Stuff About Today

Today, February 19th 2009. A day that will... well, most likely not live in Infamy. But important stuff did happen today, so here it is for your learning pleasure:

-- North Dakota has given full legal rights to fertilized eggs. This is in direct competition with Roe V. Wade, and challenges every abortion in the state of North Dakota. Next for ND? Dogs get free speech, and provided they are at least 3 months old, goldfish can now rent automobiles.

-- Members of the bands Hanson, Cheap Trick, Fountains of Wayne and (here's the kicker) Smashing Pumpkins have formed a band known as Tinted Windows. Presumably, this is what you'll want if you're playing the CD in your car, because showing your face in public really isn't an option there.

-- Author Terry Pratchet has been knighted by the Queen. This is kind of the equivalent of putting Monty Python animations in the Louvre, but I like where this is going.

-- Gus Shakey from the last few posts is going to be a Dad. Okay, so that's not today news -- actually a couple of months old -- but give him a massive 'congrats' if you read one of his posts. It COULD be any day now.

-- The makers of Gatorade have indirectly confirmed that their product nurses hangovers. In other news, the sky is blue. Seriously, has anyone in the press never blacked out and found themselves naked outside of Radio City Music Hall? Or on their grandparents' lawn? This isn't a miracle. You should see how well Aspirin works.

-- Apparently Pepsi is piloting sodas made with real, pure, honest-to-god sugar in the late spring. Jewish lovers of the 'Dew have experienced this every year for passover -- look for the yellow caps during the season, people. They taste delicious AND they won't make you grow an extra kidney on the side of your face. (I would post a link, but apparently it's been killed by the internets.)

-- Someone crazy from Florida is claiming that the falling economy is also causing fewer Shark Attacks. Of course this news is from Florida.

-- I guess I could comment on the whole New York Post/Chimp comic, but you know what? If you didn't expect that kind of horrible shit from the New York Post, you haven't been paying very much attention. To anything. Other than that, it's not that funny a story.

-- Finally, the Dow is below 7500: Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

That's it for Stuff About Today. Plans are to turn this into a video podcast, because I'm pretty funny looking. Also, I have a nice hat.

EDIT: Gus Shakey has uploaded a new logo. We'll probably rotate them for quite a while, as we have at least two different graphic artists contributing here. For now, here's our site: It's scaffolding, but it's built.