Booyor’s BLOGgh!

How do I know that you’re patient?

1. You’re still using Internet Explorer.
2. You put up with IE’s rendering of my Sire for Hire sidebar slideshow.

I guess IE decided to render my Flash slideshow with a CLICK sound every time a new slide appeared. Tres 1970s Pentagon briefing… I have now simplified that ad (as well as turned the azcentral embedded video into a link (why autoplay? Is this Xanga?)).

For everyone’s information:
Monday Night Football, you are on notice.

I left my school at 3:30pm to visit my brother across town. I just arrived. 6:00pm.

Across town as in up the mountain to Flagstaff across town?

YA news: The Clique (very popular series by Lisi Harrison) is going to be a straight-to-DVD release on Nov. 18. Will it be better than Stormbreaker and Eragon? It’s a little easier with more “Did you see what she’s wearing?” and less “I, the Shadeslayer, banish thee to the depths of depthiness with my swordy sword!”

“You can wipe a memory. But can you wipe away a soul?”

Most definitely I am excited bout Dollhouse, Master Predictor. February 13, my friends.

But a production shutdown? When will they learn that…
Devin, clue them in about signal stoppage.

How fitting that on a day with huge Apple announcements, my uncle has a great MacBook monitor fix:

Update: So, Apple uses lasers now to cut MacBooks out of solid titanium. The new MacBooks will also have nVidia 3D cards in them (Slade, you buyin’?) and the trackpad will now be like an amped iPhone. Glass monitors, though? I like my plastic. Perhaps I should hang out with more iPhones.

More people need filters late at night. But what if they’re coherent, or at least really good at math?

In what could be one of the coolest stunts or one of the dumbest, this campaign has gone Eagle Eye. Sarah Palin is visiting California. They’ve set up a giant billboard that you can view streaming live:

Text the keyword ASK then the question to the number 69866. Check for “UR HAWTT” and other wonderful Internet dialect examples.

Also, 24 has a TV movie called “Redemption” airing on Nov. 23 as a prequel to the new season. Interesting concept, since a big complaint is that people don’t want to invest in an entire season.

That’s why my wife and I borrow it on DVD. (Even though we can predict it pretty spot-on.)

With both of these, a caution: It’s open to the Internet. The Internet is open to morons. Just, you know, in case you had any doubts.

If you’re like me and bored/frustrated about traditional news broadcasters, check out what Twitter and currentTV.com are doing with the debates:

Wired has a new Twitter widget, as well:

The next Hack the Debate occurs during the VP debate on Oct. 2 at current.com/debate

The All-Seeing Eye of Google mapped an Australian guy. I am really tempted to leave a huge sign for airplanes and satellites in my front yard saying, “Ahhh!! Look behind you!!”

But this guy…he fails and wins…

You know what this world needs more of? Scorpion versus Superman:

Or maybe not.
This is what happens when two abused intellectual properties check in to the TMNT Clinic for Overused Trademarks.

I know that Superman is weak against magic (although are every one of a ninja’s kicks magical? (I just pictured cycle kicks to “Some Enchanted Evening”, Clark being across a crowded room)).

But does that make Batman a poor aim with the Bat-arang versus Sub-Zero?

Knocking someone through multiple walls of a building does look cool, though. Not cool enough to pine for a game, though.

In the category of Things Better Left Alone, Tony Almeida will be back on Season 7 of 24:

I guess it’s pronounced as a homophone of “cool”, but I pronounce it more Tolkien/Jacques-esque.

New search engine in a long line of would-be Google killers. Are their results best?

Here’s for “booyor”.

Which one’s my top hit? What about second-most relevant?

At least their font color rocks Google.

This one’s for Peter, from the people who brought you GraphJam.

TotallyLooksLike.com


Let’s hear it for more Web 2.0 user-generated hilarity.

Okay, so the “How Many 5 Year-olds Can you Beat Up” was kinda funny but also disturbing.
I found the Create a Nation game on Devin’s profile and started Barbarian’s Realm:

Any citizen who owns land may participate in this country’s electoral process. Three ton computing systems are the crowning achievement of this country’s technological advancements. Advancement in medical practices has produced efficient health care practices, but only the privileged can afford the rising costs.

The citizens of Barbarians Realm follow a general rule to only pick fights with weaker individuals and stay out of the way of stronger individuals. Military in Barbarians Realm is completely voluntary and is made up primarily of boy and girl scouts seeking leadership badges. Religious practice and public observances are allowed, but no policies may be created to advance any given expression of religious thought. All children in Barbarians Realm ages five to thirteen are eligible for free placement testing to determine their proper schooling placement.

This country is beginning to adopt many environmentally responsible practices, although any company with enough money can buy the right to disregard any practice they deem appropriate. Privatization of corporations and free market are new concepts developing in this country, and citizens are free to demonstrate for increase of social freedoms, but government officials are instructed to only pay lip service, and no actual changes will be made.

The whole “own land to participate” thing we’re still working out the kinks on, but we should soon be able to pursue life, liberty, and estate.

D’oh! We’re not John Locke! I meant happiness, I swear.