Alert: All...I repeat ALL girls have Gone Wild

I was absolutely shocked and appalled when I found evidence on the internet that even American Service Women, once pillars of righteousness and honour, are now disgracing themselves, their families, and the entire American Military Tradition with this horrendous smut.

Songs for Hire!

Upon first visit to Songs to Wear Pants To, I was amused to see a composer/songwriter issue a call out for musical challenges; however, I was pleasantly surprised to hear that not only is the artist delivering with a range of musical genres and complexities, but he is actually making a little money at it. Long live the pajama professional!

Lazy Links

Yes, I am lazy-bones blogging.
But these are good:

One Day Vancouver
The New Wrinkle

Zombie Training: Vice Television's Legacy

Vice Television: I've only scratched the surface, but after watching the Travel Guides I feel particularly equipped for a post-apocalyptic zombie world. Not only do I have military genes, but I can now buy arms on the black market in Pakistan and Bulgaria. Also, should I decide to retreat to the mountains, I can ride the rails to safety as per David Choe's "Thumb's Up" series.

Where's Baldo?

She marries 2 losers, is photographed airing out her coochie in public and trades BFF Madonna for Paris Hilton; nevertheless, only after she shaves off her weave do people realize she's breaking under the scrutiny. Oh Britney, sometimes I also scream on the inside.

Squidoo (or don't)*

If you find your friend's eyes glazing over when you spout on with fanatical zeal about the intricacies of Taiwanese Hot Pots, you may find an interested and inquisitive audience by building a Squidoo page about the object of your obsession. It's basically an easy to use web page builder with the ability to integrate RSS feeds, YouTube videos, Amazon lists, etc., etc. Users get revenue from ads and have the option to share with a charity or keep the filthy lucre from their Millionaire Singles Dating site for themselves. There is a ranking system to see how popular your site is in comparison to other pundit pages in your topic category. As a generalist interested in everything and nothing, the best I could come up with was this antipollyannic (I coined that!) World At War page. I guess it was reflective of my mood at the time.


* apologies for the terrible headline

Benevolent Big Pharma?

Apparently Swiss drug giant Novartis is opening up their genetic research data on diabetes to the world hopefully setting a precedent of making raw genetic information public. I'll try not to be cynical about the motives of the big drug co.'s but it's hard when you read stories like this, this, and this.

WiiJ

WiiJ: We have a hook for Burning Man…if we paint the Wiimotes glow-in-the-dark, dress up like antelopes and rig the remote sensitivity to poi spinning mode we’ll light the Playa up. Shit, we could blow nerdcore out of the freaking water. It’s rally time people. Rally time.

The Grandfather(mother) Diet

The big question of course is 'what can I eat that will make me live forever or at least longer than a turtle?' Calorie-restrictive diet proponents will tell you 'not much at all' but it turns out that making mice live longer by cutting their caloric intake may not have as pronounced an effect in humans. The current trend of anti-oxidant gulping is also under a lot of scrutiny as merely isolating and synthesizing compounds believed to ward off disease not only doesn't have the same benefit as the isolates do in whole food, they may even have a contrary effect. The New York Times* has an excellent article on our current dietary fads and basically sums it up with the idea that we should eat food, not too much, and mostly plants. The second two are self-explanatory but what the author meant by 'eat food' was that we should only eat foods that our great-great-grandparents would recognize as food, and not the processed garbage that litters the aisles of our grocery stores. The promising field of nutrigenomics is looking to build diets based on our individual genetic predispositions to disease. This could be perhaps the most significant revolution in dieting when it becomes cost effective to map an individuals DNA. Until then, I propose 'The Grandfather Diet' which would entail eating similar foods to your long living grandparents or conversely, avoiding the gustatory habits that took out your relatives at an early age. On that note, I've got a plate of bacon I need to wash down with a pint of vodka just like Grandpa Brown did to the ripe old age of 85.


*If you don't have a NY Times login, sign up (it's free) or get a login from bugmenot.com

Meatwad: Sticking it to the Man

Boston journalists are livid after the marketers of Meatwad and the Aqua Teen Hunger Force held a press conference about their recent guerilla campaign and failed to take reporters "seriously” by putting on a “performance” deemed irrelevant to their recent and newsworthy stunt. City bureaucrats took the stunt all too seriously and shut down a portion of Boston's financial district after mistakenly identifying a lightbox as a bomb. The city is considering launching a civil suit against Turner Broadcasting – the owners of Aqua Teen…presumably because they are so embarrassed.