The Smart Stitch is being hailed as a revolutionary garment factory that fits in the palm of your hand.
From The Onion.
Category: humour
Simpsons spoof Apple
I linked to this brilliant comedy clip before. It was taken down due to copyright violation.
However, I just learned that Hulu posts some of these clips legally on YouTube. This one will not be taken down.
Lisa finds heaven in Springfield’s new Mapple Store.
Hulu has already posted 158 clips like this from shows including Simpsons and Family Guy.
Write or Die
Garth — likely from his shiny new iPhone — sent me a link to a unique utility for writers.
Write Or Die: Putting the “Prod” in Productivity!
Write or Die is a web application that encourages writing by punishing the tendency to avoid writing. Start typing in the box. As long as you keep typing, you’re fine, but once you stop typing, you have a grace period of a certain number of seconds and then there are consequences.
…
Consequences:
* Gentle Mode: A certain amount of time after you stop writing, a box will pop up, gently reminding you to continue writing.
* Normal Mode: If you persistently avoid writing, you will be played a most unpleasant sound. The sound will stop if and only if you continue to write.
* Kamikaze Mode: Keep Writing or Your Work Will Unwrite Itself
* Electric Shock Mode: …
try it yourself on Dr. Wicked
1.9 days of The Great Eastern
I started listening to the famed CBC Radio Comedy series on Oct. 30th. And finished today, December 3rd.
That’s 45.6hrs of uninterrupted audio.
Wow.
What a fantastic show. I’m not sure what to play on my iPod any more. Anything else will be a let down.
My best memories from the original series had to do with the Legacies of Newfoundland’s Colonial Misadventure: Oougubomban Free State, a former African colony.
… Newfoundlanders are largely ignorant of the plight of our former colonial subjects, not least because our school system continues to suppress the ugly story of Newfoundland’s single, ill-advised colonial enterprise.
Our involvement in Oougubomba dates from 1927, when the British Prime Minister requested that the new Dominion of Newfoundland send troops to the Bomba region to put down tribal conflict that was threatening the interests of English and Ontarian betel-nut planters. Newfoundland’s then foreign secretary, Sir Peyton Osbourne, eager to prove that the new country had “a spot of vim”, and trying to divert public attention from the Furlong’s Confections corruption scandal that was rocking the Monroe government, sent the 4th King’s Own Jowls and Cavalancers Light up the River Bomba. …
read more – on The Great Eastern
It’s astonishing how little we know about Newfoundland history.
The Great Eastern was created and written by Mack Furlong, Ed Riche and Steve Palmer, and produced by Glen Tilley. This same team did a sequel …
Sunny Days and Nights:
… Paul Moth — out of a job as Great Eastern host and desperate for work — as interim host of cottage-country radio program on a CBC affiliate somewhere in Canada. …
I’ve downloaded those episodes.
IKEA now selling cars
Thanks Dana.
Obama getting a Peruvian Hairless?
In South America these beasts are popular tourist photo ops:
Of all pets, the Obama family may consider a Peruvian Hairless Dog to parade around the White House.
Last week Obama promised his children they would be getting a new dog, his criteria being that it was allergy-free and, as Obama himself said, “a mutt, like me.”
…Peru generously offered a four-month old Peruvian hairless dog named ‘Machu Picchu’ (nickname ‘Ears’) to Obama and his family …
only a little rust
1957 Classic – original – flickr – thebig429
The Great Eastern – best radio comedy ever
Billed as Newfoundland’s Cultural Magazine, The Great Eastern was an hour long summer replacement show on CBC Radio One for the first two seasons, and then became a half hour regular show for the next three seasons.
Rockin’ Downtown Rocktown Ronnie sent me a CD of the 1994 to 1999 broadcasts as MP3 files.
Fantastic.
I’ve just finished Season 1 and am enjoying it immensely. It’s as smart and sophisticated as The Daily Show, Colbert or Rick Mercer.
It’s a spoof of all lame, self-important local radio affiliates everywhere, propped up by tax dollars.
Paul Moth, the radio host, kept a blog during the production of The Great Eastern, it seems.
Happily, a fan named Gerry Porter maintains a website dedicated to the Great Eastern which includes a full archive of the shows. Episode 1, series 1 starts here if you want to check it out.
Or click the link to hear a sample “historical” clip from the show where the Mayor of St. Johns, NFLD surrenders the city to the Germans.
CBC Radio is too slow, fat and thick to make those classic broadcasts available on their own site. (Someone should parody that company.)
In 2004, the character of Paul Moth was put in a new CBC show called Sunny Days and Nights. Fired from the BCN, Moth gets a temporary job with fictonal CBC affiliate CBNR in the “cottage country” region of Ontario. … The series ran for only one summer.
The Great Eastern – Wikipedia
We miss you Paul!
what ex-Lehman Brothers i-bankers do now
Those guys who made such a good living dealing in bad loans.
What are they doing now?
FUNNY.
(via Consumerist)
Rick McCharles 