You may have noticed at little extra effort put forth with today’s TTB. I did a Google search for burner this morning, and the first page of results were nine quotes from Lester on The Wire, and one these daily Steady Burn link drops, and I got excited.

Allright, that’s not true. Actually, it’s a near perfect ten for ten links to CD-R burners on Ebay, Amazon, etc., and a link to the wikipedia page for bunsen burner. But I’m still going to be a little more comprehensive moving forward, because sometimes this is the only post I have time for during the day, got to make it count. Mark my word, they’ll still be times that I’m mailing it in (it’s called a hangover, genius). With that said, on with the show!

First, this girl. She’s far too adorable for the congratulations, you mangled the URL page. I tried to go directly to Ars Technica (because I’m geekier than you even could have feared), and I got this chick and bunch of Spanish-language links. Are there other glaring examples of the mismanaging of beauty like this on the internet (I don’t mean porn) out there?

SI.com Extra Mustard unveiled their 2008 Clicksy Awards yesterday. You now have the opportunity to vote on web highlights such as Best Sports Commercial (as portrayed on the internet). I liked Lebron pumping his new Nikes with a little help from the face of the Pussycat Dolls, but Heidi Klum selling me Guitar Hero is just so short, sweet, and tittilatingly (sp.) to the point.

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I think it’s about 50/50 in terms of time spent actually listening to Chinese Democracy vs. time trying to figure out Axl Rose’s mental state. The University of Chicago press blog makes an interesting assertion, comparing Axl to Captain Ahab, among others. There’s a great quote here that I can’t spoil, but I will note that it concludes with, “…And yet, they all end up ruining the thing they want and destroying themselves in the process.”

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Iditarod competitor Jeff King became the World’s best known dog sled musher this week. Not because he’s revolutionizing the sport, because he illegally killed a moose in an Alaskan park. He was sentenced yesterday, and ordered to pay $4000 and had his hunting license revoked for three years. Didn’t he read that murdering moose, elk, or any other large game in cold blood is strictly prohibited in Iditarod: The last great race to Nome, the official Iditarod curriculum teaching guide? ,

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So, remember the feel-good story about how we, the U.S. taxpayers, are now paying to sponsor Manchester United with the $85 billion dollars we gave to AIG, the soccer club’s chief sponsor? Of course you do, it just happened. Fast forward a few months, AIG just announced they’re actually another 10 billion in the hole.

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• New Zealander Brendan Nash becomes the first white player to represent the West Indies in test cricket in 35 years

• It was impossible to ignore a link that reads “Chuck E. Cheese…it’s like something out of a Tarantino movie”

• At the Australian Open, John Daly gets uncharacteristically violent with a fan for a professional golfer with one of his vintage John Dalyesque antics

• Top-10 Least Stolen Automobiles of 2008. I’d have thought a Benz would be a hot target for those who lift cars for a living

• Two straight days of riotous snow ball fights at the University of Wisconsin has caused the school’s administration to call in police and create roadblocks to quell the uprising

• Hoops is giving soccer a run for the money in the World’s Most Popular Sport category. I don’t see Football (American) taking the title anytime soon, since most of the World refers to it as footie

• Gibson Guitars issued the new No. 3 Intimidator Les Paul to honor Dale Earnhardt, with only 333 being made

Send submission for Toss the Burner to me here. Later, paper chasers!