Via Popbitch, here’s a fine collection of phallic corporate logos. The power of companies to miss the bleedingly obvious never ceases to amaze me. Of all the people that must have looked at these things, signed off on them, and probably paid loads for them, not one person can see that their new identity is [...]

Dinosaur Jr. has had all their gear stolen following a gig in NYC last night. If you’re in the NYC area, check the pawn shops. Brutal.
I saw them in Columbus, OH in 1994 and they were amazing. Punishingly loud, but amazing. At the end of the show, to clear everyone out, the local authorities used [...]

I’ve seen it with my own eyes: the first picture in the 2007 IKEA catalogue features a dog which seems to have a larger-than-normal and distinctly human shvantz. A spokesman for IKEA Canada claims that the photo has not been tampered with and that — as if this really helps the case — it was [...]

A while back, I noted that bow-tied irritant Tucker Carlson’s latest hard-hitting journalism assignment was on the prominent ABC newsmagazine known as Dancing with the Stars. Somehow, that post got lost when I reinstalled WordPress. If you really want your Tucker fix, though, the NY Times ran a piece this weekend. And unlike my meagre [...]

Mobile phones now contain cameras, MP3 players, GPS units, video games and more. Generally, however, you don’t go a week without a dropped call, regardless of what carrier you’re with (and believe me, I’ve had ‘em all).
It’s probably for that reason that the Mobile Phone Throwing Championship was born. This year’s winner chucked a phone [...]

Via Metafilter, I found an interesting pair of articles, one claiming that vinyl is dead, the other claiming that it ain’t going anywhere.
As someone with 4,000 records that I’ve dragged from apartment to apartment, and for which I eventually had to make a giant hutch in my den (okay, it holds my TV, too, but [...]

A dentist in Indiana has figured out a way to put gold teeth on a cat — in this case, a Persian named Sebastian.

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YouTube and Google Video have become platforms for jerks to do mean things to each other.
Jack Link’s Beef Jerky has created a campaign that spins the whole prank video in a pretty funny way. It’s called “Messin’ with Sasquatch”, and while it’s certainly not what you could call highbrow humour, a couple of the spots [...]

I posted yesterday about a great archive of old ads called adclassix.
Today, I stumbled on a similar — and similarly amusing — repository: Modern Mechanix.
Pretty well-written, and tons of fun to trawl through, though, assuming you like that sort of thing.
But really, what’s not to like about this?

Where was that free book when I needed [...]

If you haven’t seen it yet, Popurls is a pretty decent way to get a snapshot of what’s bubbling up around the Internet’s water cooler. The site functions as an aggregator of top hits from del.icio.us, digg, reddit, metafilter, youtube, flickr and about a dozen other sites.
It’s no replacement for your daily news, but trawling [...]