Dee Wallace (Elliot’s mom) hasn’t aged well.
Other E.T. trivia: Howie Hammerman provided E.T.’s belch. Thought you’d like to know.
[Found here.]
Category: News Not
The U.S. Department of Homeland Suppository
The line forms to the rear.
P.S. Happy Birthday to Rush Limbaugh, Howard Stern, George Duke, Rob Zombie, Sheila Jackson Lee, the Amazing Kreskin, Marco Boogers, Mississippi Fred McDowell.
And Bunk. Don’t call… I’m sleeping in tomorrow.
Sage Medical Advice for Older Adults
Dinosaurs slept with their eyes open.
Norwich, England (Strutts News Services) – A long-debated archaeological mystery has apparently been resolved by researchers of the University of East Anglia.
The excavations of the River Yare floodplain in the early 1970s unearthed numerous fossils which gave creedence to the theory of reptilian insomnia. All fossils were meticulously labeled and their in-situ positions noted, allowing for a glimpse into the sleeping habits of the great reptiles. Continue reading “Dinosaurs slept with their eyes open.”
ALL YOUR HOT LINK ARE BELONG TO US
[Image above found here.]
List of everything reported to be affected by Global Warming Climate Change (with links!) here.
US Unemployment animation from January 2007 through September 2009. Not good.
Laptop Steering Wheel Desk. Read the reviews, click on the pictures to see it in use.
Bad Spock Drawings (link found here).
Nurse Myra mentioned that she wears this perfume.
Zoom.
How many people are in space right now? Click to find out.
I really don’t want to know the story behind this.
Amazon’s Wood Kindling
Climategate Summarized
Norwich, England (Strutts News Services) – Since all of the raw data regarding climate change has been finally released to the public for scrutiny after many years of cooperation by the keepers of such proprietary knowledge and research, we at Tacky Raccoons believe it is our duty to present this data in a form that is easily understandable to all sentient beings.
(Click on any graph to enlarge it.)
This first graph illustrates the Vapors Constant. It reflects the ideal average temperature of the globe, without meandering from the mean average.
This graph shows the Vapors Constant, and adds the values purported by the Bieber-Naughton studies as well as the Moholy-Nagy data.
Here we retain the Vapors Constant while showing the results of Zager & Evans/Fooser-Bieber Conundrum. Note that they diverge.
Combining all four studies and retaining the Vapors Constant, results in the graph above.
Using the Strutts-Crumbler method, and overlaying the previous data sources, the results coagulate into a recobinizable pattern. This pattern can be simplified further.
Once the data are resolved and mushed around a bit, the patterns become intuitively obvious to the casual observer.
It’s the elusive “Hockey Puck” of global warming.
We’re doomed.
[Update 4 Dec 09: Additional related archived posts here.]
Bite My Hot Links
Anyone paying attention to the ongoing LGF soap opera will appreciate Bite Me Comics. If you’re not, consider yourself fortunate.
Diesel’s book “Mercury Falls” is out on amazon. He’s a funny guy who helped me get my blogging mojo. (More info here.)
The man who saved billions from starvation who you’ve probably never heard of: Norman Borlaug (1914-2009). Related video here (includes some unnessesary foul language from Penn Gillette).
Turning Number 1. I’ve got no clue what this is all about, but it’s yet more propaganda showing that the guy is always the idiot.
Little kids and the marshmallow torture.
Charlie Rose interviews himself and Steve is not happy. [Found here.]
Just click it. Do it. [Tip o’ the tarboosh to Bordm.]
Another TED video by someone I’ve never heard of talks about perceived value.
How not to get killed or maimed on the golf course (tip from Ken A.).
This page is under construction (via The Presurfer).
Tacky Raccoons Greatest Hit
Folks–
On 21 December 2007, the record was set for the amount of traffic in one day, with almost 15K. That record was broken yesterday with over 20,500 hits.
Thanx to the folks who linked on Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Twitter and Facebook, and thanx also to our regular visitors. Y’all made my day.
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Late breaking news: WordPress is having a contest, and this post is our official entry.
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[Update: After reconsideration, we decided to delete the poll. It was pointless, as we’ll never have a “tip jar” on this site.]
[Update: Famous last words.]
Michelle O. Action (Go) Figure
The latest gimmick to hit the market just in time for Halloween: The First Lady Action Figure. It is being heralded as the first toy in the likeness of Michelle Obama. WRONG.
I like to boil things down to their essence, and the toy on the right gets my vote for Toy of the Year, especially with the photoshopoopage of the photo on the left. Those proportions just aren’t right, even for Barbie.
In context, the toy on the right is immediately recobanizeable as The First Lady in all her glory, just as Aretha Franklin and Barbara and George Bush were similarly memoribalised below:
Here at TR, our crack team of webminers previously posted Lego’s Contribution for the adulation of the devout: a full landscape model of THE INAUGURATION. It’s awesome.
But Michelle’s action figure is still not as awesome as this one.
Tacky Raccoons 