Archive for October 2nd, 2008

Levi’s has been on my mind due to the mesmerizing woman in this commercial (her name is Julia Jones and she’s now a castmember on ER).

But now, there’s this most incredible and incredibly inappropriate 501 website. Which is your favorite?

I’ve never read FoxNews before. I just assumed that they were as bad as I have heard. But now I’ve read it, and it is fricken awesome.

For instance, in an article about Earth existing in a cosmic bubble, they lead with with this

If the notion of dark energy sounds improbable, get ready for an even more outlandish suggestion.

I mean that is awesome on so many levels. First, they know about dark energy, awesome. Second, they set the tone early – “OMG you are totally not going to believe this but …,” awesome. Third, the rest of the article is reasonably well informed and well written, doubly awesome. Fourth, they play to their base awesomely,

When Nicholas Copernicus argued that it made much more sense for the Earth to be revolving around the sun than vice versa, it revolutionized science.

Since then, most theories have to pass the Copernican test. If they require our planet to be unique, or our position to be exalted, the ideas often seem unlikely.

Why does our placement in the universe make us unique or worthy of exaltation? Maybe we’re at a cocktail party and we’re stanky and the rest of the universe is trying to avoid us. Have they ever thought of that? That sucks. I don’t want to be stanky and alone. I wanna be doing a keg stand* with everyone around me screaming, “chug, chug, chug . . .”

And then in the very next, sorry for the non sequitur, article that I read about a British dude saying he invented the iPod in 1979, FoxNews says, “London’s Daily Mail, always ready to wave the Union Jack in the face of boorish Americans . . .” Seriously, that is awesome. I wonder what they say about the French? I might become a daily FoxNews reader.

* I’ve never actually done a keg stand.