xkcd is awesome today: 2008 Christmas Special

Due to the slowing economy, we could only afford to produce the prime-numbered panels. You should be able to infer the missing parts of the story easily enough. We apologize for the inconvenience.

So Chicago is now in the grips of its own Rainpocalypse: The Enslushening. I personally was enslushened by several cars on my way to work.

Soon we'll be experiencing SnowSleetOccasionalDrizzleAndRainThenScatteredFlurriespocalypse: The WinteryMixening

We have gray, mildly chilly weather here in Carrboro. Weatherwise, things look ok for me for holiday traveling. But my sister's planning on bringing her brood down from the Detroit area on Friday, to meet Dad and me in Charleston, WV, and her weather's look less pleasant. I'm thinking that if things are as bad as predicted, I should ask her to consider staying home.

SnowSleetOccasionalDrizzleAndRainThenScatteredFlurriespocalypse

I read that and I thought that it was raining furries in Chicago.

From the "If only I had thought of that, I could be making nearly $10,000 a day" department":

iPhone fart app pulls in nearly $10,000 a day

Apple’s App Store is currently experiencing a plague of fart applications. Last week, I detailed one day in which at least 14 new fart apps were accepted into the store. And now, just in a quick search, it looks like there are about 50 apps all dedicated to making fart noises on your iPhone or iPod touch. Classy, I know, but why are there so many?

Because apparently there’s big money in fart apps — nearly $10,000 a day for the most popular ones.

Developer InfoMedia (Joel Comm), which makes iFart Mobile, has been releasing download statistics for the app each day since it launched. The $0.99 app has been in the top 100 paid apps every day since its launch, and has seen great growth. In fact, yesterday it hit the number one overall position with over 13,000 downloads. MacRumors ran the numbers, factoring out the 30 percent cut Apple takes from each sale, and determined that, yesterday alone, iFart Mobile made its developers $9,198.

Certainly, a part of this onslaught of fart apps is that Apple, which had previously rejected all crude apps, changed its policy to let them in. But now that they glimpse the potential for big business in fart apps, expect even more to come.

Of course, not all fart apps are going to make it to the number one paid app position, but a number of them are selling well. Personally, I prefer Pull My Finger [iTunes link], but it’s hard to argue with iFart Mobile’s icon, which simply reads “Best Fart App!”

You know, whoopie cushions cost only $.99 too, and they don't need batteries, either.

I was supposed to have left for Mom's an hour ago, and I'm still not packed.

You know, whoopie cushions cost only $.99 too, and they don't need batteries, either.

Well, the whole idea is that one device can take the place of your whoopie cushion, virtual lighter, virtual beer-drinking device, Dr. Horrible Van Remote Control, etc....

The hell? Sandra Lee makes a Kwanzaa cake: [link]

You are both on the NAUGHTY! List. You both get coal.

Dude! Pete is SANTA! Adorable.

The hell? Sandra Lee makes a Kwanzaa cake: [link]

Oh, that is easily one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen. Why is this woman on television again?