Keith Pelczarski

"Despite California's dismal unemployment rate and fiscal woes, folks in Silicon Valley are pretty darn content. In fact, according to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index of all 435 Congressional districts, the 14th District is the happiest place in America. We're happy for all you happy people in Anna Eshoo (D-Palo Alto) Country!" - Keith Pelczarski from Bookmarklet

"Still, this is not as bad as the tattoo that Washington Wizards G/F DeShawn Stevenson added this past offseason -- a Pittsburgh Pirates "P" on his cheek. The only problem is, it's backward. Did you do it yourself in a mirror, DeShawn? Because it looks like a 9. "If you're standing [farther away] it looks like a P," Stevenson told The Washington Times in what has to be the leader for Dumbest Quote of 2009. Um, nope, still backward, DeShawn. From close-up, from far away, from the Hubble telescope, still backward. Luckily, it's only on your face." - Keith Pelczarski from Bookmarklet

Read this! There are many crazy tattoos hyperlinked! - Keith Pelczarski

Oh Keith, she's SO cute! - Georgia Diehl

"A Saints-Vikes NFC title game would be the single coolest matchup I can remember since … since … I mean … can you top that one? The Saints have NEVER played in a Super Bowl. The Vikings have never WON a Super Bowl. Throw in everything else (Brees, Favre, Peterson, Jared Allen, Brad Childress' beard, a potential shootout, two tortured fan bases, etc.) and I have no idea how that one ends. I just know that I'm giddy about it. (Fast-forward to late January: "Warner! McNabb! It's the NFC Championship Game on Fox!" These things never work out in our favor. Ever. Crap.)" - Keith Pelczarski from Bookmarklet

Are you totally un-American if you don't watch this video? I'm just asking questions. - Keith Pelczarski from Bookmarklet

"Think 'transparency' is an established, maturing theme? You ain’t seen nothing yet. Sure, we’ve been harping on forever about the many ways consumers can research, compare and review their way to a more powerful position, but every month brings us smart new examples of consumers and brands intent on making opinions, quality standards and prices even more transparent." - Keith Pelczarski from Bookmarklet

"Benjamin Franklin designed the first official US penny, minted in 1787. It's now known as the "Fugio cent" (Latin: I fly). At the bottom of the penny was the message: "Mind Your Business." (The message "In God We Trust" didn't appear on a US coin until 1864.)" - Keith Pelczarski from Bookmarklet

We need to bring this back. I'm totally not joking. - Kamilah Gill

"Rumors abound about just how many cars Google has on the roads building it own turn-by-turn mapping data as well as its unique “Google Streetview” database. Whatever it is, it must be huge. This October 13th, just over one year after dropping NavTeq, the other shoe dropped as well. Google disconnected from Tele Atlas and began to offer maps that were free and clear of either license. These maps are based on a combination of their own data as well as freely available data. Two weeks after this, Google announces free turn-by-turn directions for all Android phones. This couldn’t have been a great day for the deal teams that worked on the respective Tele Atlas and NavTeq acquisitions." - Keith Pelczarski from Bookmarklet

Seriously, how cool is this? http://www.facebook.com/photo... - Keith Pelczarski

Can someone please confirm that this tweet was RTed by the zombie cyborg @BurroughsBot and that it wasn't just a cough-medicine fueled hallucination? - Keith Pelczarski from iPhone

"Die Hard - not only the best action movie ever, but also the best Christmas movie ever. I was watching it today and felt compelled to create this handy graphic to keep track of the terrorist deaths in Die Hard." - Keith Pelczarski from Bookmarklet

Lemme guess, for Halloween, you were a crotchety old man who hates everything "kids these days" are into. Were you sitting on your front porch on a rocking chair mumbling to yourself about how awful kids these days are and that back in your day little girls didn't dress nearly as slutty as they do now? ;) - April Buchheit

Actually, I escorted Lord Vader around the 'hood wearing a Stormtrooper helmet and skeleton jammies. (And walked around shaking my head about the slutty little girls.) - Keith Pelczarski from iPhone

^ HA! - Anika

I hear ya! I'm so glad Camilla wanted to be The Cat in the Hat *again* this year. - April Buchheit

"We have asked TSA to find the tools terrorists use and prevent both from boarding a passenger plane.  We have unintentionally created an agency that now seeks efficiency and compliance more than any weapon or explosive." - Keith Pelczarski from Bookmarklet

"Ideas about wireless electricity have been floating around the world of technology for more than a century. Nikola Tesla started toying with the ability to send electricity through the air in the 1890s. Since then, though, making wireless electricity technology safe and cheap enough to put on the market has been an arduous task for researchers." - Keith Pelczarski from Bookmarklet

That's bad for efficiency, right? - Brian Johns

Three-frame animated gifs from movies. Follow 'em on Twitter: http://twitter.com/threeframes - Keith Pelczarski from Bookmarklet

"Before smallpox was eradicated with a vaccine, it killed an estimated 500 million people. And just 60 years ago, polio paralyzed 16,000 Americans every year, while rubella caused birth defects and mental retardation in as many as 20,000 newborns. Measles infected 4 million children, killing 3,000 annually, and a bacterium called Haemophilus influenzae type b caused Hib meningitis in more than 15,000 children, leaving many with permanent brain damage. Infant mortality and abbreviated life spans — now regarded as a third world problem — were a first world reality." - Keith Pelczarski from Bookmarklet

Really cool animated infographic about the assembly of the ISS in orbit. - Keith Pelczarski from Bookmarklet

"Pablo Picasso once said, “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” But Wall Street Journal illustrator Noli Novak says Spanish artist Jose Maria Cano engaged in outright plagiarism in producing a large painting that meticulously duplicates Novak’s stipple portrait of President Barack Obama, including the surrounding text that ran on the front page of the Journal last year. Jose Maria Cano's giant hand-painted copy of Noli Novak's Obama drawing “He copied it dot by dot,” Novak said. Cano, who could not be reached for comment, has produced an entire series of paintings copied from the Journal’s signature stipple portraiture — all of them several times larger than the newspaper clippings from which they’re derived." - Keith Pelczarski from Bookmarklet

What'd you think of it? Did you go to the afternoon or evening showing? (I was there for the afternoon one.) - Dan Hsiao

We went to the evening show since there were better tickets available. We had a great time. I thought it was an interesting way of retelling the saga. The props they had on display were really cool, though it got pretty crowded over there. The symphony part was cool, but I wish that the venue had been more intimate to get more of the sound straight from the instruments. We were far... more... - Keith Pelczarski