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my love for this video is well known. I put it here as a reminder to me to watch it again.

Unknowns:

• What is the name of that dance?
• What kind of mouth-tuba is that?
• Why does a man come onto the screen and blow onto a pane of glass?
• How can it be called "Czech Roll'd" when it is clearly a pleasure to watch?

English Translation [via nikokaojabg in youtube comments]

I'm driving in a Skoda 100 to camp in Orava
Because I'm in a hurry, I risk crossing Moravia
A monster prowls around there, it comes out of the swamp
It mainly eats people from Prague, and it's called Joe

Joe Swamp creeps through the bogs
Joe Swamp approaches the village
Joe Swamp is sharpening? his teeth
Joe Swamp bites and strangles
Who'dve thought that the way to deal with Joe Swamp
The only thing that works is a plane with white powder

I was driving through a village on the road to Vizovice
I met the village elder who told me over some slivovice
"Whoever brings me Joe, dead or? alive,
Shall have my daughter and half the collective farm"

Joe Swamp creeps through the bogs
Joe Swamp approaches the village
Joe Swamp is sharpening his teeth
Joe Swamp bites and strangles
Who'dve thought that the way to deal with Joe Swamp
The only thing that works is a plane with white powder

I say, "Chief, give me the plane and the powder
I'll give you Joe, no problem"
The Elder agreed, and at dawn I rose to the skies
The powder fell beautifully from the plane onto Joe

Joe Swamp is now all white
Joe Swamp escapes from the bogs
Joe Swamp has turned to stone
For Joe Swamp, this is the end
I caught Joe and now I have him, woohoo!
Cash is always? good so now I'm selling him to the zoo

In Czech after the jump.

Original Czech [via Trooperer in youtube comments]

Projížd?l jsem d?dinou cestou na Vizovice.
P?ivítal m? p?edseda, ?ek mi u slivovice:
"Živého ?i mrtvého Jožina kdo p?ivede,
tomu já dám za ženu dceru a p?l JZD.

Jožin z bažin mo?álem se? plíží,
Jožin z bažin k vesnici se blíží,
Jožin z bažin už si zuby brousí,
Jožin z bažin kouše, saje, rdousí.
Na Jožina z bažin, koho by to napadlo,
platí jen a pouze práškovací letadlo.

?íkám: "Dej mi p?edsedo letadlo a prášek,
Jožina ti p?ivedu, nevidím v tom há?ek.
"P?edseda mi vyhov?l, ráno jsem se vznesl,
na Jožina z letadla prášek p?kn? klesl.

Refren:Jožin z bažin už je celý? bílý,
Jožin z bažin z mo?álu ven pílí,
Jožin z bažin dostal se na kámen,
Jožin z bažin tady je s ním amen.
Jožina jsem dohnal, už ho držím, johohó,
dobré každé lóvé, prodám já ho do ZOO.

"Mr. McCain is a man who aspires to lead the largest economy in the world and yet recently admitted that he doesn’t know how to use a computer, the one modern tool shared by everyone from the post-industrial American work force to Middle Eastern terrorists to Pixar animators. Getting shot down over Vietnam may not be a qualification for president in 2008, but surely a rudimentary facility with a laptop is."
- Frank Rich, "Wall-E for President" (New York Times - July 6, 2008)

"'John McCain is aware of the Internet... This is a man who has a very long history of understanding on a range of issues.'
- McCain aide Mark Soohoo (via Ben Smith, "The Google", June 23, 2008)

"As the father of young men and women ranging from 16 to 23, I understand from them not only their issues but how important and vital a role the Internet plays."
-McCain himself

"Understanding that your daughter is addicted to posting pictures of herself and her friends taken while riding in your private jet or knowing someone who is an eBay fanatic doesn't really translate if you don't have the frame of reference to understand the way in which that connectivity matters and the broader implications it has for the way in which we live our lives each day. It doesn't translate into understanding the incredible possibility of large-scale social change organized because the tools were freely available online and anyone could step up and use them.

But it was a nice try."
- Tracy Russo, "It's still not Enough" (TechPresident - June 17, 2008)

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Teaser from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog on Vimeo.

My kind of t-shirt. Funny on multiple levels.

Also, some of you might be interested, from a purely sociological and behavioural standpoint of course, the winner and runners-up in the America's Hottest College Girl competition. Comments on Digg.com seem to think that MySpace poses + mascara does not = hottest college girl. I happen to know, however, that school is hard, and maintaining one's hotness on top of all that homework and hard drinking takes some doing. So, you go America's Hottest College Girl!