Okay, his fanny pack hat, while hideous is at least functional, but this hat...this shark hat just serves NO PURPOSE!

This installation by Banksy is currently showing at the Museum of Art in Ft. Lauderdale.
While the juxtaposition is humorous in this recent photograph by David Guttenfelder of Spc. Zachery Boyd of the U.S. Army First Battalion, 26th Infantry in such a rush to join his fellow soldiers in Afghanistan after they received gunfire that he didn't have time to put on pants over his "I Love NY" boxers and flip flops, I can't help but compare the surreal absurdity between Spc. Boyd's life and that of the people who participated in Improv Everywhere's Annual No Pants! Subway Ride.

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Adhesive tape in the pattern of a soccer ball by Marti Guixe. This tape will be fun to have the next time I'm moving.

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The new FML: My Life is Average. MLIA.
President Obama's classy commencement speech at Arizona State University where he spins into a positive lesson the controversy surrounding the university's decision to not award him a ceremonial diploma on the premise that the President had not "done enough to merit an honorary degree. " Part 1
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Back in 2006 photographer Jonathan Haeber sneaked into Steve Jobs' abandoned mansion.
Jobs bought the mansion in 1984, the year the Mac was released, and lived there with no furniture for almost a decade. But he hasn’t lived there for nearly 10 years, and he now wants to raze the house and build a smaller, greener dwelling on the land.
A missing child to be first displayed on milk cartons remains still missing nearly 30 years later.
Etan was 6 when he disappeared on May 25, 1979, the Friday before Memorial Day. He was on his way to school in what is now the upscale Soho neighborhood of New York.
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My favorite band, Wilco is streaming their new album a month ahead of its launch on their website.
This installation by Lauris Paulus reminds me of the following scene from "The 40 Year Old Virgin."

Try to figure out the trick in this alternadvertising video for a Samsung phone with a built in "HD" video camera. It gets good around the 0:50 mark. It does look really great in HD. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX8iVo5vc8o&fmt=18]
Update: Here's the solution to how they created this tricky video.
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Pascal Kleiman is a DJ who uses his feet to spin music on account of having no arms. Here's a video of him in action:
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Interesting ads for Colgate Max Fresh with a whole lot of copy.


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