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Since the dawn of time, man has wondered: will Apple come out with a iPhone, and will it match the success of the iPod?

This is the Internet, of course, so by the dawn of time I mean three or four years ago, well before the Motorolla Rokr came out. Despite whipping the rumor mill into a frenzy, the Rokr ended up being not much of an Apple iPhone and was immediately overshadowed by the iPod Nano.

Now, it seems Apple may be actually coming out with an iPhone in early 2007. And you are going to want it. Here’s why.

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Most people out there I will not be able to convince either way about the Wii.  Either you are already in love with is, as I am, or you hate it and Playstation/Xbox/MMORPGs are the way to go.  But you are here reading this post, so you must be interested a little.

So, if you already love the Wii, what else can I say to you? We could converse about how great the system development is.  We could have lenghty chats about how great Wii Sports is, and that no, we don’t understand who would actually buy for $50.00 bucks since it comes with the system.  The conversation has probably already been had at how incredible games like Zelda and Rayman are for the system and how sore our upper bodies are from the constant use of the Wii. Prose is already exhausted over how awesome and revolution- (see, if you knew that this was the system’s orginal name you would think I was cool right now)ary the controllers are even though you have to buy the wii-mote and the nunchuks separately.  But, we have already had this conversation.

Right now I want to talk about your mother.  Is your mom already playing your Wii?  Cause she will be.  (more…)

So, do you believe in God?  This video will tell you why you shouldn’t.  Watch it.  Or don’t. But if you don’t, Santa will know.  He knows who is naughty and who is nice.

Hiya. Here is a fun little post about funny. And evolution. Funny evolution.

Interesting links we found today:

• moblog: The Windows Shutdown crapfest » How to take a bunch of talented UI designers and developers and end up with the confusing mess that is the Windows “shut down” menu.
• Traffic Wave Experiments » How one driver can calm traffic and stop bottlenecks on the highways.
• Evolution of a web design » Time-lapse of how a web design is created. This is a great illustration of how standards-based, HTML and CSS designs are done - start with some content, mark it up semantically, then create the visual presentation.
• Flickr: Camera Finder » Graphs of the most popular cameras used on Flickr, the popular photo-sharing website. Really cool use of data collected incidentally.
• Improv Everywhere Mission: Ben Folds Fake » Ben Folds, caught lip-syncing! Also, what happens when you hit a crowd of 3000 with a 10Hz ‘brown note’?

• Japanese director plans “sushi western” - Yahoo! News » a spaghetti western by Miike Takahashi? Awesome

• Police blotter: Child porn in Web cache OK | CNET News.com » Note to PA residents: it’s OK to have child porn in your browser cache as long as you don’t know your browser has a cache.

If you take a look at the CIA World Fact book, you’ll see that Turkey’s top exports include apparel, foodstuffs, textiles, metal manufactures, and transport equipment. What the United States government doesn’t know, or doesn’t want you to know, is that Turkey tops the world in a commodity not listed here: comedies.

In our ongoing quest to discover the greatest comedies of all time, I decided to take a look at what IMDB had to say. IMDB does have an official list of the top 50 comedies, but I wanted more. Many lists include 100 movies, so I went to the Advanced Search and searched for all movies in the genre “comedy”, with at least 1000 votes, excluding TV movies, TV shows, and direct-to-video releases.

The first thing I noticed is that IMDB’s search is broken, apparently “ignore TV series” really means “litter the results with lots of TV series.” The next thing I noticed is something even the CIA couldn’t discover: Turkish dominance of the top 3 comedies of all time.

At number 1, with a rating of 9.2, is Babam Ve Oglum (2005), also known as My Father and My Son. At number 2, with an 8.9 rating, is Tosun Pasa (1976), with Hababam sinifi (1975) just a notch below at 8.8. The Turkish dominance is finally interrupted by Dr. Strangelove (1964) at the number 4 spot.

