PAPERCLIP STAND

I thought this was pretty creative.

SINFEST

The webcomic Sinfest tries to explain these tough economic times:

CRISIS VIA COMICS

TAMAGOTCHI LIVES

Now, in vivid color!  I doubt that this product will appeal to kids in the same way as when it was first introduced, but I’m amazed at the longevity of the Tamagotchi.

You can read the Gizmodo article here.

ON YUPPIES

“Like hippies, yuppies were baby-boomers rebelling against their parents. But the yuppies weren’t rejecting their parents’ politics so much as their parents’ taste and budgetary constraints. Yuppies seemed to be apolitical. Urbanity, one of their namesake characteristics, was a reaction to the suburbs, where many of them had grown up. Their epicureanism was presumably a reaction to the canned, frozen, and processed food that most of them had grown up on.” – New York Magazine

This quote begs the question: Did the yuppie mentality towards money indirectly cause the financial crisis of today?  You can read the whole article here.

YAHOO NEWS

“Health officials say that the bat was sent to a lab but that its brain was too cooked by the hot water to determine whether it had rabies.” – Eastern Iowa Gazette

[Via Yahoo! News]

A CASE OF CUTENESS

Excuse me while I barf.

[Via]

COLBERT AND STEWART

Besides this hilarious photo, the Comedy Central “news” duo were interviewed by Entertainment Weekly and had some pretty interesting things to say, mainly about this election, politics, cable news and their roles in all of it.  I recommend reading it here if you have the time.

TOCQUEVILLE

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” – Alexis de Tocqueville

FEDEGRA

[Via Sinfest]