Courtesy of Anton.

Update: Looks awesome, but it’s a hoax. When the camera zooms in on the baking soda, the mountain dew bottle is substituted with one likely containing the contents of a glow stick. Cute, but it won’t work as advertised.

Hober has a Backpack page with his personal unit tests an idea he heard from Without an E.

I think they each came up with too many goals to hit daily, but who am I to judge.

Snarkerati posted a pretty cool list of 50 best films depicting a dystopia. I’d argue with some of the ranking (good grief - they included the two worst sci-fi films of all time: Starship Troopers and Total Recall), but it definitely has some good stuff on the list.

Alistair Cockburn has a Letterman style list of Top ten ways to know you are not doing agile.

Thanks to the fabulous Edward Mao’s recipe for Kung Pao Chicken, I’m sitting here fat, dumb, and happy. It was awesomely delicious!

Thanks, Ed!!!

One of my favorite authors is Terry Pratchett. He is amazingly prolific and his books seem to just keep getting better over time. Pratchett’s latest book is Making Money which is the second book featuring Moist von Lipwig, the criminal who was forced to create the postal system for Ankh-Morpork in Going Postal. All of this makes it sound difficult to approach for someone not familiar with the Discworld novels. Here are two reasons why you should read Pratchett:

• He’s one of the all-time funniest novelists
• The novels are “About Something”. In addition to being hilarious, the novels take some event in history or some aspect of contemporary culture and remap them on into the context of a fantasy civilization.

It may be daunting to approach a series of more than 40 books, but the good news is with Pratchett you can pick up any of the books and still enjoy it outside the context of the other books. If you want a more guided approach, there is a reading order guide (PDF version) which recommends several entry points to the series and where to go from there.

I finally got a chance to see a couple of Judd Apatow movies that I’ve been meaning to see: The 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up. I enjoyed both of them very much. Something interesting was that despite being two very vulgar (though hilariously funny!) movies that my more conservative friends and family members wouldn’t like, they had really warm-hearted and very conservative values at their core.

This movie is not for everyone. In a lot of respects, it is beyond offensive. However, if you view it as a live-action cartoon, it is highly over-the-top and entertaining. This movie is for the people who enjoy Hong Kong style action and can find humor in the macabre. I laughed through just about the entire thing. There isn’t a down moment in the movie - it is non-stop action.

Additional warning: about 10 minutes into the movie, David leaned over and said “This is the most fouled up movie I’ve ever seen.”*

• Or something like that.

You don’t get to kill my cow. (via Instapundit)

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