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“…and I’m going to name it Sheppard!” Sorry, bad Stargate Atlantis joke. ;) Image courtesy of TV Squad

“Hello! I’m Eric Mills. You know, I’m not the most attractive man in the world, I’m not really much of a dresser, and, let’s be honest, I frankly don’t have a personality that makes up for either of those factors. And yet I get more action than Don Juan and Casanova put together. I bet you’re wondering how I do it! … Let’s say you’re at a party. What you do is, you find a halfway good-looking girl at the bar, and you check out how much she drinks. Does she drink a lot? Is she by herself? You’re in like flynn!" - The Comics Curmudgeon ...

Ally Babble…Enemy of Batman…Friend of All Mankind. :)

Even though I come away believing half the stuff is made up, Overheard in New York and Overheard in the Office are consistently entertaining. Recent entries: Girl: Isn’t your dad Swiss? Guy: No, he’s Swedish. Girl: Oh, that’s right: people are Swedish, things are Swiss. Well, actually, they’re interchangeable. - Overheard in New York Engineer #1: What the hell were you thinking when you wrote this code? Engineer #2: Boobs. Engineer #1: Huh?! Engineer #2: Truthfully, it’s likely I was thinking about boobs. - Overheard in the Office ...

I get around 200 spam emails each day, most helpfully tagged as such by Yahoo and Gmail’s filters. What struck me today is just how mundane spam makes my life sound. Sample subject lines, with commentary: This Samsung 42 inch HDTV is on us.. That does sound painful. And it’s a good reminder that in only two to three years HDTVs might be cheap enough I’d actually buy one. Neod doctor! ...

“There are people in this world who don’t like Astro City. Those people we call Communists.” - Comics Should Be Good I don’t know about Communists, but Kurt Busiek is one of my top three in terms of comics writers. He could write the phone book and still make the setting and characters interesting. My best Ebay find, other than the first issue of Lobo, was a full run of Astro City (so far). I purchased the collected Astro City: The Tarnished Angel first, and was hooked on the atmosphere created in Busiek’s tale of a down-at-the-heels villain who investigates a string of killings. Of course, it helps that the character is based on Robert Mitchum. It’s just as hard not to watch Mitchum on the printed page as it is during a movie. ...

Forbes Magazine did the list, which should really tell you something right there. They listed Raleigh at #6?!? I don’t know, Greensboro’s okay, but not as good a place to meet a woman as grad school in Blacksburg, VA. Ain’t that right, sweetheart? :) Link courtesy of Automatic Writing, which also brings up the subject of the parties I didn’t go to while I was still in Greensboro.

Famous logos, if they were created for Web 2.0 sites. Link courtesy of Good Morning Silicon Valley

Or perhaps “Fergie Ferg” fails words. Fergie, from the Black Eyed Peas, in her first solo video. I didn’t think anything could compare to the lyric “lovely lady lumps,” but she somehow surpasses it with this song. At least people could pretty accurately guess what the lyrics meant in My Humps. In this song, what the heck is her “London Bridge?” Update: YouTube pulled the video. Of course, someone uploaded it again immediately here.

Matt Cutts installs Ubuntu Linux on his computer, and finds the only pitfall walking around behind the computer desk.