now featuring

You can never have too much security if you own a BMW, so I've installed this brand new theft protection device.

In honor of Fri night's pyrotechnics

The obsession started long before...here's Dave as photographed in 1999 by Eric Meyer (click on #4).

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New NIN

Trent Reznor has rolled out the tracklisting for Nine Inch Nails (music)' forthcoming concept album, "Year Zero," and is setting up the album's premise via a series of strange websites, audio files and album leaks.

"This record began as an experiment with noise on a laptop in a bus on tour somewhere," Reznor said in a prepared statement issued last week. "That sound led to a daydream about the end of the world. That daydream stuck with me and over time revealed itself to be much more. I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't. This record is the latter. Once I tuned into it, everything fell into place ... as if it were meant to be. ... The record turned out to be more than a just a record in scale, as you will see over time.

"Part one is Year Zero. Concept record. Sixteen tracks. What's it about? Well, it takes place about 15 years in the future. Things are not good. If you imagine a world where greed and power continue to run their likely course, you'll have an idea of the backdrop," he continued. "The world has reached the breaking point--politically, spiritually and ecologically. Written from various perspectives of people in this world, Year Zero examines various viewpoints set against an impending moment of truth.

"This record is much more of a 'sound collage' than recent efforts from me," Reznor continued. "A lot of it was improvised. It is very tedious describing your own music. It's not just music. It's probably too long, but it felt like the right thing to do to paint the complete picture. It will sound different after a few listens. You can think about it and it will reveal more than you were expecting. You can dance to a lot of it. You can fuck to a lot of it, maybe all of it depending on what you're into..."

( Rolling Stone Article Plus Album Cover )

Glamorous - Lovin' this

Flossy, Flossy

Click above. You tube isn't posting my videos for some reason.

"Foolish Games"

You took your coat off and stood in the rain,
You're always crazy like that.
And I watched from my window,
Always felt I was outside looking in on you.
You're always the mysterious one with
Dark eyes and careless hair,
You were fashionably sensitive
But too cool to care.
You stood in my doorway, with nothing to say
Besides some comment on the weather.

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Well in case you failed to notice,
In case you failed to see,
This is my heart bleeding before you,
This is me down on my knees, and...

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Well, excuse me, guess I've mistaken you for somebody else,
Somebody who gave a damn,
Somebody more like myself.

Responsibility

Today I'm choking on responsibility in every modality.

Pager on my hip for suicidal patients in crisis. Beep beep beep.

Emails in my box.

Voicemails.

Assess, report, decide.

Assess, report, decide.

Assess, report, decide.

Every action has a consequence.

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People's lives change

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Mine stays the same.

dressaholics unite

Lily Allen designs New Look clothes collection 'Lily Loves' fashion line set for high street

Lily Alen is set to design a "capsule wardrobe" for high street clothes chain New Look, to be titled 'Lily Loves'.

Known for her quirky dress sense and penchant for gold jewellery and vintage pieces, the range will feature six dresses, two pairs of shoes and assorted brightly coloured accessories.

Speaking about Lily Allen's individual style, New Look's head of fashion communications Sarah Walter explained: "She's an absolute dressaholic."

The collection is due to hit UK stores in May.

Source

hotness is hereditary

Marlan Brando's grandson posing for VOGUE.

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armor

If our frontal lobes are our brains' armor against impulses, mine may need a tune-up after this w/e.

nat spill

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.

~Erica Jong

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Hey... Behbeh

Bebeh, I may have gotten neutered just yesterday, but I can still put the "hey bebeh" moves on. With one wink, I'll seduce a hamburger right out from under you.
You think that medium rare patty is still on your plate?
Look again, Honeh. Look... again.

Source: Cuteoverload.com

nerd-u-lous!

ORDER OF THE SCIENCE SCOUTS OF EXEMPLARY REPUT AND ABOVE AVERAGE PHYSIQUE

For the propagation of an ideal where science communicators can meet firstly, for drinks; secondly, for communicating; and ultimately, for networking.

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Members are:

- not opposed to alcohol.

- fond of IPCC reports (especially the pictures).

- mostly in agreement with the "truth."

- into badges.

- grieving for the slow and miserable death of the Hubble Space Telescope.

- possibly possessed of supernatural powers.

- not in the business of total world domination

- committed to the constant and diligent presentation of science stories, be it to editors, producers, directors, educators, relatives and/or friends of various ilk, in an effort to lessen the gap that is this thing we call public scientific literacy.

