former rawkus records owner james murdoch set to take over news corp? independent as fuck, indeed!

attn: rednecks of america

faggy, arty jew in the vicinity making fun of the humorless.

[via the huff]

narm!

the remixes never end

jay-z + pavement = the slack album

sufjan stevens!

profile and interview

[via largehearted boy]

read about the birth of google

you can watch the entire r. kelly "trapped in the closet" epic here

how to know if someone wants to hump you

why people chose war

[via blogdex]

do texting and dating mix?

[via kottke]

could christians know less about the bible?

[via blogdex]

pixies may record new record

part two of jimmy kimmel's r&b opera "the pizza"

hip-ass rubber soul tribute on the way

spoon on npr

did bush flip you off?

free downloads from aol music of actual good songs. be sure to check out "speak slow" by tegan and sara.

wonder shozen clips!

[via metafilter]

somehow this relates to this. right?

[first link via kottke]

new sedaris story

[via kottke]

pitchfork claims there's an underground hip-hop elite!

it's like friendster, but you can't be fugly!

story about beautifulpeople.net

On the surface, "you go, 'Oh, this is so lame.' But in some ways it is a great marketing opportunity," says Charlene Li, principal analyst at Forrester Research, a technology/market research company. Whether you're actually beautiful is beside the point, Li says; it's more about attitude. "Frankly, if you're a (legitimately) beautiful person, I'm not sure you want to be exposed in this way."

i'm glad they already have a place for scary people like me.

a whole new realm of celebrity

wired news reports on the overnight phenomenon of podcasting.

mike at the jesus piece has the ghostface dangerdoom track up. it's what i call living up to the hype.

fuel cell powered motorcycles coming soon

cnet/news.com reports today about the ENV fuel cell powered motorcycle. quiet but low powered (50mph tops) it reportedly gets 200 miles per tank and even less verifiably might cost $6000. kinda looks like a bicycle with farings to me. and it doesn't solve the problem of producing hydrogen cleanly. but its a decent start...

be the meanest man contest's 100th myspace pal

and I will buy you a bagel. winner must message this clown.

report shitty tippers?

[via kottke]

rough trades

two source employees charged with attempted murder.

world's easiest rss reader

google does it again. check out "create a section." be sure to add http://pammyland.com/atom.xml and http://sneakmove.com/atom.xml, dogs!

Jarmusch with Bill Murray

Jim Jarmusch has a new film called broken flowers starring Bill Murray. The trailer looks pretty good. Maybe you should check it out if you feel like it.

another resource for you creepy stalkers

find the best looking people in your neighborhood, by address: this site combines google maps api with hot or not's zip code dating information.

(thanks, matt.)

best video of the week

i don't know a thing about who these guys are but this video is my new favorite. they're called chromeo, and the song appears to be titled 'needy girl.' is it a joke? is it for real? all i know is i can't stop singing along with so many catchy hooks.

(thanks, sweet blumby.)

as a result of what i believe is a long-running legal dispute, prudential is auctioning off TVT assets including:

All rights held by Lender to the following albums, EPs and singles and the sound recordings therein, subject to the terms of the Artist recording agreements and other applicable licenses, recorded during the approximate dates below:
Connells: 1987-1998; KMFDM: 1986-1999; and Nine Inch Nails: 1989-1992, including Pretty Hate Machine.

they're also selling the rights to television's greatest hits, the mortal kombat soundtracks (four of them!) and a slew of publishing rights. no cherry-picking, though; you have to buy the whole lot at once. mtvnews has some of the scoop.

silly mash-up town

[via metafilter]

flickr tag browser tool

This fun tool lets you query for tags on flickr.com and displays the results in a handy thumbnail format. Related tags appear to help you refine your search. Try querying for "boobs" or "vegas".

star wars lovin' mac users rejoice

Shipping this week, star wars battlefront for the mac os x platform will finally let you play the game that's been out for more dedicated gaming machines for a few months. i tried it on the ps2 and it sorta blew my mind. also, keep your eyes peeled for star wars battlefront II in the near future.

out: instant message rap battles. in: aim fight!

[via huff post]

go for the gold

(thanks, hurlow.)

do you miss kirk cameron? he's been looking for you

(thanks, jesus.)

pretend you've read the tipping point

[via kottke]

the original innovator of the r&b opera jimmy kimmel debuts the pizza, chapter 1.

(thanks, nathan.)

no more guilty pleasures. who isn't bored by people being embarassed by the the music they listen to? The good/bad news is that you are not a better person if you listen to music before it gets on the OC or sampled. You're just plain affected if you are living your life by what the music bullies think of you. so, consider this just a list of good songs.

[via jason k.]

another entry in salon's series about curing gays!

Barry Levy, a Christian counselor and licensed clinical social worker, is explaining to me what causes homosexuality. "Take the young boy who is more sensitive, more delicate, who doesn't like rough-and-tumble, who is artistic," he says. "He can't hit the ball, fire the gun or shoot an arrow. There is a high correlation between poor eye-hand coordination and same-sex attraction."

hilarious passion of the christ poster

[via boing squared]

conversation with basquiat

new republic's complete idiot's guide to the genocide in darfur. another small miracle of blogging.

[via metafilter]

another great reason not to blog at work, fools!

if you are queer like me, you'll love salon's new series about curing the gays.

download the entirety of ed wood's plan 9 from outer space.

[via boing to the boing]

dangerdoom, coming soon

dangerdoom coming soon to a white, tech-savvy male near you.

he'll never rap alone?

eminem done as a solo artist?

crazy keyboard

This keyboard is amazing. Each key has a little screen which adjusts to the keys current function. Change the keyboards language or special keys labels on the fly.

mariah carey-germany boob pics. sadly, they're safe for work.

