McCain gains; heads spin

This week has been nothing but net, so to speak, for Barack Obama. Yet the AP is reporting today that McCain's poll numbers in several crucial states are on the rise. And on Tuesday, Obama's chances of winning the election, as calculated by fivethirtyeight, dropped below 60 percent for the first time in a good long while (though it is back to 62 percent now).

How can this be? Not only has Obama had a great week, but McCain has also had a lousy one. He has shown no signs of improving his vastly overstated understanding of foreign policy, and his latest ad—the one that totally seriously tries to blame Obama for high gas prices—reeks of desperation. (Has no one on his staff bothered to explain to him why more drilling wouldn't help prices and why eliminating the federal gas tax is just a terrible idea?)

So why have Americans (I'm looking at you, Ohio) been registering more and more of a preference for the doddering McCain? I can understand that some people are such hard-core Republicans that they'd vote for their nominee even if he were a dead retarded goat fetus, but who, when Q-pac comes a-calling, would say, "You know, I've been undecided before now, but after this week, I think John McCain really speaks to me in a way that Obama never could." Somebody please explain this to me.

Newegg Diversifies

I don't know how long this has been going on, but everyone's favorite e-peen dealer, Newegg, is now selling cookware. The selection is actually quite good.

Being in the market for this type of offering, I've decided to give the new T-FAL A855S264 modular culinary platform a whirl. According to the reviews, it also performs admirably as a dual wielded melee weapon.

Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii No More

So... we now add Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii to the list of names NOT to name your child. It's not legal in New Zeeland, along with the names: Yeah Detroit, Stallion, Twisty Poi, Keenan Got Lucy, Sex Fruit, Fat Boy, Cinderella Beauty Blossom, and the twins Fish and Chips.

However, those intent on ruining their children's lives with more than bad parenting may chose from the following names that have been ruled to be legal: Violence, Number 16 Bus Shelter, Midnight Chardonnay, and the twins Benson and Hedges. Don't forget Pilot Inspector, another good Christian name.

I really hope Number 16 Bus Shelter doesn't refer to where that unfortunate child was conceived.

Confections

Gummi Lighthouses

Sometimes you just have to wonder.

Btw, is this sfw? Kthxbbq.

Random video of the day

In case you haven't seen it yet, this video of Christian the Lion is apparently one of the latest random internet videos spreading around even though the footage is over 30 years old. I saw it on the local news the other morning. The video is kind of corny with the music, but it's a pretty good story, and it's verified by Snopes. How the hell did a department store get a lion cub in the first place? According to the wikipedia entry, the shirtless guy at the end, who apparently arranged reintroducing the animal into the wild, was killed by poachers in the late '80s. That's kind of scary.

Speaking of Batman

Credit goes to whoever I jacked this from.
May I remember you sometime in the future. ^^;

McCain targets crucial leering pedophile swing vote

with his new ad titled "love." Below is a screen shot (sorry, there's no video attached) from his website (h/t to openleft.com).




It's worth noting that he may have had better luck achieving creepiness by presenting the left side of his face.

Stuff People Do

Those are eggs. Meticulously stacked and balanced atop one another, forming a metropolis.

Birdo unavailable for comment.

Nothing says "unity" like a dirtbike in church!

It seems like Jeff Harlow was trying to practice some XTREME faith by doing some kick-ass motocross tricks during part of a church sermon. Somehow this act was supposed to demonstrate the idea of unity. Call me old-fashioned, but maybe Jesus wasn't as much of a sk8r b0i as Jeff might like us to believe.

Offline Wiki

A German company is publishing a hard copy of their version of Wikipedia. It'll be abridged, and rigorously edited (spoilsports), so somehow I doubt there will be much in a way of sale beyond the novelty value. In other news, Germans are apparently as mature as we are in terms of browsing habits, at least according to this niftily stolen chart from the NY Times. My question is whether these search queries are verbatim, or if some of them have been translated.

Also, in relation to the previous post on the Wasp Knife, a followup by Wired magazine reveals that the internal-organ-burst-freezing melee weapon second only to the chainsword in awesomeness was originally designed for the vast and untapped market of undersea divers who regularly fight sharks and the occasional octopus. Not only does the knife kill said shark by freezing its innards and shattering them, but the injected air bubble is designed to float the magnificent beast to the surface before it explodes so as to prevent the blood from said gaping explosion wound from attracting more sharks. Metal.