Links For Today

It’s an epidemic.

Can the man do nothing right? You would think it would be in his own best interest to get this one right.

Who would have ever thunk that it would get this cheap? Granted it is only low earth orbit. Still, it seems too good to be true.

Just a reminder.

If a computer game is featured in the NY Times, you know it is bad. You could almost fool oneself into thinking that it would be fun to play the game until you get to the end of the review.

I can't help liking this.

I always stop this video before the guy explains how it came about. I am afraid it will ruin it for me.

Best new classical composition that I have heard in a while. But given that I recognize one of the songs that he has borrowed from, I am a little ashamed of feeling that way.

Toilets are hard to advertise

You can’t show them doing their real job. This is a pretty good simulation, though–especially that last test.

I need one. Often my use of a toilet for its ordinary purposes leaves it all choked up. I’m just special that way. For me it would have been good to see it handle some longer … hot dogs.

H/T Hip and Thigh who rightly points out that the plumbing behind this flushing marvel will matter a lot.

Poem of the Week: 6/14/09-6/20/09

The reason that so many white dweebs like rap is because they can’t help but despise themselves when they look around. So they embrace the hideous portrait that rap music offers up of what man is like to escape from an equally hideous reality. The rap video below is a parody. But it amply demonstrates why white male dweebs are so enamored of rap.