Stay with this until the 45 second mark.

Genius. Thanks Rozey!

Not much news from Apple’s annual music event, but I thought this was funny:

1:24 p.m. EDT | Shake It: Big applause for a new feature, “Shake to Shuffle” — you shake the Nano, the accelerometer kicks in, and the device automatically forwards to the next song. Time magazine’s Josh Quittner, sitting next to me, has an interesting thought: “That wouldn’t be so cool if you are running.”

Before I get screamed at by fanboys, yes, I know you can disable that feature because these things are very well designed. In fact, I own three iPods myself.

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If you know me, you know how I love sports mascots. Here are some particularly bad ones.

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A recent Diana Ross concert at Montego Bay in Jamaica seems not to have gone very well, according to one reviewer.

“Dem shoulda throw bottle pon har, all 20,000 people inna di venue,” shouted an irate patron, shortly after Ross exited the stage to boos from disgruntled fans.

Read on for the whole story. And by the way, the Jamaica Gleaner is awesome in general. Thanks to my old friend Eric for pointing me to it.

David Plotz of Slate has a modest proposal: let’s get rid of August.

August is the Mississippi of the calendar. It’s beastly hot and muggy. It has a dismal history. Nothing good ever happens in it. And the United States would be better off without it.

As the owner of a business, I can relate. There’s nobody in town to buy, so really, I should almost close and take a vacation. But since I can’t do that, I say we take August out back to the woodshed and whack it.

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I have yet to see the actual footage, but the opening of the Olympics was reportedly incredible. If these pics are any indication, I’d say the reports are correct.

Let me wave my geek flag: Yugo Nakamura has created some of the most brilliant Flash experiments ever to grace the web. His latest project, Fontpark 2.0, is flat-out stunning.

Ok, so it’s a bit of a wank and the sound effects make me want to take lives. But you will not often see something as brilliant, as inventive and as fun as this.  What most amazed me is how quickly you can create something interesting to look at without really knowing what the hell you’re doing.

In other words, it’s a first-year OCAD simulator, minus the nudity and/or Saran Wrap.

Go. Seriously. Now. Are you still here? Why?

I’m loving the site and work of this feller named Aaron James Draplin. Not only does he do nice work himself, he archives sign  & design gems of yesteryear like this and this.

Check him aht. One cool mofo.

Radio Dave sent me this. Looks absolutely brutal.

Why create a fictitious hatchet job on Dumbya when his entire Presidency is far more excoriating an indictment? Who gives a tinker’s cuss about this fratboy crouton’s privileged back story? Do we need the man who gave us The Doors telling us that George H.W. Bush is a bit of a knob?

I guess Stone needs a new heater for his pool, or put too much on his card last time he was at Canyon Ranch. Or something.

It’s only the trailer, but based on that, it’s safe to say that this thing has less artistic integrity than “The Two Coreys”.

Proof that you can burn out AND fade away.