Who took the picture of Joe Wilson?

Satoshi Kanazawa asks a very interesting question.

Moment ruiner…

It’s your big night.  You win an award.  You walk up stage in your new dress.  You start to speak and then some guy comes up, takes the mic, and says someone else’s video was better.

Tomorrow, someone’s going to be wishing he didn’t attend the VMAs tonight.

Quote of the day

“She may be a hermaphrodite, but so what? She is still a girl,” Stofile told a news conference in Pretoria.

16 circles

This took FOREVER for me to see.  But I found em.  Can you?

It’s the seventh sign of the apocalypse!!

“ewww…yuck!”

“a disastrous move”

“how disappointing”

“Why oh why oh why… idiots”

“This just plain sucks”

“If you don’t like it, sign the petition…”

“It’s the seventh sign of the apocalypse!!”

What could possibly have caused all this vitriol, you wonder?  The Ikea catalog has switched from Futura to Verdana.

Here’s the Futura font…

And here’s the Verdana font…

Ikea responds: “We’re surprised,” the Ikea spokeswoman Camilla Meiby said. “But I think it’s mainly experts who have expressed their views, people who are interested in fonts. I don’t think the broad public is that interested.”

This whole uproar makes me laugh because it’s so reminiscent of so many situations in life.  Some small group of people feel really strongly about something and they go to all extremes to demonize what they’ve come to hate.  And then, no matter how small the group, the amount of righteous rage makes it newsworthy.  Sound familiar?

This also reminds me of when my guitar player friends ask me “do you like this tone (followed by loud distorted noodling)? or this one better (followed by loud distorted noodling)?  If you’re wondering, my response is always the same “Play the first one again.  OK, now the second one.  Dude, definitely the second one.”  To me, it’s just Futura and Verdana.

Thee’s a new blog in town…

As is the case with all new blogs, let’s see how long this one lasts:

http://newsongsd.blogspot.com/

2 Internet Finds

2 sites people are talking about (neither appropriate for work)…

This site’s a collection of people that others have seen at the Walmart.  Some odd, some fanciful, all pretty weird.  People of Walmart

The other is a Twitter page.  This guy has moved back in with his dad.  Once a day he posts a crazy thing his dad says. They’re mostly random sayings by a really grumpy (and profane) guy but there are some real gems in there.  Seriously, not for those with tender ears.

California fires map

Found a Google map of the California fires updated by the LA Times…Mount Wilson seems doomed.
View Los Angeles County-area fires near Mount Wilson, La Canada Flintridge, Altadena, La Crescenta, Glendale, Pasadena, Acton, Agua Dulce in a larger map

Ka’plah!

Klingon wins as best constructed language as decided by Wired.

Wired wins my award for Magazine Staff With Least to Do.

How cool is this?

Our governor in California still has his sword from the Conan days…

No one’s attacking the capitol with that there.