Okay, since this would ostensibly allow me to carry bottles of (gasp!) drinking water onto planes again, can I get a fucking “amen” for the following course of action? 1. Poison Bobby Brown’s stash of happy dust 2. Send Whitney Houston to patrol the Pakistan-Afghanistan border on a donkey Click for enlightenment.

Who has less of a clue, the author, or the subject of this article: Sony buys video-sharing site by Gary Gentile “Media companies, including Sony, have begun to offer content side by side with videos shot by amateurs on sites such as MySpace, Guba and BitTorrent.” Say whaaaaat? “…allows people to place those videos on social networking sites such as MySpace and Friendster using its peer-to-peer network.” And if that doesn’t work out, they can always try getting bundled on an AOL software CD… This is my favorite bit, though: “Sony could also discover new talent on the site, Lynton said.” Maybe they can find a whole new board of…

If you haven’t seen Damn Interesting blog yet, you should go check it out – it’s one of my favorite reads at the moment. Recent updating has been slow, but there are a few real gems in the archives. Today’s post on Operation Acoustic Kitty was sad, and awesome, and hilarious: “They slit the cat open, put batteries in him, wired him up. The tail was used as an antenna. They made a monstrosity. They tested him and tested him. They found he would walk off the job when he got hungry, so they put another wire in to override that. Finally, they’re ready. They took it out to a…

Also found over on reddit: The World According to Ronald Reagan (map) Even in California, our whole class cried the day he got shot. I remember the principal’s voice over the PA system. “Ecotopia” sure has grown over the years…

Over at McSweeney’s: On the Implausibilty of the Death Star’s Trash Compactor (via reddit)

This is perhaps the most interesting Wikipedia entry I have ever seen: List of Unusual Deaths Most Notable: 892: Sigurd I of Orkney. Sigurd the Mighty conquered much of northern Scotland, which brought him into conflict with Maelbrigte of Moray. Sigurd defeated Maelbrigte in 892, killed him, cut off his head and strapped it to his saddle as a sign of triumph. As he rode, however, Maelbrigte’s tooth rubbed against Sigurd’s leg causing a wound which turned septic and Sigurd died of the poison. 1063: King Béla I of Hungary died when his tall wooden throne collapsed due to sabotage. 1327: King Edward II of England (to be later reincarnated…

Here’s a really cool implementation of Google Maps: incidentlog.com Some examples: Recent incidents in Los Angeles Bizarre incidents (“Assault with a yoyo” is a classic) Sex offenders in the state of California I chose examples close to home, but the site covers all of the US.

The most confusing terminology discussion I’ve ever read to the very end (because it has to do with food, of course!): If an English biscuit is an American cookie, what is an American biscuit called in England? Hint: It’s neither a lorry, a brolly, nor a faggot. ………………. BONUS BAKED GOODS RECIPE: LINK “Fanny would never have a Spotted Dick unless it had a nice big blob of nice hot custard on it” Run, Dick, run!

Damn I posted a lot today. But there’s a link a reader sent me that made me laugh out loud: Go forth Uh-oh, that’s the second pug link in a week… Guess I’m turning pansy. Here’s a nasty joke to compensate for my self-perceived emasculation. (Check out the whole site that link’s from – hilarious!)