And if movies aren't your thing, here's some fun with audio. A couple of weeks ago we posted the news that Trent Reznor had posted a Garagband file of “The Hand That Feeds” to allow fans to create their...

This week, we're featuring tortured artists, melancholic paraplegics, empowered rape victims, public exhibitionists and conspiracy obsessives. So pretty much a typical night on the Fox Network. From the Apple Japan site, an intriguing looking trailer - Kokkurisan Undo, a...

Hello, Hello...I'm at a place called YesButNo Via AdFreak, now you too can turn yourself into an iPod print ad. I know...the skillz boggle the mind, yes?...

It's been just a month since we moved to the new server, and everything seems to be working just dandy. Along with a few upgrades that we hope have been visible, the new hosting provider also ramped out our...

More high comedy from the Department of Homeland Security, from About.com via Brian Murphy. Great captions to the new, totally incomprehensible DHS icons....

What would turn YesButNoButYes into a household name? It could be something as small as 10,000,000 ads on the Yahoo! network. Adrants pointed me to the Think Big Contest from Yahoo! Search Marketing. And Richard Branson. "In 500 words...

The latest Batman trailer...and Vader pitches an idea. We will now return video clips to their normal Saturday night time slot....

Here's an unusual and creative method of fundraising. This guy promises that if he receives $50k by December 1st, he'll cut off his thumb. ...

It seems that the predictions from 60s TV show The Prisoner may not have been so extreme because Wired is reporting on a new security bot in the shape of a ball that can be rolled or thrown into...

Paul Shirley is a National Merit Scholar who holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Iowa State. And, in true fish-out-of-water fashion, he's a forward for the Phoenix Suns. OK, Shirley didn't break the color barrier; there are a...

Over the last three months we've brought you news of various crazy ebay auctions, from X-Wing Fighters to Haunted Roses, cellphone blockers, Israeli Poets and cornflakes. Not to mention Voicevertising and it's spinoffs. Well, now there's a one stop...

Catch The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy tonight at the Ziegfeld. Take the 2 train to the Brooklyn Museum for the well-reviewed Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibit. Pre Buster Poindexter band, The New York Dolls are back in town. Get tickets...

I've been waiting for someone to put this online...Mike Tyson's Punchout. Or maybe you'd just like to take out Starr Jones. Drive yourself a little crazy with a ping pong ...

Simply the best news I've read in a long time.... HBO to broadcast Ricky Gervais' new series, Extras ...

This is not exactly a world exclusive, but pretty darn near. Adam Hughes, one of the most popular comic artists working today, is to premiere his first movie online over the summer in installments. From what he's told me...

Anyone remember Mr. Quin's self-portrait in his own congealed blood from the Brooklyn Museum Sensation show. According to this article, it's just been sold By Charles Saatchi, for about 1.5 million pounds more than he paid for it. With...

How'd I miss these babies? Bacon Strip Bandages....

I'm beginning to think that the production company working on the "Fallen Idol" expose didn't have to dig too deep to find dirt on the American Idol finalists. All they really had to do was just read The Smoking...

Many of you have seen the image of Donny Deutsch, and heard the whole story about the art director who e-mailed the pic and got fired for it. If you haven't, check out the AdfFreak story here, or the...

Couldn't wait til next Tuesday. Too much good stuff out there. 5)Float glassware, by Molo Design. They're also responsible for the paper softwall that's gotten so much press. 4)Paint by Numbers Wallpaper, by 2Jane. Been around for a while,...

Last night I attended a performance of “An Intimate Evening of Grand Illusion” by magician David Copperfield at the NJ Performing Arts Center. Is it going to damage any street credibility I have left to say how much this...

I like cool flash animation AND I've been wanting to learn Italian. And if you enter, be sure to wear your new JP2 kicks....

Just like everyone else, I'm pretty fascinated by the Google Maps satellite application. I've been checking out my neighborhood, my friends' neighborhoods, my relative's neighborhoods...I'm basically a stalker now, so never tell me where you live. Mostly, I've been...

Stare at just the eyes of any Hello Kitty image. You see those empty, lifeless black dots? In battles, they have a name for that gaze...it's called shell shock. The really interesting, and also unsettling notion behind most Japanese...

Anyone catch the last few minutes of American Idol tonight? Paula Abdul had a Howard Dean-esque meltdown after creepy Constantine Maroulis was voted off. Babbling incoherently, sobbing, hugging his mom. I haven't seen this much emotion since the touching "Frankie...

Evil Richard mentioned Mark Ryden and James Jean in his comic review today (which I always love to read even if I don't agree with ;) Well, if you liked those, you'll probably like this. The gallery of Ray...

I don't know what reaction to have to this Star Wars tattoo collection. It's like taking "nerdy" to a whole 'nother level. http://lortaphanble.phpwebhosting.com/arkiv/swtats.html...

