management techniques of the ancient Greeks

Remember to pronounce “Testicles” in style of the ancient Greeks as well: Tess-tick-LEEZ. As you know, we are all about the erudition and refinement here on the ol’ raincoaster blog.

Also note: way funnier than anything you could do with the word “Scrotum,” eh?

Maybe I won’t be passing that one along to Bridlepath

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Hamlet, Prince of YouTube!

We like to take credit where credit is due, and sometimes where it isn’t, but we at the ol’ raincoaster blog do think we were on this Shakespearean meme first. Still, we welcome the appearance of more classically-trained bloggers.

In related news:

Blogging, Act III, Scene 1

Shakespeare is a Virus

The Most Improbable Meme in the World Soldiers On

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Ann Coulter on John Edwards: that’s got to be somebody’s worst nightmare

Probably Edwards‘.

Note that the notoriously blunt freeze-dried conservative didn’t actually call Edwards a faggot. Rather, she expressed her belief that if you use the word you get sent to rehab.

At least now we know what Britney‘s abusing: the English language. I suppose that was on Fox, so I missed it.

Video over the jump, if you really need to see it. But you might want to take a gander just because the work she had done recently seems to have turned out rather better than her usual “just lipo and tan everything below the hairline” look.

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don’t copy that floppy!

Don’t even THINK about it. Or you’ll be pwned by this cheezy, early Nineties Arsenio Hall impersonator and his ridonkulous DRM rap.

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Brad Pitt by Robert Wilson

A still of this video was used (much to the subject’s apparent dismay) as the cover of the December, 2006 Vanity Fair. I think the difference between this and a typical cover shoot is pretty clear, and it’s really very surprising that Pitt didn’t reserve some rights as a condition of posing, but he didn’t and his agent let him pose anyway so I suppose he’s got no legal right to complain. I would, however, say he’s got a moral right to complain: is this on the cover because it’s a great piece of art, or because it’s Brad Fucking Pitt, in soaking wet tighty whities, holding a gun? At least there’s one aspect of this work that’s unambiguous: the commercialization. And I, of course, am adding the Brad Pitt tag to it, not the Robert Wilson one.

Still. Cool. I just wish there were a way that YouTube could display it as it was meant to be: as a continuous loop.

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