Marmite has developed a special edition made from the yeast left over after brewing Guinness. [via Rachel Maddow]

Viacom told YouTube to take down 100,000 of their clips, posted almost all of them to iFilm (owned by Viacom) and has now licensed them to start-up Joost.

SeeMe is an idea I had over the weekend for an open-source AJAX messaging service to be installed on any sort of web site so users can briefly talk with each other based on where they are on the site and what they like on it.

"Man Choking Chicken Nearly Stricken." Fantastic headline from a BoingBoing reader for this hilarious but unsettling story.

Virgin and Capitol merge; Fischerspooner and The Dandy Warhols, amongst others, set to be dropped.

Teaser trailer for the new This American Life TV show on Showtime. Really looking forward to this.



McDonald's has cease-and-desisted the artists dipping their vintage coffee stirrers in 24k gold.
Quite a shame.

The Army's top hospital, Walter Reed, is not doing as good a job as we thought. "While the hospital is a place of scrubbed-down order and daily miracles, with medical advances saving more soldiers than ever, the outpatients in the Other Walter Reed encounter a messy bureaucratic battlefield nearly as chaotic as the real battlefields they faced overseas."

Amazing floor display designed by Chris Ware for the Acme Novelty Library. Jason Kottke posted links to audio and video of a recent talk by Ware at University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

IKEA Hacker helps you make cooler stuff out of cool IKEA furniture. [thanks Patti-Ann]

Some tax tips for graphic designers and other self-employed people. Have two offices, travel between them frequently, and don't share either one.

The UNIQLO Explorer is an amazingly cool way to browse clothing on their site using a slick mosaic interface. Their flagship store in SoHo NYC would be considered massive anywhere, but in SoHo it's like an airplane hangar. [via Waxy]

A group of husbands in Japan who describe themselves as "Chauvinistic" have decided to make a huge effort to treat their wives really well. The start of a new cultural revolution? [thanks Maria]

Joe Rogan takes on "Carlos Mencia" at his own show. [ifilm]


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