for the ladies over in europe who might not be so into the world cup, switzerland created a fetching commercial full of beautiful men to lure you to their neutral lands. my favorite part is when the guy baling hay uses his pitchfork to dump a pile of hay right where he picked it up from. (via)

you can see a couple of photos from a trip to switzerland here. i also call that trip the skiing trip of terrifying death where i learned it is almost always better to drink spiked hot chocolate on the lodge then end up with your ski pole stuck through your arm with european children laughing at you.

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Thanks for all the thoughts & prayers. It's been an emotionally difficult couple of hours.

Thanks very much to Justin for sending this along. Apparently Panera's content filter is blocking this site:

Hmm. I don't think this site is filled with violent, racist hate speech (unless "Food Network Chefs" now count as an ethnic group). But I suppose I'm not the one who gets to make that call.

I guess I should be somewhat diplomatic, since I'm now patiently waiting for SonicWall to review our case. So I'll put it as gently as I can: SonicWall appears to be run by a bunch of goddamn morons. What'd you guys do, put "hate" into Google and ban all the sites that came up? If you're intent on being in the business of facilitating societal prudishness — surely a noble calling! — you ought to at least figure out how to do it properly, you miserably incompetent fuckwits.

Related: BoingBoing's guide to defeating censorware.

one of the things i miss most about chicago is, perhaps strangely, the el. i know - dudes are always masturbating on it, hobos poo in the corner, the howard station always smells strongly of urine, and the sounds that emit from it are unholy and unworldly. but it managed to sneak into a special place in my heart and stay there. truth be told, i love it much more than the metro, even though the metro is about 100x cleaner and the el didn't have a super duper last call thingie. anyways, gapers block (gawd how i wish atlanta had a gapers block) recently put up a piece about five films in which the el is a prominent feature. check it out.

i didn't catch the episode myself, but aly points me towards the pretty great opening montage of the season premiere of perennial zunta favorite "the venture brothers." i'll have to make a note to catch the next one.

and guess what? i may be getting a personal tour of the cartoon network while i'm down here! woot.

UPDATE: sorry, i had the wrong youtube link for the venture brother's opening montage. it should be fixed now.

holy crap. there is very little that can make me laugh to tears at 6:30 in the morning, but i think official blogcrush fontana labs, in the greatest blog-return ever, might have hit upon it. may i present you with rapebear.

UPDATE: as an aside, you should go through and read that blogcrush link. i forgot that was the night somebody got "i heart pumping" written on his face, along with a borf tag on the arm. it was wonderful.