• That just breaks my heart. With 60 titles under his belt, Agassi walks off the court after his last professional match amidst a champion’s ovation.
• Google got it in it’s head that it wants to improve its Google Images search. Rather than pore over the millions of indexed photos by themselves, they elicit the help of the unwashed masses. But how to get the public to do your work for you? Turn it into a game!
• Cherry picking at it’s finest. If you don’t know what cherry picking means, you’re probably a girl.
• The perfect iTunes equalizer setting? That’s up to my ears to decide! Even though a perfect setting cannot exist, this setting does sound pretty damn good.
• Hack a coke machine. Get a free coke. Lather, rinse repeat.
• A guy plays Mozart’s 40th symphony with rollerblades and half-filled glass coke bottles. I bet Mozart never thought of that.
• 99 wolves crash into a wall, 99 wolves crash… Ok. So the song doesn’t work with wolves crashing into a wall. But this art installation of 99 wolves crashing into a glass wall surprisingly… does.
• This is an ice cream / chocolate place I will definitely need to check out. Remind me!
• Harry Potter fans discover a continuity error that will be fixed in the next edition–illustrating that they have no lives. No news there.
• iTunes to have movie downloads for $14.99 this month. I think that’s stupid. I wouldn’t pay $14.99 for iTunes-resolution video. That also better not be the only Apple news announced on September 12. I want those freakin’ Meroms in the MacBooks.
• Who said squirrels are scary, feral vermin? They need love too.
• The prettiest subway station in the city? Yeah, I wasn’t expecting much either. But I was proved wrong.
• Missing Munch paintings discovered! Now we can all enjoy the Scream again! Ahhhhh! I scream for Munch’s Scream! Ok, I’ll stop. Sorry.
• McDonald’s, being the ever-responsible-corporate-entity that they are has redesigned their McFlurry cups so that hedgehogs can’t get their heads stuck in them anymore. Who knew that was a problem? I can’t wait until McDonald’s makes their cups so small that humans can’t get obese from them anymore. HA!
• Morgan Library: another place I need to check out. And judging from this picture, a place I may want to spend a lot of time in.
• Diddy has to pee. Let’s watch Diddy pee. Let’s hear what Diddy has to say about pee. Let’s slap a reality show together about it and put it on MTV.
• Wikipedia has a massive 14 megapixel shot of San Francisco in ruins after the 1906 earthquake. And this was before digital imagery. It’s simply… breathtaking.
• Do you remember this commercial? I swear, it brings me back to my living room all those years ago as a wee little lad…

That’s all folks (thank God). I’m spent.

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Tagged: Andre Agassi, Google, iTunes, Hacks, Coca Cola, Mozart, Squirrels, Edvard Munch, Subway stations, McDonald’s, McFlurries, Morgan Library, Diddy, San Francisco, AWESOME RETRO COMMERICALS

Grenier has been remodeling his Brooklyn apartment to make it more eco-friendly. Part of the renovation has been replacing the insulation with recycled denim. Who knew jeans could be used as insulation?

Now if only we could get all the JAPs in Long Island to give up all their Seven/Diesel/[insert $100 designer jean company here] jeans, we could keep the whole world warm. Now isn’t that nice.

via brownstoner

Tagged: Adrien Grenier, Entourage, Recycled Denim

It looks like hipsters aren’t the only newcomers to Brooklyn’s McCarren Park. Here’s a picture of DK and Mario and monkeying around on one of the many construction skeletons surrounding the park.

Picture by Steve Ingkavet

via Joystiq

Tagged: Donkey Kong, Mario, McCarren Park

So by now I’m sure you’ve all seen the picture to the left. If you haven’t, here’s the story: a statue of a nude Britney Spears on a bearskin rug while giving birth to her firstborn is on display at Capla Kesting Fine Art in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It is touted as the first Pro-Life monument to birth. No, Britney did not pose for this sculpture. The artist used references including wax figures of Britney to put the sculpture together.

“Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston,” believed Pro-Life’s first monument to the ‘act of giving birth,’ is purportedly an idealized depiction of Britney in delivery. Natural aspects of Spears’ pregnancy, like lactiferous breasts and protruding naval, compliment a posterior view that depicts widened hips for birthing and reveals the crowning of baby Sean’s head.

Now, all the pictures of this statue on the internet have all been frontal or 1/4 frontal views. I’ve even seen a side view of the famed pop star. But where are the pictures of this alleged “crowning of baby Sean’s head”? Photographer Justin Farrow attended last night’s gallery opening in Williamsburg and sent Gawker a reverse-angle shot of the crowning Sean.

Ok. So where’s the picture you ask? It’s a little graphic so put your hands over the childrens’ eyes. Click on the image above to view a little slideshow. It’s the last of four pictures. The first three are just there to prepare you for the carnage. Click on if you dare.

Remember, I warned you.

Link to sculpture article | Link to Gawker’s rear-view article

Tagged: Britney Spears, Art, Sculpture

Stephenson Brown arrived at 4 p.m. on a recent Saturday afternoon for the building’s Sunday afternoon open house. He spent the night on the lobby floor, wrapped in an electric blanket that he’d brought.

Brown, who had viewed units in the building at a previous open house, was greeted at noon Sunday by a sales agent, who promptly took his check. For his efforts, Brown, 23, scored a 900-square-foot one-bedroom for $625,000.

Now that’s interesting, because every other 23 year old I know lines up for $400 video game systems, $100 show tickets, and $50 concert tickets. The only thing I think I’ll be lining up for in the near future, is a $10 meal at the Shake Shack.

But I guess if I had a $625,000 check burning a hole in my pocket, I’d line up for an apartment too.

Read Article (NY Post)

And at 9:11 AM, a spaceship rises out of the hole and starts zapping hipsters into trendy ashes.

At 9:15 AM, the attack ends. The aliens never developed a tolerance for “earth chic.”

Read article [WNBC.com]