Up at youtube: LINK Downloadable mp3 here: LINK (embedded audio myspace page) UPDATE: Don’t miss GB’s Star Wars performance at the MTV Music Awards, either: LINK

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 penis …he is in fact using dildos both times.” Go read the whole thing.

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 his music. I remember telling M’s boyfriend (self-declared “biggest Jay-Z fan in the world”) via long distance call to Canada that my favorite Jay-Z album was the Grey Album. His reply (he hadn’t heard it yet): “Even better than Blueprint 2?” Oh, hell yes.

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 noticed they had G-mans new favorite karaoke jam on that page, Cutting Crew’s I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight. His semi-faithful rendition of that horrible song at the Big Echo in Umeda a couple months ago had me blowing beer out my nose. Legal note: Piracy is bad. I do not advocate swilling rum while raping damsels on a dead man’s chest. On the other hand, YOHOHO BIOOOTCHES!

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 have AdSense (googlesyndication.com) blocked on your browser, you should try temporarily enabling it just for that page to see what I’m talking about. (thx to cherryrice)

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 a new feature – distance measurement! Basically, you plot a course on a map by drawings points with your cursor and the distance between each point as well as the total are calculated in a handy little table, which also shows estimated time and calories burned if you walk, jog, ride a bike, or drive the route you plotted. For instance, this is what it would look like if you walked out of the men’s restroom of Jusco (Sumoto branch),…

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 bacterial sample to the lab, and it’s either matched up with an existing phage or a phage is cultured just for you.” – “Phages are also sold over-the-counter in Georgia. People take the popular mixture piobacteriophage, for example, to fight off common infections including staph and strep. These phage mixtures are updated regularly so they can attack newly emerging bacterial strains.” – “One company recently tried to open a phage center in Tijuana but was deterred by the Mexican government.…

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 are decent graphic cards for Mac still so goddamn expensive?