Blogs are Stupid: October 2006

Monday, October 30, 2006

YouTube :(

The beginning of the fall of YouTube....

YouTube removing Comedy Central clips
Video sharing site being purchased by Google reportedly taking down copyrighted material after notice from Viacom unit.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Oh my God, they purged Kenny!

The New York Times reported Monday that video sharing site YouTube is removing copyrighted material from cable network Comedy Central, including episodes of "South Park" (whose character Kenny is killed in every episode) as well as "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report."

Funny thing is, I now religiously watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report...all because of the clips that I kept watching on YouTube...(and bc I knew I could post stuff I found particularly funny on my YouTube lovefest blog)

..oh, and on a random note, last weeks South Park with Satan's Super Sweet Sixteen Halloween party and Biggie Smalls was hilarious

10/30/2006 11:33:00 AM | Permalink |

Friday, October 27, 2006

Random post of the day

10/27/2006 02:01:00 PM | Permalink |

Gilbert Arenas Blog

For some reason I find his NBA.com blog pretty interesting

10/27/2006 01:13:00 PM | Permalink |

Top 10 tips for sexytime

(from Ernst)

Borat's Top 10 Tips for Sexytime
Jagshemash! Hello childrens! My name Borat Sagdiyev, I from Kazakhstan.

2. Use Protection: Do not make a sexytime without precaution against disease. A jar of gypsy tears worn around neck will prevent from infect by Herpes and Gonnoreas.

1. Prostitution: Check if woman have ever be a prostitute. It can obvious bring great shame to your family if she have not.

10/27/2006 12:13:00 AM | Permalink |

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Brunell Flash Cartoon

NFL Quarterback Challenge with Less Mess
Joe Gibbs & Mark Brunell

"This is the atlantic ocean, there is a lot of winds, and there's pressure from those sea gulls"

(from the DC Sports Bog)

10/26/2006 11:23:00 AM | Permalink |

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

it's never been "stay the course"

10/24/2006 05:40:00 PM | Permalink |

Monday, October 23, 2006

"the Google"

Bush says he uses “the Google.”

10/23/2006 11:57:00 PM | Permalink |

Sunday, October 22, 2006

LateNightShots

I enjoyed this post on wonkette about a "closed social network" to discuss DC's bar scene:

adams morgan, ethiopians, and boat shoes: why we hate dc

Is it possible for one brief message board exchange to explain the entire culture and mindset of the Washington Douchebag? To succinctly illustrate everything about them worth ridiculing? If so, this Late Night Shots dialogue might be the motherlode

10/22/2006 02:56:00 PM | Permalink |

Friday, October 20, 2006

Rollercoaster Tycoon

Saw this on Kotaku and had to post...

Bowling + Rollercoaster = Fun!

10/20/2006 04:16:00 PM | Permalink |

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Midnight Madness - Maryland

From the DC Sports Bog - video of the mens team from Midnight madness...
(the loser who uploaded it disabled embedding...so you gotta follow the link)

*** actually here are two clips that arent bad. you just gotta put up with the girls shreaking..i mean, cheering

Thriller Dance:

"Look at Eric Hayes!!! Hes so cute!" - my god girls can be stupid

Part 3:

10/19/2006 05:00:00 PM | Permalink |

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Wizards Alternate Jerseys

10/18/2006 11:49:00 PM | Permalink |

Who do we vote for now?

Tom Delay needs to find someone else to support in "Dancing with the Stars 2"

From Colin:
not sure if you saw this, but i think it would be funny to post on
your blog, since you had the thing about trent lott, or tom delay
(whoever it was) campaigning to have sara evans win dancing with the
stars.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/18/people.evans.ap/index.html

---

(really, the part of the story that i like most is that her husband ran for congreess on a family values platform)

other links:
http://www.tmz.com/2006/10/13/dancing-star-i-was-abused-by-sex-crazed-spouse/
http://www.tmz.com/2006/10/18/sara-evans-denies-having-a-cheatin-heart/

10/18/2006 03:25:00 PM | Permalink |

Colored Badges

Heard about this on the radio, but had no idea it was Blair until I saw the article in the Post. (white badge for me).

