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You should definitely go check out the whole collection at full size:
FAR AND WIDE – The Golden Age of Travel Posters
This is just the latest exhibit at the Los Angeles Public Library Virtual Gallery.
There’s a few real gems in the other sets as well:

Check out this awesome photo gallery of pool hustlers. The real kind that is, not the kind with their own (delicious) spaghetti sauce charities, nor the kind that tote around e-meters and jump up and down on Oprah’s couch.
For some reason, I now have a strong urge to dig out the New Jack City soundtrack.
(via kottke)

This guy’s a dumbass. He had the best name in the world before he changed it, in fact, he was even one up on the Donger:

“What’s yo name, foo?”
FUK! (Oh, I mean, Andy.)

How To Cook With Lava
I miss Hawaii. I suppose the upcoming Thai trip is a throwback to those days, on the beach with family and friends.
(link via mefi)

An announcement on his site (LINK):

IN RESPONSE TO THE “RANDOM FACTS” THAT ARE BEING GENERATED ON THE INTERNET
I’m aware of the made up declarations about me that have recently begun to appear on the Internet and in emails as “Chuck Norris facts.” I’ve seen some of them. Some are funny. Some are pretty far out. Being more a student of the Wild West than the wild world of the Internet, I’m not quite sure what to make of it. It’s quite surprising. I do know that boys will be boys, and I neither take offense nor take these things too seriously. Who knows, maybe these made up one-liners will prompt young people to seek out the real facts as found in my recent autobiographical book, “Against All Odds?” They may even be interested enough to check out my novels set in the Old West, “The Justice Riders,” released this month. I’m very proud of these literary efforts.
– Chuck Norris

In case you haven’t seen the list of random facts in question, Tom has a comprehensive one up on his blog.
“The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.” Heh. The second is porn moustaches.

There’s a couple of automobile-related posts worth your time today.
M1114 Humvees are a thing of beauty to U.S. troops in Iraq
A Car and Driver correspondent runs missions with the 3rd Infantry Division in Baghdad, dodging IEDs and illustrating a different aspect of everyday life over there, as well as timing 0-60 and quarter mile runs in fully-armored military Humvees. Bonus: Story about a 105mm suppository. That donkey story has to be an urban myth, what kind of shithead wires his own cellphone to a bomb?
And transportation advice on a different kind of battlefield:
Traveling In Bangkok….By Bus!
I love traveling by bus in foreign countries, and Thailand is no exception. You can ride round and round the city for pennies a day, and it’s been my experience that local respect you for having the nads to ride the bus. One old lady was so impressed the first time T and I rode the bus, she gave us a bag full of deep fried grubs she was selling… We MUNCHED on those things, and POW, even though they were fairly disgusting, we are talking INSTANT MEMORABLE DINING EXPERIENCE IN FARAWAY LAND.

I have been mistaken for AngryBlackBitch.
Life is complete (karma’s a bitch, innit?).
explanation

The latest round of comment spam here is for GAY FEET.
I shit you not.

“In another break with the past, Eastman Kodak Co. is introducing a new corporate logo designed to help the company forge a new image as a cutting-edge, 21st century innovator.”
Is it just me, or did some board member’s nephew’s design startup just laugh all the way to the bank? I didn’t think it was possible to make a lower case “a” look both retarded and “cutting-edge” at the same time. If that’s the direction lower case vowels are heading, cOUnt mE OUt, fOOls!
It almost goes without saying that the new logo looks much better backwards (this is J’s first axiom of 2006 – ALL SUCKY, REDESIGNED LOGOS LOOK BETTER BACKWARDS).

Kabok, bitch!

This is a public warning. I thought a long time before posting this, and it needs to be said.
NewsOnJapan.com is a useful site that aggregates, well, news about Japan. I visit it almost every day.
It has a sister site, NewsOnKorea.com
There is an option on that site to subscribe for e-mail updates. About a month ago, I accidentally found the UNPROTECTED DIRECTORY where they store complete, unobfuscated e-mail addresses of (what I assume to be) their subscribers.
I subsequently notified an apparent admin of that site in case they wanted to take action to protect their subscribers’ e-mail addresses.
I received no reply. The directory remains open and unprotected. For obvious reasons, I will not link to it here, but e-mail me if you want to check for your address there – it is a spammer’s wet dream.
I have no idea if unsubscribing will remove your address from the directory or not – that is between you and the site operators. I just wanted to bring this issue to light.