• And now, presenting my list of Simpsons store names. This was compiled through months of rerun watching. It\’s far from complete though, so please email me the ones I missed. I didn\’t include the obvious stores like Moe\’s and the Kwik-E-Mart, and I didn\’t include the \”normal\” store names either.

    Ah Fudge!
    All Creatures, Great and Cheap
    Barnacle Bill\’s Anger Management Center
    Beachcomber Barber Shop
    Bloodbath & Beyond Gun Shop
    Broken-Home Chimney Repair
    Call Me Delish-mael
    CostMo Foods
    Crypto Barn: A Place For Codes
    Davey Jones\’ Hamper
    Dingo Junction
    Donner\’s Party Supplies
    Goody New Shoes
    Hairy Shearers
    Have it Uruguay
    Hemp City
    I.P.O. Friday\’s
    It Blows: An Air Conditioner Store
    It\’s a Wonderful Knife
    J.R.R. Toykin
    Java the Hut
    Just Rainsticks
    Karma-ceuticals
    Kentucky Fried Panda
    King Toot\’s Music Store
    Li\’l Valu-Mart
    Malaria Zone
    Miscellaneous, Etc.
    Much Ado About Muffins
    My First Tattoo
    One Size Fits All Lingerie
    Planet Hype
    Planet Springfield
    Repot Depot
    Señor Ding-Dong\’s Doorbell Fiesta
    Sh tkickers
    Shøp
    Snippy Longstocking
    Sportacus
    Stoner\’s Pot Palace
    TeeJay\’s ZayMart
    Tern for the Wurst
    The Buzzing Sign Diner
    The Copy Jalopy
    The Corpulent Cowboy
    The French Confection
    The Frying Dutchman
    The Gassy Knoll
    The Happy Earwig Motel
    The Hungry Hun
    The Jerky Hut
    The Kabachi Hibachi
    The London Broil
    The Lucky Stiff Funeral Home
    The Perm Bank
    The Spend Zone
    The Texas Cheesecake Depository
    Try-n-Save
    Turban Outfitters
    Ugli
    Up, Up, and Buffet
    What They Eat in Thailand
    You Thai Now
    Yuk-ingham Palace

  • I didn\’t know Neal Stephenson\’s The Big U reprint was released last February. This is cool cause the original out-of-print first edition goes for around $200 on eBay. I found an online copy a few months ago and I printed it out at work, but reading a loose 8.5 x 11\” book just isn\’t the same.

  • This is such a cool prank. You take an old computer, take everything out of the inside, and fill the case with concrete. Then you put it on your porch and watch dumb thieves try to steal a 100 lb concrete block. Of course, once the thieves get pissed off they\’ll probably chuck it through your window.

  • Two Police Cars Open Fire On Each Other

    \”Police officers in two cars fired more than 20 rounds at each other after mistaking each other\’s vehicles for a stolen patrol car. Nobody was hurt.\”

    Sounds like something from a Guy Ritchie movie.

  • My math midterm wasn\’t as bad as I thought it would be. Well, maybe that\’s because I actually studied for it. Thank god tomorrow\’s Friday. This week was way too long.

  • Newsweek has an amusing article about the Rise of Christian Pop Music. Apparently, Christian pop music is the hottest genre in the music industry now. It had $747 million in record sales last year. They even have their own Lollapalooza-like concert tour, Festival Con Dios (Festival With God, in Spanish).

    \”The kids have the option to visit the prayer area if they’re not moshing to Skillet’s acerbic din, or rocking to the Beastie Boyish raps of Earthsuit. Or they can all bow their heads together at the main stage, where bands and speakers break into prayer at any given hour.\”

    Damn, I need to listen to something Satanic after reading that article.

    …Which reminds me of one of my favorite Simpsons quotes: \”All the best bands are affiliated with Satan.\”

  • Kimberley-Clark, the owners of the Kleenex and Scotch brands, will soon introduce coreless toilet paper rolls. Apparently it reduces the threat of running out at a bad time. But what are elementary school kids and people with Down Syndrome going to use for arts and crafts now?

  • Taking the transparent, see-through craze to the next logical level, someone made his hard drive see-through. Now he just needs to find a good place to mount it so he can see his hard drive spin when he downloads new porn.

  • I think a neat trick would be to show this little animation to someone who\’s about to go on a long plane trip. Heh heh heh.

  • What the hell? My stupid archive page is acting weird again. On Saturday half the entries just disappeared, and now they\’re back again. I wonder where they went. Maybe to another, more exciting, more popular blog.

    Anyway, I\’m just going to ignore the archive page from now on. If you\’re looking for a particular page and it\’s not there, try again a few days later.