Long time visitors to this site may remember one of my very early posts that linked to a flash file that neatly demonstrated possible backmasking in Stairway To Heaven’Äú. Pretty convincing. Today I came across another site that was...

There are plenty of sites out there devoted to the latest movie trailers. Here's a blog that keeps you up to date on new movie posters as well as showcasing and discussing vintage posters. It's a fine looking site....

How close is the upcoming film Sin City going to follow the comics that it is based on? Pretty damn close. Filmrot.com has a frame-to-panel comparison of various scenes. ...

Don't let this happen to you! Remember, like Joe Pesci said..."They fuck you in the drive-thru". (click on the 911 zip file)...

Welcome to the world, little Aryan Justice. One day she's going to be a real stand out in high school. ...

YesButNoButyes continues to ruin Gary's life by not letting this thing die a quiet death. Head on over to newgrounds.com to to a fun flash movie of Randy, Paula & Simon critiquing the Numa Numa song. ...

I don't go to many shows where the backstory is as important as the art, but for "Eye of the Storm", the current site-specific show by Daniel Buren at the Guggenheim, the history is more interesting than the 81...

I should really save this until my saturday movie roundup, but this really is too good not to share. It's simple set up - take a mannequin head, project a friends face on it with an LCD projector, and...

Separated at birth? See more here ...

Just back from a business trip and my RSS feeder fillec up with a lot of interesting stuff that I'm wading through. Most of these came courtesy of a variety of blogs which I will now rip off mercilessly...

New York Press just put out its annual list of bad apples. And love it or hate it, it's some funny shit. Here's a sample... 49. Daniel Doctoroff - Deputy Mayor Doctoroff ascended from the ranks of the anonymous...

...but point-and-laugh at the way businesses cram it down our throats. Especially during Annual Report season. The authors of Why Business People Speak Like Idiots are wrapping up Manure Madness, where they tear apart the sanitized language from the...

Got your attention, didn't it? Happy Day Before Tomorrow!...

Yesterday, I walked past Duane, the angry head mechanic from American Hot Rod on the Discovery Channel. Bright Lights, Big City....

Always feels good to blow the crap out of a gasoline truck with a magnifying glass. And the difference between Christians, Buddhists and Atheists....

Terri Schiavo, 41, dies in Florida hospice. Link....

Hey, this morning on Howard, they started the show by passing on some sad news...Mitch Hedberg passed away last night. Is this true? They mention it on the site, but I can't find any reference to it anywhere else...

Frank Warren runs a site called PostSecret that invites you to take a secret that you've never shared with anyone, write it down on a postcard and mail it to him. He posts them to his site for all...

A Huge (HUGE) H&M banner on the front of the Flatiron. There have to be some limits...no? Couldn't they just scream H&M in front of the building every fifteen minutes? Via Curbed. Also at the scene...people have been scavenging...

BoingBoing is reporting that the UK's Glastonbury music festival will get around a late-night ban on loud bass by handing wireless headphones out to the attendees, producing a silent rave ’ÄúI like the idea of people dancing in total...

The latest in viral, being used to promote a new film "It's all Gone Pete Tong" about a European DJ with a pasion for the yayo. Via Adrants. Don't know much about the movie, but the site's pretty wierd....

The 4th Annual Lebowski Fest is coming to Louisville, Kentucky. Fans of "The Dude" will be gathering from July 22-24th to celebrate all things Lebowski. Events will include: ’Ä¢Unlimited Bowling ’Ä¢Costume, Trivia, Farthest Traveled, and Bowling Contests ’Ä¢Celebrity Appearances...

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Today's reommended comic is Seven Soldiers: Guardian by Grant Morrison and Cameron Stewart. Normally I like to preview a new book that is coming out this week but today I'm actually going to recommend a book that came out...

Here's a fun little flash game that may not be safe for work, depending on how amenable your boss is to his team exploring various homicide scenarios. Remember kids, don't try this at work. As David Brent says, he...

It's been a few days since a Lewis University student asked the wrong guy to help write her a paper (original story and our post). From the latest post on aweekofkindness.com, the blog where this all happened: "This is a...

On Rotten's Dead Pool. That's right. With Cochran passing away and The Pope on a feeding tube the action is getting H.O.T....

First Jenna Jamison offered Moantones. Now Ron Jeremy brings us Groantones. Of course I'm wrong. This is probably just the tip of the pornberg. (By the way, there's a blog about ringtones?)...

Via Cool Hunting, Thwart Design is a design collective dedicated to the "pursuit of raw creativity". They feature some really interesting products, although nothing's for sale yet, and they invite their readers to join them by sending in their...

’ÄúA clown can get away with murder’Äù - John Wayne Gacy I used the Chicago flight as an opportunity to catch up on a pile of magazines I had collected over the last couple of weeks. One item of...

