December 2007
122 posts
Alright Kids! I’m done with the Internet for the Year. So, THAT said, I will see you all in 2008 - Let’s take this moment to reflect and remember… *eyes closed* Mmmm, yeah. That’s the stuff. Alright, you - HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!Champagnorz for Everyone!!!
Top Ten Signs Your Country May Be Going Fascist
DAY JOB ORCHESTRA
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
(RED-BAND TRAILER)
EVERYDAY NORMAL GUY
JON LAJOIE
Because I Wasn't here to Wish it... - Do Enjoy:
PRISONER CHRISTMAS - THE PROFESSOR BROTHERS THE IN-HOUSE CAROL - I AM BABY CAKES Happy & Prosperous New Year, Chuckleheads!!!
BANKSY - The World's Most Famous Street Artist!
Banksy is probably the most popular, yet most mysterious, urban street artist in the world - and he works at incredible extremes. He has become an internationally known as a subversive graffiti artist - yet manages to maintain a secret identity. He is a counter-cultural prankster, but has art in major cosmopolitan galleries around the globe. Banksy’s work has sold to Hollywood celebrities for...
California Cel Phone Laws are Changing...
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed legislation that prohibits the use of handheld mobile phones while driving in the state. Effective July 1, 2008, the legislation prohibits drivers from using a wireless telephone while operating a motor vehicle unless the driver uses a hands-free device. Drivers who violate the law will face a base fine of $20 for a first offense and $50 for...
ZEITGEIST: A Psychological Evaluation Needed...
A Parker High School student tore pages from a Bible in class earlier this month, raising constitutional and ethical issues for school officials and his classmates. Some students were upset, while others rallied to the cause of free speech. The student was suspended, his mother said. She was told he couldn’t return to school until he had undergone a psychological evaluation. He was out of school...
Epic Awesome... Japan's New Architectural Project:
The people over at Ironic Sans have come up with a neat idea (that’s right, this isn’t actually happening - but wouldn’t be sweet if they did?!) - What do you think?The people of Tokyo should construct a giant building shaped like Godzilla. Imagine what it would do to the city’s skyline, and to the tourism industry. People would come from all over to take pictures. His eyes...
Super High Me - Teaser
Doug Benson goodness… saw this and enjoyed it. >_
Taiwan's "Recycle" Logo is Pretty Damn...
The negative space from the four inward black arrows creates four outward white arrows. (s)
Pakistan opposition leader Bhutto assassinated.
Ms Benazir Bhutto - the first woman PM in an Islamic state - was leaving an election rally in Rawalpindi when a gunman shot her in the neck and set off a bomb. At least 20 other people died in the attack and several more were injured. President Pervez Musharraf has urged people to remain calm but angry protests have gripped some cities, with at least 11 deaths reported. Security forces have been...
If you're in the L.A. Area this Friday...
The Germs + The Adolescents In a bizarre case of life imitating art, legendary L.A. punk band The Germs reformed last year to tour—without iconic frontman Darby Crash, who died of a drug overdose in 1980. It’s nothing new in the rock game, but few bands use actual actors in place of their dead colleagues. Standing in for Crash is thespian Shane West (ER, A Walk To Remember, The League Of...
Just So We're Clear: These Are NOT True...
You should drink at least eight glasses of water a day We use only 10% of our brains Hair and fingernails continue to grow after death Reading in dim light ruins your eyesight Shaving causes hair to grow back faster or coarser Mobile phones are dangerous in hospitals Eating turkey makes people especially drowsyA review of evidence by US researchers surrounding seven commonly-hold beliefs suggests...
Let Children Play Dangerously Again...
Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, talks about our new wave of overprotected kids — and spells out 5 (and really, he’s got 6) dangerous things you should let your kids do. Allowing kids the freedom to explore, he says, will make them stronger and smarter and actually safer.
Captain Obvious: Sex Education Works!
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Teenagers who have had formal sex education are far more likely to put off having sex, contradicting earlier studies on the effectiveness of such programs, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. They found teenage boys who had sex education in school were 71 percent less likely to have intercourse before age 15, and teen girls who had sex education were 59 percent less...
FLAGS
The winner of the 2005 print Epica d’Or was Foote Cone & Belding, Lisbon, for the Grande Reportagem “Flags” campaign. United States (+) China (+) Grande Reportagem is a premiere Portuguese news magazine renowned for its investigative reporting and stunning photo-journalism. (+) These aren’t anything new. But it makes sense to look at them again, as we are about to embark...
