I’m Sure at some point in all of our lives we’ve had to introduce the significant other to our parents… and if your family is anything like mine, they rejected your partner because they weren’t as awesome as you! Turns out my father leaked some family footage of my sister bringing home her boyfriend to the family from a few years ago… Love you Sis! ha… it didn’t go quite as well as she had hoped it would. Ahhhh Dad, how did you know that CollegeHumor would enjoy the footage so much?

[via N00b boyfriend at CollegeHumor]

The caption says it all… *chuckle*

[via I stood here for a while this morning; nothing happened @ digg]

Ohhhhh daaaamnnnn, Some developers over at Microsoft are gonna be in soooo muccch trouble! I guess someone thought it was a good idea to build XML into the latest versions of Microsoft Word’s .doc format… making them a .docx. Well apparently a Toronto based firm named i4i owns a patent for “a document system that eliminated the need for manually embedded formatting codes”. In plain and relevant English: Putting XML into Word Docs. The best part is that they’ve had the patent since 1992. Again: Whoops!

In May, a federal jury in Tyler, Texas, ruled that the custom XML tagging features of Word 2003 and Word 2007 infringed on i4i’s patent and ordered Microsoft to pay $200 million in the case.

In Tuesday’s ruling, Microsoft was also ordered to pay an additional $40 million for willful infringement, as well as $37 million in prejudgment interest.

Oh snap! Good for i4i, sticking it to the man! Thanks to Bill who sticks it to the man every night… all night… oh yeah!

[via Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word @ CNET News]

For anyone that didn’t know Lollapalooza was just this past weekend in Chicago. The event has plenty of music of a few different genres including some synthpop rave style music… Here is a video of the worlds greatest dancer busting a groove to the music… in public! Dude’s got dance moves from the year 2030!

[via August 11th's Around the Net @ G4's Attack of the Show]

I don’t remember who it was that I was having this conversation with recently (if it was you, post a comment), but Google is now able to ascertain nearly everything about who you are via their multitude of services they offer for ‘free’. Kind of scary if you think about it. I even know one of my friends keeps all of her most personal information on Google Docs… Things like her passport number and social insurance information. Imagine if Google wanted to take over the world, or just a single individual. Good thing The Onion news network has reported of the new Google Opt-Out feature that is coming soon…

[via Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving To Remote Village @ The Onion]

Above is just a sample of the larger image, however if you click the image you’ll see the full thing in all its awesomeness. And by awesome I really mean this thing is really quite enlightening! Ever wondered what Ninja multiplied by Zombie would look like? wonder no more! here are some very scary pictures to show you! Huzzah!

[via The Robot/Ninja/Zombie Comic Timestable (COMIC) @ digg]

So we’ve all seen pictures from this year’s Comic-Con so far… I’ve even linked a few of the good ones. Well here are the bad, or funny ones. Hit the jump for more fail and a link to the full gallery. Enjoy!

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If you read my review of the movie Up, you’ll know that I really enjoyed the short film from Pixar before the movie started. Well good news! It’s been posted online for all our viewing enjoyment. View it above, or click the link below to view it on the metacafe website.

[via Cloudy @ metacafe]

*chuckle*

[via McDonald's Adds a new Burger to their menu @ digg]

Is it bad that I already found a suitable picture to do this with? I know.. I lack creativity. But this is a sweet looking garbage can, in a pizzeria in New York.

[via Tom Hanks Trash Can @ boingboing]