What you can't tell from the photos is that it was only a half size X-Wing. What you can tell is that it's time for a better phonecam. M&M's Mpire promotion... bit of a stretch if you ask me....

I was flying over the Great Lakes today on my way to Chicago, and a strange - I hate to say it, but unearthly - feeling came over me. Very weird. It made me think of the anecdotes I'd...

I'm currently blogging from a hotel room in Chicago, where I'm visiting for a two day business trip. So wouldn't you know that during probably the only two days of the year I don't walk through Times Square, they...

Chicks stroking metal things. This commercial actually makes me think about the possiblity of wondering about the chances of someday entertaining the thought of purchasing body spray. (link at bottom of page) and, am I retarded? Is this a...

Taking a break from the weekly list of online discoveries, today's top five is a tribute to a national institution...the impulse buy. There is no reason, practical or otherwise, to purchase the following five items...and I bought each one....

Fans call it the greatest invention since the catalytic converter for reducing pollutants in the environment. Link....

My buddy Josh e-mailed me the Season 5 lineup: Jose Canseco Omarosa Pepa (of Salt-n-Pepa) Caprice Janice Dickinson Carey Hart ...and, my favorite, Bronson "Balki" Pinchot. Glad to see the reality TV world has created a place reality TV stars...

In an adfreak post, I learned how much the Gap has paid Sarah Jessica Parker over the last three years. How much? $38 million dollars!!! That floored me. Maybe that's in line with what other celebrities are paid. Maybe....

Russell Crowe's band, 30 Odd Foot of Grunts is breaking up. Courtesy of Eonline. There is an acedemic conference on the music of The Smiths next month in Manchester. Courtesy of BBC News. Roxy Music has finally convinced Brian Eno...

Occasionally I am reminded how powerful analog film processes can be. Justin Ouellette at Chromogenic has some phenomenal B&W work....

A PVRBlog post discusses a new way advertisers are trying to stop viewers from skipping through ads. Looks like some ads are covered with a banner while fast-forwarding. A few comments below the post complain that it's difficult to tell...

Umm, that's it really, just a cool little audio toy. ...

Beth Robinson creates beautiful but highly disturbing and strange dolls out of polymer clays and vintage fabrics. They are like something out of "The Nightmare Before Christmas" if it had been directed by Joel Peter Witkin. Strangedolls.net is where...

Ever think about taking a shortcut and ask yourself, "What's the worst that could happen?" For Laura K. Pahl, a Lewis University student looking for some Internet help with a term paper, she couldn't have imagined this. (Brian Murphy sent...

Link to story about Tom Delay telling the Family Research Council (who?) "One thing that God has brought to us is Terri Schiavo" and "This is exactly the issue that is going on in America, of attacks against the...

A sketch a day? Pfffft. How last week. Try A Painting A Day. ...

Love filling out brackets but hate college basketball? The authors of Why Business People Speak Like Idiots are judging this year's crop of Annual Reports on the worst (ab)use of language and pointing out the most egregious examples of...

Straight from the pages of Silence of the Lambs, it's the perfect gift for dad - the Apron of Heads. ...

Thomas Demand is a sculptor, turned photographer. He takes a preexisting image from the media, usually of a political event, translates the image into a life-size model made of colored paper and cardboard, and photographs it. Here's the fun...

Michael Chabon, a Pulitzer prize winner and an accomplished literary novelist, is a big proponent on the genre novel. He has edited a McSweeney's compilation of sci-fi short stories written by contemporary writers and written a handful of comic books...

1) Good crowd for the show. 2) Herbie makes an appearance. 3) Lexus concept car. 4) Sign of things to come. 5) For those wondering what to get me. 6) P. Diddy in the house. 7) Maybach...a steal at...

It's at times like this that I'm glad I have three sons, to justify being able to buy a cool toy like this for myself. Coming to a Target near you this summer. (Thanks to Adam for sending me...

For anyone reading YBNBY via an RSS reader, I wanted to let you know I've changed our feed url - please update your preferences to point to http://feeds.feedburner.com/yesbutnobutyes (should work for all types of readers). The old feed will probably...

From Netscape news: In school uniform, suspenders and high heels, she struts confidently around the pole, hooks her leg around it and swings to the ground before rippling back up. Flicking her long hair aside, she pauses to glance...

View Photo Slideshow Make a Free Photo Slideshow 1) A sunny Saturday afternoon 2) We parked the craft and journeyed inside 3) Abercrombie ad on steroids 4) Cafeteria by Ryan McGinnis 5) A faceless indian with a disco tent...

Hootie time, via adfreak. (Does jonesin' still mean the same thing, or have the kids switched to a new word? Crazy kids.)...

