The fun thing is that both Better Book Titles and Sword and Laser are reading this as their book club pick. It’s an amazing book, you really should read it!
I’m back from two weeks away, and back to the blog. I’ll be posting more updates soon, as well as a short update about my trip to Maryland/Delaware, but in the meantime, enjoy all of this:
First up, a video from NASA about watching the Northern and Southern Lights from the International Space Station, absolutely beautiful!
Happy Monday everyone! Let’s see what we have today:
First up, this ad aired only in Canada during the Super Bowl, but I really like it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0qZYqdsYAg
Interesting ad from Copyranter:
What a strange caveat.
Lego is releasing LotR sets, and I’m super excited for them, as well as the inevitable video games. Check it out here.
Amazing post from Literally Unbelievable:
I still need to see Thor and Captain America, but here is the preview for Joss Whedon’s The Avengers, and I’m already making plans to go see it:
Another ad from Copyranger, kind of awesome, would be cool to see this run in City Paper:
I love the toast to Jared in this:
And this ad has been making its rounds, I think it’s fairly well done (or at least a good idea, the art needs some work), although a objectifying to women, I hope there’s a male counterpart in the campaign:
And finally, every presentation you’ll sit through, ever:
Quick update for everyone, let’s see what I’ve rounded up this time:
First up, if you’ve seen the many parodies of “Shit Girls Say,” this is probably one of the more clever ones. Although not accurate (unless it’s a silent order of course):
Following yesterdays political news in Iowa, BuzzFeed has 25 people google’ing “Santorum” for the first time. Hilarity ensues.
One of the blogs I follow is UpADownA. And they posted this very beautiful image of an oatmeal stout (my favorite kind of beer):
Makes me want to to drink a New Holland Poet.
George Michael (the singer, not the Arrested Development character) is rightfully pissed…after Christian groups were praying for his death while he had pneumonia. Note to those groups: Jesus told us to love one another. I don’t remember anything about hate. You’re doing it wrong.
Smaller update today, but here’s what we got, hope you enjoy.
Huge news, URU is finally being released as open source! I don’t quite understand how it all works, but I’m very excited that the community will finally get to sink it’s teeth into Age Writing (and everything that comes with it).
I”m really afraid of public protests, but I think I could hold this sign up, it’s smart, witty and makes an good argument:
Have you been following all the trouble surrounding Spiderman: Turn off the Dark? George Takei is going to fix it all:
This is just amazing. I now kind of want to go bread shopping!
The new “Kingdom Tower” will be one mile high, twice the height of the Burj Khalifa. A normal elevator would take 12 minutes to reach the top from the bottom. And it was just given the go ahead to begin construction. Crazy! Take a look:
Couple quick things for everyone, more coming later.
First up, the definitive explanation of The Crown:
Hot on the heels of The Super Bowl, and really any professional sporting event:
We knew he was coming back, and here it is. I think the fondu (which for the life of me, and spell check, I can’t write out correctly) was a nice touch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R2cnxz27LI
This bottle sounds amazing, but I don’t really need any more, but maybe a reader is in the market. Also, if you don’t read UpaDowna, it’s a fun site!
Again, Bill O’Reilly is a moron. I can’t stress this enough. Check out the background here, a bunch of fun photos here, including my favorite:
Did you know that The Pope can’t donate his organs? Because that’s helpful. Can we stop calling Catholics pro-life soon?
All kinds of things to pass on this time. We’ll start with a new funeral for Edgar Allen Poe. Kind of cool that he’ll get a proper funeral. Still kind of creepy. Point of reference: my bamboo plant is named Edgar and my desk plant is named Poe (Allen was Cat’s bamboo who is dead), and Poe is the inspiration for my favorite beer, New Holland’s Poet.
Mika has a new video, this one for “Blame it on the Girls.” However, the second single from his new CD is going to be Rain. Unless this was already released as a single and I missed it, kind of strange to do a video for it, but still a lot of fun. I’ve desribed this song as half hip-hop, half flaminco. Check it out:
Just as the last of Polaroid film is set to expire, it is announced that it is coming back. I’m actually excited for this, the Polariod is very iconic, and I’m glad to see it come back from the dead.
So I’ve been looking for a new computer once Windows 7 comes out later this month. I’ve looked at HP”s and Gateway’s. Now I found a Sony I really like. Check it out here.
Looking for a new , fun blog that may at some point be bought by icanhazcheeseburger? Try Acronyms Sometimes Suck (ASS).
Here’s a cool graph charting job losses. Check out Pittsburgh, we were doing great until we literally got swallowed up by other cities.
An artist takes over the screens at a New York Best Buy. Pretty cool, I kind of wish this would happen more often.
I really liked this sketch from SNL last night:
And finally today, here is the original painting. You can hover your mouse over to get more information about all the people and objects in the piece. And here is the updated version, including a cameo by Emperor Palpetine!