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Super Bowl Snack Stadium

If you didn’t have enough Super Bowl munchies yesterday, you’ll have to build one of these next year:

The Stand Up Economist

This guy was totally my professor for Econ 200!

He was a great teacher.  It was one of my favorite classes at UW.  Definitely a quirky sense of humor though.

Jack Bauer Interrogates Santa

Despite the best intentions, Jack ends up on the naughty list…

Fun With the Nestle Crunch Hotline

What will those crazy Swiss think of next?

It would be awesome if every company included a “funner” menu on their 800-number automated system.  But who is calling Nestle anyway?

Impossible Mario Level

After mom and I played some of the new Super Mario Bros. Wii game this weekend, it reminded me of this video from a couple years ago.  I don’t know where this terrible level is from, but it’s entertaining to watch this guy struggle through it.  Caution, he drops a lot of f-bombs.

“This is worse [...]

History According to Grandpa Simpson

I love this video.  So many classic Grandpa lines.

The Science of Motivation

Traditional means of motivation in the workplace (rewards, incentives, commissions), sometimes do more harm than good.  In this video, Dan Pink makes the case that for the complex tasks faced by today’s workforce, “intrinsic” motivators — autonomy, mastery, and purpose — are far more effective than the traditional “carrot-and-stick” methods.  It’s kind of long, but [...]

The Immaculate Interception

Not sure why AZ was throwing on first down instead of running some clock with the lead and three minutes left, but this was just incredible!

The Coolest Guy in the World

From CollegeHumor.com… watch as this guy takes on Gas Works, the U-District, and campus with his crazy skills:

Go Huskies!

George Carlin Baseball vs. Football

This is an oldie but a goodie, and thought I would share as the baseball season winds down and in advance of the Huskies visit to South Bend tomorrow.  Hopefully they have better luck stopping the “sustained ground attack” against the Irish than they did against Stanford.