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weekly font announcement #2

2008-12-07T00:03:00.000-08:00

WEEKLY FONT ANNOUNCEMENT

The state of Georgia has just announced that they will be designating Georgia as the official state typeface.

paper milhouse

2008-12-06T16:08:00.000-08:00

Hey I'm going to be doing some "blogging" over at Paper Milhouse every once in a while under the name "Jamie" because, you know, having my own website where I can do anything I want, as well as accounts on message boards, twitter, delicious, youtube, etc. just didn't provide me with enough creative freedom to fully express myself

rubbercat mobile

2008-12-01T04:40:00.000-08:00

Let's face it. The web is becoming increasingly mobile. Soon, 50% of all web traffic will be from handheld gizmos. Viewing websites from a regular computer like a normal person will slowly but surely become obsolete. As screens get smaller, the amount of screen real-estate decreases. Already, many popular websites such as Google have created special versions of their websites that are specially designed to accommodate mobile users. It is time for all websites, this one included, to join the crowd and embrace the mobile revolution before we are left in the dust.

That's why I'm pleased to announce rubbercat mobile, the new version of rubbercat.net specially optimized to fit your cell phone screen. I've spent nearly six months diligently working round the clock with the latest web technologies to bring gizmo users the mobile-enhanced rubbercat.net they've been waiting for. Now you can experience the full rubbercat.net experience in the palm of your hand.

If you're using a cell phone or other gadget, simply point your device's browser to:

m.rubbercat.net

See you in the future!

from here to insanity

2008-11-30T03:47:00.000-08:00

Today is the tenth anniversary of this magazine I used to do, From Here To Insanity, which I suppose is best thought of as a predecessor to rubbercat.net. I've been working on a new site for it but it's not done yet (been busy!) so uh here's a sneak preview I guess?

Keep watching the skies!

-Your Faithful Editor

weekly font announcement

2008-11-29T03:19:00.000-08:00

WEEKLY FONT ANNOUNCEMENT

The little Vietnamese restaurant on fourth street has just announced that they will be changing the typeface of their menus from Comic Sans to Papyrus.

sketchbook doodle 5/27/08

2008-11-26T02:04:00.000-08:00

monthly link dump

2008-11-23T02:36:00.000-08:00

monthly link dump

Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc.
Sorry, Scalia's dissent in PGA Tour v. Martin, you are no longer my favorite piece of judicial literature

Norm Macdonald on Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Probably my favorite Norm Macdonald thing. And there are a lot of Norm Macdonald things.

photos coming out of a panda's mouth
This is old news but it still doesn't make any sense

Man operating printing press on Queen Elizabeth
This man knows the deal

Twitter: THE_REAL_SHAQ
Real talk straight from the Kazaam genie himself

Insane News Man
This is my favorite "news blooper"

YouTube Doubler
Now you can listen to John Lennon's "Imagine" like you've never heard it before: playing next to some militant atheist guy blathering on about religion

about the author

2008-11-20T23:58:00.000-08:00

ABOUT THE AUTHOR (courtesy typealyzer.com)

The analysis indicates that the author of http://rubbercat.net/main.html is of the type:

ESTP - The Doers

The active and play-ful type. They are especially attuned to people and things around them and often full of energy, talking, joking and engaging in physical out-door activities.

The Doers are happiest with action-filled work which craves their full attention and focus. They might be very impulsive and more keen on starting something new than following it through. They might have a problem with sitting still or remaining inactive for any period of time.

kal penn

2008-11-16T00:15:00.000-08:00

I still can't see Kal Penn as anyone other than Kumar

I'm just going to pretend Harold and Kumar and House take place in the same universe and he changed his name

what happen

2008-11-13T01:37:00.001-08:00

serious post

2008-11-03T22:48:00.000-08:00

IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR ALL CALIFORNIANS

if you vote yes on proposition 8 you are Garbage

cameo

2008-10-24T23:59:00.000-07:00

here are those torture authorizations you requested

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the best debate moments of the 2008 presidential campaign

2008-10-21T22:43:00.000-07:00

THE BEST DEBATE MOMENTS OF THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY

Democrats answer a question from a talking snowman

Joe Biden: "Hey, are you gay in these holes? These foxholes?"
A nervous, sweaty Bill Richardson thumps his desk repeatedly
Some debate moderator asks Obama how he can claim to bring change if he has a bunch of former Clinton Administration officials advising him. Hillary cackles and says "I'D LIKE TO SEE HIS EXPLANATION FOR THIS ONE," to which Obama cooly responds with "I look forward to you advising me as well Hillary"

Obama becomes animated for the only time ever and yells that Hillary did nothing about workers while sitting on the board of Walmart

Hillary Clinton freaks out about always getting asked the questions first and starts talking about saturday night live for some reason???

