Most Irritating Song

James Blunt's You're Beautiful was voted most irritating song of all time. Finally. It's a shame that song raked in as much money as it did. Only the brain dead American public could appreciate being told they're beautiful that many times.

IN UR WITE HOUSE STEALIN UR TUNEZ

I really want this to happen. Totally a win-win situation; either the Bush's are forced to defend themselves against Them, or they lose money to Them and are humiliated. Further.

S-M-R-T

Generally birth order theories are just bad science, but I decided I'd pull a Templeton Foundation and post this story because it makes me looks smarter. (Not that I had much in the way of competition.) Anyway, apparently the Norwegians have found that first-borns are the smartest. They don't say why, but that really doesn't matter. I personally won't waste my immense brain power on such trivial matters. I have the world's problems to solve. Or mine in the meantime.

Also, I think the BBC should have censored this part of the story: "A Norwegian team found first born children and those who had lost elder siblings and had hence become the eldest, scored higher on intelligence." First of all, obviously if the smartest is dead, the next smartest is technically the smartest. And what's an envious not-quite-as-smart younger sibling to do about it? Kill their big brother / sister! Those Norwegians may be all about fratricide, but I have my reservations about most or all "-cides".

The DDR Possibilities are Endless

Thanks to FakeSteve for this one.

Scrobbling

I recently joined last.fm and it is my latest internet addiction. Now you can see what I'm listening to at all times. How cool is that? There's a little chart in my sidebar here, or you can go to last.fm to see my profile with plenty of (embarrassing?) details about the music I listen to.

i fit iron dick

If you're looking for a good pseudonym, nothing beats a bad anagram. This fun anagram generator can help you out. Some of my personal favorites:

• hampered brenner art
  
• barnhard preen meter
  
• bernhard rape me rent
  

Google docs and spreadsheets now work in Safari 3.0! How exciting. 

PicsL

That's a great name for a web2.0 startup, don't you think? Anyway Boing Boing posted a link to a really fun website that takes Flickr images collages them into an image you upload. The result:
(click for supercool full res)
Link

I am a tool

After months of silently and cynically detesting the high school (and college) kids who walk into Apple Stores taking pictures of themselves and uploading them onto myspace / facebook (not any more!), I've caved and purchased an iSight of my own. And of course now I'm doing what just what everyone else with and iSight and Photo Booth does.
NB: the cityscape behind me is a poster left behind by the rentees of the house I'm living in. Neat, huh? If you have a Mac with an iSight (built-in or not) you should also consider iGlasses. It'll allow you to adjust the brightness, whitepoint balance, color, hue, temperature and a variety of other image manipulations. It's a fantastic piece of software.

I'm not sure how this happened, but one of my coworkers talked me into purchasing Pokémon Diamond for the DS. I loved the original Pokemon game and this one is just as fun. You start out with a choice of three new Pokemon. I of course selected mine based on which looked the coolest and I figured a monkey with fire coming out of it's ass would be pretty intimidating. The other options were a little plant/turtle and bird. My favorite by far is this little bean thing which uses an attack called "Water Sport".

So. Pokémon and Photo Booth. I'm mentally regressing to the level of a(n American) high schooler. Yikes.