Yes, another post about Geico. Man up. Has anyone else noticed that Geico has three different styles in their commercials? They have the spots with the indentity-crisis suffering gecko, their classic “I have some great news…” reversal spots, and those weird ones with the “cavemen.” I’m willing to let the reversal spots go, simply because…

Mike has tagged me. Now I’m required to answer these questions, and tag four more people: Four jobs they couldn’t pay you enough to do: Manual masturbation of farm animals, anything that has to do with human waste (bodily or otherwise), crime scene cleaner upper, work at the DMV. Four movies you used to love…

Here’s a subject near and dear to my heart: the coelacanth is in danger of extinction. In case you don’t know what a coelacanth is, it’s an ugly, oil-filled fish that is so old, it’s often referred to as a “prehistoric fish,” (seriously, the species has been around for like 400 million years). It was…

Long-time readers (I mean, =really= long-time readers), will recall my previous complaint about the way auto insurance company Geico was using their mascot. Well, they’ve done it again. Now the gecko’s voice has magically changed. I think they were going for Australian, but wound up with an East-end British accent. Which is funny, because most…

I had meant to do this back on Sunday, but I’ve been so busy (see infra) that I haven’t had a chance until now. Back at the beginning of last year, I wrote a rather passionate post declaring my resolutions for 2005. In July, I posted an update on those resolutions, and admitted that I…

The other day on BoingBoing, they linked to a New York Times article about how the NSA has a couple of secret listening stations that monitor millions of international phone calls and e-mails =every hour=. Turns out, one of the stations is in Yakima (which, for those who don’t know, is just shy of 200…

It’s funny how, as you get older, the things you want for Christmas change. One of the gifts that Morah wanted (and got) this year, was a dust buster. It may seem like an odd request for a gift, but to be honest, it’s going to make cleaning up small messes a whole lot easier.…

I don’t usually re-post stuff that appears on BoingBoing (at least, not straight away), but this article by Bruce Schneier is too good not to pass on. If you choose not to read the article, at least consider this quote: “If the president can ignore laws regulating surveillance and wiretapping, why is Congress bothering to…

Suck it, ID. Episode VI of ALLOpod will be late due to a miscommunication between myself, the interviewee, and a third party. It’s all good, though, and the show will be up ASAP. Speaking of ALLOpod, I just ran the numbers and the shows (collectively) have been downloaded over 2,000 times!

Brynna took one of those quiz things and this answer made me laugh out loud: -Book/movie that you wish had a sequel: Uh, The Remains of the Day comes to mind. A sequel where they finally freakin’ throw down and get it on for crying out loud, instead of all the *angst angst* of wanting…