Sad but true

Here is a headline from the SFGATE - I could not bear to read the article.

Britney's Mom to Write Parenting Book

I shed a tear.

Tetris is a Lifestyle

Well, it should be. Check out this human version of Tetris on a Japanese game show. This is the expert level.

Halloween is nearing....

And here is another twisted trailer.

McCain has an iPod!

And he LOVES ABBA! Who knew? What is one you iPod McCain?

“Dare I say ABBA. Everybody says, ‘Ehhh, ABBA.’ Why is that? ABBA was the largest selling (recording act ever). Nobody likes them but they sold more records than anybody in the history of the world, including the Beatles. But everybody hates them. (But) you’re a no-class guy if you like ABBA. Why does everybody go see ‘Mamma Mia?’ Hypocrisy! Rank hypocrisy! I’m not embarrassed to say I like ABBA, ‘Dancing Queen.’” (emphasis ours)

Ha ha ha. Read more here.

Smurfy Birthday!

Today is the Smurfs' birthday. They are 49 years old! Wow! Smurfy!

Read it here.

Led Zeppelin on the Sub!!!

Wow, the ENTIRE Led Zeppelin catalog is now available on iTunes. That equals 141 songs for $99. For those of you keeping track, that is about a 40% discount. I am 16 years old again listening to Zep in my Pathfinder as I leave school. Awesome.

Oh wait - How long is it going to take to download 141 songs?!?

Read it here.

I AM NOT YELLING

NO, I AM NOT MAD. IT IS INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY. LOCK DOWN YOUR 'BOARDS AND TYPE AWAY!

SUB COMMANDER

READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE.

McCain has a sense of humor!

How to find water in Africa's arrid climate

This movie is in French or something. Here is my translation.

Method 1
Dig around a small stick till you find a giant potato. Shave the potato, then drink from it.

Method 2
First you find termites. They live in tall dirt hills.
Bore a hole slightly smaller than a monkey's first in the site of the termite hill.
Wait for monkey.
When the monkey's hand get stuck in the hole, run out and put a leash on the monkey and tie him to a tree.
Feed the monkey something salty like Saltines.
Wait for the monkey to get thirsty.
Then let the monkey go and chase him (you must be fast, at least as fast as a monkey.)
Finally drink the monkey's water.

Conan, the Unstoppable

I rarely watch his show, but I love the clips I see. Conan's show get interrupted with a fire alarm and he makes it into comic genius.

The Sub Commander

No shirt no problem

111 men walk into the Abercrombie & Fitch in NYC and simultaneously take off their shirts. Funny.



See more videos here.

Disclaimer - I used to work at A&F. There is no real reason to share that, but I thought I would.

Commander

When you hear something go 'bump' in the night

Reach for your Back-up!

X-TREME BEER PONG

Amazing Footage from Iraq

The insurgents in Iraq have started using a new bomb with a gel-center, nicknamed 'the egg.' This amazing security camera footage of a parking lot shows what one of these bombs can do. WOW.

Colbert takes on the NY Times

After receiving several taunts from Steven Colbert, New York Times columnist, Maureen Dowd, invited Mr. Colbert to write her column for her. He eagerly accepted. This quote caught my eye.

(In reference to Al Gore) First of all, I don’t think Nobel Prizes should go to people I was seated next to at the Emmys. Second, winning the Nobel Prize does not automatically qualify you to be commander in chief. I think George Bush has proved definitively that to be president, you don’t need to care about science, literature or peace.

The whole article is worth reading. Get it at New York Times.

Yay jets!

The day the music di.....

How sad is it we quote such a sucky song when we reference the fall of once great musicians? Eh, a thought for later.

Today REM is debuting their latest song on Anderson Cooper 360, a show on CNN. The only reasonable aspect is the song is featured on an environmental documentary, Planet in Peril, later this month.

Still, when did CNN become the place to premiere new music? Ugh.

Hit me one more time Sony!

Again! These guys are crazy smart!

Stop me if you have heard this one before

An Israeli and an Italian are stuck on a raft....

No, REALLY! At least they were until they were found today after drifting at sea for eight days.

Read more at SF Gate.

Creepy

Step one, put on your head phones.

Step two, click here.

Step three, get freaked out by 3 D SOUND.

This is really cool. Recording and playing sound is advancing quickly. You will think the sound is coming from your left, right, front, back, over your right shoulder and everywhere in between. This is safe for work, the headphones just make it sounds really cool.

This looks really cool.

Skateboard - $100
Balloons - $25
Video - Priceless

Hello Mr. Whale

An oil rig camera 900 m below the sea got a visitor - Mr. Sperm Whale. Looks like he was just checking things out. If I had a penny for each time this has happened in the sub...

World of Warcraft

Even if you have never played a MMORPG, watch this ad.

OZ, The Wiz, The Wizard of OZ and now...

The O.Z. The show is actually called Tinman and looks pretty damn cool, but the fact that they refer to Oz as the O.Z. really bugs me. It sounds too much like that show about Orange County. Still, I think I will give this one a try.

Sub Commander

Best headlines of the day

Mr. Potato Head in ecstasy bust

Read it at CNN.

Viagra hamster, gay bomb win Ig Nobel awards

Read it at CNN.

One more ad for Sony

Big budgets, great effects, solid message. And LOTS of paint.

Something smells bad

Pub Fox sports les femmes detestent le foot
Uploaded by moriganne

Sony does some good work

A lot of you will remember the TV commercial Sony put our featuring thousands of super-bouncy balls released on a steep street in San Francisco. (If you do not, the video is at the bottom of this post.) Here is the the follow-up. Thousands of claymation bunnines invade New York. This was done with CLAY and hundreds of 'animators' swapping in and out several different bunnies to make them hop.

Enjoy.

Sony Bravia - Play Doh Ad
Uploaded by tvspot

And there is the super-bouncy ball commercial.

Sony Bravia - Balls
Uploaded by YforYerom

Safety Message

WARNING: Those denying the existence of robots, aliens or monsters, may infcat be robots, aliens or monsters.

Continue on with your daily routine.

What's that smell?

"It was about 4pm when I saw the police who were closing off the roads but I didn't know why.

My boss rang me and said I had to get out of the building because of a chemical attack."

That was Supranee Yodmuang's reaction to a terrorist alert in London. The police closed off three streets and evacuated several homes after receiving calls reporting noxious fumes in the area.

Finally they discovered the source - Supranee Yodmuang's Nam Prik Pao, a red-hot Thai dip. Extra hot chillies are deliberately burnt creating the odors that people were complaining about.

Link, via Boing Boing.

Nike + advertising = PLAY

I RAN, a digital short

This will probably get killed by NBC soon, but in the mean time enjoy the latest digital short film from that entertainment show that airs on Saturday night.

Respect

Respect
Originally uploaded by bderwest.

Immigrants are ruining our country. We must stand up and protest. English must be the national language. No ifs, ands or butts. Here is your sign.

Sub Commader

(Read the sign. If you do not get it, read again. If you still do not get it, maybe we should enforce grammar and language tests.)

One of the best

This call circles the net every few months and is on of my favs. Enjoy.

Dave and Paris

Classic Dave.

I think I went to school with this guy

If you have ever been out with me late in the evening and have heard me when I start to speak Spanish, you know what a beautiful language it is. I think I went to the same school as this guy.