I'm into Vans lately. Probably a mid-life thing, and I can't afford a Porsche. Here's a cool pair, part of a new limited-edition series created by Marc Jacobs. (Very limited...only 50 pairs of each were produced) Another example of...

Another example of how far out of touch I am with our culture. Its seems that a large number of american teens ("illiterate celeb stalkers" in the words of my good friend Bob) believe that the press enjouys too much...

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Some dude (with really dirty hands and kitchen table) sold a monster frosted flake on ebay for $156.00. This guy probably was inspired to do so after the ...

The comic book industry takes another stab at Hollywood. Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean are teaming up with Jim Henson's Workshop in the release of Mirrormask. The visuals in the trailer look pretty impressive....

TAKE THAT! You don't need to be a Photoshop god if your idea is powerful enough....

Anyone who remembers, fondly, the movie "The Incredible Journey", about three animals trying to find their way home, should seek out the comic book called We3. It's a hi-tech update on the concept, complete with sci-fi gadgetry, government conspiracy...

Those in content, loving relationships please read no further (and screw off for that matter). For many people, Valentine's day is the perfect reminder that life isn't going quite as you had planned. Now, a site called despair.com (love...

About a week ago, I read this article about an Old School-themed party at my alma mater. I wanted to bring an air of investigative reporting to YesButNoButYes, and vowed to do everything in my power to uncover pictures...

Put on your glasses and get ready: http://guimp.com/pacman_flash.html...

Do you have young kids, or nieces and nephews? Looking for a great birthday gift idea? Try Cube Figures. Open their eyes to a world of low expectations. Let them create a truly attainable vision of their future, complete...

Anyone interested in figure drawing would do well to check out some of the instructional books by Andrew Loomis. Unfortunately they're all out of print. So you can either pay a pretty penny on eBay (like I did for...

From the surprise hit of 2004 and #1 on my DVD's To Buy list...Napolean Dynamite, comes this unofficial soundboard of Dynamite audio clips, courtesy of Ebaum's World. PS: We need to have a lunchtime screening real soon....

...but for some reason it fascinates me....

Iraqi election got you fired up to vote? Play Is your senator Hot or Not? An old political adage says that people vote for the better-looking candidate. There must have been some hideous runners-up....

Pay Per View is alive and well in the animal kingdom. In a story that seems like it should come straight from the pages of The Onion, scientists have actually determined that, given a choice, male monkeys will willingly...

Not the new Star Wars trailer....

Detroit, MI - Automobile manufacturers are emulating ad blocking software for the Internet by developing billboard blocking technology for cars, trucks and SUVs. Ford and GM have taken different approaches in billboard blocking technology. Ford combines GPS and guided missile...

"Hole in the Earth" is an installation for the public space. Concept & design by Miss Maki Ueda, and the Production is taken care of by Miss Ueda & CELL (Initiators of Incidents) within the framework of CELL’Äôs "Homeport"...

Someone sent me a link to a whole series of Barbie images on Fri. The images are no longer up but I did have this one saved to my desktop. Ha ha. If I find the others, I'll post....

On February 12, after 20 years of petitioning and 20 million dollars, Christo’Äòs latest project "Gates" will be on display in Central Park. It will feature 7,500 gates -- free-hanging saffron colored panels between 5 1/2 and 18 feet...

On today's Chris Matthews show, a writer for the Weekly Standard, named Hugh Hewitt, predicted a huge story would break this week regarding U.S. military targeting and killing 12 American journalists. Apparantly, it was first mentioned by a CNN...

Apple have posted the trailer to "Kung Fu Hustle". I don't know anything about this movie, but based on the trailer, I'm sold....

Read my whole review of "Old Boy".

Ah those wacky Scots. First Trainspotting, then Craig Ferguson, now cleavage ads. media buyers are really going to have to add ebay to their repertoire....

You've probably all seen this already, ardent viewers of televised pap that I'm sure you all are. I've been suck(er)ed into UK television since being posted over here in early January and this caught my heart and eye this...

