Oooo . . . Ahhh . . .  *dead*

Those of you who were trapped in a snowbank yesterday might not have already heard about the strange light that appeared in the sky above Norway (more pictures of that at Geekologie).  Now a possible cause has been hypothesized by the always-brilliant Phil Plait over at badastronomy. (ALWAYS!  Did you just question my adjective?  I will fight you.)  He thinks the spiral was caused by a particles being spewed from a spinning booster rocket.  Below are two videos of the phenomenon over Norway.  The third video is a computer simulation of spiral ejecta from a tumbling rocket.  When viewed from the right angle, it looks very much like the light over Norway.

[Thanks to Geoffrey for the tip.]

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   Congratulations!! Your eyes have AIDS now.

I didn’t write about the game ”Muscle March” earlier because I thought its particular form of insanity was confined to the Japanese market.  Now unrealitymag reports it’s getting an American release this winter:

[You] play one of a couple buff dudes, a chick and a polar bear to chase after a football player who stole your protein powder. And you move the Wiimote to pose in various muscular ways in order to fit through the walls. [unrealitymag]

Watching the trailer, I can’t help thinking this is an elaborate slam on Americans somehow.  Which is unnecessary, as we parody ourselves well enough already, thankyouverymuch.

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Get ready to cringe, folks.  When the Burgers got married, some surprise guests showed up to reenact a scene from Superman II. Only a few members of the wedding party and the groom were in on it: 

From the anonymous woman who sent me the video:
“This is the wedding reception of my husband’s best friend.  My husband is Lex Luthor.  The bride had no idea this was going to happen.” [GreatWhiteSnark]

I give it about 3 more years till every argument ends with, “Well at least I didn’t turn our special day into a Richard Donner cosplay convention, superdork.”  And then he’ll say, “You said you like surprises!”  And then she’ll say, “But I meant surprise me by bringing home Bill from the office for a threesome.”

65 Media recently redesigned Jim Carrey’s official website, and holy hell did it get odd.  I am not enough of a computer geek to understand these “immersive web experiences” or whatever the people with dry-clean-only clothes call it before eating the biscuit.

I guess this is that Web 3.0 all the kids are jiving about, but it just leaves me confused.  What’s it all mean?  How’s this thing work, Ethel?  ETHEL!  Oh, right, she died in ’92.  Have you ever noticed all calculator buttons are too small now?  And what’s the deal with shoes? My imaginary grandchildren never call.  My eleven prescriptions per month should be free, but you whippersnappers will get your one $35 rescue inhaler per year covered when you pry it out of my cold dead vulture hands! I’m going to go watch Monk.  And I vote.

UPDATE:  It’s like CBS read my mind.  They just put a new Andy Rooney clip up:

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Below is the most boss Thanksgiving turkey drawing any student has ever made, found by tacosunited.

Some guy married his Nintendo DS.  Yes, he’s Japanese, and, no, I don’t know where you can buy a special adapter for that.  Make your own.  [ToplessRobot]

David Thorne is back with another sarcastic email argument. [27b/6]

Disturbing pictures of 25 human oddities. Print it out as a checklist to compare to your family at dinner today. [Holytaco]

This handy chart will help you decide which fast food restaurant to eat at three hours after you couldn’t eat with the family because lost your appetite filling out that checklist. [Geekologie]

Filmdrunk points out that Pete Hammond actually said something funny then reminds us why he still sucks.  The greatest trick Pete Hammond ever pulled was convincing us he ever watched anything he reviews.  The second greatest trick he ever pulled?  Divine Brown.

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Low-intensity shockwaves can trigger the growth of new blood vessels, and about 80% of erectile dysfunction cases are caused by cardiovascular problems (the other 20% are caused by The View . . . allegedly).  Yoram Vardi considered these findings, and decided it would be a capital idea to shoot shockwaves at somebody else’s junk.  And he got twenty volunteers.  This dude’s a pimp.

Amazingly, it wasn’t just an elaborate prank on those twenty guys.  Fifteen of them showed a statistically significant improvement that held up [heh heh] for at least three months.

“These are very, very low energy shock waves,” Vardi said. Each shockwave applied roughly 100 bar of pressure — some 20 times the air pressure in a bottle of champagne, but less than the pressure exerted by a woman in stiletto heels who weighs 132 lbs. (60 kg). [Ed.- Well, that was a precise visual, Yoram.]
“This sort of energy is completely different from what you would get in a massage, although everyone can do what they want,” Vardi said. [MSNBC]

You’re damn right we can do want we want with our “massages”.  You know how hard difficult it is to find someone in stiletto heels who weighs precisely 132 pounds?  And the looks you get when you walk into a gangbang with a bathroom scale and a bag of shoes?  Oh, sure, I’m the perv here.  That’s awfully big talk for a bunch of guys wearing Nixon masks.

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