Educate Yo'Self!

Gabby Sibide, star of the new film Precious, seems like one cool, confident lady - New York Magazine

Charlie Brooker hates Windows but the cult of Mac scares him more than any system failure. Hmmm - The Guardian

Also, he's not a fan of Art Wanker Damien Hirst. Now that's a stance I can get behind - The Guardian

A homeopath and his wife were jailed Monday for failing to provide adequate medical care to their infant daughter, who died as a result of untreated eczema. Not a happy ending, but a necessary one, given the circumstances - Ninemsn

'$16m youth mental health centre to open in Sydney'. As someone who struggled with mental illness throughout my youth this seems like a good idea to me - ABC Online

Sometimes I falter in my belief that every generation progresses a little past the previous generations' prejudices. Articles like this help to restore my faith - The New York Times Magazine

Find of the Day

8 x 10" archival print of the Thumb War Battle of 1684 by Sarah Neuburger - US$18.00 at her online store The Small Object.

I know my family still harbours a of lot of resentment for how that war went down. 

Also check out the archival prints for the battles of 1732, 1857 and 1862.

Today's Find comes via BB HyphenBlog - Danke!

Find of the Day

It wasn't a fair fight, really. Any product with a description that starts with "It’s more or less fact that squirrels and sparrows are huge fans of extreme sports..." has a pretty enviable headstart.
The 'Bungee Bird Feeder' isn't available just yet, but it's coming soon, and seeing as it's Suck UK, you'll probably be able to find it pretty easily. It's a popular brand, and for good reason.

Educate Yo'Self!

Cooking with Christopher Walken! No further elaboration needed - YouTube

'Meet the man who changed Glenn Beck's life'. I'm not sure if I want to meet that guy actually - Salon

This creation from Charlie Le Mindu's latest show reminded me of that Nicole Kidman vehicle Fur. What a disappointment that movie was - Jezebel 

'Dan Brown's 20 Worst Sentences'. "Physicist Leonardo Vetra smelled burning flesh, and he knew it was his own" is my current favourite - The Telegraph 

 Hadley Freeman explains the sudden proliferation of pixie haircuts, and why denim on denim is never ok - The Guardian

In from the Cold

Whew! We have been away for a long time. There are lots reasons, some of them legitimate, for our absence, but really, the main one is laziness. And everyone knows that lazy is a hard habit to break. However, we are endeavoring to break said habit, and new posts should be up daily from now on.
Looking forward to sharing awesome with you, in the mean time, please enjoy this amusing pictogram, by Nicholas Gurewitch of The Perry Bible Fellowship comic strip.

I Find Twitter Kinda Annoying But...

Stephen Colbert's Twitter feed is really very funny, just like everything else he does in life.

Highlights include:

"as i watch myself twitter, i wonder why i didn't become a professional thumb model"

"Equations are the devil's sentences."

"Real men use fossil fuels."

"I never trusted sleep."

"Just because you haven't heard of pirates in a while doesn't mean they're not out there ruining thousands of shrimp buffets."

"The best way to change the system is to wait till it changes."

"All of the answers are there if you look for the patterns."

"A man should smell like an old baseball glove."

"Simple rule when I pick my friends: No mesh shirts."

"Sheep aren't bad as long as they have good shepherds."

"Shave off your body hair and get in the sweatbox."

"This is not a contest but there will be a winner, as there always is in life."

"Cadmium Yellow is the color of broken dreams."

"I'm sure I have a lot of strong feelings."

Speaking of Stephen Colbert, he is totally tearing it up at the moment. The current political climate in America, especially the way the hard-core neo-cons are just losing their minds has given The Colbert Report so much material. It has allowed Stephen and his writers to let Stephen Colbert - the character - and his paranoia and ignorance loose, and boy is he crazy. In particular I love their take on Glenn Beck, a right-wing, conspiracy theorist nutcase who refuses to accept the majority of the country he 'loves' so much really doesn't side with him, and instead is, to paraphrase Mr. Colbert, cranking up the crazy and ripping off the knob. The fact that this guy is actually given a forum to disseminate his hateful and ignorant views by a major media corporation is actually really disturbing and upsetting, but that's a whole other post for another day. And you've got to laugh, otherwise you'd be shaking with rage day in day out.

Check out the below videos in order for an education in crazy:

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Truth From the Gut
comedycentral.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor NASA Name Contest

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Doom Bunker - Glenn Beck's "War Room"
comedycentral.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor NASA Name Contest

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
The 10.31 Project
comedycentral.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor NASA Name Contest