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If you are a man, then I can pretty much guarantee that this fantastic little video of an amazing palm-sized mini-cannon will bring great joy to your day. Go ahead and try not to applaud as it obliterates various household objects: If you are a woman then it will probably make you wonder, once again, [...]

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Discographies: your favorite band sucks

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

Sometimes good things come in small packages. Such is the case with the Discographies Twitter feed, “a definitive guide to an artist’s body of work (studio albums only) in 140 characters.” It’s pretty amusing. Here’s a sample: Rage Against The Machine: 1-3 (thud-thud! sqwee!) Noam Chomsky, motherfuckers! (sqwee!); 4 carbon footprint reduced by recycling old [...]

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More on jokes and success through failure

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

Only a few hours after my last post about joke brainstorming, I found myself reading this interview with Ira Glass, where the host of This American Life makes a similar point about success through failure (emphasis below is mine): I had this experience a couple of years ago where I got to sit in on [...]

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MTV is no longer music television

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

MTV has stopped pretending they still show music, removing the words “Music Television” from their logo. Of course, MTV these days has about as much to do with music videos as AT&T has to do with telegraphs (that’s what the second ‘T’ stands for). But as with AT&T, the initials will stay the same for [...]

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The Daily Show on Chat Roulette

Monday, March 8th, 2010

You’ve heard of Chat Roulette, right? It’s the site that let’s you chat via webcam with strangers around the globe. Since it’s totally unfiltered, I’m sure you can guess at this scheme’s problems number one through eight hundred: dongs, dongs, and more dongs. This Daily Show segment on Chat Roulette is one of the funniest [...]

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