Friday Fun Links (A Trio)

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

[Episiarch]

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.

[SugarFree]

ME ME ME ME ME! YAY! ME!

I'm sorry, where were we?

[grimaldius mensch]

who's shatner?

[High Every Body]

Yea, SF should get props for that.

[Episiarch]

Whore.

[SugarFree]

You love it and we all know it.

[High Every Body]

One of the best Onion articles ever.

Another coverup uncovered!

Hope and Change is working!

[Pro Libertate]

I love the Sherpa story.

[Episiarch]

I never said I wasn't a whore too.

[Xeones]

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

[EJM]

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.

[SugarFree]

1500 student flash mob in the University of Kentucky Library

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

[JLM]

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.

[R C Dean]

ME ME ME ME ME! YAY! ME!

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

[mark]

That sounds like fun: Huey Long scraps the Fed.

[Orange Line Special]

* 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]

Shut the fuck up, LoneWacko.

[robc]

SugarFree,

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

[Warty]

* 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]

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

[Episiarch]

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

Somebody run a Turing Test on LoneWintermute.

[Paul]

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

Jesse Walker, always the optimist.

[Paul]

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!