OMG I have to do this

So I surfed over to YTMND, and fresh in the "recently created" section, I found this site. It's quite simple--Hillary is asking online supporters to suggest a campaign song for her. Just go there, and in the "enter another song title" field, copy and paste in "The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air Theme by Will Smith" and click on the "Submit your vote" button. You can do so multiple times.

300

This has bothered me ever since the first time I saw the trailer. Now, I get that when he's riling up the troops, why he might be screaming--even 300 people is a big crowd, so you have to scream to make yourself be heard--but one Persian emissary? The conversation certainly doesn't seem like it warrants the level of screaming that can be heard.

That just seems like over-the-top acting to me. And I guess I'm not the only one: The folks at YTMND have also made several sites regarding the screaming.

• NES Version
• Dine in Hell
• Geography Lesson
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Wheel of Fortune

New season of South Park just started this week.

Seeing Wheel of Fortune reminds me of when Darth Vader was on Wheel of Fortune.

It's the end of the world as we know it

I stumbled upon this while going through some of the new sites at YTMND--it's several days old, which means my online sources have failed me!

It's a phone recording between a Verizon Wireless customer and Verizon's customer service supervisor, and said supervisor's floor manager. You can read about the whole ordeal on the blog he set up after the call, VerizonMath. Looks like Verizon has finally resolved the issue.

Cliff's Notes on what happened:

Guy is going to Canada, and called Verizon to see what their Internet rate would be.
Verizon rep tells him it's ".002 cents per kilobyte."
Guy gets bill, and finds they've charged him ".002 dollars per kilobyte."
Guy calls Verizon again, but no one seems to understand the difference.

That's the gist of it. If you don't have the time to listen to the whole thing, you can also get a really condensed version here (it's the YTMND site I mentioned).

It's incredible how Verizon's CSRs can't seem to comprehend grade-school math. Maybe they've become too reliant upon calculators and computers (The problem, of course, was that they let the calculator do all of the work for them, but the calculator can't keep track of your units, so when they pressed the equals button, they just assumed that the answer would be a dollar figure, when in fact they haven't done the conversion from cents to dollar yet). I guess if too many idiots rely on machines to do things for them, our civilizations will decline and decay, and morons will rule the earth.

Below is a simple conversion chart to illustrate how the math should be done, if you're the sort that has problems with keeping units straight.

Pan's Labyrinth

I found out about this from a YTMND site, which is also quite well done. In any case, Pan's Labyrinth looks like it could be a very good movie.

High Definition versions of the trailer and teaser are available on Apple's website.

X3 in a nutshell

I could've sworn that I made a post about this when the movie was first released in the theaters, but I can't seem to find any entries about it.

Anyway, when I re-watched X-Men: The Last Stand on DVD, this was one of the things that kept coming back to me, aside from how much they butchered the original story.

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I also love the theme music from the cartoon series.

A no-win scenario

"Looking around me you'd think, 'Sure, I could tap that.' But as you know I'm a merfolk, and so I'm a fish down below..."

And yet another YTMND site reminds us of the mermaid problem. In this edit, we see Disney's Ariel flip open a book to show Flounder an image first found on another YTMND site (though it looks to be from some sort of manga). I first saw an allusion to it from a Captain Kirk/Star Trek/Wrath of Khan site, also pretty funny. The picture near the end has been around on the net for some time, and was also used in some YTMND sites.

The song is made by students of Brown University. They have a clip from The Little Mermaid set to their version of the song.