Lego Zombie Apocalypse.

Hey Hec, did you see the WSJ piece on tiki bars and the Tiki Bar Crawl? Pretty cool stuff...

Hey Hec, did you see the WSJ piece on tiki bars and the Tiki Bar Crawl? Pretty cool stuff...

I didn't! I can't believe I still haven't been to Forbidden Island, though its opening does basically coincide with Matilda's arrival. Toddlers + Excessive Drinking + Next County Over = NSM.

Speaking of things retro cool, Tease-o-Rama is coming up soon. It's the annual Burlesque fling with lots of sexy sexy retro girls wiggling their bits.

For people who want to learn more about the current economic crisis by having it explained in a straightforward (as possible) way, this thing from This American Life is awesome:

365: Another Frightening Show About the Economy

Alex Blumberg and NPR's Adam Davidson—the two guys who reported our Giant Pool of Money episode—are back, in collaboration with the Planet Money podcast. They'll explain what happened this week, including what regulators could've done to prevent this financial crisis from happening in the first place.

You can download it as an mp3! Stick it on your iPod and listen to it on your way to work! Then when you get to work you'll cower under your desk and cry!

I was totally already planning to listen to it on my way to work tomorrow.

I can't believe I still haven't been to Forbidden Island, though its opening does basically coincide with Matilda's arrival.

The equation does not work so well, 'tis true. Especially since getting back from the Next County Over is... difficult at night. Nigh impossible. Sucktastic. Etcetera.

Maybe we could try to go around a dinnertime one weekend? I would like to see this place.

It's the annual Burlesque fling with lots of sexy sexy retro girls wiggling their bits.

I approve of this.

Wait - Fleet Week is this weekend, isn't it? (Which would be why I saw the Blue Angels during my lunchtime run.) And the Tiki Bar Crawl will be hitting Bamboo Hut? Yeah, that should be a good time. Arrests galore.

The next big organization that might go bankrupt due to the financial crisis? Iceland.

Iceland is on the brink of collapse. Inflation and interest rates are raging upwards. The krona, Iceland's currency, is in freefall and is rated just above those of Zimbabwe and Turkmenistan. One of the country's three independent banks has been nationalised, another is asking customers for money, and the discredited government and officials from the central bank have been huddled behind closed doors for three days with still no sign of a plan. International banks won't send any more money and supplies of foreign currency are running out...

When Bush was inaugurated in 2000, the Onion headline was, "Bush: 'Our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over'"

There was an extremely depressing website linked to a while back which took this article and added links to all the items in it which had come true. Practically everything but the photo caption was underlined blue.

Anyone know where this is?

Carrot Top? Gallagher? Rich Little?

Whoa. You just made me feel bad for Rich Little. Dude.

The Question of the Day: How do you airlift hundreds of stranded penguins?

More than a thousand juvenile Patagonian penguins have washed up on the northern shores of Brazil this year for reasons scientists have yet to comprehend fully. Over the weekend, hundreds of the stranded birds were airlifted to the southernmost tip of the country and released into the South Atlantic Ocean, close to their native territory. How exactly do you get that many penguins on a plane?

You put them in crates, 23 birds to a box. On Friday, the Brazilian government's environmental authority loaded 399 Magellanic penguins onto a C-130 Hercules transport plane on loan from the Air Force. The penguins left from a marine-life treatment center in Salvador, in the northern state of Bahia, where most of them had been living for the past two months. (Some 70 birds joined them from a treatment center in Vitoria; they were transported in the cargo hold of a commercial flight.) Before boarding the military plane, the penguins were fed, watered, given antifungal medication, and tagged with bands for future identification. Then they were flown down to another rehabilitation center in the southern city of Pelotas. Accompanying them on the 5.5 hour flight were a handful of military personnel and approximately 10 veterinarians and biologists from various environmental organizations.

I feel better knowing that question has been answered....

Probably this, aurelia? [link]