This seemed pertinent

Slate's Procrastination Issue

24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot

I've never even seen the show 24, but I was laughing hard at this vision of what the show would have been like if the characters were limited to the technology of 1994.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMLH_QyPTYM

"Dammit George, you picked up the phone while I was doing the Internet!"

Seriously though, I'm pretty sure Mulder and Scully did have cellphones smaller than bricks even in circa 1994 episodes of the X-Files. But I guess that may have been thanks to alien technology...

When Obama becomes Prez...

Similar to the bicycle one.

when did they become the grand old communist party?

Early this fall my fair city is expecting an influx of tens of thousands of assholes Republican delegates. So I was checking the RNC's official convention site to see how worried I should be that my contributions to Barry Obama's presidential campaign might get me kicked out of the city, or bound and gagged and thrown in a holding cell, for the duration of the convention, and I happened to notice a strange and curious sight.

In the smack dabbin middle of the home page is a link that says--for reals--"Keep It Green." Seriously. And it links to some story about assholes RNC staffers, like, cleaning up a river. And I was all, BUT I THOUGHT THEY THOUGHT THE FREE MARKET IS GOING TO SOLVE CLIMATE CHANGE WTF ASSHOLES GOP YOU ARE CHANGING THE RULES OF THE GAME! Head. Spinning.

Honestly, I am perplexed. When did the GOP get infiltrated by a bunch of pinkos and how did MSNBC not catch it?

Walk in the Woods (not the book)

So, I'm walking in the woods last weekend, and thinking how nice the solitary life is (read lonely), and I'm walking by empty campsite after empty campsite, and I say to myself (since there is no one else to talk to) that these campsites must be enjoying the solitary life as well, but then I have a sudden epiphany (not my second cousin) that there used to be a rowdy bunch of people, who, shushed people for a living, that were actually onced shushed by Ranger Bob, and the thought occurred to me that perhaps, just perhaps, someday, some how, some way, that group could be brought back together, reunited as it were, to bring information to the very trees, upon which a lifetime of information is written and then distributed to the masses, if only this were possible, then as suddenly as the thought came, it dissipated with the forest mist, and I continued upon the path alone.

Librarian Dress Up

Have you all seen this? This is my favorite combination so far.