As expected, Facebook has launched the redesigned Facebook home page this afternoon. Here’s how it looks: A few thoughts and first impressions: The default “filter” is “News Feed,” which appears to be all shared items by friends. You can filter your stream by network, p...

Just what tickled my fancy in the last few days… Channel 4 - News - When pundits fight back - When do we get to have *our* Jon Stewart? Another Rumour Stamped Out - Kevin Maguire & Friends - Mandelson in provable bollocks shock. Is James Purnell the worst social security minister ever? - I...

Jesus must be bored if he's taking time to appear in a bucket of ice cream ... or a sink ... or a sonogram ... or (my favorite) a Cheeto. Everything is Terrible put together this video of religious ap... Continue reading "Oh, Cheesus ..."...

In a moralising speech to the Society of Editors last year, Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre had this to say about Max Mosely and the court judgement that had gone in his favour… The judge found for Max Mosley because he had not engaged in a “sick Nazi orgyâ€� as the News of the World contested,...

A couple of days ago, Alan "Professor Crap" Scherstuhl sent me this video from Pat Vamos, a Kansas City guy who's making bizarre videos for the Upright Citizens Brigade. This one -- an '80s flashback ... Continue reading "The strangest video you'll watch today"...

WARNING: RAMBLING AND SELF-INDULGENT WHITE HETEROSEXUAL MALE AHEAD… My partner used to work in women’s refuges. Rochdale, Newbury, Chelsea. She’d come home with tales of what men had done to their partners that would, without a word of a lie, make an Uzbek prison torturer whistle i...

Just a reminder to everyone in the US, that starting today and lasting until the 21st, you can go to Toys R Us to pick up the Event Rigigigas! It is Level 100 (!) and has these moves: Iron Head, Rock Slide, Icy Wind, and Crush Grip. It comes in a Cherish Ball with a Custap Berry. Also, this Regigiga...

I need a late pass on David Longstreth and the musicians who these days make up Dirty Projectors. I hadn’t listened to them before I did some prep for last night’s show earlier this week. Shame on me. The intrigue began at the name. A dirty projector, whose images are skewered and fractu...

I've been a bit busy the last couple days, so this will be brief. Included in this post is one opinion out of the other Washington, the Supreme Court opinion in Wyeth. Because there's a lot to do though, I will keep it boiled down to the bare essentials: March 3, 2009 Div. II City of Gig Harbor v. N...

Talk about getting kicked while you’re down. Already, the biodiesel industry has seen its margins squeezed since petroleum prices plummeted last fall. Now, the news coming out of Brussels earlier this week is that the European Union plans to slap punitive tariffs on imports of U.S. biodiesel for s...