And so, with the Americanization of The Office, you may be wondering how you will fill the void in your comedy life. Well, set your TiVos, because a week from today, those of you with BBC America will be...

It's been a bit sparse this week on the movie front, but I've still managed to dig up a few little things: Bridge is an "algorithmic film about architecture". Altogether now - "here's a story, of an...err, ugly guy"....

A hilariously funny blog. The name says it all. http://stuckinrehabwithpatobrien.blogspot.com/...

A site that's been in my bookmarks folder for awhile that I've been meaning to share - a hilarious set of images depicting various attempts by a cute Bunny to shuffle of his mortal coil. ...

Just like the Spider-man Lego movie that came out last year, but this one is all CG. Starring Adam West as Bat-man. It is worth it just to hear him reprise his role. Watch the film...

Thanks Tail...This Japanese product allows you to show your appreciation to the drivers who let you in the fast lanes, while showing the rest of the world how retarded you are. That's not fair. It's actually pretty funny, in...

Scaramouch wrote about this site a few days ago....PodBrix. Apparently, every item they produce sells out in a matter of minutes. The Brixwear 1000 shirt uses a magnetic clasp to make your iPod shuffle part of the t-shirt design....

Anton Bogaty is an animator and illustrator with a plethora of really cool drawings posted to his website. Be sure to check out his fun Head Archive that puts my own "Daily Heads" to shame. Check out ACB3 via...

Nobody here wants to be the first to admit they didn't hate The Office. I've ripped the clips posted on NBC.com in two separate posts (here and here). Too late to take some of it back? Does this hold...

Face it, you didn't have Louisville over Washington. It's gonna be fifty and sunny for Easter weekend...go outside. The auto show is back at the Javits Center, the eggs are back in Central Park, and for dessert, you can...

Time for some credit where credit is due. Readers may know by now that most of the YesBut crew work in advertising, as we've covered stories on new spots, viral campaigns, etc. Well, I'd like to give a little...

Here's a cool little Flickr photoset, featuring people who have created desktop wallpaper that matches the scene behind the computer, to give the effect of a transparent display....

File this one under "hope they have Anger Management groups in the big house". Twenty-two-year-old Austin Later was appearing for his sentencing before a judge when things got a little out of hand. After hearing that he was getting...

Improv Everywhere (who we first talked about here a month or so ago) have been at it again, this time taking over all the windows in front of a department store and providing some synchronised entertainment for the passers-by...

I happened to be walking by the ABC studio in Times Square this morning just in time to snap a picture of Denzel Washington emerging. My life is just so damn glamorous. This picture added to The Moblog Project....

Hysterical viral spot from an agency called ReThink, via Adland. What would you rate it?...

This image is from http://milo.blogs.com - a haunting photoblog about which I know very little except it's a finalist in the "Best Toy Camera Photography of a Photoblog" category of this years Photobloggie awards. There are still 4 days...

THIS JUST IN...Australian scientists have grown adult stem cells from a human nose. Doctors at the lab are quoted as saying "Side effects...what side effects?". Image....

I usually don't post news items, but I've been following this story. Basically, the judicial branch of the government just told the legislative and executive branches to fuck off. Story....

Ninja Cupid. Now there's two words I never expected to say together in the same sentence....

Take a deep breath, relax, and enter the Zen Screen Garden....

Please excuse me using this public forum for a personal message to my wife, but this link is especially for her, because I know her sense of humor, and I know this is going to make her laugh her ass...

I know the law of averages says that occassionally patterns will randomly occur that look like more than chance. But you never know. So when, in the course of about ten minutes, I accidentally surfed into these three seperate...

The snowstorm here in NJ has blocked the satellite tonight, so we resorted to viewing shows that had piled up on the TiVo, which included the first two episodes of the third series of Project Greenlight, relocated to Bravo...

MoCCA (the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art) has a great exhibit showcasing artists and their work today as well as an example of their work from when they were kids. Participating artists include Charles Burns, Tony Millionaire, Gary...

This is not a scene from the Daredevil comic I wrote about in my recommended comic post. This one is pretty funny as well: via Progressive Ruin...

How bout some fun with flash, a pervert at a desk, and the difference between the sexes. Modern Living, via Cool Hunting. The Mighty Desk Wobbler. ...and On-line Orgasmic Simulation, via CityRag....

Kiddie Records Weekly has an ongoing project of converting Golden Age Children Records from the 40s and 50s into mp3 format. Each week it posts a new one for you to download and enjoy. Good for the kids and...

I'm convinced....

At last count, there are about 8 million other opinions out there that are less important than ours. And it looks like Godzilla just joined the fun....

There's a new trend in non-fiction called Micro-Histories where an author picks a relatively small subject, like salt, and looks at it from a grand, historical perspective or examines it in as much detail as one would typically put...

