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You know, I missed out on this particular cultural phenomenon, and now I am so sorry that I did. All My Children. Transsexual. Zarf. “I have a penis.” Words fail. http://www.ifilm.com/efp Courtesy of Best Week Ever.

GetaFirstLife.com: A 3D analog world where server lag does not exist. I like this First Life. :) Link courtesy of the Doc Searls Weblog.

Well, I’ve just upgraded this blog to the “Ella” WordPress 2.1 release, named after Ella Fitzgerald. The process went fairly smoothly, although the upgrade instructions leave out the usual one-step database upgrade, so I was a little surprised to see my installation immediately break. However, when I logged into my admin, the first thing I was presented with was an opportunity to run the database upgrade. I don’t see a huge difference on the admin side, even with a modified interface, but I do appreciate the autosave feature. Hopefully we won’t run into any bugs. If you do, let me know at admin (at) thephantomcity.com. ...

A sad story. I guess not everyone understands the whole Quaker college thing. Link courtesy of Automatic Writing.

What I would look like in South Park: You can make your own as well. Link courtesy of HOWBlog.

Were R2-D2 and Chewbacca the central characters of the Star Wars story? Link courtesy of Out of Ambit.

When last we looked in on Rex the Wonder Dog, he was aiding in the destruction of the woolly mammoth. However, what I didn’t realize at the time is that Rex has a long history of causing extinction-level events. In issue #11, Rex kills a dinosaur with an atomic bomb. Enjoy the adventures of the most dangerous dog on Earth.

Luke McIntyre, in Go Triad, recommends Country Barbecue as the best in North Carolina. I’ve never been there, but I’ll have to try it out now. However, “the best barbecue” is highly subjective, so I have a feeling it still won’t hold a candle to Fuzzy’s in Madison. Link courtesy of Automatic Writing

Congressman David Wu (D-Oregon) warns: “Don’t let faux Klingons send real Americans to war!” Sage words, indeed. [youtube &w=425&h=350] Link courtesy of TV Squad Update: Yes, by including the video in the page, the XHTML 1.1 validation is completely screwed up.

I’d like to write something about this formula for predicting procrastination, but I’m just not really motivated right now.