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sports

Another Winter Olympics 2014 Entry: Hoth

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This candidate city web site for the 2014 Hoth Winter Olympics is pure genius.

Whether it involves American Idol or fallen idols (Michelle Kwan and Bode Miller) it appears the Olympics are getting less and less popular with the American public.
In order to revive the Winter Games and to help NBC out of their rating nosedive we devised the following plan that would grab a hold of the public consciousness here in the US as well as viewers around the world.
We believe the 2014 XXII Winter Olympiad (the 2010 Games have already been awarded to Vancouver) should be hosted and held on the ice planet made famous in Star Wars Episode V…Hoth

A good article describes how it came about.

politics

From The Are You Kidding Me? Department

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Scholastic recently signed a deal with Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts to write a children’s book about his dog. Mr. Kennedy famously drove his car off a bridge in 1969 in what is know as the Chappaquiddick incident. He landed in the water. A young woman, Mary Jo Kopechne, drowned. His dog is named “Splash.” I am not making this up.

ramblings

Do You Take This Goat to be Your Lawfully Wedded Wife?

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A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his “wife”, after he was caught having sex with the animal. I love this world! After the jump, read the text in case the BBC takes down the article…
Happy Friday!
A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his “wife”, after he was caught having sex with the animal. The goat’s owner, Mr Alifi, said he surprised the man with his goat and took him to a council of elders. They ordered the man, Mr Tombe, to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($50) to Mr Alifi.
“We have given him the goat, and as far as we know they are still together,” Mr Alifi said.
Mr Alifi, Hai Malakal in Upper Nile State, told the Juba Post newspaper that he heard a loud noise around midnight on 13 February and immediately rushed outside to find Mr Tombe with his goat.
“When I asked him: ‘What are you doing there?’, he fell off the back of the goat, so I captured and tied him up”.
Mr Alifi then called elders to decide how to deal with the case.
“They said I should not take him to the police, but rather let him pay a dowry for my goat because he used it as his wife,” Mr Alifi told the newspaper.

politics

"What Was Reported" Versus "The Truth"

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Let me sound like Maxwell Smart when I say, would you believe that the 16 year old from Florida who went to Iraq on a “journalism” assignment for school never was enrolled in a journalism class because his school didn’t offer one? That his parents sent a note to school saying he’d be gone during that period even though it was reported that they had no clue he was gone? Would it surprise you to learn his father was arrested for forging 2,000 Iraqi passports and might have been attempting to forge 2,000 more? Here is an article with more about this story.
Via Marla

tech

Free "Sunday" Silenced

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After the jump, read about how NBC has frozen the viral “Lazy Sunday” wildfire. Man are they missing the boat.
via Jessie
PS – to my loyal readers: sorry for the absense of posts lately. I actually have been quite busy as I resigned from my job to take a new one (my last day is this Friday and have been busy transfering my brain to others), started a new semester of b-school, am working on a big freelance opportunity AND just got back from 5 days in sunny St. Maarten. Be patient – more good posts are on the way…
NBC freezes wildfire spread of ‘Lazy Sunday’
Reported by Media Life
It looked like the perfect example of a viral marketing success story. Unfortunately, the source did not agree. When fans put a skit from “Saturday Night Live” called “Lazy Sunday” onto video-sharing sites, it was watched up to 5 million times on YouTube alone, according to reports. The video, which featured Chris Parnell and Any Samberg, may have provided “SNL” with a lot of free publicity, but NBC Universal has asked for it to be withdrawn from YouTube, along with 500 other clips featuring NBC programming, in order to protect its copyrights, says the New York Times. It is not uncommon for postings on video-sharing sites to contain copyright protected material. However, to date the sites have not faced many problems over this issue. NBC’s action over the “SNL” video, which is now available free on the NBC site or for $1.99 from iTunes, shows the problems that could confront video-sharing sites like YouTube and Google Video now that the networks themselves are getting into on-demand

politics

Truthiness Is Tearing Apart Our Country

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“Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don’t mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don’t know whether it’s a new thing, but it’s certainly a current thing, in that it doesn’t seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that’s not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It’s certainty. People love the president because he’s certain of his choices as a leader, even if the facts that back him up don’t seem to exist. It’s the fact that he’s certain that is very appealing to a certain section of the country. I really feel a dichotomy in the American populace. What is important? What you want to be true, or what is true?” – Stephen Colbert, from an interview with the Onion in its AV Club section. The rest of the interview is even better.
Via Chris

music

James Lipton recites K-Fed's PopoZao

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Even though this post is filed under “music,” PopoZao, Kevin Federline’s new soon to be hit single (because shit’s a hit if its played enough these days) should not be classified as music. Chris posted this MTV clip of K-Fed grooving to his own song at a sound board and while many in the blogosphere are full of schadenfreude about it, what the hell would you look like grooving to your own song at a sound board? I probably would look just as silly. A better thing to watch would be James Lipton reciting the words to this inane song on Conan.
In other related news, I love the K-Fed moniker because its the first non-hispanic usage of the “first initial first name, first syllable last name” type nickname I’ve seen in the entertainment world. K-Mart was the first in the sports world (A-Rod, I-Rod, K-Rod and F-Rod all came before him) and even though I only know of J-Lo in the show biz world, (P. Diddy does not count and not because he has a period instead of a dash, rather because Diddy is not short for Combs) K-Fed does break new ground. I’m mulling the switch to J-Lip as we speak.

politics

State of the Onion

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This year both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union Address fall on the same day. As Air America Radio pointed out, “It is an ironic juxtaposition: one involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to a creature of little intelligence for prognostication, and the other involves a groundhog.”

Via Moeller