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Since I haven’t yet, I really should. And so should you.

I … I don’t even know how to explain this. Darth Vader vs. Hitler? Napoleon Bonaparte vs. Napoleon Dynamite?

Uh, and this.

After this, I don’t ever want to hear that my hobbies are weird. Not a word!

Russian ‘genius’ lived with 26 female bodies:

Russian media reported that Moskvina kept at least 26 bodies in his small, three-room apartment. They all belong to females aged between 15 and 26 who died years ago. The bodies were “dried up,” Interfax reported.

Life News reported that Moskvina, who is a historian and was also involved in journalism, visited hundreds of cemeteries at night and dug up the bodies with a shovel. He then put the remains in plastic bags and dragged them to his home.

Once the bodies were in his apartment, Moskvina dressed the bodies up as dolls. Photos released by Life News showed one skeleton wearing a dress, stockings and other clothing while another body appeared to have been dressed as a teddy bear.

I used to think I was a good dad.

I’ve changed my share of diapers, loved up my little guy, carried him to and fro, bought the legion of requisite baby crap and soothed him at night when he gets scared. I feed him, play with him, can always make him laugh and someday I’m going to teach him how to convince a better-looking and more intelligent woman than you to agree to marry you and have your kids.

So I used to think I was a good, maybe even great dad. And then I saw this.

Over at Avenue 5 in San Diego, Mike Yen is taking molecular gastronomy techniques handed down from Chicago’s Alinea and applying them to cocktails. The results are kind of fantastic.

Little Tomatoes: The finished bloody mary spheres are topped with a stem and greens made from a mix of juiced celery, salt, and gelatin (in custom-made silicone molds).

The chemical reaction between the sodium alginate and calcium lactate forms a thin shell of gelatin around the outside of the shot, making it look solid, but once your teeth make contact with it, the thin, gelatinous “skin” breaks, releasing a flood of spicy, boozy, heirloom tomato juice. It’s almost exactly like biting into a cherry tomato (with a tasty grilled shrimp inside.)

Quick! Now’s your chance to justify all that book-learning you did by reading the full article in order to find out more.

My favorite living artist.

I seriously lesser than 3 him.

Banksy directs the Simpsons opening credits:

Here is a lovely, poignant interactive filmwebsitehtml5thingy:
http://thewildernessdowntown.com/

Requires sound and apparently doesn’t like Firefox much.

Via Kiki.

Q: How many performance artists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

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I really think this guy is a genius. There are hundreds of these clever dioramas, and they’re all quality.

Is this the Stormtrooper's Credo? When there are millions of you, you probably learn pretty quickly that "whoever shot those clones, I ain't seen nothin'."

Pound-for-pound, is this the greatest McDonalds commerical of all time? I think so. I loved this one when it first came out and have since unsuccessfully tried to imitate it for my friends. “Never found out!”