Back in the good ol' U-ni-ted States of 'Merica! (said in my best Texan) I will get on the whole posting pictures thing soon - probably tomorrow or so. For now, I'm just doing my best to catch up on IMs, phone calls, sleep, emails, etc. Thanks to fantastic RSS feeds I've been able to keep up on all sorts of interesting news stories/tidbits for the past two weeks, so for now, I'll simply share those. I mean, does anyone honestly ever want to sit through a slideshow of "what i did on my summer vacation"? I didn't think so.On to the wahoo (in no particular order)...
- As if the whole Michael Jackson being acquitted on all 10 counts thing wasn't funny enough, here's the clip of the Daily Show reporting the event. The last 3 minutes with Stephen Colbert are hilarious.
- A brilliant mastermind divides the number songs downloaded with iTunes (60 million) by the number iPods sold (2.9 million) to get the number 20.6 iTunes per iPod. Apple wonders why everyone is walking around using only 2% of their iPod Mini.
- In a (sorta) related story, some kook at Time gets confused one day and thinks he works for Rolling Stone penning the article "10 songs worth at least 99 cents". Said article confirms why the author is not employed with Rolling Stone as he includes Akon's "Lonely" on his top 10 list. (I wish I were kidding.)
- Birds attack people. Apparently are attracted to some people (read: me) more than others. Nothing funny about that. Birds should die.
- If you don't read it every day, you should: Derek's blog.
- Simpsons movie in pre-production. Ay Caramba!
- Project Toto: for anyone who hasn't lived in central Illinois (and thereby hasn't seen the inside of a tornado first hand), National Geographic and a "well-placed probe fitted with 7 video cameras—6 with a 60-degree field-of-view designed to achieve a full 360-degree field-of-view (one failed during deployment, resulting in a 300-degree field-of-view) and one pointing upward—captures footage inside a tornado, providing visual data on ground wind speeds where the storm does the greatest damage." Pretty awesome visuals if it's something you've never been in before.
- Very cool: Previously undiscovered Bach aria found in old German library. Not so cool: Packrats (aka my father) have a new excuse to justify their ways.
- "Dress Steve Jobs" flash game.
- Craigslist in Chambana!
- In case you didn't hear enough jokes about forgetting Poland for your lifetime, the Daily Show is releasing a 3-DVD set of Indecision 2004. I'm all about watching Jon Stewart for
