Franco will be DAMNED if he lets the Sexy Hamburglar be the most inexplicable McDonald’s-related thing that happens this week.

This is all so strange. I don’t think this is talking about the Swatch brand (i.e. colorful cheap watches) but the Swatch Group, a Swiss conglomerate that owns several watch brands (including Swatch, but also including Hamilton, Tissot, Omega, and others) and the ubiquitous ETA watch movement company. ETA movements…

Did anyone say piped-in engine noises yet?

You forgot the best reason to attend a baseball game:

Fuck this.
Fuck this and fuck electric pepper grinders.

Use it to scroll through different fake engine noises being pumped in through the speakers :D

Okay, fine. Maybe they can jump, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they should.

This thread should be changed to “Best Lionel Hutz Lines”

“Hey, don’t touch my stuff! Wait, this isn’t the YMCA...”

RIP Phil Hartman

I’d have my whole wedding party in them, and of course, you’re now included...

Can’t say I buy that viewpoint, but it certainly came to mind more than a few times as I played through Pillars of Eternity, a role-playing game released last month by the developer Obsidian Entertainment. Pillars is excellent, yes, and a blast to play—but is it fun because it’s a well-designed game that gives players…

IBM’s computer thinks in chocolate and vanilla. Sometimes what it knows is chocolate, sometimes it’s vanilla, sometimes it’s a swirl. Sometimes, though, the swirl melts; then you have to decide if there was more chocolate or more vanilla in that puddle. IBM just hired a fat kid that can tell the difference.

The military exists as a quasi-legal way to enact violence abroad to meet the objectives of those in power. All countries attempt to do this. The US military does that task well, though those objectives are largely aligned with the corporate (rather than the public) interests of America. To the extent those interests…

This may be the wrong place to bring this up, but I, as a life-long civvy, completely fail to understand why we maintain several overlapping branches of service. We have an Army. We have a Navy. We have an Air Force. The Army also has a has a smaller Air Force. The Navy has both a smaller Air Force and a smaller Army.…

I’m a proud Missouri native who has spent many a weekend at a Bass Pro Shop.

Great stuff. I love the MR2 story - the AW11 was VERY picky about torque spec. From the Holy Book of AW11:

What the hell is the guy in the top pic even trying to achieve?

Who would have thunk it- getting hit in the head for a living makes you do stupid shit.