Thanks to my friend Matthew for pointing this out to me. This seems too good to be true — a prank? a public service ad? — but if not, it appears mayor Arturas Zuokas of Vilnius, Lithuania has found a…
Category: Odd & Random
Video of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on the House floor to vote yea for the debt bill
Not much to this, really, but it’s great to see Rep. Giffords on the floor of the House less than 7 months after being shot in the head. The video is embedded via The Washington Post.
Missouri outlaws students and teachers being Facebook friends
Mashable has an interesting piece on a new Missouri law, which goes into effect on Aug. 28th, banning teachers and students from interacting with each other directly via Facebook or any other form of social networking: KSPR reports that it’s…
And for tonight’s mindless entertainment . . .
. . . a 6-year old destroys her room in 40 seconds. WARNING: Some of you might find this disturbing rather than funny or cathartic. Anyone know the history of this? There’s a claim on the YouTube page that it’s…
Gus the bulldog really wants an indoor pool
“Lord I want to thank you for my smokin’ hot wife”
Great prayer at a Nascar race in Nashville. “Thank you for the Dodges and the Toyotas . . . ” “Thank you for Sunoco racing fuel . . .” “In Jesus’ name, boogity, boogity, boogity . . .”
Still on the books in Alabama: a tax to support needy Confederate veterans
Well here’s a curious story. The AP reports today about a remnant property tax in Alabama, originally used to support the Alabama Confederate Soldiers’ Home but that now — even though the percentage has been sliced from 1 mill to…
Walmart receipt has image of Jesus on it!
“If you know God, would you realize it if you saw him?” asks the young woman in this video. Well, she and her fiance sure realize it. The face of Jesus appeared on a Walmart receipt that they left on…
Deja vu all over again: online voting now open for new Georgia license plate
I can’t believe I’m writing — again — about the Georgia license plate design contest. But in for a penny, in for a pound. Or whatever that phrase is. We’re voting on this again because of controversy spawned by “In…
400,000 votes on the new Ga. license plate? Never mind. Start over.
Ha. So the Georgia Department of Revenue has declared a do-over. A few weeks ago, they presented 8 semifinalists for the new Georgia license plate and asked the public to vote on them. Here are the 8 as they appeared…
New Georgia license plate: down to the final three!!
Well, here’s just what you’ve been waiting for on a hot hot Wednesday in mid-July. As of this morning, Georgians can view — but not vote on — three finalists for the new state license plate. I wrote about the…
Zombies in Cuba
Well this is absolutely delightful (and not for those scared of zombies). Not much on the Juan de los Muertos IMDB page, but here’s the trailer for Juan of the Dead: Exclusive: Debut Trailer of JUAN OF THE DEAD! Cuba’s…
The Atlanta school cheating scandal: could it get any worse?
It takes a lot to stun me these days, but I’m stunned by the scale of the cheating scandal in the Atlanta school system. Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT) scores were routinely manipulated, with the knowledge or even the active participation…
Do I have clout? or just Klout?
It was just last week that my friend Jason told me about Klout, a website that tracks online influence and comes up with a “Klout score”: “The Klout Score is the measurement of your overall online influence. The scores range…