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 Jenna Jameson has a "Jenna Jameson-flavored" energy drink coming soon. [Flickr] The funniest English language term for vagina is front bottom. Front bottom. I still need to read the rest of this, but this long article on the Algerian war and why the global media won't cover it is fascinating and literally new information to me. The Airhorn Project. [YouTube] According to billboards that have been taken down in Texas, plans are under way for a Texas-Mexico expressway, probably a segment of the planned NAFTA Superhighway. In their new plus-box roll-out for search results, Google has begun including embedded video. [via Waxy] Trailer for Daft Punk's ELECTROMA. [YouTube] Related: Google's first production server. An example of a photo that is ordinary in appearance and extraordinary in context. "According to Larry and Sergey, the beta system used Duplo blocks for the chassis because generic brand plastic blocks were not rigid enough." Related: Google hard drive study. "Failure rates are indeed definitely correlated to drive manufacturer, model, and age; failure rates did not correspond to drive usage except in very young and old drives... and drives that are cooled excessively actually fail more often than those running a little hot." Related: Google is very close to finishing the artificial intelligence system to run on their nationwide supercomputer network. The most amazing Line Rider video ever. [YouTube] [via kottke] Recording the Beatles: the book. Paging Phil Jacobs. "Insanely exhaustive documenting of EVERYTHING related to the Beatles recording sessions, including beautiful, almost-pornographic photos of every mixing board, mic, tape deck, etc. ever used in a Beatles session." [via BB] Nintendo's 2007 release schedule (for Japan). Lots of cool new Wii titles on the way. Related: Surprise! They also have excellent customer service. "She gave me directions to the Nintendo campus building where the Customer Service Center was located, and five minutes later I was looking at an unassuming door. I took a deep breath, told my son to hold on to the Wii with both hands, for goodness' sake, and opened the door." [via digg] Another SNL moment of brilliance. [YouTube] Labels: Links  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]  Hello Wider Angle readers! My new single "Do It Now" is officially out today on Olaris Records with remixes from me (Royal Sapien), Ryan Crane, and the inimitable Opencloud, whose remix is featured on their forthcoming compilation OpenUp. Check it out here and you can buy it on Beatport.  Labels: Royal Sapien  Link to image on Flickr. Labels: Royal Sapien  Massive cargo ships that can transport battleships, oil rigs, and power stations. The Bush administration has again slashed cancer research funding to enable corporations to control the speed of research and make more money. "We're at jeopardy of losing a whole generation of scientists, of cancer researchers, and that's undoubtedly going to have an effect 10 years down the line." Reports continue that the Bush administration is provoking Iran to have an excuse to retaliate.  Don't feel bad. [via reddit] Netflix upgraded my account over the weekend to add their streaming video service. While the selection of flicks available to stream is somewhat limited compared to their immense library, movies loaded pretty quickly and looked very good. The feature will be enabled on all Netflix accounts by June 2007. 1 in 8 drug prisoners in the U.S. are in for marijuana-related offenses, costing taxpayers over $1 billion annually. Nearly 800,000 pot-related arrests were made in 2005 bleeding taxpayers of over $8 billion in criminal justice costs. What. The. Fuck. Anna Nicole Kidman's bedside fridge contained methadone, Slim-Fast, and spray butter. Classy gal.  A dude gave a homeless kid a camera and film on the condition that copies of photos be sent after a while. Many of the images are stunning. If you want to make copies of your tunes, DVDs, or whatever, and they're crippled by DRM, here's a fairly comprehensive guide to disabling all of it. See also: BoingBoing's guide to defeating censorware. Top 10 gay animals. Everyone's thought of doing Thriller at a wedding, but these people actually did it. [YouTube] Technology is in the works for a full-scale house printer that squirts liquid construction materials into place to form floors and walls. It could complete a house 200 times faster than traditional methods. Imagine using soy- and grass-based filling. Researchers at MIT have trained a computer to recognize objects as a human brain does. Jodi Applegate at Fort Hamilton Parkway. [Flickr] [referenced YouTube clip]  A lost Leonardo painting could be hiding in Florence, painted on a wall about 1 inch behind another fresco. The technology to find out whether it's there does not yet exist. YouTube and their venture capitalist friends are selling every Google share they got in the buyout. The deal now positively reeks of fraud. New York club BED closed this week after last week's murderous bouncer incident. BED, Avalon, and Crobar have all closed in the last few months. The Morning News put together an extraordinarily comprehensive guide to etiquette