“Podemos Con Obama”

I can’t understand a word these people are saying. Via D Dog on the gchat 1s and 2s.

Bob Dole on Scott McClellan

I’ve been meaning to write something on Scott McClellan’s book and I suppose I’ll get around to it at some point but in the mean time Jonathan Martin has a copy of a pretty remarkable email former Senator Bob Dole sent to McClellan (via):

Bob Dole yesterday sent a scalding email to Scott McClellan, excoriating the [...]

Early candidate for craziest story of the year

Via The Cooler on gchat:
A homeless woman who sneaked into a man’s house and lived undetected in his closet for a year was arrested in Japan after he became suspicious when food mysteriously began disappearing.
Police found the 58-year-old woman Thursday hiding in the top compartment of the man’s closet and arrested her for trespassing, police [...]

Little slide show of pictures from a flyover of an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon. Can’t imagine what was going through those people’s minds when they first saw the plane.

What are YOU doing here?

Talk about bad timing:
BEING a burglar is at best a risky job but two Melbourne men arrested last week were shocked to find police inside a house they had just broken into.
The detectives were in the middle of a drug raid and were just as surprised when they greeted the thieves, during the attempted midnight [...]

Onion on movie renting past

I can’t imagine Blockbuster is too happy with this
via

Weird little “Miracle Fruit”

This sounds strange/cool:
CARRIE DASHOW dropped a large dollop of lemon sorbet into a glass of Guinness, stirred, drank and proclaimed that it tasted like a “chocolate shake.”
Nearby, Yuka Yoneda tilted her head back as her boyfriend, Albert Yuen, drizzled Tabasco sauce onto her tongue. She swallowed and considered the flavor: “Doughnut glaze, hot doughnut glaze!”
They [...]

Firefox is hoping to set the Guinness World Record for Most Software Downloaded in 24 Hours with the release of Firefox 3.

Oprah audience freaks

See more funny videos at CollegeHumor
Despite the impression from the video, Oprah’s ratings are down 7% on the year. Video via.

Quote of the Day

Four words you don’t want to hear in space: “The toilet is broken.”
– NY Times article on the International Space Station’s toilet problems. via

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