Certainly looks like it from the above picture!

Hi Everyone,
We’re moving back to meaningfuldistractions.com!

First off: Thank you and I love you. Those of you who read this site have been loyal since the beggining and have traveled with us from meaningfuldistractions.com. It’s been nice on the new site (this one), but after several months we’re going back to the place of our birth.

This was a hard decision for me and one that took a long time. I like the way this site looks and it appears more legitimate. However, it does not show up in Google even after all these months. We do not have the funds or man power to really launch this thing and get it the attention it deserves. Since we put a lot of love and time into it, we’d like the most people possible to see it and the wordpress.com shows up higher in Google.

The biggest concern though with the move, was pissing all of you off with yet another upheaval of rebookmarking and just being confused. If you have objections or thoughts, please email me at meaningfuldistractions@gmail.com. We hope that you’ll continue to follow us despite our gypsy-like nature. Consider this like a marriage (imagine me on one knee)-when you first met the person of your dreams they looked great and then suddenly, somewhere down the road, you open your eyes and they just don’t look that good anymore, maybe they’ve gone bald or grown a beer belly or their breast are kind of sagging. Yet, the substance is the same and you still stick with them because you love them. Right?

So please, we invite you to visit us at meaningfuldistractions.com.

LIFE has just released never before seen photos of a 24 year old Marilyn. The negatives were discovered as the mag continues its quest to put every photo ever taken in its digital archives. At the time, the lighting and printing was felt to be off so they were never published, but they are gorgeous. Click here to view all 18 shots.

Everyone’s lost someone to them in their lifetime [Side-note: Kim, if you could have only stopped playing WoW, we could've been married by now!]

Still, interest in video games increases exponentially as we become a more-tech savvy society.
Oooooooooooold school!

Oooooooooooold school!

The Wii made gaming less complex for all ages and genders. Wii was a cheaper, less tricked-out system. PS3 and XBOX 360 needed to follow suit, despite having more technology than DARPA during the cold war. Nonetheless, those systems were only for hard-core gamers interested in uber-complex games with 96 buttons and crazier button-combinations.

GM filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this morning as part of the Obama administration’s plan to shrink the automaker to a sustainable size and give a majority ownership stake to the federal government, reports the AP.

It’s the largest bankruptcy filing for an industrial corporation. They’ve already recieved $20 billion in taxpayer money and will also receive $30 billion of additional financial assistance from the Treasury Department and $9.5 billion from Canada.

USA Today has a good article on 7 reasons why this happened. Thirty-one year old Brian Deese is in charge of the dismantling.

A jet carrying 228 people has disappeared off the coast of Brazil en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. Ten minutes after reporting heavy turbulence, the plane disappeared off radar. No word has been heard since. It may have gone down so quickly all signals were lost and there was no time to put in an emergency call. Air Frances CEO says, “There is no hope. We are probably facing an air catastrophe.”

The U.S. military in Afghanistan is getting high tech. They’ve lanuched a Facebook page, a YouTube site and feeds on Twitter to combat the fact that no one reads newspapers and the Internet doesn’t have enough info on them.

It will also aid in countering Taliban propaganda. “There’s an entire audience segment that seeks its news from alternative means outside traditional news sources, and we want to make sure we’re engaging them as well,” said Col. Greg Julian, the top U.S. spokesman in Afghanistan.

Octo-mom’s mother, Angela Suleman, has her house up for auction. The cost is $534,289.54, which is significant because Nadya just purchased a new home for $564,900, instead of helping mom out of debt. Nice.

This morning I read Jonah Goldberg’s columnin the National Review regarding President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor. Needless to say, I was a bit outraged by what I read.

Essentially, Goldberg wrote that there is no place for “empathy” on the Court, a trait that he called the “key qualification” for Obama’s pick. (It wasn’t the key qualification by any means — Obama laid out a laundry list of items needed for anyone he was going to nominate, and empathy was among them.) Justices have to apply the rule of law to each case equally, and any opinion reached through empathetic emotions would be derived through dubious means.

Goldberg acts as though Sotomayor is an ignoramus, as though she is not aware of her constitutional rights and duties as a judge (or justice). She ought to know better, for, if confirmed, she would have more federal experience than anyone else confirmed to the Court in the past 100 years.

A new poll by Harris Interactive for France 24 and the International Herald Tribune has found that Obama is the most popular leader in the world. Italy, France, Spain, Germany, and England all love the guy!

The Dalai Lama came in a close second, but his basketball skillz are no where near on par with the Presidents. Pope Benedict, on the other hand, continues his decline as only 36% of adults across the six countries have a favorable opinion. Many suspect it’s due to the party he had in his parents basement when the cops showed up. Total. Disaster.