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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 here.

Movie Bad Girls!

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 all posters to be taken down within three days.

While some see this as trampling over people's religious beliefs to sell a product; and others would view this as a form of freedom of expression, I think we can all agree that Italians are cooler than the French.

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 the official Public Art Fund site.

...and some cool downloads on his own site.

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 boycott the service, which it called divisive (the article also calls "eating out" divisive).

I'm in the "if you build it, and people come, more power to you" camp. If there's a market for DormAid, great. Feel free to judge anybody who takes advantage of the service as spoiled, lazy or whatever. But just because everybody can't afford something doesn't mean it shouldn't be offered. The new Land Rover parked next to 1984 VW Rabbit in Harvard Yard hasn't prompted anybody to ban cars.

Read more in today's Times.

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 with the original.

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 on eBay.

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 on the SlideRoll site, e-mail to your friends or publish on your own site.

Finally, something I can do with my 400 pictures of orange gates.

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 of pod art, the shuffle tattoo.

3)Turn your iPod into a personal recorder. (I want one)

2) The Porsche of earphones...the isolator.

1) And the newest member of the iPod family...iPodphoto will link to your
camera at the end of this month

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 as some of the stranger ones out there. Here are three to start...

This is a great source for contemporary art news, including some of his own filmmaking and writing projects...Greg.org.

On the flip side of the cultural landscape, here's the biggest pervert in Kalamazoo, Michigan...FUBAR.

And finally a nod to one of the pioneers, who has quit his day job and taken to blogging for a living, (good luck with that) Kotke.org.