School Colors
The last thing any high school student wants is to be singled out.

So students at Montgomery County's largest high school are in an uproar over a new policy that requires them to wear color-coded IDs -- black for seniors, white for magnet kids and a particularly loud shade of yellow for students of limited English proficiency.

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Horrible idea IMO.

Silver Chips (the school paper) sums it up nicely:
As the staff of the Silver Chips student newspaper opined in an editorial, "Self-segregation is already an issue in the student body, and the formal distribution of color-coded IDs has essentially institutionalized the phenomenon."

10/18/2006 03:06:00 PM | Permalink |

Stop Shuler

"Every day but Sunday, I'm going to give 110%"

"When it comes to the week, every day but Sunday, I'm going to give you 110%. I'll give you all I have. And I'm going to rest on Sunday."

(Read this article from StopShuler.com and then watch the video, ~1 min or so in)

10/18/2006 02:11:00 PM | Permalink |

Washington Nationals

10/18/2006 01:35:00 AM | Permalink |

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Maryland 28 UVA 26

Marylands nice comeback against UVA - which none of us were able to watch because both teams sucked too much to be on local TV

(actually, this video kinda sucks...bad editing, bad switches of music, but still, if you hadnt seen any of the plays, here ya go)

10/17/2006 11:15:00 AM | Permalink |

Monday, October 16, 2006

I love Google (sat night) and YouTube (today)

(for everyone at Ri Ra saturday)

10/16/2006 11:29:00 AM | Permalink |

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Random Weekend Post

Stuff from Digg and Gizmodo:

Colbert on Google buying YouTube

* Blue Screen of Death Top 10

* Top 5 most creative ads

10/14/2006 08:20:00 PM | Permalink |

Friday, October 13, 2006

Oregon Trail

Good Ol Oregon trail....

Play Oregon Trail on the web through an Apple Emulator.
(doesnt work on firefox apparently....yeah you gotta break out IE)

10/13/2006 03:34:00 PM | Permalink |

Ethan Alibright - worst player in Madden 2007

I first read this fake letter on my MD Message board two days ago, then Colin sent me the link yesterday, and now deadspin posted an entry about it...and every time I read it I laugh, so I will finally post it...

Ethan Albright Strikes Back

Hi, John, my name is Ethan Albright. I play line for the Washington Redskins. You probably already knew that, so I’ll continue. I am writing in regards to the overall player rating of 53 that I have received in Madden NFL Football 2007. I feel that this is fucking bullshit and you should kiss my mother-fucking ass. Ahmed Carroll was rated a 78 and the Packers just cut his ass on a Tuesday morning after his performance in a Monday night game. That is pretty terrible. The worst part is that his overall rating was sniffing 80.

- It’s also pretty wonderful that my awareness rating was 59. You make it sound like I wake up in the morning, helplessly shit and piss myself, then lose three of my teeth before I discover that I am trying to eat a rock for breakfast.

- I have received the impression that you feel that I am lacking in the agility category. I should consider a walk through my living room where I don’t crash trough a wall or kick over furniture a resounding success. My agility rating on your game is 33. It makes it sound like I just topple over if I start walking too fast. Ted Washington is rated a 40 in agility. He is listed at 365 ponds. If Ted Washington tied a white lady up and made her wear a metal bikini, he’d look just like Jabba the Hut.

-John, you are such a fucking dick. I also noticed that my kick return rating was a 0. I was rated a fucking zero? So you feel that I shouldn’t even receive a 10, or even a 5? You are pretty much saying that I couldn’t even fall forward on a ball kicked in my direction. I would just stand there and let the ball bounce off of my fucking face. Fuck that, John, I returned an onside kick 6 yards in 2002.

