Daily Links

• Blogger who writes about Best Buy parody t-shirt gets legal threat. Source (TG Daily)
  
• The Games That Pushed The Limits Of The NES. Source (Racket Boy)
• Top 100 Motivational Quotes. Source (Bold Words)
• The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted on Thursday to hold two top aides to President George W. Bush in contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate in its probe of fired federal prosecutors. Source (Yahoo News)
• The Smashing Pumpkins are planning to release some new material on January 1. Source (Digital Spy)
• Blogger/Teacher gets third paper from child saying 9/11 was Iraq's fault. Source (Big Monkey, Helpy Chalk)
• The 10 Most Overpaid U.S. Jobs And the Little Effort They Require. Source (Career Journal)

Finally, here is the first aired commercial for McDonalds, featuring a very creepy, first redition of Ronald McDonald. If I saw this air at my age back then, I'm not so sure I'd be interested in eating McDonalds.

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Daily Links

• Countdown Special Comment: The NIE Reflects An “Unhinged, Irrational Chicken Little Of A President”. Source (Crooks And Liars)
• Talks Day #8: Moguls Walk From Talks After Issuing An Ultimatum To Writers; Both Sides Accuse Each Other Of Lying. Source (Deadline Hollywood Daily)
• Wake Up: A Guide to Living Your Life Consciously. Source (Zen Habits)
• The 22 Best Writing Tips Ever. Source (Writing Forward)
• Top Ten Fantasy Books. Source (Blue Sun Corp)

Finally, here's an interesting video about food breaking down, specifically fast food McDonalds. Particularly watch the fast-food fries, and the SPEED at which they start to break down.

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Daily Links

• Lebanese president takes a play out of Pakistan's president's book and calls a state of emergency in the country. Source (yNet)
• Boy argues with two white chicks about a seat at school. So naturally the appropriate response would be to burn a cross on his front lawn. Source (NY Daily News)
• Jack Black talks about the scrapped plan for his Green Lantern movie and how hysterical it could have been. Source (MTV)
• A Blogger's guide to avoid being sued for libel. Source (cNet)
• Top 10 Wierd Religious Practices. Source (Some Guy's Top 10 Blog)

Finally, CBS got creative with introducing the line up for a recent Colorado Buffs:

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Top 10 Jim and Dwight Moments

This YouTube video is of the Top 10 Jim/Dwight moments on the Office. It's always a treat to be able to watch these two go at it, especially finding a clip while at work. If only Dwight were a real co-worker, playing pranks on him would be so much fun.

Top 10 Jim and Dwight moments (per the author of this video):

10. Jim puts Dwight's stapler in Jello
9. Dwight saves Jim
8. Jim as a vampire
7. Future Dwight
6. Dwight's desk items in the vending machine
5. Dwight's exercise ball
4. Dwight imitating Jim
3. Jim and Dwight's sales call
2. Michael reads off the list of pranks Jim has played on Dwight
1. Dwight crashes his car and Jim's commentary

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Daily Links

• One posed for a photo as she scrubbed a Palestinian corpse. Another stripped a man to his underwear and then beat him. A third helped cover up the abuse of a young boy. The six Israeli women who feature in the documentary "To See If I'm Smiling" each wrestle with memories of their compulsory military service that they would rather erase. Source (Yahoo News)
• The Ten Video Games That Should Be Movies (and the Directors Who Should Make Them) Source (NYMag.com)
• Hollywood film and TV writers who've been on a nearly two-week strike against studios will return to contract negotiations on Nov. 26, their union and producers said Friday. Source (Yahoo News)
• NBC has reportedly fired "nearly the entire production staff" on TV show Saturday Night Live following the Hollywood writers strike. Staff working on the hit program learned of their fate on Friday, according to reports. Source (Star Pulse)
• While the maple syrup smell remains a two-year-old mystery to us, 30 Rock entered the fray with a hypothesis. On last night's episode, Liz Lemon, who smells waffles from her Upper West Side apartment, calls Tracy Jordan to remind him to practice his Re-Run dance for the What's Happening! sketch. Source (Gothamist)
• 10 Black Friday Secrets Retailers Don't Want You to Know. Source (Internet News)
• Barney's Mail Sack. Source (CBS)

Finally, here is the 4 Minute preview for the upcoming Heroes episode "Cautionary Tales", airing November 19.

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