Makes you wonder if Newt Gingrich tells his barber “Make me look like a LEGO man.”

Any of the Gotti sons and a troll doll.

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Looking forward to this.

And this.

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I was reformatting my Windows XP computer and got this message as I was installing drivers.  Hmm…something seem wrong here?

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There’s just so many, I had to do two this week. That’s bacon brittle, btw.

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“No need to give up a good theory just because it isn’t true.”

- Billy Covington (Robert Downey Jr.) in “Air America“

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Delocator is an anti-store locator. I won’t say which coffee giant it’s delocating you from, but I’m sure you’ve got an idea.

Give that other lemonade stand a chance! You can also search (by zip code) for independent movie theaters and book stores. Yay!

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Thirty years ago today (August 16th), Elvis Aaron Presley “left the building” forever. In an odd yet brilliant marketing move, Reese’s (Hershey’s) released the commemorative limited-edition Peanut Butter and Banana Creme cup (Elvis was fond of peanut butter and banana sandwiches [recipe]).

Best Elvis movie of all time: “Bubba Ho-tep”

Hail to the King, Baby.

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A couple days ago I posted about Animoto- a very cool web service that I’ve been alpha testing for the past few months. In the most basic of descriptions (and this really doesn’t do Animoto justice), the site matches your photos to music for a unique, one of a kind “slideshow.” Honestly though, it’s super cool– like nothing else I’ve ever seen.

So, to honor their public beta launch today at around 3:22am Eastern Time, and mostly because Animoto rocks the hizouse, I was fortunate enough to convince Brad Jefferson, Co-Founder and CEO of Animoto.com to give us an exclusive interview. Thanks Brad, and thanks Animoto! Enjoy, and definitely go check out the site! [for some nitty gritty details, check out the Animoto Press Kit]

BLOGADILLA: Animoto is an entirely new way to interact with and view photos. What is the vision behind the project? Has your team’s vision changed as you’ve developed the site, or has it remained constant from the beginning?

BRAD: Part of the vision for Animoto is to catch the internet up to the type of production value commonly seen in film and television, and then give that type of production value to people in a way that is simple yet powerful. Our technology is focused on emulating the actual process that a post-production crew for film and television goes through. To that end, the fun part is that our Cinematic Artificial Intelligence algorithm is really more of an art than a science so the potential for improvement is unending.

BLOGADILLA: What do you see as the main target for Animoto: to operate as a standalone entity, or to interface with existing websites, such as myspace, facebook, etc?

BRAD: Short answer, all the above! We see Animoto.com as the place where users create, collect, share and view Animoto videos but the consumption of Animoto videos is not limited to our website. Through a partnership with an interesting company called Clearspring, our users can post their Animoto videos to any website, such as social network sites like MySpace and Facebook, with a click of a button. We plan to also allow consumption of Animoto videos through cell phones and ipods in the future.

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http://hotchickswithdouchebags.com/

There’s no true nudity per say, but I wouldn’t open it at work.

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Last week, a 20 year old man from a small town outside the city of Tartu (in the Baltic nation of Estonia) was arrested for driving blind. Yesterday, he was arrested again - this time for driving blind and drunk.
Reuters link

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“Never give a sword to a man who cannot dance.”

- Confucius

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“Club Bill Gates.”

(via Digg; via The Brennanator on Flickr)

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A follow-up to Women in Art, a cool montage of film stars across the generations:

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Congressman Henry Waxman and a taxidermied beaver.

Women in burkhas and the ghosts from Pacman.

(beaver picture from Wikimedia Commons; burkha photo from Steve Evans, Wikimedia Commons)

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Over the last few months, I’ve been lucky enough to be an alpha-tester for Animoto, a new photo-sharing portal that’s set to launch to the general public on Tuesday August 14.

Animoto is unlike anything I’ve ever used before, so it’s hard to describe the service concisely. The guys at Animoto describe themselves as “helping people better share their stories and express themselves through online media” and their tagline “Welcome to the end of slideshows” is, in my opinion, fairly descriptive of what their service will do to the world of sharing images and stories online.

So, what does Animoto actually do? Well, instead of just uploading photos to share on a website like Flickr or Snapfish, on Animoto, you upload your photos, pick a song to go along with the photos, and submit the whole package. The team uses their patent-pending cinematic artificial intelligence technology and high-end motion design to create a one-of-a-kind, professionally-produced video of your photos that play and almost dance along with the soundtrack. Check out a video I made in memory of my dog that passed away this past year (she was 14 years old, so it’s ok):

(Animoto.com)

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To belabor the joke, here is a list of Is Helen Reddy? names friends have sent me since the original post earlier this week:

•Did she Jack Abramoff?
•Or did Isaac Asimov?
•Is Kim Jong Il?
•Is William Hung?
•Is his Willie Brown?
•Does Chris Rock?
•Does Hugh Jackman?
•Does Stevie Wonder?
•Was that Vladmir Putin?
•Can Lou Reed?
•Does Courtney Love?

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I love this bacon scarf. It’s subtle and the packaging really makes it a great gift. For your fancy, foodie friends you could say it was a prosciutto scarf.

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Last year, Vladmir Putin answered internet-submitted questions in a webcast - among the 150,000 questions submitted, concerns about the awakening of Cthulhu were the fourth most popular category. And now this: Russian Cthulhu amulets.

Oh man, I’m getting such geek wood over this - I totally want one.

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Man, I wish I was making this up. I saw this at a gas station bathroom yesterday. Their yellow coloring is not vandalism, they were printed this way. What are they even named? The Driplets? The Potti Pals? The Number Ones? The Spatters? Coffee, Asparagus, and Vitamins?

I was too afraid to see what characters were next to the toilet.

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So, recently, while meandering aimlessly online, I came across the P-Mate. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a product that was designed in the late 1990’s by Moon Zijp of Holland that enables women to urinate while standing up. It seems like a pretty good idea, especially if you are frequently outdoors or in an unsanitary situation. As to how well this trinket actually works? Well, that remains to be seen. And that just might be worth paying for.

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