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Spamolympics Day 3 Spam Count: 235

This is an excellent write-up of the “deteriorated future” design elements in Mike Judge’s “Idiocracy” - from “Fuddruckers” to “Haulin’ Ass and Gettin’ Paid.”

SpeedCluster — addicting Flash game — try to make “Solitaire-like” runs with cards..the more runs you make the more points you get and bonus time.

“Esc” — [...]

For GB and others that are unfamiliar — presenting the fainting goats.

Bi-pedal dog found This is how I believe all dogs walk when humans aren’t around.

On Sunday, the first event of the first annual Spamolympics began, (it always begins on the last Sunday in February I’ve decided) an event created by Greg G. and myself [...]

Friday night, Greg G. (back from a cross-country roadtrip + flight to China), Brian J. and Rob W. and I shared nachos and adult beverages at Old Town’s “Austin Grill” discussing such wide ranging topics as online dating, fainting goats, “snack” culture, real estate ‘games’, Latin American waitresses and Jack Bauer style interrogation. Post-Grill we [...]

Carrie made the awesome discovery that we own a jar of Peter Pan peanut butter that falls under the recent ConAgra recall order. and currently being tracked by the Centers for Disease Control… we nearly finished the jar before the discovery and fortunately we are a salmonella free household… thanks to our [...]

So we passed this massive building (and later saw this truck) in Boston that looks to be a combination furniture store and IMAX theater? If anyone is familiar with the area, please offer up any info… but looking through Boston movie listings you can see the IMAX version of “Happy Feet” or [...]

What I was hoping to hear when I walked into the place was the theme song on a loop but the only music playing was OAR, Barenaked Ladies and covers of 80’s theme songs…I was also hoping for a studio audience to laugh at my jokes. The bar, formerly known as The [...]

MZ is on hiatus today in sunny, tropical Bourasland, Maine and will return tommorrow to the martyz.com studios. In the meantime, enjoy the beatboxing floutist perform the Inspector Gadget/Axel F medley:

These gloves from Marmot(TM) are bad ass for you iPod lovahs and cold-weather hatahs.
You know how you have to TAKE OFF your gloves if you wanna move your iPod wheel, (as it was cleverly designed to only respond to human touch) — not with these bad boys.. they have some weird Jetson-like Jetferson-like thing called [...]

British actress Michelle Ryan will be the new Bionic Woman. Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch. Na-na-na-na-na-na-na. (That was the sound of her punching someone then jumping over a wall.)

Last night, C and I hit up “100 King” in Alex-town for V-Day — veddy veddy tasty. They even had a jazz floutist. Rock. You can’t rock V-Day properly without [...]

A couple inches of sleet, snow and freezing rain dumped on DC paralyzing the city… but not QUITE enough to keep me home. I was thinking about driving in, then was like “Mmm… nah” after nearly wiping out on my deck’s stairs. Although, granted, on a sunny day in July that’s just as likely [...]