No, those three words are not from a spam promoting the way to greater girth…no, that would make too much sense. They are, however, the main plot device from movie #1 on the Cracked.com list The 10 Best Animated Movies for (Traumatizing) Kids. And here I was thinking Watership Down, which still bothers me, would be the freakiest movie on the list. (A commenter on the article points out the characters are not Raccoons, but Tanuki, otherwise known as Raccoon Dogs. I’m thinking adding the word Dog does not improve the idea.) ...

At least, that’s my pimp name, apparently. I like it, though. Easy to work into conversation. “Ready to go on a Macktastic Voyage?” :) Link courtesy of ACC Basketblog.

Dum da da dum da da dum da da dum dum dum dum…Okay, so it’s not NFL Films. Only a couple of weeks ago I brought you the thrilling tale of adventure that was my first live fantasy football draft. Now you get to see how it turned out. Lucky you. (Okay, so I’m stalling instead of mowing the yard. That could be a weekly series, right?) My starting lineup wasn’t exactly one for the ages, but I was curious to see how they did. My ignorance of the usual Yahoo leagues meant that what I had been assuming was a head-to-head league turned out to be a points league, so a season is long enough to get things turned around in case my guys didn’t feel like playing the first week. ...

In terms of being unprecedented, possibly the biggest upset in college football history. Just doing their part to make the Big Ten Network exciting. :)

Almost forgot about Friday catblogging. Let’s see: After 25 hours of pregame show – seriously, it was 25 hours – the LSU Tigers beat Mississippi State 45-0 in college football. I only caught part of it, but I wasn’t exactly impressed with LSU’s offense. Not sure why so many sports pundits are picking them to play in the national championship. I think this is the same team that didn’t even win its half of the SEC last year, except this year they have a worse quarterback. And, let’s not forget, they still have Oklahoma State’s old coach. ...

While I’ve been in random Yahoo! fantasy football leagues the last three years, this is the first year I’ve joined a league set up by a friend and actually participated in a live draft. So, I thought I would go the full disclosure route and list the players I picked up for what I think will be the league’s best just-below-.500 team. Round 1: RB Frank Gore Gore says he wants to get 2,000 yards in a season. I’ll need at least 20 of those yards to be from the 1 into the endzone. ...

So many spiders…. Actually, maybe they’ll stop the killer bees. Update: Oh, great. The giant web is the result of different species of spiders mysteriously collaborating. Isn’t that the start of a horror film?

Oops, I broke the planet. The largest planet we know of outside of our solar system is 1.7 times the size of Jupiter, but it has the density of balsa wood. Or maybe it’s a giant diamond latticework with lots of empty space? ;) Update: Or maybe it’s a big clump of space dirt?

So, here’s the story: 1. Chris Knight, candidate for Rockingham County (NC) Board of Education, makes a Star Wars-themed campaign commercial and posts it to YouTube. 2. VH1’s Web Junk 2.0 -- geez, I hate that name – picks up on the commercial, which has become a viral video hit, and shows the video as a show segment, complete with commentary by Aries Spears. They do so without asking for permission to use the video, because stuff on the Web is free, right? ...

Astronomers have found a star, zipping through the galaxy at 291,000 miles per hour, creating a tail much like those of comets. This tail, however, is 13 light-years long. No commentary, except to note that the universe is a wonderfully strange place. That, and it’s good we can see the tail. Otherwise, it would be coming right at us. ;) Link courtesy of Boing Boing.