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If you’ve always wanted to do your own decathlon, here is a funny series of athletic pranks (video) by the always-funny Frenchman, Remi Gaillard.

Is being the default fitness instructor for her older sister in college. Seriously, a couple years ago I was a kinesiology instructor at A&M. One of the students told me her sister (Rebecca Soni) competed on the national swim team and knew Michael Phelps. I didn’t think much of the claim, but now I see she wasn’t joking.

Finally finished wiping away the tears from the opening ceremonies?

To be honest, the only reason I did watch it is because my students are going to bug me about it tomorrow. They’ve been taken in by the nationalism side of things (due to the fact that Ryu Seung Min — a South Korean — won the gold medal in table tennis four years ago).

My question is, did the BOGOC guys have a bet with someone at the IOC to see how many performers they could cram in a 10′ x 10′ square? Scarce on space… and I was hoping for some dancing lions that juggled iron bowls.

Aside from the two bright yellow back-flip artists (man they had to be dizzy), the only brief segment I kind of liked was the kung fu exhibition. That is more martial arts than I’m used to seeing.

Okay, not totally true. But in all of my travels I’ve seen very little to justify the stereotype that everyone knows karate or some such. In fact, I have only seen one fight, ever, here. It was after 4 am in Hongdae (outside of clubs NB and Harlem). Two Korean guys were very drunk and kept trying to do round-house kicks against the other. They quit after they bloodied themselves a bit.

Oh, and of course you see people doing slow-motion stuff but as we’ve seen in the past, that doesn’t help in a real fight.

Speaking of which, many Koreans and Chinese have asked me if I studied any martial arts and assume that many young Western men do. Why? Because they see movies with Chuck Norris, Keanu Reeves, Steven Seagal and Jean Claude Van Damme. So comically, they fear that I will open up a can of MMA.

A quick refresher:

Tae Kwan Do is Korean
Judo is Japanese
Karate is Okinawan (neither pure Japanese or Chinese), a la Mr. Miyagi

You know how weird it was to hear the name Stone Cold Steve Austin from one of my kids?

Today one of my Korean co-teachers said she had watched the old school cartoon: Fat Albert (you know, from Cosby’s Kids).

I honestly do not see how that was allowed to be exported from the US. Thus, I’m bracing myself for the moment in which a local tells me they are big fans of Milli Vanilli.

Zeus help us.

Then celebrate with some Decepticons:

See also Glenn Greenwald.

Robots, duh.

I doubt I’m the first person to see the similarities but I think I’ve figured out how Australian Hugo Weaving managed to create the persona of Agent Smith. He imitated Carl Sagan.

Sagan:

Smith:

QED.

The host of the British car show quipped the following when talking about the F-150 pickup:

Most people who go for a walk in the American countryside are eaten by a bear so they need a car with a gun rack.

Very true.

Via Ray Daugherty.

So for breakfast and dinner I usually grab a quick bite to eat at a local Kimbap restaurant. You’ve probably at least seen a picture of the generic kimbap dish: a roll of seaweed with rice and amalgam of food like carrots, ham, cat fish, and radish stuffed inside.

I’ve probably gone to one of the places near my apartment around 25-30 times in the past month and they know what I want (the cheapest thing they have…).

Anyways, today I walked in and one of the ladies looked at me and started singing “We Are the World.”

Remember the original music video? In all its cheese the best part is probably Jacko’s gitup. Amazing:

I’m sure there are a dozen of boutique proprietary software solutions for drawing physics collisions but this is one of the more detailed ones that I have seen of late:

Zombies. Strippers. Jenna Jameson. Tito Ortiz. What’s not to like?

Yea, I’m pretty sure they’re making fun of themselves. Still I probably wouldn’t waste the time to even find a torrent of it.

You might like Planet Terror, a super-over-the-top parody of zombie movies by Robert Rodriguez. Or Shaun of the Dead which is genuinely funny.

Weird video of a must-have product this holiday season.

Via Engadget

You’ve seen Dubya flip off the camera. You’ve seen Cheney talk about not going into Baghdad 15 years ago.

But have you seen Bill O’Reilly get pissed off at a teleprompter?

Sounds like someone needs to watch Anchorman with Will Ferrell.

In addition to being incredibly corny there is something strangely magnetic about it. Why is he so damn happy?

Adroit polymath Michael Shermer had a chance to discuss his new book at Google recently. While you might not agree with everything he says, he raises some interesting points regarding evolutionary biology, technology and why humans began to trade thousands of years ago.

See also: Evonomics

… to grab a copy of Oregon Trail and Tetris off BitTorrent.

Though, I might die of dysentery or lose a wagon axle.

See also: RIAA Christmas PSA

Unfortunately neither of the videos has Koreans in them. The first is from Japan, the other is from Taiwan.

Take anything you want…

I’d pay to see that because I think it’d be much better than the de la Hoya - Mayweather slap fest.

Like usual, Bill Simmons over at ESPN has some odd stories and anecdotes that place his mail bag at the top of the pack (the demise of two has-been primadonnas is just one of many gold nuggets).

If nothing else, he has a gratifying list of the most manliness acts at an athletic event, including the Jonathan-Bouchard hockey fight:

Other family-friendly hockey fights: 1 2 3

What do Little House on the Prairie and Tops Drop have in common?

They were both filmed on location.

Seriously, South Dakota has not changed since 1866 — it is a window into the past: theme song and all.

[And in a weird unintentional kind of way, East Germany is a good example of stagnant growth. Located around the same latitude, it is the site of the infamous Plattenbau, which were erected en masse; standing as useless and unwanted public housing complexes that years later would ironically show Westerners "how the other half lived."]

Similarly, the classic rap video by the now dead Fat Pat must have been filmed during a Sunday lunch at the park (if you’ve ever been to Houston or Dallas on a sunny weekend afternoon, this can be a stereotypical sight). Good tune.

Bonus: Rose Wilder Lane (daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder) and I would have probably hit it off 50 years ago, just like couples do in the above music video…

Some more videos:

- Dominating Dolphins
- Crazy for the Cowboys
- Bills or Bust
- The Simpsons slam Army recruiting
- AngryNintendoNerd — a guy reviews craptastic NES games like Ninja Turtles. He voiced the same frustrations I had as a kid… with colorful language
- Businessman has a meltdown in a hotel lobby (it has to be staged… the audio quality is way too good for a security camera)

And if you like Rube Goldberg machines, this one is hella long