Three versions of Baby Got Back (by Sir Mix-a-Lot). My friend Jen exposed me to Jonathan Coulton today (he’s very talented and very funny), and his thoughtful acoustic version of this timeless classic brought up a couple videos on YouTube.
Gotta love YouTube.
Jen’s original recommendation was Code Monkey (here’s a live version), a Jonathan Coulton song about being a VB programmer.
The guy who claims to have started the rumor years ago that Barack Obama is Muslim has reversed course, now claiming that he’s not Muslim but is instead the illegitimate son of a civil rights leader (that’s a CNN video). If this would make the Muslim thing go away, I’d almost welcome it. But it won’t — we’ll just have another bucket of made-up nonsense to listen to from all the knuckleheads who get their news from Rush Limbaugh and that strange guy at work with all the pamphlets.
Just noticed this story about McCain’s people getting more and more upset about how Sarah Palin is conducting herself. I will offer no opinion beyond a very soft “ha ha.”
Check it out. The CGI is fun, but the dude who does the all-hands windmill at about 1:34 (not digitally enhanced) is what floored me. The animation is neat, but that’s freaky.
This is cool — Eddie Adcock, bluegrass banjo player, had a tremor repaired through brain surgery. This is footage of the surgery, as they tune his brain to match what he expects his hands to do. He gets worse and better as they crank up (or turn down) the power to the part of his brain responsible for the tremor. Neat. Scary for him, but neat.
Just finally saw Juno tonight. I know I’m probably sounding like an old man, but I thought the best part about the movie (a movie in which EVERYONE was played well and the story was interesting) was Juno’s parents. They were masterfully written and well acted by J.K. Simmons (J. Jonah Jameson in Spiderman) and Allison Janney (C.J. Craig on The West Wing) — totally different from what Hollywood usually belches forth to pass for parents of disaffected and/or pregnant teenagers, and completely believable. Get it and watch it — it goes fast and it’s really well put together.
The National Debt Clock in New York City has run out of digits. They’re using the dollar sign spot for the moment, and will soon add more digits to the sign so it can track up to a quadrillion dollars. Lordy.
My friend Doug (say hi, Doug) posted a link to this article a few weeks ago. I didn’t really read it carefully until tonight (I know, bad friend), but when I did I realized that it’s fascinating. Much time has passed (not to mention one vice-presidential and two presidential debates), but it’s a very interesting take on Obama vs. McCain.