Best. Parrot. Ever.

Broken

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Back to the future.

Big props to SpaceX for their successful launch and recovery of the first commercial human space flight system. Their Dragon capsule went up, completed two orbits of the Earth and successfully landed in the Pacific. I'm excited yet conflicted about this success. It is great that private enterprise (albeit with a load of Government money) has finally fielded a system that is at parity with where NASA was in the heady days of the Apollo Program. But it's also a sad indictment of where NASA is today.

SpaceX has nearly completed a viable manned system after around two billion dollars in funding from the private sector and the Government in the form of commercial launch contracts. NASA has spent and estimated $40 billion on the Ares I launch system and at least another $3 billion on the Orion capsule that is meant to replace the Space Shuttle. Granted Ares and Orion were intended to push us back to the Moon and beyond but at 20X the cost of a low earth orbit system? I hate to say it but the bureaucracy of NASA appears to have snuffed out their ability to deliver on budget. Not to mention that the Constellation program was still going to cost as much as $1billion a launch....as much as or more than the existing Space Shuttle. The whole point of Constellation was to get us out of low Earth orbit again for less than the cost of the Shuttle.

Problems

Disease of the day, Anatidaephobia. Seriously? There are plenty of things to be RATIONALLY afraid of.

Man she is pissed

Why do we keep fucking with Mother Nature? She obviously has no sense of humor.

Enough with this bullshit.

Apparently George Lucas wasn't satisfied with the rape of my childhood. It would appear that he wants to digitally reanimate dead actors so that THEY CAN RAPE MY CHILDHOOD!

WTF Lucas? If you can't come up with some original ideas to fit within the universe that you created then just go sit down somewhere and count your billions.

Jeggings

Seriously.....Conan is awesome.

Visually stunning

Now this is one of the best examples of the future of data visualization. As computing power increases and display technology makes revolutionary jumps every other year things are only going to get more impressive.

The Doctor

Yes, I'm a nerd. Yes, I love Doctor Who. Watch this hilarious Craig Ferguson bit.

Helpless Crybabies

The latest leak of diplomatic communications by Wikileaks certainly shows one thing. Most of the major Governments in the Middle East are a bunch of hypocritical douchebags. They almost all agree that Iran's nuclear program is a very bad thing but NONE of them want to deal with it themselves.

Either they don't want to risk their own power base by stirring up radical opposition in their own countries or they don't want to worry about Iran smacking them back. The Saudis and the Egyptians certainly have the military hardware necessary to make that strike at Iran but lack the balls to actually do it.

They would rather "The Great Satan" be the bad guy yet again. I wonder how they would feel if we said that we'll do it but we want the Isrealis to run the operation. Probably not....

What an asshole.

Seriously? You sir are a hypocritical asshole.

Valuable information

Talk about creepy....nice shirt too.

Nice day job

Beginning to wonder if I made the right career choice, the view from my office is pretty shitty compared to this.

What for what?

I guess Fiat is really serious about buying Chrysler to crack back into the American market. Selling their stake in Ferrari to buy out Chrysler seems totally bat shit crazy to me.

They may as well chuck Maserati out as well since without the Ferrari DNA the product will be shit.

Wow!

Seriously people, TAKE YOUR MEDS!!!

Mysterious.

Is there a hollowed out volcano somewhere off the coast of California?

Coco is back.

Last night's cold open for the new Conan O'Brien show....hilarious.

Hey hens, meet the fox.

Remember the member of Congress that apologized to the BP CEO because he thought the punishment didn't fit the crime? Thanks to the Tea Party Shuffle he'll most likely become the Chairman of the House Committee for Energy and Commerce. I'm sure that he'll be a fine advocate for his constituents...as long as their initials are BP.

Friday Reminder

Make sure you take your meds.


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The Southern Gentleman

Watch this fascinating interview of Jimmy Carter by Bill Maher.

No Talent Ass Clowns

If you are under age 35 and did not vote then you are what is wrong with this country. Shame on you.

If you are over 60 and voted for a Tea Party/GOP candidate then you are what is wrong with humanity. You let a bunch of fear mongering, racist assholes convince you that a black man is going to destroy "your" country. I can't wait until your Tea Party darlings privatize Social Security and it ends up going POOF in the next GOP approved Wall Street money grab. I'm young and from the generation that KNOWS Social Security is doomed, I'm making other plans for my retirement while continuing to fill the pot you just pissed away. Oh and good luck with Health Care on a fixed income!

I see crazy people.

Watch Olberman systematically demolish the credibility of Tea Party candidates using their own words.

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Holy Shit!

This pilot has to fly Chinooks because they are the only thing big enough to carry is enormous fucking balls!

SHOTGUN!!

Now this some seriously fucked up shit.

Just, WOW!

Check out the amazing sensitivity and intelligence displayed by the Virginia GOP Chairman.

Holy shit.

Legends

Man, I miss George Carlin. He was right about Jon Stewart as well, I have this image of Stewart before a show telling the ghost of George Carlin that this one is for him.

A flip phone, seriously?

It's no secret that the iPhone and Android phones are eating Blackberry's lunch. Now Microsoft is entering the fray which will really hurt what is left of Blackberry's users, big businesses. Blackberry was dominate just three years ago but their lack of innovation and several product misfires have hurt them deeply. The failure of the Storm, the dud that the new Torch appears to be and the lack of new features in BB OS6 has just allowed that gap to widen.

