My favorite line of the memo from Matt Stone to the MPAA: “Although it is not animated yet, we put a new storyboard in for the scene with Saddam Hussein’s…

NY Times magazine has put up an excellent profile of Danger Mouse: The DJ Auteur You know what? You can kind of hear the fact that he digs Portishead in…

Check out this translated gallery of subversive photos taken by a Russian visitor in North Korea: LINK hint: It’s not just that first page, it goes on and on.

A digg user has posted 100 free 80’s mp3s over on his blog. Go download some and relive the glory years of commie-fearing, plastic neon superconductivity. By the way, I…

If we’re Skyping and I suddenly go offline, you’ll all know why: Fiber Haters, a.k.a. Cicadas UPDATE: Oh, great. The crows are out to get me, too. (via Magnoy)

Most people who know me also know I am generally opposed to ads on personal sites. But do you really know why? This basically sums it up. Note: If you…

Mapion is my favorite map site for Japan because of its huge-resolution BB (broadband) maps and excellent GUI. I was on the site today looking up directions when I noticed…

One of the most interesting things I’ve read in a while: Eat Me: The Soviet method for attacking infection that we can learn from Favorites passages: – “You send your…

This guy makes me feel much better about not buying a sleek new MacBook Pro. I want a pretty, shiny new toy, but I just cannot justify it. Sidenote: Why…

This is an interesting way to watch news headlines: Mapped Up It will be interesting to see how it develops, especially when it moves to its own domain.

Some of this extreme cuisine article is pretty funny until you start to suspect what a stupid redneck twat the author is… In this day and age, he can’t even…

Attention LA area residents: You need to get tickets to see Yoshida Brothers in concert at the Japan America Theater next month. Because it’s like, impossible to get to tickets…