T-Rex & Chicken are Cousins

T-Rex is a distant cousin of the modern chicken.
Are you serious?

Conan O'Brien's 2000 Harvard Commencement Speech

Harvard University Commencement Speech by Conan O'Brien.
This is hilarious, here are some excerpts:

Students of the Harvard Class of 2000, fifteen years ago I sat where you sit now and I thought exactly what you are now thinking: What's going to happen to me? Will I find my place in the world? Am I really graduating a virgin? I still have 24 hours and my roommate's Mom is hot. I swear she was checking me out. Being here today is very special for me. I miss this place. I especially miss Harvard Square - it's so unique. No where else in the world will you find a man with a turban wearing a Red Sox jacket and working in a lesbian bookstore. Hey, I'm just glad my dad's working. ... The point is that, although you see me as a celebrity, a member of the cultural elite, a kind of demigod, I was actually a student here once much like you. I came here in the fall of 1981 and lived in Holworthy. I was, without exaggeration, the ugliest picture in the Freshman Face book. When Harvard asked me for a picture the previous summer, I thought it was just for their records, so I literally jogged in the August heat to a passport photo office and sat for a morgue photo. To make matters worse, when the Face Book came out they put my picture next to Catherine Oxenberg, a stunning blonde actress who was accepted to the class of '85 but decided to defer admission so she could join the cast of "Dynasty." My photo would have looked bad on any page, but next to Catherine Oxenberg, I looked like a mackerel that had been in a car accident. You see, in those days I was six feet four inches tall and I weighed 150 pounds. Recently, I had some structural engineers run those numbers into a computer model and, according to the computer, I collapsed in 1987, killing hundreds in Taiwan. ... After graduating in May, I moved to Los Angeles and got a three week contract at a small cable show. I got a $380 a month apartment and bought a 1977 Isuzu Opel, a car Isuzu only manufactured for a year because they found out that, technically, it's not a car. Here's a quick tip, graduates: no four cylinder vehicle should have a racing stripe. I worked at that show for over a year, feeling pretty good about myself, when one day they told me they were letting me go. I was fired and, I hadn't saved a lot of money. I tried to get another job in television but I couldn't find one. ... So, that's what I wish for all of you: the bad as well as the good. Fall down, make a mess, break something occasionally. And remember that the story is never over. If it's all right, I'd like to read a little something from just this year: "Somehow, Conan O'Brien has transformed himself into the brightest star in the Late Night firmament. His comedy is the gold standard and Conan himself is not only the quickest and most inventive wit of his generation, but quite possible the greatest host ever."

Royal Dutch to Produce Oil for Half the Price?

Royal Dutch Shell is patenting a technique to convert shale to petroleum at a cost of only about $30/barrel. At half the cost of a barrel of oil today ($60), we can see benefits. What does this mean? Cheaper energy costs, cheaper gas, less inflation problems, more efficient businesses. The largest source of the shale in the world is in the U.S. If it works, expect cheaper gas, and a wealth of new money for the U.S. The theory could be garbage, but you never know.

Nancy Cartwright (Bart Simpson) Interview

I had no idea a lady did the voice of Bart Simpson. She also does the voices of Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders, Kearney and Maggie Simpson's laugh.

The Internet - What people do.

What do users do on the internet Interesting article that shows what people do on the net, and some of the drawbacks.

Grindhouse Double-Feature to Split?

Grindhouse - great reviews, no income
The company may be splitting up the double-feature to possibly bring in more money after the horrible sales the first weekend. It's getting great reviews, I'll have to check it out.

Here's the trailer:

VIDEO: 34-Yr Old Fisherman Completes Obstacles

He is only the second to complete the obstacles, out of over 500 people. The last minute in the video is crazy when he climbs to the top of the building.

Eating the/with Fish

First ever underwater restaurant

Warren Buffet and Bill Gates Hit Hooters

Buffet and Gates shoot pic with Hooter's girls.
Hilarious.

The Money Race for the White House

Why do presidential candidates need so much money?

"An American presidential election is like a world war fought on many fronts in which you really have to deploy your forces across a large geographical area," said Ross Baker, professor of political science at Rutgers University. Candidates seeking the nomination of their parties undergo a complex series of tests in individual states' primaries, which occur over a number of months. The earlier primaries tend to be more important because the parties coalesce around the leaders as weaker candidates start dropping out.

VIDEO: O'Reilly and Snoop Dog

VIDEO: American Gladiators: Malibu