Monthly Archives: January 2011

– Boxing: On Saturday, Timothy Bradley (26-0, KO 11, WBO Champion) takes on Devon Alexander (21-0, KO 13, WBC Champion) to unify the WBO and the WBC junior welterweight belts (140lbs).  This match is a lot bigger than you think it is.  Here are some of the previous ten boxers to hold the WBC title: Roger Mayweather, Julio Cesar Chavez, Oscar De La Hoya, Kostya Tzyu, Arturo Gatti, Floyd Mayweather Jr., and Timothy Bradley.  Bradley was stripped of the WBC belt “less than a month after unfying” the WBO and the WBC in 2009, for failure to agree to fight the number one contender at the time, Devon Alexander (bwaaaaa!).  If this shit was going on in the heavyweight division, two American boxers fighting for the crown, e’ruhbuddy would know about it.  Alas, it’s two “boxers” (not fighters) fighting in the Silverdome (yes, it still exists) in Detroit (yes, it still exists) on HBO.  (Technically, the fight is really in Pontiac, Michigan, if you need driving directions.)

– Got Verizon? Want the iPhone?  Here’s “Everything You Need to Know About the Verizon iPhone and Making the Switch“.  Also, does everyone think AT&T is fucked?  From the article, here’s what it might cost you to switch:

At most, a $325 Early Termination Fee (ETF); at the minimum, something around $50, if you’re perhaps a month away from the finish. You can figure it out more precisely using Wolfram Alpha’s iPhone ETF calculator. Then there’s the $199 cost of buying a new iPhone which, while significantly reduced from the full unit price, is still no shake-off.

I dunno.  Sounds like a whole… thing.  Probably won’t be as bad as people think for AT&T.  Now getting cable and a cellphone plan cheaper if packaged together from Verizon (with the RedZone Channel, obvi)?  That could sway me.  (Gizmodo)

– Almost there: Let’s round up some seashells, because apparently they are being used to work on an invisibility cloak.  (Institute of Nanotechnology)

– Is this the Super Bowl forecast? Buchi is probably already taking over/under bets on this one:  (Brosnan)

– Muralo working on this? Touch-sensitive wall paint.  Touch it, and the lights go on.  I mean, go ahead and use it if you want to use inferior paint.  I’ll wait for Muralo’s version.  (Core77)

– Big knockers: Not tits, but a backyard pool game that was supposed to debut last year in California.  Never heard of it:  (The Daily What)

– Big Knockers: Yes tits.  Pornstar Sexy Cora died on January 20th after her sixth breast enlargement surgery.  RIP:  (CBS)

– T-Bell: I love Taco Bell.  There, I said it.  Anyway, someone in Alabama is suing the fast food chain because Taco Bell calls the stuff in their tacos beef.  According to the USDA, even “meat taco filling” should have at least 40% meat.  T-Hell?  36% meat (allegedly).  (Gizmodo)

– Self-sufficient: Want to make everything yourself?  Even a microwave?  Someone tried, and failed:  (Carpe Diem)

– He who smelt it gets stabbed in the motherfucking face: A man in Bristol, CT, stabbed four people (one fatally) after they made fun of his farts.  What a dick.  (Wooten)

– When’s the best time to buy shit? Here’s a link to an infographic that explains which months are best for buying shit you may or may not need.  February is best for tools, chocolate (after Valentine’s Day), and digital cameras.  (The World’s Best Ever)

– Ice: If you are in a warm climate and want to know what northerners are going through this winter, here’s some shots of ice by Gizmodo’s readers.  Like this one:  (Gizmodo)

– Fucking Florida: Five teenagers burglarized a home, stealing electronics and normal shit, but also ashes of the victim’s father and two Great Danes.  These geniuses then snorted the ashes, thinking them to be drugs.  Fortunately, the cops have recovered “most” of the remains.  (The Smoking Gun)

– Yup, this is my father: My dad’s a little pumped this week because the shit-transplant article he forwarded me, and I subsequently posted on this site a month ago, is starting to get picked up by real news sites.  Reuters interviewed the best shit-transplant doctor in the world, and then TIME and Fox News both picked it up.  So when you end up watching “Fecal Matters: How a pooh transplant is saving lives” on 60 Minutes, please think of the Blakes.  (Yup, when you think of shit, think of us… fuck, I need a better editor.)

– Penny on The Wire: My mom completed season one of The Wire last week (last I heard she was already four episodes into season 2) and absolutely loved what she saw.  I asked for her favorite character, she named three (The Bunk, Lester, and Omar), but no complete favorite (when I asked her to confirm this, she then named Daniels and Avon as well).  I asked for her favorite scene and she named The Bunk burning his clothes, D’Angelo explaining chess, “hey Mr. Nugget … I’m gonna write my clowny ass name on this big ass check for you”, and McNulty and The Bunk’s scene of “fuck”.  And that’s The Wire for you.

