Republican congressman Joe Barton actually apologized to BP for the US government holding them responsible for the largest offshore spill in U.S. history because they simply chose profit over safety.

Barton: I think it is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation could be subject to what I would characterize as a shakedown. In this case a $20 billion shakedown.

Then Barton told BP’s Hayward: “I apologize.”

(Source: KERA)

After realizing that he was making himself seriously unpopular, however, he… apologized for the apology. People (his party, Joe Biden, and others) had to point this out to him, of course, because the idiot is so out of touch he couldn’t find his ass with both hands and even then his head might get in the way.

But let’s not stop at apologizing to BP, he’s also apologized to AT&T and Comcast now (he must be catholic).

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Seen on craigslist:

Vuvuzela Filter Strips Droning Horns from World Cup Broadcasts

Simon, product manager at National Instruments (NI), wrote in to point us to a free bit of software he wrote up, which uses the back-end of NI’s LabView software to automatically filter and cut out the frequency ranges where vuvuzelas, the celebratory horns that sound like disturbed locusts, or maybe angry bees, drone on endlessly during World Cup matches.

Reblogged from lifehacker

EIZO, a company that develops medical imaging displays for the examination of X-rays, has come up with a very X-rated (pun intended) pin-up calendar:

Eizo: Pin-up Calendar 2010

Reblogged from The Daily What

The Skortman kilt

Now I’m happy!

Now I’m not!

Knitted Disected Animals

Brilliant. Only German-speakers will get this video, but most American’s don’t give a rat’s about soccer, anyway. Except for my friends Mike and Jan L., who as die-hard-fans were here in Germany in 2006, and of course my brothers George and Mike.

I’m thinking it’ll end with Germany : Argentina. What do you think? It would be incredibly cool if the US team made it to the finals. But then the World Cup is not a Disney movie yet.

You know how in movies (those American ones where, funny enough, after a night of sex you see both of them in bed wearing undies / a negligee…when did they get up to dress?) the girl often disappears before sex to “freshen up” in the bathroom? Well get ready for the guy to disappear to measure his “axial rigidity”!

Erectile Quality Monitor

It is a hand-held computerized device that accurately measures the axial rigidity (hardness) of your erection.

They forgot to add this one: