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Boing Boing directs our roving eye to the winner of the latest ReadyMade: MacGyver Challenge – in which the winner reworked some Altoids tins into little speakers, using a pair of playing cards and a dismantled pair of headphones. Sweeeet. I can do that. I’m definitely looking forward to the upcoming strawberry basket project.

From the top. I am officially scandalized: Netflix has NO Ren & Stimpy discs to rent! Some HS or college marching band needs to do an ABBA field show. Seriously, it’d be great. Start with “Mamma Mia” — a tour de force for the glockenspiel if I’ve ever heard one — and go on through [...]

Ren & Stimpy’s “Happy Happy Joy Joy” Song. “I don’t think you’re happy enough! That’s right! I’ll teach you to be happy! I’ll teach your grandmother to suck eggs! Now, boys and girls, let’s try it again!” It is VERY difficult to resist singing this aloud, doing the dance, or using the brilliant line “The [...]

The NYT has it: “Senators voted 50 to 48 against a call to cut off debate, 12 votes short of the 60 required and even below a simple majority of 51.” Score one for the Senate. However, it’s worth noting that this vote was NOT — N-O-T not — on the FMA itself; this vote [...]

Um, that would be a review of The Bible, as posted on Amazon. DNFTT… Boing Boing today points us to Waxy.org’s Amazon.com Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game, in which the worst reviews of specific works see the light of day. My favorite is this review of “Seven Samurai”: This movie seems to be a scene-by-scene copy of [...]