Boing Boing have a link to an excellent remix version of American Idiot, including a phenomenal mashup of Holiday and the Dr. Who theme.

(Almost as good as the Hayseed Dixie version)

Its so good to see that Howard Stern & YesButNoButYes are on exactly the same wavelength (via adfreak)

Since our president provides so much material, let's do two Caption Contests today!

The spotted hyena, or Crocuta crocuta ("fisi" in Swahili) weighs 90-190 lbs and has been shown to live 25 years in captivity. They are born with their eyes open and a full set of teeth, although they nurse for 12-18 months. Their howling, wailing and laughter can summon members of their clan from three miles away.

For some time, it was believed that Hyenas were a hemaphroditic mammal, possessing both male and female sex organs and/or were able to change their sex from male to female. It is now understood that the female Hyena possesses an enlarged clitoris, that is very similar to the male penis in external appearance and erectility . The female hyena is more aggressive than the male, and regularly chases male hyenas off their kills until the females and pups have eaten their fill. This aggressive nature is believed to be due to extremely high testosterone levels in female hyenas during pregnancy, which can "masculinize" the brain of the developing pups, and masculinizes the external genitalia of the female pups. This seems to be a survival necessity, hyenas will often eat the young in their own clan, required the females to be extra vigilant and fierce.

See the Pieter Hugo photo series:
The Hyena People of Nigeria
While you're at it, check the Albino series from the same link, awesome.

Meanwhile, examine female versus male mounting behaviors:

- Five voiceover guys in one car can get a little weird after a while.
- Deuce Bigelo, Joe Dirt and Napoleon Dynamite take on some twelve years olds in The Benchwarmers.
- And a classic...Andrew Dice Clay goes ballistic on CNN. Now, back to Art Carney.

"I like guys who got five deferments and never been there and sent people to war and then don't like to hear suggestions on what may need to be done."

All the Sunday news programs talked about yesterday was Democratic Congressman John Murtha and his call to President Bush to bring the troops home. And what was the White House response? They compared the 30 year congressman and Vietnam veteran to Michael Moore. That's our President.

It raised all hell on the floor of Congress. You can get a taste of the political theater here.

Has everyone heard about fathead's adopt a soldier program. If not, it goes like this...You pay $50.00 and a soldier in Iraq gets premium access to the Rush Limbaugh site, and his quarterly newsletter (makes a great Christmas gift), and the addict keeps the money.

At least Haliberton tries to hide their exploitaton of the war by staging government bidding sessions, but Rush may as well say if you love our troops, you'll give me money.

And people listen to this douchebag?

Via CoolHunter, I'm pretty sure we've posted work by stop-motion animation studio PES in the past, as I know I've seen the chairs going at it in roof sex before. But the rest of their work is just as good if not better. Check out Kaboom! depicting a bomber attack in a city made by toys, the candy pyrotechnics in Fireworks, or any of their commercial offerings. Great stuff.

"Walk the Line" *** (out of four): Joaquin Phoenix gives a solid performance but it's Reese Witherspoon who shines as June Carter in James Mangold's competent, lightweight Johnny Cash biopic.

Joaquin Phoenix has always been a lightweight actor. Am I the only one who found his turn in Gladiator almost unbearably sniveling? However, as he showed in Hotel Rwanda, he has potential when given the right material. As Johnny Cash in "Walk the Line", Mr. Phoenix does an impressive job of channeling the Man in Black on stage. The actor did all his own singing and, as the film progresses, his baritone can nearly be mistaken for the man himself. Off stage, however, Mr. Phoenix isn’t given much to do. Like last year’s "Ray", the film hits most of the typical biopic milestones - drug addiction, infidelity on tour, rehab, marital squabbles – but it doesn’t do much new with them. As a result, Mr. Phoenix is left to do one quivering, moist-eyed scene after another as he pines after June Carter while the rest of his life falls apart.

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