(thanks, nathan.)

get all smart.

[via kottke]

sarah vowell's speech that president bush should give. typical, not-laugh-out-loud but relevant, deep humor from ms. vowell.

wal-mart needs to chill, puff a doob

it's safe to say that willie nelson's new reggae album is probably pretty ungood. it's also safe to say that wal-mart is str8 lamerz. in anticipation of the retail giant's skittishness about things even remotely racy, universal music group traded willie's pot leaf cover art for a version that features a frickin' palm tree.

sexist!

at the opening of the hometown buffet in brentwood

new meaning to the term belly shirt!

the muther f-wording saga continues. r. kelly hard at work on chapters 6-10 of his trapped in the closet epic. one, you, can only wonder how r. will deal with the news that his wife slept with the cop who gave him a ticket who somehow knows everyone else that has been sleeping with each other (including gay pastors).

Classical Tribute to Aphex Twin

The amazing 22-piece ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, realistically covers Aphex Twin. The complexity of the arrangements and the skill it takes to play this stuff is crazy. Check a sound clip or two.

america's team the jim yoshii pile-up have announced fall tour dates.

want to release a product but afraid that piracy and the expense of distribution will make it completely unprofitable? try ransoming it. that's what daniel solis and greg stolze did with their game meatbot massacre. the result? they are $600 richer. listen to their story from on the media.

livejournal mood graph

This site has a fun feature that charts livejournal mood data over time. Hot Revelation: Looks like people are less horny on sundays afternoons.

there must be something from live 8 that you want to watch

a link to quicktime video for every single performance all around the world.

[via stereogum.com]

watch the surreal life 5 debut episode. sadly requires a PC and IE.

(thanks, pop-up ad!)

summer lovin': classic novels under 250 pages.

[via largehearted boy]

leave your blog off your resume, son.

[via metafilter]

forget it: norml says long-term pot smoking does not cause cancer. but it does make a jew moody, that's a fact!

[via metafilter]

sweet p-word.

(thanks, rarce.)

only one day left...

...until danny way attempts to clear the great wall of china on his skateboard via launch ramp. you can watch a live feed here.

(thanks, blumby.)

besides caving into every bad trend, mtv is now caving into pressure.

break your own damn heart.

google maps: better and better

one gripe about google maps is it doesn't include a distance key for you to rough estimate travel distances. "sue and paul" have leapfrogged that problem with a route making pedometer (using google maps api). double click your waypoints and it gives you instant precision distances. check out the path around oakland's lake merritt. i also mapped the bike route from my old apartment to the tijuana border.

(thanks, blumby.)

diamond dave to replace howard stern?

[via defamer]

ridiculously great puppet video for the polyphonic spree's hold me now.

(thanks, alan el.)

npr all up in this music bloggery shit. download a sufjan stevens song.

salon has done a bunch of great stuff on scientology recently.

it's probably just me, but i am sadly amused by the vicious comments to tom hayden's reaction to the london bombings on the huffington post.

When are you going to meet with Zarqawi to plan strategy, like you did with the North Vietnamese? I look forward to your joint press conference.

on her way to prison, lil' kim says 'shut up bitch'.

amazing wikipedia in action documenting the london bombings as the news breaks.

enjoy these x-rated movie posters from the 60s and 70s. warning: nsf5 (not safe for the 50s).

[via boing boing]

did you hear the fresh air interview with my GIRLFRIEND, six feet under's lauren ambrose (i'm twelve). did you know she's a classically trained opera singer and hot?

r. kelly lloyd weber

if you haven't tasted the sweet, superfluous hip-hopera insanity of r. kelly's trapped in the closet pentalogy, you can do so at mtv's new 'hybrid' site overdrive. peep the high-school-video-production-class-quality writing of every mtv news introduction on this promising site that sadly requires a PC and IE.

steal wi-fi, get arrested?

In another Florida case, a man in an apartment complex used a neighbor's Wi-Fi to access bank information and pay for pornography sites.

But he slipped up. The man had sex products sent to his address. "The morning we did a search warrant, we found an antenna hanging out his window so he could get a better signal from his neighbor's network," Breeden said.

[via huffington post]

defamer estimates that tom cruise's antics cost war of the world about $187 million dollars in box office gross.

Using the same calculations that we employed to determine WOTW’s imaginary shortfall, we estimate that Katie Holmes’ involvement cost BB about $25 million this weekend. A pity.

an older, fun article about celebrity playlists called beyoncé, your mix tape sucks

Many of the artists involved play it snoozingly safe. For instance: There's an obscure little ditty out there called "Hey Ya!" Avril Lavigne and the Flaming Lips and Alice Cooper and Mischa Barton, star of The O.C., think you ought to give it a listen.

[via the long tail]

a mongolian throat singer takes on love will tear us apart.

[via metafilter]

the dirty secret of online dating: being hot and rich helps.

downloads galore

get tons of music from the winners of salon's summer playlist contest (just click-thru for the day pass).

bush's brain leaks?

huffington post, the liberal drudgereport with extra spicy celebrity blogs, is finally coming into its own covering the rove leak story.

larry david funny!

check out these bike routes from all over the country.

[via metafilter]

ever wonder what scientologists really believe? watch this wacky flash movie and realize that even jesus would have seemed pretty crackers being interviewed by matt lauer.

could it get any worse than this?

i mean really--would you live with fran by choice? my absolute worst nightmare. but hey...it features a supporting cast member who's a dead ringer for "charles in charge"-era scott baio...so it's got THAT going for it.

also. on my playlist this weekend: a minute-long just blaze beat snippet courtesy of mark ronson's show on east village radio. my name is BELIEVE and i like listening to unexpected fire.