links for 2009-01-20

The Onion finally lets Bush go, with violence.

"Aaron “AmR” Ribgy has posted links to a handful of his own club-ready mixes, including “Gaeta’s Lament (Quantized/Analog Mix)”, “Rebirth (Roslin & Adama’s Remix)” and “Leoben’s Testament”. Gaeta's Lament agrees with me — I'm not ashamed to admit that montage gave me goosebumps.

This is what happens when your inter-dimensional transport machine is made of aging clockwork.

"Friedman frequently uses a rhetorical technique that goes something like this: “I was in Dubai with the general counsel of BP last year, watching 500 Balinese textile workers get on a train, when suddenly I said to myself, ‘We need better headlights for our tri-plane.’” And off he goes.You the reader end up spending so much time wondering what Dubai, BP and all those Balinese workers have to do with the rest of the story that you don’t notice that tri-planes don’t have headlights.And by the time you get all that sorted out, your well-lit tri-plane is flying from chapter to chapter delivering a million geo-green pizzas to a million Noahs on a million Arks. And you give up. "

My favorite Songsmith catastrophe.

First look at John 'Jim Halpert' Krasinski's David Foster Wallace adaptation and it's surely going to be complete shi– oh, wait, no, this looks like it might actually work! I smiled at the clip's setup!

Does it come with your very own too-forward Monty?

You can tell they took a lot of delight in this one. "Number of members of the rock band Anthrax who said they hoarded Cipro so as to avoid an 'ironic death': 1"

"This clip poses a number of questions, namely:

1) Was it really necessary for the man to be wearing shorts?
2) Why did the man roll up his sleeves just a bit?
3) Did the man make the elaborate double egg holder-contraption himself, or did he buy it somewhere?
4) If so, where?
5) What is the purpose of the man’s grotty bucket and white bowl on the right?"