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links for 2007-03-01

• Attach Spare Remotes to Your Face with the Remote Control Wrangler - Gizmodo
  (tags: funny gadgets)
  
• heromachine
  Make your own superhero!  Pretty awesome!
  

Random Nybbles: People, People.Com Who Hate People

• Please God, don't let this headline be an exaggeration: Paris Hilton Ticketed, May Face Jail. Can somebody say "exciting new premise for The Simple Life 5?
  
• Faster than you can say "Faggot Rehab", workplace morale seems to be going from bad to worse over at the set of Grey's Anatomy. First, the planned spin-off has people "fuming" (well, everybody accept the one who will star in it), and second, Katherine Heigl apparently wants more hazard pay in order to keep working with a homophobe she obviously despises.
• Speaking of bigots...Why I Hate People Exhibit A: The guy who published this piece "Why I Hate Blacks" -- if you're trying to be racist for laughs, you have to at least be funny.  Why I Hate People Exhibit B: The lame ass apology from the publisher. Kenneth Eng, Tim Hardaway, and some white gay racist should be the team captains for the next season of Survivor. The surprise twist -- they all starve to death.  Happy End of Black History Month!
  
• Big Pussy is a big pussy -- Vincent Pastore Drops Out of Dancing with the Stars
  
• Speaking of, finally a Heather Mills joke straight from the horse's mouth*.  And I swear, this one I'm not making up: "I'm quite happy to be thrown around and hopefully my leg will stay on."

* Of course, if she actually was a horse, they would have shot her a long time ago.

Logopolis In Review: February is the Coolest Month

It's become a strange tradition here at Logopolis that during February, the shortest month, the site gets far and away the most hits.

Last year's growth blip was pretty easy to figure out -- what with Howard Stern driving traffic here when I was near the top of the Google search for pictures of the man who sold out Clay Aiken.

This year it wasn't so easy to nail down why traffic increased, but it probably had something to do with:

• My tribute to Anna Nicole
• The Britney Haiku Series (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
• Oscar Coverage

But whatever the reason, I'm glad you're hear and hope you'll stay.

And by popular demand, here's that David Beckham picture I posted yesterday but in a version that actually pops up into a larger view.  Enjoy.

Candle in the Windfall Continues

Is this press release that's been making the rounds on the Interweb tacky or awesome? I can't decide, so it's probably both.

ANNA NICOLE SMITH WOULD BE SIX FEET UNDER IF SHE HAD KEEPYOUSAFE.COM

Online Safe Deposit Boxes Help Families Avoid Ugly Legal Hassles

New York, NY - February 27, 2007 — What do former playmate Anna Nicole Smith and Godfather of Soul James Brown have in common? No, Brown didn’t father Smith’s child (at least as far as we know.) But even if they didn’t get together in life they share the same problem in death — their embalmed bodies are trapped in legal limbos. And both could have been resting in peace by now if they’d had Online Safety Deposit Boxes from KeepYouSafe.com.

"You Brought the Birds Here" (slap)

This may be my favorite Gallery of the Absurd piece ever (click for larger pop-up), and rather pro-Britney if you think about it.

Speaking of, the LA Times agreed with me this weekend about the rights and wrongs of celebrity mocking.

links for 2007-02-28

• MiniAjax.com / A showroom of nice looking simple downloadable DHTML and AJAX scripts
  (tags: ajax Javascript webdesign web2.0 programming code reference resources)
  

Eddie Murphy - What a Dick!

So apparently Norbit Eddie Murphy says he didn't "storm out" after his Oscar loss, but instead planned on leaving after his award was announced even if he had won so that he could spend time with his family.  Way to stick by your co-stars who were performing later and/or still up for awards, Pluto Nash!

What's most surprising about this particular excuse from Black Dr. Dolittle Mr. Murphy is that I could have sworn that he and his family would want to stay out later -- I seem to remember that his girl likes to party all the time, party all the time, party all the time...

Not a Laughing Matter (Quack, Quack, Quack)

'I Heard a Loud Boom'
Cheney Discusses Assassination Attempt 27/02/2007

'Yeah, so did I,' says his friend.
Cheney accidentally shoots fellow hunter 13/02/2006

John Waters + Court TV = Magic

There's no way this will be as awesome as it sounds, but I'm setting up the TiVo for a Season Pass anyway (in case the John Waters wishlist doesn't automatically pick it up):

Court TV becomes "cult TV" as writer/director John Waters (Hairspray, Serial Mom) takes the starring role in an irreverent new series that shows how love and marriage, in the words of the underground auteur himself, "goes together like a horse and the glue factory." With a tip of the veil (both wedding and funeral) to some of television's most famous scripted mystery and murder anthologies, each episode features the fabled director introducing us to a husband and wife whose marriage, despite its happy beginnings, inevitably leads to spousal murder.

As if that's not wicked enough, DC has teamed up to promote with a corresponding comic book of the first episode.

Life imitating art imitating life

This picture doesn't really illustrate the story accurately, but he's prettier than his missus.

reality blurred reports that:

Victoria Beckham, aka Posh Spice, has been offered £10 million for her own NBC reality show."  David Beckham “will feature in the show, but we’re told he doesn’t want a very hands-on role

Hey, this sounds familiar.  Oh yeah, it was totally a plot on Footballers Wive$.  Hope things work out better for Posh and Becks than they did for Shannon and Harley.

Mmmm, poor Harley...