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Cracked.com had a great article on bad logos today. My favorite is the Hospital for Special Surgery logo:

Apparently I still need to learn to use my guitar correctly.

What would Google be like as a person? What about MySpace?

http://www.cracked.com/video_16271_internet-party-2-intervention-myspace.html

I've been helping "mentor" at SwingCal, Berkeley's student-run swing-dancing class. That means I don't teach, but I dance with students and give them tips.

After the class, there's some social dancing, and then too I mostly dance with students. One student was amused by my style and said, "You remind me of Will Ferrell." The question is, is that a compliment or an insult?

I want to say something witty, but that'd just take away from the sign.

I just saw this video parodying "One Week", one of their hits, and it's excellent enough to share.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1895871

No, really, there's a German AIDS awareness campaign that equates AIDS with Hitler. It's NSFW, but highly awesome. There are some other mass murdering dictator posters, but Hitler's is the most striking to me.

My great-aunt is an actress. You'd know her best as the exorcist on Poltergeist. But I'd never noticed who else she resembles until now.

Spam subject line: Mr. Montoya Approval process will take sometime more

If they're too slow about it, though, Mr. Montoya's son may have to look into the matter.

I don't do email forwards, but I guess I do blog forwards. Consider this one:

Toast Appears on Jesus Christ

I have beheld the power of cheese, and I found myself transfixed by its monstrosity. Our ancestors who first began to culture cheese knew not what they wrought, and their creation has far outlived them. Unknowingly, they brought forth a force greater than man was ever meant to possess. Indeed, one wonders whether he truly possess it, or if instead it possesses him.

It is thus with a heavy heart that I call for interculinary disarmament. Let us all set aside our cheeses, together. I urge the UN to set up a special Cheese Inspection Task Force to help ensure that all equipment for its manufacture are truly destroyed and not merely hidden. Oh, surely some poor misguided people will attempt to continue producing cheeses in secret, but at least we can attempt to reduce the risk of cheese contaminating the great melting pot that is our world.

I would like to leave you with one last idea to ponder: if power corrupts, does not the Power of Cheese corrupt cheesily?

This morning, I attended the inauguration viewing on Berkeley campus. It was amazing, with a tremendous crowd that cheered for Obama, laughed at Bush, and booed and hissed at gay-hater Rick Warren. I'm sure there'll be pictures on the news (or at least some dude's blog) somewhere--there were plenty of cameras out, so I didn't bother to take any pictures.

The one thing that really changed the mood of the ceremony, though, was the presence of subtitles. Oh, the subtitles were welcome enough, but evidently the C-SPAN employee in charge of subtitles was an idiot, and he comically flubbed several lines.

When Dianne Feinstein said that this was a "real and necessary change," the subtitles read, "real unnecessary change."

Better yet, when Rick Warren (boo) said that "Dr. King and a great crowd of witnesses are shouting in heaven," the subtitles read, "... witnesses are shopping in heaven." Now, that's just messed up. I don't understand how anyone could mishear that phrase in that way.

Consider the following shampoo for sale on Amazon:

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So, there's a great interview with Palin here. It's not what she says that's so great, it's the setting. It took me a while to figure out what that guy in the background was doing, but once I did it was funny. I particularly enjoyed the reporter's question around 1:15 into the video.

I saw this book in the bookstore:



Um, it was on the discount shelf, fortunately. But that suggested other titles that need to be written:

"Ghost-Busting for Dummies"
"Chicken Soup for the Disembodied Soul"
"Warlocks Are from Mars, Witches Are from Venus"
"Voodoo and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

Pandora.com just played the song "History" by Funeral for a Friend, and I had a funny mis-hearing moment.

The song really goes, "I don't care about your sweet scent or the way...."

I heard, "I don't care about your sweet centaur...," which is frankly much more awesome.

Dude, Wikipedia has the strangest things. I mean, I guess it makes a certain amount of sense, but I'm still pretty amused by the list of soups. Now that's not something you'll find in Brittanica.

You may be aware that McCain has been sticking his tongue out lately. For instance, at the last debate, there was this odd moment:



Well, people caught another one, and managed to caption it beautifully:

Perhaps you've heard of lolcats (funny cat pictures with often unfunny misspelled captions) or PostSecret (people's anonymously posted dark secrets). It turns out that someone has made a marvelous sarcastic combination of the two with lolsecretz. It looks like it's not active anymore, but it's full of great posts.

For instance,there's this one (hotlinking the image unfortunately doesn't work).

I'm not exactly sure what makes them so great, but they're this combination of funny, sad, touching, and with a hint of believability thrown in. I'm impressed.

There are so many other good pictures:


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On the politicartoons group, weswilson posted a link to this set of political Magic cards someone wrote. It's awesome, particularly if you've played Magic. I am amazed.