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Awesome.

Tomorrow is an important holiday. Be sure to remind your special lady.

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This is laugh-out-loud funny, and fully bipartisan as well. Safe for work.

Via Fake Steve Jobs.

What a great story…

Anti-war lawyer keys a Marine’s car just before the Marine was to deploy to Iraq. He got caught. Here’s the background.

And justice was sweet - read thru to the end of the article, and the first few comments…

I just love a happy ending!

Via Instapundit.

This is pretty cool.

Via BoingBoing.

To All My Democrat Friends

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2008, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.

To My Republican Friends

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We’ve been doing a lot of interviews for software developers at work lately, and this “overheard at a recent interview” item is quite relevant and hilarious.

From today’s Best of the Web:

Converting Gay
Monday’s Columbus Dispatch previewed a change that was scheduled to come today (photo by reader Hugh Greentree):

There will be a grand “reopening” of Gay Street on Wednesday. No fanfare is planned, and the street never was officially closed, but tell that to merchants who have struggled to attract customers during the six months it’s taken to convert Gay from a one-way street.

The half-mile stretch from Cleveland Avenue to Front Street will open to two-way traffic sometime after the morning rush hour, weather permitting.

It’s a big change on Downtown’s arterial landscape. Ask how long Gay has been one-way and the official city response is “a long time.”

Not that there’s anything wrong with that! But take a look at the results:

It’s only been a few hours, and as you can see, Gay is already straight.

This is the video that Elliott created as part of his skit.

He won “Scariest.”

I share an office with Elliott… it’s always interesting!

Update: For my iPhone-enabled readers, who can’t get to the embedded YouTube content, here’s the link to the video.

A coworker did a hilarious music video for today’s Halloween contest at the office.

He won.

Great job, Garth!

Update: For my iPhone-enabled readers, who can’t get to the embedded YouTube content, here’s the link to the video.

Here is one answer.

I wish I had this kind of creativity.
Animator vs. Animation

Check this video of a radio-controlled airplane.