YouTube - Arrested Development: Chicken

YouTube - Arrested Development: Chicken

Montage of the various chicken dances.

Inaugural preparations - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Inaugural preparations - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Minus

My dose of surreality today (well, until I go home and read Final Crisis 6) was reading through the archive of Garfield Minus Garfield. Here are a few that really jumped out at me, organized by categories I just made up:

Hilarious Non-Sequitors:

• Shades
• Earmuffs
• Rice

Jon is Depressed:

• Beach
• Telephones Don’t Care
• Goodnight Kiss
• Kimmy

Logic Puzzles:

• Missing Hat
• Plunger
• Arrow

Jon Goes Insane:

• Ice Cream Cone
• Sink

Jon is in Mortal Peril:

• Poison
• Frozen Chicken

Jon Made a Bad Purchase:

• Shoes
• Pants

YouTube - SNL Digital Short - Orchestral Doogie Howser

YouTube - SNL Digital Short - Orchestral Doogie Howser

(I’m guessing this will get taken down, but Hulu doesn’t have a copy up right now.)

Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman's Co-Creator Joe Shuster

Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-Creator Joe Shuster

Wild story told in a book out this spring. Joe Shuster, who created Superman, basically had the rights to the character stolen from him by the publisher (the legal battles continue today). To make money he apparently drew fetish art starring likenesses of Superman and Lois Lane. (NSFW)

Princess Bride DVD ambigram - Boing Boing

Princess Bride DVD ambigram - Boing Boing

Great new cover to the movie.

Everybody Is Terribly Wrong and I Don't Really See Where Anyone Is Coming From At All

Everybody Is Terribly Wrong and I Don’t Really See Where Anyone Is Coming From At All

Good essay on how to (or not to) critically approach mainstream comics.

A List of Items From Macworld 09

In order of my interest of them:

1. No more copy protection in iTunes. I’ll likely upgrade all of my music when I get home shortly. Honestly I’m rarely tripped up by the restrictions on iTunes music—I think they bargained for fairly loose rules—but what does get me sometimes is when iTunes forgets my authorization.
2. Flickr integration in iPhoto. iLife updates always look neat in the demo but aren’t worth it to me to actually spend money on. The geotagging and facial recognition geegaws are probably really neat but I wouldn’t upgrade for them, but being able to upload right to Flickr without a plugin is great. Ditto Facebook, if I really used that thing much. Not saying I’ll buy iLife ‘09, but it’s more enticing than any prior release.
3. iPhone Keynote Remote App. It’s like the future. (Not that I ever give presentations.)
4. New Big MacBook Pros. I don’t see myself ever being in the market for one of these. For the price you can get an iMac with an ever bigger screen and a MacBook.

On Language - Bleeping Expletives - NYTimes.com

On Language - Bleeping Expletives - NYTimes.com

On the difference between “profanities, expletives, vulgarisms, obscenities, execrations, epithets, and imprecations”.

Calibrating your computer's battery for best performance

Calibrating your computer’s battery for best performance

Basically every few moths you’re supposed to fully charge your computer, then fully discharge it and let it stay asleep for a few hours with no juice.