Is there time to make a small shit?

- Philip

Whassup?

Remember the "Whassup" Budweiser ads from the early 2000s? Well, here's an updated version for 2008, it seems things haven't really worked out for the guys...



Just 10 days to go,

Mr. Ed
(Currently blogging from a sofa in Chicago)

Et maintenant le voyage a la supermarche...

Missing the boat, the admiralty, the whole dang fleet, Chives has discovered Flight of the Conchords. See my compendium. If you haven't already many, many times over.


I'm the Muthaflippin'...




Like a steaming pile of last year, this has been Chives.
Um, Chives.

Meme-arama!!

Beigey and I stumbled on this little numbber on You Tube a while ago, and I've been looking for an excuse to post it- Mr. Ed's earlier post was just what I needed . There seems to be a whole meme relating to the "misheard lyrics/subtitled video" concept. What other wonders lie in wait for we P-sters, I wonder...
Anyway, here come the hotsteppa...



- Bluecupoard and Beigey

Pipe wrench fight!

A literal interpretation of Ah-Ha's classic "Take on me". Is this the beginning of a new internet meme? Let's hope so...



- Mr. Ed

Heady days

"Whoah there!"

We ponies know this expression all too well

but this week
it's been used much more frequently
as an exclamation
rather than a command

as in:

What the yellow rubbery fuck is going on!?!

The Dow had its worst week ever in terms of points as well as percent drops, losing 1874 points or down 18.15%.

-snip-

Dow Worst Week Ever:

-The second biggest weekly percentage drop was the week ending July 21, 1933 when the Dow closed down -15.55% for the week

-The third biggest weekly drop for the Dow on a percentage basis was the week ending Friday, 9/21/01 after 9/11 when the Dow fell 14.26% for the week

-There has never been a point drop in a week of greater than 1,600 points back to the Dow's inception in 1896

-The Dow is now down 40.67% off its market peak on October 9, 2007 of 14,164.53

This week the McCain campaign, despite grim economic news around the globe, has plowed ahead with the sleaziest campaign of living memory. Don't just take my word for it - here's a pretty telling clip reel from TPM:



Perhaps it's no surprise that the poll numbers haven't moved - the 1960s were a long time ago, and to be honest, the only number-letter combination anyone is worried about right now is 401(k). But it is rather gratifying to see that, not only did Obama predict that they would try this tactic:



But also that he's calling them on it:



And so is Joe Biden:



McCain seemed rattled when Charlie Gibson brought it up:



But maybe - just maybe - now, even he has realised the need to damp down his frenzied supporters:



Heady days indeed my horsey friends.

Or as some might say...

All in all
it's just a-
'nother Saab in the wall.

- Mr. Ed


Update:

John Cole has all you need to know about the Trooper-gate report that was released today.

Laugh? I nearly shat.

Sorry to buck the trend of quality posts but just had to say how much I laughed at the below. Fucking hilarious Ed!

Who knew?

That Robbie Fowler, Jimmy Tarbuck and Stephen Fry were in a Gospel trio together, way back when...

- Mr. Ed

Image from LP Cover Lover via Boingboing.

A BIG shout out...

to the post below. It's not often that we get self-referential around here, at the P club, but that last post had all of my geek nerve-endings firing on 'fuck yeah', so I felt obliged to give Blue Cupboard some props.

Go on, scroll down and feel the awe-inspiring massiveness of the numbers numb your mind...

- Mr. Ed

Now that's what I call quite big...

Philip kindly sent me this little link to Google's "2001 Index" part of their 10th Birthday doings. Why not visit and look up things that aren't on it? Anyhoo, all of this Google related such-n-suchery got me to thinking, and brought me round to the subject of this post, which, started out with the humble googol, and, well it ended up... well, I'm just going to have to cut and paste this in by way of the mighty Wiki...

How big is a googolplex?

One googol is presumed to be greater than the number of elementary particles in the observable universe, which has been variously estimated from 10⁷⁹ up to 10⁸¹. A googol is also greater than the number of Planck times elapsed since the Big Bang which is estimated at around 8 × 10⁶⁰.

Since a googolplex is one followed by a googol zeroes, it would not be possible to write down or store a googolplex in decimal notation, even if all the matter in the known universe were converted into 0's. Indeed, if you had an unlimited supply of ink and paper, you would need around 10²⁰ times the current age of universe to fully write down a googolplex.

Thinking of this another way, consider printing the digits of a googolplex in unreadable, one-point font. TeX one-point font is .3514598 mm per digit, which means it would take about 3.5 × 10⁹⁶ meters to write in one-point font. The known universe is estimated at 7.4 × 10²⁶ meters in diameter, which means the distance to write the digits would be about 4.7 × 10⁶⁹ times the diameter of the known universe. The time it would take to write such a number also renders the task implausible: if a person can write two digits per second, it would take around 1.1 × 10⁸² times the age of the universe to write down a googolplex.*

S'quite big, then...

Yours,

somehow a little afraid,

Bluecupboard

* I had literally no idea that when I cut and pasted this in from the Wiki, that all the links would stay live! Holy information fandango, Batman!! Thought I'd better mention that someone else did all of that in case you thought I'd lost my mind (and also learned a large amount about maths and physics very quickly)...