Things On The Internet That Jeff Found Entertaining (December 2009)

Hello there, and Happy New Year. I feel clean and new today. 2009 was a good year for me. I would even call it a very good year except for the fact that most of the goodness constituted therapy for the second half of 2008, which I will remember in perpetuity as the Year of Shit. Will 2010 bring me my very own spaceship, or testicular cancer? I can't wait to find out! Yay!

Although I have sworn to stop jacking around and mostly post things that actually have content, things come to me unbidden from across The Internet which are awesome. I have therefore decided to condense them into a monthly blog post. YouTube: Proof of the existence of God, or of the Devil? You decide.

AronRa: Yes, I already posted it. I don't care. Go watch the "Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism" series. Then watch all the other shit. Do it now.

The Oatmeal: Many fine cartoons. Be sure to check out "4 Reasons To Carry A Shovel At All Times" (my favorite), "How To Ride A Pony", "The Motherfucking Pterodactyl," "Twenty Things Worth Knowing About Beer." And of course, "What Marcellus Wallace Looks Like." I dare you. I double-dare you motherfucker.

Synapsid Tribute: Synapsids are all right, I guess. The scene with the gorgonopsid fighting the...whatever the fuck it was made me laugh. Can someone tell me what that was from?

Peer Review, Circa 1945: Truth.

http://www.partiallyclips.com/storage/20091201_CrestedBirds_lg.png: Nice commentary on sexual selection. It's funnier if you imagine that the male bird sounds like Patrick Wharburton.

Evolution of Homer Simpson: I'm not sure how the Simpsons has managed to stay funny for twenty years. Look what happened to fucking Garfield in less than a decade.

Harlan Ellison discusses God: Nothing too Earth-shattering, but I'm glad I wasn't eating or drinking anything when he made his final pronouncement on what to do with people who do evil.

The Onion: "Sumerians Look On In Confusion As Christian God creates World," and "Dinosaurs Sadly Extinct Before Invention of Bazooka," and "T.rex Ancestor Was Human-Sized."

Dogs Hate Me: I really like these. I don't know why:
Life. In a nutshell.
Love. In a nutshell.
Prayer. In another nutshell.
Drugs and alcohol are cool.

The Known Universe By AMNH: Space is too big, and something needs to be done about it.

Baboons join the Moving Car Hood Club: Something to add to my "to do before I die" list.

I am working on a follow up to my post on monophyly. Public and private reactions have been extremely interesting.

LNJ