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The Best and Worst Logo Remakes of the Century
comment posted at 9:32 AM on Oct-25-07

Pink Floyd fans may not need no education but Gilmourish, an exhaustive review of the guitars and audio effects of Pink Floyd's David Gilmour (with help from an insider), will leave most comfortably numb.
comment posted at 11:13 AM on Oct-19-07

The Moleskine Project
comment posted at 10:06 AM on Oct-19-07

Star Wars trumpet performance and interpretive dance by Stacy Hedger. [YouTube]
comment posted at 10:07 PM on Oct-11-07

Blender Magazine presents The 40 Worst Lyricists in Rock.
comment posted at 11:51 AM on Oct-9-07

In one fell swoop, some 16,000 hyphens have been eliminated from the sixth edition of The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, published last month.
comment posted at 9:34 PM on Oct-7-07

"My dad started crying, I started crying, my brother started crying," says Carl Nolet Jr., who sounds on the phone like he's not kidding. "It was exactly what we wanted to say. It was simple, it was black and white, it was genuine."

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comment posted at 6:57 PM on Oct-3-07

Decided to go grocery shopping after my wife saw some minute maid juice boxes in a circular on special at target stores .. She did a search for printable coupons online ,and to my surprise she found some minute maid coupons for target stores . She printed ten coupons and got ten boxes of minute maid practically free ... (lol) . Why can't us men think of these things ? Lol
comment posted at 9:03 PM on Oct-2-07

I am not a number, I am a free man. Forty years ago "The Prisoner" made it's American debut on CBS. A surreal and challenging science fiction series that follows "Number 6," a former government operative sent into a seemingly idyllic but twisted prison known as "The Village". Over the course of seventeen episodes, Number 6 struggles to retain his identity in the face of sophisticated and relentless attempts by the powers-that-be (led by people known only as "No. 2") to extract his secrets. It ended with a final episode that defies explanation and caused it's writer (the show's star Patrick McGoohan) to go into hiding after it aired.
comment posted at 9:37 AM on Oct-1-07

Indiana's Sardina. The New Pornographers of the '90s, the Sardinas released two fantastic albums full of mixtape fodder. Now everything they've got, including some live gems, is up online.
comment posted at 2:18 PM on Sep-25-07

Greg Nog was a Host at the Olive Garden. He has also drawn several other cartoons, and made some other stuff which you may like as well.
comment posted at 10:27 AM on Sep-25-07

Making $9.00/hour ("pennies thrown at my feet"), James Razsa leaves the trailer he shares with a roommate every morning to spend the day cleaning the pools of "the ignorant rich" in rural Maine. His most prominent clients -- former President George H.W. and Barbara Bush in Kennebunkport. "'If every American had to pool-boy for these people for a day, you'd have a revolution on your hands,' is how he sees things."
comment posted at 3:38 PM on Sep-24-07

So, it seems like (almost) everyone is watching Heroes. But if you want more, Heroes doesn't have to just a hour of screen time a week. The weekly 'graphic novels' offer backstory [PDF] to familiar faces, fill in plot holes [PDF] and introduce* [PDF*] new characters, they've even continued during the haitus. But Heroes' impressive online presence encompasses more than just comics... Spoilers for S1 throughout, mild spoilers for S2 (casting, new characters, some plot), I've asterisked the most spoilery.
comment posted at 11:05 AM on Sep-24-07

Rigging a study to make conservatives look stupid.
comment posted at 7:52 AM on Sep-22-07

"It is a horrible device nonetheless, and you are forced to wonder what the world has come to when human ingenuity is pressed into service to make a thing like this." Raytheon says, "The system is available now and ready for action."
comment posted at 9:26 AM on Sep-20-07

Logo Study: Batman. "A lengthy look at the logos of Batman from his creation to the present." Part two, three, four, and five. [via]
comment posted at 5:14 PM on Sep-19-07

Jake E Lee shreds, Steve Vai shreds, Eddie Van Halen shreds, many others shred.
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Does Bank of America have a problem?
comment posted at 1:24 PM on Sep-14-07

led zeppelin to play one more time
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comment posted at 6:04 PM on Sep-12-07

Dr Evermor's Art Park featuring the world's largest scrap metal sculpture, the Forevertron, is one of the most impressive metalwork collections I've ever seen. Great write up on the place over at Neatorama with tons of pix.
comment posted at 9:17 AM on Sep-12-07

In an experiment reported in the journal Nature Neuroscience, scientists at NYU and UCLA demonstrate that political orientation is related to basic differences in cognition - how the brain processes information. Psychological studies in the past found conservatives tend to be more structured and persistent in their judgments while liberals are more "open to new experiences." The latest study finds these traits are not confined to political situations but also influence everyday decisions.
comment posted at 9:47 AM on Sep-11-07

saltwater as fuel? Wow. Lets hope this is actually (unlike the bio-fuels hustle) - net energy positive.
comment posted at 1:34 PM on Sep-10-07

Ronald Reagan: A Graphic Biography From the writers of Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography. [via]
comment posted at 11:35 PM on Sep-8-07

Deep price cut in Apple iPhone infuriates customers who lined up to buy them first.
comment posted at 8:11 PM on Sep-7-07