This week's recommended comic is not actually a comic but an artbook, Process Recess: the art of James Jean. James Jean is arguably the best cover artist working in comics right now. I've gushed over his work here before...

As the tattoo mistakenly placed on Norm Peterson's ass says, God Bless the U.S. Postal Service. For $17, you, too, can have 20 stamps in your image. Or your company's logo's image. Or Dr. J's. Just not Ted Kaczynski's....

The Wonkette provides the laughs on this one....

Remember our disappointment at the puny half scale X-Wing Fighter that M&Ms put in Times Square? Well, thankfully ebay comes to our rescue with the auction of a full size X-Wing replica. And let's not forget the working Badonkadonk...

Another great use of google that's kept me busy for the last hour, even though I'm just useless at it - the highly addictive “Guess-The-Google”. 20 images are served, and you have to guess the google keyword that retrieved...

Nothing wrong with a newspaper layout editor having a little fun with how they juxtapose their articles. This whole hand-holding thing is going to dog him for some time to come I think. via Metafilter UPDATE: Meanwhile, maybe the President...

As part two of my the future is now" post, today's top five is all about prototypes I've been reading about. Or... THE TOP FIVE OF TOMORROW 5) Why can't I wake up after the four-way with Heidi Klum...

There's a great quote from "Deconstructing Harry" where Woody Allen is talking to the Devil (played by Billy Crystal) who admits that he spent some time as a Hollywood producer, but he quit because "you can't trust those people." This...

Rubber Johnny is a short film directed by Chris Cunningham (best known for his Bjork video with the robots making out). It hasn't been released yet but there's a little teaser on this website and though there isn't much...

You turn your iPod into a portable ad, AND you have to pay $3.00 to do it. Question...Does it make more sense to offer them for free to get your brand out there more, or is it not worth...

I've been waiting to post this image for a few weeks. This is the work of someone named Invader. He's apparently spent a lifetime obsessing over the classic 80's arcade game, so much so that he's installed these mosaics...

Jellio's post about the abandoned Japanese amusement park reminded me of a site I first encountered a couple of years ago that documents a trip through the countryside around Chernobyl. It's a truly fascinating account, but it takes a...

Cool, right? The Milan Furniture show was last week. I didn't post anything, mostly because there were a bunch of sites already writing about it (Here's one). But also, the ICFF is just a couple weeks away in our...

No reason...I just think the images are very cool. Link...

Fun with Photoshop. Worth 1000 held a contest to see who could find the most unexpected places for corporate logos. Some funny entries, like: GE sponsors Rudolph Getty Images logo on the Mona Lisa McDonald's treats St. Louis to...

Adidas launches $250 computerized running shoe. Reebok reports first quarter earnings up 11%. United States ties Malta for highest percentage of obese and overweight teens. Get the idea? Try it yourself...it's fun....

Arianna Huffington, columnist and one-time gubernatorial candidate, has decided to blatantly rip-off the YesButNoButYes model and start a group, celebrity blog that will cover a range of topics and will be called Huffington Post. In addition to copying the...

Anyone here watch Monster House on the Discovery Channel? It used to be my Monday night ritual along with Monster Garage and American Chopper. Well, looks like Emily and Tyler of Canoga Park aren't diggin' the fire breathing tiki...

In my continuing effort to save people $10 whenever I can. Here's my reviews of two new flicks: The Amityville Horror * (out of 4) While I can't claim to be an authority on the facts of the real life...

This might be a cliched wedding gag, but it was new and funny to me. The start of a Best-Man speech in Washington, DC, this weekend: "I was pretty nervous about speaking in front of so many people, so I...

An oldie but goodie, with a few recent updates I believe. Tokyoplastic, with possibly the finest flash navigation design ever created. ...

Well, maybe not, but this is kind of interesting. Some of you will know that we recently implemented a Search Zeitgeist, which shows which words people who have ended up here via google are looking for. I keep noticing...

My five year old son and I have spent the last week playing through Lego Star Wars on the XBox, which I can HIGHLY recommend, even if you don't have a five year old to cover your flank in...

Posted tonight, the third in our infrequent series of audioblogs. This one seems to prove that truth is always at least as funny as fiction. Click the link on our home page to play, or visit the Audioblog section....

YBNBY was recently informed of this site which has the most comprehensive list I've seen of all the landmarks you can find with Google Satellite Maps. Everything from nuclear power plants to the Neverland Ranch. The coolest part are all...

Here are two letters from recent issues of People: "I have been reading People for years, and the Oscars issue was by far the best. I love the dresses, parties, hair and makeup and the bling. Thanks for letting us...

Maybe he should consider a different line of work. Story. (I know...cheap shot.)...

FOUR WORD FILM REVIEWS ...

All this week, Bill Amend's fantastic Foxtrot has riffed on Google Satellite maps. The first one is here. ...

A mixed bag this week - no real theme except they're all worth a look :) Roger Ebert, eat your heart out. Having seen great Batman, Robin & World's Finest fan films, it now looks like there's a Catwoman...

