ESPN's Bill Simmons exhuastively lists memorable bromances:
The original bromance was Lewis and Clark. I'd break down the others like this: Costanza and Seinfeld (funniest); Norm and Cliff (second funniest); Diggler and Rothchild (third funniest); Borat and Azamat (grossest); O.J. and A.C. (most controversial); the Rat Pack (most influential); Kimmel and Carolla (drunkest); Puffy and Biggie after Biggie died (most shameless); Flintstone and Rubble (best animated)...
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An ad warning ladies to go easy on the dranks. This was created by British agency VCCP which picked up a gold medal for best PSA at this year's British Television Advertising Awards. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aaI91DvWtI&fmt=18]
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This kid's lethargic indifference at his "powers" is the opposite of the infamous spazzed out Star Wars kid. The bit with the hair dryer made me laugh. Look for it. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b97KIlJuYs&fmt=18]
Brilliantly evil suggestion by Digg founder and former TechTV guy Kevin Rose.
More stuff like this will make me re-follow him on Twitter, especially if he has a suggestion on tackling my personal inbox clogged with 5,313 unread e-mails.
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Swiss gigolo Helg Sgarbi, a 44-year-old former investment banker, received a 6 year prison term after pleading guilty to fraud, attempted fraud and attempted blackmail. Until his arrest, he had exhorted $12.5 million from four women, including BMW heiress and the richest woman in Germany, Susanne Klatten who eventually went to the authorities after having paid Sgarbi $8.8 million.
In her witness statement to prosecutors, Ms. Klattten said that Mr. Sgarbi, whom she had met in July 2007 at an Austrian spa resort, was “charming, attentive, and at the same time he seemed very sad.”
“That stirred a feeling in me that we had something in common,” she said, according to the B.B.C. account. Mr. Sgarbi told her and the other women he was a “special Swiss representative in crisis zones,” to which he attributed his frequent, sudden absences.
And by crisis zones he meant old, lonely, rich women's jj's. Hi-ho!
How can it be dawn of the dinosaurs if the Ice Age followed afterwards?
A bit old, but here's the recap from Stephanie's housewarming party in early February. Happy belated congrats on the new apartment, Steph!
Party phones.
Praerna giving the "get a load of this person" expression as Ayesha possessively writes her name on her Spring Break-ish party cup.
Ta-da!
Nnamdi and his entourage.
Relatedly, Chris, KG, and Ayo curse Nnamdi.
Jameson is very popular at our parties.
We left Steph's party to go to a club uptown. Not having success with finding a cab, we hailed a passing limo where a reasonable fare was negotiated. In case you're wondering, this is what happens to limo drivers during a recession: they're left to picking up random and cheap drunks like us.
I like how KG left the party with a beer, which wasn't a bad idea actually...
You're on a boat? We in a limo!
Chris double phone fisting while KG yells at him. "DON'T TOUCH THE WINE GLASSES!!!"
Later at the club:
This is one of my favorite photos of 2009 so far: John pwning Nnamdi. Haha.
The End.
Sir Nadroj recreated the Watchmen characters using Legos. Yet another thing more awesome than the actual movie.
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Just start clicking at this interactive website to have some fun with fractals, "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole."
[Thanks Kate!]
On a nostalgia tip, this medley of classic hip hop tunes remixed as a NES games soundtrack is one of the hottest things I've come across this week. It's going to make you want to go rescue the princess with Luda and Hova.
Unfortunately I can't embed the music file here, but go here to listen.
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Not playing to its state stereotype at all, popular bar Chilkoot Charlie's in Anchorage, Alaska held the 2009 Fur Rondy Fur Bikini contest featuring Alaskan ladies wearing homemade fur bikinis. In these sort of matters, I think we're all winners and this makes me especially proud of my home state. Better this than Sarah Palin.
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Amazon.com, a pioneer in online retail, created practically an entire cottage industry of people writing reviews of the products sold on their website. Some items such as "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" alone has spawned over 3,000 reviews. What's the point? What compels people to do this? And what's the incentive for companies? These are some of the questions that the Economist tries to answer in their Technology Quarterly issue.
“Single digits didn’t seem to move the needle at all,” says Mr McAteer. “It wasn’t enough to get people comfortable with making that purchase decision.” But after about 20 reviews of a product are posted, “We start to see more reviews—it starts to accelerate,” says Sam Decker, the chief marketing officer of Bazaarvoice, a firm that powers review systems for online retailers.
It's a fascinating read with implications that might be of interest to online marketers and social media aficionados.
Israeli weapons and arms firm Rafael displayed this Bollywood-esque video (with subtitles!) at the Aero India 2009, an annual air show held in Bangalore. It's almost as catchy as Jai Ho! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktQOLO4U5iQ&fmt=18]
Together, forever / we'll never be apart.
The next line may or may not be "Until the Rafael air to surface standoff missile hits us like a cupid dart! Jai ho!"
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Click here to read the rest. It's a tad more entertaining than the movie. Oh snap.
One of the paintings that caught my eye and made me chuckle at this year's Armory show was a a 60-inch-by-90-inch watercolor portrait (see my photo above) of the now notorious Bernie Madoff, a finance genius who confessed to operating a $50 billion Ponzi scheme. Painted by Chinese-born artist Yan Pei-Ming, it remained unsold at $100,000.
Given the economic crash, it was hardly surprising that no one wanted to pay six figures for a portrait of one of the most vilified figures in the world. Writing by e-mail from Paris, Mr. Yan said he had finished the painting in one day, and chose Mr. Madoff because he was “a kind of symbol of the economic crisis, a kind of personalization of the savage speculation, without control.”
Sometimes the best ideas occur when we're doing some of our most primitive activities, such as eating and number two-ing as this campaign for the School of Visual Arts suggests.
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Meet Beloit resident Marijuana Pepsi Sawyer, yes that is her true legal name (Sawyer was her ex-husband's surname), a school teacher with a master's degree in higher education administration.
"Every single class, the teacher is taking attendance out loud, and as they slowly get down through the J's, I'm just like here it comes. 'Marianna? Marijuana?' And all the students turn to see who it is," she said.Later in life, it wouldn't get any easier when she tried to order tickets over the telephone or fill out paperwork. People thought she was joking, or they wanted to hit her with 20 questions about why she was called that.
Not that it's anywhere on the same scale, but I certainly can relate to having an unexpected name.
