The Scanner: Have snacks, will travel
Get an energy bar and a Red Bull, it's time for the weekly dose of all things tasty, techy and pop-culture-y (yes, that is not a word.).
Time for to fire up The Scanner.
Jonathan McCullum's tale of travel and dieting gone wrong has made the blog rounds this morning. Interesting to note, the referring link is to the Sydney Morning Herald.
Wanting to know what Will Ferrell will be onto next? Here's the trailer for Step Brothers with John C. Reily. Don't know how I feel about this one.
Even I have to admit this clip of a 3-year-old explaining Star Wars is cute. It is an exciting movie kid.
Speaking of Star Wars, "That's no moon...it's a hotel? Can build anything in parts of the Middle East if you have enough money? I'll defer to my friends in Dubai on that. (Hat tip: Gizmodo)
I wonder how long until Hillary's campaign starts pointing to this "Election"/Tracy Flick mash-up of further proof that the media has a case of Barack-a-titis D.
While we're on the subject of elections, I'm surprised no one thought of a campaign material recycling service sooner. I've seen first hand all the stuff campaigns rack up, it's gotta go somewhere. (Hat tip: Wired)
The who's screwing who video wars continued this week when Jimmy Kimmel retaliated by doing the deed with Mr. Affleck. It gets far, far better (or worse depending on who you ask). There's also a link on SlashFilm to yet ANOTHER video - and this time Elizabeth Banks is doing the deed to Seth Rogen. And man, is it not safe for work. Watch with earphones, please.
Chicago-based Chocolatier Vosges knows how to get at a man's heart. At least my heart. YUM-O! (Thanks to NXT reader Jonathan)
Apparently Mr. Worf does not have an extensive knowledge of muscle cars. Please don't let this become the beginning of some sort of Lolcat like meme for Klingons. (Thanks to NXT reader Real)
This is great news. Tim and Eric are going on tour. I fear what a tour would look like, but you better believe I'd go. (Hat tip: Pop Candy)
Is anyone else sad to see Polaroid permanently fading away?
If you (for some reason) aren't able to get behind National Pig Day, maybe you'd take part in Mister Rogers day. Which includes wearing a sweater on March 20. Sign me up,and someone start a Flickr group.
It was a pretty big deal that "Quarterlife," a series that began on the Interwebs, got ported over to TV. But it looks like the numbers on TV aren't so friendly.
Nerds throw a real-life Mario party. Shunning and mocking followed. (Hat tip: Joystiq)
Would you purchase a pair of Raoul Duke Chuck Taylors? Converse reportedly is in talks to make a Hunter S. Thompson pair of Chucks. I don't know how I feel about that. (Hat tip: Boing-Boing)
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I saw that Slate video a little under a month ago and I laughed heartily. She could point to that video as proof of the media bias, or she could just point to the reality in which she was the random recipient of a pop quiz about geopolitics (that she scored a 50/100 on) and Obama was essentially put into a position to agree with her. He was offered no separate question. There was, though, the obligatory "Who is the bigger, dogmatically unquestioning friend of Israel" question, on which they both scored 100%. On The Situation Room the following night, DJ Wolfy B asked Minuteman Dobbs what he thought of the debate. Dobbs suggested that SHE SHOULD HAVE CALLED THEM OUT RIGHT THERE FOR THIS FAVORITISM but if she can't even do that, maybe she's not qualified for the ticket. The next night, he aired quite a balanced, unbiased piece about how totally insane and crazy anyone is for questioning his militant stance on immigration and how they're all hypocrites and he is, in fact, a straight shooter and everyone else is a total phony.
I love Obama but the press has their mouths so full of him they haven't called him on any s**t in the few opportunities they've had to do so. OK. He is the anti-war candidate. Good. No more crazy wars. He will strike if militants give reason to in Pakistan. OK. Pull out of Iraq. Wait. What about the militants there? Oh. They weren't there until Bush opened the doors for that. Well, sure. Right. Totally legit. But that means they get to stay, and others get bombed? They get a free country? He doesn't get called on this. He needs to get called on it so that he can go back to the drawing board and create a sensible policy to fight McCain with. He has Samantha Power on his team and other brilliant, brilliant strategists so I hope the media helps to get them poised to go against McCain with all of their might come the nomination.
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