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PJ’s Forum Round-Up 1.12.08 — It’s the first of December!  Christmas is coming and the feel of presents is in the air.  Boy do I love this time of year.  Can’t wait to see what everyone gets or gives or even see how they celebrate, if at all. Within the WinExtra family we have our own gift giving place called the forums.  We pass words of love and wisdom back and forth like little periods of acid or sentences of cocaine.  Wow, what a mind-blowing family!  With that in mind, we all would like to shout out to Kim, Steven’s better half, and wish her... [Tags: absurdity, adult side, church signs, cocaine, coffee shop]

Boing Boing posts on GOOD! — We at Boing Boing are all big fans of GOOD. For those of you haven't checked it out, in print or online, GOOD creates media "for people who give a damn." That's something we can get behind. We've linked to their fantastic articles and data visualizations frequently in the past. So we were delighted when the good people at GOOD approached us about collaborating in some way. Our first dance together is "Boing Boing on GOOD," wherein each week Mark, Xeni, Joel, or I will post a short essay or article to the GOOD blog. We'll take those opportunities to... [Tags: boing boing, botox, botox injections, charles darwin, dark cloud]

A Reminder To Read Your Receipts — One of my favorite blogs is PassiveAggressiveNotes.com, and today they've got a doozy. Apparently, this branch of Dunkin Donuts really loves to reward their employee of the month by congratulating him or her personally on their receipts: If you're going to make fun of someone for being "slow," at least use spell check.... [Tags: blogs, doozy, dunkin donuts, employee of the month, receipts]

Newest System Menu 3.4 Wii Update Kills Homebrew Again [Wii Homebrew] — Hey, Nintendo—what's going on here? After a good year or so looking the other way on Wii homebrew (for the most part), now we've got two fairly serious brew-killing updates in the last month? Word from the folks at Wiibrew.org is that the latest update, System Menu 3.4, is apparently a doozy when it comes to ruining the homebrew party. New features include USB keyboard support in the Mii channel, enhanced parental controls, and that's where the fun stops: the update also apparently deletes the Homebrew Channel and any other unofficial channels and promises to "check for and automatically remove"... [Tags: doozy, good year, handy guide, homebrew, jinx]

This Week's Tasty 10 — From Serious Eats According to our handy site-metering utility, the top 10 most delicious items on Serious Eats this week were ... 1. Does Your Grocery Store Have You Crying Tears of Joy? Do you have a local grocery store that you've sworn undying loyalty to? 2. In Defense of Breakfast: A Morning Manifesto "Artists might say that the eyes are the windows to the soul. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that, for a food writer, breakfast just might be the same. So what's your stance on breakfast? Can't stomach it, or can't live without... [Tags: babylon new york, crying tears, doozy, food writer, gail]

'Top Chef' Season 5, Episode 1 — From Serious Eats All right, Top Chef junkies. Listen up. Your jonesin' days are over for the time being. Tom, Padma, Gail, and the rest of the resident and guest experts have been joined by 17 aspiring top toques in New York City. Based on tonight's first episode, it's going to be a doozy of a season. My favorite introductory quote came from Daniel, a twenty-something chef from Babylon, New York: "I was so unnoticed for the longest time." You're 25, dude, how long could you have gone unnoticed? What's interesting to me is how quickly casual viewers like me... [Tags: african american woman, ariane, babylon new york, casual viewers, doozy]

GM Working On New "Cadillac One" Limo For Obama [Obama-mobile] — Now that we're going to have a new president, it's time for a new presidential limo—and GM is whipping up quite a doozy for the new Prez-elect. “Cadillac One” will be based off of the GMC Topkick, which you may remember as Ironhide from Transformers. For pretty obvious reasons, details on what exactly makes up the new limo are scarce, but it will most likely include five-inch thick glass (which can stop military assault rifles), cellphone jammers and blast-proof ceramics. But will it have backseat DVDs for watching Spongebob on? Guess only Malia and Sasha will know for sure.... [Tags: backseat, boston globe, cadillac, ceramics, doozy]

Despite Olympics, Elections, Ad Revenues Down In 2008 — Political ad spending will reach $2.5 billion this year, according to TNS estimates. But overall media advertising spending still shrank 1.3% from January to August compared to the same months last year, reports Ad Age. Minus the political ads, spending is down 1.6%. Without political spending and the Olympics, revenues are down 2.4% to $89.4 billion. John Hendricks, exec VP-sales for Tribune broadcasting and interactive, told AdAge he blames all the usual suspects. "The automotive industry, telecom and retail are three very big categories that have been softer than anticipated in 2008, really because of the downturn in the economy."... [Tags: adage, automotive industry, doozy, downturn, economy]

The Only Wii Homebrew Guide You Will Ever Need [How-to] — Finding a clear and concise guide for loading homebrew software on a game console is almost always impossible—the info is always changing as homebrewers battle new hack-blocking software updates (like Nintendo's recent doozy), and it's scattered across countless gamer forums that you don't want to have to sift through, trust me. Thankfully, the Wii's homebrew scene is fairly stable, and took only a few days to bounce back (mostly) intact after being temporarily shut down last week. Here you'll find a guide for easily getting homebrew up and running on any Wii, even if you've run the recent updated,... [Tags: blocking software, channel software, concise guide, doozy, few days]