Today's reommended comic is Daredevil by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev. Change and character development is not generally something you get with mainstream superhero comics, especially ones centered around decades old trademarked characters like Daredevil. With Bendis and...

From the PodBrix website: Just in case you were confused... PodBrix is not affiliated with Apple Computer or LEGO® in any way. Glad we got that one sorted out then....

If girls with guns is what gets you off, you're going to empty your handgun pretty quickly on this site. Pretty much any time a women handled a firearm in movies or TV, you'll see a screengrab of it...

A European Marithe et Francois Girbaud ad, first seen in Italian fashion magazines, has been banned by a French court. The judge ruled the display was a "gratuitous and aggressive act of intrusion on people's innermost belief" and ordered...

Today's Gothamist mentions the Julian Opie exhibit down at City Hall, "Animals, Buildings, Cars and People". I pass it every day on my way to work. Lots of fun, with a great selection of new and well-known pieces. Here's...

Heard about this controversy at Harvard? Some enterprising sophomores started a company called DormAid, which offers dormroom cleaning services to messy, lazy and/or cash-flush students. Doesn't sound too controversial. But the Harvard Crimson published an editorial urging students to...

About six months ago, the Beer.com Virtual Bartender captivated men from dorm rooms to corner offices. Beer.com recently announced that version 2 is on the way. But those of you who haven't made an order yet should familiarize yourself...

The lesson with the Daily News Match n' Scratch fiasco: If you're going to have a big lottery-type giveaway, don't fuck it up. And, if you want to get in on the action, you can buy a $100,000 winner...

Has anyone heard of SlideRoll? This seems incredibly cool to me, and could be useful on this site. Slideroll is a free service that lets you turn your uploaded images into an animated slideshow, which you can then post...

Today we focus on the ubergadget that revolutionized the way we listen to music and created armies of zombie commuters at the same time...the iPod. 5) A case that brings DJ culture to the dial. 4) The next generation...

To quote Scaramouch in his first audio message, "there are 10,000 new blogs being posted every day", or something like that. That's alot of friggin blogs. I'm gonna start posting links to some that I visit frequently, as well...

I suspect this little mechanical critter is Japan's idea of cute, but frankly, there's something about it that just gives me the willies. See the trailer for Hinokio....

Interesting article in the Times today about the growing number of celebrities, including Lorraine Bracco, signing with the top pharmaceuticals to speak out on the benefits of anti-depression medication. Just in case you're not taking any, click here....

A short film made by longtime sponsor of the digital arts Scion, On the D.L. follows musicians ?uestlove and King Britt as they attempt to get their driving permits. There are some really great moments here. Bravo to Scion...

Hello Dr. Falken...would you like to play a game? Missle Command reinterpreted. The classic board game, Battleship. Only 278 days til Christmas. And can anyone figure out The Doors?...

Don't you hate it when you go to meet with a foreign dignitary and you're both wearing the same suit? via Wonkette...

Brawny is finally taking a more overt sexual approach to pedalling paper towel. The Innocent Escapes section of their website allows users to create tawdy videos to send to friends....

I don't really see the fuss over the American Apparel ad. The publishing industry pumps out millions of pounds of equally dysfunctional, oversexualized imagery every month. If you want to see offensive cheeck out this classic spot from Folgers....

A Brooklyn-born Jewish man who long ago left his family, friends and faith in search of a career as a successful writer. When he comes back to visit his dying father, he slowly realizes that while he made it...

A peek under the hood for all the technogeeks out there, as Scaramouch talks about Movable Type, moblogs, rss feeds, audioblogging and hosting providers. Yaaaaawwwwwn! ...

I read tonight that Flickr has been bought by Yahoo! I hope nothing changes about their terms of service or offering, because Flickr is an excellent photohost. Even the free version has lots of great functionality, and provides the...

Although Blogs are a fairly contemporary phenomenon, many people were keeping online diaries from the early days of the web. When I first bought a modem and went online back in 1995, a regular haunt of mine was the...

Who needs to wait in line at the local megaplex and pay $30 on popcorn? YesButNoButYes is the only chain that lets you go to the movies in your PJs. So dim the lights and turn off those cellphones......

The coming of HDTV is trouble for certain actors and actresses who just don't look that hot when you can see their skin in high definition. onHDTV.tv has a list of celebs who benefit from being viewed in HD...

Intellectually, I agree with Scaramouch about the loathsome portrayal of women in advertising. (Isn't that what that Mel Gibson movie was about? You know, when he wore pantyhose.) But on a much baser level, I like to tickle the...

After focusing for decades on miniaturization, the Japanese have finally embraced western cultures love of all things large, especially breasts. Makers of Bust Up Gum claim that chewing 3-4 times a day will enhance size, shape and tone. See...

