- Searching the Internet changes your brain - In a study of middle-aged adults scientists have found that, “searching the Internet triggers key centers in the brain that control decision-making and complex reasoning.” Thanks to those who sent this in.
- These are some weird chicks - Baby black coucals, to be exact. They have simple, tubular, unbranching feathers called trichoptiles.Â
- Many Christian pastors dismiss mental illness – Well, they do hear voices in their head so no wonder they think it’s normal. Thanks GreggB.
- Father names daughter Sarah McCain Palin behind mother’s back - I think no matter how you answered Elyse’s AI question, we can agree that this is nuts. Can you imagine? Your wife has just shoved a baby the size of a small turkey out of her body and then you do this to her?Â
Come on, everyone knows newborns aren’t good for anything except cheap political publicity.
He should have at least named the kid Maverick. Much cooler.
@Jen: Definitely. Maverick Barracuda.
Maverick Barracuda Lipstick Pitbull Palin
Actually, if you ignore the political aspect, McCain is kinda cool as a girl’s name.
@Amanda: That is so going on my list if I have another kid.
Well if we were to follow her debate he should have named the kid
Maverick Maverick Maverick Maverick.
According to intellius.com, there’s a Maverick Maverick living in Hayward CA. No indication of gender. Can’t help thinking there’s political ad potential there. “I’m Maverick Maverick and I approved this message.”
@Gabrielbrawley: Or how about
You bet’cha Gosh darnit Maverick times like infinity plus 1 Palin
” then you do this to her?”
Forget the wife, what about the poor kid? What about when she grows up?
It would be like finding some 28 year old guy today named Walter Mondale.
EPIC fail!
The mental illness article makes me sad :(
It would be like finding some 28 year old guy today named Walter Mondale.
hee! She’ll probably just change her name, though, or her mom will change it for her after she divorces her
douchebaghusband and gets sole custody.I miss the old days when the word maverick only reminded me of the movie “Top Gun”. Now I just use maverick ironically.
McCain really should have just gone all the way and bought the rights to “Highway to the Danger Zone”. It would have been an appropriate enough campaign song, especially when coupled with the “Straight Talk Express” tour bus.
@marilove: Indeed. Particularly frustrating is that women are more likely than men to be told that their problem is a spiritual one.
@Some Canadian Skeptic:
Oh, man, totally…
Not a day goes by that I don’t regret naming my genitals Admiral Stockdale.
@Expatria:
Have you met my testicles, Spiro and Agnew?
@Expatria: @Some Canadian Skeptic:
COTW nom for both of you for making me choke on my tea.
You know, the original Sarah Palin must be writing “Sarah McCain Palin” all over her journal right now. Someone should really explain her that’s not how it works.
@Some Canadian Skeptic:
The real winner there is Theodore.
Searching the Internet turns your brain on: you bet! Whenever reading on the internet at the back of your brain you’re thinking: Is this true? Who the hell is XYZ and what’s his/her angle? And with Wiki and Google just a click away you can quickly find out, and when you’re done write a little precis as a comment on a blog.
When I get my Google Glasses it’s going to have a little fan attachment to blow in one earhole and out the other.
@Amanda:
Oh, you aren’t familiar with them? they’re right next to my penis, President Johnson.
@daduh: Google Glasses would be seriously cool. Combine that with the free whitespace broadband Google’s trying to push and you’d have instant access to every piece of useless knowledge that’s ever existed. It’d seriously screw up pub trivia night, though.
@Marilove: Went through that before my permanent exit from religion.
@Some Canadian Skeptic: Better than Ralph n Nader I suppose.
Mo son, Bob Dole Kemp, approves.
Huh,
I took my inspiration from “The Life of Bryan” and named my member Biggus Dickus.
He’s cool, he can do tricks.
I’m re-naming my genitals “Joe the Plumber”
Those chicks are damn cute.
As for the father who named his child “Sarah McCain Palin,” I feel the same way I do about Satanists – if you are going to buy into the BS, why would you align yourself with the losing side?
@Some Canadian Skeptic: You do know that “Spiro Agnew” is an anagram for “Grow a Penis,” right?
Searching The Internet Increases Brain Function
At last a reason to be happy I’m over 55 and spend so much time on the internet.
@Jen: And the tastiest meatballs money can buy…
@ekimbrough: Well played, sir. Well played.
If only I hadn’t eaten a mouthful of Tomato Bisque just before reading that comment…
Dang, I was gonna post “Major Major Major Major” to comment on “Sarah McCain Palin”, but someone already did that on the linked blog.
Wouldn’t it be neat if Sarah McCain Palin grew up to run for president?
>>”Wouldn’t it be neat if Sarah McCain Palin grew up to run for president?”
What’s the betting she turns out to be a Democrat just to spite her father?
http://perezhilton.com/2008-10-16-mccarthy-reaches-out-to-mccain#respond
Yeah, searching the internet sometimes hurts my brain. Check out the comments.
@PH: …and names names her son Joe Obama Biden.
@Amanda:
Oh, you aren’t familiar with them? they’re right next to another part of my body, which I have dutifully named “President Johnson”.
*note* this was a hella-funny joke which didn’t make it through moderation in its original wording….or I’m just embarassingly impatient