in NYC. "A smart guest will consult the host on what type of wine to bring; a smarter guest will bring two bottles." Eddie Murphy pwned at 7th Avenue. [Flickr]  10 myths about Windows Vista that should be summarily dismissed. "All of the media that imported from my XP Windows Media Center computer, including recorded TV programs, played without a problem." Xeni Jardin posted a fantastic screenshot of how Wal-Mart's new digital download service renders in Firefox. To call it a mess would be compassionately inaccurate. The Pentagon has decided to send 20,000 homicidal astronauts to Iraq. "Gen. Petraeus said that the bloodthirsty astronauts would arrive in Baghdad armed with pepper spray, mallets, and rubber tubing, 'and they're not afraid to use them.'" These honeybees blinded a hornet with science. Then killed it. [YouTube] Visualizations On A Plane using faces from the SkyMall catalog. The demographics of the models are somewhat disturbing. [via kottke] The one and only Guitar Hero will be making its way to the Wii. [via Waxy] A list of the winners of the 2007 Plug Awards. Among the honored, Spank Rock for Hip Hop album of the year, Thom Yorke for electronic album of the year, Hot Chip for best album art, and Band of Horses got album of the year, whom I have never heard. Check out Alonso Rodrigo's wearable sleeping bag. Sloths!!! [YouTube] The national news networks react to the death of a bimbo celebrity. "Is Anna Nicole still dead, Wolf?" The Doomsday Vault that will contain samples of the world's crops should something, er, expected happen. The design has been unveiled by the Norwegian government. Characters from The Office rendered as Miis. The Chinese military has been harvesting organs from live prison inmates for decades, if not centuries. Maldroid - Heck No (I'll Never Listen to Techno) [YouTube] Labels: Sunday Reader  Who expected Aqua Teen Hunger Force to be the story of the week? According to Salon, Sarah Silverman's unique brand of crude humor doesn't translate well to cable. Waiters who are nauseated by food, from the Dana Carvey Show, with Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell. [YouTube] [via Waxy] Dan Savage hates on Mary Cheney for not defending gay parents. "You and your whole fucked-up family crawled into bed with bigots like Dobson when it suited you. And now you and your whole fucked-up family have some explaining to do. So welcome to the political debate, Mary, and remember… Your side started it. It only serves you right that you’re going to have to finish it." [via Eyeteeth] Beautiful commercial from Volkswagen. [YouTube] Help The Morning News find new idioms to refresh the cultural vocabulary. "Idioms and proverbs—especially idioms—are crutches: recycled phrases that have outlived their value, only we’re too lazy to replace them. And they’re everywhere... Local news reports catch people defending criminals saying so-and-so was the salt of the earth, a peach, someone who was simply in a stew for the moment... My fellow Americans, we are learning new things about ourselves every day, and yet our idioms remain in a pickle, full of baloney!" Research suggests that being a good boss involves being encouraging, friendly, and deadline-driven. Imagine.  The Virgin Health Bank can save stem cells from an umbilical cord for £1,500 and share half the cells with the public. Future care for your child and for someone else's child. The poster for this year's Art Director's Club show is, well, bad. Uninspiring. Executed with superb attention to mediocrity. But it's better than last year's racist and badly drawn specimen. This is why I don't care about awards or shows or awards shows. As clients become more educated in the methods and language of design (thanks partly to the efforts of the AIGA), designers need to be prepared to defend every aspect of their work as its function and integrity is questioned. It's up to clients educate themselves well enough to find good designers and give them creative freedom and excellent guidance.  Saturn backlit from NASA. [via reddit] Ben Folds took a very creative approach to his CD label when faced with the mandatory FBI anti-piracy logo. Ramen noodles have never interested me until this blog post. I had no idea they were so long. "It was fun working in a group with the whole gang, just like performing surgery at the hospital!" Daft Punk's "Da Funk" live from Coachella, the classic "Da Funk" video, and the sequel, "Fresh." [YouTube] Matt Groening talked to TV Squad about the return of Futurama. "During the Simpsons session earlier in the day, Groening had mentioned that, even though he's still very involved with The Simpsons his 'day job' is creating the sixteen new episodes of Futurama that will be airing on Comedy Central starting in 2008." Some hilarious and offensive comics for girls from the UK. [via BB] David Sedaris on David Letterman. [YouTube] [via Waxy] More structures are being discovered around Stonehenge, revealing that the ritual site was not only a burial ground but part of a much larger settlement. O the many things we do now know. WTOC11 in Savannah, Georgia is on the case of "blogging." DO YOU BLOG? [YouTube] [thanks Allyson] |
   
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