Technically, the shelf-life for the video I'm about to post is incredibly short (at least the registering-to-vote part of it is) but it's still worth a watch. Google apparently corralled a bunch of high-wattage star types to put this PSA together urging people to vote. It's good enough, I guess. I'm probably not the target audience here seeing as I, like, vote and stuff. It also walks right up to the preaching-in-your-face line, and then takes one step across it.

I, for one, hope never to be chained to a bunkbed with a veciloraptor. Because it has been brought to my attention that if, by some fluke, I were chained to a bunkbed with a velciloraptor, I would only last one minute and six seconds chained to said bunkbed. At which point I would, presumably, perish, courtesy of the pointy bits of the veciloraptor. Which had also been chained to the bunkbed. (What I want to know is how long I would survive chained to a bunkbed with Mickey Rourke.)

That's right. Gravel. It's my new name. I think it suits me.

You know, Gravel. As in Gravel Palin. Or more specifically, Gravel Blood Palin. 

Are you jealous that I have a Palin name and you don't? Well, do not let envy eat you up from within ... that's, like, way unpatriotic. Instead, do what I did and check out the Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator to get your very one Palin moniker. Although I guarantee you that you won't get as awesome a Palin name as Gravel Blood. (A friend of mine was dubbed Hen Waffle Palin, which, to be sure, is rad. But there just isn't something right about having the name "Waffle" in an election season. It's worse than Hussein! Also, isn't Hen just a little, I don't know ... sexist? Maybe I'm reading too much into this?)

What's your Palin name?

Ready for a trip down memory lane? Check out this amazing internet meme timeline. Pretty much everything is there , from the dancing baby to "I Kiss You" to "All your base" to Numa Numa to lolcats. Be sure to click through to see things that may not pop out at your first. And then prepare to feel verrrrrry old. (Numa Numa was from 2004? FTW!?) Time flies when you're in the intertubes.

 What do you think? Any missing memes?

Supercollider hip hop! This is, like, nerdcore times a squillion.

"Antimatter is sort of like matter's evil twin,
because except for charge and handedness of spin,
they're the same for the particle and its anti-self.
But you can't store an anti-particle on any shelf,
'cuz when it meets its normal twin they both annihilate:
matter turns to energy and then it dissipates."

Thanks, CERN peoples, that explains everything. Literally.

Now. Must ... own ... MP3 ...

(props to BoingBoing -- and a million other people)

ZDNet launched a new blog today -- so now I'm going to blog about it, even though, technically, this blog hasn't launched yet, meaning you're reading this post somewhere in the FUTURE!!!! Awesome. How's it going there, anyway? Are you sitting in a hoverchair? I sure hope so!

Anyway, the metaphysical implications of blogging about something when your blog isn't even technically live yet is simply mind-bending. (For the record, my editors are making sure I'm not going to blog about anything that's going to get them arrested or blackmailed before they give me the keys to the Internet. I am pretty sure that last sentence isn't going to get my blog to go live any sooner, but it will explain to you, gentle reader, why I don't have many/any comments yet, but that will change once you start commenting. Right?).

 Where was I? OH YES. ZDNet. Here's their new blog: The Web Life. Today (which, by the time you read this, will be a distant tomorrow -- sorry to harp, but but that totally spooks me out. I might even be dead!) Andrew Mager posted this hi-larious video -- the iPhone arm! Welcome to the blog-o-tubes, Andrew. We'll be joining you shortly.

Dear Internet,

Would you like to know why I love you today? Today, I love you for e-MANcipate, "a project to accelerate the acceptance of male pantyhose as a regular clothing item."

I love you for the "illustrated male pantyhose wearing page," devoted to the amazing versatility of male pantyhose (not so versatile: the catalogue of male models willing to wear male pantyhose: I counted only one).

I love you for the true confession of the "32 year old, happily married father of two who is quite confident in my male gender identity, that has been wearing hose for the last couple months."

But what I don't understand, people of e-MANcipate, is this: for the love of all that is holy, how could you not call them mantyhose?

 

 

 

(via BuzzFeed)