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If you think Terri: Culture of Death is upsetting, wait till you read this blog. You'll need to listen to this song to get over it.

Discipline, Energy, Beauty, and Strength

Wonderfully campy shit. In lesbian action film D.E.B.S. where we follow the adventurers of a group of spies that are selected out of a hidden test in the SAT that tests students' aptitude for lying, cheating, fighting, and destroying. My favorite lines?


Lucy: Australia's toast!
Scud: What's your beef with the Australians?
Lucy: I don't like their attitude.

Trailer here.

Fun with type

Go here to spell with flickr images and Amaztype is a "typographic book search" which is also kinda nifty.

5 of 7

Wayward Puppy has a post with a 7 cartoon characters in silhouette. I was able to guess 5 out of the 7. The answers are here.

Pirated Sites...

Yeah - does the layout of a site look familiar? Pirated-sites.com has a listing of some sites that are so obviously rip-offs of other people's designs. I am just wondering what the client felt about the fact that the web designer that they paid probably charged them an arm and a leg for basically no work.... hmmm.

Doggy porn

I subscribe to a listserv of french bulldog enthusiasts. It's like having a constant stream of ridiculously cute pictures streaming into my inbox. But I do think that it is rare to compare an animal with its plush doll representation only to reach the conclusion that the animal is cuter than the doll.

My yesterday....

Involve being late to a number of appointments due to, what the New York Times reports was, "a succession of three power failures shut down the Lexington Avenue subway line in Manhattan for much of yesterday, creating a day of confusion that stranded hundreds of thousands of commuters."

Sip, not gulp this martini

The Algonquin Hotel where I've spent many a evening soaking up yummy cocktails has a new menu item. The $10,000 martini. Hmm.