Has Pope John Paul II jumped the shark?

Over on PolySciFi Blog, Jody has a post about how John Paul II has jumped the shark. Well, I looked him up on Jump the Shark and this is how the voting is going so far:

First Show	1978
Last Show
Genre	Drama
Network	CTV
Slot Day	Sunday
Slot Time	10 am
Jumped The Shark when...	Votes
Never Jumped	31
Starts hanging out with Bono	24
Day One	19
Ted McGinley	14
Same Character, Different Actor	10
Too many jokes about Carlton's height	9
Mehmet Agca tries to cancel the show	7
A Very Special Episode... (Finds out he's not Italian)	6
Says "Evolution, more than just a hypothesis"	3
Tracheotomy	2
Election of Antipope Pius XIII	2
Insists on being referred to as "Jp 2 Electric Boogaloo"	2

And before anybody flips out on me, I wish him the best and hope he makes a full recovery.

Crop circle love.

It's too bad aliens don't think this way.

Maybe we'll have a Keroppi and Badz Maru next.

When the ball is out, it is really out.

Wow, this is amazing. I hope neither of them falls off the side. I could never play up that high without a huge safety net.

World's Top Tennis Stars Practice at Burj Al Arab, Dubai

Found via boing boing.

Bloggers of the world unite

BBC NEWS | Technology | Global blogger action day called: "The global web log community is being called into action to lend support to two imprisoned Iranian bloggers.

The month-old Committee to Protect Bloggers' is asking those with blogs to dedicate their sites on Tuesday to the 'Free Mojtaba and Arash Day'.

Arash Sigarchi and Mojtaba Saminejad are both in prison in Iran.

Blogs are free sites through which people publish thoughts and opinions. Iranian authorities have been clamping down on prominent sites for some time.

'I hope this day will focus people,' Curt Hopkins, director of the Committee, told the BBC News website."

There, I spent my 10 seconds to help change the worl. heh.

Amazon.com and A9.com's Yellow Pages

Matt posted over on PolySciFi Blog about Amazon.com Yellow Pages

This is an awesome service. It still has bugs, but a lot of potential. Case in point. I went to this club the other night in NYC: Amazon.com: Yellow Pages: Flow It has no signage whatsover. But this site shows you that it's on the corner next to the starbucks. We had a fun time finding that at night, let me tell you. Of course, ideally the car would've turned the corner, but like I said it's a little buggy. For those keeping score at home, this is where I had brunch on Sunday: Amazon.com: Yellow Pages: Life Cafe

I also noticed that "Some data provided by Acxiom, © 2005". Acxiom is the largest datamining company in the world.
You can find out more here: frontline: the persuaders: introduction | PBS

I can't wait til they digitally photograph Outer Mongolian Starbucks...

Flickr

I read this the other day: O'Reilly Network: Stewart Butterfield on Flickr and I just had to join. If you're into digital photography at all, I highly recommend it. One of the really sweet things are the Folksonomic tags. You can browse the 150 most popular tags here or my tags here. e.g. Flickr: Photos tagged with boccioni (You're the only person who has used "boccioni" as a tag.)

Also, check out the groups where users pools their photos. A thematic one called squared circle is pretty neat and makes for a great slideshow.

Plastic Operator's "Folder" lyrics

"Folder" by Plastic Operator lyrics

That's why I copy and paste
Into your folder, folder
With your name
It'd be more than I could take
If I just told you, told you
What I feel

That's why I copy and paste
Into your folder, folder
With your name
It'd be more than I could take
If I just told you, told you
What I feel

That's why I copy and paste

You can drive me mad
If you tend to hide, but I admire
You can make me sad
And I want you to make it all worthwhile

Into your folder, folder
With your name
It'd be more than I could take
If I just told you, told you
What I feel
That's why I copy and paste

Into your folder, folder
With your name
It'd be more than I could take
If I just told you, told you
What I feel
That's why I copy and paste

You can lift me up,
A single smile can set my heart on fire
You don't have to stop,
A gentle touch can fill me with desire

If I just told you, told you

Oooh oooh ooooooh
Oooh oooh ooooooh
Oooh oooh ooooooh

You're intelligent, though ignorant
And I want you know
We can fake the start
And pretend that we have reached the end

If I just told you, told you, told you
If I just told you, told you, told you
If I just told you, told you, told you

Told you, told you, told you, told you

Oooh oooh Oooh Oooooooooh
Oooh oooh Oooh Oooooooooh
Oooh oooh Oooh Oooooooooh

That's why I copy and paste
That's why I copy and paste

Watch Nintendo Games get beaten at incredible speeds

NintendoRecords.com

My faves are: Mike Tyson's Punch Out!!
Can you drop Don Flamenco in less than 14.97 seconds? (that's the in game clock, btw)

or how about
Super Mario Bros. in under 5 minutes. And if you say the warp zones are cheating, try to beat every level in 18:58 or less.

Here's Super Mario Bros. 2 (J)

The Number One Songs In Heaven: Boogie Friday, Deodato's Also Sprach Zarathustra

This is really sweet. Kinda like a mix of 70's funk, that Manzarek organ on "Riders on the Storm" and Richard Strauss. The link may be down soon, so if you need a fair use snippet, let me know. The Number One Songs In Heaven: Boogie Friday

Here's Deodato's site: http://www.eumirdeodato.com/

Why Your Pointy Haired Boss Is A Mathematical Certainty :: MarkTAW.com

This is really awesome: Why Your Pointy Haired Boss Is A Mathematical Certainty :: MarkTAW.com (found it at metafilter.com)

Here's the source data: OCCUPATIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES, MAY 2003

There are 770 astronomers in the US, 700 geographers, half a million lawyers (making on average 107k$ a year), twelve thousand athletes (making on average $90k a year, man that profession is top heavy), and 15,000 slot key persons. (I think that last one is a casino position, but I'm not sure.)

What would be really cool would be if they had the standard deviation of each profession's yearly income.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002

I just noticed that The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy was on bartleby.com now. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002

Anybody have any new sideline pic suggestions? I'm thinking of changing them. Please leave links to suggested images in the comments. Thanks.