I want the $10,000 one personally. Oh and he made a youtube video.

[Source: Josh Freese]

You're on!

Yes homeless people too are discovering the life changing benefits of having cellphones. 50 year old Rommel McBride who has spend the last six years on the street says….

A cellphone is the only way you can call to keep up with your food stamps, your housing application, your job. When you’re living in a shelter or sleeping on the streets, it’s your last line of communication with the world.

The advantages of owning a cell phone are enormous and communication again proves that it remains the most important development of mankind. With the ease of instantaneous communication now days it allows an even greater impact on peoples lives. “Pay as you go” phones are a dime a dozen but I wouldn’t imagine have imagined the impact they can have. For example Chris who is 42 and a recovering crack addict…..

…..he got a pay-as-you-go cellphone and gave his boss the number ”I live up near the Capitol — give me a call anytime if you need extra hands,” he told his employer, being vague about where he bedded down each night.

He received numerous calls to come in early or to work an extra shift. After less than a year on the job, he was promoted. “No one there knows I’m homeless,” he said. “I would never have been able to do this without the cellphone.”…..

And to think I sat though a kids speech yesterday who said we should use cellphones less…..

[Source: Washington Post]

Victory dance!

From the Assosiated Press…

The name “Colbert” beat out NASA’s four suggested options in the spaceagency’s effort to have the public help name the addition. The new room will be launched later this year.

NASA’s mistake was allowing write-ins. Colbert urged viewers of his Comedy Central show, “The Colbert Report” to write in his name. And they complied, with 230,539 votes. That clobbered Serenity, one of the NASA choices, by more than 40,000 votes. Nearly 1.2 million votes were cast by the time thecontest ended Friday.

[Source: AP]

Oh you have a prackage for me?

[Source: AmazingSuperPowers]

Bruno weighs in at 21 pounds; the average lamb is 7.

Meet Bruno, who is currently the largest know lamb to ever be born.

He three times the size of the other newborn lambs he is a pretty darn big lamb.

Sure you could eat him and he would make a lot of lamb gyros, but wouldn’t be cooler to let him grow as large as possible and try and create a new breed of super giant sheep? Sheep the size of cows making enough wool for everybody. But wouldn’t it be cooler to ride a giant sheep? Imagine sheep replacing cars as I number one source of transportation!

Okay that will never happen but his is a pretty big lamb.

[Source: Daily Mail]

From the New York Times…

The police in Britain have credited a group of young Internet users with alerting them to a Web posting by a 16-year-old who said he planned to attack his high school with “arson and other forms of violence,” enabling officers to arrest the teenager as he approached the school carrying a knife, matches and a plastic jerrycan of what the police described as “flammable liquid.”

Now this wasn’t the same as finding out who a ski mask wearing cat-beater is, but this had the potential off being far more dangerous. The Internet user reporting this threat, J. P. Neufeld has my salute.

[Source: New York Times]

Ian McShane is mad that you haven't watched his show.

Odds are you probably don’t know what Kings is seeing as how only 6 million people watched its premiere last Sunday. But here is how the shows summary reads…..

A modern-day soap about a hero who rises to become the King of his nation, based on the biblical story of King David.

Yeah not very good. Somebody has really dropped the ball on marketing this thing.  I’m not sure I can do much better but here it goes…

A modern-day soap show about a hero who rises to become the King of his nation, based on the biblical story of King David. Staring really good actors, has great production values, and a tight story with well developed characters.

Anyways suffice to say I really like this show. I had been looking for something new to watch lately. I even briefly entertained the notion of watching Battlestar Gallactica but removing my eyes with and ice cream scooper and replacing them with ping pong balls seem preferable to that. Here is a preview of tonight’s episode which airs at 8/7c, which you probably wont understand because you missed the first episode but it is on hulu so you can catch up.

[Source: xkcd]

I see what you did there.