Well, this awesome song just out yesterday from Cee Lo Green, “Fuck You.”
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This last June, after Sebastian Horsley died in Soho at the age of 47 from a heroin overdose, I began thinking about this genre of rich wastrel louches. We in the white, waking world are fascinated by stories of Edies and Huntington Hartfords who have it all and waste it all. Of Horsley, The...
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I first encountered China Miéville via his stunning third novel, The Scar. What I find amazing about this interview with Miéville about his latest novel, Kraken, in The Onion’s AV Club is that The Scar isn’t mentioned at all. Yet so many of the commenters echo my amazement with The Scar. Words like “stunning”...
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I cannot get this out of my head. I had heard about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg breaking out in a huge, visible sweat when Walter Mossberg and Kara Swisher of The Wall Street Journal asked him about privacy problems that Facebook has brought onto its users recently. Mossberg and Swisher, I should mention, did...
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The diplomatic meeting is of no consequence. It’s just a minor blip on the radar of classified documents published by Wikileaks. On December 17, 1975, in Paris, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met Abdelaziz Bouteflika Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria. As published in a secret memorandum, the first part of the exchange...
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By now, the Wieden & Kennedy ad campaign for Old Spice, featuring Isaiah Mustafa, is a thing of legend. Even Advertising Age, not prone to handing out cheap praise, says that they have seen nothing like The Man Your Man Could Smell Like campaign. Oh, and it’s over, too. Really? You didn’t even know...
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Holy crap. Hausu (1977) is a Japanese film that blog Dangerous Minds calls “a mixtape compiled by a demented Carl Jung–immersive, repellent, hysterical and visionary.”
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Radiohead’s “Creep,” performed by the Vega Choir of Sweden, has been burning up the Internet like a match on a gasoline-soaked haystack. Hit Play and scroll down this page and find out what’s going on with Vega Choir’s “Creep.” What is “Creep”? “Creep” is a song by English band Radiohead that was released in...
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Q: Why do some people pronounce strength as strenth? Q: Why do self-styled badass, bro-type guys like to shake hands sideways, palms flat? A: Likely solved. A friend suggested to me that it’s a dominating move, especially since their hands are on top, facing downward. Q: Why does Pink in the movie Pink Floyd’s...
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I landed on a great site called Linkbait Generator. Linkbait is any kind of zippy, high-concept web content that gets picked up and spread virally. Typical linkbait emanates from places like Cracked.com: 5 Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies). Well, now you can make your own linkbait with the Linkbait Generator. The...
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