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Click here for find Quisp and Quake (Quaker re-released Quisp in 1999–my wife actually bought a box of Quisp for me and Kevin a few months ago, but I gave it to the kids to eat).

Far be it from me to post links for only the 35-40 crowd. For you 25-30 year olds, click here.

The TV Party website has the actual Mighty Heroes opening in REALVideo. Hmmmmm. Diaper Man–cool or not cool?

Here’s a great site dedicated to the old 1930’s Fleischer Popeye cartoons. It even has a number of them for download.

I’ve seen a number of the old Superman Fleischer cartoons. Kevin has them. The animation is great–no one since has used the full technique used for them (I think some Disney films of the same era did).

McSweeney’s has a great two part parody on the Fellowship of the Ring from the revisionist historian point of view. It’s hilarious. I’ve read Howard Zinn before and I’ve certainly heard of Noam Chomsky–it reads just like their kind of work (not that I’m against revisionist history). You can find part one here and part two here.

Apple unveiled its online music service today. It’s great–I downloaded my first few songs already. It’ll be Windows compatible by year’s end. My favorite news coverage of this story is the Crazy Apple Rumors parody here, but if you want, I guess you could read the real announcement here.

Kevin was over and we were having too much fun. Who knew almost 30 years ago that we’d be hanging out on my back porch, smoking Hoyo de Montereys, watching 2001: A Space Odyssey on a laptop computer with a color screen almost the size of my parents first color television, and just having good conversation.

And no, I don’t smoke cigars often, although I do like to smoke a cigar on my grandfather’s birthday each year to honor his memory. Although if I were honoring him more strictly, I’d be smoking Phillie stogies every August 3rd…

This just in from the “freaky stuff is all over the Internet” department, a marriage of Beatles and Metallica songs can be found here. I’m not quite sure what to make of this, but the songs are available in MP3 format (at least until the site goes down or the lawyers sue every drop of blood out of these people).

If you’re into this kind of thing, that is.

You know you’re on Atkins when you eat some Worcestershire sauce on a steak and actually think “this Worcestershire stuff tastes kinda sweet–I wonder how much sugar is in it?”

Donald McCarty, the CEO of American Airlines, resigned amid controversy over his hidden management pension plan that was funded even after significant union concesssions. After asking and getting critical concessions from the unions, the management pension stuff surfaced. So he apologized about 50 times in a press conference (well, actually 3 or 4 times) but had to take the bullet.

I’m interested in this story because, well, is the guy a complete moron? Politically, did he really believe that he could talk his way out of this? You pull great concessions from your workers by telling them how tough things are and that “We all have to tighten our belts,” and a day later show them that you lied through your teeth? He justified the darkest nightmares of his workers–that their leaders are the enemy and couldn’t give a crap about them. It wasn’t just politically incorrect, it was blatant political suicide. It was inevitable from the outset that he would have to fall on his sword–it was the only salvageable way out of the situation for the company. If it survives at all, after a one billion dollar loss.