I've just made an update to our Ten Pioneers of Striptrease article upon learning of the sad death of Candy Barr, one of the burlesque dancers we featured. Candy - real name, Juanita Dale Slusher - died on Friday, aged 70. She was truly one of the greats, and lived a colorful life, including alleged affairs with both Hugh Hefner and Jack Ruby. Read her LA Times Obituary here. RIP Candy.

As awful as the Ryan Seacrest/Dick Clark special was on New Year's Eve, this 360 degree shot, taken seconds after midnight, is pretty spectacular. What's more, there's additional ones from other cities all over the world via the drop down menu.

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I was actually looking for muppet frot, but found this instead.

Universities spend a lot of money on promotional videos each year. Appalachian State University (located not too far from where I sit right now in North Carolina) never heard that part about the money and instead have put together this piece of shit which is on its way to becoming an internet legend, something money just can't buy.

Check it out on iFilm. It's HOT HOT HOT! Or read a shot by shot analysis here.

Go here, then click on the little helmet-headed alien on the right hand side. Classic.

Someone is obviously stoked for the new Superman movie this year.

via Lying in the Gutters

Here's one ugly animal kingdom honoree you can have for your very own. "We", a two-headed albino rat snake is soon to be auctioned on ebay, with a starting price of $150,000. We's current owner, the World Aquarium in St. Louis is auctioning the snake to raise money for educational programs at the aquarium. We is unique in that most two headed snakes generally don't survive longer than a few months. Often, the two heads fight each other for food, and injury or starvation result. Also, often the digestive appparati are incomplete or malformed. We, however has survived for over 6 years and is healthy due to a shared stomach between the two heads. It is also believed that one of the heads is genetically male, although the reproductive apparatus of the snake is female and fertile.
See video footage of "We"

Other two-headed snakes:

If you like the card stacker and can stacking, you should check out the jenga-stacked Sears Tower. It's 30 feet tall and made up of 15,000 jenga blocks. Not as delicate or complicated and, therefore, not as impressive as the card stacking, but still pretty awesome--if you're the kind of person who likes to see things that are stacked and then watch a movie of them being knocked down.

Other ridiculous Jenga projects can be found here.

Sorry not to give you a better photo. They are huge and won't fit here well. Hit the link to see the entire thing.

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If you're a parent of a toddler, you've probably heard the phrase 'lalalala lalalalala Elmo's World“ more times than the new Coldplay album. So I bring two disturbing Elmo-related bulletins that suggest all is not right in the Sesame Street.

Firstly, it appears a bunch of talking Elmo books made it onto the market having been tampered with. Instead of saying ”Who wants to try and go potty?“ (which is itself is slightly questionable), Elmo apparently asks his young reader, ”Who wants to die?“. Man, that's going to give me nightmares for weeks.

And then there's the above image from the cover of another Elmo book. (hat tip to Uneasy Silence) So we've covered Muppet sex and Muppet death, now we just need the Cookie Monster's Munchies Guide to Getting High.

If you liked our previous story on can stacking, you're gonna love this. Card stacking gone wild. Nobody breathe.

In a recent NY Times Op-Ed piece(registration probably required), Larry David talks about why he doesn't want to see Brokeback Mountain.

If two cowboys, male icons who are 100 percent all-man, can succumb, what chance to do I have, half- to a quarter of a man, depending on whom I'm with at the time? I'm a very susceptible person, easily influenced, a natural-born follower with no sales-resistance.

That's how long I lasted with Howard's replacement, Diamond Dave. Unlistenable...he's all over the place.

You can listen over the web, here.