The internet comes through for me.... a site dedicated to Blaine baiting.

Maybe all those globalization critics are right, another gem of foreign culture is being lost as China now faces 'Open-Crotch Pants' extinction.

Here's a collection of some of the video bits that have been circulating the web lately. I recommend "The Bus" and "The Bear."

It's Talk Like A Pirate Day!

A great article in Salon about the lameness of David Blaine.

Magicians are historically a sorry-assed lot, who keep company with flame-retardant midgets and frog-swallowers...
...Blaine, a fraction the card shark, looks like the kind of swarthy danger boy that old rich homos would go all the way to Morocco to buy for outlandish sums... He's pulling cigars out of Bridget Hall's bikini and making cognac disappear with Leo DiCaprio while superior magical geeks are honing their skills and trying to be louder than the children's birthday party, trick-shuffling in a vacuum with nobody paying any attention.

From my inbox this morning:

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

I wnoder aobut tehse uvinservity wnkaers wtih tmie to do taht srot of tihng.

Just thought I'd share this map of Europe with the country names in their native languages. ...Ok, so I'm a dork.

Some guy tried to cut the water line going into David Blaine's box. I think it's great that the people taunting Blaine are much more interesting than Blaine's actual "stunt." I predict paintballs will be next...

When you care enough to send the very best: Bloody Finger Mail.

Kaiju Kitten! (Credit to Todd for the link)

Another addictive time waster.... identify movie scenes with invisible characters at FilmWise.

Meatshake update: It's a big meaty lie! (Thanks to Michael Malice for pointing out this hoax .)

By day he's an office clerk... but by night he becomes Angle Grinder Man!!!! Saving parking violators everywhere by sawing off tire boots free of charge.

You just know if this guy lived in the States he'd be running for some kind of office on the LP ticket.

Test your powers of observation with this surprisingly addictive game.

Though I am a meat fan, this just sounds repulsive... apparently there's a bunch of these out in Brooklyn though. So anybody out there have first hand experience with MeatShake?

Click at your own risk... someone's made a Bush mosaic out of assholes. Don't say I didn't warn you.

What's next? Dogs?

"Cambodians are being urged to eat more dogs as part of a crackdown on stray mutts wandering around the capital of the southeast Asian nation.

"City governor Kep Chuktema says it is now time to draw up a special pooch policy to control the growing problem of pavement-fouling strays, and for city-dwellers to throw off their traditional snootiness toward dining on man's best friend.

"'Come on, dog meat is so delicious,' he was quoted as saying in Thursday's Cambodia Daily newspaper. 'The Vietnamese and Koreans love to eat dog meat.'"

First worms, now raccoons...

"[Shaker Heights] City regulations allow employees to request so-called 'scavenge' material, but they must ask each time before taking something.

"But DiPietro added that others in the department told him that the practice of taking raccoons home to eat had been permitted for many years.

"'I was advised that it had happened in the past,' DiPietro said. 'It was something that was done in the department.'

"DiPietro acknowledged that ordinary citizens might find the idea unappealing, but he said the employee making the request was a hunter.

"'Everybody's got their own taste,' he added. 'But these are hunters who are into wild game. . . . They eat raccoons. They eat squirrels.'"

Johnny Cash is dead at 71.

Well, there's things that never will be right I know,
And things need changin' everywhere you go,
But 'til we start to make a move to make a few things right,
You'll never see me wear a suit of white.

Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day,
And tell the world that everything's OK,
But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back,
'Till things are brighter, I'm the Man In Black.

Looks like Christian Bale is set to be the next Batman.