April 30, 2007 by Sarah
other than having a broken beat up face, courtney love doesn’t have much else going for her. i mean, she tried to get attention but it doesn’t really work cause no one really gives a shit. in addition, who really wants to look at her nasty face? now, in a desperate attempt to somehow make herself relevent again, she’s decided to auction all of kurt cobain’s stuff off. probably to pay for more plastic surgery or something.
you can read the story here.
as forewarning: badmouth courtney all you want but if you say anything mean about frances i’ll cut you.
by Sarah
i remember the days when i thought brendan fraser was a hansome man. those days seem very long ago now. jesus, what happened?
then:
now:
fucking yikes.
by youmybabydaddy
Nice. Just in time for tax day. Taxes are due today in Canada anyway and our money pretty much gets squandered as well. The US pretty much focuses on world domination and we pretty much focus on giving the money away to our laziest and most leechy segment of the population being the quazi-socialists that we are. YAY taxes! I just threw the cheque in the mail and I’m going to kill myself now. Goodbye cruel world.
by Sarah
watch out harry and william! another member of the royal family is trying to steal your thunder. meet fergie and andrews daughter, princess beatrice:
isn’t she a vision?
(source: oh no they didn’t)
April 28, 2007 by Sarah
who doesn’t love the roots drummer and sometimes dj ?uestlove? i know i love him but apparently security at the buffalo airport doesn’t. after buying a ticket shortly before his flight, ?uestlove was flagged for further security checks. the officers found a lot of money on him (from djing shows he’d been doing) and they didn’t like his appearance (or “rastafarian hat” apparently), they decided that he fit the profile of a drug dealer. the officers harassed him but eventually they let him go in time to catch his flight.
clearly, racism and supreme stupidity are alive and well and unfortunately, they have badges and power.
you find out more here or by reading ?uestloves personal account.
April 27, 2007 by youmybabydaddy
This Friday special features a feely feline. Oh how I wish I was doing what he is right now (minus the self molestation) instead of the usual Friday afternoon clock watching. Oh how that minute hand travels so slowly…
by mofitta
Here is my favorite clip with one of my favorites songs to pump you up for this coming weekend!!! Cake, cookies, birthdays, candles, video game dance offs, drunken bowling, the arl, oh and the list goes on!!!! Go Duckie, Go Duckie, GO!!!!
by Sarah
i think that i’ve already discussed my love for beth ditto and her band, the gossip. if i haven’t (or you missed it) they’re amazing and you should listen to them and make an effort to see them in concert (they’re touring with cyndi lauper on her “true colors” tour which is for a rad cause). beth is now writing an advice column for uk newspaper “the guardian” (it’s a good one!).
There have been a lot of times in my life when I wished that someone was around to be really honest with me, to say, “What the fuck are you doing?” Realistically it’s often easier if that doesn’t come from your friends, but from someone at a distance.
go here to read all of her first installment - it gives me more reason to love her.
April 26, 2007 by Brian
I’m not much of a YouTube “re-blogger”, but this one is a standout:
Update: There is a sequel “old chum”!
by Brian
MTV.com took a great step forward today in internet evolution (like wired.com did 5 years ago), axing the total Flash site for an accessible and creative XHTML one. For the technically challenged, Flash is basically a movie or animation clip. You can upload flash movies on your website (it’s what YouTube uses). It is great for movies. But people went overboard and started to build entire websites from flash movies. Here’s what’s wrong with them:
- All the content (i.e. words) are not search-able, as they are embedded in the movie
- The site is not accessible to people visually impaired
- The movies are huge and sites are very slow as it takes so much time to download the flash
- They are not easy to manage, adding new stuff is a big pain as you need to manipulate flash files and upload.
In short: full-flash sites suck ass.
The new MTV.com features content in text, so it can be searched. The content can also be updated easier, so it should get updated more often. They have this rad abstract art cycled in for the background. It is faster, it has better searching, etc.
But that’s not what all the mewing teenagers (at least the ones posting to their blog) would have you believe. I am trying to figure out if it is just one disgusted poster who can’t watch his Whitesnake videos from work or really a consensus from the crowd. I think it may be the former, as during the previews, they received good feedback.
Related: Dan at Simplebits (a local designer) helped on the site, so I may be a bit biased as his work totally rocks!
