http://www.jenisfamous.com/dev Comedian. Blogger. Highly-caffeinated spelling bee impresario. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:29:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I found this link to an article about Mattel's "Barbie for President" doll because someone posted it, as an insult, in a comment on a HuffPo article about Sarah Palin. According to the article, "Barbie's campaign shows girls that they can aspire to the highest levels of leadership, including ... http://www.jenisfamous.com/dev/2008/08/barbie-for-president.html Noted by TPM -- the GOP doesnt know were to put there's apostrophes':   From Punditkitchen.com:    http://www.jenisfamous.com/dev/2008/08/words-mean-things-bipartisan-edition.html In the August 15th post Man Candy, I expressed the hotness of this photo of French gymnast Benoit Caranobe, and then was exhorted by my own mother to acknowledge the hotness of Michael Phelps (who has a bit of what Fergie's got -- it's all great below the neck, at ... http://www.jenisfamous.com/dev/2008/08/people-magazine-photoshopped-out-micheal-phelps-penis.html The "Party Shuffle" feature in iTunes randomly selects a songs from your library in big batches, to help you DJ a kickin' party.  Like this one!  Wow, what an awesome party, iTunes!  Everybody loves standing around at a party not talking so they can understand the jokes coming out of the ... http://www.jenisfamous.com/dev/2008/08/itunes-party-shuffle.html I think the name "Stand Up To Cancer" shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the problem.   On the one hand, I want to say that cancer itself is amoral.  Fight cancer.  With science.  "Standing up" to cancer implies a moral argument is being made.  On the other hand, ... http://www.jenisfamous.com/dev/2008/08/words-mean-things-even-when-the-cause-is-noble.html It was in vitro! Keep reading for egregious innumeracy. According to this article, the odds of a woman under 35 conceiving from in vitro are "encouraging." Those are high odds. How high? We don't know. Let's say the odds are as high as 90%. How can ... http://www.jenisfamous.com/dev/2008/08/us-weekly-doesnt-know-how-math-works.html Thanks to my Spelling Bee co-host bobby for pointing me towards the animated adventures of WordGirl (pictured) on PBSKids. And thanks to Vocabulary Tournament co-host Jonathan for this super-nerdy cartoon. And finally, I was delighted to receive this from Wordsmith.org's A Word a Day list (who knew "ambidextrous" ... http://www.jenisfamous.com/dev/2008/08/wordnerdery.html This is my friend Galen, from college.  This video is even funnier to me knowing that he's actually a generally happy, earnest person (and straight), and all of this is pure acting.  http://www.jenisfamous.com/dev/2008/08/i-kissed-a-girl-tragic-pathos-laden-cover.html I have been resisting American Apparel for years as well as complaining about their advertising, and then I had to go and wear this to Chelsea Mind Games: I think it looks kind of good. I feel dirty leaving the house in a weird stretchy t-shirt dress. ... http://www.jenisfamous.com/dev/2008/08/i-have-fallen-into-the-clutches-of-the-evil-cottonspandex-empire.html In the comments for yesterday's post (in which I appear as versions of myself bedecked in pearls, cat's-eye glasses, and crunchy nineties hair), Kenny suggested this site. Here, the results: "Normal." I wake up like this every day. "Child." I was really mad when JonBenet beat me in ... http://www.jenisfamous.com/dev/2008/08/an-ever-shifting-self-perception-is-either-disturbing-or-freeing.html