Pissing Contests

Over at a competing blog:



To whomever thinks he is the king, the prince or whatever of blogging, McGravitas is in effect and will take all titles one at a time or all at once.

Bitches! (Stupid Pundit Edition)

Aaron Goldstein thinks Tina Fey is not funny:

By this point, some of you might accuse me of not finding women funny. While I generally find women less funny than men the argument doesn't apply here.

Oh wait, that's from the end of the article! I should return to the start and deal with each of his very serious arguments one by one.

But look! Creamy Marshmallow-Peanut Butter Fudge!

Vandals!

And so many people rip off Wikipedia content that we get this:

Dude

Punishment

Via the wonderful Thers we discover that Sarah Palin has an opinion on the Israeli Pirate Adventure.

Palin should know about this Middle Eastern stuff. After all, she can see a Joe from her house.

Variance in Perceptions of Cool

Maybe There Won't Be a Tragedy

Mr. Protasiuk was the pilot of the plane that assassinated the Polish government:

“It’s going to be dreadful, we won’t be able to see anything,” a crew member said at one point.

Mr. Protasiuk was more hopeful. “Well, no, you can see the ground,” he said, six minutes later. “You can see something. Maybe there won’t be a tragedy.”

Experiments in Three-Dimensional Goat-Blowers

When Pancakes Attack

More News

Via LG&M there's a much more complete run-down of breaking news at Al-Jazeera.

Proportionality

Michael Rubin at the National Review:

One final note on proportionality: Fifteen “peace” activists dead is a tragedy, but they represent only one one-thousandth of the death toll of a French heatwave.

My math is not the best, but I'd say five French heatwaves may equal the wrong person getting a blowjob.

I Am Entertained.

A woman sues Google for giving her bad walking directions. This guy writes about it:

Why trust the machines when you can trust your own eyes, your own brain, your own basic sense of survival?

This philosophical question comes to mind after reading the tragic tale of a woman, her eyes, her brain, her BlackBerry, and her Google Maps.

According to an exhaustive analysis presented by Search Engine Land, Lauren Rosenberg decided to take a walk in Park City, Utah, on January 19, 2009.

I will try and ignore just how fundamentally un-American this act was in order to focus on some of the ensuing action.

Activism

News:

The latest developments on the overnight raid by Israeli commandos on the flotilla of Palestinian activists trying to break the blockade of Gaza to bring in relief supplies:

[...]

08:53 ET: The death toll among the activists stands at 10, though it is believed to be higher.

So...who's up for Talk Like a Pirate Day?

The TPM link is still updating as of 10:25am PST. Videos included.

Here Is Where The Vacation Went Wrong

Apropos of Nothing

From Plutarch's Life of Theseus:

As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect, that beyond this lies nothing but the sandy deserts full of wild beasts, unapproachable bogs, Scythian ice, or a frozen sea, so in this work of mine, in which I have compared the lives of the greatest men with one another, after passing through those periods which probable reasoning can reach to and real history find a footing in, I might very well say of those that are farther off: "Beyond this there is nothing but prodigies and fictions, the only inhabitants are the poets and inventors of fables; there is no credit, or certainty any farther."

The Greatest Trailer Ever*

*For fans of animated GIFs.

ALSO:

An interview with the director:

Q: The special effects of the birds look a little weak. Is that something you would have liked to have changed?

A: Let's put it this way. From a distance I think those eagles and vultures look pretty real. As they come a little closer, maybe a little shocking and terrifying. In the close-ups, something unique, something different, something you haven't seen before. The scene with the coat hangers, maybe; the animator, the kid who did that scene flaked out on me so I had to work with what I had. So yes, it could have been better. That's one thing I'd like to fix, but it's too late now.

It's Funny to Think

It's funny to think that a conservative would dedicate an enthusiastic and cheerful post to the Dead Kennedys. Well okay, it's not really about the band as much as about the song California Über Alles and the candidacy of Jerry Brown.

You better believe I bought that mp3 in about 5 seconds, by the way! Gonna wear that sucker out this summer…*

What's also funny is that the current governor of California is the son of an actual Nazi and has a thick accent because he is from Austria**, but there you go, the world is mysterious.

*Note also the kickback links through Amazon.
**Know WHO ELSE was born in Austria?

Zombie News

John Nolte attends a press event at which George Romero plugs Survival of the Dead. John Nolte is such an "unabashed George Romero fan" that in 1600 words he manages to quote his hero directly once for a grand total of 31 words.

THANK FUCKING GOD IT'S FRIDAY.

Dance of the Legless Orangutan