Sort of a self-serving post here but I thought I'd share this little project I've started. I got a new Daily Planner to start the new year and decided to put it to use - by drawing a different head in it each day.

Here's the month of January. By June I should be really good.

"Happy Valentine! My name is Nir. I am a 25 year old Psychic Poet from Israel.¬Ý¬Ý¬Ý¬Ý¬Ý¬Ý¬Ý¬Ý¬Ý¬Ý¬Ý¬Ý¬Ý¬Ý¬Ý¬Ý¬Ý
I'm auctioning¬Ýa Magical Date to one special beautiful lady¬Ýon Valentines Day 2005."

Lengthy poem and your opportunity to bid is behind this link.

eBay listing for Vocal Advertising.

Guess we ran out of body parts.

UPDATE 3/21/05 - this is really starting to get some press out in the blogs now, so click here for an updated post about this.

MyWay news is reporting the disturbing release of photos of yet another US Hostage in Iraq on a militant website.

But Matt Drudge over at The Drudge Report couldn't help noticing the similarity to the above photo. Nice catch, Matt.

Ever consider that the world around you is engineered for some reason, like in The Truman Show? Or that we all really ARE living in The Matrix? Because it's those occassional glitches, the synchronous events, where very improbable events happen, that make you start to wonder.

This story seems true enough, even mundane, but the more you think about it, the more you begin to realize that there's something a bit spooky about the chain of events that had to coincide for it all to come together.

No particular reason for posting this link to the banned Budweiser ad other than I felt the need to follow the tits and football with a beer post.

"I just have a question for you all idiots on this site. Do any of you have jobs, kids, wife or husband, or any kind of responsiblity at all? If you do why the f*** are you on this site?"

A particularly inciteful (and most likely faked) entry from the messageboard over on Rings, a site that purports to delve deep into a strange and scary phenomena, but which is pretty obviously the brainchild of a "viral marketing company" doing something "really viral" for The Ring 2, which must be hitting our screen sometime in the next few months.

Yes, we liked the whole Blair Witch thing, and yes, two-headed dog is kind of interesting. But this attempt at "guerilla subversion" is just waaay to obvious. Note to Hollywood; we're all much smarter than we used to be. Try harder.

Any sports fans out there? No?

Is this thing on?

Bill Simmons is a very popular writer for ESPN.com. He's covering the Super Bowl down in Jacksonville, and keeping us up to date by way of The Super Blog.

From his first entry, on having the game in Jacksonville: "Isn't that like Douglas beating Tyson, or Adam Duritz nailing Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox in the same calendar year? Doesn't that give hope to all the little cities that never had a chance to get there, places like Hartford, Newark, Birmingham, Duluth, or even that island in Hawaii where they film "Lost"? If Jacksonville can host the Super Bowl, anything's possible."

Ever been out on the town and seen a celebrity, only to have left your autograph book at home? Well, here's one lady that turned the problem into an oppotunity, and then into a hobby - visit "Sign My Boobs!"

You gotta love it. Adfreak is reporting that Mink, Louisiana has just become one of the last places in the US to receive phone service. It's a small hamlet, with 15 families, so it took Ma Bell awhile to notice them. So, they have a big ceremony, where the Govenor places the very first call to Mink's oldest resident, an 83 year old gal called Alma. Everyone applauds, Mink joins the modern world, a charming little story.

Fifteen minutes later, the phone rings again - it's a telemarketer.

Russell Christoff posed for this photo in 1986 and was paid $250. He didn't even know the photo was being used on Taster's Choice coffee jars until he saw one in a Rite-Aid two years ago (where's he been?!?). He just won $15.6 million in a lawsuit against Nestle USA.

Everyone, go recheck that you paid those usage rights for the photo you put in that banner ad.

This is a public service announcement. Try Airborne. I've been raving about this stuff for about a year, and today there's an article in the Times about it. No lie, it will get rid of a cold in one day.

Paid for by the Friends of Airborne Pharmaceutical Coalition.

PODCASTING
Podcasts are amature talk radio broadcasts that are listened to on an iPod.
Former MTV VJ, Adam Curry has developed the software that allows computers to automatically download these casts as they become available. The program is called ipodder.

According to his site, some 50,000 are listening to his show Daily Source Code and thousands of other people are creating their own shows.

NPR news story on Podcasting

Now this is the kind of office toy I can get into - remote controlled battle tanks. But not your average wimpy type of electronic remote-controlled battle tanks. Oh no. With these babies, when you use your tank to bash into your opponent, he or she is delivered an electric shock through their controller!!

Let's get ready to shuuuuuuuut down that pacemakerrrrrrrr!