Poor Ry… He had a great idea. He was going to sell Rad T-Shirts… but somebody beat him to it with a similar design. But don’t worry, loyal fans, Ryan reports that he has pre-sold 8 shirts and, Ryan added quickly, he “knows other people who will buy them.” Plus, he registered a web site! It’s not up yet, but it’s going to be the best!! Woo! RADTSHIRTS.com is on its way, world! And the world will soon be knocking down Ryan’s door for these Amazing Rad T-Shirts, which are way better than these other guys. One of his competitor’s T-Shirts is kind of cute, though, in a dorky sort of way. Ryan wishes his competition only the best of luck. “I’m going to beat the holy stinking living crap out of those guys,” Ryan said in a recent interview. “ebay? Ha! I’m taking these straight RETAIL!” He also added, “they best be not stepping up on these shirts, dog.” Here is Ryan’s shirt along with its (fierce) competition. Please excuse the horrible grammar and confusion of this post as I was laughing so hard while writing it that I now have the hiccups.

Competitor #1

Competitor #2

Ryan’s Cute Girly Version

Analysis: How allies are winning on ground, Iraqis on TV Close to something that Newsweek predicted before the war.

Images of death, violence shock Arabs: “Fifteen-year-old Mohammed Abbas, said that if he will ever see an American in Bahrain, he will personally attack him. ‘It is my right to do so. If they can attack Iraqis and kill them for no reason, then I can do the same.’” — Yikes! Score one for the camp that argues this war will equip and not disarm terrorists of the future.

As a side note, do not visit Al-Jazeera’s site. You will be mortified and sickened. I was going there through a partial arabic translation service to get additional news coverage… until this morning, when I stumbled upon the most horrific images I’ve ever seen in my life. My take on showing the horror of war on TV? Don’t. Everyone in the world knows that war is horrible. Everyone knows that innocent people are killed in war. Everyone knows that this war - just like all wars - should end as soon as possible, whether the war is “wrong” or “right”. Why would we need to see the kinds of things that traumatize soldiers for years? Yes, it’s free speech… but free speech should be combined with responsible journalism and photographers should give the victims the dignity they deserve.

The Command Post says it “makes CNN look like the school newspaper.” (Not sure about that tag-line, but it’s still a pretty good war news site very regularly updated). So is The Agonist.

A lot like Daypop, only it’s Popdex — not as fully-featured as Daypop, but I think it has a more complete listing of popular links and it has a bit better layout. Or check out their war-only site.

A good rebate/sale blog with some good deals at More Stuff 4 Less! … If only they wouldn’t turn numbers into words.

Wow! I can draw! And it’s not even in Paint!

And… holy stinking crap! It’s Zelda… in Flash!

For those of you who have noticed that Salam disappeared the morning of the start of the “Shock and Awe” bombing campaign, he’s back! Check it out here.

“Q: How do you turn 3 elephants into 6 upside-down elephants? A: I don’t know. Ask the palm trees.”

“The palm tree family decides to trade their three new elephants in for some older models.”

“Mike, Bob, and Larry showed up only to discover that the party had started without them. So, they took their palm trees and went home.”

“The center throws a vicious lead block, allowing the palm tree to cleanly split through the secondary.”

“The six ‘cool’ elephants were rolling on the ground laughing when the geeks showed up with their OWN palm trees. One was overheard saying between laughs, ‘Guys! They actually thought that you were supposed to BRING your own palm trees! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!’”

“The changing of the guard at the elephant napping grounds.”

“The elephant squadron pretends to be asleep in order to attempt to avoid detection by the armored palm tree unit.”

“This is what happens when you try to sneak palm trees into the elephants-only club. Twice.”

Okay, that’s all I got for now… yeah.

Anyone want a sweet @mathcaddy.com email address? It will forward it to your current email address. You can keep it *forever* … or until I forget to pay for the site. I’ve got 4 left. Who wants one? Email me and be the first second to have a sweet “mathcaddy.com” email.

No, really. He is. Look.

Here it is: mathcaddy.com’s first “Funny Caption” contest. (With apologies/thanks to Dan for the idea.) I need a caption. Someone gimme a funny caption!

I have two so far…

Elementary Math Teacher: “Children, what do you get when you have three elephants and two palm trees and you add an arrow? Yes, Bobby?”
Bobby: “Um, six dead elephants?”
Teacher: “No, stupid. That’s wrong. But it makes for a nice picture, doesn’t it?”

“This is 22nd Elephant Infantry: We have six down elephants. Repeat: six down… requesting MedEvac unit and, um, other special military wordsies and thingsies.”

If you haven’t had a chance to check it out yet, you should peek at “Where is Raed?” It’s been climbing on Daypop.com’s links for the last few days… It’s much more interesting to hear the perspective of a guy waiting for the sky to rain bombs on the city he lives than to watch CNN’s random crap cameras showing unintelligible explosions. If it’s for real (and it sure seems to be), it’s pretty darn interesting. If it’s a (quite elaborate) hoax, they sure did a good job. The guy at least chose a clever name for an Iraqi citizen under siege… Salam Pax. (As most of you probably know, “Salaam” or “Salam” is Peace, in Arabic and “Pax” is Peace in Latin.) He does keep the posts coming … and there is actually quite a bit of detail in some of them. But forget “Where is Raed?”, I still can’t figure out Who is Raed!?

Also up there in interest is Kevin Sites’ site. I don’t think the pun is intended, as his name really is Kevin Sites and he is a CNN correspondent who I believe I happened to see on the news a day or so ago.

So I had Adam order our last batch of checks (big mistake). When we got them, I flipped out like a Turkey doing the Duck Walk. The names on the upper left read:

Adam Brault
Dr. Kristi Brault
Master Batman Brault

Thats not all. They have the cougar logo on them (so they cost extra). He could not find the slogan “Go Cougs!”, so he used a slogan called “Ramblin’ Wreck.”

To make matters worse, even though we are planning on moving in the next few months and our address is going to change, he ordered 4 boxes of these checks. That’s like 500 checks! I’m going to have to use these things forever!

So, if we ever have to write any of you a check, DON’T LAUGH, I’ve gotten enough wierd looks.

I’m not really mad at him, I thought it was kind of funny (after I got over the initial shock).

Adam’s note: Check out the checks here.