North Is..⇡

I love Ana Marie Cox. No suprises on this list, but Ana Does try to give a variety of angles of analysis on the story. I find that proressive bloggers tend to give creedence to a greater variety of opions on any given subject than both regular journalists and conservative bloggers.

Super Pii Pii Includes a Super Wii Harness

According to the Japanese text on the box “Super Pii Pii Brothers promotes good bathroom skills and allows women to experience for the first time the pleasure of urinating while standing.” What we say is that virtual peeing is damn fun!

The number one question on my mind is will Leisure Suit Larry be able to use this attachement in a future Wii edition of the franchize.

The play mechanics are simple. Prepare yourself by strapping on the included belt harness and jacking in your Wiimote. A series of toilets are presented on screen and the challenge is to tilt your body to control a never-ending stream of pee. Get as much pee in the toilets as you can while spilling as little on the floor as possible. Sounds easy eh? Well the toilets open and close whack-a-mole style and occasionally the stray cat or other cute critter pops up. Spray a cat for extra points. Get too much pee on the ground and your game is over. With realistic fluid dynamics for the pee and over 100 different bathrooms from bars and palaces to automatic Japanese style toilets you’ll be entertained for hours.

The multi-player mode involves dueling pee streams and fun for the whole family..”Don’t cross the beams!”

Read the rest of this entry »

John Hodgman has one of the most unique styles of dry humor out there in the mass media. He pokes fun at what Jerry Seinfeld calls “small world” humor, and what everybody else calls “Seinfeldian” humor; couch pillows, ice cube trays, airport security, and the like. While most comedians simply point out the way things are, John Hodgeman has cultivated a wonderful career as the expert of everything. His humor works because he talks about every subject as though he has a PhD in said subject. The mundane becomes hilarious when you throw a degree of intellectual superiority in to boot.

Here, Rachel Maddow has John Hodgeman explain his schtick:

Also, because i like my dear readers, here is John Hodgeman discussing the proper manner in which one promotes a book on The Daily Show:

I’m so happy that somewhere out there, someone was able to spite their neighbor with a snowman. This is what the holiday season is all about.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Someone has told the city of Anchorage what it can do with its cease-and-desist order to prevent Snowzilla - the giant snowman - from rising up again this winter in an east Anchorage neighborhood.

Snowzilla - thought to be no more - is yet again. Someone again built the giant snowman in Billy Powers’ front yard. Snowzilla reappeared overnight.
…
For several years, Snowzilla has risen in the front yard of Powers’ modest home. His children - he has five still at home - collected snow from neighbors’ yards to make the snowman big enough. Each year, Snowzilla got a bit bigger.

Not everybody in the neighborhood liked all the cars and visitors who came to see him.

City officials this year deemed Snowzilla a public nuisance and safety hazard. A cease-and-desist order was issued. The city tacked a public notice on Powers’ door.

City officials said the structure increased traffic to the point of endangerment and that the snowman itself was unsafe.

So, who does this remind you of? One thought came to mind for me.