Over the last few days, I've read a series of blog articles decrying the representations of women in advertising, so much so that I've begun to feel pretty sleazy about my chosen profession. First, there is this article from...

You can spend 48 hours watching your NCAA office pool picks go down one by one, or you can put down the nachos and do something. Opening weekend at Coney. Free ride on the Cyclone for the first 200...

Scaramouch - If you're looking to load up the site with some quirky-but-pointless bells and whistles, try changing the cursor into our YesButNoButYes logo....

We've all seen Photo blogs by now. Bor-ring!! There's a lot of good sketch blogs out there. Here's a smattering of them. kristen's sketchblog See Kyle Draw Ivan Brunetti's Doodle a day Pants Press Sketchblog Mike Wieringo David Lanham...

And so, Scott Peterson enters death row, guilty of murdering both his wife and his unborn child in cold blood, probably so that he could continue an affair with another woman. Lacey's mom sends him off with a request...

Here's a classic case of 'just because something CAN be done, doesn't mean it SHOULD be". Amaztype is an interface that searches amazon for a keyword of your choice, and then displays the results in a graphical rendition of...

John Hargrave asked himself "How crazy would I have to make my signature before someone would actually notice?" The resulting essay is hilarious....

The factory where I work is currently planning to rip out all of the offices we currently have and move to an "open plan environment". I'm dreading Dilbert-like cubicles. Maybe the architect should take a leaf out of Pixar's...

Scaramouch's debut in the medium of audioblogging - as well as today being St. Patty's day - calls for a link to The Seanachai, a podcaster and a recent recruit to my evergrowing league of extraordinary North Carolinians, the704.com....

I guess I was so swept up in the 3.14 Pi Day celebrations that I totally missed Steak and BJ Day. But it isn't too late to get a t-shirt. (Chicks really dig 'em.)...

We've featured similar photoblogs before, but two things struck me about this guy's project to add a photo a day for the next ten years. Firstly, I really appreciated the design aesthetic - the clean layout shows off the...

This is a pretty fun little gallery of comic books that were created to (ineptly) teach kids about important things like asthma, pesticides, and fuel additives. There are also some that nobly tackle social issues like child abuse and...

Ever wonder where Sid and Marty Krofft got all their wacky ideas?...

How bout some audio clips to get you in the mood....

Well, here's a little experiment - audioblogging. I have no idea if this is a cool new feature or useless embarrasment. I need some votes people - something we should do more of, or quietly delete and pretend it never...

"If you live to be a million, you will never ever in your life meet anyone more blessed than me." --Former In Cold Blood star Robert Blake (Story) "If I did kill her, it would have been because I loved...

A mime does Natalie Imbruglia and click here to take any image and Shatnerize it. Actually, the mime is from a new British import on Comedy Central...Hollow Men. Good Stuff....

Lyrics and guitar tabs of David Brent's original hits. Can't wait for someone to break into "Free Love Freeway" in a meeting. Cause the love is free and the freeway's long....

it ain't gettin' any bigger. (via Design Sponge)...

Today's reommended comic is Sin City by Frank Miller. With Robert Rodriguez' innovative and star-studded movie fast approaching the theaters, now is a good time to try out the original graphic novels if you haven't yet experienced them. Sin...

Tra la la, la la la la. One banana, two banana, three banana, four. Four bananas make a bunch and so do many more. Over hill and highway the banana buggies go Comin��� on to bring you The Banana...

Time to talk about the wealth of great stores in lower Manhattn. Most are just a stone's throw from Casa de'Jelli, so I really have no excuse. Remember last week when I told you about a store with the most...

I'll keep this one simple - cool flash stuff at Specialdefects....

Armed Forces by Elvis Costello & The Attractions, is I believe, one of the all time great LPs. Released in 79, I vividly remember buying my first copy on 33 1/3. It was a gatefold sleeve that opened out...

While we're giving kudos to Jobs & Dyson, let's not also forget the massive contribution of Frank J. and Donald J Smith, who, two days shy of Christmas in 1975, had the foresight to apply for, and later receive,...

Such a simple phrase, uttered by James Dyson at the end of the TV spots for his vacuum cleaner. Yet so, so profound. "I just think things should work properly". Isn't that just the honest-to-god fucking truth? When the...

One of the most influential writers in comics today is Warren Ellis, in some ways a true descendant of Hunter S. Thompson's gonzo journalism. Ellis has created some memorable fiction including Global Frequency, Planetary, Transmetroplitan and The Authority. Along the...

okay. so this probably won't make Jellio's top five consumerables this week, but you can stock up on Pi Day (3.14) paraphanelia for all the mathematicians on your Pi Day list. Although, frankly, the drop of the giant Pi...

