Most of us have a pretty good idea which team will win the Superbowl (Hint: it’s the team led by a robot). But Amazon.com will go you one better: they are already listing a book titled 19-0: The Historic Championship Season of New England’s Unbeatable Patriots. Order now…it’s sure to become a collector’s item on the off-chance the Patriots lose.
Thanks to MN for the heads up. Via Fark.
All kneel before the Robo-Brady.
Here’s little video done by the CBC documenting the hijinks at Test The Nation.
There’s a lot of footage of the bloggers being cocky, so it’s good we won. I may also make an appearance towards the end.
Entry the Second: Kids in America
I don’t want anyone to get the idea that a ‘weird’ song is necessarily a ‘bad’ song. True, the first entry in this column, Styx’s horrendous Come Sail Away, is a crime against nature. But sometimes a song is great because it is weird. Or, the apparent weirdness signals the presence of a vast wellspring of awesomeness.
Such is the case with our second weird song, Kim Wilde’s uber-poppy new wave classic, Kids in America:
In case you missed the various blog posts, Facebook messages, morse code messages, attempted mind control and vaguely threatening late-night phone calls, Nunc Scio is now a finalist for a Canadian Blog Award– Best Non-Partisan Blog. Which is super keen.
To actually win the award, I need people to vote for me. So, if you’ve enjoyed my blog then by all means visit the CBA’s voting site and give Nunc Scio a little digital love. And don’t delay….voting closes Wednesday night at 11:59PM PST. Mucho thanks to everyone who has already voted.
And while you’re voting for me (because you’re awesome) check out the other finalists in all the categories. Here are a few particularly deserving of your attention:
As always, many thanks to the hardworking folks behind the CBA’s. They do good things.
Chuck Klosterman has a brilliant essay out about what I’ve been unofficially calling the ‘Tom Brady Effect’- the strange paradox of grimly predicting a Patriot’s victory while secretly hoping they lose.
A sample:
If the Patriots win, they will just become this thing that scorched the earth for five months before capturing a trophy that was never in doubt. Future historians will describe this New England team as if it were a machine. Everyone will concede the Pats’ superlative greatness, but the 19 wins will be just a collection of numbers. But if they lose — especially if they lose late — the New England Patriots will be the most memorable collection of individuals in the history of pro football. They will prove that nothing in this world is guaranteed, that past returns do not guarantee future results, that failure is what ultimately defines us and that Gisele will probably date a bunch of other dudes in her life, because man is eternally fallible.
Klosterman is epic. Go read the whole column. Then buy some of his books.
If your mind is easily exploded by rampant dumbassery, you may want to stop reading now.
Last Thursday, the National Post reported that ‘Canadian’ is now used as a racial epithet in the American South. And today, Gawker has picked up the story. Apparently, Southern bigots were tired of all the bad PR surrounding the N-word, and decided to adopt something new. How sneaky. And by sneaky I mean ‘completely idiotic’. Read the rest of this entry »
Today marks the 50th anniversary of everyone’s favourite building block and/or choking hazard, LEGO. To celebrate, the Danish toy brickmaker will be holding an international competition to find the best Lego Builder in the world. I would totally enter, except I think I’m a bit too old. And I suffered that near career-ending finger injury during the ‘97 finals. OK, not really.
But absent an international competition, I’ll be marking the occasion by spending some idle afternoon in my parent’s basement building some sort of a fanciful spacecraft out of coloured bricks, much the way I spent most of my youth. Yeah. LEGO rocks.
[UPDATE] Check out Boing Boing Gadgets for a PDF timeline of Lego-y goodness.
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