ABC News' atrocious questioning, which includes asking Hillary "PEOPLE DON'T LIKE YOU. RESPOND." and grilling Obama on reverendwrightbillayersflagpinbitterclinggate for 40 minutes

REPUBLICAN PRIMARY

Mitt Romney announces that he wants to DOUBLE GUANTANAMO. Somehow this is not the most dickish thing he said in the debates

Ron Paul, in a rare moment of intelligence, says maybe the terrorists attacked us for a reason other than "THEY HATE OUR FREEDOMS." Rudy Giuliani rebuts by shouting "9/11" repeatedly

Some fourth-tier Republican candidate whose name I forgot explains his foreign policy: put fictional character Jack Bauer in charge of everything!!
Fred Thompson interrupts a discussion about healthcare to crack a hilarious gay joke about how Mitt Romney loves mandates

Mike Huckabee evades a question about the death penalty with a folksy joke about how "Jesus was too smart to run for public office" and gets heaped with praise for his hilarious wit. Months later, Obama evades a question about conception with "it's above my paygrade" and gets flack for it

Alluding to Romney's many flip-flops, McCain says "my, you really are the candidate of change" after Mittens starts talking about how he's all about The Change

At some "values voters" debate, questioners demand answers from empty podiums

PRESIDENTIAL/VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES

Pretty sure there weren't any memorable moments in the first debate, correct me if I'm wrong

SAY IT AIN'T JOE THERE YOU GO AGAIN POINTING BACKWARDS AGAIN DOGGONE IT

Tom Brokaw, Super Moderator: "I'm sorry gentlemen you will have to condense your talking points to less than 30 seconds instead of actually debating the issues"

"Health" of the mother

"Zero?!?"
Life imitates the little-seen movie "Swing Vote" as McCain and Obama spend a substantial amount of the third debate talking directly to Joe the Plumber through the TV screen

SECOND PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE LIVEBLOG-THING

2008-10-07T18:03:00.000-07:00

SECOND PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE LIVEBLOG-THING

6:03 PM: Obama and McCain just entered. Obama's wearing a t-shirt with William Ayers on it. Bold move.

6:07 PM: McCain tripped on an inadvertantly placed banana peel and fell down. Nobody is helping him up. Brokaw is just pointing and laughing at him

6:11 PM: McCain just tapped Tom Brokaw to be his new running mate?? what is going on

6:13 PM: Obama is just smoking a huge ass blunt while McCain is answering a question about the economy

6:16 PM: For some reason the C-SPAN cameraman is just filming close-ups of their feet.

6:18 PM: McCain: "I also wrote an ineffectual strongly-worded letter"

6:27 PM: Brokaw just left while nobody was looking?? everyone's just sitting around in awkward silence now

6:31 PM: McCain twiddling thumbs, Obama drinking lots of water

6:35 PM: they are whispering to each other now. my lip-reading is a bit rusty, but basically they are discussing whether or not to sneak a peek at brokaw's question list

6:39 PM: obama accidentally dropped his glass of water and it shattered. "did i do that?" he asks in urkel voice. audience cheers wildly

6:42 PM: not to be upstaged, mccain has started doing an archie bunker impression. keeps referring to obama as "meathead." he's pretty good

6:45 PM: mccain: "idk my bff joe?"

6:48 PM: FOSSIL FUELS??? WHAT IS THIS, THE FUCKING FLINTSTONES??? YEAH LET'S ALL JUST PROPEL OUR CARS BY MOVING OUR FEET. THAT WILL TOTALLY SOLVE THE GAS CRISIS. JESUS CHRIST

6:53 PM: audience getting restless now

6:58 PM: audience and obama just left. it's just mccain now

7:01 PM: brokaw just returned. "sorry about that, everyone, my bowels have been acting up a lot lately. hey where'd everybody go"

7:04 PM: mccain: "i am more than happy to play by the rules, tom." what a sycophant

7:06 PM: one of the debate people wrote "barack obama" on a piece of cardboard and put it on obama's chair, i guess to represent him?

7:07 PM: brokaw: "hey where'd my questions go?" mccain winks at the camera

7:08 PM: mccain just said american blood is our most precious asset. is he a vampire???

7:10 PM: brokaw is asking the piece of cardboard what it thinks about palestine. cut to close-up of cardboard. so awkward

7:13 PM: audience and obama are back. "we went out for some smokes"

7:15 PM: brokaw said he's just "hired help." is he a mobster???

