Here’s a site that builds you a “realistic” Wii avatar, also known as a Mii, based on a photo you upload for $5.
Are you spending hours tweaking your Mii, trying to make it look right? Frustrated that, even with photo in hand, you just can’t create a likeness?
Have no fear, Make Mii is here! [...]

Just in time for March Madness comes this little bit of pure bloody genius — a round-up of the worst college mascots working the football fields and b-ball courts today.
Here’s a sample:

Go look

Radar Magazine reports that a company called Sinful Comics has released a graphic novel — a very graphic novel — that’s basically a pornographic version of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean.
A visit to Sinful’s site revealed a number of other fantasy scenarios involving A-List celebs (and also Britney Spears). All I can say [...]

Go read about the top 10 little people of all time. The Gary Coleman entry alone is worth the price of admission.
GO

Jarvis Cocker’s new album drops April 3rd, but here’s a little preview track that’s being released under the title “Running the World”.
The original title: “Cunts Are Running the World”.

This album should be fun.

This is priceless. Makes you wonder what in hell the F.D.A. wouldn’t approve:
The F.D.A. ordered the makers of Ambien, Lunesta and 11 other commonly used sleep medications to issue strong new label warnings about those risks, and to produce brochures about safe use of the drugs. Pharmacies would give the brochures to patients when prescriptions [...]

It’s only 10am and I’ve already found the most exasperatingly pointless piece of “news” I’ll find all day.
Heather Mills says her decision to compete on ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” is no publicity stunt.
Mills, who is divorcing former Beatle Paul McCartney, says she is appearing on the show for charity, not to gain public sympathy.
“I’ve [...]

We all know that Pope Benedict is weird and creepy. His new book reveals that he’s also a total control freak.

Pope Benedict was opposed to Bob Dylan appearing at a youth event with the late Pope John Paul in 1997 because he considered the pop star the wrong kind of “prophet,” Benedict writes in a [...]

Sometimes an impersonation is funniest when it’s not even fucking close. This one still cracks me up.

The ads may be British, but the principles are universal. Rather good.