Thorough recap of Burger King/Crispin Porter + Bogusky's product placement in Arrested Development by adfreak's Deanna Zammit: "Not content to have a central character chow down on a Spicy TenderCrisp Chicken Sandwich, the writers included a scene where psychiatrist-turned-actor...

Think about all the crap doctors are given by pharmaceutical salespeople. Hats, notepads, magnets. Easily forgettable. But this Levitra pen, which expands at the push of a button, is quite possibly the greatest leave-behind in drug marketing history. Well,...

The CG Batman movie I mentioned in a very early post is now online in it's entirety. It's a great little movie - excellent voice cast (including Adam West as Batman) and superb CG animation to mimic the style...

Stuck on designing that logo? Let the web design it for you....

For the ladies in the audience...fashion and technology merge (in 2006) in the form of a new laptop called the E-Go, courtesy of Design Sponge....

I want to start an office pool but I can't draw a decent set of brackets, and the xerox is broken, and my handwriting sucks... Click here....

Nothing beats the look on the faces of a theater cast when they realize they're getting a standing ovation. It's a combination of satisfaction in their own efforts, but also sincere gratitude to the audience for appreciating what they...

Take the amount of information you can physically process in one afternoon, and multiply it by 100, and you have the Armory Show. Here's a taste. 1) A human chain-link fence. 2) Marcel Dzama; I just sold a set of...

This trailer rocks. The site's fun, too....

Gregory Colbert and Shigeru Ban have opened a temporary cathedral on Pier 54 in Manhattan, and the sermon is delivered in the form of 200 sepiatone photographs, a haunting soundtrack, and a beautiful 45 minute video, in the new...

I'm probably the 2,000th person to use that title. You guys may know about this already. I just saw the new BK TenderCrisp spot, and my first thought, along with thousands of others was...Is that Hootie?!? I went online...

Anybody else think these are creepy?...

We'll praise the Clementine Gallery for creating their own contemporary art fair, in protest to not being selected for the Armory Show, and little else. ArtRock is an exercise in conformity, as little here is innovative, or interesting for...

Been wondering what the MadTV cast, the guy from Ed and Jim Gaffigan have been doing lately? Click here....

From the amazing web site of Evan Penny: Evan Penny makes the kind of sculpture that is so realistic, so detailed and so obviously a display of skill that it literally stops people in their tracks. Penny will be...

I almost included this in my weekly movie list, but thought it was so interesting that it deserved a post of it's own. Craziest is a beautifully told short story, that makes excellent use of Flash without being "flash"...

Turn down the lights, throw the popcorn in the microwave, and grab a favorite partner to feel up in the back row, because once again it's movie night... All 57 finalists for the Flash Forward Film Festival have been...

Thought you guys could use some!...

I have been a fan of Jake Parker's (http://www.agent44.net) art for a while now. Always looking at his broad style and character design with admiration. He is a part of a group of talented illustrators and storytellers that has...

Recently acclaimed comic book artist Chris Ware collaborated with the host of NPR's "This American Life" Ira Glass to create a DVD about historic Chicago architecture called "Lost Buildings". The DVD was given to NPR donators on a recent...

If ordering around a subservient chicken has lost its luster for you ages ago, why not try making a human being convey emotion? The turn around time may not be as quick but you can at least view the gallery...

I saw this over at adland earlier this week and it's stuck with me. Cab-top ad for Nivea self-tanning lotion. Adland originally found it on the TBWA Portugal blog....

Forget everything you hated about the last two movies. Here's the trailer that aired this week during the OC and it has me excited about this film for the first time. To see the trailer look for the first...

I never was a huge fan of anti-smoking ads. I know smoking is bad for you. People have been showing me black lungs and yelling "cancer!" since I was 8. And I don't even smoke. But this latest effort...

This week, Gary Trudeau's "Doonesbury" strip is giving tribute to the late Hunter S. Thompson, who shot himself in the head a couple of weeks ago. Thompson was the model for Duke, a longtime character of the strip. Is this...

- Bruce Willis shows bald 50-something men everywhere that it's cool to "grope" barely legal teenage hotties. He was spotted at the Peninsula Hotel pulling down Lindsay Lohan's pants before bringing her upstairs. Bruce, you still got it, man....

A tribute to side effects in The Drugs I Need and a dance contest between Napoleon and Fender....

Some of the new spots for Adidas are really taking the game to Nike, including this amazing piece by Spike Jonze. ...

Another Disaster Themed Post from Clickity Clack. Coudal Partners hosted a one day contest called Crash Ballet. Contestants were asked to edit and set to music footage from NASA archieves. View the winner and runner ups here....

