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GLENDALE, AZ – MAY 07: Musician Carrie Underwood (bottom left) attends Game Five of the Western Conference Semifinals between the Nashville Predators and the Phoenix Coyotes during the 2012 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Jobing.com Arena on May 7, 2012 in Glendale, Arizona.

Rory

Totally Obsessed

Yes, "Morneau" is Québécois for "died" (e.g. "Hier, Mike Wallace morneau").

Her Twitter bio reads: "Normal people play jump rope with a rope, I play it with Justin Bieber's penis."

Rory

Five Percent Dextrose


If Ken Jeong was a character in a Japanese video game, he would be Wisconsin's mascot.


NC State's mascots – woof. Mr. Not Sober and Ms. Meth Addict.


Kentucky's mascot looks like Kentucky forgot to pack its mascot costume.

Rory

You brought us Taco Bell

At Safeway early Sunday morning, I saw a bunch of unsold green cakes on a folding table and pictured Africans receiving crates of green food later this week.

In the parking lot, I saw a Prius with the license plate "ND OPEC" and bird shit all over its hood. How perfect, I thought.

—Why were you at Safeway at 1:00 a.m. on a Sunday?
—Heh.

—A Hail Mary before last call on St. Patrick's Day.

Idea: An augmented reality Pokémon Snap scavenger hunt played with smartphones and fiducial markers. The markers generate Pokémon on a smartphone screen, which you then photograph.

Rory

Inverse Profundity

Starting on April 16 consumers will be able to take their home videos to some 3,500 WalMart stores and have them converted to digital files stored in the retailer's Vudu digital storage facilities for Internet streaming.

It will cost $2 to transfer a DVD or a Blu-ray disc, and $5 to have a DVD upgraded to a high-definition file.

"It will encourage customers to continue buying physical DVDs," says John Aden, WalMart's EVP General Merchandise. [source]

That kind of thinking is why Kodak is bankrupt.

Aside: Kodak's plan to reverse its fortune was to sell printers? Really?!

Digital home video needs a Qin Shi Huang.

Rory

Being 30

McKern: started running last week in preparation for refused show in april

Rory

There's no religion that could save me

You guys! It's a film about a dark horse that features a literal dark horse!

Hearing the news that her father is suffering with dementia, Dana, a thirtyish Seattle ballet teacher, reluctantly returns to her childhood home on Orcas Island to discover that it is threatened with foreclosure. To save the farm and the family, she must tame her mother's dangerous Friesian horse and ride him to victory in the year's biggest dressage competition. She must also reconcile her warring brothers, and heal a broken heart. [source]

Save a farm, tame a horse, ride him to victory, reconcile warring brothers, heal a broken heart – that's asking a lot from a ballet teacher.

Amazon.com reviews:

Dull, boring movie. No action (except for multiple people falling off a horse).

Really dull movie. Every once in awhile, the lead character would get on a horse and fall off – and that's about it.

Cue 8x playback and "Yakety Sax."

#OMGWTFDVD

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