Superfriends explained in video

The Superfriends. You thought you knew them. You grew up with them.

But you’ve never seen them like this!!!!!

Okay, you’ve seen them like that. Sue me, it’s still funny.

But you’ve never seen them like this: A Superfriends/The Office Mashup: This Place Sucks. What goes on when the Wonder Twins aren’t looking…

And you definitely don’t know the darkest secret of the Superfriends…harboring and abusing their illegal alien Filipina maid. Presenting: Maritess vs the Superfriends!

Da Superman, he is looking through my clothes!”

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Operation Global Media Domination: Lost in Translation

TIAWhen raincoaster checks the ol' raincoaster stats, she looks for many things: total hit count, most popular blog entry, signs of the coming Apocalypse…it's like necromancy, but you don't have to wash your hands afterwards unless you get very excited. Among the things that she looks for are links through which readers have clicked to arrive at raincoaster, the blog. And this one from yesterday particularly caught her eye.

It appears to be a Google translation of this post, a roundup of search engine terms that brought people to the blog. This is known as a feedback loop, and is sneakily effective in gaining new readers and hooking back the old ones, even if they were only looking for Narnia Mango Somali Porn.

Oops, I did it again!

Anywhoooo, the words on this page that were beyond Google's ability to translate were quite interesting. In the interests of creating a new, more selective feedback loop, and in the interest of confusing the Chinese, I will here list all terms in that raincoaster post found untranslatable by Google:

Narnia, Ian McKellen, Fatman, pervs, snotflower, creamer, ventibrevemocha, lattes, buggers, cholesteral, patchouli, eggnog latte, decaf, comin', Pablo, Sandford Tuey, raincoaster, voyeur, appy, tiaras, 9.11, WhiteSpot, Hogwarts, Deuel, Cates, vagina, spankin', Conference, shebeen, Wuthering, screencaps, jocari, Doktari, sumpin', slimin', spay, watchin'.

Did you ever do those assignments in school where you were supposed to use each of a whole snotload of words in a sentence? I was terribly literalminded, and always tried to get them all into one sentence, which drove my teachers nuts, but even I would have to admit defeat when faced with the above list.

FYI Here are today's search engine items that led here. I must say, we're getting better. Classier, weirder, and less Somali-porn-based. Some Somali trivia: You know Iman? When she left Somalia she took everything worth looking at with her.

beautiful agony, shit eating, dorks, eagle cam in Vancouver, Canada, Juvénal Habyarimana -site:africadatabas, Celebrity Censorship, jesus lego, birthday animation, cocaine corner, Giant Squid

Go Fuck Yersself! The Kid from Brooklyn Speaks!

I knew he'd show up on Youtube sooner or later. Ladies and gentlemen may we present Podcaster of the Millennium, the Kid from Brooklyn!

Operation Global Media Domination: Technorati kneels

TIAThe view is more beautiful now that it is mine.

Technorati Rank: 196,923

I suppose two pretty much solid weeks in the WordPress Top 100 (out of 179,000)kinda suggested to Technorati that they maybe needed to think about updating their data and poof! All of a sudden I've gone up by a quarter of a million places in the blogosphere. If only it happened in real time, but that would be awfully Web 2.0 of them. I suppose batch processing once a month isn't that bad, it's just that much worse than their PR.

Update: And today, thanks to Chaucer's dirty bits and a Fleshbot pass-along, I'm #1 AND #2 on the WordPress Sex tag. My mother would be so proud!

Hillary Justifies Her Existence

Workers of the World Unite! Even Guvmint!S 2725 IS

109th CONGRESS

2d Session

S. 2725

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an increase in the Federal minimum wage and to ensure that increases in the Federal minimum wage keep pace with any pay adjustments for Members of Congress.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

May 4, 2006

Mrs. CLINTON (for herself, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. JEFFORDS, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. HARKIN, and Mr. OBAMA) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions <hr>

A BILL

To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an increase in the Federal minimum wage and to ensure that increases in the Federal minimum wage keep pace with any pay adjustments for Members of Congress.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the `Standing with Minimum Wage Earners Act of 2006'.

Senator Soft...or do I repeat myself?

SEC. 2. MINIMUM WAGE.

    (a) In General- Section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 206(a)(1)) is amended to read as follows:
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      `(1)(A) except as otherwise provided in this section, not less than–
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        `(i) $5.85 an hour, beginning on the 60th day after the date of enactment of the Standing with Minimum Wage Earners Act of 2006;
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        `(ii) $6.55 an hour, beginning 12 months after that 60th day, adjusted for that year as provided for in subparagraph (B); and
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        `(iii) $7.25 an hour, beginning 24 months after that 60th day, adjusted each year as provided for in subparagraph (B); and
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      `(B) the wage provided for under clauses (ii) and (iii) of subparagraph (A) shall be automatically increased for the year involved by a percentage equal to the percentage by which the annual rate of pay for Members of Congress increased for such year as provided for pursuant to the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 31).'.
    (b) Effective Date- The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act.

Solidarity...even with politicians