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Recently the post was started as to what the 5 funniest movies of all time were. This is pretty hard to judge because any movie can become funny when Yakety Sax is played over it. Yakety Sax was first invented by the British during WWII to combat the germans by allowing there troops to move around in super fast motion. However, the project was abandoned when the researchers could not stop laughing at everything the test subjects did. Later Yakety Sax was adobted by Benny Hill in an attempt to make his shitty show actually funny, it worked for 65 years. So without further ado, I present the top 5 things Yakety Sax makes funny.

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Jason is confusing Cyber Space with Meat Space again and referencing something I’d said at a party regarding England’s Channel 5’s Greatest Comedy Movies Ever list (not Bravo, as he had thought).

Being a fan of British “humour” I figured my top movies would be spot-on with our friends from the island, but instead I was incredibly disappointed by their idea of what is funny when it comes to comedy movies.

I’ll wait for you to click on the link and we can discuss.

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Hmmm…it’s hard to say what the funniest movies are. And ever? That’s tough. I guess some of my favs would be:

-Zoolander. That movie is just hilarious.

-Borat. It’s so wrong it’s funny.
-This is Spinal Tap. What can I say about a movie that is about mocking the music industry?

-Talladega Nights. I love me some Will Ferral and Sasha Cohan.

-Elf. Not a big fan of Christmas movies but this one is worth is.

-Kung Fu Hustle. Tee hee hee.

Well, there are some to keep you busy.

So, while trolling around the internet I found this video:

The first thing to say about this video is that it is an advertisement.  I mean, it seems innocent at first.  They tell you that we have no perception of beauty because computers and make up artists and photography tricks, then they say that it’s dove brand that wants you to know this.  Have you seen any of dove’s advertisments in, say Cosmo or Red Book?  Okay, so now they are on a liberal viewpoint that says ‘hey, we don’t want to hide natural beauty by making every woman self concious because she has freckles or her hair doesn’t do that “thing” that model’s hair does.  But, they were just as bad as any other group of big business circus freaks.

Not to say that I am not glad that they are aware of what they are doing to America and the rest of the world’s youth.  Which is making a lot of girls who will never be happy with the type of body they have or the color of their skin or lips or eyes or hair, ect.  I am glad that they are taking a stand on it.  Good job, Dove.  They are even pushing it so far as to have women who are not impossibly thin as their models.  Making you the consumer feel that it’s okay to have a big booty or some nice hour glass figure.  Atleast if their ads are sucessful. (more…)

Running into strange WordPress performance problems and database errors?  Akismet could be the culprit, but we’re in luck, it’s an easy fix.

Earlier I wrote a bit about our encounter with vicious, robotic Chinese comment spammers.  Since then we’ve had a few further issues, and I think I’ve found the culprit - Akismet, the plugin we’ve been using to fight the spam.

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A few weeks ago JessB mentioned she had seen a list of the 100 greatest comedies (I think it was Bravo’s list) and that it was pretty lacking. The full list can be seen here, in Manroom Magazine, and no, I didn’t just make up Manroom Magazine, it actually exists.

At the time a few of us remarked that although constructing a definitive list would be difficult, we could come up with 100 that were, on average, much better than the Bravo list and even the fancy important AFI list.

So I am issuing two challenges:

1. To all Unsought Input writers: I am seeking your input to a list of the greatest comedies. Write a follow-up post with some of your picks.
2. To all UnsoughtInput readers: give us suggestions and critique our choices in the comments section.

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Have you ever wanted to walk on water, without the downside of being inevitably betrayed and denied by your closest friends?

In elementary school we learn the difference between the three conventional states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. But as lucky students with cool science teachers (and nerdy kids with the Internet) know, not all fluids are the same.

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Today I was trying to answer a reference question on the effects of vitamin water on plants, and I ran across the funniest description of a science experiment I have ever read. It can be found at this URL:

http://www.youth.net/nsrc/sci/sci039.html#anchor1019498
…under the title “Should You Feed Your Plants Juice Instead Of Water?”

In a recent artIcle on i-mockery.com, superheroes said what they are thankful for this Thanksgiving. In order to give equal time I recently asked supervillians what they are thankful for this season.

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