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The Things I Never Got Around to Posting This Month

This youtube video has been my go-to for the month any time I was feeling uninspired.

The Oatmeal give you the 5 Reasons Pigs Are More Awesome Than You.

A classy campaign against solicitors, I know you are just doing your job.

Insomnia ruled my life this month. You know you should be sleeping when you find Hot Chicks with Stubbed Toes Making Sex Faces.

Science! The Top 10 Common Faults In Human Thought. Obviously number 11 is Marital Monogamy.

Bing gets into the URL shortening game with a longer URL? WTF? Old people.

Seinfeld Wars – Apparently I am the only one who has grown tired of the Star Wars crap.

The Beatles in infographics, um wow.

I should have probably give Sleep Talkin’ Man their own blog post. “It’s CHICKEN and you LIKE IT. Lentil-loving, bean burger-shitting wanker.”

The Best of Sikkdays in January

Nic Cage as everyone is my nightmare.

GOOD Magazine has two interesting, and animated, pieces about the American prison system. Jailbirds and Organ Donors.

Just as disturbing as Nic Cage, Cheetah man.

Music video goodness of January: Wacked out animation with NSFW 3 boobs or fast food icons with NSFW strippers.

I actually created something, rather than steal material from another blog. From the SikkLabs, I give you the 3 channels of Television.

A must read: The Abridged Avatar script.

I started a little basketball competition for the visitors of Sikkdays only to get beat by a girl.

Hilarious animated penis is NSFW and also educational.

Everyone really seemed to like the Charlie Brooker video on how to report the news.

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Another interesting piece by the brit, Charlie Brooker. What counts for news these days is polarizing comments, drama and celebrity rehab information. There isn’t really any reporting of any kind and Brooker shows you the basic format.

via I Heart Chaos

He did a piece a while back on Reality TV editing, but apparently I never posted it. That one starts slow, explaining editing but the reality part is very good.

Years ago, people like Neil Postman professed it would happen. In the transition from sharing information to entertainment the news has not only lost focus, but is a disservice to the people. When market shares and ratings dictate news coverage, controversy equals entertainment. Videos & the rant after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

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.