Burn of the Day
August 27th, 2008
Archive for August, 2008
This may just have to be a new feature… when I can find good ones that is.
Governor Paterson from New York state gets the burn of the day with this remark:
“If [McCain is] the answer, then the question must be ridiculous.”
Oh Snap!
The best in sweded videos, just for you!
If you only have time for one, the trailer for the Dark Knight, acted by kids.
The "Clever girl" scene from Jurassic Park.
and finally, a scene from Star Wars: A New Hope
This is my prediction of Obama’s VP announcement:
Obama has an event scheduled in Springfield, IL to show off the VP and he’ll be like, "You want to know who it is?" and pulls out a phone and types it out and hits send.
Beeps and buzzing fill the audience and a roar starts to move through the crowd as people read the text message. As the crowd comes to a fever pitch, Obama smiles and the VP comes parachuting in or does something pedestrian like come out from behind a curtain.
The question then becomes, how do they get the person out from the surveillance that the media has on the "short list"?
Its not someone on the shortlist.
8/24 Addendum: Darn you Andrea Mitchell. Darn you for spoiling my plan!
While its hella-amusing that McCain doesn’t even know how many houses he owns, I would have rather they’d gone after McCain’s desire to reinstate the draft. Or inability to listen to a soldier’s mother’s question and properly parse the words in order to properly disagree… you know.. whichever.
Let’s go to the videotape!
Also, while Obama and McCain keep trying to say that the other one wants to raise your taxes and circling around each other, all we needed was this handy chart from the Tax Policy Center and published by the Washington Post.
And finally, Obama selects his running mate!
I’ve always wondered… Why doesn’t the Kool-Aid man shatter when he smashed through a wall with his trademarked ‘Oh, YEAH!’?
The first part of the answer: "Firstly, because he’s made of pyrex."
The future is coming. They’re actually working on warp drives and laser weapons are already being tested.
Its one thing to be taught that lightning seeks out the easiest path down to the ground and its quite another to see it in slow motion. Thanks Today’s BIG thing!
On these internets, there is a site named "Those Aren’t Muskets!", your standard "ambitious young comedy troupe with nothing to lose and everything to prove." As is often the case!
I submit for your approval, two samples of their work:
- Damn You, Batman! Commissioner Gordon has some harsh words for The Batman.
- Star Trek Rap: Resistance is futile. All beats will be assimilated.
I find NBC’s commitment to the Olympics to be great simply because they are going all out. My TiVo informed me that we now have an Olympic Soccer and Olympic Basketball channel, in HD no-less, as well as the coverage on NBC HD, USA HD, Universal HD, CNBC HD and I think there’s some other ones as well… Bravo maybe?
Combine this with their website and the Olympics On The Go site for Windows Media Center users and there’s just a myriad of ways to watch the different events going on!
I have to recommend the Men’s 4×100 freestyle if you didn’t catch that and the highlights of the USA vs China basketball game to get a taste of the pain that the "Redeem team" is going to inflict this year.
Top gear top tip: When you pick a video, make sure to click the "Enlarge Player" option because that’s how you get access to the Picture-in-picture, highlights and "live video control room" which really make it easy to keep track of your particular sport.
Thanks to Metafilter, I now know what happens at the American Library Association’s national conference… Book Cart Drill Team Championships.
Here are the winners of the 2008 contest, the Santa Monica Public Library "Well Stacked Scibrarians" and their Thriller-centric routine.
Also interesting but less rocking, a story from a show called "How Buildings Learn", based on a book by the same name about the evolution that buildings go through as people live and work in them.
This particular story is about The Oak Beams of New College, Oxford where you learn what happened when the oak beams in their Great Hall were discovered to be full of beetles some 500 years after its construction. I won’t give away the ending, but its fairly smart.
Schrodinger’s Wolfman would be a good band name…
Oh, and mini golf is awesome.