I seen him round the way

Roundabouts the internets.The secret lives of stormtroopers.Cracked.com discusses the iPhone. It includes this excellent sentence: "The first iPhone was more eagerly anticipated than Jesus Christ returning with an eighth Harry Potter novel."

From The Economist's More Intelligent Life magazine, an article on what was the most important year ever. I have to say, the topic is interesting, but the writer's conclusions are suspect. Is 1776 really more important than 1945??? The nature of international relations changed the instant the atomic bomb was dropped. Thousands of years of conventional warfare went out the window. Humanity had to find a new way to deal with conflict. And, to top it off, he suggests that 2009 might be the most important year ever.

I have a final candidate. If humanity is most threatened by global warming and if it requires urgent international action, then is not the Copenhagen summit quite close to being our last real chance to take it? Some people, I know, choke on both ifs. But 2009 is my third candidate. Now, who has a better idea?

Ehhhh... dumbass. 1945 is a pretty big winner in my book.

An absolutely hilarious result in the Twenty20 World Cup the other day - England lost to Holland. Yes, England, home of cricket, lost to a team from a country with only 6000 cricketers. Here's a NY Times article about it for those who don't know cricket. And here's an article from the Daily Mash (satire, just in case some people don't catch that...):

AFTER their surprise victory against England, the Dutch have admitted they had better invent a word for cricket if they are going to play the game for a second time.

According to the interim Netherlands Association for Balls and Bats, early favourites are 'kriijket', 'krikkendam' and 'van der krikkenhooffen'.

Heh heh heh.
Roger Federer won the French Open for the first time, becoming only the sixth man ever to have won all four Opens (though not in the same year). I'm really happy for him. He's a fantastic player. Watching him play this last decade has been a privilege. I cannot wait until he wins his 15th Grand Slam title and finally overtakes Pete Sampras. The pressure has been on Roger to overtake that mark for so long, it will be a massive relief for him. I think after that he might take things a little bit easier, but he might also be more dangerous, because the pressure is off. He has nothing to prove. I just really hope Nadal doesn't overtake him. Federer is such a classic, classy player. Nadal, while an excellent player, isn't the same advertisment for the game that The Fed is.