I tried this stuff. I still don’t feel like Zeus. Or, if I do feel like him, being the king of gods is seriously overrated.

The tea isn’t bad, however.

What the deuce is this? Is this supposed to make me want to go to Burger King?

(Note that I haven’t seen this on TV, so I don’t even know if it’s real…but it’s VERY well-made if it’s a fake.)

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“The practice makes the master join a chess club”

No, this is not a fortune cookie. This is the title of an article at americachess.com, and they may want to get a native English speaker to help them proofread the stuff pretty soon.

Other titles include:

“Chess boards without them there is no game”
“Keeping alive the chess clock”
“3D Chess the new era of Play Chess”

Many of you have gotten that spam ad from one “Mary Miller” who wants us to shill for her, but it’s probably one of those Nigerian “princes” in disguise.

It’s not abyssmal, but just bad enough so I can watch it repeatedly and keep giggling.

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Unless you don’t watch any TV whatsoever, you’ve undoubtedly seen those Mac vs PC commercials. I like them; they tend to be funny:

With the recent release of Windows 7, Mac has launched a counter-campaign, reminding people Microsoft that they keep promising to fix whatever was wrong with their last OS–and failing:

Microsoft’s OS problem

Certainly Windows ME was horrible, and Vista suffered from dreadful launch (although if you waited until Service Pack 1, it was fine). But XP was a good product, and this is Microsoft’s biggest problem. XP works so well for most people, there’s not much motivation to upgrade.

Apple’s commercial problem

Understandably, Apple can’t say in their commercials Windows XP was good, but the most recent attack feels a bit unfair. But there’s a bigger problem with the Mac vs PC campaign:

The PC guy is funny and interesting. The Mac guy is not.

Mac stands there, supposedly hip and cool. Occasionally he has a snappy one-liner. But you know PC is going to be driving the entertainment…you laugh with (or at) PC…subconsciously, good times and feelings are being associated with PC. Mac feels too aloof and arrogant.

“You’ve never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, ‘We can’t believe it happened here. We can’t believe it’s these suburban white kids.’ It’s only them.”

A black man said this. What do you think? I think if you’re someone like Matt Drudge, who has an audience sensitive to racism against whites, you’d take the quote out of context and present it as part of a wider controversy about this person. (Never mind whether the statement is true.)

Here is what the black man, Van Jones, said back in 2005.

All of a sudden, it does not sound so bad.

I don’t know whether Mr. Jones can be vindicated of all silliness, so time to do some research. Wish me luck as I try to distinguish between truth and exaggeration from right-wing sources while figuring out the left-wing has to say about him.

OK, so. Most of you are familiar with those campy old-school Mentos commercials. Mentos is one of the few product I’ve bought specifically because I loved the commercials.

On YouTube, you can find plenty of parodies that hope to capturing a bit of the magic of the originals. And a handful are good. But many demonstrate a complete lack of understanding why the originals were so compelling.

One of the parodies had the protagonist’s car break down. His “Mentos resolution” was to take out a gun and carjack someone.

In another one, someone bumps into the protagonist in a school hallway, causing him to drop his books and papers. The resolution was…to take a metal rod and beat the offender to death. Yeah, man. Har, har.

We leave you with this.

Have a good weekend.