October 2009
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September 2009
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WatchVideo staircase at Luis Vuitton Rome. [via]
Cooking May Have Made Us Human
Anthropologist Richard Wrangham, author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human believes that the discovery of cooked food led to evolutionary changes resulting in a smaller and different digestive system based on a higher-quality diet.
I thought using restrooms made us human.
I’m just gonna come out and say it: I find Shakira’s “She Wolf” to be very listenable in an utterly disposable way. The video is almost spellbindingly unwatchable—Madonna’s osteoporosis set to music—but the track itself is trifling, transient and unobjectionable.
R: I'd rather get date-raped by Tucker Max in hell than go to ___________'s book release party at Coco de Ville.
H: I assume he's releasing a Tom Clancy book back into the wild.
J: One interesting thing about LeBron James is that everyone sort of knew he was going to be a star from an early age, so I think there's lots of footage of him being young and awesome.
R: Like Jimmy from Degrassi. Everyone knew he was awesome even before he became the rapper Drake and started doing Rihanna.
J: …
More like One Dad at a Time.
Okay, I’m done now.
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In the waning decades of the Planet Hollywood dynasty, Vin and Dwayne made a deal: Diesel got all of Sly’s turnaround and Johnson got Ah-nuld’s. It was a pact written in lightning and signed in blood.
Barry Pepper got a beej from Danny Zuko.
This is their legend.
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Someone should set a horror movie in a lamp store.
Know what’s an amazing sound? The shower running while you doze in the next room.
Nissan gives silent electric cars 'Blade Runner'... →
Nissan sound engineers have announced that the Leaf electric car set for release next year will emit a “beautiful and futuristic” noise similar to the sound of flying cars—or “spinners”—that buzz around 2019 Los Angeles in Ridley Scott’s dystopian thriller based on a Philip K. Dick science fiction novel.
“We decided that if we’re going to do this, if we have to make sound, then we’re going to...
Muse’s new album is the soundtrack to Flash Gordon’s adolescence.
“Wait, we’re following different squirrels on Twitter?”
– Anonymous
Author Dan Brown's 20 worst sentences →
10. The Da Vinci Code, chapter 4: Five months ago, the kaleidoscope of power had been shaken, and Aringarosa was still reeling from the blow.
Did they hit him with the kaleidoscope?
True connoisseurs know the ne plus ultra of Dan Brown consumption is to enjoy the unabridged audiobook of one of his doorstops, preferably on a long flight—an experience on a par with eating Spam in Hawaii. Things...
The only thing sadder than Mission To Mars on Syfy is K-PAX coming up next on Syfy.
After briefly conferring with @zeekatai I’ve determined that backdoor television pilots are the reason an advanced alien civilization might decide to annihilate us, not loose nukes.
WatchZune HD apps are free but you have to watch a commercial every time you launch them. Unfuckingbelievable. [via]
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