** Update **
colin h (3:16:50 PM): you should link the espn article with quotes from the real Albright in your blog
colin h (3:16:55 PM): http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=hruby/060906
colin h (3:17:01 PM): plus its a pretty good article

10/13/2006 11:30:00 AM | Permalink |

Gilbert Arenas Rules

The Pathology of Gilbert Arenas

ABSTRACT: A pseudo-psychotherapeutic assessment that attempts to shed light on the eclectic nature and unique brain chemistry of the NBA's most unheralded superstar.

GREAT Esquire feature story on Gilbert Arenas....a must read. I wasn't going to read the actual story but then I read these two blog posts about the interview

1) The DC Sports Bog which pointed out 9 interesting points, my favorite:

9) Gil: "When I get a new cell phone, first thing I do is turn it off and call from my house phone and leave stupid little messages to myself. Like: "It's me." "It's me." "This is Gilbert." "It's me." "It's Gilbert." I just fill it up, so no one can leave messages."

and

2) the mighty mjd sports blog which points out that gilbert has a clean colon
"I’ll watch infomercials. The last thing I bought was this colon cleanser. I just got talked into it. I’m like, Man, he makes it sound so good."

You gotta love Gilbert Arenas.

10/13/2006 11:27:00 AM | Permalink |

Thursday, October 12, 2006

The Church of....

I may have finally found religion.

10/12/2006 11:08:00 AM | Permalink |

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Why you will vote Repub in 2006 - 100 words or less

I originally got this from wonkette - redstate.com is having a contest where in people submit in 100 words or less, why they will vote republican in 2006. The page was noticed on Fark and has resulted in some quality submissions:

Hot. Gay. Teen. Sex.
Clinton failed to prevent the death of Steve Irwin.
I vote republican because I want close minded religious fanatics trying to push their beliefs through laws. Trying to abolish freedom from government, the very idea this country was founded on.

Check them out in:
- the comments to the original redstate post
- the fark.com thread
- wonkette.com 's picks

10/11/2006 10:47:00 AM | Permalink |

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

UMD Sex Class

The Washington Post has a little story about the popular sex education class at UMD - the good one with Sawyer, not the crappy one with the dude who made you all take pages and pages of notes (haha sucks to be you guys). Anyway, this was one of the most entertaining classes at Maryland.

(I think its funny that the quotes from the article are the exact same lines I remember him saying in '02)

Beyond the Birds and the Bees
U-Md. Professor Puts the Human Element Into Sex Education

10/10/2006 04:55:00 PM | Permalink |

Ring King

A few of us at work watched the end of the sports bloopers YouTube video...and could not figure out what exactly is going on in the end. Seriously...whats this actually supposed to be??? I mean the "clean"/actual version of what is going on??

Really - I have NO idea....

10/10/2006 04:15:00 PM | Permalink |

Sports Bloopers

Why did I find this hilarious...

(from deadspin.com)

Sports Bloopers

10/10/2006 01:04:00 PM | Permalink |

Monday, October 09, 2006

"Thank You"

Prolly the only person who will find this interesting is Kyle who most likely heard this song like 3 weeks ago...but this was my first listen, and i think its a pretty good song
"Thank You"

(yeah im a big xzibit fan - since At the Speed of Life (the first enhanced cd) )

My favorite xzibit song though:

"Paparazzi"

10/09/2006 10:48:00 PM | Permalink |

Google Lovefest

Now that Google has bought YouTube...I guess I'm back to Google Lovefest

(from Gizmodo)

That is all.
(I worry about what will happen to YouTube now...I predict much more content will be taken down)

10/09/2006 10:04:00 PM | Permalink |

Sunday, October 08, 2006

Dolemite Jenkins

Vote for Santana

10/08/2006 01:47:00 PM | Permalink |

Thursday, October 05, 2006

Victorious Skins

Chris Paul's Redskins song for this week

Victorious Skins

10/05/2006 07:28:00 PM | Permalink |

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Fair and Balanced

(from wonkette)

** UPDATE **

The AP did it too

10/04/2006 11:54:00 AM | Permalink |

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Maf54

(From John)

Full text of Mark Foleys IMs from slate.com.....

