Interweb Wednesday

by Chris Maddera on September 5, 2007

Now contains 30% more lead-based links to make it shinier.

Intel Video Ad Directed by Christopher Guest — Hilariously brilliant! I mean, if you’re a geek or dork or something, which I’m totally not, so this video sucks.

Kevin Smith is NOT the Last Cylon — It’s confirmed. Kevin Smith, who was set/not-quite-set to direct an episode of Battlestar Galactica for Season Four is, in fact, not going to be directing one after all. Find out why from Mr. Smith himself.

BILL MAHER *NEW RULES* AUG 24, 2007 — “If you were surprised that the Chinese don’t care about toy safety, then the child who needs protecting is you. Over the last couple of months, American consumers have been learning a shocking lesson about supply and demand: if you demand products that don’t cost anything, people will make them out of poison, mud and shit.”

Doctor Links a Man’s Illness to a Microwave Popcorn Habit — “A fondness for microwave buttered popcorn may have led a 53-year-old Colorado man to develop a serious lung condition that until now has been found only in people working in popcorn plants.

Lung specialists and even a top industry official say the case, the first of its kind, raises serious concerns about the safety of microwave butter-flavored popcorn. ” Wow. How fucking weird is that?

The Perry Bible Fellowship — Comics by Nicholas Gurewitch.

See you in the airport men’s room.