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The trailer for National Lampoon’s “72 Virgins“. Just a trailer so far though.

As silly and potentially offensive as that trailer is, it’s still hard to measure up to the high-water mark of this genre set by “Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle”. That movie is fantastic!

New York Times slide show of game players and their online alter-egos. Some accurate. Some frightening.

Just reading this hurt.

I took the quiz “What American accent do you have?” and came surprisingly as Canadian. Surprising not because I’m actually Canadian but rather that a stupid fucking online quiz could get the right answer.

How anyone convinced The Smiths let alone Morrissey to appear on the children’s television show “Charlie’s Bus” is beyond me. Nonetheless, watch one of the more surreal moments in pop-culture history.

Little kid: “Where are we going?”
Morrissey: “We’re all going mad”

Brilliant!

Scary gallery of self-made weapons. I don’t even know what some of them are but know that I wouldn’t want to get in the way of them.

How dirty words got that way. From Slate.

A federal appeals panel on Monday said the FCC could no longer slap indecency fines on broadcasters who accidentally allowed the word fuck on the airwaves, arguing that these days the word fuck is commonly used to express frustration rather than sexual obscenity. How did fuck and other words get so dirty anyway?

Kenyan economics expert James Shikwati wants us to stop helping out. I guess Bono might have to start singing for his band full-time again.

From Spiegel Online:

SPIEGEL:

Mr. Shikwati, the G8 summit at Gleneagles is about to beef up the development aid for Africa…

Shikwati: … for God’s sake, please just stop.

SPIEGEL: Stop? The industrialized nations of the West want to eliminate hunger and poverty.

Shikwati: Such intentions have been damaging our continent for the past 40 years. If the industrial nations really want to help the Africans, they should finally terminate this awful aid. The countries that have collected the most development aid are also the ones that are in the worst shape. Despite the billions that have poured in to Africa, the continent remains poor.

Seriously. Someone please get me this.

From MEMRI TV: The Kindergarten Graduation Ceremony at the Islamic Association in Gaza on Hamas TV.

Cultural relativism aside, shouldn’t these kids be outside or playing Nintendo or something? Leave the declarations of Jihad against the Israelis and the aspirations for a martyr’s death for the adults.