Rep. Mark Foley, IM Jockey

ABC News, which broke the story, has posted a sample of the IMs that prompted Foley's hasty decision to vacate his office. It is a 2003 exchange with a former page who was then still a minor. The IM appears below and on the following eight pages. Warning: It is moderately raunchy. (For a less explicit example of Rep. Foley's e-mail correspondence, click here.) Perhaps the most shocking revelation is that Rep. Foley doesn't know how to spell "bulge."

10/03/2006 09:41:00 PM | Permalink |

"Schecter Takes GOP Hack To School"

Entertaining...

10/03/2006 09:39:00 PM | Permalink |

One Year of Unnecessary Censorship

(From Justin)

10/03/2006 10:23:00 AM | Permalink |

Monday, October 02, 2006

Brian Williams on Weekend Update

Supposedly the only funny skit on the SNL premiere last week:

10/02/2006 11:48:00 PM | Permalink |

Hail to the Redskins

a lot of posts for me today......

ah how i love having season tickets!

10/02/2006 03:27:00 PM | Permalink |

The Wire Lovefest continues

Blogosphere has fallen in love with 'The Wire'

For the online arbiters of cool, The Wire has arrived.

Accolades for David Simon's Baltimore-based crime drama, now in its fourth season, are spreading across the Internet like a West-Side drug war.

"In case you haven't heard, The Wire is the best show on television today, maybe the apotheosis of the form," wrote The Huffington Post's Anya Kamenetz last week.

"The Wire ... is surely the best TV show ever broadcast in America," echoed Slate editor Jacob Weisberg.

Prominent blogger Jason Kottke's fervor for the show has reached evangelical levels. He's been tracking every development of the show - on and off the screen - for several weeks now. "In my opinion, The Wire is one of the very best television shows ever," he wrote recently.

See the trend here? The superlatives are flying, but there's also something else interesting going on - people are thinking about the show and its larger cultural, social and political themes: rampant poverty; urban decay; drug addiction and crime; corrupt politics; and the dangers of entrenched bureaucracies.

10/02/2006 03:11:00 PM | Permalink |

5ive

(from the DC sports Bog)

Leadin advertisement for the Adidas 5ive campaign with features KG, Tracy McGrady, Tim Duncan, Chauncy Billups and most importantly Gilbert Arenas

(I post this just because I'm happy to finally see Gilbert in some national marketing)

ah and Gilbert's G-Zero shoe coming this fall:

10/02/2006 03:03:00 PM | Permalink |

Virginia is for....losers

Senate Race Already Has One Loser: Va.'s Image
Gaffes Get Laughs But Cause Damage

RICHMOND -- Virginia is taking it on the chin these days.

....

And its U.S. Senate race has become daily fodder for late-night talk show hosts, international gossip rags, partisan blogs and television comedians.

"In Virginia, it has its upside, being considered racist," joked Jon Stewart on Wednesday night on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," noting the latest allegations that Sen. George Allen (R) had once used a racial epithet.

The next night, Stewart was at it again, this time chuckling over Allen's excuse for once displaying a Confederate flag: that he was rebellious in his youth.

"Since when is hoisting a Confederate flag in Virginia rebellious?" Stewart asked, his incredulous expression prompting guffaws from the studio audience.

10/02/2006 01:29:00 PM | Permalink |

Bubb Rubb & Lil Sis

"The whistles go woooooWOOOOOO!

Scott [12:52 PM]: hahaha.. watch this.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00_RTN-JTyE

Blogs are Stupid

"Straight Cash Homie" "Wheres the Cake?" "And boom goes the dynamite"