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It’s called How to Land an A330 Airbus; And Other Vital Skills For the Modern Man, and it’s being excerpted:

Telegraph – James May: how to woo with music Women will swoon at your feet if you play them Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata – and, says James May, it’s surprisingly easy to learn

There is a very [...]

Categories: Art and Literature

“I love the internet sometimes”:

Auto-Tune the News Hits the Billboard Top 100

Watch the videos. The first half of the first one if you haven’t seen it already, then the second one, then go find a dsl line and hug it.

Categories: Electronics

I think I’d intended this for yesterday, but it’s a good thing I forgot because lord, there is nothing going on. But this was quite hilarious:

If you’ve ever traveled by budget airline, and I’m an American so I never have, you’ll really appreciate it.

Categories: Business & Media

Yesterday as I was pulling into Target, Radio 1 (still have the free Sirius radio in my car) played Jay Z’s Empire State of Mind, which is a very good song, but which I didn’t need to have in my head all day (especially as I mostly just loop the Alicia Keys bits over and [...]

Categories: Entertainment

And not in an ironic way? Anyway, this is just the most BOOTEEFUL story:

By day, he worked on the sites, by night he’d gig at the working men’s clubs. Within six years he was managing himself out of the phone box at the end of his road, gigging around the clubs of South [...]

Categories: Entertainment

Those of you (most of you) who don’t play this game won’t get this, but this is OUTRAGEOUS: PLANTS VS ZOMBIES IPHONE PULLS MICHAEL JACKSON ZOMBIE, OTHERS TO FOLLOW

It’s a vaguely Michael Jackson-looking zombie doing the thriller dance. What a bunch of GREEDY GUSSES.

Categories: Entertainment

What else could unite Trekkies, the Israeli Defense Force, and the Simpsons, all on the same day (honestly, the Simpsons one is the only one I came across because I was looking at the others; the other two were purely coincidentally and nearly sequentially discovered)

And, you know, just cuz, here’s the original Ke$ha “Tik Tok”:

Honestly, [...]

Categories: Entertainment

Telegraph – Muslim pupils ‘withdrawn from music lessons’ Muslim children are being withdrawn from music lessons because some families believe learning an instrument is anti-Islamic, it has emerged.

A number of schools are allowing Muslim parents to pull their children out of classes, even though the subject is a formal part of the national curriculum. [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Curtsies, who else? Vanderleun

Categories: Entertainment

Mark Steyn’s Song of the Week is unique this week cuz it’s a song I’ve played. Played a lot. (We did Guys & Dolls my junior year in high school)

Steyn Online – LUCK BE A LADY Song of the Week #173 by Frank Loesser

Categories: Entertainment

Ladies and gentlemen, observe the new Cold War:

President Obama and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev at Ray’s Hell Burger in DC (click for photo)

Like the Muppets!

Categories: Politics

Today I got stuck in THE WORST traffic jam, but my car has 6 months of satellite radio so I was listening to Radio One playing its late Friday night dance mixes, and the DJ announced this to be the hit dance song of the summer, Yolanda Be Cool – We No Speak Americano:

Which is [...]

Categories: Entertainment

Rat Staring Contest With Background Music

Categories: Science and Nature

And I don’t think I’ve heard this song since I heard Mickey Mouse MC-ing it on a drive to Canada when I was about 8 years old.

The Armed Forces Medley, which I’m just getting to now from Memorial Day:

I wonder if they still make that tape.

Curtsy: RC2’s Google Reader.

Categories: War and Peace

And this one, because the subject is of endless fascination to me, features rather heavily the Japanese obsession with Christian churches:

I love especially the bit where she’s dipping her fingers in the holy water. I suppose it looks about the same to us as Madonna with Sanskrit all over her hands in her Yoga [...]

Categories: Entertainment