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Photo of the Day - World’s Longest Dreads?

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

I spotted this guy at an “Eat Fish Day” festival I happened upon while on vacation in Dominica, and wondered to myself if he might have the world’s longest dreadlocks.  Turns out I was wrong– Asha Mandela of Trinidad has dreds longer than she is tall — more than 8 feet!!  Needless to say, this guy’s hair took some dedication!!

World's Longest Dreds

Fun fact: the world record for longest hair is held by Xie Qiuping, a Chinese woman who set the record in 2004 with 18 feet, 5.54 inches of hair!!

Photo of the Day

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

View from the Portsmouth Beach Hotel

View from the Portsmouth Beach Hotel - Picard, Dominica - 11.10.08

Song for Sarah

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Sarah Palin may have lost, but this video is still pretty amusing.  And did you hear she didn’t know which countries are in NAFTA, and also that she thought Africa was a country, not a continent? You can’t make this stuff up.

(Thanks Katya for the link)

This Bleeping Election

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

…is almost over.  In case you missed any little bit of it, from the primary all the way to election day, check out the graphic timeline from ThisF*ckingElection.com.  Here’s a snippet:

This F*cking Election

(via Eliot)

Photo of the Day

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Recently seen in upstate New York– Where’s Borat?

I Liiike

(via Dana)

Pumpkin Politics

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

For Halloween, turn your favorite politician into a pumpkin! Thanks to the AP’s Campaign-O-Lantern, you can have Barack Obama, John McCain, and a slew of other politically-themed Cucurbita on your doorstep.  Check out the Obama Pumpkin my mother made!

Obama Pumpkin!

Photo of the Day: Recession Special!

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Gray's Papaya - Recession Special: Save $1

Recession Special: Save $1 - Gray’s Papaya at 37th Street & 8th Avenue, NYC

Update from reader rubberchicken - 10/28/08:

The irony is that the recession special has been around since the 1990’s…they just raised the price this week due to the ACTUAL recession.

http://www.slashfood.com/2008/10/22/recession-bites-grays-papaya-raises-the-price-on-its-famous-sp/

D’oh!

Batman vs. John McCain???

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Amazing how this resembles current presidential debates:

(via Chris)

Crunking You Can Believe In

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Obama and McCain face off in the most meaningful way possible: A dance-off.

Old People Are Screwed

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Need I say more? Check out this funny PSA and kids, be sure to help out your grandmas and grandpas with the digital television switchover taking place on February 17, 2009.

(via Katya)

Not Your Average Pet Store

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

If you’re in New York City, make sure to check out Banksy’s Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill, open 10am-12am daily until October 31 at 89 7th Ave South, NYC. Pretty ballerific if you ask me:

(via Myron; via NotCot)

Bacon Product of the Week: Cinnamon Bacon Rolls!

Friday, October 17th, 2008

As Mr. B of BaconToday points out, strips of bacon are almost identical in size to unrolled cinnamon rolls.

Cinn-o-bacon rolls!

How to:

Step 1: Buy ready-to-bake cinnamon rolls and some bacon.

Step 2: Pre-heat oven to 425 degrees.

Step 3: Unroll cinnamon roll on baking sheet.

Step 4: Roll up each cinnamon roll with one strip of bacon inside

Step 5: Bake cinn-o-bacon rolls for 15 minutes

Step 6: Drizzle icing on rolls as directed; let cool enough so you don’t burn your face off.

Step 7: Eat & Enjoy.

Step 8: Post on Blogadilla to let us know how these worked out for you.

(via Laura; via BaconToday)

Photo of the Day

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

What a fantastic expression, captured for all eternity.  My question: what is McCain doing??

(via Katya; via Reuters & Yahoo News)

La Pequeña Sarah Palin

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Perhaps the most disturbing 1:20 of my life. So of course I’m sharing it with you! (Depending on who you work with, possibly NSFW)

(via Manertainment and Laura)

Sarah Palin: Ice President

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

An unknown Alaskan hockey mom becomes Vice President in the craziest comedy of the year? Matt Damon called it– sounds just like a Disney movie!

(via Karen)

Google: x Girls, y Cups

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

X Girls, Y Cups

In case you don’t know what this refers to, I don’t recommend it.  Blogadilla had made a sock puppet version of the video, but apparently YouTube took it down.  Blast!!

Note: Apparently since the creation of this image and ensuing linkage in the blogosphere, original Google search results no longer accurate. Still Amusing.

(via SteveB, via xvcd)

100 Words

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Blogadilla reader Melissah has come up with — or at the very least, championed — a great way of writing on her blog: every day, write a story of no more than 100 words. The random snapshots of worlds she provides are great; this particular story, “Megadik,” convinced me to blog about her project. Caution: not for the faint of heart (and be advised that much of her work is tame).

Mikey sat in a corner of his bedroom, surrounded by a moat of his own vomit and covered in Veronica’s blood. In fact, there was hardly a corner of the room that wasn’t smattered with gore or bile or pieces of torn entrails. The bed was the worst, of course. That was where Veronica – what was left of Veronica, lay on either side of the bed. She had been torn in two.

Between his legs, Mikey’s artificially enhanced member throbbed. It had ripped her apart, just as the spam message had claimed it would. His penis had killed Veronica.

Upon further review, it appears this project died October 12, 2008 — a year ago to the day. Bring it back, Mel!

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

CNN has to get rid of that stupid voter reaction graph… At least while McCain is talking. Every time I look at the screen I think, ‘Oh my God, he’s dead.’

(quote via Jacob; image via DailyKos)

The Next Viral Video

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Kazoo + Ukulele + Baby Piano + Greasy Bowl Cut + The Final Countdown = VIRAL!

YouTube views as of 10/10/08: 61,086. Prediction of over 1,000,000 by Friday, 10/17/08. Report to follow.

(found on JSTN.cc - blog from Justin Ouellette, the guy who started Muxtape. Read the story of what happened to Muxtape here; it’s very enlightening)

From Best to Worst Man in 10 Seconds

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Think it isn’t possible to go from “best man” to “guy we’ll never talk to again because you destroyed my special day” in 10 seconds? Think again.

(via Andy)