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18 Jun 2009 21:06

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Culture: Pixar gives 10-year-old girl her dying wish: To see “Up” on DVD

  • When I watched it, I had really no idea about the content of the theme of the movie. I just know that word ‘Up’ and all of the balloons and I swear to you, for me it meant that (Colby) was going to go up. Up to heaven.
  • Lisa Curtin • Whose 10-year-old daughter, Colby, was able to see “Up” thanks to some really awesome Pixar staffers who hooked her up with a copy of the DVD. Colby, who was diagnosed with vascular cancer three years ago, died seven hours later. Sad story, but awesome in a heartbreaking way. • source
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17 Jun 2009 21:03

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Offbeat, U.S.: When Obama isn’t busy saving the economy, he’s swatting flies

  • Obama has a huge problem. His new house is swarming with flies, and it’s pissing him off. “He chases them down in the Oval with his briefing papers to smack them,” notes Council of Economic Advisors member Austan Goolsbee. They’re trying to kill them, but they’re still floating around everywhere. We know man. They annoy us too.source
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07 Jun 2009 23:06

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Offbeat: Infomercial junk: The Wearable Towel snuggies into your life

  • Not content with blankets with sleeves, America now has a new option: A towel with arm openings that begs for levels of parody not yet seen in our society. You can wear it like at toga! How can you not love this freaking towel?source
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06 Jun 2009 18:54

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Culture: And the infinite loop of Conan/Mario is complete

  • We have now reached a point where Conan’s awesomeness is now equal with the awesomeness of Super Mario World. Woot.source
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04 Jun 2009 11:10

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World: Life Magazine gets up close and personal with Adolf Hitler

When we wrote about the site a couple of months ago, these are the kind of intimate features we were hoping they would do. source
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02 Jun 2009 21:36

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Tech: Here’s an ode to our favorite game, Tetris, which turns 25

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02 Jun 2009 11:03

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Culture: MacGruber! Making a movie out of household materials! MacGruber!

  • Will Forte reveals that our favorite SNL sketch is going big-screen. Conan may be been getting all of the headlines for “The Tonight Show,” but SNL star Will Forte was causing some commotion of his own on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon”: They’re making a MacGruber movie! “John Solomon, Jorma Taccone, and I just finished writing it,” he said. “We’re gonna make it in Albuquerque. It’s me and Kirsten Wiig and cast to be determined.” YES! source
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01 Jun 2009 22:40

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Offbeat: Turning trash into highly-zoomable photorealistic art

Chris Jordan likes taking data about our how we waste, scaling it up as large as possible, zooming out and creating works of art. He rules. source
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29 May 2009 14:07

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Culture: Must-see: Aqua Teen Hunger Force, live-action, this Sunday

  • The super-niche experiment in comedy surrealism may hit its most surreal point on Sunday, For its season finale, the show will go live-action this Sunday, nearly didn’t run, and may run with a disclaimer. Ooh. source
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28 May 2009 20:42

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Music, Politics: This new TV news + music collabo is pretty F&%*ed Up

  • Fox goes hardcore The conservative-leaning news network’s late-night show “Red Eye” has a new regular contributor, and he’s the lead screamer of one of our favorite hardcore bands, Toronto’s F&%*ed Up. The manic Pink Eyes (a.k.a. Damian Abraham) got the gig after ballsily calling out the show’s host, Greg Gutfield, on comments he made regarding the Canadian military. Gutfield, BTW, is a fan. source
  • Fox goes hardcore The conservative-leaning news network’s late-night show “Red Eye” has a new regular contributor, and he’s the lead screamer of one of our favorite hardcore bands, Toronto’s F&%*ed Up. The manic Pink Eyes (a.k.a. Damian Abraham) got the gig after ballsily calling out the show’s host, Greg Gutfield, on comments he made regarding the Canadian military. Gutfield, BTW, is a fan.
  • What Pink Eyes thinks Abraham, who’s known for doing such awesomely insane things as drawing his own blood at shows, is just as surprised as anybody. “It’s one of those things where do you take this ridiculous opportunity as it’s presented to you, or do you avoid it and just continue on with your life?” he said of the surreal gig. “That’s sort of the internal struggle I’m dealing with.” source
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