Avant News - News from tomorrow. Very funny satire. Via

Atari Video Game Inspired Music - OMFG! I guess I am behind the times with this as Jeff did it a year and a half ago but it is awesome nonetheless!

20 Free Ways to Save Energy - Some familiar tips and some new ones. I highly recommend adding the blog to your feeds.

In my experience, there is one special type of douchebag that consistently soars above the rest, progenies of success. D’bags all the world over have had parents who have achieved some modicum of success and through connections and overdeveloped senses of entitlement have become remarkable douchebags in their own ranks. This week we have seen plenty of them. And since it has been a while, all of them get to become douchebags of the week.
Exhibit A: Chris Wallace. I look at this guy and want to punch him in the face. First of all he works at Fox News and drinks the Kool-Aid that they are representing the undervoiced majority of Americans instead of dispensing propaganda and prison raping America. This guy’s dad is Mike Wallace from 60 Minutes fame. Mike Wallace and 60 Minutes set the bar pretty damn high for journalists. Yeah they have had the occasional misstep but I’ll watch the show with a certain amount of glee because you just don’t see enough good investigative journalism. Chris Wallace on the other hand has not put any skin into the game. His biggest ratings are probably from the Clinton interview and he basically blind-sided Clinton and Clinton is still removing pieces of Wallace’s ass from his shoes. Should have never entered the old man’s arena Chris. You don’t have the stones for it. But you have accomplished something your father never did, douchebag.
The other winner goes to Leigh Tiffin, kicker for the Alabama Crimson Tide. You can read the details but I suspect anyone reading this site already knows what happened. Tiffin was obviously not up for the job on Saturday and got mentally shaken down. Not quite the nerve of the old man who in 1985 kicked a 52 yard field goal to win against a heavily favored Auburn team. Nothing can break my heart like Alabama football and on Saturday it did just that. Leigh, you should not have tried to follow in the old man’s footsteps. And you’re a douchebag for your performance on Saturday.
And let me wrap up the douchebag of the week awards by giving one to each of my coworkers and their sisters who so kindly pointed out that Alabama did not win this past weekend despite two signs in my cube stating “Stop! Don’t be a dick! Go away! I don’t want to talk about football.”. I also have a rule in my work email that searches for the word football in the body of an email, that when found deletes the email and sends an autoresponse. So yeah, that’s about 20 more douchebag of the week awards. Congrats!

So National Single’s Week was quite eventful. All week long I spent stressed out about performing the wedding on Friday. I think it went pretty well. The bride seemed happy and she was pretty much the only one I needed to make happy. The entire affair was very well done. I hope to get pictures to post up soon.
And then there was Saturday. Not sure what happened but I think I got prison raped. I am not taking calls or talking to anyone about it. I am sure Monday morning will be a blast. Dealing with the hog calls and the cow-orkers. I am going to post to Douchebag of the Week tomorrow and anyone who says anything will be on the list. If you call/email/IM/etc to gloat; consider yourself warned.
The game did break my heart like only Alabama can. I think this is how it feels to be on the receiving end of an abusive relationship. I know Alabama loves me and does not mean to hurt me; it’s just with all the stress and when Alabama drinks, it gets so mad. I really should have yelled louder at the game. It is all my fault. I deserved it.

The Atheist - A Salon interview with Richard Dawkins.

UNIX productivity tips - “The first step toward increasing your office productivity using the UNIX command line is to take a close look at your current day-to-day habits. The tools and applications you regularly use and the files you access and modify can give you an idea of what routines are taking up a lot of your time — and what you might be avoiding.” Via

How to pick a Masterlock - Looks incredibly easy. Via

Wonkette’s post of Bullshittery of the ban on liquids and gels on flights - For Wonkette, surprisingly scientific. Worth the read.

Mario meets Miserlou - Works of Mario seem to be coming out of the woodwork. This is a very good flash movie.