I Know Michael Phelps' Secret

He's not an alien. He's not from the future. His secret is simply this: He figured out how to extract the frog suit from Super Mario Bros 3!

Ha! :-)

Mario + Beatbox + Flute = Teh Win

I want to give you all my money.



I love stuff like this. :-)

Cuil is a Terrible Search Engine

That is all.

The Constitution Dies Today?

This Digg story has over 1000 diggs (within the first 24 hours) and it still has not hit the front page of Digg. What gives?

(It references this article at The Seminal)

Even Michael Arrington at Techcrunch posted about this story. Go to the link and Digg it, and Digg this one while you're at it.

They say "All good things must come to an end." For examples of good things that end, I tend to think of things like a relaxing holiday weekend, or an amazing tennis championship match.

Not THE FREAKING UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. Not AMERICA ITSELF.

Some have already given up hope. From the Digg comments:

"RIP America, the failed experiment only took 200 years, to fold into Fascism. To bad you were only fearful of Communism, and did not keep an eye out for Fascism."

"Everyone allowed their rights to be taken away due to being afraid years ago, this is no surprise and there is no turning back."

Something's gotta change, people. Is it too late?

Christian the Lion

Christian the Lion was raised by two men in a house in London but when he got to big they released him into the wild.This is what happened when they went to visit Christian in the wild.

Brevity

A co-worker of mine has a desktop calendar with a daily comic called Brevity. Each day, three of us gather around and rip the previous day's comic off, and read the new one.

This is my favorite one, so I couldn't help but share it here. :-)

The End of the Internet

Yesterday, I came across a story on Digg.com. When I read it, the story had a few hundred diggs (a digg is a positive vote, which signifies how popular a story is).

The story now has over 10,000 diggs.

Why such urgency?

Because the Internet itself is on the verge of changing dramatically. In a bad way.

2012: The Year The Internet Ends

From the article:

Every significant Internet provider around the globe is currently in talks with access and content providers to transform the internet into a television-like medium: no more freedom, you pay for a small commercial package of sites you can visit and you'll have to pay for seperate subscriptions for every site that's not in the package.

Can you imagine? It goes on to explain a very grim outlook that will naturally and inevitably emerge:

Almost all smaller websites/services will disappear over time and multinationals who are used to using big budgets to brute force their content into every media outlet will finally be able to approach the internet in the same way.

And now today, Time Warner announces a load of garbage, covered on GigaOm and TechCrunch.

[Time Warner Cable] has set up a pricing plan that ranges from $29.95 a month for something I’d call “barely broadband” at 768 kilobits per second with a 5-gigabyte monthly cap to $54.90 per month for 15 megabits per second and a 40-gigabyte cap. Overage fees will be $1 per gigabyte, and customers will be able to monitor their bandwidth consumption via the company’s web site.

This is just terrible. I agree with Michael Arrington--I usually dislike government intervention, but monopolies are the exception. This CANNOT go down.

Another reason I'm voting for Obama.