Look at this concept for a Twitter shoe

I would only buy twittershoe if it utilized LA Gear light-up technology to show my latest tweet on an LED marquee, like the New York Stock Exchange

Just kidding, I hate all shoes

RIP Leslie Nielsen, I’m pretty sure the issue of Disney Adventures with your face on the cover was the first issue I received after I got a subscription, and I think Spy Hard was my favorite movie until Good Burger came out the following year

BATTLE OF THE PORTALS

• I just looked at MSN.com for the first time in a while, and I guess they got rid of the nice colors at the top with a big blue bar. Blagh. The big redesign is a lot nicer on the eyes than it used to be, but some of the pages didn’t get the memo. There’s too many black words on a white background, and it comes off as sterile and unfriendly. It could definitely use a designer. Also, I still don’t get why they don’t combine Bing‘s picture of the day and Windows Live‘s social features to make a compelling Microsoft Homepage Experience. I miss start.com, which existed briefly in 2006 or thereabouts as a sleeker, more experimental version of My MSN.
• I thought the Yahoo! frontpage looked neat when they announced it, but they keep changing things around and crippling functionality. You can longer pop out the “apps” simply by hovering over them, you have to click the arrow to “Open Quickview.” Adding “apps” is now confusing as hell, since they’re now part of the “Yahoo Pulse App Gallery” and may or may not actually be added to your homepage. Also, any sites you add to “My Favorites” just have an ugly star icon, instead of grabbing the site’s favicon like it ought to.
• AOL.com is surprisingly nice. It feels less grid-like than the others, and they do a fairy good job highlighting the stuff from the massive network of sites they’ve been secretly building up when we weren’t looking. The drawback is that you can’t really change anything except the picture at the top. We all laughed at AOL for being AOL, but now “Aol.” (as it wants to be known as now) wants to garner some respectability, and I think they’re taking the right steps.

Vanity URL shorteners are the new internet status symbol

If I had boatloads of ca$h money I’d buy rbbr.cat and maybe bort.ly for rubbercat.net/simpsons

Here’s a stupid thing inspired by a tweet from somebody whose account is private (so I’m not sure if its kosher for me to quote it), enjoy??

NEW GOAL IN LIFE

Obtain these books:

• Decision Points by George W. Bush, signed by Bill Clinton
• The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama, signed by Jimmy Carter
• My Life by Bill Clinton, signed by Hillary Clinton
• Living History by Hillary Clinton, signed by Sarah Palin
• Going Rogue by Sarah Palin, signed by John McCain
• All The Best by George H.W. Bush, signed by George W. Bush
• White House Diary by Jimmy Carter, signed by Barack Obama

I hear Windows Phone 7 isn’t selling too well. I bet it’s because Microsoft forgot to include a mobile version of MS Paint. Here’s a mockup I made to show the executives:

Still waiting to hear back from them…

If you browse on over to Garfield.com, like I do every morning, today’s strip is blocked by an apology by Jim Davis:

Dear Friends, Fans, and Veterans:

In what has to be the worst timing ever, the strip that runs in today’s paper seems to be making a statement about Veteran’s Day. It absolutely, positively has nothing to do with this important day of remembrance.

Regarding today’s Garfield comic strip, it was written almost a year ago and I had no idea when writing it that it would appear today — of all days. I do not use a calendar that lists holidays and other notable days, so when this strip was put in the queue, I had no idea it would run on Veteran’s Day. What are the odds? You can bet I’ll have a calendar that lists EVERYTHING by my side in the future.

My brother Dave served in Vietnam. My son James is a Marine who has had two tours of duty, both in Iraq and Afghanistan. You’d have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our Veterans have done for all of us.

Please accept my sincere apologies for any offense today’s Garfield may have created. It was unintentional and regrettable.

Jim Davis

Yes, you read that right: they have more than a year’s worth of Garfield strips stockpiled somewhere.

Here’s the unintentionally offensive strip in question:

Wow. Just wow. Now, ordinarily I’d accept Jim Davis’s explanation – according to TV, men forget birthdays and anniversaries all the time, after all – but this isn’t the first time this has happened. Here’s a Mallard Fillmore strip from November 21, 2006:

Why do wisecracking anthropomorphic comic strip animals who share names with U.S. presidents hate our troops????

source: The Daily Mirror

I don’t remember signing up for the Parents Television Council’s mailing list, but I’ve never bothered unsubscribing because I don’t want to be left in the dark on the latest developments in the culture wars. Here’s some shocking statistics from the front lines:

Across all networks, use of the bleeped f-word in the 8 o’clock Family Hour increased from 10 instances in 2005 to 111 instances in 2010 – an increase of over 1,000%. And in the 9 o’clock hour, use of the bleeped f-word increased from 1 instance in 2005 to 156 instances in 2010 – that’s an increase of 15,500%!

How do they know they were f-words? They were bleeped!