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The parade of unfortunate Star Wars costumes.

Once again, the Onion is the voice of reason.

I feel your pain: These keepsake items will remind you of better times, when you had enough money to eat at a restaurant, get your car washed, or take a day off work.

If Jeeves were Samuel J. Drop some knowledge young brother…

The removal of George W. Bush from the White House. It’s funny because it’s true!

Daughter misses her mom.

An oldie but goodie: Stick-figure porn. Hot abstract action. Not for the prudish.

The Urban Dictionary keeps you up to date on the current slang.
I like this definition for Fo shizzle ma nizzle the best:

“fo shizzle ma nizzle” is a bastardization of “fo’ sheezy mah neezy” which is a bastardization of “for sure mah nigga” which is a bastdardization of “I concur with you whole heartedly my African [...]

Brilliant understatement from the Onion:
According to the results of an intensive two-year study, Americans living below the poverty line are “pretty much fucked,” Center for Social and Economic Research executive director Jameson Park announced Monday.

A recently discovered emoticon:
\m/ Rock on!
Hold your right hand up and bend the two fingers between your forefinger and pinky, raise said hand and pump back and forth in righteous rock fashion. Get it?

Software project managment as a backyard swing.

Estimating the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow. The Pythons would be proud. Very nice, very Edward Tufte-ian presentation.

The Gospel of Supply Side Jesus. According to Al Franken and Don Simpson.

- Shouldn’t you feed the lepers, Supply Side Jesus?

- No, Thomas. That would just make them lazy.

- Then shouldn’t you at least heal them, Supply Side Jesus?

- No, James. Leprosy is a matter of personal responsibility. If people knew I was healing lepers, [...]

The Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2007. Always effective in causing old-codger crankism in thirty-somethings. I was hoping they had a mindset list for the class of 1991, but alas they only go as far back as 2002.

Am I Governor Or Not?

Shocking, unedited original NASA footage of Neil Armstrong’s historic moonwalk:

In 1969, Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the first man to walk on the moon, uttering the immortal phrase, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Or did he? Previously suppressed footage discovered by blogjam shows that Armstrong’s reaction was a great [...]

Will Ferrell’s commencement speech to the Harvard class of 2003.

As most of you are probably aware, I didn’t graduate from Harvard. In fact, I never even got a call back from Admissions. Damn you, Harvard! Damn you! I told myself I would not get emotional today. But damn it, I’m here, and sometimes it’s just [...]

Ninjas are so cool. And by cool I mean totally sweet. If you’d like to be one, and believe you me who doesn’t, all it takes is a few easy lessons.

More culture jamming: Bush and Blair lip-synching to Endless Love. Quicktime or Flash.

Zeldman intercepts a phonecall:

Br-r-ring. Br-r-ring.

GW: Saddam?

SH: Who wants to know?

GW: It’s George.

SH: Yeah, I been expecting your call since I caught your show last night.

GW: This isn’t about oil.

SH: I know that, Mr Hydrogen Car. This’s about you and me.

GW: Damn [...]