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My friends don’t listen to enough pop music. So, here’s almost five minutes that will recap the year’s top 25 pop hits, according to Billboard. Enjoy!

DJ Earworm has also made the mp3 available.

You can’t make this stuff up. After seeing @ejacqui and @chartier tweet about TEABAG OBAMA, I had to check this out for myself. I have been hearing pundits call on conservatives to "teabag the White House" or "teabag Obama" for a few weeks now. So, I did not understand why anyone would make a big deal about it now. And then I saw the video:

I’m glad someone other than The Daily Show (possibly broken link to the video) is starting to address this ludicrous slogan. Nobody is coming right out and saying it, but for those of you incapable of using Google, checkout the Urban Dictionary definition of teabag.

I know there are Young Republicans out there. I would think that at least one of them has used the internet, at least one of them has a marketing background, at least one of them would pull one of the older conservatives aside and say, "Hey, you might want to rethink that slogan."

Beyond that, I don’t have a clear understanding of why they are choosing teabagging as their method of protest. They want to draw a parallel to the Boston Tea Party, but that was about taxation without representation. Today, both sides of the aisle are being represented. It just so happens that one side of the aisle isn’t getting what it wants (frankly, I think both sides of the aisle might be losing on this one).

It’s so cold outside! Here’s a reminder of warmer weather and horrible lyrics (Facebook registration required):

I have been really lame lately when it comes to blogging. Twitter has been stealing my blogging ideas with the ease of using TweetDeck and TwitterBerry. Here’s a quick one that I won’t let Twitter steal.

I didn’t see SNL last night, but I just saw the opening skit via the Chicago Tribune web site, of all places. Tina Fey did a great job as Palin. Check it out:

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Hopefully I will be less lame in the future.

Update: Not even an hour later, and I am foiled. YouTube pulled the clip from last night. Here’s NBC’s clip, which is of better quality, but it has a pre-roll ad:

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Update: Argh! NBC sucks. Not only did they get the clip pulled from YouTube, but their embed code doesn’t even show the correct video. Here’s the actual page where the video is. Don’t click on the ads. Stupid NBC.

I heard about this on the radio this morning, but I completely forgot about it on my walk from the car into the office. Thanks to Clint for reminding me.

This was posted a few weeks ago on The Daily Dish, but I only just had a chance to watch it. It’s a compilation of TNG clips that shows a racier side to the show. There are parts that are a bit drawn out, so feel free to skip 30 seconds every now and then; there’s almost ten minutes of video!

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything of substance here. I’ve been too busy with real life lately that I haven’t had much time to pound out a full post. A lot of what I’ve had to say over the past few weeks has ended up on either Twitter or my shared items. Some of those items are NSFW, or will at least result in strange looks from those around you.

As you may have read, I took the leap and bought Xbox 360 Elite and Rock Band, stimulating the economy just a little bit. So far I think it was money well-spent. I found out last week at Pete’s graduation party that Mike and I actually have different versions of the Xbox 360. I was unable to plug my AC adapter into his Xbox 360, and I found out that there was a change to the design sometime between June 2007 and January 2008. This resulted in a lower-power AC adapter for my Xbox 360, which has a different plug than Mike’s. It was pretty annoying, because the Xbox 360 Wikipedia entry is the only place I was able to find why I couldn’t use my AC adapter with his Xbox 360.

With the new console, I also signed up for a Xbox Live Gold membership with the gamertag markomni80. I tried to sign up with markomni, but the registration site kept telling me it was in use. After being frustrated with it for a few days, I gave up trying to get my gamertag and just signed up with my alternate screenname. Now I can do cool things like purchase new songs for Rock Band and play the game with Hersch or Mike or whomever.