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That must have been so awful for you. Would you feel better if I showed you Intel's new online-only commercial, which is cooler than it has right to be?

Or what if I passed on Dan Zak's favorite video today, in which one man sings the Ghosbusters theme in 14-part harmony?

Last week I was struck down with an illness sweeping the office that we have taken to calling The Affliction. The Affliction strikes many, and shows no mercy.

Antoine Dodson (aka Bed Intruder man) has become the poster child for questionable exploitation, hasn't he?

My amazingly smart colleague Phil Kennicott comes down on the "Yep, exploited" side in this essay here.

I'm not so sure. Dodson has never appeared to be anything but pleased about his fame, and has done what he can to take advantage of it. I also wonder if there is a difference between Dodson and Williams, in that Williams will continue to perform (He wanted to become well known for his voice) whereas Dodson will continue to be famous for one incident in which his normal vocal patterns were made into a performance.

What company was this? McDonalds? Jimmy Dean? And how often did you have to check Wikipedia for errors? Every day? Needless to say, I. Love. This.

I think it's fair to say that NKOTB probably would not have made it into most people's consciousness were it not for the BSB addition. It's a sad, but necessary parasitic relationship that these two boy bands have embarked on.

Where was Dr. Phil, indeed?

This article from E implies that the second part of William's two-part Dr. Phil appearance included a reunion with five of his daughters. Presumably, the reunion did not so exactly as planned?

Aw, I am having flashbacks to high school French, and the operatic videos of Corinne and Luc we would watch every day.

I suppose there's no room for Monica Hesse on Wikipedia, just Monica Heese?

Whatever, I'll take it.

And plug my tail into all sorts of other questionable life forms? I think not.

This question is complicated by the fact that Ender's Game has not been made into a movie yet, when everyone knows that the correct answer is to attend Battle School with Ender Wiggin.

Barring that, I will obviously be enrolling at Hogwarts. As if there is even a debate.

Chatters?

Dinoputer feels bad when he hears about computers that can do more than two applications at once. Shhh.

This is a single-service Tumblr page waiting to happen.

Only if you work new McPherson Square and you can come real quick and give me the other bag.

Whose car am I riding in? Jeff Goldblum's or Laura Dern's? This matters, people.

That's one of the things that Jimmy Wales talked about wanting to work on when I interviewed him -- making Wikipedia a friendly place for all nerds (geography nerds, pop culture nerds) and not just Star Trek nerds. Right now the site is heavy on the fan culture.

Maybe the CEO changed his own bio, just to see if anyone noticed.

Sam Neill is also in "Sirens." Perhaps there could be a Sirent/ Jurassic Park crossover.

You are totally right. It was Sam Neill who was in the other car.

Evolution? Naked gymnasts?

Did everyone else know that Bovine University was a Simpsons reference?

They would probably all be fighting over Tilda Swinton.

(In that case, yes, let's all go into Jurassic Park)

1) Surely someone out there has done a study about the brains of Star Wars fans, and whether their amazing ability to keep 10 bazillion characters straight positively impacts the rest of their brain functions.

2) A lot of women seem to end up reading Twilight literally in the closet.

It's pretty interesting, no? Especially when newscasters and celebrities all adapt the bland midwestern accent, it's nice to know that cultural preservation is happening somewhere. Wonder whether linguists will start using Twitter, just as historians are.

But as long as we're giving ourselves the ability to step into a movie, wouldn't you be following Shoeless Joe into the corn fields instead of sitting on the sidelines?

I feel compelled to warn everyone that this clip contains a full minute of bird sex. Am pretty sure that the reason it has 100,000 hits is because of what comes after.

"People will come," he would tell you. And then off in the distance, there would be thousands of cars, carrrying people who were, in fact, coming.

I'm sorry. And I'm double sorry that I have to scoot early this week. Forgot about an appointment.

We got a little bit off schedule with the holidays, but next week we'll be back on track . See you at 2, and GSTQ.

So true.

So true, also. It's easy to retroactively find evil in people's Internet rantings, but thankfully rare that anyone's Internet trail is truly indicative of madness.