musical swimwear

Passing the line between titillating and just plain weird is Oooooouch.com, which allows you to use bikini babes as a musical instrument. I know, this sounds wrong on more levels than I can imagine...but it feels so right.

ascii

The ever-cool Wired has a very cool piece on ASCII art. I like the idea of minimalism, but I will never fool myself into thinking I'm able to actually do this.

good news for glum bastards

A German scientist has determined that smiling can be bad for you. I am officially using this as after-the-fact justification for my at-work demeanor.

kitchen help

Found this great bit of advice for novice cooks. It is not vegetarian, but if you eat meat, there's good stuff here. My fave line: "You can't be an adult if you can't cook, and you can't cook much if food makes you say ew."

he's as popular as I was in high school

And here's another thing that I'm not alone in thinking: Historians rate our current president as the worst ever. And it comes with handy dandy charts...it's almost as good as USAToday!

up, up, and yawn

Superman is never cool. Personally, I've always found him to be dull beyond belief at best and dangerous at worst. There's very little to like philosophically about Dark Knight 2, but Superman first as a stooge of an evil dictator and then as a dictator/god himself sums up the worst parts of Superman. But you want more detail? Here's why Superman will always suck...and it's good that I'm not the only one who knows this.