Ben Franklin with a power fist (link roundup)

Future Ben Franklin by Eamon Dougherty.

And a few more links:

1. CNN posted blatant Palestinian propaganda showing actors posing as an "injured victim" and his "doctor," pulled the video when it was exposed as propaganda, but failed to acknowledge they had been fooled.

2. Animated gif of a beaver with an antenna. (Reminds me of the bear from Dark Tower 2. Was one of the beams a beaver?)

3. Shanghai Disneyland to open in 2014?

4. Audiotape of part of Charles Barkley's DUI field test.

*Previously: Ben Franklin leading the Thriller dance.

*Buy "Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion" at Amazon.

Election link roundup

Cracked has a great collection of photos from the campaign.




Banner reading "McCain is a Raiders fan" flown over Denver Bronco's stadium. Via.




Denver Post posted election results four days ago...and had McCain winning. Via.



Here's video of CNN's interview with a hologram. Lord, please let someone interview Cheney while he's projected from a spider-bot. If you hadn't heard, speculation is that he made a point of endorsing McCain to hurt him.



You can play Super Obama World here. Via.



Scott Campbell shows off Ben Franklin and his Lincoln-bot.



Chris and Curt speculate as to what Ron Paul's supporters might pay for next time.



Thandie Newton and Ricky Gervais perform the lines from "Who's Nailin Palin" (Starting at 2:30). Via.

*Previously: Obama, President of Awesome.

*Buy presidential bobbleheads at eBay.

Video of Jessi Klein expressing her love for CNN's David Gergen

Comedian Jessi Klein expressed her love for CNN's David Gergen in a blog post, and then was invited to express her sentiments in a video. Here you can see Gergen's embarrassment when presented with the video:



Via these sites.

Here's a few more headlines:

1. Disney has a new plan to make California Adventure even more boring than it already is - - spend $1-billion to "re-create the era when Walt Disney arrived in Hollywood." Can someone please create Jules Verne Land already? Via.


2. According to this National Geographic article, Neanderthals ingested approximately 5,000 calories a day to maintain their mass. Dramatically alters the picture I had of hunter/foragers and how much food they were able to find.


3. What happens when a company like Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy? It holds a garage sale, where it sells off it fancy art collection. Of course, sometimes, companies sell off their collections for other reasons. In 2003, Unilever sold off its fancy photo collection and replaced it with photos of "Suave shampoo, Ragu bottles, tea packages -- images employees can connect to." Via these sites.

*Previously: Southern California wasn't icy during the Ice Age; Photos of Disney's new T-Rex restaurant.

*Buy Disney Star Wars toys at eBay.

TSA can now look into your psyche

Clearly CNN has embraced its role as the new Onion. Here's a straightforwardly presented video about the TSA's new specially trained officers. They're called "Behavior Detection Officers," and TSA Spokesperson Andrea McCauley explains: "We're not just looking for things anymore. But, we're looking for actual people."

This post at the official TSA blog ads a bit more information about these specially trained "BDOs" and offers this example of their success:

Just recently at the Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport, (CVG) two of my fellow BDOs spotted behaviors on a passenger and conducted secondary screening. They were unaware at the time the individual was an undercover “passenger” involved in covert testing. The concealed item was an unassembled weapon in a carry-on bag. The BDOs caught this right away, and when the testing was over, it was revealed that the passenger also had plastic explosive simulants in the cups of her bra. This was an excellent catch, and proof the behavior detection program works. If this were the real thing, we would have caught it.

Uh, kudos, I guess? Via.

"Mr. T pitys the fool...does not have time for jibba jabba."

CNN/A-Team parody from these sites, although I don't know who created it.

Tiny frogs invade community (pathetic CNN Headline illustrated)

High-res version at CNN is like the worst ever.

Bad Headline Spotting

Here's my favorite headline at CNN right now:



Here's the link to the story, which has a more legitimate headline.

Bad headline spotting

In light of my last post, I visited CNN and spotted this gem:

Illustrations of CNN's Fark-like headlines

Pictured: "Baby with two faces worshipped as goddess." Kelly Chambers' CNN is like the worst ever is pure genius and a nice companion site to WTFCNN?. Via Gawker.