7:16 PM: damn, sending punches via telegraph would be awesome

7:20 PM: obama just brought out a guitar and started shredding it

7:23 PM: now he's taking requests. one guy in section e shouts out "freebird"

7:24 PM: SMOKE IS LITERALLY COMING OUT OF MCCAIN'S EARS. HOLY SHIT

7:26 PM: mccain likes to talk about "big sticks" and "naked agression"

7:27 PM: now theyre all popping off their pants??? brokaw is taking out a tape measurer

7:29 PM: looks like brokaw wins this round

7:32 PM: last question: 5-letter word for "alteration"

7:34 PM: mccain: "reshape?" obama: "hope?" barr: "hey those directions you gave me were wrong"

7:39 PM: SARAH PALIN JUST RODE INTO THE AUDITORIUM ON AN ELEPHANT AND CARRIED MCCAIN OFF INTO THE SUNSET

7:43 PM: technicians are powering down brokaw. bob barr is shaking hands with people. obama is lighting up another blunt. on closer inspection it's an american flag

7:54 PM: everyone has left the building. they turned out the lights. cspan cameras are still running though?

8:00 PM: a bunch of ghosts just materialized. i can recognize richard nixon, adlai e. stevenson, teddy roosevelt, and abraham lincoln. not sure who the others are

8:08 PM: according to talking points memo they are earl warren, john adams, jeanette rankin, and thurgood marshall. they are all playing badminton

8:15 PM: the presidents lost

posting quotas

2008-10-02T00:00:00.000-07:00

I hope you've enjoyed me updating every other day for the past month. Unfortunately, this has fulfilled the site's posting quota for the rest of the year, so my next post will be around Christmas. See ya!

olbermaddow

2008-09-30T00:00:00.000-07:00

I like Rachel Maddow's new show on MSNBC for a number of reasons

The biggest reason is that she doesn't co-opt Edward R. Murrow's sign-off after spending half her show ranting about "Fix News" and doing wacky vocal impressions of "bill o the clown"

adventures of president palin

2008-09-28T02:39:00.000-07:00

MOVE OVER, ADVENTURES OF PRESIDENT GORE

HERE COMES THE ADVENTURES OF PRESIDENT PALIN

johnmentum

2008-09-26T14:52:00.000-07:00

operation: pitbull

2008-09-24T01:37:00.000-07:00

ive managed to infiltrate the republican party at the highest levels

operation: pitbull is a go :-D

excellent work yuliya

wait hang on a second are you using a secure frequency

im using yahoo messenger via wi-fi

god damn it

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Cowabunga!

2008-09-22T00:03:00.000-07:00

I know it's hard to believe, but it's rubbercat.net/simpsons's 10 year and 10th month anniversary!!! During the past ten years, the site has been fortunate enough to win two awards, get mentioned on JoBlo and Channel Frederator, receive Simpsons Monopoly in the mail and score press credentials from NBC Universal - and that's just in the past two years. Here's a screenshot of the first version of the site, back when it was known as geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Rubber_Cat247/Simpsons.htm:

(click for larger version)

Here's to another ten years! GO TEAM USA~

Insightful Commentary on the Financial Crisis

2008-09-20T01:37:00.000-07:00

robert cat

2008-09-18T00:00:00.000-07:00

This was on The Colbert Report the other day:

coincidence???

2008-09-16T00:00:00.000-07:00

LATEST NEWS FROM TECH NEWS RUMOR INSIDER

Many Mac users were understandably peeved when Google's revolutionary new web browser, Google Chrome, was released as a Windows-only download. The tech giant was awfully mum on when to expect Mac and Linux versions of Chrome; admitting that the lack of a Mac version was "embarrassing," Google co-founder Sergey Brin said it could be "months" before one is released.

So what's the hold up? Well, no word yet on the Linux version, but a top-secret source tells me things aren't going so well over in the Mac division at Google HQ. Some of the killer features of the Windows version of Chrome, such as the "omnibar" and the new tab page, had to be ditched entirely because they were just "too hard" to implement on the Mac platform. Despite these setbacks, Google's Mac engineers are determined to make Google Chrome the best it can be and are diligently working around the clock to bring the cloud computing operating system of the future to the Macintosh.

I managed to score an exclusive sneak preview of the current beta of Google Chrome for Mac. My source warned me it was a work-in-progress and that there are still some bugs to be worked out. Boy, he wasn't kidding. Design-wise, Google Chrome for Mac is going in a completely new direction from Google Chrome for Windows. All I've got to say is, Google is definitely "thinking different" when it comes to the modern browser.

CLICK HERE FOR EXCLUSIVE SCREENSHOTS!

bangkok dangerous

2008-09-14T00:00:00.000-07:00

POSSIBLE SEQUELS TO BANGKOK DANGEROUS

Saigon Menacing
London Deadly
Peoria Precarious

an observation

2008-09-12T14:03:00.000-07:00

the way I see it, there's only two types of people in the world

people named Logan and people who aren't