Tom Scott recently gave an Ignite talk at with an extremely disturbing, but not surprising parable on the power of the internet. In Flash Mob Gone Wrong, information spreads quickly to create a flash mob outside a London apartment leading to a riot. It's the best video I watched this week.

Via Urlesque

I am unabashed in my affinity for the serial comma.

The caption reads: “The documentary was filmed over three years. Among those interviewed were his two ex-wives, Kris Kristofferson and Robert Duvall.” The case for the final serial comma, which would have made it abundantly clear that Kristofferson and Duvall were not, in fact, Haggard’s ex-wives, rests.

Thanks, Matt!

My favorite movie growing up was Commando, so this trailer for a musical send up resonated in a number of ways. I want to become rich so I can bankroll Commando: The Musical by Jon and Al Kaplan. I remember every single one of these scenes and I was happy they included Arnie gearing up at the Army Navy store. That was always the best scene. Remember when he was just an actor?



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This Randy Moss remix is helped immensely by the fact that Randy Moss always speaks totally and completely in rhythm. Straight cash, homie.



Thanks, Jon!

I can't remember where I saw this first, but in a piece by Shankar Vendantam (gang leader for a day) something interesting:

If you ask people whether men and women should be paid the same for doing the same work, everyone says yes. But if you ask volunteers how much a storekeeper who runs a hardware store ought to earn and how much a storekeeper who sells antique china ought to earn, you will see that the work of the storekeeper whom volunteers unconsciously believe to be a man is valued more highly than the work of the storekeeper whom volunteers unconsciously assume is a woman. If you ask physicians whether all patients should be treated equally regardless of race, everyone says yes. But if you ask doctors how they will treat patients with chest pains who are named Michael Smith and Tyrone Smith, the doctors tend to be less aggressive in treating the patient with the black-sounding name. Such disparities in treatment are not predicted by the conscious attitudes that doctors profess, but by their unconscious attitudes—their hidden brains.