCain as a Republican, they see him as Gerald Ford. I fear we may wind up seeing the same Carter Administration Malaise again under Obama. He can talk, but what will he do? Aside from invite Ahmadinejad and the Israelis to Camp David.

Americans are fickle. Example: We like hearing stuff from the media, but once the same material gets played 24/7 for two months it gets annoying. I go back to the case of Anna Nicole. The media made me hate and despise her, and as a result, when I heard of Heath Ledger's death I automatically hated him from remembering how much anger I held for Anna Nicole's media coverage.

I was watching CNN the other day, or perhaps it was Fox News. I can't really tell because neither of them tell me anything important (such as the Kurdish militias taking up arms against the Turks again, or the Communist Revolution in Nepal), and just show clips of things. When Biden was announced as Barack's VP choice, the anchors were saying to their field reporters "give Obama/Biden my best" (not really journalistic integrity), and helicopters were flying all over Biden's house trying to see if he was leaving to go anywhere. It makes me sick.

But I think it'll also make the average undecided American voter disgusted as well, and perhaps some Hillary fans. After the convention Obama needs to settle down on milking the media for everything otherwise he'll lose this race--not because he's a bad candidate--he's too good at what he does.

Random Image - 25 August

Super Gmod Kart

I was going to wait until TF2esday to post this, but I realized the amt. of memes in it rendered it only slightly relevant to tomorrow. Thus I decided to post it now.

How many memes can you count (memes, ytmnd fads, lulzy things that get spread throughout the interbutts, etc.)? I counted over 9000, though I'm sure you could find at least 100. My favourite meme shown? 360 Kid.


Thanks, Nick.

Billy the Beef Tallow Boy

The Penis Name Generator

Obviously I had to try this online name generator out for the lulz. Surprisingly, I was pleased with the name they generated:

My penis's new name is Tom Jones the Adjustable Weapon of Mass Destruction.
Take Name Your Penis by badasstronaut. today!
Created with Rum and Monkey's Name Generator Generator.

Possible Joker in the Next Batman Film:

I'm gonna start making posts like this until Hollywood takes my advice.

Who could be a good replacement for Heath Ledger?

Mark-Paul Gosselaar:


Why? Facial structure, mostly. Seems like he could also stand for some time in American pop culture again.

Time for a break from BlitzBlogging...

... to watch TAVIS SMILEY!

Ahmadinejad: Nobody likes the Americans. Opinions?

Watching Charlie Rose, when asked what his advice to the next US President was, he said "CHANGE THE WAY YOU DO THINGS." He then spoke upon how America has managed to make itself hated, and that nobody really wants to collaborated with the US. Rose responded with "The American Government can speak for itself. We are now choosing a new government..." then claiming that Ahmadinejad is too quick to criticize the US, he suggested the Iranian President change his mind on how he feels about America.

I love it when foreign journalists try to tell a world leader that he needs to change his mind. I would stand with Ahmadinejad on the "STFU, CHARLIE" side.

What do others think?

Creepy Fan Meets Weatherman

What Britney Spears Really Sounds Like On Stage

I lolled:

What Britney Spears Really Sounds Like On Stage

YouTube's HQ

How can anybody call this place an office when you're clearly focused on living the childhood your parents never loved you enough to give you? At least there are computers so you can pretend to do work.

Free Oral Sex for Louisville!

Don't worry, the site promises "No hidden costs or agendas."

To all of the beautiful, single women in and around Louisville:

This page is for you. I am a man whose favorite thing to do is give oral sex to attractive young women. I love it and enjoy pleasing the women that I know and meet. I know that every woman is different, and I have been out of practice for a while. Since every woman is different in her wants and needs, I am offering FREE ORAL SEX to any woman who qualifies that e-mails me or signs up. No matter how good I may have been told that I am at my hobby, I know that everyone needs to constantly practice at anything they take pride in doing. This site is designed with the women of Louisville in mind. I need some partners to practice with and women who will give honest feedback to any services I perform for them, so that I will be able to hone my skills.

Judging by his picture, it looks like he's spent a lot of time down in someone's crotch.

Phuck Phelps

There. I said it. Phelps, America's hero, can phuck oph.
Why?

Phelps had already been making roughly $5 Million A YEAR in promotionals for swimming before the Olympics. Sure, he's a record setter, but I'm going to get sick of hearing his "OMG AFTER BEING MADE PHUN OF SO MUCH AS A STUDENT HE SWAM AND SWAM AND SWAM UNTIL HE WENT STRAIGHT TO THE LOLYMPICS AND IS NOW SUCH A GREAT GUY!!!!!" story by the Phelps Phans. GAAAAAAAAAAY.

"Look Behind You"

A very entertaining photoset...

Random Image - 22 August

Not from my computer, but it fits the bill...

McCain/Obama Tax Proposals

From The Washington Post:

According to a new analysis by the Tax Policy Center, a joint project of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain are both proposing tax plans that would result in cuts for most American families. Obama's plan gives the biggest cuts to those who make the least, while McCain would give the largest cuts to the very wealthy. For the approximately 147,000 families that make up the top 0.1 percent of the income scale, the difference between the two plans is stark. While McCain offers a $269,364 tax cut, Obama would raise their taxes, on average, by $701,885 - a difference of nearly $1 million.

