soupy says

I first discovered the website Cockeyed via the author’s expose of those “work from home” signs you see everywhere.

I kept coming back to read about his fabulous, simply fabulous pranks.

And the the tipping of the 1987 Acura Integra is just awesome.

You could spend hours exploring his site.

Now this gem. Rob, the author, discovered that you can actually receive a credit card by sending in a taped-up application with a cell phone number, and then have the card mailed to a different address.*

Rob’s site is beauty of the web. Of course, with this beauty, there is also Bee Dogs, but I guess sometimes you have enough beauty and just need dogs in bee costumes.

*Oh, and do you think that sales people actually look at your signature on the receipt and/or credit card? Think again.

Today, on “Good Morning America,” Diane Sawyer said

The Shaggy Dog is a tribute to the man-dog relationship.

One word: awesome.

A Texas bankruptcy judge replied to a Defendant’s motion with a ruling that concluded, “The Defendant’s motion is accordingly denied for incomprehensibility1.” With the following footnote:

1 Or, in the words of the competition judge to Adam Sandler’s title character in the movie “Billy Madison,” after Billy Madison had responded to a question with an answer that sounded superficially reasonable but lacked any substance,

Mr Madison, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I’ve ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response was there anything that could even be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Deciphering motions like the one presented here wastes valuable chamber staff time, and invites this sort of footnote.

It is always interesting when you google. You almost always find something interesting that you weren’t even looking for.

TwentySomething: Strategic Planning and Market Research

TWENTYSOMETHING™ Inc. is a prestigious, world-renowned marketing/strategy consultancy that uniquely bridges corporate goals with the realities of today’s young adults.

And here are the categories for the demographic they will help companies reach:

Generation Y · Generation X · Teenagers · College Students · Adultolescents · Urban Youth
Millenials · Boomerangs · First-Jobbers · Young Professionals · Emerging Market · Newlyweds

Hm. Am I Generation Y or a Millenial? I know I am a Boomerang. And a First-Jobber.

This reminds me of a Frontline episode that I think is required viewing for every COM major: The Merchants of Cool. Poke around the TwentySomething webside. Then watch the Frontline episode (the entire program is online).

Class dismissed.

Man, I wish the US Navy had recruitment videos like this. (video link)

US Plans Massive Data Sweep

It would collect a vast array of corporate and public online information - from financial records to CNN news stories - and cross-reference it against US intelligence and law-enforcement records.

Unhappy about this? Well, let “The Daily Show” prove you wrong. In this classic clip, Stephen Colbert shows us how the curtailing of our civil liberties doesn’t have to be oppressive.

The BEAST 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2005
It deserves a mention for just for the fellowing entry:

27. Ann Coulter

Charges: The fact that Coulter is considered desirable by Republicans belies their sick and masochistic nature. We saw Coulter in person this year, and she is a revolting skeleton with a boob job and a grotesquely oversized head, who feeds only on the hatred of her target audience, liberals. Only redeeming quality is that she is impossible to take seriously–really more of a shock comic than a political commentator, whether she knows it or not.

Exhibit A: “I’m getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties.”

Sentence: Confined to Mississippi, forever banned from interacting with the lefty intellectuals she lives to antagonize.

But the rest of the list is pretty fun as well. The picture for Bill O’Reilly (number 10) is fantastic, and I wholeheartedly agree with number 1.

Uh oh. I have rediscovered the Bravo network.

This evening I spent my time watching To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, two episodes of “Project Runway,” and “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.” Also, I forgot that Bravo seems to be the only station that shows ads for Orbitz’s Gay Travel specials.

I do want to say, in my defense, that while I wasted precious brain cells on shit television, I crafted and made paper beads. Well, until my glue stick died that is.