The 2005 Darwin Awards are out. See them now.

And if the breath thing doesn't do it for you, how about some living brine shrimp in your personal adornments?

Ever loved someone sooooooo much that you felt you wanted to carry a sample of their BREATH on a pendant around your neck?  Then this product is for you.

Ummm.  Not sure what to make of this one:  a 3-D CGI film about Anne Frank?

Pull up a chair and take a gander at the CalArts 2005 Character Animation Showcase.  Some really nice work here in a variety of styles.

This one comes courtesy of Derek, our man in Astoria:  Mullets Galore, a web-site devoted to the inexplicable, and apparently, unkillable hairstyle. 

Be afraid, be very afraid!  Groundhog Day is coming! 

Halo Zero. What the popular videogame "Halo" would have looked & played like had it started life 10 years ago as a side-scrolling shoot-em-up. { a FREE download }{ be aware: the site is a bit wonky, so images/pages sometimes won't load......

In the arena of online get-rich-quick schemes... first there was the {quite successful} Million Dollar Home Page, now there's the less interesting Mile Wall. {someone selling web page space for $1 per square inch... with the hope of creating a web page one mile...

Merriam-Webster gets on the { sort of } opensource bandwagon with Open Dictionary where you can submit definitions to your own, made-up words.

Why do people attack works of art?

Mash-up fans will probably know about Hank Handy's mashing of 40+ Beatles tracks into one, fine song.Now, the venerable DJ BC has mixed a funky* track made entirely from James Brown samples { NOTE: both links go directly to the MP3 files }{ *No, I don't use...

I hadn't seen this funky little viral video before -- Pac-Man as Mexican street theater.  Makes me want chicle.

Gregory Colbert travels the world and takes photos of interactions between people and animals.  Then his traveling mobile exhibition space "The Nomadic Museum" exhibits the images, blown up to a massive scale.  This literal "Really Big...

Not all fortune cookies are kind:Bad Cookie

Another way to celebrate the close of 2005:Bootie { the roving SF & LA mash-up club night } presents Best of Bootie 2005 -- a 20-track party compilation of the best tracks of the past year. Enjoy.