Yep, whoop de doo, we're one week old today. And man, look at that traffic just TRICKLING in. I tell you, soon it'll be like the steady flow of your morning ablution. If you haven't told your friends to...

Forget Halle. Move over Cameron. Get out of the way, Charlize. Because there's a new sex symbol on the horizon. I'm talking about Jo Frost - star of ABC's new show, Supernanny. Maybe it's the plum Bristish accent, maybe...

Now here's a gal who knows what she wants. From Craig's List: "Subject: Ok . . . I give up . . . just fuck me like a whore - 31 "I'm a busy, successful, attractive woman with a professional...

Ananova (who, to be honest, don't seem to be THAT rigorous with their fact checking) are reporting that a man trapped by an avalache has urinated his way to freedom. I personally think they may be taking the piss...

This has been around for a while but, listen to Nickelback's 2001 hit "How You Remind Me" coming from the left speaker and their 2003 hit "Someday" coming from the right speaker simultaneously. Pretty much the same song, note...

This just in....SpongeBob is gay! Far right pushing their agenda, or cagey Church of Christ recruiting tactic? You decide. In a hasty move, the creator calls him 'an asexual crustacean.' Ouch!...

According to TV Guide Online, ESPN will air NFL Films' Super Bowl Highlights 198 times between now and the big game. More than my 80-hour TiVo can handle. But now fans of the ads can get just as nostalgic...

We've all benefited from the viral bandwagon - harmless, stupid humor that we find just stupid enough to post in places like this. I for one hope that companies continue to think this is where they should spend their money....

If a relaxing moment turns into the right moment, and you're golfing, be sure you've conquered trajectile dysfunction. Cleveland Golf has managed to rise above all that golf-advertising noise with this Trajectile Dysfunction site. Be sure to watch the...

I never realized it was such a big thing back then. http://bandit.pc.cs.cmu.edu/sax/...

According to the Gothamist, this is the SUV that drives around taking the photos for the Amazon yellow pages thing....

Now the concept of "whiteness""whiteness" is the subject of an exhibit at the International Center of Photography in New York City. "White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art" features works by 11 artists who confront head-on what it means...

I don't know if it's the hunky and swaggering young Steve Jobs, so full of promise, or the stirring and dated "Chariots of Fire" soundtrack or maybe I'm just a geek - an old geek - yeah that's it...

Non-geeks move along, there's nothing to see here. Otherwise... We've added the first of a planned series of upgrades tonight. After going back and forth for awhile on which was the best page layout for this site, we naturally came...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5552307127...

Well, does it?...

It's all in here. Tom Cruise, The Harlem Globetrotters, Mr. Whipple, The A-Team van, Thomas Jefferson, Dolemite, the Star Child from 2001, K.I.T.T., Los Lobos, Voltron, Alan Scott the original Green Lantern, Bootsy Collins, Andre the Giant, Carl Jung,...

Ben and Matt didn't know what they were starting with Project GreenLight. Lately, everyone's getting into the "Send Us Your Content" game, asking hip, young consumers to send in their own material, hoping the cool effect will wash over...

" "UNDERSTANDING VORN is an artwork in flux. Every five minutes it scours thousands of weblogs, searching for the four most recently posted pictures that begin with the letters 'V', 'O', 'R', 'N'. Every five minutes, UNDERSTANDING VORN changes, filled...

Oddcast, the "virtual host" guys, have launched a new site with ESPN for the Super Bowl, letting fans turn themselves into virtual commentators. Next up...Bubblicious....

Amazon has launched an amazing local search engine today that combines yellow pages information with a full photographic walkthrough of several major cities, including New York. Start here and "walk" a couple of blocks left using the thubnails to...

The New York Times is reporting that The LA County DA will seek the death penalty for the man who caused the fatal train crash this week that tragically killed 11 people and injured another 200. The man abandoned his...

According to National Geographic, chinese scientists are moving full steam ahead on creating human-animal chimera. Which should come as a great relief to State Sen. Frank Shurden of Oklahoma. A long time defender of cockfighting, it seems he's proposed...

