If you thought Google Maps was awesome, check out Google Earth. It’s the new release of the software they acquired a while back, Keyhole. Now it’s free and totally awsome. Go to a major city (New York or Boston or something) and turn on the 3D Buildings overlay. Or maybe the food overlay. It’s more awesome than almost anything. You can download and play with it here.

I saw Batman Begins the other day and it was awesome! Very well done. Christian Bale does an exceptional job, but then I can’t think of anytime I’ve seen him do anything other than an exceptional job (Equilibrium, American Psycho, etc.) I was never a huge Batman fan before, but this definitely made me change my mind.

War of the Worlds starts next Wednesday. w00t!! It’s totally gonna knock your socks on your ass!

I say you he dead!

Disclaimer: These are in no way guaranteed to actually be useful or grammatically correct.

• I can taste colors! – ?Puedo saber los colores!
• I drink out of the bedpan. – ?Bebo de o en la silleta!
• The cheese is old and moldy. Where’s the bathroom? – El queso es viejo y mohoso. ?D?nde es el ba?o?
• Where’s the beef? – ?D?nde es la carne?
• Reading is good. Can we start the story now? – Leer es bein. ?Podemos nosotros empezar la historia ahora?
• My shoes hurt! – ?Me duele zapatos!
• Mail is evil! – ?Correo es mal?fico!
• Let’s join a cult! – ?Vamos a juntamos un culto!
• El Ni?o is coming! Stock up on Canadian yarn! – ?El Ni?o es venidero! ?Acopiar el hilado Canadiense!
• I ride in kangaroos’ pouches. – ?Monto en las bosas de canguros!

I hate how British people add r’s to the ends of words that don’t have r’s anywhere near them. This British dude on TV tonight said “Vanillar Ice.” Why do they do that? I realize that it’s a diphthong of sorts, but I don’t think it’s a good one. It’s because there’s a vowel or vowel sound ending one word and the next word starts with another vowel or vowel sound. So the “ah-i” sound (as in “aight”) is awkward for them to pronounce I suppose and it ends up coming out as “ahr-i”? They should just learn to half-ass their language like we Americans do, and they wouldn’t have to worry about sounding stupid when they say things like “Vanillar Ice.”

Wow, we had a crazy storm here today with some hardcore thunder. It’s been some of the most intense and loud thunder I think I’ve ever heard. It was like the sky was being torn in half, or like all five of God’s thighs slapping together simultaneously. Craziness.

Check out this video and this video. It’s from the inside of a tornado!! It’s a technological first as well as being freakin’ sweet! Plus Lisa Ling talks about it. Remember her from Channel 1 back in the day?

I still wanna see a tornado in real life. I think that’d be super awesome to see.

I’ve also released my Magnetic AJAX Poetry dealy. Check it out!

It seems that some people / corporations just suck big time at coming up with new (made-up) words. The case in point is Pizza Hut. These people are just horrible at inventing words. I keep seeing this stupid commercial with Queen Latifah talking about their new “Dippin’ Strips Pizza.” And while the idea for the pizza isn’t necessarily bad, the manner in which it’s described is.

Queen Latifah uses the phrase “dippinomically designed” to describe the pizza. Dippinomically? Are they serious? That’s a horrible made up word. As the self-appointed authority on the suckatudinality of neologisms, I strongly disapprove of Pizza Hut’s new word.

Whoever at Pizza Hut came up with that word needs to be taken out back and kicked in the face. We are all dumber for having heard it. I award them no points, and may God have mercy on their soul.