After years leading Palestinians in their struggle against Israel, Yasser Arafat has decided on a new career. He has accepted an appointment to lead a small, blue race in their own struggle. Arafat will be crowned the new Papa Smurf early next week.

“Smurfs have lived under the thumb of that Semite Dog Gargomel long enough. Under my guidance they will finally live free,” the former PLO leader claimed.

The former Papa Smurf, whose real name is Karl Lafargue, was on hand when Arafat received the news of his appointment. Lafargue has served as Papa Smurf since 1981 and is stepping down from the post citing his failing health. However, inside sources claim that Papa Smurf is bowing to political pressure from militant smurfs who seek to gain independence from Gargomel, a regional war lord.

And now, your Conversation Enhancement of the Day:

Screwed by design

Used in a sentence:
I’m quite sure I’ve been involved in several business ventures that were screwed by design.

Shamlessly scraped from In Passing.

If you’ve never heard of Chipotle (pronounced Chee-Poat-Lay), then you simply must pay a visit to a state that has these behemoth burrito outlets. I loves me some Chipotle. But to be honest, a Chipotle burrito is prototypical American gluttony.

The following WBQotW (#4 for those keeping count) comes from a comment made to a Chipotle customer just before engaging his recently purchased, tortilla wrapped pound and a half of glut.

“You realize that all of that will eventually have to come back out of you.”

I don’t know about you, but that just ruined MY lunch.

What happens when you use a WYSIWYG editor to build your web page, and then you click one of the format buttons over and over? You get code that looks something like this:

<BIG><BIG><BIG><BIG><BIG><BIG><BIG><BIG><BIG><BIG><B><BIG><BIG>
Home Building Manual
</BIG></BIG></B></BIG></BIG></BIG></BIG></BIG></BIG></BIG></BIG></BIG></BIG>

Nice, huh? Well, what happens when you view it? IE incorrectly ignores the extra tags, thus encouraging bad code. Here’s the page in a 1024 x 768 window in IE.

But view the same page in FireFox, which correctly and dutifully obeys the rotten HTML code, in the same 1024 x 768 window, and you get something like this.

To be precise, that’s 814 px font. Now, THAT is BIG!

Here is the actual page. See for yourself.

(Link via Randy Pants.)

Check out this awesome Flash presentation for HPs new line of iPAQ hand helds. Double wow.

On a side note, I really dig Regine Hohnsbein’s accent. Kind of like Ahhnold, but sexier… Hmm. That sound really weird after I said it.

http://h41111.www4.hp.com/gomobile/uk/en/learning_centre/videos/ipaq_flash.html

(Link via Airbag.)