No mas tequila
Posted: Saturday, May 19, 2007 12:54 PM by Will Femia
Y'know how sometimes someone will get fall-down stupid vomit drunk on tequila and thereafter they have a sick aversion to the stuff? I feel like something similar happens when you have a child. Where before I was generally indifferent to bad-news stories about kids, now I can't even listen to them. Kidnapping and abuse stories didn't used to mean very much to me and now I hit the mute button when they come on TV. So I hate this video. I've seen it growing in popularity all week and I've resisted posting it here because it turns my stomach. I see people online laughing and making silly parodies but I can't get in the spirit, even when I tell myself the kid came out OK. The best I can do is not be totally outraged that no one was holding her hand, which is more than I can say about my reaction to that video a little while ago of the football player crashing into the 4-year-old in the end zone. That one had me in obscenity-riddled, raging paroxysms all day. I deleted two rants just in the course of writing this paragraph in fact. Anyway, there it is, one of the week's most viral videos.
I don't own a dog, however, so I can still see some twisted humor in selling the neighbor's dog.
Babe Ruth encourages sorority girls to play baseball. I'm not sure what to make of this. I think it's well meaning, if weird.
Ron Paul's former aid stabs him in the back; wants to take his congressional seat away from him. This seems pretty dramatic to me. I wonder what their history is.
New Beastie Boys video (Lots to play with on their site... shake your rumpahhh)
And a new Smashing Pumpkins song is floating around out there.
Speaking of music, have you ever actually seen one of these Old Spice commercials on TV? I've only seen them online, which I reckon makes it a pretty successful viral campaign. P.S. I think I like this version of Hungry like the Wolf better than Duran Duran's.
"Welcome to Social Wallpapering, a community effort to classify, rank, and distribute high-resolution images for use as computer wallpaper."
Speaking of wallpaper, a recent link to Transformers wallpaper prompted one reader to wonder about the movie. The latest trailer for the movie came out this week. (I tried the largest size HD version and it opened up larger than my screen. Double click the top border and it sizes to fit. Takes longer to download but it looks really good.) NOTE: After watching the trailer you may need to sit quietly with your eyes closed for a minute.
Not only do I think Men's Fitness put a little more meat on Andy Roddick's bones, I think they could have done a better job with the meat on his neck. It's nice to see distorted body imagery getting some equal opportunity treatment.
New Creature Found Living in Dead Whale - The rest of the article is not quite as interesting so you may be better off working with the headline and your own imagination.
Working for a company that's connected to the Microsoft family I often receive announcements of new products and initiatives. Not secret insider stuff, just press releases and those congratulations notes project managers like to send. This week I got one for the Live Earth concert site and another about Microsoft buying aQuantive. But I didn't hear anything about Popfly, which is arguably the coolest of the three. It lets you build mashups and other toys kind of like Yahoo's Pipes, but I had to smile when I caught myself saying, "Ah, this is like Scratch." (About that Live Earth site by the way, I watched MSN's New Year's online simulcasts and a John Legend concert and the quality was surprisingly good.)
I was interested to see this Apple.com item on audio recording, not just because of this Voices in my Head series I've been working on but because a colleague and I were recently enjoying clicking through the work of Dai Sugano. (The equipment talk in the Apple piece doesn't come until the last column.)
Looks like The Pirate Bay, popular focus of Bit Torrent downloads (often of the copyrighted nature), will be launching a YouTube competitor.
The first meaning based search engine. The piece explains a number of tests of a new search engine called Hakia. While semantic search is expected to be a revolution, it doesn't sound like it's going to come from this particular site. Still interesting and good to start paying attention now.
Speaking of what's new in search, Google's universal search is basically like searching all of their channels at once. Much more here on what they're calling Google 2.0.
Ann Althouse and her commenters explore why men don't take classes. (Apparently women who take classes to meet men aren't finding any men in the classes.)
Vote for Hillary Clinton's campaign song. Unfortunately you don't get to see the results so far after you vote. They should have a write-in section.
"On these pages you will see innovative new homes of remarkable strength, economy, and beauty, brought to life by an elegant new architecture and the discovery of a new source of pollution-free energy." Remarkably includes a price list page.
I saw a rundown of new TV shows coming to CBS and didn't understand why it would show up as a popular link. They have a new show about vampires so I figured maybe it was that community. But now I see that it's a new reality show they have planned that's drawing the attention. "A reality TV show based on William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies and featuring a group of children is heading for US TV screens, reports say."
More on this week's bully theme: This girl got one of those holding-a-sign-in-public punishments for being a bully. Is it just me or is that punishment kind of bullying? Do we have to wonder where she gets her taste for humiliating others?
Arrow golf - The only thing golfy about it is that there's a system of par. Otherwise it's a target game. The animation kind of reminds me of that creepy falling bikini lady that was so viral a while back.
"More and more of our time online is being spent at an ever-smaller number of megasites." Nick Carr calls these megasites "information plantations."
"A cheap $5 throwaway flashlight into a blinding torch" - Basically switch out the batteries and bulb.
Ravelry is a knit and crochet community.
The Wii weight loss plan guy has lost 28 pounds so far.
