Facebook ruins Christmas

So everyone is talking about this so I thought I would too. Facebook's new advertising product, Beacon, takes your online shipping and publishes it to your facebook account. Pretty cool if you want your friends to know what you are reading or listening too. Pretty awful/nasty when you are shopping for your family. Bad Facebook, Bad!

Read more here.

Quotes from MoveOn.org

"Oh my gosh, my cousins entire christmas shopping list this week was displayed on the [Facebook News] feed. thats so messed up. This has gotta stop!" - Tasha Valdez from Michigan:

"I saw my gf bought an item i had been saying i wanted... so now part of my christmas gift has been ruined. Facebook is ruining christmas!" - Matthew Helfgott from NY

There is a right way, and a wrong way

Virgin Airways just seems to get it. Here is the RIGHT way to do a safety video.

SF gets 69 more cabs!

Ok, so the number is a little funny, but for anyone living here, this is GREAT NEWS.

Read more here.

For the non-SF folks the cab commission (city) manages the number of cabs. There can only be 'x' number of cabs on the street. Now we have gone up to x+69 which it great. For anyone doubting this, just watch Eddie Izzard's Dressed to Kill. When making a comment on catching a cab in San Francisco he finishes with the comment, "of which there is one!"

Who's phone is that?

Remember to turn off your ringer when in court.

In Niagra Falls a judge jailed 46 people in his court room after no one admitted to owning a phone that interrupted his court.

You have been warned.

Accent

After watching this clip, I can say I absolutely miss the accent. As for the content - I could do without that. ;)

Friends of the sub

From time to time I hear a quote that deserves sharing. When speaking with new father "Petrovski" on the subject of accidental pregnancies he responded,

yeah, i absolutely 100% do not recommend this on an accidental implementation.

Though you do not regularly use software terminology when talking about kids, I understand him completely.

Trainers = sneakers or athletic shoes

Once you are up on your British slang, you will enjoy this ad.

Carling: Space
Uploaded by hourigan

Are you talking to me?

I have to give credit to the agency that came up with this one. As a family prepare for dinner they recite lines from famous movies. How many can you identify?

Blockbuster: Christmas
Uploaded by hourigan

BAM for the last time...

The swan song for Emeril Live has begun. The live show will be canceled on Dec 11. The show has been on air for 10 years.

Read the article here.

Bam bam ba bam bam.

Top 12

I am not sure why they had to take the list to 12 as opposed to ten, but here it is - The top 12 Web videos of all time as determined by the Webbies.

TOP 12 MOVIES

Check it out - you have seen most of them. They are listed chronologically.

From Boing Boing.

Who has not been here?

Will Ferrel is late on rent. This is not safe for work due to crude language.

National Geographic

This is too cool, but I have one favor to ask. If you want to watch it, watch it all the way through. Do not skip ahead. The drama is incredible and unlike almost every other nature show I have ever seen.

Buffalo, Lions and Crocs

The story: a few Buffalo happen upon four lioness. The lions jump out and take down the baby buffalo at the edge of a lake. As the lions start to eat, two crocs join in on the feast. The lions get the baby buffalo out of the water just in time for the the buffalo to return for their young with all their buffalo buddies. Who wins? Who loses? Who eats? Watch the video. AWESOME.

Die Die Die

Hey, it's only chocolate.

What the???

I have lived in NC. I have lived in Maryland. I have never heard this call made at a football game before.

What's under your beard?

Who did it?

I am serious - no one is leaving until we determine who is at fault.

In case you did not hear, we had a leaky boat here in SF that left the bay Slicker than Jefferson Airplane. (Make the connection and win a prize.)

Anyway, we are having trouble pinning the tail to the ass of whomever is responsible for this debacle.

Here are the latest quotes -

"COSCO Group confirms that M.V. "COSCO Busan" is not owned, managed, operated, or chartered by COSCO Group or any of its companies."

"As Synergy Maritime fully operates the ship as well as manages the entire crew including the captain, Hanjin Shipping has no legal responsibility in this accident."

"Regal Stone's first and most important concern is the response. We are not discussing the investigation or any legal matters out of respect for the process."

YAY! We are making real progress here.

I [heart] the Intertubes

So it started with talking cats - two cats that make a lot of noise. Funny? Sort of. I do not miss that 63 seconds of my life.