Overall, McCain's cuts would lead to an overall decrease in taxes by 2%. Obama would by 0.3%. Obama supports extreme tax cuts for lowest-income families.

Maybe someone can answer this question for me: How heavily are the folks making only $37,000/year being taxed?

Click the graph for a larger version. Click here (or elsewhere in this post) for a link to the full article.

Ooo! Free fries!

The Most Logical Argument Against Same-Sex Marriage

The guy's logic is great!

TRY MY HOT CHIHUAHUA MEAT!

Tonight a hotdog stand was on fire. I didn't know that was a problem. Never getting food from them before, I assumed that was their style. So I stood there with a friend for about 10 mins while this built-in grill spewed flames from its side, licking the counters, using the dogs and burgers inside as more fuel, catching the underside-cabinetry alight. I got some free burger patties and sausages out of the deal, though.

As Butt-head would say, "Huh huh... uh huh... woah cool!"
Or Beavis... "M HEH HEH MM HEH... FIRE! FIRE!"

Random Image

I saw this on ED's Picture of the Now, and thought "Well, it's not from my /b/ folder, but it's pretty RANDOM XD!" Thus, I present this horror...

Metal Gear Solid Philanthropy

On the heels of the release of MGS4 comes a fan-made, non-sucky-looking movie: Metal Gear Solid Philanthropy. Granted, MGS4 was more or less an interactive movie, this one may not piss you off considering it's made to be a movie! I'd say it'll be interesting at the very least, considering the trailer doesn't suck.

Metal Gear Solid - Philanthropy Trailer 2 from Hive Division on Vimeo.
Funny how they're talking about a war being fought in the Caucasus region... tee hee!

Photoset of random, silly images

I ran across this photoset wrongly entitled "Most Embarassing Moments" (you may have to scroll down a bit to see the pictures), though only 10% of them are what I'd call worthy of being "embarassing." The rest are just odd and seem like something I'd wind up posting as a "random image of the day."

The Goatee Saver

This thing is pretty nifty. As a person who grows out a goatee every now and then, I'd have to say it's probably really handy. Though it's more of a template than a "saver." It's narrated by a guy with a southern accent, things are rarely narrated by a southerner. Weeeeeeeird.

Imagining the 10th Dimension

Very informative. They could have done some more (and better) visuals once they got to the 6th dimension, but it's pretty damned interesting. And the narrator's voice is soothing!

$6 Million Home Theatre

I think these people may be rich:


This home theatre is nice, there's no doubt about it. But I like the other home theatre I posted back in '07 a bit better. It was themed to look like a theatre, rather than someone's overclocked livingroom.

Ulgy airplanes

I can’t say I’m a fan of flying, to be honest I’m terrified of airplanes but if I simply have to get on an airplane, I’d prefer it to be a decent-looking one. And that definitely excludes anyone of these odd-looking flying machines. Sure some of them are designed this way to facilitate merchandise transport, but this does not make them any prettier.

If the world were a village of 100 people...

This website shrinks statistics down to an easy-to-understand demographics level!
Did you know that...

The village would have 60 Asians, 14 Africans, 12 Europeans, 8 Latin Americans, 5 from the USA and Canada, and 1 from the South Pacific?

or that...

82 would be non-white; 18 white?

or that...

50 would be malnourished and 1 dying of starvation?

It's got some good facts. Link.

Cartoon girls tied up

A gallery of cartoon girls (American) tied gaged and bound. Non-pornographic, which makes me wonder who the Hell fetishizes about this stuff? This also brings up the question, how the Hell did I find this? Neither question can I really provide any answer to. Click on Daphne Blake for more:

Girls Against Porn

In case you couldn't tell, I'm clearing out my bookmarked sites of oddity/interest on my computer because I have waaaaay too many of them. Here's an awful site, that strives to make a point, but doesn't have any idea how to present a "mission statement" or what their history has been. I have no idea how I ran across the site (probably an external link on ED somewhere), but if you like really dumb-looking websites that try to keep your interest with a load of lame programming and crappy midi files that rip off theme songs (and annoy the hell out of you), check out GIRLS AGAINST PORN.

The Telemegaphone

I first heard about this interactive artwork last month on Make:Blog and thought "neat!" Now that the project has been up and running, I present the Telemegaphone:

Telemegaphone Dale stands seven metres tall on top of the Bergskletten mountain overlooking the idyllic Dalsfjord in Western Norway.

When you dial the Telemegaphone’s phone number the sound of your voice is projected out across the fjord, the valley and the village of Dale below.

It's a great art project, but I'd say it's overall a bad idea. As soon as Anonymous gets wind of this, the Norwegians are going to be assaulted day and night with people asking if they have Battletoads in Norway. The project opened August 2, phone number is available on the site. Link.