So what is RIM's answer? A new flip phone.....seriously. The first time I see someone using one of these I will publicly shame them.

I just threw up in my mouth.

Do as I say, not as I do.

What you are doing is morally wrong and I think it should be illegal, but if there's money to be had then I'll take some of that action. That is the way of today's GOP.

This guy is a real douchebag. It's glad to see that he has such strong moral convictions and dedication to his Catholic faith. Of course like all things Catholic a little money goes a long way towards your path to salvation.

Prank

This is awesome.

It's not all rainbows.

Did you see Banksy's controversial Simpson's Opening? Kudos to the creative staff and Fox for actually letting this run....you'll see why.

Eloquence

In case you've never seen this it's one of the best funerals that you will ever see.

Cool

This video has some amazing animation and the thoughts presented are really good.

Cry Baby

Christine O'Donnell has become my new favorite punching bag, at least until Palin runs for office again. I love how these right wing nut cases always cry out that the "liberal media" (aka everyone except Fox News) is waging a war of character assassination against them. Well, when you have more skeletons in your closet than a funeral home then it's not character assassination...it's called history. Maybe if you didn't say such bat shit crazy things then the media wouldn't say such horrible things about you. What a crazy idea...

Whiskey at Lunch.

The Onion....FTW.


Study: Americans Get Majority Of Exercise While Drunk

WTF?

Read this crazy shit.

Great idea because "sexually active" single MEN never had sex with anyone underage. Oh right, that must fall under the "be fruitful and multiply" section of the bible.

The Past is now?

Today is the 39th anniversary of the opening of Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom. I'm an unapologetic Disney fanboy so I wish I was there today more than any other place in the world. I stumbled across this gem of a news report on the opening of EPCOT in Florida in 1982. It's interesting because of the parallels between the recession of the early 80's and now.

Hard to believe but at that point in Disney's history there were serious concerns about the company's future and most of the 80's was pretty rough for the company. Did the billion dollar bet of EPCOT pay off? Since that day Disney has opened 7 more theme parks on three continents....so yeah. That plus the revitalization of the animation studios that started in the early 90's.

Newer isn't always better.

Great story about the ladders of the San Francisco Fire Department.

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Amazing idea

Check out this video. Pretty amazing!



Props to Kirby for the heads up.

Hell yes!

New movie trailer for Skyline.....holy shit!

Sad News

Quentin Tarantino's long time editor and collaborator Sally Menke has died. She worked as Tarantino's editor on all of his films since Reservoir Dogs and probably has had almost has much influence on his work as he has.

Here's the man himself explaining their relationship.

Whoa...

Sometimes Mother Nature just wants to remind you that you are her bitch.

WTF?

The guy who bought Segway road his beloved machine off a cliff to his death....no shit.

It's Traditional

I grew up in a big UAW town and I can assure you that stuff like this really does happen.

I can't believe that in this job market anyone would be stupid enough to do shit like this. The sad things is that it is these people that end up crying about how this isn't their country anymore and immigrants are taking all their jobs. You mean the ones that won't get drunk and high on their breaks?

The UAW cried foul in the 80's when the car makers moved huge parts of their production to Mexico. It wasn't just the lower wages that they could pay the workers down there it was to get some control over the QUALITY of the workforce.

I agree that this is mostly a case of a few rotten eggs spoiling the bunch but it is also indicative of a completely dysfunctional system.

LOL

Here is an Ewok in a Delorean time machine, your argument is irrelevant.

Amazing

This video makes me wish I could fly. It's amazing.

Guilty Conscience.

I fondly remember the day Bill Clinton was elected President. I was an 18 year old college freshman that was convinced that I'd be retired on some beach by age 30. I was raised in a relatively Conservative environment and Ronald Reagan was my prevailing ideal of what a President should look and act like. Needless to say I was convinced that Bill Clinton's Presidency was the beginning of the Apocalypse.

Fast forward 18 years. First off, holy shit I'm old. Second, given what Bush did with his two terms as President....I FUCKING MISS BILL CLINTON. I admit it I voted for Bush and defended him for years even though in the back of my mind I thought he was an idiot. Why? I got to watch us invade two fucking countries on live TV....that was pretty crazy. But once the full horror of what Bush's policies had wrought came to light I completely disavowed him and turned my back on the Republican Party.

Sure, Clinton did some stupid things and he was not above controversy . But when he is on is game he really is a brilliant guy.

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Backpeddler

Fuck you Karl Rove you spineless wart on the ass of Democracy. Rove couldn't even survive 24 hours of the radical right bashing him for actually saying what they should all know. This O'Donnell woman is crazy to the core. Once she looses her ass in the election I bet old Karl will be the first to appear on Fox yelling I TOLD YOU SO.

This is what the GOP has come to; as long as your Straight, White and Christian you're their kind of candidate no matter how big of a loon you really are. How sad is that? The party apparatus is just pushing the entire GOP more to the fringe by supporting people like this, there is no place for moderates in the Republican Party anymore.

GULP!!

Watch this first person view of climbing to the top of a 1700+ foot tall radio tower....fuck that!

Back to the Future Deconstructed.

Hilarious.

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