Volkswagen rolls out full Super Bowl ad – Autoweek.

Dear AA,

I appreciate all the good to great service over the years, so this is why, in the spirit of improving our relationship, I offer this constructive criticism:

For those unfamiliar with DFW, the gates are always related to the terminal. So the terminal being B and the gate starting with D, that’s a disconnect.

I figured it out, but only after asking a terminal B curbside bag fellow which was real, and the answer was that the Terminal B was incorrect, it was supposed to be D.

No harm, no foul. A learning experience. From a friend.

Laugh, and enjoy!

Official 2012 Honda CR-V Game Day Commercial – “Matthew’s Day Off” Extended Version – YouTube.

Okay, it’s got an Fword in it, so if you’re prone to the vapors, skip this one.

The rest of you, laugh, and enjoy.

Pretty neat.

Zdogg and Dr. Harry have the Christmas spirit. Sorta.

There comes a time…when we heed a certain call—when the world must come together as one.

This is NOT one of those times.

But it is the Holidays, so we should probably take a moment to think of those less fortunate than ourselves. People who go hungry while others feast. People without a single shred of hope remaining. I’m talking about healthcare workers taking call during the Holidays.

via Feed The Wards (Do They Know It’s Christmas Time?).

Follow the link and enjoy their latest video. The chorus is very good. They aren’t Bad Lip Reading quality with their chorus, but not bad…

(Yeah, jealousy, I wish I had this kind of creativity. Or any, really.)

Comments on products can be pretty silly, but sometimes they get the Muse going.

For instance, this dainty little Swiss Army Knife:

Has spawned an hours’ reading and chuckling with the top most being:

Found this…stuck into a stone while on vacation. I’m impressed with it, generally. Unfortunately, it turns out that removing it made me the new king of Switzerland, which is a lot of responsibility.

via Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Wenger 16999 Giant Swiss Army Knife.

 

Worth the effort to read the comments. Some pretty darn creative people out there…

via Dave in Texas, on Ace.mu.nu

My yearly Christmas favorite, reposted:

Courtesy of the British National Health Service:

NSFW. Funny, but Unsafe for work, unless your work involves STD’s in which case it’s required.

It’s my seasonal favorite post, and I hope it’s one of yours.

Not the STD’s, the funny song with equally amusing illustrations. The backstory, from a previous blog post:

I have seen several searches of this blog for the British National Health Services’ “12 STI’s of Christmas“, and wondered why. The answer: the NHS site no longer carries the wonderful show, for reasons unknown to me. As for the searches, I guess the Christmas season has people thinking about sexually transmitted infections (diseases on this side of the Pond) set to Christmas tunes.

Merry Christmas!

Seems Archaic, indeed.

via @bungeechump on Twitter

I think I just found what I want for Christmas…

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via The Journal of Irreproducible Results.

I like it when science makes fun of itself.

Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow.

Nearly $2 million worth of vehicles were wrecked in a 14-car crash in Japan on Sunday. The pileup involved eight Ferraris, a Lamborghini, three Mercedes-Benzes and two Toyotas.

via Japan freeway clogged by supercar pileup – Autoweek.

This is the power of a technological revolution.

A New Zealand man was Monday being hailed as the first amateur photographer to capture an image of another solar system, after he photographed the star Beta Pictoris using a 10-inch 25cm telescope at his home in Auckland.Rolf Olsen, who moved to New Zealand in 2003 from Denmark, put the photograph on his website, sparking congratulations and amazement from members of the scientific community around the world.”I realized it was a special thing but I didn’t realize it would generate such a stir,” Olsen, who lives in Titirangi west of central Auckland, told news website stuff.co.nz.

via Amateur Astronomer Snaps Historic Photo Of Another Galaxy | Fox News.

via @SteveMartinToGo on Twitter. Yes, Steve Martin is a) on Twitter and b) apparently at least links Fox News.
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EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration

EU officials concluded that, following a three-year investigation, there was no evidence to prove the previously undisputed fact.

Producers of bottled water are now forbidden by law from making the claim and will face a two-year jail sentence if they defy the edict, which comes into force in the UK next month.

via EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration – Telegraph.

To their credit, even Europeans aren’t buying this gibberish.

“The coverup is always worse than the crime” assumes no coverups work, which is unlikely. It does increase the penalty: nobody likes a liar.

Apropos of nothing whatsoever.

I was recently at ACEP’s Scientific Assembly in San Francisco, and once again ACEP did a very good job of getting the whole shebang organized. I think I saw that there were about 5,800 attendees, which isn’t many compared with some meetings, but for Emergency Medicine docs it was the second-most attended (after last years’ in Las Vegas).

There are exhibitors there, and while the theme of the year was ‘win an iPad’, EMR’s and Scribes, it was a good turnout and I enjoyed talking to the vendors.

I bring this up to point out an anomalous spelling that snuck through (and it’s not ACEP’s miss, I don’t think). Right inside the main doors there’s a very cool, touch screen gadget to find a particular exhibitor by name, type, etc with an interactive map. Really Cool.

And, it had this:

Aah, well.