Nazi-occupied Paris, a photoset in colour

Despite the fact that it's Nazi-occupied, there's very little to make you think "Hmm, Nazi-land!" Upon their occupation of France, the Germans pretty much left things as they were with a few minor changes (such as the sweet flare they made the jews wear):
Link.

Write In Bush 2008

Write In Bush 2008 is not a joke. As you can already assume, it's run by pro-Jaeesuhs people. States their site:

Yes, we can vote for George W. Bush in 2008. We have the right to write in the name of our chosen candidate, regardless of whether or not he is officially on the ballot.

We know that George Bush was God's Candidate in 2000. We know that George Bush was God's candidate again in 2004. And George Bush has been God's president for the last 8 years.

Naturally Bush is God's candidate. Not a holier man such as Mike Huckabee or Sam Brownback or Ted Haggart, or Pat Robertson (Pat's the real candidate!). Bush is. Therefore with God's will, we will be able to break the constitution and have Bush as our leader forever.

Of course, Write In Bush 2008 is also the same people who claimed Bush as the antichrist (link). Man these guys have all their bases covered.

Of course, the whole subject brings this stirringly patriotic image to mind:

Trolling IRL

Trolling is the act of being an ass to people online for the simple sake of getting LOLS. Like a one-sided flame war, trolling is used to provoke reactions from others, but is also used simply to cause chaos with no real motivation other than to feel good about others' misery to make up for your own inadequacies. Yay! IRL trolling is more of a sport considering you put your physical self on the line to have a few laughs at others. As Encyclopedia Dramatica states: "Trolling IRL, is, well, trolling IRL. It is harder than OL trolling because you might actually get your ass kicked, get raped, or otherwise assaulted." If you can pull it off, the results are lulzy.

Examples of IRL trolling:

Troll women!


Drive-by trolling! (A Hanson reject makes up for his personal inadequacy with his frotting buddies in a car while playing crappy music and unoriginal content)

Bloop, Slow Down, The Hum

Three different unexplained audable phenomena, two occuring in the same region of the world's oceans (cthulu), and one that can be experienced in different places around the world.

Bloop
Wikipedia has a sound sample of the Bloop in their article

The Bloop is the name given to an ultra-low frequency underwater sound detected by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration several times during the summer of 1997. The source of the sound remains unknown.
...
The sound, traced to somewhere around 50º S 100º W (South American southwest coast), was detected repeatedly by the Equatorial Pacific Ocean autonomous hydrophone array, which uses U.S. Navy equipment originally designed to detect Soviet submarines.
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Because the Bloop noise originated near the location of the sunken city of R'lyeh from H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Call of Cthulhu", the Bloop has been linked to Cthulhu by Lovecraft fans.[2] In the alternate reality game promoting the movie, the Bloop was also linked to the monster from Cloverfield[3] The Bloop was seen in The Loch by Steve Alten as the call of an undiscovered species of giant eel,[4] as well as in Frank Schätzing's novel The Swarm as the speech of the intelligent species, the Yrr.[5]. The title track from Dntel's 2001 album Life Is Full of Possibilities repeats a sample of the Bloop sound set to music.

Slow Down
Wikipedia has an audio sample of the Slow Down in their article

Slow Down was a sound recorded on May 19, 1997, in the Equatorial Pacific ocean by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The source of the sound remains unknown.

The Hum
From Wikipedia:

The essential element that defines the Hum is what is perceived as a persistent low-frequency sound, often described as being comparable to that of a distant diesel engine idling, or to some similar low-pitched sound for which obvious sources (e.g., household appliances, traffic noise, etc.) have been ruled out.

Other elements seem to be significantly associated with the Hum, being reported by an important proportion of hearers, but not by all of them. Many people hear the Hum only, or much more, inside buildings as compared with outdoors. Many also perceive vibrations that can be felt through the body. Earplugs are reported as not decreasing the Hum. The Hum is often perceived more intensely during the night.

Some people perceive the Hum continuously, but others perceive it only during certain periods. For some people, the perceived Hum can represent a faint sound and a mild annoyance, while for others who perceive the Hum's sound and/or vibrations more intensely it represents a nuisance that can seriously interfere with daily activities. Common consequences include a lack of sleep, as the Hum can keep some people awake or wake them in the middle of the night. Such cases have given rise to the expression "Hum sufferers."

An audio clip of the Hum can be found here (sounds like the SFX used to represent THE FORCE).

AnonTalk

Not a chan, and certainly no image board, AnonTalk is just as RANDOM ROFL XD...
It's a FORUM! LOL!
Link.

Failed States Index - 2007

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Related: The top vacation places that Americans can't go!

Bro Rape

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Awesome Center Redux

Egoraptor has been in the process of creating a DVD of the numerous videogame parodies he's done. They're quite creative and make me LOL out loud! While creating the DVD he's added more material to his original clips to make the DVD worth it, and has been posting some of the extended entertainment on Newgrounds. I liked the original Awesome Center, but Awesome Center Redux is even better:


Thanks, Nick!

Related: Egoraptor's newgrounds profile.