i am your okay nightmare
Searchmash is an innovative and attractive alternative to Google. And it’s owned and operated by Google.
The main attractions?
I’m not going to bother with an extensive review. It works just like a regular ole search engine. Except this one just might replace your regular Google.
It’s ham-handed satire, but its heart is in the right place:
Homosexuality is not natural, much like eyeglasses, polyester, and birth control are not natural. Heterosexual marriages are valid because they produce children. Infertile couples and old people cannot get legally married because the world needs more children. Obviously gay parents will raise gay children because straight parents only raise straight children. Straight marriage will be less meaningful, since Britney Spears’s 55-hour just-for-fun marriage was meaningful. Heterosexual marriage has been around for a long time, and it hasn’t changed at all: women are property, Blacks can’t marry Whites, and divorce is illegal. Gay marriage should be decided by the people, not the courts, because the majority-elected legislatures, not courts, have historically protected the rights of minorities. Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are always imposed on the entire country. That’s why we only have one religion in America. Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people makes you tall. Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage license. Children can never succeed without both male and female role models at home. That’s why single parents are forbidden to raise children. Gay marriage will change the foundation of society. Heterosexual marriage has been around for a long time, and we could never adapt to new social norms because we haven’t adapted to cars or longer lifespans. Civil unions, providing most of the same benefits as marriage with a different name are better, because a “separate but equal” institution is always constitutional. Separate schools for African-Americans worked just as well as separate marriages will for gays & lesbians.
Cracked counts down the most the 10 Most Terrifyingly Inspirational ’80s Songs. The winner? “Eye of the Tiger”:
Here’s a little exercise that illustrates perfectly what this song is capable of. Think of the weakest, most pedestrian chore you can do, for example, doing laundry. Now play “Eye of the Tiger” in the background. If, by the end of that spin cycle you haven’t managed to somehow kill a grizzly bear with fabric sheets or make sweet love to every woman within 40 yards, then you need to see a coroner because you apparently died the night before.
Yep. Hard to argue with that choice.
How does a band of DJs/sound collagists play on live TV? They hire a bunch of fellow ’80s impersonators to flesh out their stage show. Justice rules.
Via Metafilter.
It takes freaking forever to load, but it’s really pretty. What is it? Sort of a cross between Digg and YouTube. And NPR. The site is an extension of Gore’s two-year-old TV network Current. Current.tv started out as a new idea in Television. The cable channel, which can now be seen by 52 million people worldwide, was to be an experiment in user-generated cable. A station that explored complex issues via tiny documentaries that could be consumed and absorbed by the short-attention span generation.
The new Web site and the TV station are tightly integrated, and the result is perfect for people who watch TV and surf the Web at the same time. Richard MacManus at Read/Write Web explains the appeal in his excellent review:
What I like about Current, apart from the awesome design, is that they’re attempting to change the way television is consumed and created. It’s a much more interactive experience, where the audience participates and creates.
I buy the theory that young people are watching tv and on a computer accessing the Web at the same time. So the pod format [see pic below] is, in my view, an innovative new UI built around this new form of television watching. It’s a bit like when Google created Gmail - they built it for the Web, rather than copying the desktop paradigm. Likewise, Current has developed their pod UI based on a new form of TV/Web experience, rather than copying traditional TV programming formats.
I encourage you to read the full review. Then click over to Current.com and wait for the damn thing to load. 
As you can see, this dog is NOT lost. It’s just awesome.