Rose Lorkowski (Amy Adams) was very popular in high school, in fact she was a hottie. A cheerleader with the star quarterback for a boyfriend, she had her world on a string. Fast-forward a few years in Rose’s life and things aren’t as upbeat. A single mom, she struggles to make a living by cleaning [...]

The word is out that MGM has selected its wish-list cast for “The Three Stooges.” The studio has Sean Penn as Larry, is negotiating with Jim Carrey about playing Curly and sees great potential in Benicio Del Toro as Moe.

Young Mike Campbell (Kyle Gallner) has cancer and needs to make constant visits to a medical center for his treatments. In an effort to take the pressure off the family, the Campbells relocate to upstate Connecticut, near the medical facility. Mom, Sara Campbell (Virginia Madsen), is fortunate to find a large, rambling, disheveled, spooky old [...]

Well, Billy gets pissed.  Apparently the DJ was instructed not to talk about his film career and needless to say he does.   What’s up with celebrities freaking out on camera lately, I guess it raises ratings or gets them more attention.
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It’s Free music, continuing the trandition of radio, as they put it.  It’s free music, what else is there to say?
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A great collection of hand drawn designs from 6 Revisions.  CHECK IT OUT

A site with great examples of 3D and sound integration.  Pretty funny site as well, definitely worth checking out.  SITE

This is an amazing article about longevity and one that I have been waiting to hear.  Just to give you an idea, the article starts with:
Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey has famously stated, “The first person to live to be 1,000 years old is certainly alive today …whether they realize it or not, [...]

China, in another attempt to stumpt any speech that might in any way question the communist party, has blocked Youtube.
YouTube, owned by search giant Google Inc, has been unavailable for users in China, which filters the Internet for content critical of the Communist Party, since late on Monday.

Another great example of Design and Flash.  I can never say no to a bombardment of imagery in this way.  Very cool site.  CHECK IT OUT.

Any nineties child will tell you that Pearl Jam’s Ten was a monumental and ground breaking album upon it’s release.  Here is a great site featuring great use of Flash 3D for a game with that album as it’s theme. CHECK IT OUT. (Originally seen on FWA)

A great site showcasing some great design and implementation.  CHECK IT OUT

So, Mexican drug cartels have been getting better weapons such as:
“hand grenades, grenade launchers, armor-piercing munitions and antitank rockets” STORY

How can they afford it?
“Marijuana is the (Mexican cartels’) cash crop, the cash cow,” says Brittany Brown of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Washington office, which does not advocate legalizing pot. STORY

Making them an organization more [...]

I can really appreciate minimalist designs when they are executed nicely.  Ministry of Type is one of these designs,

If you haven’t seen this yet.  Jim Cramer appeared on the John Stewart show and caught a beatdown unlike I have ever seen.  In case you missed it, here is his appearance on The Daily Show

What’s more is the White House had something to say about it.

Great design and implementation from a co-worker originally and from thebestdesigns.com.  CHECK IT OUT.

Dean Ornish explains some interesting things about genes and gives the persepective that our genes are not our fate, but are an expression.  Very short and to the point, worth checking out.

As part of Obamas plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq by 2010, the U.S. has annouced that it will be withdrawing 12,000 troops in the next 6 months.  

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Yikes, parasites (shiver) are as nasty as they come—and weird slimy worms no less. Here’s a short quiz to calculate your risk for becoming one of their hosts… you should take it, I did.

Anyone who appreciates wine appreciates it more when its bottle displays an unusual and creative design. Am I right or am I right, my fellow wine-os?

Here’s the 7th annual collection from Netdiver showcasing what they’ve deemed the best and most influential talent in design inspiration from last year, 2008. Very cool.
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Okay all you number nerds, here’s your spotlight to celebrate that lovely universal and mentally destructive language known as math. Today, March 3, 2009 is Square Root Day.  Now, such a tribute can only occurs 9 times every century… yeah, that’s right, CENTURY, so the celebration for this should fit the occasion—it best be killer.
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Poor R2D2… all that beeping and no one understands what the hell it’s saying, that is until now. Youtube user, mwombat has translated R2D2’s electronic language into subtitles, giving the little bugger a voice to its personality… and personality it is. Funny.

Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) team up to bust an international conspiracy that is being perpetrated by one of the world’s most powerful banking institutions, the IBBC (most likely based on the BCCI, Bank of Credit & Commerce International that was involved in a large [...]

I just came across this and it’s insane.  The U.N. is pushing for making blasphemy illegal.  They took up a  “resolution combating defamation of religion.”  That means that you cannot insult religions.  They are now pushing to make this resolution binding on member nations.  This means that it would be a crime in the U.S. [...]

Even if you buy in to the neo-Epicurean philosophy that insists that irresponsible consumerism is the 21stCentury’s answer to “eat, drink and be merry,” the current economic climate still casts a dark shadow on the basic premise of this movie. Becky Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) could well symbolize a microcosm of the attitude toward credit that [...]

An awesome collection of 40+ great AE tutorials from Noupe. 

If you haven’t heard of Nadya Suleman, she  is the lady that had sextuplets back in 2008 and has recently had octuplets.  Interestingly enough she even has a website (HERE). 

A video game studio in Japan has released a game called Rapelay, where you stalk and rape a daughter and her mother.  Wow. 

Another take on one of my favorite themes, which is TV.  Complete with random moon men.  CHECK IT OUT

This is hilarious.

A beautifully designed site with great portfolio display ideas as well as cool toys built into the site.  This whole thing was done in Flash.  Don’t forget to click on fun at the top of the page.
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As I was browsing YouTube tonight I happened to come across a few people who had decided they would compete for “in beard” toothpicks.  I was shocked.  How have I not thought of this?  How is this only surfacing now and what maddened genius came up with this scheme to get people to pay attention [...]

I don’t know how I could have missed this, since any time I see some promise of eternal life I jump, and this story is from 2008.  But apparently scientists at the Einstein school of medicine have stopped the aging of mice livers. 

Font Struct allows you to create fonts online! Along with their Flash-based creation tool they also have a font gallery where you can download fonts.  You can either draw the font from scratch or use their library of pre-existing shapes.  Very cool, CHECK IT OUT. (added to sidebar under Generators)

A collection of some really interesting WW2 pics restored in color. 

Interesting.

News Flash! It seems that Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) isn’t dead after all.

Here’s a site that enables you to tag photos and images all over the internet that you… yep, you guessed it, ‘heart’ for whatever reason. Once you join you can add contacts and start up communities to share the image love. Check it out HERE.  Also, the above logo is a design done in tribute [...]

This is a photo collection on Flickr by Vincent Bousserez depicting what little plastic figurines do when we’re not around. LOVE it.

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Type lovers unite. Here’s a generator which creates “word clouds” that you can adjust in all possible ways. No joke. This is too much fun and it only takes a few minutes.

I love how Europe recycles outdated structures by reinventing them into oddball attractions… usually inexpensive lodging. So should you visit Stockholm, Sweden I recommend you stay here at the Jumbo Jet hostel.