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Bad Girl Redux

Fabulous Socialite Miu von Furstenberg breaks the new Madonna Versace campaign, commenter's cousin enthuses, "Oooh, I want that Bratz doll!" in response to the Material Girl's airbrushed-into-oblivion likeness. 

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Don't try this on acid, kids (or do, I'd be interested to hear the stories):

The Zoom Quilt

via BoingBoing

Sound Advice

Don't blow all your Christmas cash on laptops sold by crackheads outside of liquor stores.  Altogether not a good idea.

My Wife, With Her Bony, Sitcom-Rich Ass

Brad Pitt makes indulgent, mind-numbingly boring mini-film while reading poetry and mounting his own image on a video screen, serves as example as to how self-important and narcissistic fame can make people.

Via goldenfiddle

Many Faces, One Adjective: Dangerous

One of the more frightening things I've seen in months.  Don't watch it before bedtime:

Dangerous People

To Sleep, Perchance to Have a Wet Dream

From Drudge Report (we all have our moments of weakness):

Okay, the Japanese need to start talking to each other.  Kawaii culture is obviously shriveling their sex organs to the size of Hello Kitty cell phone charms.  I say we take them out for karaoke, get everybody drunk on soju and sake, and go back to the hotel to watch porn -- who's with me on this?

Also from the morning's Drudge:

If he thinks this is bad, he should try Death by Christmas.

If the Debt Doesn't Kill You, the Nativity Will

So holly and jolly, it's killing us:

Christmas Deadliest Day for Americans

Tomorrow: "Kwanzaa: Silent Night, Deadly Night"

Related: is it any wonder we're dying?  We've turned the Nativity into a S'Mores set, complete with a chocolate and graham cracker stable:

The S'Mores Nativity

Anyone who eats little baby Jesus deserves what we gets.

Via Bitter Shack of Resentment

Tiny Machine

This ad has to have high-dollar agencies very, very scared (click on the pic to view the spot):

 Home-Brew IPod Ad Opens Eyes (Behind the iTune, as it were)

The ad marks a watershed moment in American advertising history, where the consumer -- empowered by technology, motion graphics programs, and their own love for a product -- can take advertising into his own hands.  The unadulterated love for the product shines through in this spot; you believe it's not actually attempting to sell you something, but instead, let you in on something not-so-secret: that the iPod mini inspires a devotion beyond reason, and in bringing back to adults a love of music they may not have fully indulged since their teen-age years, can transport you to an entirely different place.  It's so good, I went to the iTunes store to buy the song -- too bad they don't sell it or any Darling Buds tracks (note to Darling Buds [likely former] manager: get that deal done.  Like, tomorrow.)

Monday Morning Freakout

Man Finds Best Way to Picture Infinity

Guaranteed to make you slightly nauseous if you look at it too long.

Via RealityCarnival

Where are the Waldettes?

To soon be followed, I'm sure, by the inevitable series of photographic "Where's Waldo?" books: a Netherlands company has produced the world's largest digital panoramic camera, which produces images of 5.5 gigapixels.  That's 500x more than that puny little Nikon Coolpix you bought the other day -- 5.5 billion pixels of information. 

Astounding, but it's great fun to scan the picture to find the two girls above, obviously two lost Americans checking their map for the nearest Gap, completely unaware they are being not only watched, but photographed and searched for on the Internets.  Even more fun: try finding the guy in the red backpack whose body gets cut in half by a time-lapse issue.  Although the specs of the photo say the picture was shot at a 1/100 second exposure, you can clearly see the guy twice -- cut in half below, and just down the street, coming out from behind a building.  Could there be a little fradulent photo-stitching going on?

How scary is this going to be when you can read what the Gap twins holding, though?  Big Brother is watching, and my, what big eyes he has!

Via RealityCarnival