Bush/Obama photo-morph

Judging by the current President’s decisions to continue with the many of the previous President’s policies , there is more truth to this photo series than some would be comfortable admitting.
Hattip: idiocracy
Also a housekeeping announcement, I have turned off comments for posts older than 240 days. I am doing this to control the endless spam, [...]

This would make a great T-Shirt!

Thanks to
idiocracy for the heads up. Though this poster is not yet “officially” endorsed by B.H.O.’s campaign, the art is being pushed as their own “symbol” by some off his strongest supporters. The poster itself remains really funny in either case.

One Nation, Under a New Obama Salute
If a Los Angeles creative agency gets its way, [...]

Heroes of the Writers Strike

So you are a Hollywood writer, and you find yourself on strike.
What will you do?

LA Times has more
hattip: LGF

Idiocracy – Tattoo

This was one of the funniest scenes in the movie…

One Horsepower Car … Literally One Horse!

By way of idiocracy and AutoBlog: Politech Presents The … Fleethorse!

One Horsepower Car … Literally One Horse!

idiocracy is asking if this idea is serious or satire. PoliTech says it’s seriously stupid!
But funny!
Here is the site: FleetHorse.com

The iZune!

Thanks Charles

DHS Hopes to Equip Police With “The Barf-Beam”

Via FOX:

Flashlight Weapon Makes Targets Throw Up

The handheld device using light-emitting diodes to emit super-bright pulses of light at rapidly changing wavelengths, causing disorientation, nausea and even vomiting in whomever it’s pointed at.

“There’s one wavelength that gets everybody,” says IOS President Bob Lieberman. “Vlad [IOS top scientist Vladimir Rubtsov] calls it ‘the evil color.’”

Dumber and Dumber-er: Sheehan to Challenge Pelosi

Posted by: Idiocracy

Sheehan Launches Pelosi Challenge
Anti-War Activist Cindy Sheehan Announces Plan to Challenge House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Sheehan, who turned 50 on Tuesday, stunned fellow anti-war activists in May by announcing that she would sell her 5-acre Crawford protest site. She said then that she felt her efforts had been in vain and that she had [...]

iPhone Magic

Via: The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs

Finnish court rules CSS protection used in DVDs “ineffective”

Via Oikeuden edessä and slashdot:

Finnish court rules CSS protection used in DVDs “ineffective”
In an unanimous decision released today, Helsinki District Court ruled that Content Scrambling System (CSS) used in DVD movies is “ineffective”. The decision is the first in Europe to interpret new copyright law amendments that ban the circumvention of “effective technological measures”. [...]

Seething the Light

Nuke is having fun at the hardware store.

Nike, Burger King , and now Feit Electric?

While perusing the website of recent commenter, Jon, my keen blogger’s instinct recoiled in horror, as I discovered a photograph of the GE Feit Electric flourescent light bulb which … wait for it … contains similarities to the arabic spelling of [...]

Cancel or Allow?

This is the first MAC vs. PC advert that is actually pretty funny.

The PC Guy is just more likeable than the MAC Guy.
Hattip: YaBlog!

Bill Gates is going to regret saying this

Bill Gates throws down the gauntlet!

Bill Gates Attacks Mac Security, Apple Ads

“We made it way harder for guys to do exploits,” said Mr. Gates. “The number [of exploits] will be way less because we’ve done some dramatic things [to improve security] in the code base. Apple hasn’t done any of those things.”

In another portion of [...]

Birthday Message Takes the Cake

Happy ERROR to you
It seems that you can email an order to Wegman’s bakery for cakes. Including the message you want on written your cake. The cake below was supposed to be a mix of English and Italian.

FTA:
This just takes the cake!

The email likely feeds directly into their computer that runs the food-grade equivalent [...]

Masterful Web 2.0 Social Engineering

How to Sign Up for GoogleTV Beta

UPDATE: GoogleTV Beta
Fun Stuff

“Think Big” How would you fix Xbox live?

1up has some interesting news regarding XBox Live…

How Would You Fix XBL?
Microsoft soliciting ideas, feedback for future updates.

