American Idle

So you still don't think American Idol is scripted? Watch Paula Abdul critique one singer's second round performance before it happens. Watch the other hosts frantically try to cover.

Darwin Awards 2008: We Have A Winner

Brazil gives up on priest carried off by balloons
(story here)

The Rev. Adelir Antonio de Carli has been missing since Sunday, when he lifted off from the port city of Paranagua strapped to 1,000 balloons and wearing a helmet, an aluminum thermal flight suit, waterproof coveralls and a parachute.

...and nobody got a picture of this?!

UPDATE: This is an alleged photo.

Only 246 shopping days left until xmas...

i saw a commercial on TV last night advertising the 2009 Dodge Journey. This practice of releasing next year's models has been around for decades (eg. the '65 Mustang is often called 64½). But this is April! I bought a brand new 2008 Nissan in February and now in April of '08 it's technically a year old already. This cheesy marketing gimmick is really getting out of hand - most of the major auto manufacturers have now released their 2009 models (see article at Car and Driver)
My question now is, how far will they take this? Will we see the 2010 models by January '09? sooner? at what point does it become ridiculous?

My baby I purchased in February, are you now old news?

My Favorite Guitarist: Greg Howe

WTF?! There are some stupid people out there...

How Obsolete Are You

from the website www.obsoleteskills.com

When was the last time you had to...
Change the ribbon on a typewriter
Rewind audio or video cassettes
Adjust the rabbit ears on your TV set
Check your beeper
Format a floppy disk
Have to put www in front of every URL
Load film into a camera
Use a darkroom
Lick stamps
Pay with a check
Use a pay phone
Look up a business in the Yellow Pages
Switch from TV to Game Mode on the box behind the TV
Blow into a dusty Nintendo cartridge to make it work
Use the Dewey Decimal System to find a book
Wind your watch
do Long division (other than for school)
Call the radio station to find out what song that was
Rip the trim with the holes off the sides of computer paper
Call someone collect
Replace the tape in your answering machine
Thread a filmstrip
Pop popcorn with hot oil
Heat a ``TV Dinner'' in the oven
Get up to manually change the channel
Repair a television set
Sharpen a razor blade
Add water to your car battery
Ride a single-speed bike
Set the time on a VCR
Download music from the original Napster
Put tape over the punched-out holes on a VCR tape so you can use it again
Use correction fluid
Put a nickel on the tone arm of a record player to keep it from skipping
Pop in a flash cube
Use a choke
Clean a vinyl record
Defrost the refrigerator
Refill a fountain pen
Use carbon paper to make copies
Change tracks on an 8-track tape
Tape songs off the radio onto a cassette tape
Sniff freshly mimeographed tests
Send a handwritten letter
Write in cursive
Mow the yard with a non-powered push mower (May be coming back, though ...)
Manually enter prices into an old-fashioned cash register
Clean the head of your VCR
Crawl under the door of a pay toilet

Priceless