Saalon Muyo

I’m on my NaNoWriMo death march, so posting through the rest of the month will be spotty, but in the mean time let me present you with a Dinosaur Comic that’s getting me through the day.

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I was seriously not joking.

So there’s this town in Japan called Obama.  Seriously.  And Barack has given them the once in a lifetime chance to piggy back hometown publicity with U.S. politics. What to do?  Sing!

I’m honestly not making this up.

Via Politico.

Want to keep your candidate of choice in the game?  Polls are hard to game from the outside, but by God, I bet you could bamboozle Intrade!

An internal investigation by the popular online market Intrade has revealed that an investor has been attempting to artificially boost the prediction that Sen. John McCain will become president.

Over the past several weeks, the investor has pushed hundreds of thousands of dollars into one of Intrade’s predictive markets for the presidential election, the company said, resulting in great financial losses through a strategy that belies any financial motive.

Was the perceived benefit that Intrade granted the McCain campaign (which couldn’t have been large, as Ben Smith at politico notes) worth the money this cost?  You probably could have bought the number of votes this would have swung McCains way at a better rate than you got on Intrade.

Really, really weird.

It goes like this, I think:

It’s one thing to bail out Wall Street.  But who’s going to bail out you?

Denny’s!

Followed by shots of breakfast.

Dunno what to say about that one, folks.

Via Oliver Willis, I learned today about a terrible conspiracy carried out against the poor producers of An American Carol.

What we know: in at least ten theaters nationwide, customers were sold tickets they were told were for An American Carol but turned out to be for other movies.

At least ten theaters nationwide?!

This one is big.  If Oliver Stone weren’t such a liberal screw-up, I bet he’d even make a movie about it.  That’s how big this sounds.

Reports coming soon as to whether this conspiracy is related to why David Zucker hasn’t been funny in 20 years.

If you love your country, you won’t catch Syphilis.

Also, buy War Bonds.

I’m out for a week.  Heading down to Florida to hit Disney World and go on the Disney Cruise.  It is, I assure you, a much needed vacation.

I’m oscar mike in 60 mikes.  See you on the other side.

10. Kingdom of Heaven, by Ridley Scott

9. Freakangels Vol. 1 ends, by Warren Ellis & Paul Duffield

8. My New Twitter Obsession, via the iPhone

7. U.S. Women’s Beach Volleyball Gold, courtesy Misty May-Treanor & Kerri Walsh

6. Don’t Make Me Think, by Steve Krug

5. Dinosaur Comics, by Ryan North

4. Google Docs

3. At Mount Zoomer, by Wolf Parade

2. “Three Of Us”, cover by We Were Pirates, Lyrics by Starlee Kine, Music by Joe McGinty and Julia Greenberg

1. “Tropic Thunder” Viral Video - by Ben Stiller, Robert Downy Jr., Jack Black and Carl