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I have got to see Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam

Here’s where the movie goes so far beyond Earth adjectives that it kicked the ass off my face. Darth Vader appears on a hill and blasts at Luke with lasers while he jumps from trampoline to trampoline in the center of a field of yellow smoke grenades. For two minutes, there is a cloud of zero visibility while randomly alternating sound clips from Flash Gordon are mixed with random sections of the Indiana Jones song. It’s amazing. When the smoke clears he’s tearing the giant red monsters in half at the waist, chopping their heads off and kicking his foot through their chests.

Flooble looks to be a great source for all things puzzling and logical. I could blow hours working through some of those problems.

Sweet:

ultimately, as my brother nam aptly put it, it’s a “poor man’s official james bond megalomaniacal super-villian world domination mission control video wall”.

Link lifted from here. As was the one right below this one, and don’t think I didn’t give serious consideration to stealing that exploding penis link as well. There’s just all kinds of linky goodness over on Gaby 407.

I don’t know why SimonSwears makes me laugh so much, but at some point the absurdity of it just overwhelmed me. You may not want to play it around your boss or your children or anybody who doesn’t have the sophisticated sensibilities of a 13-year-old boy.

More than half of the people in the US currently have a cell phone (cite). Now here’s what I want to know — How the hell did they all decide which one to get?

Is there anybody out there who has a recommendation for somebody who will use practically no talk time, but may use a fair amount of data services, particularly WAP? more…
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So, This is the second link I’ve blatantly stolen from K10K tonight, but what the hell. Jen Spectacular’s site is so charming and cute it will likely make your pancreas bleed. Very nicely done.

I’ve always wondered why JPEGs that are saved out of Photoshop using “Save As” seem to result in flaky behaviors when uploaded to a web server. Thanks to Steven Frank, I know. Now, what’s that XML doing in the file to begin with?

Update: I should have scrolled down to look at the comments on the linked entry. They do explain what the XML is doing there (application specific metadata and comments). Doesn’t change the fact that “Save As” produces spotty results for me when uploading JPEGs to web servers though.

I just wanted to tell the unfortunate soul who was forced to deal with my disgusting snot drenched napkin after I left the restaurant tonight that I am very, very sorry. You see I had no way of knowing that your Spicy Penne Arabiata came marinated in tear gas and pepper spray prior to serving. I held it together for as long as I could, but I am only one man. If it’s any consolation, I’m sure that the heartburn that is currently punishing me will keep me up through at least 3 lifetimes.

Man, what was I even thinking ordering a plate of bread? I feel completely gross right now.

What!?

American citizens working for al-Qaida overseas can legally be targeted and killed by the CIA under President Bush’s rules for the war on terrorism, U.S. officials say. [link]

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What the hell happened to my country? No, how the hell did this happen to my country? Didn’t we used to be the good guys?

How is it that I saw all of the crap Gen X movies like Singles and Reality Bites back in the mid-90’s, but somehow missed a great little film like Kicking and Screaming? Granted it’s kind of hard to buy all of the stars as 22 when they look and act a lot more like they’re 32, but the writing is good, the acting is solid, and it has all of these freakishly absurd little touches that are happening in the background. So funny. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s totally worth checking out.

I also watched My Chauffeur tonight. What a blast from the past that was. I remember having such a crush on Deborah Foreman’s character in that movie. In retrospect she’s way too 80’s looking in her Madonna, wannabe get-ups, but man, her over-the-top, don’t take any guff or anything seriously personality still holds a lot of appeal.

And the classic lines in that movie:
“A blue woman with a blue dog […] I got 32,000 points now. All I gotta do now is find a one-legged nun walking a goat and I win”

“It’s been a 100 years since I’ve seen a good tittie.” “Ain’t no such thing as a bad tittie.” “The little bimbo hasn’t been here and hour, and all you hormone graveyards can talk about is nipples.” “Didn’t mention nipples.” “We were speaking of the tittie as a whole.”

“Madame, if you continue masturbating my driver, you are going to be a murder.”

They all lose a lot in typing them down, but I swear they’re all funny as funny gets in context.