Someone gave the iconic bull on Wall Street a case of the blue balls.
It's suspiciously timed with Banksy's visit to New York City.
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Popular Mechanics list of 101 skills every man should know. I can do the following. I am man. Here me roar.
2. Drive in snow 10. Perform the Heimlich 12. Perform hands-only CPR 13. Escape a sinking car 15. Use a sewing machine 16. Put out a fire 19. Move heavy stuff 22. Shovel the right way 30. Prune bushes and small trees 31. Iron a shirt 36. Set up a ladder, safely 49. Make a drum-tight bed 50. Drop and give the perfect pushup 66. Lend a hand 73. Tie a necktie 74. Whittle 75. Ride a bike 77. Take the perfect portrait 78. Calibrate HDTV settings 79. Shoot a home movie 80. Ditch your hard drive
Sadly, "blogging" did not make the cut.
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What recession?
Lil Wayne received a suitcase containing one million dollars for his birthday from fellow Cash Money Millionaire Birdman aka Bryan “Baby” Williams.
More photos here.
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Among the various pork tucked into the bloated revised $700 billion bailout package, there was one that had bike commuters smiling by way of a $20 per month tax credit for employees who pedal to work. You may now return to your regularly scheduled program.
Mother Jones points out that while the Obama campaign logo has been applauded as an excellent design, oppositely McCain's logo highlighted by "a shaded 5-pointed star" is actually nothing but a character from the font Zapf Dingbat, or more specifically shift-O.
This makes a lot of sense. It always did look very 1990s clip-arty to me.
Although I disagree strongly with Lynda's fascination fetish for rabbits I do agree with her about this particular movie theater:
I would gladly pay whatever premium it takes to go to a cinema designed like this (and then stay after the movie ends to take pictures ...) This particular "Light House Cinema" can be found in Dublin.
I know I'm probably in the minority on this one, but I also like the European system of assigned seatings at the cinema. Then again as some of you know I can be particularly neurotic about the whole movie thing.
My favorite soft news writer at the New York Times, Jennifer 8. Lee went in search of non-McDonalds $1 menu items in New York City.
There is soul food place called Piece of Chicken that sells — amazingly — $1 pieces of fried chicken, thighs and drumsticks.
To summarize her findings, you can get pizza, fried chicken, dumplings, skewers, and hot dogs for $1.
This website pays "tribute to the greatest school photo backdrop there ever was." The laser backdrop of course.
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Odd phrasing by McCain: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed-k1xOCsMs]
Crazy mass brawl between two professional rugby teams. As Wes pointed out, keep an eye out on the bald 9. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgN1o747V4Q]
This is an updated version of the popular song Take on Me by A-Ha which replaces the original lyrics with ones describing literally what is occurring in the music video. You just have to watch it to see, but I got a kick out of it. It's a best of the week for me. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HE9OQ4FnkQ]
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Spotted this Michelin Man character, except the costume didn't have any slits or holes cut out for the person inside to see out of so these two ladies were escorting him down the steps like he was some blind invalid.
The blistering video of Korean Jeong-Hyum Lim casually ripping through Johann Pachelbel's Canon with his electric guitar is the stuff of YouTube legend (+48 million views) and spawned an online meme as well as a cottage industry of copycats and imitators, including Weezer who paid homage to it in the opening scene of the music video to their song Pork and Beans. He is now in New Zealand in school studying computer science, but he met with David Farrier of TV3 for this interview: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-80uzb24pfs]
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