Top 25 Drinking Quotes

There are many a quote that describe drinking and this is a handy list of the top 25. I especially like, "The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass." See the complete list here.

Famous Last Words

mental_floss does it again. Ransom's new movie has had 57, 518 views on YouTube and counting. Do you have your last words planned yet?

Mug Shots Galore

From Janis Joplin (above) to Frank Sinatra to Vanilla Ice to Lindsay Lohan, get your fill of mug shots here.

Thrifty Solutions, Part 1

For those of us too thrifty to purchase designer handbags left and right, there is Bag Borrow or Steal, a Netflix-esque website that does with bags what netflix does with movies. It's a perfect setup: you get the perfect bag for any occasion and you get to keep most of your money!

Virgins and Vandals

Slate's William Saletan explores some recent findings and their implications. One of the more prominent questions the article draws attention to is whether teen sex can prevent delinquency. What do you think? Do you know from experience? After you read the article, see what the readers over at Fark have to say.

The History of the...

"For some it is a daily stranglehold, a small symbol of oppression pulled tight around the neck; the noose of the working man. For the jaunty young rock star, it is a nod to times past when men knew how to dress and spent a bit more time on their “toilette”. Until the 1960’s, it was de-rigor in the workplace. That least utilitarian piece of menswear."

What is it?
The tie, of course.

The Brit List

"With a writers strike set to start Monday, high-quality scripts that have already been completed are suddenly a hot commodity. In fact, let's be honest: they probably don't even have to be high-quality. Coincidentally -- and it is just a coincidence -- a list of well-regarded screenplays by non-American writers has begun to circulate, and Variety reports that it's getting some attention in Hollywood."

In Britian, a list has been compiled of the best scripts that haven't been made. So, the article asks, with the shortage of US writers (as a result of the strike), will producers and studios turn to UK writers?

The Relentless Pursuit of Dejection

I've seen these posters all over the Internet, but for the definitive source visit the Despair, Inc. website.
They explain their mission:

"A company that would create dissatisfied customers in the process of exploiting demoralized employees while selling overpriced and ineffective products to remediate the problems caused by the very process itself.

A company that would become the bold embodiment of every shortcoming rife within corporate America. A business dictatorship with draconian tendencies. A company grossly obsessed with margins. A peddler of absurdly embellished corporate publicity.

It began with one man's dream.

And now that dream has come true. As bad dreams so often do."

Link: http://despair.com/viewall.html