I'm bored, waiting for my wife to get off work. So, here's the second old "Daily Heads"-inspired writing sample. A short story that I'll spend the rest of my life trying to turn into an ad for root beer or...

The next championship is the be held from March 23rd to March 28th 2006 The World Ice Golf Championship all started in Uummannaq, Greenland and the championship has been held there since 1997 when the iceconditions has peritted it....

We're getting closer and closer to the Jetsons. I post the following two articles as proof. In the next few months, an artificial brain called Cyc will make its online debut. Cyc features a human trait no other AI...

Like the onion but not quite....

Click here, then scroll down to "America: F**k Yeah!" for the remix version. Click here for the original. This post is brought to you by Brian Murphy....

It's always interesting, and also slightly unsettling to learn about pop culture phenomena that I had previously been oblivious to. (I just found out about the Star Wars Kid a couple weeks ago) On that topic, I saw a...

To the four readers we have...I was serious last week about posting other cities. Now, that we have Manhattan and Charlotte editions, let's see if we can get some more cities. Want to have a weekly column? Want to be...

E-Mail, Texts Harm Intelligence More Than Cannabis, Study Shows 2005-04-22 06:08 (New York) By Kathrine Jebsen Moore April 22 (Bloomberg) -- Constant e-mailing and text messaging reduces mental ability by 10 IQ points, a more severe effect than smoking cannabis,...

If I'm gonna rip them off, I should at least say who they are. And to start...Chamboultout, only because it shows how the world is becoming smaller via the the same blog posts. Even if they are in French....

Strap your vegan feedbag on and celebrate Earth Day today, but watch out because Mother Nature is going to wash away some of that damn pollen with some severe thunderstorms tonight. Don't sleep late tomorrow, U2 tickets will go...

Ok, here's some inspired lunacy from the "If Darth Vader had a Blog" file... http://darthside.blogspot.com/...

Your Daily Art is a blog that gives you a little mini-art lesson every day....

First of all, Happy Earth Day. Take part in some of the fun today and tomorrow at the Earth Day Fair on Vanderbilt Avenue outside Grand Central. The Tribeca Film Fest is in full swing, and tonight the Tribeca...

Brandon Routh, soon to be the new Superman, has been revealed in costume for the first time. Looks pretty good too. I like that they're going with the Golden Age/Fleischer cartoon style Supes. See a hi-res photo here....

I tell you, that "Create your own south park character" site is dangerous. Dangerous, I tell you. But I can't take credit for this, it's the work of my friend Adam. He, naturally, will be there on opening day with...

The nice thing about downloading this Star Wars fanflick is that you can skip through the sub-high-school acting and watch the incredible space and landscape sequences. I mean, honestly, what CAN'T you do with a MAC nowadays... http://www.panicstruckpro.com/revelations/revelations.html...

Originally recorded by Satchmo way back in April 1932 in a Chicago studio, recently rediscovered and now available online - the very first recorded version of Oops I Did It Again!, (covered in more modern times by Britney Spears)....

A burnt rubber doll was mistaken for a badly injured alien and taken to a hospital in Brazil. It happened after people in Aracruz found a burnt 'body' on the ground after seeing a fireball fall from the sky....

Do not adjust your sets. You are looking at Jellio...via My Mondrian....

New York, N.Y. (PRWEB) April 10, 2005 –- Up to 100 sports and movie fans will play golf with black celebrities and white celebrities at The Terrell Buckley Celebrity Golf Weekend in Jamaica April 16. [entire story] This story was...

NJ folks like myself always feel left out by the New York & Charlotte guides, so here's my version. OK, it's more like a mid-week guide. And, since this happened yesterday, not much of a guide at all. But...

Via Gawker....

For those of you who don't want Episode III spoilers, look away. Look away! Some interesting pics here. Looks like pre-viz storyboard images, but... http://www.millenniumfalcon.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=3638 And then there's this: http://www.iesb.net/star%20wars/starwars31104a.htm As for the reported plot details. If half the nutty...

Ladies and gentlemen...Gary the retard....

Great editorial in yesterday's Boston Globe. "Three MIT graduate students invented a computer program that can spit out randomly selected words to create grammatically correct research reports that make absolutely no sense. Now they have had one of those...

Just came from my new favorite place to shop. Stealitback.com is the eBay of confiscated police auction stuff. I'm in the market for a bike, and there are dozens listed at like $10 or $20, so I figure if...

Create your own South Park character!...

Cross over 200 artists with an over-the-shoulder satchel bag, and you get...Sketchel, the customized satchel show...

Licorice piglets. Appearing soon at a Jellio office near you. Via CoolHunting....

I don't really give much of a crap about who the new Pope is but the Sun's headline cracked me up. I agree with gawker.com's take. He doesn't wear white that well. Kind of washes him out. You'd think...

