This music video, brought to you by Indonesian rock band, SIGIT (Super Insurgent Group of Intemperance Talent) reminds me a bit of Nick Cage’s Lord of War.

I know many would say that voice recognition has come into its own.  I know that use of a “speech-enabled system” saves companies money which OF COURSE means price cuts for us the consumers.

BUT I HATE IT!!!!

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As you can tell by recent Mep postings, baseball season is just starting to really heat up. In honor of this weekend’s inaugural Yanks/Red Sox series, here’s a strange fan made video from the Star Wars Universe…

Somebody needs to tell the creator that Vader’s mask isn’t an articulated mouth. That effect creeps me out.

Behold, the cleverest man in Major League Baseball. King of jugglers, fire eaters, tongue curlers, and eyelid flippers everywhere, Tim Wakefield has made his professional sports career out of a parlor trick.

Wakefield is a sports anomaly. An aging, average-build pitcher who subsists solely on the basis of a trick pitch that he has mastered. He has literally improvised his way from mediocre AAA first baseman, to MLB mainstay.

Wakefield achieves all of this by virtue of his knuckleball, a pitch that is flung via fingertip to achieve nearly zero ball rotation and use the surrounding weather conditions to determine its final location. And so he thrives pitching in the dreary, rainy, windy climate of Boston.

It’s a pitch that can baffle the most skilled and coordinated people in the world. It has been known to throw off the timing of an entire team for weeks after dealing with its bends and dives.

Needing only a mere flick of the wrist to release the knuckler, Wakefield has the ability to pitch every two or three days, more often than a normal hurler. Wake can pitch in any situation, foul up the timing of virtually any hitter, and compete in a World Series caliber rotation.

The knuckle flick has earned Wakefield tens of millions of dollars in his 17-year career. In other words, it’s the world’s most valuable stupid human trick.

Courtesy of the AP:

Man pretending to fall off bridge actually falls.

Go ahead and read the story if you want.  But really, does it even matter?

By far, my favorite episode of the Meth Minute series…

While I can’t embed it in the page like I usually do for you lazy internet folk, I’m going to recommend that you flip over to this interview:

Tremendous piece by Bill Moyers’ Journal on The Wire, The Drug War, the corruption of American ideals, and the inevitable end of the American Empire. It’s all in there. You will learn more from David Simon here than in any civics or business class you have ever taken. So, click over and grow your brain immediately.

Someone must have had this baby memorize hours of Jerry Falwell sermons. I honestly can’t tell any difference between the two. Highly impressive.

Okay, so I’ll admit it, I get most of my news from the Daily Show and whatever catches my attention on the front page of msn.com as I’m logging onto my email.

Big news is Miss California claiming she lost her title due to her anti-gay marriage answer during the Miss USA competition.  Well, I had to watch the clip, didn’t I?

Well, go ahead if you haven’t already.  You know you want to.

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Last week, I posted the viral sensation that was Billy-Bob Thornton’s tirade on a Canadian talk show. Today, a very insightful blog has extracted the subtext from the entire exchange and added it in closed-captioning form. Fun stuff…