(Hat Tip: Daily What)

Who said soccer was boring? Unlike the No Fun League here in the states, creative celebrations after goals like the ones above don’t result in six figure fines and gnashing of teeth on sports talk shows.

Admit it. You really want to see this movie too. I’ve been looking forward to it ever since I heard who was cast in the lead role (Jesse Eisenberg). This teaser of a trailer only heightens that interest.

This is one of those things that makes me proud of my new city.

Where else can you take your wife out for ice cream made on the premises and butcher a Rosie Thomas song on a nearby piano afterwards?

Because the vuvuzelas create a wall of sound, there has been little of the usual chanting, singing and roaring that are a staple of soccer games everywhere else in the world. Even the fans of the England national team, normally among the loudest in international soccer, could not bring themselves to muster their usual diet of boisterous chants and songs during Saturday’s 1-1 draw with the United States, effectively admitting defeat to the almighty horn.

-Martin Rogers, Yahoo! Sports

From the NY Daily News:

The White House was forced to respond Wednesday to a conspiracy theory too silly for even the birthers: Did Barack Obama appear in the video for Tag Team’s 1993 one-hit wonder “Whoomp! (There it is)”?

“What used to be an amusing byproduct of Internet use has mutated into something horrible: an insatiable parasite that impairs its host’s judgment, rendering it totally useless. Instead of acting as an organic cultural touchstone, the modern meme — from LOL, which hasn’t been used to signify physical laughter since 1997, to Lolcats — now sucks the joy out of our interconnectedness. It destroys uniqueness. Once an “enjoyable thing” becomes a “meme,” we stop enjoying the thing for its own sake, but consume and regurgitate our enjoyment of it as a symbol of hipness, as if to say: “I am aware of this thing’s popularity — therefore I, too, exist!” -Joe Randazzo, editor of the Onion

My friend Sarah isn’t just a wonderfully prolific blogger. She’s also pretty darn creative when it comes to making T-shirts, like this shirt she made for a bicycle-loving boss who was moving on to another job.

Be sure to bookmark and RSS feed her blog at youreamazingbut.tumblr.com.

Remember how terrible 98 percent of the Interwebs looked in 1996? I remember it taking an entire period just to download a Web page at my school’s library in 1996, but I also remember the eye-achingly abrasive colors, the ridiculous animated gifs and the MIDI files. Oh the MIDI files.

If you weren’t surfing the web back then or have successfully blocked it from your memory, this site lets you see what any site in 2010 would look like if it were on the Interwebs back in the day. Enjoy!