Bow down before Snuggie Jesus and confess your sins, especially if you’ve been consorting with the accursed Slanket. (photo credit: me, taken a few weeks ago at Costco)

There’s also his legendary appearance on Late Night With Conan O’Brien wherein Conan labels him the “biggest ass he’s ever met” and Courtney Thorne-Smith discusses her role in cinema classic “Chairman of the Board” alongside Carrot Top.

Mostly recently I’ve enjoyed his segment in the Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget. Most participants in recent roasts bring out the same “edgy” jokes that tend to tread the same old ground but he actually managed to do something unique and confuse the hell out of most of the audience in the process.

Also:

Last September, Ben Huh and a team of investors purchased “I Can Has Cheezburger,” a site that aggregated the “LOLcats.” Mr. Huh hopes to turn the 4chan-generated tradition into a meme empire with several other related sites in the works. The site now has more than 2.5 million unique visitors a month, according to Mr. Huh, and a book based on the site is coming this fall for Gotham Books.

“Meme empire” makes me die a little on the inside.

Indistinguishable from magic, pretty much.

I didn’t stay in my animation class for long but I doubt my final project would have been a quarter as good (through no fault of the teacher in my case, though).

After a week and a half back in Oregon with my family I can without reservation recommend the board game Wits & Wagers. The tagline is “The board game for everyone” and in my experience that held true. My family hasn’t historically been a big board game family. There are various editions of Trivial Pursuit lying around the house but they don’t get played because:

1. Nobody knows most of the answers
2. It takes forever to play

Wits & Wagers takes a lot less time to play, usually 25-35 minutes, and everyone has a chance to win based on what they know about the other players. All the questions are number-based (how tall was Napoleon, what year was the Statue of Liberty finished, how much TV did the average American watch last year, etc.) and everyone bets on whom they believe has the closest answer without going over so having an encyclopedic knowledge isn’t required, though it certainly helps. This is a game that benefits from a diverse set of players with different knowledge sets so all the answers don’t turn into guessfests, but it’s still fun with almost any group.

I discovered the game through an article at Wired. The game can be purchased from Target although it may be in short supply so you may have to do some searching but it’s worth it.

I am forever accidentally going to the General Motors Web site when I mean to go to Gmail. The URL is simply GM.com, which is what I always type to bring up Gmail.com; then I forget to cursor down. My wife is always doing it, too. Has anybody ever tried to figure out how many cars GM has sold to people trying to read their email?

—An e-mail to the Freakonomics blog

Sense of humour failure alert – piracy still exists in some parts of the world to this this day, nothing strikes me as particularly amusing about present-day sailors being killed or injured by pirates or their cargo stolen at gunpoint.

—Flickr user not particularly appreciative of the site’s celebration of International Talk Like An Internet Cliché Day