Barbara West's Audition Reel For Faux News Channel — So you might have heard about Barbara West, that TV anchor from Orlando, Florida who asked Joe Biden some pretty crazy questions (such as whether Barack Obama was preaching Marxism and whether he wanted to turn the U.S. into a socialist nation), but you probably didn't see the questions she asked John McCain, and you probably didn't see the real doozy of a question that she asked Biden when they last interviewed, in September. I've put them all together in one highlight reel destined for the desk of some EP at Faux News. I'm not going to spoil the surprise... [Tags: admission, audition, barack obama, crazy questions, desk]

This is some doozy of an ad for John Cornyn of Texas for Senate. Rick Noriega (d) is running against Cornyn. I first thought this ad was a spoof made by the Noriega campaign. It is really an ad run by Cornyn - my favorite part is "six mo' " combining this odd Texas drawl rap with hip hop. Enjoy.... [Tags: doozy, hip hop, jack hidary, john cornyn, rap]

Me fail civics? That's unpossible! — Take a look at a clip from another typically vapid and disastrous Sarah Palin television interview and see what it looks like when the reporter is actually uninterested in clarifications or follow ups. I guess that's what Palin has moved on to these days. Local affiliate interviews with reporters who won't ask anything hard. But that doesn't actually mean Palin gives correct answers. Oh, no! Far from it! All it means is that the reporter asking the questions doesn't give any indication of being aware that the answers are incorrect. Here's her answer to the last question she's asked. It's... [Tags: ceremonial occasions, civics, clarifications, correct answers, correct response]

Henry Blodget: Why This Recession Will Be A Doozy — The last recession was mild. The stock market and corporate profits tanked, but consumer spending--long the major engine of our economy--danced merrily on through. In recent decades, it has ever been thus: bearish analysts and strategists have been underestimating the voracious spending habits and resilience of the US consumer for 50 years. Unfortunately, at risk of invoking the four most expensive words in the English language, "this time it's different." Why? Because the US consumer is finally broke. For thirty years, we piled on debt and then spent almost every new penny we got. This borrowing spree was made possible... [Tags: american consumers, asset prices, car loans, consumer debt, consumer spending]

From Clusterstock: Because the growth of the economy in recent years has been driven by consumer borrowing...and consumers are now broke.... [Tags: consumers, doozy, economy, recession]

Cloud Computing Reality Check: Gmail Goes Down For A Day — Take note before jumping on the cloud bandwagon: even relatively mature cloud applications like Google's (GOOG) gmail -- which unlike the many cloud upstarts already has a track record several years long -- still suffer from massive failures. The latest outage Wednesday night was a doozy: some Google Apps users were locked out of Gmail for over 24 hours. No word on exactly how many users were affected, or just what went wrong. Reason enough to stay out of the cloud, and miss out on reduced IT expenses? Cloud defenders will say that locally-hosted applications can and do fail too.... [Tags: bodily harm, computing solution, customer account, customer service rep, doozy]

Intel disputes EU's probing procedure — Second one's always a doozy …... [Tags: doozy, intel]

Disgrasian: Sarah Palin: Below-Average American — An as-yet-to-be-authenticated, high school transcript of Sarah Palin's was posted on Gawker Thursday, and it's a doozy. The report shows Palin's GPA for that grading period as a 2.2, her lowest score being a D in Foreign Language class (which seems a bit too on-the-nose). It also says that she earned 3 C's and 2 B's. The real shocker is her SAT score, also listed in the report. Apparently, Sarah Palin scored an 841 out of 1600 (the maximum of the old point-system). It goes without saying that if I had brought home that SAT score when I was a... [Tags: al gore, american asshole, arugula, asian parents, bill gates]

Midday Open Thread — John McCain's brother, Joe, told a campaign rally that Democratic-leaning Northern Virginia is "communist country." That's pretty rich coming from a party with a penchant for secret torture prisons, rampant corruption, spying on citizens, and disastrous economic policies. (Credit to Raising Kaine who had the full story hours before the Washington Post "broke" the story.) The McCain campaign may be pulling out of Michigan, but the Obama camp says it has no intentions to scale back operations. More signs of trouble for the McCain/Palin campaign -- they just added last-minute stops for Palin in traditional red states like Nebraska... [Tags: ap reports, arizona senator, brother joe, campaign rally, communist country]

Apple introducing new manufacturing process, MacBook 'Brick'? — Filed under: Laptops The Apple rumor mill has really cooked up a doozy this time. According to 9to5mac -- a site with a fairly good track record -- Apple's next big thing isn't just a laptop or an iPod... it's an entirely new manufacturing process. If you believe the site's sources, an as-yet-unannounced event on October 14th will herald in a new iteration of the MacBook dubbed the "Brick," but the big news won't actually be about the laptop. Apparently, Apple has created a brand-new process to sculpt casings for products out of aircraft-grade aluminum, using a system that carves... [Tags: aircraft grade aluminum, apple rumor, brick, casings, doozy]

Who Are America’s Worst Politicians Today? All Of Them! — Dearest Wonkette readers. Now would be an appropriate time to grab a drink and reassess the value of, you know, representative democracy as an effective form of government at all. If you’ve been watching CNN for the last couple of hours… well, we’re right there with you. Oh god CNN is now looking at Internet comments to get more opinions on the Death Of The Bailout. INTERNET COMMENTS. We want forty guns right now with which to shoot furniture, appliances, alley cats and, most importantly, our own human selves. Let’s run through a list of the comically pathetic ways in... [Tags: adult leaders, alley cats, american leader, bailout, bipartisan compromise]