Pull out Wedge! You can’t do anymore good back there!

—The nerds at Reddit describe their sex lives with Star Wars quotes.

Internet vices

Expert Labs looks like one of the most interesting projects to come about in a while

Anil Dash is the perfect person to help the federal government listen to the web

Microsoft offers an early look at IE 9

Amidst all the talk of hardware accelerated text rendering (seriously?) and javascript performance that no longer lags by an order of magnitude (seriously!) there’s nothing about fixing the glaringly broken rendering issues that continue to cost developers real time. PNG transparency anyone?

With that said, I’m cautiously optimistic that every new version of IE gets us one step closer to a world where we can forget about IE 6 forever.

Mad Magazine brings you Blunder Woman [via comicbooks]

putthison:

When we were talking to the writer of this piece about Put This On in the Globe & Mail, I was delighted to learn a bit of inside info about my colleague Adam Lisagor.  As a pre-school aged child, he wore, every day, what he called his “gentleman’s suit.”

It is pictured above, and it is my considered opinion that no further commentary is necessary.

I’m a rough rider Filled up with Christ’s love

[via misseffieb]

An’ on the furst day, tha Lawd created Earnhardt, and said “git er done”. [via Defective Yeti]

And because it’s not entirely clear, this is a real thing

Freedom of speech. The freedom to disagree. That’s what I think pretty much being an American represents.

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Will Phillips, an Arkansas 10-year old who refuses to recite the pledge of allegiance until gay people can marry, on what it means to be an American. Will has so far endured a substitute teacher, his school principle and plenty of taunting from his classmates for his simple protest.

There are plenty of reasons why students, or really anyone, for that matter, shouldn’t be reciting the pledge of allegiance, Will’s is as good as any.

Oh, where to begin.

Let’s start with the clock. It looks like there’s an analog and digital clock nice and big there, just in case your system clock just wasn’t good enough. The feature breakdown says “your system’s date and time are instantly displayed” for everyone who has a problem with time delayed clocks here in the 21st century.

And how about that ad? Yeah, it’s bigger than the video.

The video preview, that is, because, ostensibly, the entire point of this heap of failure is let you watch previews of your favorite shows and chat about those previews without ever leaving your desktop. Previews. In that tiny-ass video window.

And Microsoft LIVE and NBC Services are integrated right into the toolbar!? Well, where do I sign up. (I know for a fact that simply combining the incompetence of both NBC and Microsoft doesn’t necessarily have to end in sorrow, but it does take some work to keep from automatically sucking. Maybe NBC Communicator proves my point.)

Amazingly, the joke of a company that built this just closed on over $2M in funding. 

Who’s idea was this? Who funded this? Who approved this? Why does that person continue to have a job?

I’m holding out hope that this is a 30 Rock joke.