The Daily Twit

• 11:19 @billba #anathemhaiku DELIVERATOR: Want to be a bookmobile? Here's an RFQ. #
• 11:42 @ximinez Among the myriads of faces, look for my brother Matt. He'll be there too. #
• 11:44 @knobody If you know enough about electricity to fix a fan switch, you know enough about electricity to fix the screaming baby... #
• 13:17 Got a nice shady space at Inman Park MARTA. #
• 14:02 Enjoying a free coke and 1792. Thanks, Sidebar! #
• 15:22 Epic win. Go Pack! #NCSU #
• 15:39 Ouch. FAU could hardly have done worse against the Vikings. #
• 15:58 wow, a nine yard rush against florida... that's 50% better than either of the last two years. ;) #
• 16:36 Sidebar, next to a courthouse, is opening a new location near Georgia Tech. I hope they call it h-bar! #
• 17:20 free shots at halftime? doesn't suck. the free margaritas and coke-and-bourbons from before the game were beginning to wear off. My keys ... #
• 18:22 florida fans are so used to being ahead, nobody even bothered to cheer for the 30-6 FG. #
• 20:00 That was an excellent way to spend an afternoon. I've got 4 tickets for tomorrow's Braves game (vs. Mets) and 1 butt. Need 3 friends! #

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turner field section 422

Posted to flickr without the express written consent of major league baseball. Fair use for the win!

Successful troll is successful.

Oh, Oprah, you've been trolled hard.

For those who aren't watching the YouTube video, a summary: Oprah announces that someone posted on her message board claiming membership in a group with "over 9000 PENISES", ready to rape children.

Time out.

Over on 4chan, specifically /b/, there's a bunch of moderately amusing trolls.  The message board is set up so that when you say the word "two", it's replaced by "over 9000", which is just a silly reference to DragonBall Z.  And lots of words are automatically replaced by the word PENIS.  So the pragmatic content of the message was "I am a 4chan /b/ user, acting on Oprah's forums as if I were on a forum that welcomed such idiocy."

To explain it in slightly more accessible terms, imagine Oprah announcing seriously that someone on a message board had claimed that "all your base are belong to us", and this clearly demonstrates the dangerous power of the shadowy group who seized all Oprah's base.

It's an epic troll, and the people who call themselves "/b/tards" and "anonfags" are going to be congratulating themselves on this for a long time.

I put it in the same category as Gilbert Gottfried's joke the evening of September 11, 2001: tasteless, utterly tasteless, and funny anyway.

But... C'mon, anonymous.  You have better targets than Oprah.  Go move every zig to where it'll make a real difference.

Aw, man, I remember Fashion Plates.

I don't know which of my friends had these, but I remember loving the idea of customizing your own drawing with mix-and-match plates.  It's the predecessor of avatar generators.

Yogurt, the official food of women

Hilarious exposition and deconstruction of yogurt marketing:

"Say more stuff I generically relate to and then go to a wedding!"

"It's who-serves-yogurt-as-a-wedding? good!"

NSFP for a few words here and there.

If you like MST3K or ze frank, you'll enjoy this style.

8-bit awesomeness

YouTube won't allow me to embed this one, so you'll just have to click through.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1WWpKEPdT4

loucheroo has permission to skip this one.  She knows why.