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So I may be in the market for a car. Some of my top contenders include the Honda Element (probably in all black to hide some of the ugliness), the Audi A3, the Toyota Prius, or a pickup like the Toyota Tacoma or Nissan Frontier (oh and the Subaru Baja if it wasn't so odd).

Your thoughts? Remember gas out here is ridiculous ($2.55 for regular), and I'd like to be able to carry some shit (surfboard, bike, 'random crap'). Oh and I like fast things. And gadgety things.

Like, BTK Killer scary. Skim the intro, then listen to the mp3 linked. Two words - fuh-reak. (Thanks Bennett) Link

Acutally, I'm not even sure if this is 8 bit, but from the days of the original Nintendo Entertainment System comes this amusing romp through the author's favorite game of the period, Ninja Golf. Fantastic, nostalgic fun. (Thanks Bennett) Link

Does anyone remember the word "Taliban"? The feelings it would elicit, say, 3 years ago? I know the president doesn't give one coke rock about them, but in a "hey! over here! pay attention to us!" move that smacks of North Korea's Kim Jong Il's actions in the past, the Taliban took credit for blasting a US helicopter out of the skies over Afghanistan. (link)

What's this "Afghanistan", you ask? Good question, I had to look it up, too. Turns out it's this country that houses some group that tried to kill off a couple million Americans, but sadly only got a few thousand. Whatever - ancient history.

I heard about this, then saw it on Gabe's blog and lost my mind at it.

The Discovery Channel worked with America Online to nominate and then rank the 100 "Greatest Americans of All Time". The first sign that this list is faulty - Tom Cruise is on there. No - really. He is. So is Dr. Phil. And Madonna. And ex-con (!!!) Martha Stewart. And four - FOUR! - members of the Bush family.

All that is quite terrifying. But it gets worse when you look at the rankings near the top. Ranked 18th, funny man Bob Hope. (but wait, it gets better) A bit higher, at #11, famed anti-Semite Billy Graham. (but wait, it gets better) At #9, chatty house-wife hero Oprah Winfrey. The ninth "greatest" American - ever! At #6, the least popular president in forever, hated by the world, hated at home - Georgie W. Bush.

Then, ranked ahead of Ben Franklin, George Washington, Martin Luther King, and Abe Lincoln - all of whom are fantastically deserving - who do you think is the single greatest American of all time? The SINGLE ... GREATEST?

Ronald "I like jelly beans" Reagan. From Discovery's own site, the differentiating reasons I gleaned for his badge of honor:
(1) he was a great letter writer
(2) he headed a labor union
(3) he had been an actor
(4) he had gotten divorced
(5) he was elected in a year ending in 0 and he didn't die in office, and finally ...
(6) he loved jelly beans

I'm convinced!

This country is filled with fantastically retarded, cheeseburger chomping slobs and it is sometimes just embarassing to be lumped in. How do you think other countries look at a list like this? Oh wait, I forgot ... "fuck 'em". Sigh.

Official site, with top 25 ranked: link
Official site, full 100, unranked: link

If you think this is going to be a sexual post, you're sick.

Elsewise, I just watched the trailer for Peter Jackson's (Lord of the Rings guy, dummy) King Kong, coming out in December. Wow. This is way more than I thought it'd be. Sure there's some banality here, but on the whole this looks like a ton of fun, and Naomi Watts is always excellent.

Watch - link.

I've been living under a rock and not reading up on this BTK killer guy at all. But I know he's a sick mamma jamma. And I watched this part of his confession and it's just weird. I'm not gonna say "ooooh it's freeeeaky scary! He's such a loon!"

It's actually quite the opposite. The tone of this inquiry between the judge and the accused is that of a serious lunch conversation, except they're talking about walking into someone's house, tying them up, and shooting, choking, and stabbing them. In real life, not some movie. Watch the admission: link

See what happens when a Best Buy employee decides to actually put a tape in one of those demo camcorders... link

Turns out that invading a country which didn't do anything to us has made the United States the unpopular rich kid at the world's high school.

We're so disliked, in fact, that Communist China was more well-liked by such crazy rogue nations as England, France, and Spain.

Fortunately, the poll also revealed that those that don't like the US don't hold it against Americans, just agains Bush.

Luckily enough, reactions from Bush fans to this sort of news in the past has been a hearty "Well fuck 'em! If they don't like us, we don't need them!". I kid you not. That's the reaction. And they're serious. Sigh.

(Then again, I'm sure this poll was just conjured up by the liberal media.)

Link
(Thanks Gabe)

... with Napolean Dynamite! (Caution: this is a bit of a movie spoiler) Link

(Thanks Becca)