If you're not familar with the above phrase, then you haven't been watching the Ali G. show, but never fear - this outrageous satire on how a jewish comedian duped a bunch rednecks into taking part in a real world...

I can't can't this friggin song out of my head. Check out Cows With Guns. It's long, but it's worth it....

I'm sure everyone has seen the VW Polo Suicide Bomber "ad" that has made the round on the web this past week (I don't have the link handy). Volkswagon is bringing a lawsuit against the maker of the film. Article...

Cool. Someone actually cut up their ACME Novelty library comics and put together the toys and models that Chris Ware designed. Here's a gallery of them all....

One of my top ten bookmarked sites, BBC News, is reporting three separate stories today from the Northern English town across the Mersey, which, although unrelated, seem to weave a curiously compelling snapshot of the British psyche, the land...

WMDs and Iraqi insurgents are just the tip of the berg. Seems there are phantom menaces and forces of insurrection perping bad all over. I'd like the thank the Pharmaceutical industry for shining the flashlight of animation on the...

Although intrigued by the trailer for Crispin Glover's new film, I'm not sure it surpases this early Mike Meyers masterpiece. Dieter's Dream...

With the recent passing of Johnny Carson and Philip Johnson it appears that death has come out swinging in 2005. Its not to late to get in on the action. Rotten.com's Deadpool gives you the opportunity to put your predictive...

The source of my nick. Thank you Dave Chappelle for bringing so much joy into my life. Clickity Clack...

As I have so many project ideas that I will never see through to completion I thought I would just start sharing them. One of them is a grammar of pornography and the semiotic study of the various poses. It...

Just my opinion, but Target advertising rocks. They're running a new spot all about design, how it's all around us, and how you can make it more a part of your everyday life by looking at things a little...

This site creates miniture sculptures based on famous works of art. http://www.3d-mouseion.com/engels/bosch_eng4.htm...

Went to a great new restaurant on 17th Street a couple days ago. BLT Fish...like going to a Nantucket clam shack in the heart of the Flatiron District. Great raw bar, then an awesome Lobster roll with onion strings....

At what type of event does one don his finest pair of knocker cufflinks? and just what type of statement is one trying to make? This and other tasteful accessories at simoncarter.net Sorry, the genetalia bow ties sold out...

A study by a guy named Michael Paulus on the structural anatomy of various cartoon charaters. Check them out....

I LOVE carnival stuff, and I really like KidRobot, and now the two have come together in a very cool way. Carnival Punks were the stuffed animals you would throw softballs at when you were young, to win a...

The Macintosh turned 21 this week, and a cute baby video has surfaced. To see a dapper-looking Steve Jobs walk the Mac through its first public steps, click here. [NOTE: The file is about 20 MB. If you're dialing up,...

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Two related stories from the current Rolling stone magazine: Firstly, Yoko Ono has given permission for two previously unreleased songs by John Lennon to be used in an upcoming Broadway musical called (amazingly) Lennon . These were songs that John...

Do you work in advertising? Are you always saying "I wish I worked for an agency Like Crispin Porter"? Well, now you can - apply to work at the agency Like Crispin Porter. The parody is spot on, especially...

Tired of your livestrong bracelet? Here’Äôs the next statement of the moment. ’Äú I did not vote 4 Bush’Äù bracelets, brought to you by the same people that manufactured the Lance Armstrong variety. Not as noble a cause for...

On last Thursday's season premier of The Apprentice, a contestant asked Mr. Trump to verify an urban legend: Did he once thank a kind stranger who'd helped change a tire on Trump's limo by paying off the good samaritan's...

http://www.songmeanings.net A site that allows anyone to speculate of the meaning of the lyrics of just about any song you can think of. Ever wonder what "Vertigo" by U2 is about? According to the first post: "This song rocks!". How...

