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Awesome Wii-inspired mittens.

thx to Alexis

Gadsby finally got his birthday present at Scruff last night and by all accounts Blario was a success:

Other highlights of the evening included:

• Possibly the greatest pool break I’ve ever seen
• A bit of, “Sloth love Chunk”
• The addition of Umpire and the strangely overlooked Later to the list of DEKHs
• Finishing on Love Cats
• and Craig breaking up the 80s Disco Day Youtube Playlist with:

I’d never heard it called this until today, but the Cupertino effect is:

…the tendency of a spellchecker to suggest inappropriate words to replace misspelled words and words not in its dictionary

This article has some great examples, my personal favourites of which have to be:

Ron Paul, Mike Huckabee, and Sam Brownback occasionally were transformed into Rot Paul, Mike Hoecake, and Sam Blowback, names more appropriate for movie stars in various genres.

A day late (I blame Wednesday Club) but still awesome - a Flash movie where you can create your own Jackson Pollock.