2 years ago, Fiona Apple recorded an album called Extraordinary Machine that Epic Records has refused to put it out, deeming it not commercial enough. The songs are out there though in mp3 format on bit Torrent and a...

Today, an exhibit of the preliminary sketches for the High Line park project opens at MOMA. (check out the slide show) Looks like their taking the minimalist approach, as their design philosophy is summed up as... Keep it simple...

Read about it here....

Al Swearengen is still king, but no one can deliver a beatin' quite like Charlie Utter! Question...What was in the box that Al was talking to? A) the head of Gwyneth Paltrow B) a chocolate babka C) the last...

I feel a little like I'm encroaching on Jellio's territory by posting about furniture. But while I can't claim to be an erudite “man about town”, I fully acknowledge my geekier tendencies. Which is why I put these Tetris...

This week's recommended comic is The Long Haul by Antony Johnston and Eduardo Barreto. The Long Haul is an original black and white graphic novel that can probably best be described as Deadwood meets Oceans 11. It's a classic...

Took the gallery walk over the weekend. Good stuff out there right now, and most shows are open for a few more weeks. Here are just a few... Eric Fischl at Mary Boone...He certainly does love to paint people...

When I first saw this restaurant at the site of the old Bond clothing store I thought "Look, someone ate at Carmine's and liked it so much they opened the same restaurant a couple blocks away". Every review I've...

Crate and Barrel acrylic nesting tables, and the Jellio acrylic candy table. Yes I know one is a set of three and the other has a layer of squirt guns. And yes, I know an acrylic side table is...

All those PC users out there who are having OS envy over the new Mac Tiger system due soon (and, man, do those desktop widgets look cool), do not despair.... Here's an entire website aimed at simulating the Mac...

From BoingBoing: “Factoid: The entire US$50Million stage lighting system for [U2's] Vertigo Tour is controlled via a Playstation [2] video game controller].” I guess after this story, nothing is impossible. ...

People have been having fun with the new Google satellite maps. One blog has been going sightseeing via Google and has begun compiling some of the unusual views that the satellite images bring to some familar buildings and natural...

Copy and paste http://www.nazipope.com into your address bar....

My big idea today was to buy popebenedict16.com and have it redirect to YesButNoButYes. Of course, somebody beat me to it. Read more about Popesquatting. Bid on popebenedict16.com. And if you're thinking you'll wait out this papacy, then cash in...

This morning Jellio alluded to K.C. Armstrong's mysterious disappearance from the Howard Stern Show. Here's speculation from the IMDB message boards, from the always reliable jim90291: "i heard a rumor KC was fired over the goldenpalace.com fiasco. he claimed to...

It's free ice cream day!...

Gift guide...based on responsibility quotient. For the plant lover...Gel Planetariums For the nature lover...the Squngee For the cat lover...Kitty Hammock For the dog lover...Haus Dog Crate And for the new parent...Potty Mouth baby shirts, via CoolHunting....

Not that they need any help from me, but I just stumbled across this site... a series of fun little animations, by Pepsi One. Cool graphics....

New Pope! (My sources say it's Bob Kerrey.)...

Last night I heard about yet another new reality show starring "B List" celebrities. It's called I Married A Princess and it stars Catherine Oxenberg (princess) and Caspar Van Dien (former starship trooper). This got me to thinking...soon, every...

Is it just me, or is Rosie O'Donnell writing her blog in some kind of weird literary style that falls between haiku and iambic pentameter? ...

Yep, I admit it, this is a cheap a slutty way of getting people to come here from Google. But hey we need the traffic. So while I can't claim this to be a FULL list of commands for...

Here's something I've been playing with for a few weeks. It's still not completely ready for launch, but I'd thought I'd share it with you all to get comments. There are two parts to this. The first is a...

The latest offering from deal-with-the-devil agency Crispin Porter is Need For Feed, a game that lets you feed your co-workers (literally, by uploading their pix) whack-a-mole style. Via Transbuddha....

So here's something where my own personal interests and my work life collided in a rare (too rare) fashion. A few months ago I was visiting one of my favorite blogs, Transbuddha, and was completely engrossed by a short...

Just reported on the Newsday site. Too bad. On the surface, I liked it alot, as I'm tired of having a mayor whose main agenda is trying to shove the Olympics down our throats. And while we're on the...

Last night's season finale of Arrested Development may have been the series finale as well. So to all of you who haven't been watching, thanks for fucking it up for the rest of us. Meanwhile, According to Jim is still...

Adobe to aquire Macromedia. Bandweek article...

I felt it my duty to share a link to the internet site of Ted Jesus Chris God. Of special note is photo gallery 21, and the long story of how the perfect Cindy was stolen from him by...

Courtesy of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (who?), welcome to Tom Delay's House of Scandal. At least I'm consistent....

Earlier in the week, I happened to click on a link that took me to a site with old Estonian TV commercials. This one is particluar is pretty bizarre. Since then, for some reason I haven't been able to...

