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i’d rather it say “Barack Obama’s First Day Countdown” which would be a bit more positive!

My roommate told me about this thing. Somebody or somebodies decided at Facebook to add another language to the setting choices: Pirate! Yes, now we all can swab our status messages when we want to change them. We can use a variety of Arrplications. We can read through our bottle o’ messages! GO TO HOME PORT. It’s in the beta version.

Here’s a capture of my profile to get an idea of the thing with a couple things highlighted in pink. You can click the picture to see the full size.

hoHO!

You don’t have to wait for McCain to become president and croak! Somebody was kind enough to give an interactive view of Sarah Palin as president.

I enjoy the oil drills in the windows.

17-year-old Irene Gjoka has decided she wanted to try out for the football team of her high school in Long Island. The boys response to her joining the team? “Gotta look out for our little sister.” Awesome.

Gjoka had to jump through a few hoops to be allowed onto the boys’ team, but after all the hubbub, she’s going to be put on special teams. Hoho!

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daily news (ny)

Google is bringing back their oldest archive for everybody in the whole internet to search. Back when Geocities and Yahoo groups were big, when Hampster Dance was still cool, and AOL chat rooms were the shizz.

Okay. The Hampster Dance is ALWAYS cool until they tried to make it cooler.

Google had its birthday party in Greece says one website. BBC says they aren’t having a big party. So… did they celebrate? idk! This website I’ve never heard of, Weberence, says it was the EMEA Conference (that’s “Europe, Middle East, and Africa” to you less hip folks), but that’s in reference to a comment on another site. Regardless, the Google people had 2500 of their people doing the Syrtaki, a dance known as the zorba song, breaking the old Guinness World Book record of 1608 set by Australians.

BBC’s got a cute video using Google Earth Maps and an article about how the public is reacting to the milestone.

and making them mad. somehow this isn’t so inspiring.

if this ad was made by a female, i will become sad. if anything, having rotund buns makes it way, way, WAY harder to find clothes in the shops. so fuck you, nike, and you’re treating girls like sexy running things that are primarily here to look good. fuck. off.

deadspin ilu

Okay. Jaime Nared is 12-years-old and playing on boys’ traveling basketball teams, and she’s not allowed to play on the team anymore because she is too good. This is the 12-year-old level. The gal is already 6′1″ and is schooling the guys. Forget the girls’ teams her age. She beats the pulp out of them, too. Her good friend, Kailee Johnson, is one grade older than her. And 6′2″. They play on the local high school’s girls’ team together. People are pissed about Jaime trying playing with the boys because… well i’m not sure why. And playing on the high school team is pissing off the parents of girls that miiiiight be getting less court time because the middle-schooler is there. Dudes… she’s really good. Chill the fuck out.

For those who don’t play sports, the general tradition of females versus males is that males tend to be faster, stronger, and more agile than females. Males naturally have more testosterone and therefore can retain muscle mass growth better than females. They play at different levels and therefore play on different teams. But skill is pretty arbitrary. Jaime and I can only assume Kailee as well are screwing with that. HAH.

This is fucking cool.

NY Times article
Deadspin article

laura said the empire state building and the clouds surrounding it looked cool, and i demanded a picture. here’s what she sent: