Another great parody newcast by The Onion.
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Gap Unveils New ‘For Kids By Kids’ Clothing Line
Category: humour
robots with weapons = progress
I’ve cautioned that robots will take over the Earth.
In fact, Battlestar Galactica may foretell the future. The Cylons are yet taking baby steps:
The bad news: the U.S. military has commissioned a robot helicopter equipped with a rifle capable “of tracking and killing a particular individual.” The good news: the “particular individual” could be Geraldo Rivera.
And in what it calls an effort to “ease tensions,” South Korea is moving ahead with plans to post robot sentries along its border with the North — because really, nothing eases tensions between two historic rivals quite like the deployment of robots equipped with night-vision sensors and machine guns that open fire at the slightest hint of movement.
… The big hit of the recent RoboBusiness Conference in Boston was the unveiling of the Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot, or BEAR, from Vecna Robotics. This robot has a balancing system that allows it to crouch and race across a battlefield at up to 35 km/h to retrieve a wounded soldier and bring him to medics, before going back to fetch the four other soldiers it ran over and crushed while saving the first guy.
Macleans.ca – Canada – Opinions | Ladies and gents, I present to you: the apocalypse
Bush Is Back! – Colbert gleeful
It’s getting easier and easier to watch Colbert and Jon Stewart clips on the internet.
Newscloud.com is the best yet.
These are legal clips from Comedy Central.
Here’s a sample:
Bush Is Back! – The Colbert Report – NewsCloud.com
too busy to exercise
The last 2 weeks have been terrible for my own exercise.
Did get out on the bike for 3hrs today.
Randy Glasbergen
Rick as local cable Access TV commentator
One of my favourite movies is the first Wayne’s World. Mike Myers and his nerdy pal Garth (Dana Carvey) are “teens who live at home and have their own low-rent cable-access TV show in Aurora, Illinios, in which they celebrate their favorite female movie stars and heavy-metal bands.”
This past week-end I lived Rick’s World.
One minute I was a volunteer Floor Manager at the Canadian Gymnastics Championships in Regina — the next, called up to the VIP mezzanine, suddenly moderating a live-to-tape 3hr broadcast of the Finals.
(Pretty boys like Bart Conner and myself are often asked to be TV sport commentators.)
I had a number of expert assistants in each of the gymnastics disciplines. Even Olympic Floor Champion Kyle Shewfelt stopped by for a chat.
What I like about cable TV is that it’s unscripted and irreverent. The more blatantly amateur and “real” the coverage, the more I appreciate it compared with professional Network TV.
Now that I am a celebrity of the Canadian gymnastics media elite, I’d like to thank the little people: athletes, coaches, judges and volunteers without whom there would be no local cable TV coverage.
Bad on those jealous few who complained I disappeared completely from the Floor after being called upstairs.
more random photos from Nationals 2007 – flickr
STOP Vegetable Cruelty
The Vegetable Rights Militant Movement (VRMM) is a nationally active, grassroots, vegetable liberation and defense organization. … it does all that it can to stop people from torturing, killing, humiliating, and ultimately eating vegetables and fruits. …
Fruits and vegetables have been victims of cruelty throughout all recorded history. Humankind’s so-called advancement into agriculture was also it’s moral demise. Once people began farming crops they sold their souls to the god of violence.
STOP the madness. Become a fruitarian today!
Diet Coke PLUS – now even healthier
The best thing to happen to food since they fortified Cap’n Crunch.
The GOOD NEWS is that Diet Coke is now “health food”.
Diet Coke Plus was introduced in April 2007 in select areas for test marketing.
Each 8-ounce serving of Diet Coke Plus provides 15% of the daily value for niacin and vitamins B6 and B12, and 10% for zinc and magnesium.
The BAD NEWS is that Diet Coke Plus tastes like health food. Yuck.
Pepsi, always the bridesmaid when it comes to marketing, will call their competitor “Tava”. What?
video – stop Stephen Colbert
We’re putting Stephen Colbert on notice. For almost a year, his ceaseless falsiness–disguised, shamelessly, as truthiness–has gone unchallenged.
Stephen Colbert: Stop the Falsiness
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Rick McCharles 
