Gizmodo:
Adidas Imperial Stormtropper sneakers. You know, so you can run faster when random people start chasing you down the street. To beat the crap out of you. Or ask where did you buy them. It can go either way. There are also Darth Vader shoes and hoodies, all part of next year's Adidas Star Wars Collection. Check out the rest (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
On the 10th anniversary of Paul Bowles's death, Paul Theroux remembers the writer and traveller who set him on his wayThe Sheltering Sky was Paul Bowles's first novel and, although he honed his art almost to his dying day – novels, poems, stories, translations, as well as musical scores – it was this strange, uneven and som (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
He left Britain after his girlfriend Rachel Nickell was murdered 17 years ago, to escape the trauma and the press. This week André Hanscombe returned – to force the police to face their mistakesThe picture is attractive – pale skin, a drift of blonde hair, a wide, imperfect smile that makes her approachable and young, fragi (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
This past year or two I've been revisiting what you might call my cultural roots. Because I was distracted almost daily by treatment for a wounded foot and unable to work much, I began re-reading the PG Wodehouse, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Sexton Blake stories I enjoyed as a kid. From these I went on to movie and TV favourit (Read More)
Gawker:
This week, everyone was naked and fighting in public and also there was a book no one read but everyone kept talking about. A pornography company offered a famous beauty contest loser lots of money to distribute video tapes they already possess of her masturbating. Google has scooters. And hellishly lengthy weddings. Adam L (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
How did the Pilgrims celebrate the first Thanksgiving? According to these adorable young history buffs, with blankets covered in smallpox. While it may appear that these kids are simply playing dress-up, their reenactment is pretty true-to-life, and includes hilarious depictions of The Pequot and King Philip's War. At the e (Read More)
Gawker:
The jokes at NBC's expense weren't very insidery this week, but as usual 30 Rock spent half the episode dissing their home network. Here's what happens when you make Tina & Co. play along with your dumb corporate green initiative. There's backlash of course. This week programs across the network are creating stories that de (Read More)
The Guardian:
Xbox 360/PS3/Wii/DS, £29.99 - £39.99, cert: 7+, Warner BrosSomeone at Lego really deserves a bonus. They're not the most obvious toy company to embrace the world of video gaming but not only have they done it, they've done it well and continue to put their own highly endearing spin on family gaming.After the successful film (Read More)
The Guardian:
Loved by the masses, but loathed by his peers – does Michael McIntyre's conservative humour explain his meteoric rise?Love him, loathe him, have genuinely violent feelings towards him, you just can't ignore Michael McIntyre. Currently touring the sold-out arenas of the UK, and with standup's fastest-selling DVD ever, modest (Read More)
The Guardian:
For all its sexual confusion and lack of private parts, critics are finding Mike Bartlett's provocatively titled play an impressive packageRight then, shall we just get the sniggering over with? It's Mike Bartlett's new play, and it's called Cock. As in the male of the domestic fowl, the hammer of a firearm, "a small cone-s (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Screenshot via peopleagainstdirtyIn so many cleaner commercials, the happy housewife works alongside singing, scrubbing bubbles that show how cheerfully the cleaner can battle soap scum, germs, and whatever other grime is building up in your bathrooms. However, what happens after the singing stops? Method has created this h (Read More)
National Review Online:
How much would you pay to watch Sarah Palin beat the stuffing out of Andrew Sullivan? What would Barack Obama’s official Kenyan birth certificate be worth to you? How about a videotape proving that Bill Ayers not only wrote Dreams from My Father, but also translated it from the original Russian? How about a new Christmas CD (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
The latest news and best bets in our daily horse racing blog, plus day two of our weekly tipping competitionToday's best bets, by Will HaylerIt's straight down to business today with a number of interesting bets on offer. First of all, after Haydock received just 2mm of overnight rain, I've had to step in take the 5-4 about (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Keri Hulme's The Bone People deals with hefty issues surrounding Maori displacement. Shame it breaks down too easily into bad writing and spiritual nonsenseThe buzz when The Bone People won the Booker prize in 1986 was all about the struggle Keri Hulme had to bring it to publication. First there was the monumental effort of (Read More)
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Approximately once a month, Woot.com sells an item called the "Random Crap," or "Bag of Crap." By purchasing this item for a measly $8.00, Woot will send you (randomly) a minimum of three randomly chosen items. These can range from broken toilets, to broken dvd players, to Xboxes, to mp3 players, to 60" plasma TVs (very, ve (Read More)