Kalimat al-Mutafalsif

A new study conducted by me shows a link between Google News and a lack of productivity on my part. I use Google News because I like getting my news from lots of sources, since every source is biased, but unfortunately combining all these sources into one page leads to mistakes. Such as the following bloopers snagged from the main page at various times in the last few months:

And finally, came across these articles back to back today. Notice the similarity between Ballmer and the T-Rex below him. Both old dinosaurs, ready to eat their prey. I laughed pretty hard when that came up real early this morning.

Sure, it makes a little sense. The McCain article mentions Democrats, I’m sure Newsweek was mentioned in the iPhone article, and Dinosaurs fit into Science, but there’s at least one little blooper I notice a week where the picture next to the article would give the wrong message (Such as the Obama McCain one). Clearly someone got their script to work 99%, and left it at that, though that last 1% of images that are mistakes would be very hard to catch, I think. Anyway, I hope I can do a regular potpourri of these images.

A year ago today the Virginia Tech shootings occurred. As I mentioned a year ago, it somewhat surprises me at the sadness today has evoked in me, considering I was hundreds of miles away that day, and still am. It didn’t seem like it was a year already, but I was reminded this morning when I turned on the TV to see an image that’s been stuck in my mind ever since. I poked around on the Virginia Tech Memorial site, but couldn’t find it for some odd reason, which is a shame because I think that image captures the moment perfectly.

The morning news had that Bugler image up this morning, and immediately the first two lines of the following poem popped into my head:

Blow, Bugler, Blow

Blow, Bugler, blow, let all hear you play,
The hope of our nation’s enshrined in your lay.
The notes flow like tears poured out from your horn,
Splashing our souls and hearts, broken and torn.
Floating past candles held high in the sky,
Twinkling like stars who whisper “Good-bye.”
Tonight there’ll be pain, and tomorrow the same,
But during it all, we stand and proclaim:
“We are Hokies, America, as strong as they come,
From the siblings who visit to the oldest alum,
We know our potential, what we can become,
We’ll always fight on, we’ll never succumb!”
So blow, bugler, blow, let all hear you play,
The hope of our nation’s enshrined in your lay.

ADMIN EDIT: Missed a line in there, had to add it.

A few weeks back I acquired a PS3 (another post on that is in the works), and nabbed Assassin’s Creed as my Single Player game for a while. From the previews I was expecting a game with decent open-ended game play, decent graphics, and some good fighting. Boy were my expectations blown out of the water…