• He spent ten hours on this, if you can believe it. We usually avoid YouTube celebrities when posting videos because they’re usually incredibly lame (we’re looking at you, SHAYTARDS), and this guy is pretty lame, too, but anyone who spends a really long time assembling cups like this deserves love from us.

• 8.4 the rating of “One Life Stand,” which may blow them up source

Previous Pitchfork ratings

• 7.0 the rating of their breakthrough to mainstream popularity, “Made in the Dark” source
• 8.1 the rating of second platter “The Warning,” which they call a “step forward” source
• 8.0 the rating of first album “Coming on Strong,” which was a tad bit cheeky source

• great The iPad’s 3G models will be sold reportedly unlocked, which means you should be able to use someone other than AT&T if you want.
• terrible However, the iPad uses a new micro SIM format, which is incompatible with the iPhone. Well, that’s just friggin’ lame. Bad Apple! source

• All these problems should get fixed, but they shouldn’t stop people from buying the Prius. There are bugs in every product.
• Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak • Regarding the problems of the Toyota Prius, including the faulty brakes and what he says are accelerator problems when the car is on cruise control. (Up to 97 miles per hour!) Toyota plans to recall 270,000 units of the hybrid in the U.S. and Japan to fix the brake problems. source

• $6
  million amount of money John Thain will make in his first year as CEO for the emerging-from-bankruptcy small business creditor CIT Group
• $15
  billion amount of money Merrill Lynch lost on his watch in the fourth quarter of ’08; is this really the right guy for this particular job? source

• The second-best ad on last night’s Super Bowl is a huge talker – an Audi ad that takes the idea of political correctness to a stupidly high degree. Problem is, it hits a little too close to the bone for a lot of people. Why? Because it takes political correctness to a level that many people have suspected already existed for years, whether or not the “green police” really existed. Reason Magazine (who you figure would be all over this) nail the comparison: This is Mike Judge‘s vision of the future. Satire at its best makes you feel most uncomfortable. (The use of Cheap Trick in the ad is also pitch-perfect and completely non-controversial.)

• 4:14 a.m. space shuttle Endeavor’s launch time earlier this morning
• 24 hours the length of time after the original launch time it was delayed source

• 17+ soldiers dead in an avalanche at a training camp source

• You just don’t block 4chan. You just don’t. Back in July, the site – which revels in offensiveness and the more controversial end of free speech – was blocked by AT&T over reports of a denial of service attack, later found to be caused by a “network error.” The case with Verizon Wireless, however (which doesn’t affect landline DSL connections, by the way), was based on content. Site owner moot was told the site was “explicitly blocked” by the company. Net neutrality was created for this reason, guys. source

• good Most of the workers at the scene of the deadly power plant explosion are accounted for.
• bad Crews had to call off the search early this morning with some workers unaccounted for.
• worse The plant had a financial investment of nearly $1 billion. It was 96 percent done. source