I’d be freaked out if some baby preacher starts yelling at me in tongues about how I’m going to hell. At least Darwin is fairly quiet, considering he’s been dead for 127 years.

They probably both smell the same though.

TopatoCo via Gizmodo

Not only am I excited for the new, gritty Trek movie, all the related merchandise is bound to get silly and extreme.

Now you can smell like James T. Kirk. Turns those Orion Slave Girls in to Orion Sex Slave Girls.

Trek Spring Collection Preview: First Look At Genki Star Trek Fragrances

It’s just like it sounds.

Birds stealing ice cream.

Via Mike Industries

List of things that irked me today:

1. People who say “early adapters” instead of “early adopters.”

2. People who spell “congratulations” as “congradulations.” It’s appropriate in one circumstance: graduation. Elsewhere it’s just a misspelling.

3. People who blame poor weather for their sickness, not the fact that they just spent a week at Disney World with 50,000 other humans, each of which may potentially carry the virus or bacteria that actually got them sick.

4. Weathermen who state “there is a 50% chance of rain today” when in reality they mean “there is a 100% chance that it will rain 50% of the day today.” I understand weather is all about probability and so the “chance” is accurate terminology for the field, however their usage usually isn’t.

5. For a school supposedly “Powering Silicon Valley,” SJSU’s wireless internet is horribly slow and inconsistent sometimes. Couple that with the draconian authentication policies and the preference for Internet Explorer and Windows, and you’ve got a recipe for crappy performance.

For having so many complaints, overall my day has been fairly pleasant.

Does Verizon hire people directly out of second grade? Beyond that level of education, I think most people would understand the concept.

Apparently every site can “harm your computer,” even Google’s site itself.

Edit: And now it’s fixed.

While I do appreciate Google trying to keep us all safer on the internet (of course, when it’s working normally), I do think there needs to be a big asterisk at the end of every one of those warnings that should state “Only if you’re running Windows with IE as your browser.” Nearly all of these warned sites are IE exploits, so if you’re running basic precautions, like using Firefox, or not using Windows, generally it’s a moot point.

Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.

Only on the internet would you find a company who makes plush toys shaped like bodily organs, and that company is having a recall on the uterus plush toy because the ovaries are a choking hazard.

The interweb is a strange place, and that makes me happy.

I consciously ignore car alarms. I try to never look out a window or turn my head around to see why one’s going off. Something about a device that has at least a 99% false positive rate (I’ve never actually witnessed a car alarm reporting a real burglary), uses a 100 dB horn or alarm, and tends to go off in the 4am to 8am hours just rubs me the wrong way. I feel no sympathy for your car if it’s actually being stolen or burglarized because I’ve become desensitized to car alarms.

Car alarms seem to be one of those automotive technologies that was introduced in the late 1970s/early 1980s, and haven’t changed much since. They still fail just as much, and they still are just as annoying.