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Worst movie trailer ever?
You decide. The Isle.
This is “weird”
While reading Hixie’s log, I came across this article at TimesOnline.co.uk. I found the following headline (in the Breaking News section on the right) more interesting (and puzzling) than the article itself…
What’s with the quotes? Has “kills 22” become some sort of euphemism? Slang for some new surfing move? Or is this perhaps a direct quote? I have trouble constructing a likely quote from an official that would use the present tense (i.e. kills instead of killed). Are they perhaps quoting from somebody else’s newspaper headline? Was this just an attempt to avoid using the word “allegedly”? Why? There was room for it…
Browsing around, I see several other headlines that stand out, like these…
This turned out not to be an expose on the Inferno, but somebody’s human interest piece on NYC today.
Deck the halls but don’t attack Iraq, fa la la la la, la la la la
I have no idea… the article doesn’t appear to be on the site any more. Note that it’s not “men of deviation”, but rather men “of deviation”. I suppose their gender is not in doubt, but their deviation is?
Did you know
that the number 10 does not appear anywhere on a dime? I find that very strange.
ABCNews confronts editing crisis?
From Earth Summit Confronts Global Water Crisis
Earth Summit delegates on Wednesday tackled ways to quench the planet’s growing thirst and provide sanitation to billions of the world’s poor who do without either every day.
Doing without the planet’s thirst every day. A tragedy, indeed.
A moment of silence
Satirewire is no longer being updated. I’m devastated.
Here are a few of my all-time favorite bits…
Airport Screeners Can’t Detect Anything
Canada Has a Warship?
Pentagon Using Roborats
Global March Madness
Huh
At what point did Barbara Walters turn into a Muppet?
Eww
I’ll pass. Hey, that reminds me, I need to finish cleaning out the fridge.
Everyone’s a critic
Pink is feeling threatened by my blogging prowess and is threatening to send Blake to beat me up. I have two words for ya, Pink: “boogily woogily”.
According to reliable reports from our friends at ABCNews.com, it looks as if Jason Priestly is going to make a full recovery from his racing crash injuries. Good news, indeed.
“We have no indication from any of the scans that he’s had that he has any further damage to his head,” Indy Racing League medical director Henry Bock said earlier.
Note the use of the word further. Methinks Henry Bock is not Mr. Priestly’s biggest fan…
Errr… click where, exactly?
Of course, those ABCNews marketing guys have had issues for a while now. This ad has been running along the side of their NewsFlash page for ages. It seems innocuous at first, but try scrolling down a bit as if you’re reading some of the 50 or so headlines that they display on that page. Just scroll enough to cut off his head and shoulders…
That’s right. You’re reading news stories, minding you’re own business, when all of a sudden you become aware that there is a ad with a very unusual focus along the right of your field of vision. The tie placement is also very unfortunate. If you squint your eyes just right, it might even start to look like this…
I wonder if they catch more email subscribers with honey (this ad) or with vinegar (the one below)…