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DirecTV Profits Off of the Dead

I’d love to have been a fly on the wall in the DirectTV board meeting where they approved the brilliant idea of desecrating the memory of Chris Farley so that their company’s stock can rise a few points. Bonus to the artist formerly known as David Spade for going along with this.

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A Life Lived in the Rat Race

Leave it to the French to author the final word on Corporate Darwinism. “Switch” is a short film by Jean-Julein Pous and Pierre Prinzbach intended to convey “…a methaphysical thought about time. It’s the destiny of humanity through a character and its different choices, materialized by doubles of himself.”

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Words, Words, Words

Wordle: TMR
So this is pretty neat.

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Windows 7 Whopper

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For those of you who enjoy living vicariously through your computers, Burger King Japan has announced the limited release of the Windows 7 Whopper.

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Charming British Political Protest

Try as they might, British reformers are much too quaint and humble to really ruffle anyone’s feathers (nudge nudge) with their political attack ads.
Kudos to Wifey Duck for a remarkable Terry Jones impression.

Legolas Never Slayed a Dragon…

And you feel somehow shortchanged. Well, thanks to BioWare’s upcoming release, Dragon Age, you can finally satiate your desire for RPG dragon slaying in state of the art CGI. And you thought you still had some free weekends left in 2009…

Scam of the Week: Car Warranty


You know not to trust this man. But you may not know not to trust incoming mail that the state of New Jersey has enabled you to receive.

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Disgruntled German LARPer

This fellow claims to be a member of the “LARPen Braunschweig,” an elite core of German LARPers dedicated to upholding the code of chivalry amongst Live Action Roleplayers (AKA foam sword fighters) from those American “Olive Garden” LARPers, who live in far too much affluence to ever effectively channel the spirit of an ancient sack-donning viking berserker.

Daring to Doubt Vaccine Efficacy

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Professional skeptic and media rabblerouser, Bill Maher, willfully engaged the taboo this week when he expressed his doubts about the Swine Flu vaccine. Not surprisingly, his panelists reacted as if he suggested they eat a small child, live on set.

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Max Keiser: Dollar Tanking, Recovery Fictional

Favored populist economic hyperbolist Max Keiser was in top form this morning on France 24’s Face Off with Robert Parsons.

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