"So this is the Bachelor's life." --Phil, just before taking part in a coked-up threesome at 8:30 in the morning with his buddy Eddie and a teenage runaway given to them as a "care package" by their friend Artie....

This week, as promised, we're highlighting animation. Prowlies at the River was the winner in the animation category at the recent SF Flashforward. Also from Flashforward, and highly recommended is The Bird, The Mouse & The Sausage Vintage animation...

Ever since we launched the site, Jellio has been nagging me to add a proper "next" button at the bottom of the page, to allow you to read through the postings 7 at a time. So Jellio, note below, and...

And now we pause for a moment of unabashed sentimentality, so all non-parents should probably just move along. This is my youngest son, Ben, caught in a typical moment. The reason I wanted to show it is that I...

Some dude pinpointed where Area 51 is by using Google's new Satellite Maps feature. You can't quite see inside the hangers to view the recovered alien spacecraft and you can't quite see the autopsy being done behind closed doors on...

From Boing Boing: On nin.com, Trent Reznor is offering a complete mix of a song from the forthcoming Nine Inch Nails album as a Garageband 2.0 file. The CD/vinyl is due out on May 3. In th accompanying README...

Mom's Cancer is a moving comic strip account of cartoonist Brian Fies' mother's cancer. Originally online, he took it down awhile ago with good reason, as he'd found a publisher. However, to support his nomination for an Eisner Award...

Anyone read the article about Walmart trying to combine shopping and dating. This appears to be the online version of that experiment...Yub.com....

Jellio seems to forget that the world wide web does not revolve around NYC. Here's what's happening this weekend in Charlotte, NC: Get a closeup look at Chuck Close: Process and Collaboration which opens Saturday at the Mint Museum....

The Bad News Bears...this looks good....

See the darkest comedy to hit Broadway in years...Pillowman. Catch the barbeque resurgence wave at R.U.B. Check out the Murakami curated show Littleboy at Japan Society View 300 photographs of prison inmates at the Chelsea New Museum in Correction....

Floating logos...enough said. Via Coolhunting....

1. It's Friday!!!!! 2. The Virtual Bartender site has been updated and now features TWO young ladies. Yummy. Please feel free to use the comments section to list commands you know that get a response. As you can see...

ESPN is reporting that Yankee third-baseman Alex Rodriguez saved an eight-year-old boy who was inches away from being hit by a truck in Boston yesterday. Nice work. But still, saved eight-year-old boys don't help produce runs (.125 with runners-in-scoring...

Quick update on the Wendy's finger-laced chili. Chili Fingertip Probably Not From Leopard Attack (NBCSanDiego.com) "Police in California...are skeptical. They point (ha ha) to the fact that the amount of the finger lost in the leopard attack is much...

Alex Ross is probably the finest painter of comics covers working in the field. His recent book, Mythology is fascinating insight into his art, and his website is full of great examples. I'm lucky enough to own an original...

In case anyone is interested, you've restored my faith in humanity - the images of the prolapsed anuses was only the 10th most popular link of the day. ...

I have no idea if everyone already knows this, but I missed it completely until today. Man oh man, Ricky's back!!!! The BBC has revealed some details from Ricky Gervais' “Extras,” which will see him return to UK TV...

A couple of sites have caught my eye in the last week or so that all fall into the category “never mind the content, look at that navigation” Elevatormoods is the kind of site where you wish the actual...

An iPod DJ Mixer. Not that I ever DJ or mix, or even have two iPods. But I'd still like one. ...

In glorious Quicktime VR. ...

Save the whales? Boring. Save the Wisconsin Cats. Done it. Save......

I made $970,000 last year. How much you make? You see pal, that's who I am, and you're nothing. Nice guy, I don't give a shit. Good father, fuck you. Go home and play with your kids. You wanna...

I've just returned from an evening in NY at the Schubert Theater where my wife and I saw this season's hot ticket, Monty Python's Spamalot. For anyone out there who currently has tickets, I'd really recommend you stop reading...

There's more logs, some spankings and a surprising number of monkeys right here....

Beluga Whale winds up in Delaware river. Via Gothamist Britney has a little redneck in the oven. Via Defamer...

Simon Hogsberg walked aroud Copenhagen, Denmark, and New York City and stopped 150 strangers on the street, asking them to tell him what they were thinking about just before he stopped them. He recorded exactly what they told him...

It's pretty quiet at YBNBY this morning - I guess we're all busy with our day jobs, and I have a ton of stuff to do before I go off to see Spamalot tonight. However.... Screenhead, one of my...

Today's reommended comic is Batman Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli. Just get back from a late showing of Sin City and want a fix of more Frank Miller comic book noir? Sure you can pick up...

Latest in the pop-up marketing trend... On April 15th, new Fila fashion line Filativa is opening a pop-up store at Lafayette and Cleveland Place. Visitors can hang out, drink espresso, and design their own Filativa t-shirt to take home...all...

