US Americans don't have maps

Ah, America's youth. Here is a fine example in this year's Miss Teen Intellect Contest, er Beauty Pageant...

Miss Teen South Carolina answers "Why do you think a fifth of Americans can't find the US on a world map?"

Now, she was probably very nervous at the moment, but even if you don't have an answer, you can spin this into some practiced speech about education. But hey, at least she is pretty.

Tigers, smoke, and the final countdown

Just a mish-mash again today since my posting is so few and far between...

For you Calvin & Hobbes fans, here's a site where you can find every comic strip in the series in order of publication. Very cool, but I don't know if that site has the rights to it, so it may not last forever.

Frozen smoke will change the world says scientists. An interesting article on something that sounds straight out of science fiction.

And I'll end things with another goofy YouTube video. This one is of the worst "Final Countdown" rendition ever; even worse than the one by band Europe (I kid; I actually used to really like that song).

News bloopers, boomshine

I ran across this Yahoo! article today about TV anchor mishaps caught on video. The article has many links to YouTube videos of said goofs caught on tape. I didn't watch all (or most) of them, but the couple I did were funny.

Before I link to some examples, I've also been playing this simple, little web game called BoomShine. Easy to learn (and really the whole game wasn't that difficult) but fun.

On to a couple news videos, and I don't know if they really count since they are University news channels. The first is an old favorite (Boom Goes the Dynamite!):



This other one is very similar; a painful awkwardness. I hadn't seen this one before today (Bad Weatherman):