Daily View, 12/4, very belated RIP Mitch Hedberg

Back after a long apathetic hiatus (who's really reading, anyways?). Some of these links have been in storage during my absence, so may be a bit dusty to some.

Always the last to know, I only just found out that comedian Mitch Hedberg died of a drug overdose last year. This came as a shock, because I only just learned of his existence, and there was recent video and everything. Sigh. RIP. Consider this post lightly Mitch-flavored in ridiculous, meaningless memoriam.

• The Mitch Hedberg Random Quoter is a great way to crack yourself up.


• See if you can correctly identify countries in the world map game. This is harder than the 50 states game.


• The View From Your Window is a blog about... well, about exactly that. I'd send mine in but it so depressing (basically the same as this, which is from our bathroom).


• Funny people list their desert island comedies (subscriber-only archive, alas—though sometimes the print version can be seen by non subscribers... ?)


• Random Mitch quote:I wanna climb a mountain. Not so I could get to the top... cuz I wanna hang out at basecamp. That scene's fuckin' fun as shit. You sleep in a colorful tent, you grow a beard, you drink hot chocolate, you walk around. "Hey, you goin' to the top?" .......... "Soon..." Perhaps I will put this on a t-shirt before I head up Kilimanjaro or Mt. Fuji.


• Jane Goodall is down with Sasquatch. Rock on, Jane.


• An entire site devoted to retro pop songs that have been ruined by contemporary advertisements and another dedicated to songs that have been ruined by associations with ex-boyfriends & girlfriends. I love the internet.


• Idolator looks at the worst James Bond songs of all time. Thankfully, Duran Duran's View to a Kill is spared... that song rocked, despite its Bondly goofiness. I still have that in my music library.


• Random Mitch quote: I especially hate turtlenecks. I wear a turtleneck it's like being strangled by a really weak guy... all fuckin' day. If you wear a turtleneck and a backpack it's like a weak midget trying to bring you down. This is possibly my favorite. Turtlenecks are fucking awful. They are outlawed in my kingdom. The mock turtleneck is even worse. I could never love a man in a mock turtleneck. I'm writing a novel based on this premise. Bestseller in the making, damn it.


• Science in the shower: Periodic table shower curtain


• I missed Nerd Nite... but I'm not sure that's a bad thing.


• 5 best places to break up in NYC. Good to know?


• Innovations abound in the condom industry. All the women I've shown this to are ecstatic. All the men are wary as hell.


• Random Mitch quote: (Picks up a drink on stage) Look at the all limes in this God Damn thing... this fuckin' thing is tropical. Look at the limes how they float. That's good news. Next time I'm on a boat and it capsizes, I will reach for a lime... I'll be water skiing without a life preserver and people will be like "What the fuck?" and I'll pull out a lime. I'm saved by the buoyancy of citrus!


• Window to the past: Seven minutes of Moscow in 1908.
  
• More Star Wars nerdity: painting of kid riding at AT-AT.


• Modern idiots pan classic novels on Amazon. Sigh.


• Remixes of the London underground maps


• Random Mitch quote: Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. "Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic." "Goddamn it Otto, you have Lupus" One of those two doesn't sound right.


• Ebert on Marie Antoinette: "It is impossible to avoid thoughts of Diana, Princess of Wales..." Um, what?


• Do you know Alan Smithee? I bet you do.


• Poison dart frogs are losing their toxicity. That fucking sucks. I love those poisonous little buggers.


• Today in home porn: Scrabble pillows


• Ack! I got mentioned on kottke and Subtraction for stating (what I considered to be) the obvious.


• And finally, apparently you can buy an ugly ornament in tribute to poor drugged-out Mitch.