December 30, 2005

Friday permalink

Family Finds Raw Meat Instead Of iPod Inside Sealed Box

tender This is possibly the worst ad campaign by the Meat Industry Association of America ever. Back in 2000, they dropped meat products from helicopters all over Manhattan, and last year, they put raw meat under every seat at the Super Bowl. This has to stop.

Chart of the Michigan/Nebraska final play (.pdf)

If they drew all of the Nebraska sideline players, it would look like a big, delicious plate of spaghetti.

“Brownie, you’re doing a heckuva job” voted Dubya’s most memorable phrase of 2005

My fave was “Those who enter the country illegally violate the law”, but 2005 was kind of a slow year, compared to “Fool me once…” and other classics of the past.

Related: dubyaspeak.com

Illinois basketball fans duped by really bogus tickets

Not only were there no seats listed on the tickets, but each had “Illinios” on there twice, and there are no seats in the arena even close to the $50 face value. As if it wasn’t bad enough watching your national runner-up turn into a practice squad in the off-season, you lose 50 bucks and don’t even get to see them play.

Best Names in College Basketball

Those are pretty good, but these are better.

News — Posted by: chris @ 2:29 pm

WordPress 2.0 Sucks permalink

I just upgraded to WordPress 2.0 and of the new features, I’ve disabled the rich editor, hacked the toolbar, and I’m trying to hack the new, horrible upload feature so that it actually works the way I want it to.

wordpress 2.crapBasically, the new inline uploading is pissing everyone off, including me. It’s useless. Do not freaking upgrade. Arrggghhhh.

General — Posted by: chris @ 11:27 am

For Those of You at Work Today permalink

much, much hotter than david brinkley

Pics — Posted by: chris @ 9:15 am

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