Stormtroopers on College Humor

I have never really been a fan of collegehumor.com, but on occasion I hear about a video on their site that is funny. This one, I found to be kind of fantastic. Especially with the blue milk.
I'm sorry if the September 11th reference is too soon for people.

Anyway - here's to Star Wars fans, and survivors of the death star (even if they are a storm trooper), and wacky conspiracy theorists.

Oh, and have another round ;)

Where were you when the Death Star blew?

NASA Mission Patches

I got this article off of Wired from a friend today with several images of some of NASA's strangest mission patches. Not only are some of these absolutely ridiculous (see right), but some are downright awesome (see below right).


After spending a couple of weeks during my consulting gig this summer tracking down various military units, I've seen a ton of bizzare US military patches lately and I thoroughly enjoyed the NASA collection and their sister site's links to various crazy military unit/mission patches.

You Betch-ya!

I think anyone who knows me knows I'm no fan of Alaska's soon -to- be former Governor Sarah Palin. I do however find her incredibly entertaining. Even more entertaining than watching her stumble through her words, watching the great William Shatner translate those same words into free verse poetry last night on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien! Enjoy :)

At 90, George may still have it!

Having seen Lonesome George, and thinking he looked rather sad, I'm pleased that he's still gettin' some, and amused that he actually may still be capable of fathering baby tortoises at the ripe young age of 90.

Check out the article here at the UK's Daily Mail.

Penguins!

Some kind of sad, and kind of funny, news was on the BBC today.

Apparently, 9 little penguin bodies have been found outside Sydney, Australia mutilated by some sort of canid. That's the sad part.

Little penguins (also known as fairy penguins outside Australia) are pretty darn small, and certainly can't put up a fight against foxes or dogs, SO (here comes the funny part), traps and snipers have been deployed to protect these little guys. Yeah, that's right, SNIPERS!

And people wonder why I like Aussies so much.

I do wonder what the snipers are instructed to do if a predator comes around - are we going to start having Aussies stand up and protect foxes from snipers now? Hmmm....