Jesus via College Humor.

Wired's Monkey Bites blog has extensive coverage of Yahoo! Hack Day and a rather fetching photo of Tom Coates, social web tech visionary.

Studios have pulled financing for Peter Jackson's Halo movie after production costs exceeded expectations by over 30%.

The fantastic Richard Dawkins on BBC News. "Religion means faith, and faith means believing something without evidence." [via reddit]



I've been wanting to get new wrist cuffs to replace my pseudo-athletic wristbands. I may go with black velcro strips, but these customizable dot-matrix cuffs are pretty nifty as well.

Simple has some beautiful all-green (not in color) shoes.



iBar is a beautiful interactive surface design/installation that is commercially available which uses projectors to illuminate objects or make patterns. I expect to see this at Ministry of Sound in the next two years.

RiffTrax is Mike Nelson's new project that provides MST3K-esque commentary on other movies like Point Break, Top Gun, and XXX.

Publishers rely on bestsellers to make a ton of cash, but spend most of their time on "okaysellers."

Drug dealers are starting to trade in Euros instead of US dollars, an unprecedented shift from decades of depending on the stability of the currency of the United States economy.

Michel Gondry directed Beck's new video for Cell Phone's Dead.



Check out seasons 1 and 2 of Wonder Showzen for free on the new ifilm beta site. [via waxy]

I accepted it a long time ago since I'm young, and it drives me crazy, but secrecy is dead. We have emails, security cameras, credit card receipts... "It is becoming unprecedentedly difficult for anyone, anyone at all, to keep a secret. In the age of the leak and the blog, of evidence extraction and link discovery, truths will either out or be outed, later if not sooner. This is something I would bring to the attention of every diplomat, politician and corporate leader: the future, eventually, will find you out. The future, wielding unimaginable tools of transparency, will have its way with you. In the end, you will be seen to have done that which you did."

Some Democrats have put together Mac spoof ads that, surprisingly, work.

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