The intern for our guest columnist deserves our sympathy.

I know I don’t usually send you emails, but Joe has a birthday coming up this Sunday, and I’m trying something new.

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You would think that in today’s exhaustive world, all the Siri gags had already been done. You would be wrong.

[via Daring Fireball]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a03ebddbb

One moment, the latest Bad Lip Reading video appeared on all your favorite political websites. The next moment, it was gone. Blame Will Ferrell, we guess.

Problem solved: Somebody naughty posted the Funny or Die video to YouTube. We now join Ron Paul’s Bad Feces Pudding, already in progress.

“The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has reconfirmed the revolutionary September results of its historic experiment that detected neutrinos, a type of uncharged particle, moving faster than the speed of light, according to an announcement from the agency on Friday.” [TPM]

Why didn’t Natalie Wood take a shower on the boat?

She wanted to wash up on shore.

What did Princess Grace have that Natalie Wood could have used?

A good stroke.

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Our Oz Correspondent thinks this is an amusing photo of The Leader of the Free World. We’d like to remind our Oz Correspondent to show some respect, since that new Australian Marine Base ain’t there just to protect us from New Zealand.

Strine-ing the friendship [Sydney Morning Herald, via CheapBoy]

“We need a leader, not a reader.” —Herman Cain!, explaining today why foreign-policy briefings are for sissies. [TPM]