Links posted on May 13, 2008
Panopticist's Magazine Mashup Mishegas - I don't know how I failed to have previously linked the Panopticist's stellar magazine cover mashups. But now that Jezebel is picking up the slack with their Harper's Bazaar Index, please enjoy classic cuts like "The New York Review of Looks" ("Norman Mailer: `Kate Hudson's Too Thin'") the "Us! News and World Report" and "E!conomist" (`How the Housing Bubble will affect Desperate Homeowners`).
Bill O'Reilly isn't very nice to people. You already knew him as a stretchmark-loofaing sexual predator and a sanctimonious, hypocritical coward. Did you know he is also a bully? You will be as shocked by this video as I.
Fraser Lewry is Eating the Alphabet. Ran across this while looking for monkey brains recipes (really): Guardian food critic Fraser Lewry is going through the alphabet eating a dish featuring an exotic animal with that letter, from Actual Ants in Quicksand to Frog, Flounder & Fontina Fishcake to (most recently) Octopus and Ostrich Surf 'n' Turf (with some pickled testes along the way).
I feel like we've discussed crazy rock band tour riders before (though I can't find it). Anyway, the Foo Fighters do ask for some crazy stuff but don't take themselves too seriously while they do it.
Why am I not surprised that major bowling research is being done in Wisconsin?