I'd heard about this but never bothered to go look. I was browsing YouTube this morning and saw the video, and thought that maybe I'm not the only one who hasn't seen it yet.

So here ya go.

A little Googling reveals that Josh Kornbluth was told about bathroom mic protocol on his first day in the business — but had forgotten about the second mic. Eep!

This is a picture on flickr uploaded by elfinity

Sometimes a picture just seems to capture the essence of things.

I see that the #1 search on Technorati is for "Zidane", to which I had to scratch my head and dig around a little to see that all the fuss is about this guy's butting heads, to which I had to scratch my head again -- which goes to show what kind of interest the World Cup holds for me. I suppose this is one area where America has a leg up on global culture.

Ambrose Bierce defined "telephone" as:

An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.He defined "telescope" as:

A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.
These "Decider Ringtones" are a funny way to be summoned.

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Relevant Devil's Dictionary entries:

• finance - The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.
• president - The leading figure in a small group of men of whom -- and of whom only -- it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.
• decide - To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.