One of the fondest memories I have of computer games when I was younger (apart from Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, of course — what’s better than killing Nazis and mutant zombies?) was the excellent series of You Don’t Know Jack! games. Fun trivia laced with the announcer’s sarcasm combined with great gameplay created one of the best electronic “family fun” games we ever had. I forget how many of those we bought, but it was quite a few.

Now, the games are back in online form — for free. What used to take a whole computer’s resources to run now works in a Flash program at http://www.youdontknowjack.com. Check it out, and have fun!

HELSINKI: A Finnish member of parliament is aiming for re-election by campaigning with a translation of his website into Klingon, used in the TV series Star Trek.

“Some have thought it is blasphemy to mix politics and Klingon,” said Jyrki Kasvi, an ardent Trekkie. “Others say it is good if politicians can laugh at themselves.”

He said his politics posed some translation difficulties, since Klingon does not have words for matters such as tolerance, or for many colours, including green – the party under whose banner he is running in the national elections on March 18.

Non-warriors can also access the site, www.kasvi.org, in English, Swedish and Finnish.

-I just think politicians should run the Klingon gauntlet before running for office

Many of you who know me are aware of my severe lack of respect for grown adults who can’t spell above a fourth grade level, which includes knowing the difference between “their”, “they’re”, and “there”, “your” and “you’re”, “here” and “hear”, “its” and “it’s”, etc. So imagine how shocked I was when I saw the opening title sequence to a show on Discovery called “How it’s Made” (at least they used the right “it’s”): when running through several title screens, each detailing what was going to be on the program, I saw not one but two gross spelling errors.

“Today, on How it’s Made: Amuminum pots…artificial limbs…High-intensity lihgt bulbs…”

This country really scares me sometimes. How could a program like this get past editors, producers, and screeners to make it on the air with such obvious spelling mistakes? It’s like elementary school kids were running the production office. Really grinds my gears. My other personal favorite example of “how many idiots didn’t figure this out” is when you see spelling errors on those giant roadside billboards.

It seems that conservative leaders have finally awoken to what I’ve been saying for years: that the Republican party is not Republican anymore. They’re big spenders, trade destroyers, coddlers of illegal immigrants, and have generally just been riding to power on voters’ visions of what Republicans used to be. Which makes the Republican party a bunch of big-scale liars, and makes the people that vote for them — at least the ones who think they’re still voting for the budget-minded, constitution-respecting party — gullible idiots. Yeah, that’s right…I’m not being nice, because few things piss me off more than when people blindly vote a party without paying attention to who they’re actually voting for. That goes for both sides of the fence.

If they were what they used to be, the Republican party might have my support, at least to a much greater degree than now. But since I started, oh, paying attention (straight-ticket voters: you should try it sometime) to what their overall platform has been in the last decade, there’s no chance in hell that most of them will get my vote. And they shouldn’t get yours either, is what many conservative leaders are saying, even if you’re conservative. Until they straighten up and start actually doing something that resembles what they say, and return to the more responsible party of the past, and start caring about the middle class, and stop raping our country’s coffers, they shouldn’t get anyone’s vote.

I came across some amazing footage of the largest waterfall in the world — a mile and a half wide. It is Iguassu Falls, on the border of Argentina and Brazil, and the camera crew did a truly amazing job of capturing their beauty. There’s a picture gallery on the page two with some impressive still shots. Check it out.

Check out this great clip I found on Google video. Girl gets put into human slingshot on a ranch in Utah. Well, they call it a slingshot, but she isn’t actually “shot” out of it (that would suck). Watch it though, looks really fun (if you like crapping your pants). Probably some serious Gs in there.

No, this is not a joke or some kind of hack job. BMW has decided, for the first time, to produce an M5 “Touring” (just say it, it’s a station wagon). It shares the same specs as the, uh, “regular” 507hp V-10 sedan M5, and with the added weight just drops 0.1 seconds to 60 mph. It will be sold in Europe, where I’m sure its 17 customers per year will be happy, but there’s no word on if it will ever come to the States. Like its popular (but not prolific — what marketing whack thought it would be a good idea to produce an even more limited production version of an already limited production vehicle?) counterpart, you can expect to pay north of $90k if you need some cargo space but still just have to blow the doors off of just about every other vehicle on the road.

Stephen Wiltshire has become known as the Human Camera for his astonishing ability to draw complex scenes completely from memory after only seeing the subject once. The autistic Brit drew a perfect aerial view of London at age 11, after only one helicopter ride, and it was accurate down to the number of windows on the buildings! In this amazing video, Stephen is taken on a helicopter ride over Rome — a city he has never seen — and then given three days to draw a five-meter (16 feet 5 inches) panoramic mural of the city using nothing but a pencil. You must watch this video to see how accurate and detailed it is — it makes you reevaluate what the human brain is capable of.

Thank you Ron for sending this my way.

125 meters, a movie theater, two helicopters, a hanger, a basketball court, a submarine, and a recording studio — $200 million.

Being able to pull into any harbor in the world and make all other megayachts look bad — priceless.

If I was a Microsoft billionaire and I loved cruising the seas, I might have to go for one of these too. No doubt, it’s huge. But make sure you click through all the pages of pictures and look for the ones where you can actually see people on the ship, like the last photo on this page — then it looks ginormous.

I don’t normally put much stock in political ads, but it looks like the Dems have finally taken a page from the GOP’s book and are using their own words against them. Watch this series of clips, and then think of it whenever this administration tells you anything. Unbelievable.