You don’t often hear corporations asking their consumers for suggestions, but Microsoft’s done it once before with Xbox Live and they’re doing it again. Andre Vrignaud of the Xbox Live Platform Strategy team is asking Xbox users to [...]

How to destroy your enemies with Web 2.0: A five step plan

A funny social hacking plan using Web 2.0 … courtesy of Vallywag
How to destroy your enemies with Web 2.0: A five-step plan

With the social tools at your disposal, you can propose to your girlfriend with a $25 ad spot or call your local pizza place to say hi. Sure, you can be friendly. But wouldn’t [...]

Microsoft’s Zune Advertising Is Really Strange

This is a good example of what I like to refer to as “WTF??? Marketing”

The Year in Review; 2006 Top Ten Lists

It’s almost 2007, and who doesn’t like looking back at the previous year by perusing the various Top Ten lists? Here are some of my favorites…
From Wired.com we have the 9th annual presentation of the Wired News Vaporware Awards, their ode to the year’s top technology products promised, hyped and scheduled, but not delivered. Click: [...]

Politically Correct & Liability Free, Season’s Greetings

From PoliTech to all of you!

From me (“the wishor”) to you (“the wishee”), please accept without obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, politically correct, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, [...]

Microsoft CEO says Linux “uses our intellectual property”

Ballmer: Linux users owe Microsoft

In comments confirming the open-source community’s suspicions, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Thursday declared his belief that the Linux operating system infringes on Microsoft’s intellectual property.

Microsoft officials, including Ballmer, were mum on whether the Linux kernel, which is governed by the General Public License and takes contributions from programmers all around the [...]

Older gamer dissects the “Next-Gen” videogame offerings versus PC gaming

PS3 day! Read this great rant…

Screw you guys, I’m going home…

…or at least, I’m going home to my roots as a gamer. My first real gaming machine was a PC, and this whole “next-gen” console war is pushing me back that way, even though I have loved (and still do love) my original Xbox.

Downloadable Content? [...]

How the Democrats Stole the 2006 Elections

Just some random thoughts about hacked voting machines, “Fixing the Vote” and rampant Vote Fraud …
Vote Fixing as taught by Huffington Post with video describing exactly how to actually do it. Nice of Marty Kaplan and HuffPo to give the Dems step-by-step video instructions. It looks like those instructions were followed [...]

Banned by GooTube

Well one of my GooTube uploaded videos has been relegated to the bit bucket. And I didn’t even get a “strongly worded letter” from the GooTube management.
All Americans should be free to express themselves in song! Satire is a form of political expression and speech such as this should be protected, never suppressed or censored! [...]

Sexual Consent Form

This is funny…

I saw this at Glumbert first.
Here is the Sexual Consent Form for those who wish to play along at home!

Futbal Ballet

Who doesn’t think that all sports officials are subconsciously just like this one?!

Futbal (AKA Soccer)… not to be confused with Football.
On topic for this site? No.
Funny? Yes!

A photo of himself every day…

vallywag almost made me spray coffee all over my desk with this post…

A photo of himself every day — no really, you’ll like this one

Ahhh Internet in-jokes, how we love you

The recent popularity of “photo of me every day” projects (like the ones by Ahree Lee, Noah K, Jason, and others) inspired this clever video:
[...]

Whoops! iPods Ship With Virus

Some 5.5 gen iPods ship with Windows virus

This certainly isn’t amongst the new features that Apple has touted for their latest rev of iPods. It would seem that a ’small number’ of iPods shipped after Sept. 12, 2006 may be carrying a Windows virus by the name of RavMonE.exe. Apple says that less than 1% [...]

Happy 45th Birthday Message

Video of a message machine … with a nice birthday message for Bob.

Interesting mix of technology here…

YouTube Tags Political Video as “Inappropriate”

Wasting no time joining those champions of free speech, Google; YouTube has also now gotten into the business of censoring political speech. But they don’t limit the censorship to China.
First amendment? What’s that?
This video may contain content that is inappropriate for some users, as flagged by YouTube’s user community.
Well the video will make you [...]