Archive for April, 2008

On Thursday’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart discussed guest Colin Firth’s penis at length.

Via Pharyngula by way of Splendid Elles, the Expelled people are doing a poll on their MySpace (TheirSpace?) on whether “Intelligent Design” should be taught in schools. “No” currently has almost 90% of the vote.
Well, what are you waiting for? Go! Move ‘zig’!

Wut, u thot it was ownlee for kittehs?
CNN: Custom wetsuit protects patchy penguin
Pierre, a venerable 25 years old, was going bald, which left him with an embarrassingly exposed, pale pink behind.
Unlike marine mammals, which have a layer of blubber to keep them warm, penguins rely on their waterproof feathers. Without them, Pierre was unwilling [...]

I’ve taken this test several times, always with the same result.
Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis
You approach Satan’s wretched city where you behold a wide plain surrounded by iron walls. Before you are fields full of distress and torment terrible. Burning tombs are littered about the landscape. Inside these flaming sepulchers suffer [...]

You know why? ‘Cause Mecca is the “center of the Earth!” Yeah, even though it’s, in fact, no where near the actual center of the planet (that would be the molten core in the middle, guys).
BBC: Muslim call to adopt Mecca time
One geologist argued that unlike other longitudes, Mecca’s was in perfect alignment to [...]

God damnit. You have now officially ruined “Win Ben Stein’s Money” for me. I hope you’re happy.
Via Sandwalk.

And if they don’t have the technology, can we give it to them?
Religion News Blog: Muslim plan to tackle extremists
Potential terrorists should be sent to rehabilitation centres and deradicalised by exposure to intense and substantial periods of genuine piety, Britain’s first counter-extremism thinktank said yesterday.
The recommendation came from the Quilliam Foundation, established by former activists [...]

Barack Obama is officially, certifiably, cool.
Exhibit A: Barack Obama appears on the Colbert Report and puts “manufactured political distractions” ON NOTICE. I’m not sure which I heartily approve of more, his willingness to call the press on their bullshit, or the suspicion I now have that he regularly watches the Report.

Exhibit B: Obama makes a [...]

*counts* NINE! We’re number nine!
Scientologists are number ten.

And, hey, Methodists are number one. I used to be number one! Woo!
Via toomanytribbles.

Last night, Jon Stewart discussed Obama’s “bitter” gaffe and Hillary’s attempts to woo the redneck voters, and pointed out something that should be obvious: Shouldn’t we want our President to be better than us?!
Epic lulz are at the end of the video, 7 1/2 minutes in.