Click for more information that you ever wanted or needed about The Number of the Beast...but it is pretty cool even though I wonder where these people get this kind of time.

I happened to see a truck on the road today from this trucking company and their company motto struck me right away...

"We Care About Your Load"

Heh...if they ever legalize prostitution I'd love to start a brothel with that as the tagline!

One of these would absolutely rock sitting on my desk!! It's a laser etched crystal which represents the typical distribution of matter (light and dark) in a 100-megaparsec cube of the universe. They have a great animated .gif over on their homepage which shows just how cool this thingy really looks. Eric Raymond has a great rant up comparing this cool doodad to the vapidity of most modern so-called "art". It's great to see Eric back blogging...I didn't realize how much i missed his stuff.

Ever play that game when you were a kid where you tried to slap the other guys hand before he slapped yours? Well, now you can play Slapper the less painful yet no less annoying Flash version...

And the there was one... With the death of Johnny Ramone, only one of the original post-fab four is alive. Bummer man, it seems like only yesterday that I saw them for the last time...but, damn, it has been about nine years! Oh well, "gabba, gabba, hey" Johnny...the band in hell just got a little bit better.

Here's a pretty cool Flash quiz which plays a sound bite from an old video game and gives you multiple choices as to the source. I got a 14 out of 18...not bad considering several were wild guesses!

Which Nigerian spammer are You?

With the Hispanic population of the United States growing as rapidly as it is, it may be time to start brushing up on our Spanish language skills...I suppose we should start with the important stuff first by learning how to get laid in Spanish!

When I saw the headline "Poo La La! Man Speaks French Out of His Butt", I was almost positive the article would be about John Kerry...but the man is actually a Detroit furniture salesman...

According to medical records, he was awakened one night last January in his bedroom by a strange voice that seemed to be coming from under his sheets.

"I listened, but was afraid to move," explains Jablonski. "I thought an intruder may have gotten into bed with me. I couldn't understand what was being said as it was clearly a foreign speaking voice, and I never took any foreign languages back in school.

"The voice kept saying, 'Vive la France.' Finally I threw off the sheets and turned on a light, only to realize the voice was coming straight out of my rear. I was amused and amazed, if also a bit disgusted" Jablonski then reportedly woke his wife Carol and asked her what she thought of the voice. She was more disgusted and less amused than he was and has subsequently left the country.

...and, as usual, the Weekly World News doesn't let us sit around in confusion. They brought in "experts" to let us know in glorious detail about this horrible affliction...

Communication experts believe that Jablonski is experiencing Intestinal Linguistic Amplification, or ILA, a rare disorder that allows the afflicted to communicate intestinally with other people.

Dr. Edith Winters, senior fellow at the California Institute of Bowel Abnormalities and an expert in ILA, elaborates, "Most cases of ILA are Type I, or common language, meaning the same language is both spoken and rectally amplified. "The individual will often have conversations with his own buttocks. The most notable example of Type IILA was Edward 'Double- Talk' Peterson who was a successful vaudeville ventriloquist in the 1920s."

"Jablonski's case is quite different. He has Type II ILA, or dual language, which is almost unheard of. It is most astounding that his posterior speaks near perfect French without any formal training, yet he cannot understand a word of what his backdoor voice is saying."

Unfortunately, there is no known cure for ILA, although Jablonski reportedly has not sought help and is actually pleased that he has the disorder. The condition has helped Jablonski occupationally.

He is now the leading salesperson in the furniture department at a popular store in Detroit.

The store draws many French Canadian customers from across the border, which has allowed his buttocks to sharpen its conversational skills.

Maybe John Kerry could get a job there, he really could stand to sharpen his buttock's conversational skills!