Transcript of the most recent Osama bin Laden tape. [pdf]
comment posted at 2:01 PM on Sep-7-07

The Golden Record: Hear what the aliens will hear.
30 years ago today, a collection of images and sound recordings engraved on a record was launched toward the stars. The playlist covers an amazing collection of music, and has been called the Mix Tape of the Gods.
comment posted at 11:45 AM on Sep-5-07

Automated Mario User-created levels from Super Mario World that play themselves. One more here.
comment posted at 4:14 PM on Sep-3-07

David Pogue on the Power of Simplicity Complete with musical opening.
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comment posted at 11:58 AM on Aug-30-07

The Pinky Show takes on some tough issues. Is the Iraq War legal? (24 minute video.) Cats with guns. (6 minutes.) Viet Nam. (40 minutes.) Did Thomas Edison hate cats? (2.5 minutes.) Or just browse the archives.

Oh wait. Did I mention it's hosted by a cartoon cat with an annoying monotone voice? Well it is.
comment posted at 8:20 PM on Aug-30-07

Karl Rove desperately clings to dignity as a new White House conspiracy is covered in film. Score one for government transparency.
comment posted at 12:11 PM on Aug-29-07

The Official Berkeley Breathed Website [warning: ComicSans] announced that the weekly "Opus" comics for August 26th AND September 2nd* "have been withheld from publication by a large number of client newspapers across the country, including Opus' host paper The Washington Post." The reason? Making jokes aout Islam. And just the week before, Opus was thoroughly ridiculing the late Jerry Falwell. BB recommends catching his missing strips in the Salon.com comics section. But it being the Internet, somebody has already found and posted tomorrow's "Opus". Let's hear it for Fatima Struggle!!!
Berkeley Breathed is no stranger to controversy. Even his latest children's book, "Mars Needs Moms", was declared "Politically Incorrect". He is no stranger to me, either, although my last email exchange with him was over 3 years ago and I had nothing to do with this recent interview at MSNBC.com.
*Comic strip trivia: Most newspapers have their Sunday comics printed weeks in advance; that's why Kudzu ran Sunday strips two weeks after the dailies ended when Doug Marlette died.
comment posted at 8:47 PM on Aug-25-07

Uh ohhh! McCloud is in trouble! Duel (1971) was Steven Spielberg's very first film, starring Dennis Weaver. If you haven't seen it before and were looking for inspiration to avoid dirt-encrusted, flammable trucks on the road, well here you go.
comment posted at 6:05 PM on Aug-26-07

The New Yorker now has animated cartoons. Animating by Ring Tales.
comment posted at 9:44 AM on Aug-17-07

People whose names are anagrams of my own have a town meeting.
comment posted at 11:06 AM on Aug-15-07

Are we already living in the SIMS Matrix? Dr. Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University, says "My gut feeling, and it’s nothing more than that, is that there’s a 20 percent chance we’re living in a computer simulation." BugMeNot
comment posted at 5:21 PM on Aug-14-07

Don't complain about your cellphone bill too much....at least they're not charging you $218 trillion.
comment posted at 1:44 PM on Aug-12-07

Waterboard, waterboard, in cell number two
comment posted at 3:52 PM on Aug-11-07
comment posted at 3:54 PM on Aug-11-07

Nazi Pop Twins is an eerie documentary that debuted this year on BBC's Channel Four about the neo-Nazi teen folk musicians, Prussian Blue. The girls are managed by a neo-Nazi stage mom from hell, and the girls already seem to be more interested in shopping at the mall than singing white power lyrics. One of the creepiest scenes includes the twin girls on a phone call with their prison "pen pal," David Lane, the Neo-Nazi convicted of the murder of radio talk show host, Alan Berg. Lane refers to the twin girls as his "fantasy sweethearts," raising issues about whether an obsession with genetic "purity" leads to pedophilia on the Racist Right. Watch the documentary on YouTube (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) (Warning: may be exposed to YouTube comments from racist asshats.)
comment posted at 12:30 PM on Aug-11-07

Johnson & Johnson is suing the American Red Cross for trademark infringement. It contends that the Red Cross is supposed to use the symbol only in connection with non-profit relief services. "For a multibillion-dollar drug company to claim that the Red Cross violated a criminal statute … simply so that J&J can make more money, is obscene," said Mark Everson, the Red Cross president. Everson is paid $500,000 per year, more than triple his previous salary as IRS Commissioner. The suit asks the Red Cross to turn over the products in question to New Brunswick, N.J.-based Johnson & Johnson for destruction and also seeks unspecified punitive damages.
comment posted at 11:05 AM on Aug-9-07

Time lapse animations of planets and satellites. See what an amateur digital astrophotographer could do a decade ago. This is what the animated gif was designed to do.
comment posted at 11:10 PM on Aug-6-07

Borderline personality disorder described firsthand. A very personal look at BPD - including the implications of sharing the news in a public setting - his blog.
comment posted at 1:12 PM on Aug-6-07

The Black Sites. "A rare look inside the C.I.A.’s secret interrogation program."
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Good Copy Bad Copy is "a documentary about the current state of copyright and culture," featuring Danger Mouse, Lawrence Lessig, Dan Glickman of the MPAA and others. The film's creators are releasing it free of charge, via Bittorrent.
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