Let’s get weird, shall we? Just as the devastation that is summer and the lack of scripted comedy on television was beginning to shatter our collective viewing, Season 3 of Workaholics rides in like a knight in a bear suit to save the day. So we’re ringing in the new season with a live conversation leading up to and during tonight’s premiere, including a Q&A segment with Montez himself — comedian Erik Griffin.

Erik will join us at 6:30PM EST/3:30PM PST to reply to questions and comments about the show, his career, tight buttholes, etc. Please direct all questions @Erik and he’ll get to as many as he can. In preparation we recommend everyone check out the Summer Tuesdays promo (hint: appropriate use of Bon Iver) and this Cinco de Mayo clip from “The Other Cubicle” (hint: Montez, Waymond, Jet Set, and Choco Tacos).

VERY SPECIAL UPDATE: Jillian Bell will be joining us at 9:30PM EST/6:30PM PST for the hour leading up to the Season 3 Premiere. Get torqued and your questions @Jillian now! Talkin’ about mountains, y’all…

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Here’s where being a sitting president has its advantages when running for reelection: Obama got to spend his Tuesday hanging with Bob Dylan. Mitt Romney is spending his palling around with curiously coiffed birther gasbag Donald Trump.

So yeah, Dylan — who some of us around here love unconditionally and perhaps irrationally — was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom today in a ceremony at the White House. As you can see in the screengrab above, he kept his sunglasses on the whole time. Why did he do this, you ask? BECAUSE HE’S BOB FREAKIN’ DYLAN, that’s why!

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As fun as it is to complain about “music these days,” and how it’s all been downhill since The Chronic or something came out, it’s even MORE fun to listen to — wait for it — good music. Every Tuesday, a.k.a. Music Release Day, we’ll highlight five albums worth (legally) downloading or driving to the local Best Buy (lolz) for.

Today, we’ve got albums from a promising young rapper, the best early 2000s New York band still around (sorry, the Strokes), a soon-to-be Adult Swim show soundtrack guru, and more.

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To build on our excitement for tonight’s Workaholics Season 3 premiere (did someone say live discussion and Q&A with Montez?) I want to dedicate this week’s Best of # to the show’s most relentlessly quotable character: Adam DeMamp.

Whether it’s attempting to coin catchphrases, deeming himself the cool pop culture character of the group, or simply adding his own personal anecdotes to every situation, over two seasons Adam DeVine’s on screen persona has become a master of scene stealing, which makes it even more of a bummer I only got to interview two-thirds of the trio. So. Many. Tommy. Move. Questions.

Anyhoo, I encourage everyone to sit back, enjoy, and take it sleazy until joining us later tonight.

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We don’t mean to tease libertarians, but it’s just so easy when they automatically default to “the free market solves everything!” on the Internet, usually in response to somebody whose dad was just told a newly discovered flesh-eating disease currently eating his leg is a “pre-existing condition.”

To be fair, though, the intellectuals involved will often write intelligent rebuttals to common wisdom. For example, we don’t agree with Timothy B. Lee’s paper, written for the Cato Institute, about how net neutrality laws are totally unnecessary, but it’s a fascinating read and it makes some good points.

Or rather, it made some good points, because now Lee is taking it back — and calling for government regulation, which is a bit akin to the Pope saying that Richard Dawkins guy has some good ideas about religion, in some quarters.

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Like soccer and Jerry Lewis’s later work, Eurovision is something that’s huge “over there,” but barely spoken about here in the United States. Basically, it’s American Idol, but with 42 countries (all apart of the European Broadcasting Union) instead of one, each of which picks an often kitschy act to perform in front of hundreds of millions of people. And most of the time, just like Idol, the winner goes on to do nothing. In fact, in Eurovision’s five-decade-plus history, it’s likely you’ve only heard of four of the winners: ABBA (1974), Brotherhood of Man (1976), Celine Dion (1988), and Katrina and the Waves (1997).

Over the weekend, Sweden’s Loreen won the 52nd annual Eurovision with the slick, trance-like “Euphoria,” a big and blustery, sure-to-be club hit everywhere not named the United States. BUT: the real winner (in my heart) was Buranovskiye Babushki, a group of Russian grandmas who sang, “Party for Everybody.” Sample lyric: “Come on and dance/Come on and boom boom.” They’re like LMFAO, but awesome and old, and they plan to build a church with any money they receive from Eurovision because, “Grandmothers do not need glory and wealth.”

Do you think they need groupies? Watch the songs below.

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Well it’s about goddamn time!

A Brazilian company called Guitar Pee has created a musical urinal that turns your stream into a solo. When your flow hits the tabs in the urinal, prerecorded, solo guitar sounds play.

Yes, this really does exist…

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(Ed. Note: Typically these posts run on Monday mid-afternoon, but since yesterday was a holiday and we’re having a Workaholics discussion today in the afternoon, we’re running this in the AM today. Carry on as you were.)

Um, WTF Mad Men?!

Wow. Just wow. I’m kind of glad Monday was a holiday so that I could have more time to process what went down Sunday night, and not only do I think it’s the best Mad Men episode ever, I think it’s one of the finest hours of television I’ve ever seen. The last 10-15 minutes of the show were nothing less than a kick to the nuts.

Let’s get right to it, shall we? Here are a few notes I made during last night’s Mad Men about characters, scenes, etc. I found interesting for one reason or another.

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Considering China’s past attempts to reign in the internet — specifically its attempts to clamp down on social media use by its people — it’s kind of hysterical that Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, recently spotted dining at McDonald’s while honeymooning in Italy, made a bizarre cameo in a snippet from a Chinese documentary on police work that’s floating around the web today.

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Two weeks ago, a couple of images were combined into a 4-panel comic similar to the one above. The comic was posted in a Reddit thread where it proved so popular that it spawned a new subreddit with over 1,100 readers. The comics usually depict the dog telling anti-jokes, making puns, or (on rare occasions) saying something uncharacteristically morbid. Consider it a post-modern vaudeville act. Or Laffy Taffy wrappers with an occasional cancer joke slipped in by a disturbed employee (and now you know how I lost my job at Nestlé).

Our 40 favorite “Oh, You!” comics are gathered below. All pictures courtesy of Quickmeme unless otherwise noted. (Banner image via Reddit.)

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Let’s take a second to ponder this: Facebook, which is already creepily obsessed with tracking your every move on the web, is apparently dying to introduce a web browser of its own, presumably to track users even more than they already are.

Reports Pocket Lint:

Pocket-lint has heard from one of its trusted sources that the social networking giant is looking to buy Opera Software, the company behind the Opera web browser.

According to our man in the know, the company could be about to expand into the browser space to take on the likes of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla and now even Yahoo, who has recently launched its own browser.

The move – which would no doubt send shivers of panic through Google – although unlikely to affect Chrome’s continued growth in the short term, would see the two tech giants battle it out on your desktop and mobile for web surfing as well as social networking.

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Hey, remember when the military was really worried about cyberwarfare and how terrorist threats to America could totally, like, mess with us on computers? Well, apparently that time is now, except it’s likely we’re the ones messing with countries we don’t like.

This time around, it’s Flame, a virus that the respected cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Labs is almost 100% sure is state-sponsored. Just like the carefully designed virus Stuxnet, the first acknowledged cyberweapon, Flame is a “targeted” virus: that is, it looks for computers that meet certain criteria and when they do, it drops its payload.

In this case, that’s computers throughout, surprise, the Middle East, especially Iran. Flame’s job is to steal files from computers, watch the desktop for new documents and other visual input, and record any audio conversations conducted over the computer — in other words, it’s a wiretap for Skype.

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