Congratulations! You're the Time Magazine Person of the Year 2006!

TIME Magazine Cover: Person of the Year - Dec. 25, 2006 - You, Person of the Year

I have to admit, they have a point.

Here's an interesting fact to be able to quote in conversations where you want to sound intelligent:

You tend to be more intelligent, more alert, and have a better memory when you're hungry. Weird, yet at the same time it kind of makes sense in a pseudo-evolutionary-psychology sort of way. ;)

Empty-Stomach Intelligence - New York Times

Google just got caught red-handed: Somebody from Google pretty much copied an entire announcement page from Yahoo about Internet Explorer 7, replaced "Yahoo" with Google, replaced Yahoo's purple with Google's turquoise, and put it on Google's site. Check it out, it's unbelievably....evil. ;) And stupid.

Doth mine ears just sense the noise of a Google employee getting fired quicker than you can say "Yahoooo-ooooh"?

Google Blatantly Copies Yahoo!? (by Jeremy Zawodny)

Edit: Before you think Yahoo would be above ever doing this, check this page out (seems to be a "rebuttal" by a Google guy)... the plot thickens. ;)

The Wii comes out in Germany today. And guess what?

Yay! After two failed pre-order attempts, my wonderful, beautiful, loving (and very pregnant!) wife stood in front of Saturn, our big electronics store here in Berlin, for a half an hour this morning, together with about 60 other people, then stormed the store once it opened and bought one of only a couple hundred Wiis plus Zelda plus a controller! The Wiis sold out within less than a half hour, and now the Wii is going to be out of stock for another couple of weeks, but thanks to my AWESOME wife, we have one and don't have to worry about whether we'll get one before Christmas! Stephi, you ROCK, babe!

Pictures and videos will surely follow. :)

I find no words to describe my utter amusement.

Tah's phunnie:

Evangelism Linebacker - he'll bust yo' ass if you don' get evangelizin'. Thanks to Claudia, for the heads up.



And second, I stumbled upon this silly, silly Colbert piece: Stephen Colbert has a dreamsicle.

Found this through del.icio.us - it's a graphic showing the various probabilities of dying in different ways. Quite interesting, regardless of how completely factual or relevant it is. :)

The big (sad) surprise for me is that death by suicide is 1 in 119, which just strikes me as a LOT of people committing suicide. Odds of dying

It's moments like these I realize how much I enjoy the Internet! I just found out that I can buy my favorite album, Waterdeep's "Sink or Swim" for just $7.50 on their web site, downloading the MP3 files here at work AND at home. They have all their other albums for sale, too, so I'm going to have to check some of their newer stuff out. Waterdeep

Also, Derek Webb (formerly one of the songwriters and singers for Caedmon's Call) is giving away his album "Mockingbird" at FreeDerekWebb.com. It's pretty good, musically, but the lyrics are where the double punch comes in. Lyrics like:

Don't teach me about politics and government, just tell me who to vote for.
Don't teach me about truth and beauty, just label my music
...
Don't teach me about moderation and liberty, I prefer a shot of grape juice
I don't want to know if the answers aren't easy.
Just bring it down from the mountain to me.
I want a new law....I want a new law....I want a new law.

Internet Explorer 7 is out. (http://ie7.com) Better time than ever to download Firefox. ;-)

Here's one of the best optical-illusion-mess-with-your-eyes-animations I've ever seen: Strobe. Prepare to get trippy.