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* Why I threw out the Q-tips (Warning! Pics of impacted ear wax are not safe for lunch.) * Worst idea of the decade (sorry, Matt, I know you love your new toy.) * “People today experience more depression than previous generations, despite the technological wonders that help us every day. It might be because [...]

Welcome to WTF Wednesday! Today’s theme: insanity, fakery, and kinkiness, yum… * Kinda NSFW review of the Earth Angel, the world’s first recyclable, hand-cranked… erm… * Trailer for You Think You Really Know Me: The Gary Wilson Story. What is he doing with that duck? That was vonHummer weird… Great, now I’m in a Tom [...]

Ohmygah, they made an animated movie out of Persepolis, one of the most important graphic novels ever written? How’d I miss this?? From the director of Helvetica it’s Objectified, a look inside the world of industrial design. Here’s a movie pitch: Baryshnikov in Cleats: The Lynn Swann Story. Via MeFi, trailer for Faubourg Tremé: The [...]

* RIP, Vic… * Kristen Hersch collecting donations for Vic’s family. * Sweet Relief always needs your help. Musicians get bupkis for health insurance! * ‘Like drinking from fire hoses? Best of ’09 lists are out. Portlanders will geek out at #95 on Pitchfork’s list of best songs and #16 on Steregum’s best albums. * [...]

* Wired has an hilarious article about shoestring ripoffs of blockbusters. I’m sorry, a rubbery robot fighting Sherlock Holmes sounds frickin’ awesome! * Wind turbines might be better for the environment, but the toxic minerals needed to run them are abominable… * New radio rating system could mean death for America’s remaining classical stations… * [...]

* Dig the attic door I designed, framed, and painted (Matt did the sawing, hammering, and holding upping.) You can’t see it here, but 12″ of rigid foam insulation are glued to the back. Sucker’s air tight and so much friendlier than a gaping hole in the bathroom. What I resorted to when I couldn’t [...]

Sorry to break it to all ones of my readers, but the end of the blog is near. My target demographic (the hubster) is on a slower-than-molasses connection, and I don’t know how to get the site to look decent on a PDA. I know, I know, it’s sad. Think of all we shared! The… [...]

* Sweden’s Loney Dear, ja or nej? * Matt just broke it to me that, not only were those Italian and German David Bowie songs legit, artists have been recording in other languages for decades. “Google Laurel and Hardy in German“, he says. Them, too?? * Lynda Barry at UW talking about studying art at [...]

* Marvel Comics has a castration complex… * While we’re at io9: Geeks! Put away those R2-D2 toys, you’re scaring away prospective workers, esp. dah ladies… * Burger King doesn’t think women eat breakfast… * High fructose corn syrup is making us sick and fat. * Fast food corn syrup content circa 2004. Mayonnaise? Buns? [...]

Images swiped from news aggregators and blogs ’cause I been too busy to do your GIS bidding! * This better be an old photo. I mean, someone’s explained to wingnuts that words have multiple meanings, right? * “Saw this in the book section at Fry’s…” * Hear, hear: * A consolation prize for Matt, who [...]