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sooooo funny...

First Video: Bwhahahaha! Seems like something crazy to do! I liked the team tetris, poor dude though on the last one.

Second Video: Holy Shiet! That random dude off the street can really sing. What the hell is he doing selling cellphones?

Third Video: Not university physics again!

to further plug the McSweeny's sale...

check out their t-shirts:

wow... I didn't know whales could live to be this old...

imagine carrying a fragment of a weapon someone shot at you in your skin ... for a century...

This is a pretty good intro to crazy quantum physics

Schwarzenegger's an interesting politician. In spite of all the ridiculousness that surrounded his initial election (the dozens of opponents, the idiotic "Governator" branding), he really seems to have found his own way. The quiet story of the US elections last fall is that he won quite handily in a real campaign (I think the margin was something like a million votes.)

Maybe all that rhetoric about not needing to tie himself to special interests actually meant something. I mean, how many politicians would be willing to publicly that their great political inspiration (especially after having married into the Kennedy family) was Nixon?

He's definitely not afraid to do what he thinks is right (his emergence on the environment, and his strong climate change stance is definitely a departure from his party affiliation.) Should be interesting to see how the rest of his term plays not, not to mention where he heads once he hits his gubernatorial term limit in 2010.

Maybe I haven't given this _____ Has Talent thing a fair shake. This video is about as feel-good as I've seen from reality TV, but I have a gnawing feeling it's not a common occurrence on shows like these:

well, Arnie just made a very good impression on me...

he's on the Hour with George Strombolopolous... and said that he didn't get elected to be governor by the republican party, he got elected by the people, and so he does what the people want/need him to do, not the republican party. i'm impressed.

programa tetris japoneses:

One last thing on the whole meta-story of Paris Hilton coverage, and then I'll be done.

On June 8, 1972, Nick Ut snapped this infamous image, which followed an American napalm attack on the Vietnamese village of Trang Bang. It became a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph, and remains a defining image of that war.

On June 8, 2007, the same photographer is taking this image of the world's most famous hotel heiress in a police car on her way to court, while another disastrous war has the United States mired in a nation on the other side of world.

I get the sense that the second image will define the present war, albeit in a completely different way.