But now, someone has added voices to the cats and we can call see what user generated content is, and how the creative commons is a good thing. Enjoy.

The World Has Changed

This is a cute ad that my brother would call part of my West Coast Hippie Agenda, but hey, I like it.

Hip Hop Kemp stage

Hip Hop Kemp stage
Originally uploaded by beob8er.

I knew I was kewl, but this is too much.

I should show them my boots.

Guess the theme

It starts with pong....

[fill-in the blank] HERO

Who is on Dagoba?

Since I was gone for a bit there has been a back log. So I apologize if you feel swamped today and do not get anything done.

Sub Commander

Anchor? Bolt? Super Glue?

Robot Voices Continue

Hey gang,

Last week I had to take the sub on a secret mission, hence the radio silence. Now I am back, and I cannot think of a better way to celebrate than ROBOT VOICES! (and girls in athletic apparel.)

Enjoy.

the Sub Commander

Google finally goes evil

The proof is in the stock price. Yesterday the stock was at $666. Google is evil. [sniff]

Read about it here.

Gene Autry's Cowboy Code

1. The Cowboy must never shoot first, hit a smaller man or take an unfair advantage.

2. A Cowboy must never go back on his word, or a trust confided in him.

3. A Cowboy must always tell the truth.

4. A Cowboy must be gentle with children, the elderly and small animals.

5. A Cowboy must not adovcate or possess racially or religiously interolerant views and ideas.

6. A Cowboy must help people in distress.

7. A Cowboy must be a good worker.

8. A Cowboy must keep himself clean in thought, speech, action and personal habits.

9. A Cowboy must respect women, parents and his nations's views. 10. A Cowboy is a patriot.

I got this from Boing Boing.

g33k lov3

Here is some poetry.

Roses are #ff0000
Violets are 0000ff#
All my base
Are belong to you.

By this guy.

First comment this moring

As I was walking to get some water I passed the front desk. Todd says:

"Those are some loud shoes."

"Yeah."

"You must be having a bad ninja day."

"Yes I am."

What if?

The TV series 24, was actually pitched to Fox back in 1994. Here is a rare glimpse at the pilot that has just now been released.

Art from the air

Take all the air travel in the US, plot its trajectory and then create a real-time map.

This artist created a representation of air travel in the U.S. Watch the major hubs on the map, and watch as travel increases over the course of a typical day.

Awesome. Too bacd they don't track su movements.

Rocky I - VI in 5 sec

My goodness, my Guinness

Two days in and I am going nuts

The writers' strike is only two days in but I am already losing it. I miss my Daily Show and Colbert Report (which have both been thrown into repeats with the strike. Then the thought of all the great shows that will be delayed, that we will miss, or those that will never come to be.

Heroes was about to spin-off a new show called Origins. The show would follow each super-human character, as they discover there abilities. Now it appears the execs are canceling the show bef0re it even begins.

Well, here is a little humor out of this mess - It appears a lot of the cast of the Office are also writers for the show. Enjoy.

Spam as art

No girls laugh at me spam
Originally uploaded by Linzie Hunter.

This is great! Linzie Hunter is taking spam subject lines and turning them into art.

Check out her work here.

Lean and Mean are in.

Local chics who need lovin' on the side.

Mommy, make the red monkey stop following me!

Now I love toys that change - trucks that turn into robots, cars that turn into planes and the like. But New Zealand has taken it to a whole new level.

The award-winning toy, Bindeez, is a set of small beads that can be affixed to one another to create figurines, designs and jewelry. Recently, it was found that small beads containa chemical that the body metabolises into gamma-hydroxy butyrate (GHB).

That is right, Toys that turn into drugs. A full recall has been ordered.

In an completely unassociated story, hordes of teenagers and college students have been getting in touch with their inner-child and have hitting toy stores in mass...

Read the first story here.

It's a small world, not it isn't

1960's engineers did not anticipate the world getting smaller - nor did they think it would get bigger, but it has.

Recently the Disney World ride, 'It's a small world,' has been taking longer and longer due to the boats scraping the bottom and getting caught in the flume. The cause: larger riders. The boats were built to handle the average weight of people in th 60's and with increased obesity the boats can no longer handle their riders.

It's a sad world after all.

Viagra - Middle East Style

How do you advertise a drug for erectile dysfunction in cultures that are more conservative? Like this.

The creepiest thing on the internet - TODAY

No comments needed. Just weird.