Here's a story that kind of defies categorization. An 18 year old girl has been arrested for pretending to be TWO twin 12-year old brothers, both of whom were simultaneously dating a 13 year old girl and her best...

Back in February, I posted about Ethos Water, a bottled water company that sends a portion of the proceeds to humanitarian clean-water projects. Today, Starbucks announced it has bought Ethos and will distribute Ethos Water all over the U.S....

"Terry Sciavo's face appeared on my pancake." Courtesy of Wertz Generation ps: my vote for favorite comment - "now, now, eat your vegetables" - Willowperson It's a blog eat blog world out there....

Nearly the same? I don't know about you, but both milky meat and meaty milk sound pretty terrible....

That is, if you live in Idaho. Proof, I think, that the legislative body of Idaho has either a great sense of humor, or way too much time on their hands. My favorite quote; “WHEREAS, any members of the...

The Times has tinkered with its Op-Ed lineup to make room on Sundays for Hall-of-Famer Frank Rich. For some reason, Maureen Dowd and Tom Friedman were bumped from the Sunday spotlight in favor of Nicholas Kristof and David Brooks....

So, I guess they conducted a survey, and have announced the Best Plastic Product Ever Made. Now, before clicking the link, think for a moment - what could it be? Something in hospital that saves lives? Or a safety...

Can anyone explain why I have this strong urge to download a construction paper sex kitten? Or how to open an "lzh" file? This gallery is a good thing. So is the blog I found it on...Octopus Drop Kick....

5) Nintendo Retro Atari - Atari classics, tagged by graffiti artists. 4) Antlers wall-mounted coat hanger. (no, you couldn't make the same thing from a coat hanger) Also at this site...Battleship cocktail napkins. 3) Strip bracelet...A solid piece of...

This dude is nuts. But, according to this site, he never existed. In other episode news...Steve has sexual congress with Bullock's horse....

Yes, I know what you must be thinking. “Yet ANOTHER photonovel strip site based on photographs of inflatable animals masturbating over computer porn. When will it end.” But it's late at night, and I figured mentioning one more couldn't...

Here's an addictive flash game that has the added bonus of depicting the forces of pure evil as cute little mischief makers. ...

Any designers out there who are tired of clients asking them “what the hell does all this Latin copy have to do with my brochure/ad/web page?” may want to take advantage of this alternative random text generator. ...

In honor or Monday...a Lumbergh sound board, a game that involves Bill Cosby going postal, and a really shitty way to start the week....

...but I heard something about BMW Comics, an extension of the successful BMW Films series, and wanted to ask our resident experts how this was received by discriminating fans (of comics and BMWs, I guess)....

This Saturday was Madison, Wisconsin's first annual Running of the Brides. Pretend priests, grooms and brides took to the streets on a four mile course (handicapped with dead ends here and there to even out the competition). The event...

Anyone following this season's The Apprentice will know of the tobacco chewing millionaire, Chris Shelton. Chris has a little - shall we say - anger management problem. In the last episode, he swore he was a reformed man, although...

Tonight, Wisconsin voters will vote on a proposal to allow the hunting of feral cats. Read about it here. Read about someone trying to stop it here. Read an article explaining why New York City should secede from the...

Here's a new twist on VoiceVertising, which YesButNoButYes helped make (mildly) famous. From the eBay auction "ILL SCREAM YOUR ADVERTISEMENT EVERY WEEKEND/VIDEO PROOF": "BONUS: ILL HAVE A FORM FITTING SHIRT MADE WITH YOUR WEBSITE/LOGO AND WEAR IT AT THE...

Yesterday, I meandered through a People mag and was totally sucked in by the "Mailbag" page. I couldn't believe real people took actual time to write in with these comments. So, get ready for a simple running feature --...

Yup, you're walking down the street, you see a crowd gathering, and you get a whiff of sausage and peppers. You know what that means...street fair season crept up on you. So, do you take a detour, or walk...

We spent some time this weekend planning a trip to Napa and Big Sur in June. One of the places we will be staying at is the Post Ranch Inn. For years Ive wanted to take a trip out...

For your viewing pleasure this afternoon we have the ending of Se7en, reenacted with stuffed animals....

The Swapatorium has a nice collections of female mug shots from the 1940s. There's Eleanor, Ruby, Vivien, Mary, Violet (pictured above) and more. I know where some of this months Daily Heads are going to be inspired by. Girls...

Sorry, a little late this week, as I spent the evening doing my tax returns online. Fun, fun, fun. This weeks selections have a few oldies but goodies, plus a couple that were new to me From the vaults...

I've just spent a great afternoon reading my way through some of Shizzy's Mailbag, a collection of highly amusing email pranks. If you only read one, read the first Starbucks story - it's a classic. ...

Buy them here. ...

For those technogeeks like myself who browse the web on handheld devices, there is now a mobile version of this site. It's not strictly a WAP version - just lightweight web pages, but it works great on a Treo...