Don't Ever Forget: NIRVANA
Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington. Nirvana went through a succession of drummers, with the longest-lasting being Dave Grohl, who joined the band in 1990. With the lead single “Smells Like Teen Spirit” from their 1991 album Nevermind, Nirvana entered into the mainstream, bringing along...
Yes! You Can Apparently Buy Her Fidelity...
A special diamond to purchase sexual fidelity! Awesome. If any real demographic research went into this marketing, instead of just guesswork, then we have alarming evidence of the paranoid mindset of a lot of men. Between this and the ads that imply that you, the customer, are so hard up for sex from your own wife that you’re desperate enough to pony up thousands of dollars, I’m...
Wait, What?! Holy Crap! I'm at 5,500 Hits?!
My Favorite Level in Super Mario Galaxy… the Apples. For the past week or two… ok, maybe three weeks now. I haven’t been as crazy about posting - I blame alcohol and Super Mario Galaxy. Just to place blame on TWO. I honestly thought nobody had been visiting because I kept seeing that the numbers down at the bottom weren’t reawlly changing, But they have, and now, I...
Well, I've Been Trying To Tell You All...
A pint of the black stuff a day may work as well as an aspirin to prevent heart clots that raise the risk of heart attacks. Drinking lager does not yield the same benefits, experts from University of Wisconsin told a conference in the US. Guinness were told to stop using the slogan decades ago - and the firm still makes no health claims for the drink. The Wisconsin team tested the health-giving...
REVIEW: The Year in Film - 2007
The A.V. Club’s film writers pick the best films of a very good year and throw in some observations on the rest of the year.
REVIEW: The Presidency in the Year 2007
THE ONION - With multiple resignations and the loss of the Republican majority in Congress, many of President Bush’s accomplishments failed to make the news. Here are some of the high points of this year in the Bush administration: Feb. 10—Left a crowd outside a batting cage in Baltimore feeling proud to be Americans March 5—Received his 30-day chip from Alcoholics Anonymous April...
Soccer + Binoculars = Makes Me Laugh
TAKESHI KITANO COMEDY SHOW
Bill Maher's List of Biggest Assholes of 2007
A small sample, click here to visit the entire dickhead compendium. Erik Prince We used to have rent-a-cops. Now we have rent-a-soldiers. As CEO of Blackwater, the most notorious private-security contractor in Iraq, Prince has his own navy, air force and spy agency. This guy is building nothing short of a parallel national-security apparatus. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but...
Somehow, I RE-Found this Artist. Good Stuff.
I first found Corey Lewis art back in 1999 or so, back when he was much much younger - like some high-school kid that completely rocked the comic-book style and made me feel very inadequate about MY work. Even back when he was like 16 or whichever. These days you can find him at www.reyyy.com Below, a comic he made, with a much more personal approach…
Rainy Mornings Make Me Wake Up Late...
Do you remember back in the day when the coolest come back was “Bend Over and I’ll Show You”? - Those where good times. And surprisingly, for such a lurid concoction of words, it works quite nicely, the wit may never end however. I think I’ll start it over, 10 years later, I know it can carry on strong. I only worry about being that weird guy that keeps asking for a set of...
Personal Jesus
DEPECHE MODE MARILYN MANSON Huh! — I actually hadn’t seen these videos. Weird! .. That’s just not normal. JOHNNY CASH
THE DARK KNIGHT - Trailer A
It’s HERE! - Make sure you catch the new Batman trailer… available in Awesome and mickey mouse:
Can't Tell Me Nothin'
ZACH GALAFIANAKIS & JAMES OLDMAN
Cyanide and Happiness!
Resident Evil: Degeneration
My Name Is Bruce
Garfield Better This Way, Yet - Still Not Good.
Someone at Truth and Beauty Bombs has an epiphany: “if you remove all the text of Garfield’s speech, or thoughts, or whatever that is…it becomes an oddly surrealist comic.” A horde of contributors prove him right. (s) Personally, I just find it to be SAD and REAL - the way I’d imagine most cat owners to be in reality, talking to a cat that not only has nothing to...
Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away)DEFTONES
STUDY: It's Official and It's Scientific...
Dr David Lewis was commissioned by a London shopping centre to monitor heart rates, blood pressure and stress hormones in male shoppers. He found the results showed that men’s stress levels went through the roof at the prospect of buying presents, while only one in four women even registered a slight change. (+)
Perhaps it's my Culture... But I Agree.
It goes without saying that in American culture - or rather: The United States, people between the ages of 18-25 are considered adults. Apparently it’s finally settling in that, the case is quite the contrary. Most parents of college students, and their kids agree in a new study that confirms “growing up” comes later. What do you think? Is a person between the ages of 18-25 an...