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United Breaks Guitars: revenge is sweet (and a pretty good tune, too)

Halifax based band Sons of Maxwell flew United Airlines to Nebraska in March of 2008. While on the ground at O'Hare, they heard another passenger exclaim, "My God, they're throwing guitars out there," and could only watch as baggage handlers mistreated their instruments.

After a year of trying to get the airline to pay the $1,200 repair cost, the band released their new song, "United Breaks Guitars" on YouTube. The video was popular even before the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago NBC affiliate covered the story. After the NYTimes did a story this morning, the video's been played nearly 2 million times. Enjoy!

Indeed

From For Your Entertainment.

Dr. Jesus Chemical Shop

From Hey Okay.

Logo Fail!

A relatively new site, YourLogoMakesMeBarf.com is just what it sounds like:

 

Yes, that does appear to be a drawing of some private parts in the tree there.

The musical note, and the yellow thing that the "eagle" is carrying the turtle with? Yeah, I don't know either. Note that it's even trademarked, so no one would dare to steal it.

Wouldn't you think that the Wisconsin Tourism Federation folks would have learned by now that they should never use their initials online?

Thanks Kathleen!

Let's hope that at least one of these kids is bottle fed.

From Picture Is Unrelated. Maybe she's going on a picnic with these folks.

Revisiting Vince Lombardi

From Mike Luckovich  via For Your Entertainment.

I have toast!

Toast is the perfect snack food in so very many ways.

From Sober in a Nightclub

Celebrate Independence Day with firecracker prank videos!

Yes, it's completely irresponsible to promote playing pranks with firecrackers that could easily cause injury. But it's really funny!

Above you see the husband about to throw a few firecrackers behind his wife, who is playing with a gun.

All four videos available at Say No to Crack!.

I thought "being eaten by lions" meant something different...

   
I'm afraid to think what the artist would draw for "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe!"

From My[confined]Space.

Y"know, for kids!

Via Miss Cellania.

How to win at Rock-Paper-Scissors

Via Fashionably Geek. $16 from here.

Cigarette Butts: no small problem for the environment

 

Early in my career as an environmental activist I found the idea of litter as an environmental issue laughable and misguided. What can I say -- it's far from the only thing I was wrong about when I was young. Here's a few bits of butt information from the New YorkTimes:

• Keep America Beautiful and the Ocean Conservancy estimate that butts are at least 28% of all items littered nationwide
• Butts are not biodegradable [and] can release can release toxic chemicals including nicotine, benzene and cadmium
• [R]ecent experiments had shown that one butt has enough poisons to kill half the minnows in a liter of water — a standard laboratory test for toxins — in 96 hours

To avoid littering butts you can carry reusable or disposable pocket ashtrays, available locally from Keep Kansas City Beautiful and lots of places on the web.

From bootstrap analysis, a blog of "chronicles and musings of an urban field ecologist."

Image from SAS.org.

Happy Father’s Day!

Via Criggo

No wonder Barney is always so happy!

Via Sober in a Nightclub.

"Marooned on a grassy knoll of the mind:" Crazy right-wing myths about Obama

 

Salon has published the second installment of Crazy right-wing myths about Obama. Here's a few excerpts:

Michelle Malkin: Stimulus funding will pay to run a maglev train between Disneyland and whorehouses in Nevada.

Is that because the whorehouse customers want to go to Disneyland? Or do the kids in Disneyland want to visit the whorehouses? Or is there some sort of weird "Furry" market for Disney characters in Nevada whorehouses?

Jonah Goldberg: European fascists were actually leftists and because Hitler was an organic-eating vegetarian he must have been a proto-hippie. And there's a bundle of rods pictured on the back of the dime called the fasces in Latin.

Did Obama do that to the dime? Hasn't the current dime been in use since 1976? Was Gerald Ford a secret fascist? Is that really why he pardoned Nixon?

Radio host Alex Jones: Obama has created his own version of the Hitler Youth. "[this]...will nationalize charitable work, using slave labor to help the State to further marginalize Christianity..." Right Wing News seethed. "...this and Obama's Serve America Act are part of his stated plan to create a race-based, Gestapo-style 'Civilian National Security Force' as large and well-funded as the military."

Um, what? No, really, what?

Too many crazies to name: Obama wants to take our guns away.

Some of these myths are (loosely) connected to some bill or statement or some interpretation of some other crazy person's rantings. This one's just made up.

These would be way more entertaining if they weren't so frightening.

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