Check it out, Robot Chicken may be coming to your area to throw a skate party. The promo videos are very entertaining. Anyway, click the link and check the tour map to find out if they are coming to a rink near you.

Don’t you just hate it when you’re being completely oblivious to the outside world and you accidentally fall into an open manhole?  You’re not alone.

A 15-year-old girl, Alexa Longueira, fell five feet into an open manhole while most likely sexting a friend, or even more likely sexting her teacher.

Longueira said, “Because of their careless mistake I got hurt.”

When confronted about the fact she simply wasn’t paying attention and it was her own damn fault , Longueira issued the following leap in logic: “Regardless of whether I’m texting or not if there was a cone there I’m going to see a big orange cone.”

Unfortunately, the reporter neglected to point out that she failed to see the gaping opening in the Earth’s crust, and that the hole itself was an “orange cone” from God saying to “Watch the fuck out, for my sake!”

You can enjoy this news piece, that isn’t news at all, below.  Next time, I’ll cover the time I cut myself by walking barefoot, listening to my iPod, and not seeing the steak knife on the highway.

McNamara was called many things because he was the Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War. He published some memoirs & was even featured in Errol Morris’ Oscar winning Documentary The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara. Yet, the opinion that he was evil personified still stuck.

I was a child of the 80s and the anguish of Vietnam resides in the generation before me. I watched The Fog of War and immediately called a history buff friend of mine, Berg.  He hadn’t seen the film, but I felt compelled to discuss what I saw with someone. Thus, McNamara’s words had an impact on me. After watching the film, I saw the man as a monument. In the film he floats out statistics and historical strategy meetings about the war like another cog in the military industrial complex. Then his humanity chimes in and he asks the tough questions like, “How much evil must we do, in order to do good?”

He was a man trying to serve his country and it’s people the best way he knew how. Behind the numbers, data & politics he was still a man despite how people vilified him.

huffington post has a decent write up about him

The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara Trailer:

If the woman in the following video is sane, I could have saved her. Though unlike the Hoff, Sikkdays.com is just not that popular in Germany. If it was, she could have learned how to thwart a bear attack.

Check out this link to see some great pictures of her swimming towards the bears like it is a good idea.

I have been out of it lately, trying to shake an illness I believe.  Either that or the stress of blogging, gaming and masturbating has gotten to be too much for me.  Below are some random links that have come my way that are worth sharing.

So, much like youtube and I imagine most of the web services, FaceBook’s terms of service allows you to give up your rights to anything you post. This featured article on the Consumerist Facebook’s New Terms Of Service: “We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever” explains the recent changes to the TOS. Apparently, after leaving FB you could expect their rights to your content to end, but not any more.

The following sections will survive any termination of your use of the Facebook Service: Prohibited Conduct, User Content, Your Privacy Practices, Gift Credits, Ownership; Proprietary Rights, Licenses, Submissions, User Disputes; Complaints, Indemnity, General Disclaimers, Limitation on Liability, Termination and Changes to the Facebook Service, Arbitration, Governing Law; Venue and Jurisdiction and Other.
Possible UPDATE

In the tradition of sadtrombone and instantrimshot another link has found it’s way to me.  That’s right, it is the Emergency Yodel Button. Perhaps not as useful as the sadtrombone or the instant rimshot, but nonetheless it will make a great non sequitur in an instant messaging or chat.

The Dutch city of Leeuwarden has lost it’s official porn collection.  They are unsure if it has been stolen or merely borrowed by someone. Either way, publicly announcing they’d like it back may work for them. After all, like girlfriends and wives, porn gets boring after a while.  I am sure the guilty party will put the porn back exactly where they found it. Men may have terrible memories when it comes to anniversaries and birthdays, but as children we can easily recall the arrangement of our father’s porn collection and put it back together perfectly. Anyway, the collection contained erotic texts, drawings and photos by local artists. It also included a rare 1998 Dutch Playboy Magazine that featured 11 girls from Dutch cities, including one from Leeuwarden, in an article about the Elfstedentocht, an ice skating race.

Mark Holley and Brian Abbott were surveying old shipwrecks when they found a series of stones arranged in a circle 40 feet down in Lake Michigan. It is speculated that one of the stones has a carving of a mastodon which could possibly date the anomoly as 10,000 years old.

See some real images of the curiousity and read more.

Also, here’s a story about the carving that someone passed onto me.

This story makes me miss Michael Crichton.

I heard this on NPR Monday and put it on my list to blog. Of course, now I see that BoingBoing has beat me to it, but that is OK nobody goes there.  You all come to this site.

They barely teach Home Ec. in schools anymore and it is apparent, as no one knows how to cook. Possibly over-dramatic, yes. However, those of you who can’t cook know who you are.  Juilian Kruesser can cook and he has his own show to prove it.

That is awesome, I don’t do anything because I am afraid of failure and this lil’ guy is on top of the world. Good luck kid, I honestly do envy you.

More of Julian’s show, Big Kitchen with Food