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Ever wonder about the origin of the rabbit with a pancake on its head? Yeah, me neither. It’s supposed to be an intricate balancing act? Can’t you see it?

Gamespot’s Greatest Games of All Time. Unlike IGN’s list, this one is a running list and its associated benefits or disadvantages. I was pleased to see Actraiser on there.

For his estimated $500,000, I hear that 50 Cent performed only four or five songs - and badly - though he did manage to work in the lyric, “Go shorty, it’s your bat miztvah, we gonna party like it’s your bat mitzvah.” Read on … the description of David Brook’s daughter’s Mitvahpalooza is hilarious.

Photoshop contest of awkward video game scenes.

Official version of Mozilla Firefox 1.5 out yesterday. I’ve been trying to get the Sage RSS feed reader working effectively but to minimal avail. I also added the medical dictionary search engine. I couldn’t believe they had it since it’s a relatively obscure, but comprehensive website.

Single letter domain names being released. $1M+? Maybe I should have hung onto nwx.com.

Facts about Chuck Norris:

• The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.
• Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs.
• Chuck Norris built a time machine and went back in time to stop the JFK assassination. As Oswald shot, Chuck met all three bullets with his beard, deflecting them. JFK’s head exploded out of sheer amazement.
• Chuck Norris doesnt shave; he kicks himself in the face. The only thing that can cut Chuck Norris is Chuck Norris.
• more

I feel like I’m on a promoting binge here. Check out Google’s SMS info service. It’s saved me at least one on the road when I was lost and needed directions (and didn’t want to lose 20 minutes by trying to find a gas station for directions). And I’ve used to figure out the the location of area codes from phone numbers I don’t recognize. It’s helped with my addiction to screening calls.

I’m crazy excited. Sprintpcs forces you to use its website in order to text message someone (for free via the web). I was able to socially engineer (well not really socially engineer, more like convince) a customer service rep to give me the email address format to text Sprintpcs phones via email (1234567890@messaging.sprintpcs.com). This allows me to use the American Airlines website, Orbitz and other airline websites to text me flight status updates. There’s a whole host of other internet sites that require emails rather than phone numbers to give you info via SMS. I know, not that exciting for most people, but it made my week.

A British headline from my bookmarks:

Man fingers daughter in Elvis eBay cock-up.

There was an Australian headline a week or so ago on Fark.com about a sports team having to swallow [their pride over their loss to] the black cocks, but I can’t find it any more. Obviously doing a Google search for that news article leads nowhere.

In light of my preparation for the Boston Marathon this April, I present this Boston Running Map.

The Indo Jew Bowl VI, a Thanksgiving Day football game in Skokie that separates the men from the boys . . . and the Shahs and the Mehtahs from the Engelmans and the Weintraubs.

Do not open at work: From my list of bookmarks, a German site dedicated to “surprising” Japanese people. There’s no sound, but you should probably open this at home.

Sweeeeeet! I knew production of my car would resume.

Probably offensive to most: oh yeah, the nazi forest. WARNING: has sound and is an annoying YTMND thingy. Other good YTMND thingies include the picard song and nigga stole my bike. It’s one of my favorite websites, but you need to be a little ingrained in internet culture and geekery to enjoy it. It’s based on a famous line from Sean Connery’s Finding Forrester

I came across this article on the most underrated inventions in history. It was kind of interesting to see how concrete changed the world. But the authors sometimes extrapolated a little too much. Horse collars allowed a farmer surplus which allowed an Adam Smith’s type professional stratification which destroyed the feudal system and allowed for the industrial age? I’m sure there are a few extra inventions and political events in there that allowed that sequence to progress. It’s still interesting though.

By the way, this is my first aside, a la crazymonk.