There is an old game where you can determine your “porn star” name by taking the street name where you grew up and your pet’s name. That one never really worked for me because the only street name I could remember of the houses I grew up in was Genesis Drive, and our family dog is named Pearl. Genesis Pearl sounds like a Clive Cussler novel, not an adult film actor.

I found a much more entertaining game on a cool blog called Presurfer. The game here is to come up with your hypothetical Band’s name, album title and cover art for your first album.

You do that by:

1. Band Name: Random Wikipeda Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
2. Album Title: Random quote generator (take the last four words from the quote) Link: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
3. Album Art: Flickr Interesting Photo: http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/

Mine actually came out well:

1. Band Name: Ernst Gaupp (a 19th centry German antomist, but it sounds like an ironic punkish kind of band)
2. Album Title: Thanksgiving to the Gods
3. Album Art: See Below – I mocked up an album cover in Photoshop, I’m pretty happy with it

Google has unleashed a cool news search device which allows you to search a topic say “dingos” or “baby” and lets you see if either presidential candidate has made a quote on that topic. It’s pretty fun to play with.

So I decided to use this tool as a test to see if Obama & McCain were truly in touch with the pressing issues of the day. I went over to Reuters.com and picked three stories that caught my interest:

• China breaks up male prostitution ring
• Police arrest naked burglary suspect
• Climbers find footprints of abdomible snowman

I took these topics into Google’s In Quotes application to see what Obama or McCain had to say about these pressing issues. I have to say that I am dismayed at the results:

So I guess to get these “candidates” attention these days you must either be an impending global financial crisis which could threaten our very way of life. I for one stand with the male prostitutes, naked burglars and abdomible snowmen and say for shame gentlemen.

Watch it twice if you don’t catch it the first time…

This is what happens when I don’t have baseball to watch in the evening, I make a fake baby with Omarosa (from the first season of the Apprentice). Evie approved.:

So Neatorama (a really fun site to read) posted a You Tube clip of a ukulele band playing the Theme from Shaft. Here’s the video:

OK, that was pretty fun to watch (for at least 30-45 seconds). But, I know you will agree that is barely a shadow of this hyper-cool version (why is Jesse Jackson on stage???):

One quick fun fact about Isaac Hayes (may he Rest in Peace, he died this year at 66), he was a Scientologist. Hayes quit his role as “Chef” from South Park after their hilarious, rabidly anti-Scientologist episode, Trapped in the Closet. Never to be away from the shroud of weirdness, there are some who believe that he was forced to quit by Scientology and even his press release wasn’t written by him. Odd.

Update: Someone from Domino’s has commented that the delivery drivers do not have access to my political response. Please look at the comments to see his message.

I have expressed my love of Domino’s pizza tracker before. Personally, I think it is the best web innovation since hot or not.com. They’ve taken an odd turn with this useful web gadget today. After my order a few minutes ago, I checked in:

I couldn’t help but notice Domino’s desire for me to state a political preference while I waited for my hot pizza:

Seriously? It’s not that I really even mind the question… It just feels like a danger to my efficent pizza delivery. What if the delivery guy is a real partisan, one way or the other. I fear for the safety & timely delivery of my pizza. The whole thing is really odd to me.