Daddy's swimmin in the ocean
Mommy's hangin on the beach
Sister's standin with a boyfriend
Everybody's out of reach

The prime minister is boring
And the president is lame
Now I'm looking out my window
Everybody looks the same

Take a monkey to the office
Put a bunny in a box
Eat an apple in the morning
Make some money selling stocks

When there's purple in the sunset
And there's laughter in the rain
Go and climb the highest mountain
You and I are both insane

--Me

This post is awesomely vulgar, but very, very funny. Please don't think less of me for sharing:

A Playlist For Life's "Special" Moments

If you know why this is funny, then I am proud to have you as a friend of mine, sir (or madam):
http://digg.com/tech_news/unfortunate_placement_of_yahoo_ad

So I've been reading digg alot. Please tell me you've heard of it. It's the cool 'social' nerd news site. Basically, thousands of people submit stories/links from around the Internet. Then, supposedly, everyone 'diggs' the stories that they find most interesting, and those make it to the front page. In reality, it's like 20 people that have no lives constantly digging everything. Anyways. I've found that I can't read Slashdot anymore. I don't know why. I think it's because digg is just so lovably populist/trashy. Slashdot is Time magazine to digg's People. It's junk news for nerds. Slashdot will run stories like "DRM chip embedded inside of Xbox 360 revealed", while digg is like "XBox pukes at Wii's birthday party (PICTURES!!)".

Anyways, I've been trying for a long time to come up with the best stereotypical, all-encompassing, prototype, guaranteed-to-be-hall-of-fame digg article title. Here are some that I've come up with, feel free (please!?) leave your ideas in the comments.

• iPod controlled by Wii interface
• Scientists: Ubuntu is a product of evolution
• Steve Jobs pissing on a PS3 (PIC)
• 37 ways to get an article on digg
• KDE 4 with CygJiis2, FraNET, XXGL 1.5.7a download
• 88 new AWESOME bittorrent sites
• How digg is totally rigged

I don't know. None of them are the #1 uber headline that I thought I could come up with. How about YOU (3D animation of finger coming out of computer screen)??

You know, I really don't appreciate the assault on the Catholic Church in modern times. When you think about it, it's really not in humankind's best interests to disparage or weaken the institution. The Catholic Church has been the front line of defense against all manners of the supernatural and occult for thousands of years. If the Pope goes down, and I get bitten by a freakin' werewolf, I'm coming for YOU, Amanda Marcotte

Speaking of which, I had a dream last night that there existed a charismatic young left-wing senator who wasn't afraid to speak pragmatically about the issues. Politics are a lot like comic books. Everybody has got this huge back story, which becomes largely unimportant for the purposes of a single episodic installment. For the people who follow it, they've got their favorites and...dis-favorites for one reason or another. "Oh HIM? Don't you know he voted against NAN-OPA in '88?" It's tough for the casual fan not to feel intimidated in this environment, which is probably why we like the so-called 'fresh faces' of Edwards and Obama (can YOU spot who's got the cooler video page?). Politics even has its super villains.