Classic piece from The Onion.

As the nation approaches the one-year anniversary of the Super Bowl XXXVIII tragedy, an FCC study shows that millions of U.S. children were severely traumatized by the exposure to a partially nude female breast during the Feb. 1, 2004 halftime show.

“Mommy has dirty chest bumps,” said a 5-year-old boy quoted in one of the thousands of case studies compiled by the FCC. “She’s like the bad lady on TV. I’m afraid Mommy will take off her shirt and scare everyone. I hate Mommy.”

Full article on The Onion.

Mega-cool flash game, Chain Reaction. Click once to set off an explosion and try and make as big a chain reaction as you can. My highest was 47 in a single click.

Chain Reaction. Thanks Tim.

You don’t fuck with the Jesus, man!

YAY! Another reason why The Big Lebowski is lord of all films.

Swearing Jesus.

This New York city guy pledges to visit 1000 bars in 2005. So far he’s up to 135. What a hero.

Now, for the last couple of years, I have had it in my head that I could have a drink in 1000 different bars within a year. I have discussed this with my wife, who thinks I am crazy, and she has agreed to support me in my endeavor.

I have also rejoined a health club and am going to prove that my tour of the bars can be completed while maintaining, and even improving, my overall physical well-being.

My journey will begin January 1st, 2005. I will keep you up-to-date on my progress on this BLOG.

1000 Bars. (via.)

Hurray for progress, check out this story on a new holograph machine. These guys (their site was down when I tried it) have apparently made the ‘heliodisplay’ which does something clever with intaking air, altering it, sending it back out and then shooting lasers at it to make a 3d hologram. Sounds a bit mad for sure, but has The Korea Times ever lied to you before?

Science Fiction Becomes Reality With New Holograph Machine @ The Korea Times. (via.)

Nice-ish flash game, run and kill. Use the arrow keys to deflect their shots and kill your attackers.

Run and Kill. (via.)

In light of the recent basketball finals in Ireland, this game seems fitting.

Slam Dunk. Click mouse to play.

In a further update to the VW Polo suicide ad, Volkswagon have filed criminal proceedings against the makers of it, Lee and Dan.

In a statement, Lee and Dan said, “The ad got out accidentally and has spread like wildfire. It wasn’t meant for public consumption. We think the spot reflects what people see in the news everyday, and in this instance the car is the hero that protects innocent people from someone with very bad intentions. We’re sorry if the ad has caused any offense.”

Link to article on WorldNetDaily. (via.)

Looks like things went well. Resistance wasn’t as heavy as expected and early reports say as much as 60% may have got out and vote. Though you already knew that. So lets look at some Iraq blogs on it.

The People have Won. (Iraq the Model.)
The Best Eid I ever had. (Free Iraqi.)
Hold your Head up High, you are Iraqi (Healing Iraq)
Suicide Bombers V. Suicide Voters (The Mesopotamian)

30 people dead wasn’t exactly the bloodbath that was expected. So is this the start of something much bigger? Can the American policy be justified? Does it matter that it was all based on lies if the end result is a good one?

The U.S. Air Force is playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse with Iran’s ayatollahs, flying American combat aircraft into Iranian airspace in an attempt to lure Tehran into turning on air defense radars, thus allowing U.S. pilots to grid the system for use in future targeting data, administration officials said.

The flights, which have been going on for weeks, are being launched from sites in Afghanistan and Iraq and are part of Bush administration attempts collect badly needed intelligence on Iran’s possible nuclear weapons development sites, these sources said, speaking on condition of strict anonymity.

Interesting. But there’s no hard evidence that the above is true.
Full story on World Peace Herald. (via.)

As in, I’d have sex with a hamburger. In a moronic twist of advertising trying to be hip and down with American youth McDonalds adopted the ‘i’d hit it’ saying (which as anyone who’s been reading the internets these last few years will know, means ‘I’d have sex with her/him’) for their McDonalds online ads. Urban Dictionary on I’d hit it:

1. I’d Hit it
Vernacular, commonly used by males, meaning, “I would like to have sexual relations with that female.”
“Wow, she’s stacked! I’d hit it!”

Funny. Link to World Champion blog post about this with pics. (via.)

Iraqi Elections today - and there is hope; fingers crossed that enough of the country comes out to vote and the resistance is limited. Google news is your friend.

Wow.

The Sand Traveler is a rendering of 1,000 traveling particles, each in pursuit of another. Over time, patterns of travel are exposed as sweeping paths of color.

You can just look at the cool pics or run the java applet and watch one being created in real time.
Sand Traveler

Oh I don’t care about the prime directive! We gotta go beyond Warp factor 9… to Warp Factor Loooooooove!

This seems to be part of some larger film called Auto Destruct thats to be shown at Sci Fi London, a convention at the start of February. But I’m not digging any further into this after seeing that video.

Warp Factor Love

The classic clip from This is Spinal Tap.

These Go To Eleven. (via.)

Lovely little flash game; Ant City, use your giant magnifying glass to fry people and vehicles. Also check out Channel 4’s nice game chart where theres loads of games to try.

Ant City (via.)

Fantastic art exhibition. 4 Artists, 2 in New York and 2 in Belfast sent this one book to each other in random order over a period of 36 weeks, putting some art on each new page.The result is a very nice looking exhibition and you can browse through all the pages of the book at the site. You can even read or listen to short artist commentary on each image.

www.lookatbook.com (via.)

Nice error message generated when Internet Explorer tried to access ‘the other side’ or something.

Taken from here. (via.)

A new wiki for recipes, its tag line is ‘A Global Cookbook.’ You’ll find loads of interesting stuff here. Like Cheesy Grilled Cheese Sandwiches.

Wikipes. (via.)

This must have taken an awful long time to make. Star Trek TNG parody video. It’s funny in parts. NSFW.

Gack Trek. (via.)