This is pretty funny: Fool’s World Map Click around on the different items for specific wiki entries; Japan’s description is pretty good.

You know you want one… Hell, even I want one! Kitty is my favorite stuffed doll at home, because she doesn’t mouth off. LINK (thx James)

Chowhound has been sold to CNET. Check out the Village Voice interview with Leff here: LINK You can tell them what you want to see on the new site here (until March 17th). Long live Chowhound!

One of these would really cut down on my commuting time in the morning (nothing like a fusillade of 40mm grenades to inspire more judicious use of gas pedals…). Plus, I could ship it to Thailand in October and mount it on an elephant, ala Suryothai. You know what’s cool about going to the movies in Thailand (other than being able to choose your own seats via touchscreen, and drink beer from glasses)? Before the movie starts, a short tribute to the king is shown, during which everybody rises and (if I remember correctly) puts their hand across their chest ala the Pledge of Allegiance. And I mean everybody, even…

A reader here sent in an SNL clip that Adam and I have been searching for on and off for a couple years now: Quiz Kings Chris Farley speaking Japanese! (actually, the cast’s attempts at Japanese were not bad, all things considered – certainly on par with Janet Jackson’s famous one-liner, “nikujaga ni shimasho,” from around the same period. (thx Nevin)

A bit too one-with-naturistic frou-frou trees are screaming-ish for my tastes, but then again, I wasn’t the one attacked by a 7-foot Humboldt squid while dangling from a line at 250ft in the pitch black. Check it out: Dancing with Demons That guy’s got some serious huevos.

Now this is some funny shit: The World According to America

What was the #1 song on the charts the day you were born? Actually, the only reason I post this is that I feel extremely lucky to have dodged the Bee Gees… for the second time. A few years ago I went to one of the new mega-sized beer halls with outdoor stages in Bangkok, a day before the Bee Gees were to perform there – and was hence able to have a very fine time, thank you very much.

I guess it depends on if he eats all that meat or not: DEATH RUSH