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Homestar Runner!
Beatles: Yeah, Yeah, YeahNewsbreaks: No, No, No If you don’t know Homestar Runner, you should. Here’s a favorite of mine.
Continue reading...No Newsbreaks, New Dirk (and Steve!)
Monday, August 20, 2007
I’m back to Beatling, so here’s a tremendously funny video by Dirk Voetberg and friends…
Continue reading...Newsbreaks for Friday (Princeton’s #1)
Friday, August 17, 2007
For best viewing, allow the video to load completely. Audio version is here. Princeton has been awarded the top spot in the US News rankings of America’s finest colleges. That sound you hear is thousands of bowties being loosened in celebration. And that other sound you hear is thousands of “Future Princeton Alum” t-shirts being [...]
Continue reading...Newsbreaks 8.16.07 (Life as simulation)
Thursday, August 16, 2007
For best viewing, allow the video to load completely. Audio version is here. An Oxford professor named Nick Bostrom believes that it’s “almost certain” that what we experience as reality is merely a computer simulation, controlled by an advanced intelligence. It is also “almost certain” that this dude was at ComiCon last month. The ramifications [...]
Continue reading...Newsbreaks for Wednesday (Roaring 20s)
Thursday, August 16, 2007
For best viewing, allow the video to load completely. Audio version is here. A new study says that reckless behavior normally associated with teenagers now extends into the mid-20s. You know what kind of behavior I’m talking about: binge drinking, risky sex, fighting in Iraq… If I was still in my 20s, I’d make sure [...]
Continue reading...Newsbreaks for Tuesday (Lincoln’s face)
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
For best viewing, allow the video to load completely. Audio version is here. Scientists believe that Abraham Lincoln may have had a facial defect called microsomia, where one side of his face was much smaller than the other. This condition is also known as “fucked-up face.” Microsomia joins a long list of ailments — including [...]
Continue reading...Newsbreaks for Monday (Rove’s departure)
Monday, August 13, 2007
For best viewing, allow the video to load completely. Audio version is here. A state-run newspaper in China is reporting that the executive responsible for all those lead-tainted toys has killed himself. Meanwhile, in a completely unrelated piece of news, Karl Rove is leaving the White House…God, if he were only Chinese… President Bush said, [...]
Continue reading...Newsbreaks Greatest Hits #1
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
(Folks, I’m up against several deadlines regarding this Beatles novel I’m doing, so here’s a Newsbreaks from earlier this summer. Enjoy.) Audio version is here. The bald eagle, once nearly extinct, has been taken off the endangered species list. As a result of the ruling, the eagle will now be known by its new name: [...]
Continue reading...Newsbreaks for Tuesday (Kids and McDonalds)
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
For best viewing, allow the video to load completely. Audio version is here. A new study from the Stanford School of Medicine shows that preschoolers prefer the taste of food when they think it comes from McDonald’s. So just to update you, the score stands at Satan 453 trillion, parents zero. When presented with the [...]
Continue reading...Newsbreaks 8.3.07 (The Duggars)
Friday, August 3, 2007
For best viewing, allow the video to load completely. Audio version is here. A couple in Arkansas have just had their 17th child. Someone get these people TiVo. Jim Bob and Michelle Duggars have racked up ten boys and now seven girls. They’re white, of course, so this is just a fun news story, instead [...]
Continue reading...At last! It's here!
For 30 years, Ravin fans wondered: What if Tom Larkin had survived? Now, the story can be told.
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