"No law, or set of laws, has made the government more intrusive and ridiculous than seat belt legislation," wrote Derek Kieper in his student column for the University of Nebraska's Daily Nebraskan back in September. "And if I want to...

reported that the new CEO of Krispy Kreme will earn $760 an hour. That's over $6k a day. Or, for a 40 hour week, $30,040. Annual salary works out to be $1.58m. Or alternatively, just about two million glazed doughnuts,...

Yes But No But Yes is the place to go to find a complete list of relevant oscar nominations: BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: *Cate Blanchett - THE AVIATOR * Laura Linney - KINSEY *Virginia Madsen - SIDEWAYS *Sophie Okonedo - HOTEL...

The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA) is the world's only museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms. In the tradtion of Duchamp, Cage and myself this site is a collection of...

Full disclosure: I'm a comic fan through and through and have attended many conventionss. But this still doesn't mean I'm in the company of geeks like this. Please tell me I'm not, please, I beg you. Live long and...

Look closely, because things here definitely aren't what they seem. The bottle is actually drawn on the pavement in pastel. Incredible. And just one on many examples that are featured on Julian Beever's Pavement Drawings gallery....

The Razzies, the annual awards for the worst in film, announced this year's nominations. No surprise that "Catwoman" lead the bunch with the most noms. A big week for George Bush though. Fresh off the inaugural parties for winning...

Charles Schultz famously wrote "Love Is....wanting to know exactly what the hell she's doing right now, and who with, including a detailed description and photographs, or written transcript, and DNA evidence if possible, that bitch." Wait - or was...

A short critique of artwork created by such famous names as Charles Manson and John Wayne Gacy. The above image was drawn by Gerald Stano, killer of 41 people. See more horrifying glimpses into the psyche of the serial...

What is it? That is in fact the title of Crispin Glovers film being shown this week at Sundance. ...

It seems that, rather than being the animated kids show that everybody thought, Scooby Do Where Are You? is actually a hidden camera reality TV show....

in Berlin gives you lots of The Propeller Island City Lodge has lots of interesting room options including this "padded cell"....

Boobs and orgasms get a lot of scrutiny when the subject of fakes comes up. What about smiles? This quiz on BBC online puts your ability to spot a fake to the test....

As if being a monday wasn't bad enough, a British psychologist has concluded that January 24th is in fact the most depressing day of the year. "The model is: [W + (D-d)] x TQ /M x NA The equation is...

Browsing through this week's Entertainment Weekly, I cam across a Trivia contest that you can enter online. The grand prize is poor ( "a selection of DVDs") but the questions are reasonably challenging. The trouble is, if you actually...

Everyone knows that the toughest part of getting your short made isnt the financing, its getting your flakey actor friends to show up when you want to shoot. Until CGI becomes a viable option, theres paper. Orange is sponsoring...

Nina Gordon takes her insipid vocal stylings to the steet in a cover of NWA's Straight Outta Compton. ...

If you've ever thought to yourself "One day I must buy 16 reams of finest Bayeaux hessian, earthen thread spun on a young lady's thighs, and create a tapestry of the pageantry that is my life" - anyone? anyone?...

You know, I remember the days when Amazon was an online bookshop. Now, it seems they've opened an off-planetary vehicle subsection. From the product description: "The JL421 Badonkadonk is a completely unique, extremely rare land vehicle and battle tank....

I'm having serious doubts about Christian Bale in that crappy rubber bat suit, but luckily there's ANOTHER batfilm on the horizon, one that looks much cooler. Batman:New Times is inspired by the Lego Spiderman, and the figures have the...

Well, that's an interesting combination of headline and image.... These Bloodninja chatroom transcripts have been around for awhile, but they're still some of my favorites....

I guess the answer depends on where you live - on one side of the pond, the world freaks out over an embarrassingly unsexy Jackson nipple. And on the other, one of the four network stations produces this little...

Grandad got your Rubik's cube again? Never fear - now you can save your wrist action for other forms of self-gratification, because the all-flash Rubik is here. I'm old enough to remember these when they first came out. Brylcreem...