Google Maps Satellite service only launched recently, and already there's a blog devoted to prominent sites to view. Putting my advertising head on, it's only a matter of time before agencies start cutting their clients' logos into the corn...

Couldn't help myself. Too much good stuff out there. Have a laugh. See a Christopher Guest retrospective at MOMA. Feel good about yourself. See a play about a bunch of self-destructive, coked-up losers...HurlyBurly Rock out. (do the kids still...

If you thought the Schiavo blog we posted about a couple of weeks ago was sick, sick, sick, you really have no idea just how low others can go - here's a group of young people Doin' The Schiavo....

From the people who brought you Magical Trevor, Salad Fingers and DJ Ham, comes... DEMOLITION SQUID...

In a world with cheeseburger pizza, the old toilets just won't do. "The Big John Toilet Seat brings 'stability and comfort' to our growing population."...

A Pat O'Brien Medley via Howard Stern via FrogBrother....

No listings of entertainment, sports or cultural events this week...something much more important to promote. Anyone heard of Wisconsin Republican Congressman James Sensenbrenner Jr? No, well Congressman Sensenbrenner (also the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee) believes violators of...

Sesame Street's Cookie Monster has given in to pressure from the higher ups at the Children Television Workshop and will now incorporate the phrase "A Cookie Is a Sometimes Food" into his regular, barely comprehensible verbage. Children's celebrity tabloids...

Apparently this is a real ad, according to Stay Free. (Have you ever noticed just how much time we devote to dissecting hamburger ads?) ...

Go watch some very untalented people under-perform the old standards. Even in this day of William Hung and American Idol losers, this stuff is pretty bad. http://www.getupoutmy.biz/daker/...

Another underground/viral ad concept is doing the rounds. The main site is at Bovine Unite, but there's also the requisite blog (which is kind of a half-hearted affair). So, any guesses on what's being sold here? Chick-Fil-A (which has...

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Set against the backdrop of a deteriorating Afghanistan, The Kite Runner is the fictional story of a boy named Amir and his relationships with his hard to please father and his eager to...

While we're on the subject of extravagant purchases... Winged Foot Stables is offering 24% shares in race horses that actually run the east and west coast circuits. Talk about a great Father's Day gift..and investment possibility. Ask for Dennis,...

According to some reports, it's between Clive Owen & Daniel Craig (pictured). I hate to state the obvious, but he's no Connery. ...

A quick check of our server logs show quite a few people reaching this site via search engines who have typed in the search word “Coulrophilia”. Obviously, we hit on a trend with this earlier post, so I thought...

Ever thought about buying your own island, just for the hell of it? Then consider this: The World will consist of between 250 to 300 smaller private artifical islands divided into four categories - private homes, estate homes, dream...

An interesting looking trailer over on the Apple site for Night Watch aka Nochnoj Dozor (what is that - Polish?) Part of it feels to have an Evil Dead 2 vibe going on. Haven't had time to see what...

I can't really describe this one. Via Metafilter, again....

Google co-founder Larry Page announced that the company wants the public to send in its homemade videos - and he doesn't mind how mucky they are. "There might be an adult section, or something like that. I don't think...

Today's reommended comic is Stray Bullets Vol. 1 by David Lapham. Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of this Eisner Award winning series, a new printing of the first story arc hits the stores today giving the uninitiated a great opportunity...

A recent study found that teenagers who take virginity pledges are more likely to engage in high-risk sexual behavior. The results of an eight year study of 20,000 Texas teenagers by the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health found that...

The interactive flash toy....

Snapped outside ABC studios 15 mins ago. Click the pic for a larger view. ...

Some people keep plans in their planner. I keep heads. Every day I draw a head in my daily planner. At the beginning of each month I post the previous months drawings. Enjoy....

TiVo and Comcast announced a deal today to insert updated ads in your stored programs. These updated ads would also be specifically targeted to you, based on your viewing habits. Let's try an analogy. I used to drive by...

For those of you who were worried that a thug might win American Idol, tonight's performance put those fears to rest. - In short, Scott sucked. (And how sick are we of Paula? Is she freaking deaf or what?) -...

The upgrade on our server now seems to be fully functional, so if anyone is still having any problems with layout or images, please let us know. For anyone interested, here's some video footage of the server in action....

Scatalogical Nonsense I can't believe Doodie is still online....

From Reuters Jess Robins concentrates as hooks through her upper chest are used to hang her during a Suspension Convention, held in Providence, Rhode Island, April 2, 2005. From tentative first-timers to well-practiced masters, more than a hundred aficionados...

I am not sure if this is a joke or not, but it is entertaining none the less....

Man oh man, the dark side of the force, you just can't trust it. Yesterday, bigfatcreative told us about 300 Star Wars fans lining up already for the opening of Episode 3 outside Graumanns in LA. 300 Star Wars fans...

