Tue, April 29

Unit 8: Fool Me Twice

Eeeeeeeeee! The girls have formed an alliance. They put their heads together and came up with a foolproof plan that can't lose! Now, all that's left to do is squeal about it constantly. Damn these women for living down to the worst possible female stereotypes and making me feel like a jerk for hating them. (Read more.)

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Sun, April 27

Big McLargehuge—5:54 PM

Arksie and I once had a conversation – and I can't find record of it in the onebee comments or my e-mail, so it must have occurred (gasp!) in the real world – about people who are nothing like what their name sounds like.

I forget if it was Jana Marie Hupp (Ed) or Debra Jo Rupp (That '70s Show, Friends) who started it off – they rhyme and they both fit the premise so perfectly, it's hard to remember. I submitted another who always epitomized this concept for me: Merrin Dungey.

Over the past week or so viewing backlogged episodes of NUMB3RS, I think I've found the perfect person for the exact opposite phenomenon: Dylan Bruno.

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Tue, April 22

Unit 7: The Bad Beat

It's a Favocaust on Fans vs. Favorites all of a sudden! I suppose it was meant to be, since everyone has a chip on his shoulder about previous contestants getting second chances. (Read more.)

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iydkydg—7:36 PM

Most recent spam comments have been nothing but links. Usually, that's how spam comments work: hoping to hijack the host site's favorable (or, in my case, mediocre) Google PageRank to bestow trust upon their links to sham sites or penis enlargement pitches. However, recently we've been getting a lot with absolute gibberish for links.

http://afsqoqtb.com
http://txvdujvj.com
http://lyzvzxzm.com
http://jcryrlfp.com
http://myyfkmbq.com
http://aythlttf.com

I checked, and these sites aren't registered. (They're not even "parked!") What could this mean? Are they just testing my defenses, like the raptors flinging themselves at the electrified Jurassic Park fence? ("When the big one looks at you, you can see she's working things out...") Or are they waiting until one of these addresses has a critical mass of incoming links – then they'll pounce and post porn there?

Cabel Sasser and John Gruber say the impending domain name famine will mean nobody looks at the web address any more. We'll enter a clownpenis-dot-fart situation in which no good domains are left, and the only way anyone finds anything is by googling a pre-determined set of keywords. (Don't navigate to onebee.com, just do a search for "coach probst naked boobs bush sucks!") I suppose it's true, it's not the web address that sinks or saves you – it's the marketing.

Which calls to mind Coke's iydkydg campaign from years back. Pronounced "ih-dik-YIH-dig," it stood for "if you don't know, you don't go" and it was a points-for-rewards thing similar to today's mycokerewards.com. With Coke's advertising muscle behind it, even nonsense like iydkydg.com could get hits. Maybe that's what these sites are aiming for. The creators of "at first sight, quiches of Quebec taste bad" or "make your yellow friend kill my baby quetzal" just haven't got their sites live yet. In that case, I almost feel bad for deleting their comments. I'd link to a site with that sort of moxie, as long as it's not another goddamned social-networking hooha.

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Tue, April 8

Unit 6: Just Be Cool

As Survivor approaches the mid-game merge, the level of interesting activity asymptotically approaches zero. (Read more.)

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Fri, April 4

...I'd still prefer not—1:07 PM

This little piggy went skydiving.

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Wed, April 2

Shortbus

It isn't easy to incorporate graphic sexual footage into a movie with a normal story, but Shortbus makes a go of it. God bless them for trying. (Read more.)

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