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Sarah Silverman... um, duet with Matt Damon

I'm not a huge Sarah Silverman fan, but I love this.

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What a way to go

This was crazy dumb:

A man nearly died from alcohol poisoning after quaffing a liter (two pints) of vodka at an airport security check instead of handing it over to comply with new carry-on rules, police said Wednesday.

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Best Onion headline ever?

"Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Honors Tuskegee Air Guitarists." In this week's podcast.

Yeek!

This is why I almost never go to New York.

The big city is scary....

Shaving cream after all

I hate when that happens.

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Great moments in branding

Huh?

via flickr, taken by christine.corbett

[via Robot Chant]

The street finds its own use for things

Find the lesson about technology and innovation in this New York Times article:

In that old battle of the wills between young people and their keepers, the young have found a new weapon that could change the balance of power on the cellphone front: a ring tone that many adults cannot hear.

In settings where cellphone use is forbidden — in class, for example — it is perfect for signaling the arrival of a text message without being detected by an elder of the species....

The technology, which relies on the fact that most adults gradually lose the ability to hear high-pitched sounds, was developed in Britain but has only recently spread to America — by Internet, of course....

[It is]... the offshoot of an invention called the Mosquito, developed last year by a Welsh security company to annoy teenagers and gratify adults, not the other way around.

It was marketed as an ultrasonic teenager repellent, an ear-splitting 17-kilohertz buzzer designed to help shopkeepers disperse young people loitering in front of their stores while leaving adults unaffected.

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Summer of Love

Paris Hilton is engaged to Greek shipping heir Paris Latsis, AND Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are tying the knot.

Truly, it's the Summer of Love, all over again. Though what will the tabloids call Paris and Paris, since there's no chance of a cute "Bennifer" like mashup of their names?

And does this engagement mean that Paris is our generation's Jackie O?

Clearly I need more coffee. That damned Markoff book is keeping me up. Curse you, interesting reading!

[To the tune of Natalie Merchant, "Wonder," from the album "Tigerlily".]

So much for going to Canada

A surprisingly funny article from Harper's about how difficult it is to give up American citizenship and emigrate. Who knew the State Department could just say, "No, you're still a citizen"?

Spam gets weirder and weirder

Previously, I was getting spam that claimed I was a money-laundering child pornographer. Now, apparently I'm-- well, I'm not sure what:

Travel and fly on planes under any name!

Get job at preschool if convicted molester!

(This is not spam. You signed up as Arab decent person looking for new identity information for new mission.)

This from a company that says they "specialize in spam and child porn hosting." It's so weird.