Well, it’s not really a stuffed animal. In fact, it’s a stuffed you! “Through the magic of Leprechauns, Papa Smurf, Michael J. Fox, and all other things small, we make wee-sized, delightful stuffed animal versions of you” says the guys behind the site I Am a Stuffed Animal.

Actually, all you have to do is send them a picture, and voila, you can cuddle yourself at night.

Here’s an example:

The “Buddies” as they call them are $69 plus shipping, so you probably don’t want to get one for all the members of your family, but I think they would make a pretty great gift for a special occasion.

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I really enjoyed this video mocking all things hipster. I realize it’s pretty standard to make fun of hipsters, but until they realize that it makes no sense to ironically like beards (now mustaches) and Pabst Blue Ribbon, the scorning will continue.

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So, if newspapers are fanatically devoted to being correct with everything you do, and if they want to be absolutely sure that incorrect information is corrected as soon as possible, how come we don’t see something like this every day:

Correction

Incorrect and misleading information appeared on Page Two of yesterday’s paper. Although the forecast called for a high of 7 C, the actual high temperature turned out to be 3 C, and the sky was overcast instead of partly cloudy.

This compounds last week’s error, which called for yesterday’s high to be 21 C. A recent cold front wiped out all the forecasts from Wednesday through Saturday, along with plans for a staff picnic. We regret the error.

Actually, I would love to see tracking of how accurate weather forecasts are. I know people have studied this in the past, but I’d like to see weather sites archive and promote their accuracy. It should be relatively easy in a database-driven world.

Related: Under the rubric of “People in glass houses” and also “schadenfreude” I kind of enjoy visiting Regret The Error, a website devoted to chronicling the very best of newspaper and magazine corrections.

This is for all the journalists out there. One of the joys (?) of working at a newspaper is that people expect you to be perfect on a day-in, day-out basis.

It’s good to always keep on your toes, and I agree that accuracy is the foundation of any good journalism. But when readers find something in your paper that you haven’t gotten right, they’re quick to call or email and to irately take you to task for it.

This can be good — letting you know that you’ve goofed, however embarrassingly, is key if you’re going to correct it.

But this can also be bad. Sometimes readers want to get into very arcane grammatical discussions with you. Sorry, the serial comma just isn’t CP style.

And sometimes they think you’re not doing it right just because you’re not doing what they want or expect. For example, give me one good reason why a TV grid is relevant information in this day and age. But readers will piss and moan that your 75-cent paper is suddenly robbed of all value should you so much as shrink the crossword by a half-inch.

Anyway, I’ve found a website that is devoted to these cranky complaint calls and emails. In any newsroom, some of the crankiest cranks get passed around on the voice mail system, or forwarded along via email so that everyone can get a kick out of the crazy old bat who drunkenly berates you for canceling Marmaduke but then, after three minutes of vitriol, manages to find it on the page, and yet still signs off with an accusatory tone, because it should somehow have been easier to find it.

Yes, we’ve all got those tales, and Paper Haters is the place to send them, so that newsrooms around the world can share. Sometimes, it’s a chance for reporters to vent with people who just aren’t happy with the coverage of something, but there are some gems. Try this email:

I just wanted to let you know, that your story and pictures on WRESTLER, state champ from TEAM X High School, were perfect … Athough this was great, the other local wrestling coverage stunk.

Or this one:

Miss REPORTER, you are a Socialist Liberal Democrat scumbag and when the journalism business goes through another wave of lay-offs, I hope you’re at the top of the axing list. Journalists like you are what’s wrong with this country.

But the best are always the voice mails. I love this guy:

Part one: What about the Kentucky Derby 1

Part two: What about the Kentucky Derby 2

Or, see if you can gear up your brain to make full sense of this woman.

And Hitler is pissed.

This video is just one of many parodies using the German movie “Downfall.” Rocketboom has your full rundown of the meme here. Just recently, the production company behind the film has been trying to get the videos removed from Youtube, which spawned a version of the meme where Hitler shouts “nein!” for 10 minutes.

Take this quick 15-question quiz!

Based on my answers, I should “give country radio a shot. Some of it will bother you, but you could be surprised how gratifyingly clever, sing-a-long-able, engagingly told and frankly touching a lot of it is”

And that is why I listen to folk. Go to hell, twang.

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Have you ever been at a concert and been so moved by the music that you just started dancing? Like no one was watching?

No? Me either.

Which is good, because as it turns out, people ARE watching. And they are recording you!

People Dancing at Concerts is the place where all those voyeurs have an acceptable outlet for their creepy video-taking. But in reality, if I saw this guy, I’d be taping it too:

I think my favourite form of concert dancing is at folk fests. There is always a space at either the front or the side of the stage for people to dance. There’s not often many people partaking (depending on band), but the braves ones are often, shall we say, emphatically enjoying the music.

Pioneering crude-imation show South Park is about to celebrate its 200th episode.

Creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker talked to Boing Boing about it:

But what I really liked was this live-action re-enactment!

At some random Starbucks, the baristas are having a lot of fun with the suggestion sign:

Whoever’s behind them is actually a decent drawer. And it is a Canadian Starbucks:

Check out the entire list at Geekologie. I particularly like the one where the barista is the Borg.

(via Ryan’s facebook!)

Hmmm, is there any reason that most of us couldn’t do most of our work with a laptop and a cell phone? It’s telecommuting, Kyle. And before you say “work from home” I’m going to stop you right there and say “work from the bar.”

And if you’re not convinced, then perhaps this amateur YouTube ad, which riffs on the Old Spice “I’m on a horse” commercials, will convince you:

Man, can I go to a bar with jalepeno ketchup and skeeball?

I guess it makes sense — a man who makes his living with witty wordplay must know an awful lot about how words go together.

So it’s not surprising that Weird Al Yankovic is out there, somewhere, right now, fixing bad grammar wherever he encounters it.

Oh, you want proof?

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This is both really creative and really funny, but it is also really long, so I’ve hidden the whole image after the jump.

Click to see!

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I laughed at this.

(Taken from Ben’s facebook! Website it’s from is here)

Make sure your speakers are on, and prepare to grin.

Then go here.

Warren Ellis posts a trailer for a movie called Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, in which Michael Cera has to not only live up to all of his new girlfriend’s exes, but in metaphor-becomes-real sense, actually defeat them in combat.

Oh, and it’s comic-book style, so the exes appear to have powers and stuff. They’re villains. Check it: