We've tasked George, our IT director, to make some upgrades to our backend system, so you may find a few things broken at YBNBY from now until Monday. Don't worry if things look a little screwy around here in the meantime. We'll let you know when we think everything is back in place, but until then, remember - it's not over till the Fat Man sings.

Have a good July 4th everyone.

His movies may not always make a lot of logical sense (yes, I'm talking about The Day After Tomorrow and all those people running faster than the cold, and beating it by - uh, closing the door). But no-one kicks the shit out the world like Roland Emmerich. The shot of the aircraft carrier crushing the White House is especially (and improbably) cool.

Our friends at ChopShop have done it again, with the weScare T-shirt - the first of a three part series featuring MONSTERS, in a multitude of colors. Yeh, coolness. And as usual, we're going to try to name all 58 of them from the silhouettes.

There's a numbered image after the jump, so fire away in comments.

I know you've probably had enough of MJ news over the weekend, but BillieTweets is the kind of thing that YBNBY has always loved, that most perfect of mashups, a pop culture zeitgeist that brings together two things that - in 6 months time - will both feel a mostly irrelevant. But for now, enjoy the perfect combination of Twitter and Billie Jean. Shark, meet jumper

RIP Billy Mays . Cartoon from Picture For Sad Children (via Laughing Squid)

All of you who have Facebook accounts - we need a little help. We've set up a new Fan Page (very bare bones right now), and over the next few weeks will be playing with it more, and introducing new features here to link the two together, but in the meantime, I just need to get 25 fans between now and midnight tonight so I can reserve a fancy URL - so if you have an account, can you take the time - like right now - to click here, and then "become a fan"?

kthxbye

With the sad passing of an Angel, I thought it would be timely to link to this story behind one of the most famous posters ever created. Enjoy.

Funnily enough, this graphic almost exactly describes the evolution of YBNBY since 2005. (Via)

Remember the guy we featured yesterday who scored that impressive basket after a headroll?

Amateur.

Ok, quick mindless fun. The green spiral and the blue spiral are actually the same color. And you'll either have to trust me on that, or use Photoshop's color picker to confirm. Weird. (Via)

So Oprah joined twitter, did the twittershow, did the celeb tweet thing- and then seems to have moved on. But is she really paying attention to her fans and stalkers? One man is trying to find out.

Joe Jaffe - author of Join the Conversation, and social media expert (and in another life, my former boss) is on an ongoing campaign to get Oprah to @ him on Twitter. Will it work? Does she care? Or will she just get a restraining order?

It's been a long time coming, but Dan Brown's follow up to The DaVinci Code  - The Lost Symbol - is on its way. Anyone who read the last book will also remember that it contained clues to the next novel which involved the Kryptos Sculpture, which was also featured in the recent issue of Wired that focussed on puzzles.

Inevitably, there's a web site, a Facebook Page and a Twitter feed. Twitter has already posted a few basic clues, which I believe are (inviso text on - highlight to read - ) The Ten Commandments, 6 points on the Star of David, 12 signs of the Zodiac - yawn) but I suspect the harder stuff is on it's way.

I love small little math-related factoids that explain the way the universe works through statistics. There's a lot of that in Anathem, if you've read it. And I love this piece in the Washington Post that demonstrates the likelihood of fraud in the Iranian elections - not by examining voter patterns, political ideology, or ballot methodology - but by examining how bad people are at making up random numbers. So cool.

Let's start with the seven inches of beef with a dribble of mayo, and take it from there, shall we? You can just imagine want went through this creative team's sordid mind.

Can we make this a caption competition? (Via AgencySpy)

I feel like a wimp writing this, but since when did scary movies get so heart attack inducing? I used to love the days of The Omen, The Exorcist, Halloween - hell, even Driller Killer and Cannibal Holocaust - but lately, it's got so I have to hide my eyes when one of these damn trailers comes on in the movies. Last night at The Hangover (great movie) I saw back-to-back trailers for The Orphan and Final Destination (above), both of which left me feeling like I needed to run screaming from the theater.

Is it just me getting more of a pussy in my old age, or are these things getting past the point of being civilized?

And don't even get me started on Thirst (from the director of Oldboy, which I have to admit, looks awesome)