If you haven't already seen it, here it is. The Demon Sheep YouTube ad put out by Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, attacking her "FCINO" (Fiscal Conservative In Name Only) rival Thomas Campbell in a California primary race.

I'm not sure if their goal was for it to be this absolutely, stunningly, unintentionally hilariously over-the-top. (It plays exactly like a parody that you would see on The Daily Show or The Colbert Report.) But let's put it this way: Lots of people are talking about it. (Read more...)

I enjoy it when an actor just goes for it, completely uninhibited by the fear of looking silly or being accused of going totally over the top — continuing on long after an actor with reasonable restraint would've stopped. Memorably hilarious scenes that come to mind include Will Ferrell throwing a tantrum in a phone booth in Anchorman and Kurt Russell screaming bloody murder over a minor arm wound in Death Proof.

Or in the case of this great clip, Stephen Colbert doing an impression of a nuclear explosion. Hilarious.

Actually, this isn't a review, but an announcement that there will not be a review of Windows 7, because I find Windows 7 to be inexplicable. (Read more...)

Working as I do in the newspaper industry, I am reminded on a near-daily basis by the media at large that newspapers are dying because they are outmoded, obsolete, operating under a business model that is no longer sustainable, and plenty of other doom, gloom, and etc. I guess I should feel fortunate that I work in the online division — the very aspect of the business that's allegedly "killing" the rest of the paper — but it still gets tiresome when all you hear about is how dinosaur-extinct the industry apparently already is. Too bad, I guess. Facts are facts. After all, I read about it on somebody's blog. (Read more...)

Faithful readers know that I can't stand Fox News, and Bill O'Reilly in particular. But the recently released 1990s-era video of the O'Reilly meltdown on "Inside Edition" is the most awesome viral video in recent memory. I love this video. It's hilarious. (Read more...)

The Internet is the future of video, as has been proven by the WGA strike (which looks to be officially ending this week). But watching movies on the Internet is still not a particularly good option, in my opinion. It can provide a substitute in a pinch, but with current technology and bandwidth, it's not a way I would ever choose to watch a movie, given the alternative. (Read more...)

Although I'm of the opinion that someone is, in some way, helping to write late-night TV despite the supposition that there are no writers during the strike (I simply have a hard time buying that everything is improvised, or that the hosts are writing all their material with no help), there is a certain amusement in seeing what zaniness can become possible when one is forced to put on a TV show while hamstrung without one's WGA-card-carrying staffers. (Read more...)

The tree in the lobby of my workplace is no longer rotating at 1 rpm. It has been unplugged and now just sits there like a normal Christmas tree, probably because they are about to take it down.

As an Illini fan, watching the Rose Bowl was brutal.

Pointless random rotating tree updates mixed with equally pointless and random sports comments: It do what it do.

Spam is one of the scourges of the Internet. (How's that for the most obvious statement of the year?) There was a time not long ago, before I eliminated one of my constantly-spammed e-mail addresses, that I was getting upwards of 250 spam messages a day. I'm sure that number is low by some people's standards, but it was absurd by mine. (Read more...)

In the reception area of my workplace, there's a Christmas tree. It is in one of those rotating stands. It sits there, all day and all night, slowly rotating at approximately 1 rpm. (Read more...)