From sportsillustrated.com, here's a transcript of dinner with Yao Ming, Patrick Ewing and Dikembe Mutombo. Not sure why I think this is so funny, but I was giggling like a jackass as I read it....

Lori Nix photographs miniatures inspired by disaster films of the 70s and her home state of Kansas. Wonderful work. Take the time to read the short intro by Jeffrey Hoone, its great...

Head over to iFilm.com to see a young Jim Morrison in a Florida State promotional video from 1964. Had the clip not been titled "Jim Morrison: College Dork," I swear I would have thought this was Wally from Leave...

Submerge yourself over on the Submarine Channel with this interactive mystery....

And so the sad sorry story of Star Trek: Enterprise draws to an end, and I'm hearing that the final episode will contain the revelation that the whole series has been a holodeck novel created by the crew of...

This week's recommended comic is Sleeper by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. Sleeper is a gritty noir spy thriller with a touch of superpowers. Holden Carver is a secret agent that has infiltrated the top levels of a secret...

It can be said that a culture is defined by what is spends its time, money and energy on. With this in mind America's monolithic art is the Aircraft Carrier and Britain's equivalent of MIT is Nice Cup of...

Sony Ericssons WorldQuest. Enroll online to become one of 6 players that wll jet from city to city competing in "mobility" challenges. There are still slots open. It looks like the accomodations are cush designer hotels. Not that you'd...

Fnarr fnarr snigger snigger. Yes, well, enough with the double entendre. I know "cool shopping for urban cats" is Jellio's thing, but I couldn't help drawing your attention to the Vertigo table from Offect. A combination of a two...

My attention has been drawn to a Russian site - All Of MP3. This must be the RIAA's worst nightmare - an overseas site selling hundreds of thousands of MP3 tracks, all without any restrictions, at 20 cents a pop....

The name says it all, via Apartment Therapy. Check out the video. This is great...and the same artist created one in wood, too....

I saw this ad on the onion and thougt it was a joke. But its not. The site says "Promting a safe and legal digital world" but the title of the page is a no-nonsense "Reporting Form". I feel...

Martin Meyer takes photographs of what remains. His site is full of images like the ones above. Quiet and beautiful but possibly too disturbing for some, so beware. www.subterrain.com via Metafilter...

Jewelry designer Jacqueline Sanchez takes Lego bricks and turns them into handmade rings, bracelets and cufflinks. Cool, right? I first saw this on Sensory Impact, a great design site (check out the handbag two posts below), and since then...

Did you know this stuff was good for more than just decorating packages? Japan's Ribbon Project takes ordinary ribbon and turns them into vases, lights (above), candlestick holders and even a table. Not for sale online, but I liked...

Inspired by Evil Richard's Daily Heads, I've decided to post some original stuff here, too. With a nod to our site, the first piece out of the archives is a poem of questionable taste. "Untitled" She’Äôs almost too good at...

I've been meaning to write about this place for a while now. De Marco's is a pizza joint that opened on Houston and MacDougal a few weeks back. It's the first opening in Manhattan for famed Brooklyn Pizzeria Di...

This week���s top five is dedicated to one store. Generate Light promote themselves as the ���next generation of modern lighting���, and they deliver on their promise in ways you won���t believe. Sleek design and very interesting use of light...

Tough couple of days for my alma mater. Yesterday, Duke's basketball team blew a nine-point lead in the final minutes in a loss to rival UNC. Today, Duke's student paper fired its humor columnists after they wrote a story...

A friend of mine has begun an insightful online thesis examining just why the Shrek films blow so much. He deconstructs the design-by-commitee nature of the film version and delves a little into the roots of the character and...

Sometimes it seems like I'm the only person in New York who's stomach turns at the thought of raw fish (of course, that may be because I'm a Brit who's palate has been hardened on Steak & Kidney Pudding)...

Feeling a little broody? Wondering what to call the Sprog so that he or she might blend reassuringly in the crowd? Or interested in making an educated prediction that Cecil will be the next big baby name? The Baby...

Clickity Clack printed this out and put it on my wall back in December, so I figured I'd post it here. Is it real? No idea. Is it funny? You can't go wrong with O.J. memorabilia....

Did you feel it in the air this morning? Something a little different’Ķan aura of excess and indulgence normally not experienced outside a Republican convention or Trump wedding. What you’Äôre sensing is the entire international art community descending on Manhattan...

Hey Scaramouch -- Ever since my wife saw this picture on the YesButMoblog, I've been worried that "taking birth control" has become yet another sex-related thing she's faking. What, no 3:23 AM diaper changes you can upload in real...

Earlier this week, I was watching a Seinfeld rerun from 1993. (The year is important.) In this episode, Elaine is dating a man named Joel Rifkin, which also happens to be the name of a notorious serial killer. To avoid...

