Today is the shared birthday of Sharon Stone, Shannon Tweed, Chuck Norris, Olivia Wilde, Carrie Underwood, Eva Herzigova, and Osama Bin Laden; as always, Google found a subtle way of working it into their logo:
Today is the 20th anniversary of Dr. Antonia Novello's swearing in as the first female Surgeon General of the United States, and as always, Google found a subtle way of working it into their logo:
Today is International Women's Day, and as always, Google found a subtle way of working it into their logo:
The Academy Awards were handed out yesterday, but one film was overlooked, though it dealt with the Iraq war, featured a well-known leading man testing his acting skills by playing a villain, and was only slightly less racist than Precious:
And finally, we have definitive proof that the internet will never replace the newspaper:
Go to film school? Hire actors? Study animation? Get paid?
Why do all that when you could just go to Xtranormal and create fully animated movies like the standby 2log classic Chuck, Duck, or Marry starring Tom Stoppard and Maddona?
(note: the automated voice actors had some understandable difficulties with phrases like "deez nizutz in yo mutha trucking mizouf!", but I'm sure you all know the scene by heart anyway)
"Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973, but your average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever. The only thing that's different is me; I've become bitter, and let's face it, crazy over the years. And once I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat, and I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place. Muahahaha!"
As someone with half a BA in Communication, I was taught that "dog bites man" = not news, but "man bites dog" = news. Similarly, if a man is seen riding a horse, no one really cares, but if a monkey is seen riding a lamb - that's youtube gold, my friends. Therefore, we may present the following table:
So according to this table, a killer whale killing is not news, it's just sad and terrible, or as Rick "Dirty" Sanchez would put it, "an awesome day at work." By the way, the fact that Rick Sanchez ran over a pedestrian while driving under the influence, causing his paralysis and later death, actually is news.
