Friday Fun Links (A Trio)

Jesse Walker | May 1, 2009

Because I know a bunch of you will mentally check out around 3 in the afternoon today, and I want to help you fill the hours from then to closing time:

• Today in alternate history.

• A very funny idea for a book. I'm far from sure the book itself can live up to the idea.

• One of the best Onion articles ever.

Comments

|5.1.09 @ 2:38PM|#

Jesse, NutraSweet totally scooped you on the book thing.

Give the guy a hat tip. He's a total attention whore--it would make his day.

|5.1.09 @ 2:46PM|#

ME ME ME ME ME! YAY! ME!

I'm sorry, where were we?

grimaldius mensch|5.1.09 @ 2:47PM|#

who's shatner?

High Every Body|5.1.09 @ 2:51PM|#

Yea, SF should get props for that.

|5.1.09 @ 2:51PM|#

Whore.

|5.1.09 @ 2:54PM|#

You love it and we all know it.

High Every Body|5.1.09 @ 2:56PM|#

One of the best Onion articles ever.

Another coverup uncovered!

Hope and Change is working!

|5.1.09 @ 2:57PM|#

I love the Sherpa story.

|5.1.09 @ 2:59PM|#

I never said I wasn't a whore too.

Xeones|5.1.09 @ 3:03PM|#

You can't link to an Onion article about the moon without also linking to this.

EJM|5.1.09 @ 3:12PM|#

What may be better video quality (or, at least, a longer clip) of Shatner's "Things That Are Blessed" moment (albeit without audio) is here (starting at about 3:40).

P.S.: I don't think I've overtly mentioned it before, but I believe that that's Nimoy as the other celeb (at about 3:45); the incident, I think, took place during the unofficial "Kirk vs. Spock" week in 1977.

|5.1.09 @ 3:29PM|#

1500 student flash mob in the University of Kentucky Library

A security guard pulled a fire alarm to get them out. Lame.

JLM|5.1.09 @ 3:35PM|#

They played an Onion news video on ESPN last night. It was a bit about Tom Coughlin retiring from his family so that he could spend more time with the team.

|5.1.09 @ 3:41PM|#

ME ME ME ME ME! YAY! ME!

joe? Is that you? Its not nice to spoof Sug, you know.

mark|5.1.09 @ 3:42PM|#

That sounds like fun: Huey Long scraps the Fed.

Orange Line Special|5.1.09 @ 3:54PM|#

* One of my best is a video about the Democratic Party. Sadly, 1.5 years later it doesn't even have 2500 views.

* For balance, here's a satire about libertarians.

Xeones|5.1.09 @ 3:57PM|#

Shut the fuck up, LoneWacko.

robc|5.1.09 @ 3:58PM|#

SugarFree,

Flash Crowd. You've read enough sci-fi to use the right term.

Warty|5.1.09 @ 4:17PM|#

* One of my best is a video about the Democratic Party. Sadly, 1.5 years later it doesn't even have 2500 views.


Is Lonewacko mocking himself? If so: shut the fuck up, Lonewacko.

Xeones|5.1.09 @ 4:33PM|#

LoneWacko lacks the self awareness that would allow him to mock himself, Warty. He's genuinely puzzled by the unpopularity of his videos.

|5.1.09 @ 4:36PM|#

LoneWacko lacks the self awareness that would allow him to mock himself, Warty.

Somebody run a Turing Test on LoneWintermute.

Paul|5.1.09 @ 6:30PM|#

Because I know a bunch of you will mentally check out around 3 in the afternoon today

Jesse Walker, always the optimist.

Paul|5.1.09 @ 6:32PM|#

Somebody run a Turing Test on LoneWintermute.

Turing test never necessary on chatbots.

us: [insert question]
lonewintermute: Mexicans! Ferriners!

Version 2.0 now has a third response: Swine flu!