Courtesy of Moco Loco, how about a plexiglass chair with grass, crumpled metal or fur printed on the outside? These are the fun graphics used at Aitali, a furniture company that seems to specialize in acrylic (or altuglas) furniture....

Now, pay attention - this is probably NOT SAFE FOR WORK. Ok, you've been warned. So, rude maybe, but I have been laughing non stop for about 20 minutes at this. Thanks to Doctor_Doctor for sending it to me,...

Google maps now lets you zoom in on satellite photos. If anyone is interested here's my office. My car is the fourth from the end in the back parking lot....

Today's top five is a list of extravagant, over-the-top, "wait til I have that dream apartment" items. We buy these for their conversation-starter ability, as much as their design appeal. You may hate all five, but that's inherent in...

My never-ending thanks to Screenhead for posting links to a site featuring full page scans from vintage girlwatching magazines. You just can't make this stuff up. Funnily enough, I seem to remember similar magazines as this floating around my...

Presenting YaGooHoogle, because - well - you know, your life just wasn't complete without it. Coming next: msnbcnn, ebaymazon and boingawkette. ...

Maybe my UFO picture from the other day wasn't so far-fetched after all. I sure hope they observed alternate side parking. ...

"The weather's 75 degrees and it's a good day to be in line," according to Sameer Bakhda from the line for Star Wars: Episode III. In case you were wondering, there are already nearly 300 people in line for...

I'm sure you've all heard of Gen Art. They're the arts and entertainment organization, now celebrating their tenth year, known for promoting emerging fashion designers, filmmakers, musicians and visual artists, almost as much as the brands that sponsor them....

Imagine 42nd street with no cars, giant pedestrian walkways and a light rail commuter train whisking commuters crosstown. Sounds nice, right? Never in a million years. Via Gothamist....

Looks like the Affordable Art Fair isn't the only place to get a deal on contemporary art these days. Here's a fun and also unexpected way to give your home the gallery treatment. Works on Whatever is a new...

A big thank you to the BBC for sorting out and pointing out the significance of color and the related causes. Jellio, how many of these do you have? (answer honestly) More yellow: Support Our Troops (also in camouflage...

Hey, this is fun. Fulfill that desire you've always had to be a cartoonist at create-your-own-comics site Gnomz.com. It's free, and apparently it's pretty big in Europe. Create a conversation between George W. and the Easter Bunny, then email...

Mrs. Aquaman (or Aquawoman, I guess) pointed out this gaffe on FoxNews.com. Obviously, news organizations prepare obituaries in advance for well-known elderly or sickly people. But they should probably wait to fill in that date-of-death until the last second....

We're upgrading our server this weekend - if you can see this message, you've come to the new one. Did you bring a housewarming gift? Hopefully normal services will be resumed ASAP....

Just in case anyone was wondering.... + = So, when people asked me ’ÄúIs that a real UFO?’Äù, the answer was, truthfully, I have no idea. Let's all do this again next year. ...

A selection of short movies for all you Saturday night stop at homes, although none of these are as good as last night's finale to Battlestar Galactica, if you happened to TiVo it. Pingwin, an animated story of -...

Thanks to Screenhead, I've wasted the last hour or so of my life on this addictive game. With elegant graphics, soothing soundtrack and compulsive gamplay, Oshiro is a Flash puzzle game where the goal is to re-distribute stacks of...

A show by a collection of artists that have done traditional, non-digital artwork inspired by retro video game characters. The one rule was "no 3D", meaning no characters from the current era of 3D rendered games. Check out i...

Status: Not Dead Yet As every online news organization in the world poises to launch their "Pope Dies" pages and obligatory over-wrought obituaries, inevitably a few will jump the gun as gawker.com reports. And according the Drudge, the AP...

News of American Idol hopeful Scott Savol's past legal problems has hit the Internet. Nobody digs up dirt like The Smoking Gun....

I'm probably behind the curve on this one, but has anybody tried the Dodgeball network? I read about it last week in New York Magazine. Basically, you create a network of friends on the site (like Friendster, iSpace, etc)...

Google introduces Google Gulp: "At Google our mission is to organize the world's information and make it useful and accessible to our users. But any piece of information's usefulness derives, to a depressing degree, from the cognitive ability of...

As first reported by our own Jellio, the weather is getting nicer. That's good news for everyone, unless you're a pasty teen in Maryland. Some Maryland school districts classify sunscreen as a "controlled substance," which requires a doctor's note....

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Dude, did you just french kiss a smurf? Remember blueberry Slush Puppies. How cool would it be to have a machine in the office?...

It's an 80's revival...just found a great site for classic arcade games....

First of all, remember to set your clocks ahead on Sunday. Check out a couple noteworthy shows at the Whitney...Ellen Gallagher explores race, identity and historical traditions, and Tim Hawkinson, who gave us UberOrgan, basically dissects his own body....

As you may have read over the last few days of posts, I've been on a business trip to Chicago. You may also have seen the moblog pictures I posted while I was there. Since we started The Moblog...