– Too many words: This post needs more tits:  (Fuck Yeah Brazilian Girls)

Probably needs ass for good measure:

And my mom wonders why I can’t keep a girlfriend.  This site cannot be helping.

– Boxing: I’ve only watched the pilot episode of Lights Out on FX (Tuesdays, 10 PM), but it was good enough for me to watch again.  The Devon Alexander/Timothy Bradley fight isn’t until the 29th (I may have told some people it was this coming weekend.  I lied.)

– Air it out: Did you miss the East Coast Regionals of the Air Sex 2010 World Championships?  Bummer.  Here’s highlights from last year’s competition in DC:  (The World’s Best Ever)

– My homey Milt: Ice-T wants you to watch “this guy” as part of Ice’s “Daily Game” tweet the other day:

Unfortunately, Ice-T fails to mention that “this guy” is Milton Friedman, one of, if not the, most respected economist.  Milton was a great speaker, always calm and, seemingly, rational.  His basis for why drugs should be legal should be everyone’s belief, too, as long as you believe in freedom.  He is also known for challenging JFK’s famous line: “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.” with the following from his book, Capitalism and Freedom:

Neither half of the statement expresses a relation between the citizen and his government that is worthy of the ideals of free men in a free society. The paternalistic “what your country can do for you” implies that government is the patron, the citizen the ward, a view that is at odds with the free man’s belief in his own responsibility for his own destiny. The organismic, “what you can do for your country” implies the government is the master or the deity, the citizen, the servant or the votary.

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The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country. He will ask rather “What can I and my compatriots do through government” to help us discharge our individual responsibilities, to achieve our several goals and purposes, and above all, to protect our freedom?  And he will accompany this question with another: How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect?

Bottom line: Friedman and I see eye-to-eye on a plethora of topics (and yes, I use that word because I do know what it means.)  (video, FINALLEVEL; book quote, Carpe Diem)

– I type like shit: Apparently you aren’t supposed to have two spaces after a period that ends a sentence.  Well here’s two more spaces for you.  Dicks.  (Any teachers still teaching two spaces?  Or just one?  Let me know in the comments.)  (Slate)

– This should make shopping easier for parents…: New cereal boxes that light up:

The shelves use induction, or something, to keep the boxes charged.  Meaning this would really only work while at the store.  You figure eventually, though, your box will be like a television (no ladies, not your box… well maybe.  What with vajazzling and all.).  (The Daily What)

– Fuckmaker: That is the name of this site that makes animated GIFs out of pornos.  I’d be stupid not to give a sample, so here’s probably the least offensive one:  (Kissing Suzy Kolber)

– You come at the King, you best not miss: Some dumbass crocodile thought he could eat a lioness’ cub.  Since lions are the king and all that shit, this is what happened to the croc:  (Wooten)

– Invisible tanks: Using electronic ink, which by now you probably know as e-ink, because we’re lazy like that (e-mail, e-book, e-etc), BAE Systems is trying to make an active camouflage for tanks and other vehicles.  If you are wondering what they call an active camouflage that uses e-ink, then you aren’t paying attention.  E-camouflage, is what they are calling it.  Here’s the concept:  (PopSci)

– Hot water: Here’s what happens when you drop water on a pan heated to over 374 °F:

It does that because of the Leidenfrost Effect, duh, which means a layer of vapor is essentially protecting the water droplet.  Science, bitches.  (After typing this up, I forgot that Mythbusters exploited this trick by dipping their fingers in water and then dunking their wet fingers into molten lead… and were fine.)  (Gizmodo)

– Rap Up 2010: Listen to Skillz rap about 2010.  (Lil Wayne came home like jail was a fad / they sold us big iPhones and they called ’em iPads)  (Yo! Japan)

– More street illusions: This:

Is really this:

You can go see more like these here.  (Unurth)

– Old-ass whisky: Whisky left behind by the Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1907 expedition to Antarctica has been recovered.  More importantly, it will be “tested”.  Or drunk.  For science!  (Discovery)

– Fuck yeah: Brazilians:

– The Marks’ Financial Update:

• MDH – After losing his first (and second) beer pong game of 2011, Harter is actually on a tear this year.  He started at $2.16 and closed on Friday at $2.69, taking his momentum from last year and running with it.  Still the only Mark not to be engaged, but at least he’s making money for his investors.
• MFL – Mark Lee, on the other hand, has started this year off dropping from $12.75 to $11.92, not what we’re expecting out of this Mark.  Maybe it’s the saving up?  Maybe it’s living at Gigi’s with no DVR?  Either way, Mark better do some soul searching and end this skid he’s on and get BOSS’D UP already.
• MAB – Like Mr. Lee above, Bunk can’t stop his slide.  He started at $13.03 and he now stands at $12.50, continuing his downward trend from 2010.  Bunk needs to get back to what worked best, even if that means convincing the other two Marks that they should live together again.  Or maybe just visit Mako’s.