President Bush warming up for the comedy circuit in '09?

The World Champion Boston Red Sox went to the White House and met with our (joke of a) President...

"I'm sorry... Manny Ramirez, isn't here." Bush said, "I guess his grandmother died again."

"And how about Jonathan Papelbon? ...Thanks for wearing pants."

ESPN wouldn't let me embed it here, but this is the video...

I think Bush fancies himself a real comedian... I've certainly been laughing at him for a few years.

"i totally thought you were a girl. no big deal."

apparently, i need to be more explicit on Craigslist when contacting people about apartments, because i've been mistaken for a girl... three times.

Mario!

Pondering the Semiotics of Hipster Beards

good post by the San Franciscoist.

and some crazy sh*t going down as reported by the Shanghaiist.

Don't F* with Hackers

A teenage hacker brought down a multi-million dollar company, Media Defender, whose job is to prevent internet piracy. The kid agreed to an interview as long as his identity is kept secret and...

"He also pulls out a well-creased sheet of paper bearing my name, the first five digits of my Social Security number, a few pictures of me, and addresses going back 10 years. "I had to check," he says."

Pretty impressive. He's probably knows I'm writing this right now...

More on the piracy article.

A Very Special Message from the NYC Chamber of Commerce

This video has been really helpful for me in my recent move to NYC...

FreeRice.com

Multiple choice vocab quiz. Every word you get right donates rice through the UN. C'mon... your vocabulary needs some work anyway... do you even know what a 'numismatis' is! I do.

(OK... I guessed on that one.)

Fast Food Ads vs. Reality

So glad I don't eat this crap...

Check out Fast Food: Ads vs. Reality for some startling comparisons of the pics we see on TV, and the "food" that's actually served.

Especially note Arby's "Beef 'n' Cheddar" - I don't know which pic is worse.



And this is KFC's Famous Bowl or as comedian Patton Oswalt puts it, "a failure pile in a sadness bowl." See video below... hysterical.

Don't Make Shaq Upset...

"I'm very upset," he said Thursday at his introduction news conference. "You just don't really want to get me upset. When I'm upset, I'm known to do certain things -- like win championships."
- from ESPN.

GOP Senator Tries to Beat a Dead Horse... to Death

It would be an Eagles fan/idiot Republican from one of my least favorite states that would make a further issue out of the Patriots' Spygate incident. I guess lately the hot topic is "sports integrity," so let's jump on the bandwagon. Listen to this moron...

"I don't think you have to have a law broken to have a legitimate interest by the Congress on the integrity of the game ... What if there was something on the tapes we might want to be subpoenaed, for example? You can't destroy it. That would be obstruction of justice," Specter said to The Times.

1. If there's no law broken, then leave it the f* alone. Solve serious issues - the war, health-care, education - that is what the Senate does, right?

2. What could he possibly imagine to be on the tapes? I recently threw out some old VHS tapes of my high school sports teams - anything you might want to subpoena there?

3. Obstruction of justice? Are you f*ing kidding me? Ow... my brain hurts.

The NFL has even explained themselves already...

"...the reason for destroying them was 'so that our clubs would know they no longer exist and cannot be used by anyone.'"

The NFL took care of this months ago; too bad the news takes this long to get to Pennsylvania.