Is It Friday Yet?

Contrary wisdom: limitations actually unlock doors to thinking. For a small illustration, look at this blog’s 22 word maximum (and minimum).

This just in: McSweeney’s is reporting a possible Flight 1549 conspiracy:

Following the accident, US Airways stock shot up 13 percent. You know who works for that company? The pilot and crew of Flight 1549.

Yesterday was pretty nasty, all right. Rain, rain, wind, rain, threats of record floods, rain, dogs and cats living together, rain, spam eggs sausage and rain, etc. So here’s the morning paper, presented slightly out of context:

This is absolutely brilliant. All you need to know for the foreseeable future.

I wonder what chain of events brought this about.

The good news: researchers at Honda have unveiled a set of robotic legs to assist disabled walkers.

The bad news? It looks like this:

Barack Obama has been named Advertising Age magazine’s 2008 Marketer of the Year, handily beating out such brands as Apple, Nike, and Coors.

The fact itself amuses me a bit, but no matter what your politics are you should find the amount of effort and money going toward getting him (and yes, McCain) elected disturbing. Nearly one billion dollars for the two candidates combined at last count.

My brother sends this from the Disney California Adventure, noting “Strange name for a restroom:”

September 19th is Talk Like a Pirate Day. Here’s a crash course in pirate-speak.

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the earth yet?

Update: this page beat the other one to it by a few hours:

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?

(They both have RSS feeds too. Nerds.)

It’s one thing to be curious about the date your toilet was made, and another thing to catalog it: Toilet birthdays.