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I don’t usually do this, but I’ve come over all compulsive-shopper after seeing this and apparently want validation (or company):

Man how do you get to be Global Creative Director of Chanel Make Up, I wonder. And a dude, too.

Categories: Art and Literature

I don’t know if any of you have seen any of these before, but they’re really good, really subtle little videos on Japanese culture. The sushi one is what (I think) first went viral. I won’t say any more.

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

I sense a certain inspiration at work in this Australian campaign ad for Bob Katter:

Compare to the similarly-hatted and always ALL CAPS DALE PETERSON:

This bodes well, my friends. GUNS HORSES HATS CROCODILES ON THE LOOSE.

Categories: Politics

Chris Young, running for mayor of Providence, recently appeared on the local FOX station for a disastrous interview. The worst part? Choose: a) Young bringing/reading notes, b) saying that he attends church for fun, or c) serenading the befuddled interviewer.

Watch the video. Or try to. Whatever. It’s pretty excruciating.

Categories: Politics

Finally had a moment to watch this election night video Brett McS left in my comments the other day:

Wayne Swan (“The Hapless”) is Federal Treasurer, which is the equivalent of the US Treasury Secretary (but with somewhat more policy setting power, relatively speaking). Michael Kroger is (or was last time I looked) president [...]

Categories: Politics

“I love the internet sometimes”:

Auto-Tune the News Hits the Billboard Top 100

Watch the videos. The first half of the first one if you haven’t seen it already, then the second one, then go find a dsl line and hug it.

Categories: Electronics

I think I’d intended this for yesterday, but it’s a good thing I forgot because lord, there is nothing going on. But this was quite hilarious:

If you’ve ever traveled by budget airline, and I’m an American so I never have, you’ll really appreciate it.

Categories: Business & Media

Yesterday as I was pulling into Target, Radio 1 (still have the free Sirius radio in my car) played Jay Z’s Empire State of Mind, which is a very good song, but which I didn’t need to have in my head all day (especially as I mostly just loop the Alicia Keys bits over and [...]

Categories: Entertainment

The Race Card is Maxed Out:

The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10c

Categories: Politics

This is well done:

Categories: War and Peace

I love Kevin Spacey. I really do.

I think impersonations must be the best kind of comedy. One doesn’t even have to say anything funny, just a good impersonation is enough to make everyone shriek with laughter. Why is that, I wonder.

Categories: Entertainment

What else could unite Trekkies, the Israeli Defense Force, and the Simpsons, all on the same day (honestly, the Simpsons one is the only one I came across because I was looking at the others; the other two were purely coincidentally and nearly sequentially discovered)

And, you know, just cuz, here’s the original Ke$ha “Tik Tok”:

Honestly, [...]

Categories: Entertainment

Weekly Standard – Oil Messed Up Anger grows along the Gulf Coast at the Obama administration’s pathetic response to the largest oil spill in U.S. history. By Winston Groom (author of Forrest Gump, among others)

It has been apparent from the outset that the Obama administration had no wish to be responsible for fixing this [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

Watch this video. Soldiers! AND babies! I defy you to get at LEAST a little misty-eyed! And I hadn’t even THOUGHT of the deaf people!

Apple <3

Peter says they played this video at the keynote, and at the sign language part everyone erupted in applause. And really. Yay!

Categories: Electronics

Curtsies, who else? Vanderleun

Categories: Entertainment