It’s just another trashy Friday: He’s Just Not That Into You: The Movie. What? A movie has been made of this stupid book. The whole trailer plays like a parody (“He Myspaced me!” Seriously? I’m embarrassed for Drew Barrymore watching that clip), but sadly, it isn’t. Bodyguard’s friend’s brother’s hairdresser spills on Britney. A source [...]
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Stuff we like: Frozen pizzas and the blue screen of death
Crikey’s pick of the web for today: Investigative cartooning. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni have been featured in an ‘investigative comic’ about the couple. The comic (“They’re graphic novels!” Yes yes, geeks, I know) depicts Bruni as smart and manipulative, with Sarkozy under her control. Giant squids. Everything you ever wanted to know [...]
READ MOREStuff we like: Mimes, banana protectors and the downfall of Internet Explorer
Crikey’s favourite clickety-clicks for the day: The album cover mime quiz. Argh, this is so hard! A mime recreates album covers, you guess what they are. I got about four. 40-somethings on Facebook. Myspace remains the domain of the young and illiterate, but 40-somethings have taken to Facebook with zeal, it would seem. This guy [...]
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Tasmania: The Movie
If you only see one blockbuster this summer… Tasmania: The Movie The chainsaw head massacre scene Starring Ricky Ponting, Looney Tunes Tasmanian Devil, Bob Brown, and Errol Flynn’s corpse — with a cameo appearance from the Crown Princess of Denmark, Mary Donaldson, and that dude who was in Australian Idol or Big Brother or something. [...]
READ MOREStuff we like: The Chinese hate Guns n’ Roses, everybody hates Nickelback
Our favourite bits and bobs for the day: Australia removes stupid laws. “The removal of discrimination against same-sex couples from 85 federal laws is a formality after the last of the changes passed the Senate last night” says The Age. I’m not sure why a sub-editor thought ‘Another win for gays’ was a good headline, [...]
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Stuff we like: Extreme beer and sad toasters made of glass
Our favourite things for the day: Extreme beer. The New Yorker reports on some of the odder beers coming out of the US, such as Dogfish Head’s 120 Minute IPA. Despite its reputation for rubbish beers, the US actually has a far bigger micro-brewing industry than Australia, and it commands a bigger market share (although [...]
READ MOREThe fabulous Friday trash wrap: Ayn Rand-y and 50 Cent’s taco troubles
All the news that’s too low-brow for Monday to Thursday: Dating objectively. The Ayn Rand dating site (yes, The Ayn Rand dating site) hooks up fans of Ayn Rand so they can get it on in objective reality (or whisper sweet nothings about laissez-faire economics or whatever else randy Ayn Rand fans do for a good [...]
READ MOREStuff we like: cracklins with beer
The talk of the Crikey newsroom today. Overparenting on the rise. New Yorker casts its eye over the trend for molly-coddling — and the trend for writing books about molly-coddling. “Most of us have heard of people who pipe Mozart into their child’s room”, writes Joan Acocella. But is that such a bad thing? Cracklin [...]
READ MOREGive Obama your thoughts
It was the most common refrain of the campaign… The whole world should be able to vote in the US election. This might be the closest you get. Obama is surveying his supporters (particularly his volunteers) for what they’d like to happen next (or more accurately, how they’d like to help him next). Though the [...]
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Stuff we like: Facebook help and Legovolution
Lego through the years. Gizmodo reflects — through pictures — upon the evolution of Lego characters from the 70s to now, from generic Lego man to Harry Potter and SpongeBob SquarePants (Lego really wasn’t made for square heads…). It’s as much a tale of brand tie-ins as it is of Legovolution. World comtemplates Somali pirate [...]
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