Though not as addictively mind-opening as his previous book, the brilliant must-read The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell tackles another interesting subject here from a variety of angles. Blink is about intuition and making snap decisions, how people think without really...

Just in time. I've been so busy this week, I only have a few shorts to share with you, but they're goodies. Here's a fairly comprehensive archive of TV ads shot by David Lynch.Some bizarre and strangely compelling clips...

I know that we've posted a lot of comics related spoofs lately, but this one is just too good not to share. Superman's origin revealed....

Is this what Alanis meant when she sang "Isn't it Ironic?" Former Pistols bassist Glen Matlock has called for swearing on British television to be curbed, nearly 30 years after the provocative punk rockers sent shock waves through Britain by...

Hugh Macleod is a creative director who writes about the new, happy, fun, grim meathook realities of marketing and advertising on the backs of business cards, so says he....

Found two new ways to avoid work...courtesy of Gawker. Montage-A-Google allows you to put in any search term, and it creates a mosaic based on images in the google library. Pictured above is a tribute to one of the...

If you have kids, there's a cool event on the Upper West Side on Saturday. The Vital Theatre Company is celebrating their 6th Anniversary with an all-day carnival. Games, arts and crafts face painting and an auction are just...

And by the way, the best show on television...better than Lost, CSI and Will and Grace combined, returns to HBO Sunday night at 9pm. And as a tribute to Al Swearengen...just a few of his classic lines. "I'm declaring...

Football���s been over for a month now, get out and do something. See the first solo show for Chinatsu Ban, the latest phenom to come from the Japanese Neo-Pop school of art, at Marianne Boesky. Take in a photography...

You really need to see the animated version running on CNN.com for christ sake, to believe it....

Another fairly amusing ebay auction. Wonder if this has anything to do with John Titor?...

Because, sometimes, mere words can't truly do a concept justice....

The first post from me for a couple of days - I'm having a hell time at work, with no end in sight until after the weekend. Today I very nearly lost my rag completely and fired of a...

Er... I'll lie and say it's topical with Jacko in the news right now. I'd love to see the CCTV footage....

Haunted Dead Red Rose: $0.75 Shipping in US: $2.00 Curse on your home: priceless...

http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/index.htm Some truly unbelievable shit in here. Be warned, some of it is offensive and NSFW. ...

Funny short from ...

Every day I draw a head in my daily planner (for lack of having any plans to put in instead). At the end of each month I put them online. Here's the month of February....

Busy day today...only have time to post a pleasant little diversion. I command thee, clickith here....

Extreme sports for the rural set....

To commemorate its 10th birthday, Yahoo! has put together a Netrospective of ten years on the web. Keep the 2015 YesButNoButYes-rospective (ten years wasted on the web) in mind when posting....

This week's recommended comic is Fables Vol. 5: The Mean Seasons. This is the 5th trade paperback collecting the brilliant ongoing Vertigo series written by Bill Willingham. The conceit of Fables is that it stars characters from every fairy...

Remember our shocking revelation that Superman Is A Dick? Apparenty that's just the tip of the iceberg, because now we can exclusively reveal to you Batman's Biggest Boner. Explains so much about Dick Grayson, does it not? Luckily over...

The number one hiphop DJ on UK radio is Tim Westwood. He's a 46 year old white man from Essex, who masquerades as a 27 year old black man from Compton. Despite this hilarious (and distinctly racist) incongruity, his longstanding...

Not sure if I'm impeding on Jellio territory here, but if you like deformed stuffed animals, why not get one delivered to your home every month for only(?!?) $39 a month. Join the Unfortunate Animal of the Month Club....

Despite the fact that they were famously proved vulnerable to hackers, T-Mobiles Sidekick has been selling out in stores all over New York because people are "now aware that they can take pictures, write emails and make out with...

Slate.com has a funny in-depth analysis of those weirdly sexual Overstock.com ads featuring that kind of hot, vaguely European spokeswoman telling us, seductively, "It's all about the O". Sex sells, because these ads are performing well. Go to Slate.com...

I'm thinking of a number between 68 and 77. What is it? Winner will receive a pair of Chicken Run Happy Meal toys. Complete rules. Don't worry, no one will respond, and I'll be bored with this tomorrow....

Elsewares personalized comic Lambretta Milio watch Vice Versa Voodoo knife holder Lite Brite Neon Chandelier Peter Stanick limited edition print...

The Eglu is eco-conscious chicken house for the urban small holder. It looks rather reminiscent of a 1st generation iMac. For £325, omlet(sic).co.uk will deliver the Eglu house, and install two organic chickens for you. That seems to be...

Last night I had the best time I've ever had at a Broadway performance...better than watching Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick cast Springtime for Hitler, better than watching Roger and Mimi reunite at the end of Rent (and I've...