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Holy mother of God — anyone have $42,500 they can lend me?

So Best Buy’s “Geek Squad” has been caught stealing customers photos, music and other files — and now the firings have begun.

Hilarious “topical” t-shirt

Go suck a robo-egg, Aibo. Meet “Big Dog”, a robotic “pack mule” being developed by the US military by a company [...]

The most awkward TV interview ever:

Friday night, Ally F hosted a tasty dinner, where I could’ve easily eaten my weight in herbed pasta chicken and shrimp. For dessert, a coconut sorbet with macademia cookie. For conversation, topics included the problems with health care, embarrassing locker room stories and moon ‘cycles’.
Saturday, Alison & Ron hosted tacos [...]

My favorite new flash game — Boomshine
Boomshine is a deceptively simple and maddeningly fun Flash game. The object is to create a chain reaction and burst as many bubbles as possible - it’s easy at first, but gets much harder at later levels.
Play it now!

Trouble at the spaceport — an explosion occurred yesterday at a [...]

Kanye West saw Zach Galifianakis do stand up in LA and asked him to do his music video for him — shot on his farm in North Carolina — here is the final product — weird and twisted — the Galifianakis way

I setup my sweet new router last night — I swear I’m gonna get [...]

So how about that 1.18.08 movie? There’s no title yet, just a release date and a studio-working title of ‘Cloverfield’.
It’s refreshing to see a different approach to big blockbuster movie marketing — granted, the movie could be doody but it’s got me interested.
A trailer ran before some showings of Transformers and is being shown now [...]

Last night was the CNN / YouTube debate where questions by YouTubers and others were put to all Democratic presidential candidates.
There’s one line that Obama said that I didn’t understand:
From CNN:
Obama, who is biracial, said, “You know, when I’m catching a cab in Manhattan — in the past, I think I’ve given my credentials.”
What [...]

This weekend C & I took the train up to NYC on Saturday AM for Mike & D’s Engagement Bash at Lolita Bar. After all the tallies were made, we both saw approximately 1,275 people reading the new Harry Potter book on the way up and back.
Music for the journey: The Greencards (Viridian), [...]

Holy crap, “The State” is finally coming to DVD this fall. A 5-disc box-set of ALL the episodes including commentary.
I wanna dip my balls in it.

Ben & Jerry’s is coming out with a Simpsons themed ice cream flavor, “Duff & D’oh-Nuts” for ONE DAY ONLY to Springfield, Vermont, the winner of the Springfield-iest town in [...]

Very cool tour of a sushi bar and its patrons around midnight in Tokyo — from the point of view of sushi.
I can totally see some band ripping this off and making it into a music video.

C’s surprise wedding DeLorean makes the USA Today Pop Candy blog.

Virgin America begins selling tickets in the U.S. [...]

No honeymoon in the Caribbean is complete without the obligatory drunken karaoke at the beach side bar. I performed Jeff Healy’s “Angel Eyes” at Iggie’s at Bolongo Bay in St. Thomas — “performed” may not be the right word to use here. “Belted” “Destroyed” Those are probably more accurate. But “Angel Eyes”, a staple [...]