Originally from John Hodgman’s Twitter feed, noted by Andy Baio, here.

By definition, it may mean disinterest (although simple silence would be a more damning and sincere response, in that case)  […]  But in use, it almost universally seems to signal: I am just interested enough to make one last joyless, nitpicky swipe and then disappear

The election, from start to finish, represented as a stream of buzzwords
and –phrases.

This. Fucking. Election.

A dramatic reading of a real Town Hall meeting in Wasilla, Alaska, from back in 1996, read by Chris Schneider.

David Sedaris on Undecided voters.

With the economy crumbling because of the collapse of the lending industry, more and more college students and families are taking out larger private loans in order to cover skyrocketing tuition and other college costs. Credit card companies on virtually every college campus are luring young people into debt that could spell financial ruin at a young age. The dangers of debt are more real than ever before.

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Found this somewhere…  Forget where…

I like it.

“Corrections to Last Month’s Letters to Penthouse Forum,” by David Copper:

In the letter “Three-Way Freeway,” it was implied that “Diana” begged for the opportunity to participate in sexual relations with her roommate and her roommate’s boyfriend after accidentally walking in on their “sweaty, all-night lovemaking session.”  In actual fact, “Diana” was not aware of her participation in the “love sandwich” until she regained consciousness later that evening.

Courtesy of McSweeney’s, of course.

Surely in our era of space exploration – where satellites take photos of our blue and clearly globular planet from space, and robots send back info about soil and water from Mars – no one can seriously still believe that the Earth is flat?

Wrong.

Really?

(Thanks, Claire.)

Totally sweet t-shirt.  Totally stupid t-shirt.

Both discovered via tcritic.com.

Teaser trailer for the upcoming W. is out.  I, for one, am interested in seeing how Oliver Stone handles a topic as broad as George W. Bush.  The current trailer’s emphasis is on his immature, party-loving nature.  I guess we’ll see where it goes from there.  Also worth checking out is this great mock-up poster for the same film, complete with all our favorite quotations.  It appears in IMDb’s image gallery, but I’m not sure if it’s official or not.

PS:  Watch the trailer while you still can; it’s already been pulled from YouTube by Lionsgate.

…As Imagined by Famous Directors.

Suddenly the sky goes very dark, the Kung Fu Panda feels his pulse quicken, and “Embraceable You” plays in the background.  The Kung Fu Panda dreams that he makes love to Girl Panda.  She asks him to hit her and he does, raising his paw against the numbing ignorance of values-centric Middle America.

I love it.

Found via Monoscope.

Humorous comparison of the two, from the always-interesting editors’ blog of Foreign Policy.

I’m a frequent visitor of MacDesktops.com, and I’m getting tired of boring, bird’s-eye photos of leaves on the ground.  It’s been done a hundred times over and every single one looks alike—obviously.  The cliché is hardly limited to MacDesktops; every wallpaper posting site has a handful of leaves photos.  Furthermore, didn’t a now-ancient iteration of the Mac OS – System 7.5? – include a desktop picture of leaves on the ground?

A few other annoying trends:
• Close-up photography of flowers
• Unremarkable skies
• Fields of flowers
• Sloppy or pointless nature photos
• Pictures of a window (or windows) in the middle of a bare wall (what’s up with these, anyways?)
• Pictures like this (seriously, what’s the point?)

On second thought…  I confess.  The photos of windows bother me more than the leaves on the ground.  It’s always a plain wall – stone, wood, or what have you – and a window smack dab in the middle.  Sometimes the window is purposefully off-center, I admit, for that extra touch of artiness.  Either way, I’ve seen more than a number of these.  But why?