For the first time in more than a century, the Summer Games will feature a long-distance open-water swim. Open water — in Beijing? Ick. It will take place in a lake-like rowing basin built especially for the Games. Oh. Open-water swimming features disqualifications for rough-housing….
Date Archives April 2008
The Perfect Storm
Completely unrelated news photos — yet not!
This week in crazy broads
According to a survey of office workers, 45 percent of women will give away passwords to strangers pretending to be market researchers when offered a chocolate bar in exchange. A Yale student claimed that her senior art project documented her bleeding during repeated self-induced miscarriages….
April Shower
"Chan and Li's maiden onscreen battle is appropriately titanic, but their long-awaited collaboration can't possibly be dubbed a success when it also, to its everlasting shame, features a scene in which one of them pees in the other's face."
Welcome to my face
The Adventures of Food Boy follows a teenager who discovers that his hands can materialize food. trailer • what we eat says something about how we might vote • Cookie Monster Searches Deep Within Himself and Asks: Is Me Really Monster?
No Tofu Ever
Let's check in on Degrassi. *click* Emma: My home life sucks! Damian: Check this out. Damian: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers. He's my favourite author. Emma: Wow! You're the first guy I've met who even has a favourite author. Damian: His…
Sweet you rock and sweet you roll
The cost of grocery store food increased about five percent in the last year, with nearly every type of food going up except for a few items like bacon and potatoes. Hmm… What can you cook with bacon and potatoes? A: French-fry-coated bacon on a…
(You Drive Me) Crazy
The series two finale of Skins features a car chase set to "Oops!… I Did It Again." Later in the episode, you hear "Seven Nation Army" during a funeral. Two curious choices by the show's music supervisor.
Name That Reality Show
Farmer Wants a Wife just lost the championship to Greatest American Dog.
Boat Cucumber Wire
I saw an ad for Maker Faire Bay Area 2008 in The Onion that listed a "life-sized mousetrap" as a featured attraction. What? I thought. Why would you craft a life-sized mouse trap? To catch life-sized mice? To catch Mouser? Is the bait a wheel…