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Friday Funkfest. A recurring (almost weekly) flurry of quick hits, links, videos and thoughts. Clearly, the best way to waste time at work spend your lunch hour each and (almost) every Friday.

Everyone has their agenda when over hyping talking about Swine Flu.  Lots of people are trying to blame our neighbors to the South.  Not me.  I blame people from the ’70s.  Why in tarnation didn’t they listen to that PSA?  Could it have been any more ominous (see 1:00-1:10)?  Get the stupid shot, people.  But noooooooo.  They didn’t nip it in the bud when they had the chance.  They thought they were too fast.  They thought they could just go around kissing their mothers-in-law on the lips and suffer no repercussions (0:40).  What a bunch of jokers.  Now we are besieged with a strand of flu that is completely treatable than the normal flu we usually get.  (props to basketbawful for video)

• Best invention ever: Buisness cards made of meat.  Because I love eating things that complete strangers have stored in their wallets for months, and then handed to me with their bare hands.
• Sky Sports in the UK has a pretty cool thing they do for soccer matches.  They invite a hard-core fan from each team to do commentary for one match each week.  It’s called the Fan Zone, and it had some amazing highlights this year.
• Under Armor has issued a recall for atheletic cups manufactured by the company.  adampaul always tells me to keep it PG, so I’ll refrain from comment.  Just thought you should know.
• Man, there are some pretty corny videogames being released these days.  Both of the religious and the culinary variety.
• Last night marked the end of the season for the Portland Trail Blazers.  Unfortunately, I missed the first half of the game because the Bulls and Celtics went into 3OT.  I was cursing Ben Gordon for that stupid technical foul he got at the end of regulation.  I was cursing the Celtics for letting Brad Miller (of all people) go clutch on them down the stretch.  I was curing Ray Allen for being better than Jesus Shuttlesworth.  And I was cursing Turner Broadcasting for not using their entire platform to make sure we could flip between games.  But no more cursing today.  Just catharsis.
• Warren Buffett is one smart cat.
• My favorite app is MLB At Bat.  It lets me follow all fo the games going on, gives highlights and streams audio broadcasts from all of the games to my phone.  It’s super duper fly.  I’m not the only one who thinks so, either.  The baseball season is a month old, and that app is about to make $1million for MLB.  Please, please please, NBA and NFL take notice.

Facebook Status Update of the Week:  Oprah did not die for your sins (by Matt I)

Lyric of the Week: ‘Wished I’d have shown you/ all of the things I was on the inside (Top of the World by The Dixie Chicks)

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