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The "Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah, I've got a TV gig" badge.

In which the recipient plays a significant science performance role in TV. This badge is nullified if recipient is always shown wearing a lab coat.

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The "I've been published at the New Yorker" badge. In which the recipient has published a science piece at the venerable New Yorker. Pretty much means the recipient has to pay for drinks in subsequent meetings.
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"I've been rejected by the New Yorker" badge, the "I blog about science" badge and many more...

SCIENCE SCOUTS

who is appropriate this week (...and always)

Neither Snow

When all of a sudden the city air filled with snow,
the distinguishable flakes
blowing sideways,
looked like krill
fleeing the maw of an advancing whale.

At least they looked that way to me
from the taxi window,
and since I happened to be sitting
that fading Sunday afternoon
in the very center of the universe,
who was in a better position
to say what looked like what,
which thing resembled some other?

Yes, it was a run of white plankton
borne down the Avenue of the Americas
in the stream of the wind,
phosphorescent against the weighty buildings.

Which made the taxi itself,
yellow and slow-moving,
a kind of undersea creature,
I thought as I wiped the fog from the glass,

and me one of its protruding eyes,
an eye on a stem
swiveling this way and that
monitoring one side of its world,
observing tons of water
tons of people
colored signs and lights
and now a wildly blowing race of snow.

Billy Collins

picture, times square, nyc

Across the Universe

'Stills from the Beatles'-themed (musical-wise) film ACROSS THE UNIVERSE, plus an early and very long and good review of the film from IMDB, and the trippy trailer for those that missed out on it..' Source

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Now available in dorsal and ventral

(An appropriately inappropriate thank you to PW.)

Quotes

"Worker bees can leave,
Even drones can fly away,
The queen is their slave."
-Fight Club

"Papa don't take no mess."-Mr. Please Please (James Brown)

"Listen to the MUSTN'TS, child,
Listen to the DON'TS
Listen to the SHOULDN'TS, the IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'TS
Listen to the NEVER HAVES,
Then listen close to me-
Anything can happen, child,
Anything can be."
-Shel Silverstein

Happy Valentines Day!

Who Told You about God?

Mom: So, what kind of animals do you think we will see at the zoo?

Small boy: I think elephants and snakes... Mom? Are there also pretend things there, like dinosaurs and God?

Mom: I think we need to have a talk when we get home.

--N train near Union Square
Overheard in New York

Freak Show

New book by JSJ, author of Disco Bloodbath.

Source: www.myspace.com/totally_james_st_james

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comfort

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Jewel - Hands

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If I could tell the world just one thing

It would be that we're all OK

And not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful

And useless in times like these

I won't be made useless

I won't be idle with despair

I will gather myself around my faith

For light does the darkness most fear

My hands are small, I know

But they're not yours, they are my own

But they're not yours, they are my own

And I am never broken

And we are never broken

In the end only kindness matters
In the end only kindness matters

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LISTEN

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The 7 deadly sins in chart format with combinatorial behaviors:

"I know how to sit, how to fetch,

...and how to roll over. What I don't know is how I ended up here."

http://www.pedigree.com/dogadoption/commercial.asp

accidental events

When I was twelve years old I accidentally substituted salt for sugar in a cake recipe. I baked the cake, iced the cake, and served it up. It looked like a cake, but as soon as you cut into it and took a taste, you knew something else was going on. People are like that, too. Sometimes you just can’t tell what’s on the inside from looking at the outside. Sometimes people are a big surprise, just like the salt cake. Sometimes the surprise turns out to be good. And sometimes the surprise turns out to be bad. And sometimes the surprise is just friggin’ confusing.

-Janet Evanovich - Twelve Sharp

see

Babel represents director Alejando Gonzalez Iñárritu's conclusion to a stylistic and thematic trilogy begun in Amores Perros and continued in 21 Grams.

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Read here and watch the trailer.

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tonight

Alyson Shotz: Topologies

Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
Alyson Shotz, Detail from Viewing Scope, 2006.

2-14 Alliant Energy Center Memorial Coliseum Madison, WI

Despite my protest, John Mayer is going to come see me on Valentines Day. Jessica, what can I say? Be strong...you'll move on. I've gained a new respect for John and his music these past few months through his writings. Check them out here.

aurora borealis

Texas, unknown