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==This into that==

Funny this topic came up today. My first waking thought was a desire to insert this into that. Sleep is amazing. True story.

This = Mel Brooks voice-alike from Springtime for Hitler in Germany with the line "don't be stupid, be a smarty, come on join the Nazi party".

That = the first skinhead refrain in Aqua's Barbie Girl with the line "come on Barbie, let's go party". You'd need to find a slightly longer version of this refrain to make the splice, but that's far enough for me for now.

I had only ever listened to Barbie Girl once (about six months ago), but it was enough to trigger some form of pattern recognition while I slept after another Producers micro-binge yesterday.

Damn if I couldn't get Mel to rewrite (and dance) that entire Danish disaster.

Mel's got the moves, too: High anxiety

==Slightly off-topic addendum==

Mattel claimed that "Barbie Girl" violated their trademark and turned her into a sex object, referring to her as a "Blonde Bimbo".

In 2002, a Court of Appeals ruled the song was protected as a parody under the trademark doctrine of nominative use and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

The judge, Alex Kozinski, also threw out the defamation lawsuit that Aqua's record company filed against Mattel, concluding his ruling: "The parties are advised to chill."

Not that lawsuits have anything to do with the sad state of lyrical insight these days.

Of course she's not a sex pot.

==Geek sex-pot dumpster dive==

What Would Sex-Pot Barbie Look Like in Real Life? by Meagan Tintari

Barbie, at 1/6 scale, would be 175.26 cm in height { 69 inches | 5'9" tall } and have the following measurements ...

91.44 cm bust | 36 inches
45.72 cm waist | 18 inches
83.82 cm hips | 33 inches
55.88 cm head circumference | 22 inches
22.86 cm neck circumference | 9 inches <= insert pencil here

A healthy 19 year old girl, 163.3 cm in height { 64.3 inches | 5'3-1/2" tall } and measurements below, come from CDC.gov and [the] Huffington Post ...

85.4 cm waist | 33.6 inches
35.8 cm upper arm length | 14.1 inches
36.7 cm upper leg length | 14.5 inches
50.8 cm head circumference | 20 inches
38.1 cm neck circumference | 15 inches

Ouch. And I do mean penetrating pencil neck pain. WTF, Meagan?

Arithmetic is hard: The given precision ranges from two to five significant digits (for equivalent values).
Presentation is hard: the tables aren't row equivalent (a healthy girl has different measurements), and aren't column parallel either (that might make it easy to read).
Geometry is hard: "Barbie, at 1/6 scale, ..." should probably be "Barbie, assuming a 1/6 scale, ..."
Sentences are hard: A healthy 19 year old girl [] come from CDC.gov ...
Punctuation is hard: A healthy 19-year-old girl [] come from CDC.gov ...

And—geek drum roll—the two ellipses in the quotation above (standing in for colons after "measurement" and "Post") is from the original.

==Final irony==

As a final irony, the UK measurements in the original were actually rendered using U+2033 : DOUBLE PRIME for the inch symbol, but I had to ditch that small sequin of geek enlightenment to format for Slashdot.

The school district says it will pay about $18,000 annually for SnapTrends

I guess this is really a great thing since the school district has all that excess money that they can't find a use for.

Seriously, is not it wonderful, the schools finally do not need to hold a bake-sale to get the money they need?

Ah, and perfect timing too — because schools are no longer allowed to hold bake-sales.

Microsoft's announcement coincidentally came a day after New York City announced an $81M public-private K-12 CS mandate, which prompted Microsoft's Smith to join fellow FWD.us PAC backers Ron Conway and Fred Wilson, as well other execs from Google, Facebook, and Goldman Sachs, to explain to the masses "Why Computer Science for All is Good for All" in An Open Letter from the Nation's Tech and Business Leaders. Making an argument worthy of a tantrum-throwing toddler, the execs exclaimed in a pull-quote, "We need talent, we need it now, and we simply cannot find enough."

Hey, be nice!

The reality is that kids don't make career choices that early in life - otherwise most boys would grow up to be athletes, pilots, scientists, lawyers, and astronauts, and most girls would grow up to be teachers, veterinarians, writers, singers, and doctors.

Young kids don't want to be programmers. And knowing how soul-crushing the work environment is, can't say they're wrong to want to be scientists and doctors and veterinarians, or almost anything else but.

Seriously, WTF. He was drawing "weapons" in his notebook.
Was he plotting out detailed plans for causing mass destruction? No?

Maybe he drew a detailed blueprint for an atomic bomb? Or maybe just an IDE? No?
TFA doesn't say. Another article quotes his mom saying that he drew a glove shooting fire. A glove... shooting magical fire... WTF?
Ok maybe it was this one. Maybe he was planning to build his own? That would have been aweso... err I mean criminal!

But wait, since the staff called the police then there must be some threat that he poses, right? Let's search his house just to be safe. Oh look! We found scary-looking exposed electronic parts!
Oh, and some "chemicals" that could be mixed together to make an explosive!
Let's throw the book at him! Great job here, boys. Let's grab a round and celebrate.

Would it have been that difficult to say, "Make a Shazam substute" or "Shazam-like" program in Java?

Or he could have simply named it after the most powerful negro in the world*, Kazaam.

* whose energy I channeled while having sex with a woman last night.

how do you eroticize eyes? poking into them? wtf?

Just look at these eyes:

Exibit 1
Exibit 2
Exibit 3

I get a chubby just looking at them...

http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/2007/12/23-End%20of%20Month/rosie-oterror.jpg

There is already a shaq
http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/2008/02/kazaam-shaq-shaquille-oneal-suns.jpg

Or: http://www.theimproper.com/Images/Art/angelina%20jolie%20voigt.jpg

Can't say that this has changed my opinions any -- it still looks like she has been stung on the mouth by a bee.

Students stormed government buildings in what was formerly known as Moldova on Tuesday, setting the stage for revolution. The country has been renamed to recognize its new constituency and has elected a new leader.

http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/shaq-hat.jpg

Viva Twitteronia!

Well, I've seen a couple of articles about her in the "society" and "entertainment" pages of the newspapers lately...

Case in point: http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/2008/11/16-22/palin-poolside.jpg

Who needs a senate seat when you've got legs??

http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/2008/11/16-22/palin-poolside.jpg

I wonder if she is related. . .