The new HTML5 fist

Just couldn’t help myself. I love how it looks like a Superbowl ring.

HTML5 fist with new HTML5 logo
After HTML5 fist and A List Apart. New HTML5 logo from here.

And now back to our regularly scheduled program, already in progress…

Do not lean over side of railings

To reach Christchurch for our flight out of New Zealand on Sunday, we took the TranzCoastal train starting from Blenheim. The best part was the viewing car, which was open to the air on the sides—great for taking photos (and flaunting the rules).

Justin leaning over the side of the railing in the TranzCoastal viewing car
Leaning over the side of the railing in the “viewing car”

Something we can all agree on

John Edwards: proof that abstinence-only sex education DOES NOT WORK

Abstinence-only sex education DOES NOT WORK
–a message from John Edwards

It’s not a choice if you don’t have one

In Touch Weekly cover for January 5, 2010 with Sarah and Bristol Palin and the quote, 'We're So Glad We Chose Life' superimposed lolcat-style with the classic Inigo Montoya line 'You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.'
Source: In Touch Weekly cover for January 25, 2010

We’re glad we chose life. –Sarah and Bristol Palin

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. –Inigo Montoya

HelLOLkitty

LOLcat Hello Kitty: i am becum cheezburger duhstroyer of wurrrldz

My first LOLcat. “Cheezburger” Hello Kitty spotted at the Sanrio store in San Francisco’s Westfield Mall.

As if pasta in a bread bowl wasn’t bad enough…

…now you can get it with a free Chocolate Lava Crunch Cake.

Newspaper ad for a free Chocolate Lava Crunch Cake with every Domino's BreadBowl™ Pasta

Free Lava Cake with every Domino’s BreadBowl™ Pasta

I know this is real, but it looks like a complete farce. I can only imagine the corporate scene that led to this culinary atrocity. All the Domino’s Pizza execs are sitting around the boardroom and someone asks, “What else can we reheat in a pizza oven? Of course! Chocolate Lava Crunch Cake!!!” Actually it’s sadder than that:

“This is a perfect add-on,” CEO David Brandon told Reuters on Friday. “If we can even get a small percentage of the people to say yes, we’ve added a $4 item and it becomes very profitable for our operators and very profitable for our brand.”

I honestly feel bad categorizing this post as “food”. It’s not hard to see how America is facing an epidemic of obesity. Ads like this should come with a warning label—or a nutritional facts breakdown, in the very least.

Actually… that’s a damn good idea. What would the “Nutrition Facts” label look like for 1/2 of Domino’s Three Cheese Mac-N-Cheese Bread Bowl Pasta (the recommended serving size) and 1 Chocolate Lava Crunch Cake? Well, it would look like this:

Nutrition Facts label for 1/2 of a Domino's Bread Bowl Pasta and 1 Chocolate Lava Crunch Cake
Nutrition Facts for half a Domino’s BreadBowl™ Pasta and a Chocolate Lava Crunch Cake (Source: Domino’s Nutrition Facts PDF and Fast Food News)

Stephanie is famous on the YouTubes

It’s not every day that I’m watching a random mock biography about a faux-German with a hit French pop song, and all of a sudden Stephanie shoots across the screen on a scooter. For reals.

Stephanie on my scooter appearing in the illustrated biography for Helmut Fritz

The best part is, Stephanie didn’t even recognize herself (at first). As this blurry little figure on a black scooter zipped across the screen, somehow a lone neuron fired deep within my brain, and I said, “Do you know who that was?” She was like “No…”

“That was you.”

And if you thought that was weird, the photo I took of her is also featured on his official website, advertising a contest. Sort of ironic, considering that Helmut Fritz is represented by Sony Music, don’t you think?

Update, 14-Jan-2010: Good news. After getting in touch with some people at Sony Music France, we were able to resolve the matter to our satisfaction.

What happens if the supervolcano under Yellowstone National Park erupts?

What happens if the supervolcano under Yellowstone National Park erupts? flowchart

The one supervolcano flowchart everyone should read!

(inspired by the videos at Uh-Oh, via Boing Boing)

Update, December 7, 2009: Check out this rad “Heart of the Caldera” sign we saw by the side of the road during our trip through at Yellowstone National Park.

Heart of the Caldera sign at Yellowstone National Park

I told you that flowchart was deadly serious.

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