From Gizmodo:

This is the best thing in the medicine cabinet since pork-flavored condoms.

Something Awful has a few pages of video game boxes phototshopped to have titles that more honestly represent the game. Here’s a sample (click on thumbnails for larger versions):

This is great – some of you may remember the old videogame Paperboy. You bike down the street and throw newspapers at people’s porches while avoiding lots of random hurdles like runaway tires, dogs, kids playing with r/c cars, punk rockers, ninjas, mummies, skateboarders, the usual video game stuff. Here is a video of a paperboy in a truck driving down the street when suddenly a bunch of people dressed like those video game hurdles get in his way. Wait for the ending, it’s clever.

Nice one…click this. Work friendly.

Oh, viral video… you will be the future’s pet rock, but for now, keep it coming.

If you liked the Star Wars kid or Numa Numa, you’ll love two Chinese students rockin’ out to the Back Street Boys.

The White House sent The Onion a cease-and-desist letter regarding the parody site’s use of the presidential seal. From the NYT:

“It is inconceivable that anyone would think that, by using the seal, The Onion intends to ‘convey… sponsorship or approval’ by the president,” wrote Rochelle H. Klaskin, the paper’s lawyer, who went on to note that a headline in the current issue made the point: “Bush to Appoint Someone to Be in Charge of Country.”

NYT writer Ian Urbina has written a new book about people fighting back against life’s little annoyances, called Life’s Little Annoyances. He’s also got a blog to go along with it. Do people who get in your way in grocery aisles frustrate you? Sneak some super expensive, tiny product into their shopping cart, like vitamins. Been hit with a bill that you don’t feel you should have to pay? Pay it in pennies. From his blog:

It is a compendium of human inventiveness, by turns juvenile and petty, but in other ways inspired and deeply satisfying. We meet the junk-mail recipient who sends back unwanted “business reply” envelopes weighted down with sheet metal, so the mailers will have to pay the postage. We commiserate with the woman who was fed up with the colleague who kept helping himself to her lunch cookies, so she replaced them with dog biscuits that looked like biscotti. And we revel in the seemingly endless number of tactics people use to vent their anger at telemarketers, loud cellphone talkers, spammers, and others who impose themselves on us.



A celebration of the endless variety of passive aggressive behavior, Life’s Little Annoyances will provide comfort and inspiration to everyone who has ever gritted his teeth and dreamed of sweet retribution against the slings and arrows of outrageous people.

Good gift idea for people who have an overdeveloped appreciation of vengeance (ex. Crabby).