Church fave: GQ Paris launches - hilarious!!!
From the dope boyz & girlz at DDB Paris, the Church is loving "The Ideal Man" so much our t-shirt hurts!! Amazing......
From the dope boyz & girlz at DDB Paris, the Church is loving "The Ideal Man" so much our t-shirt hurts!! Amazing......
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1:28 PM
Labels: advertising, amazing, DDB Paris, Dope Sh#t, GQ Paris, Simian Drugs, video
The song is "Aviva Pastoral" by Nathan Larson, video by lernert. Sick, sick sh#t homeboy.....get your mind right......
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1:14 PM
Labels: Dope Sh#t, experimental, film, lernert, music, Nathan Larson, Simian Drugs, video
From Stefan Nadelman and the dope boyz at Boing Boing TV!! Lovin it!!
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12:59 PM
Labels: Boing Boing, Boing Boing TV, Dope Sh#t, history, Simian Drugs, Stefan Nadelman, World War
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12:52 PM
Labels: amazing, basketball, Dope Sh#t, double flip dunk, Simian Drugs, WTF
With over 1 billion people unable to access safe drinking water across the globe, a person has to wonder, what's next? Well, new product Lifestraw has an answer. Invented by Mikkel Vestergaard Fradsen, Lifestraw is a portable water purification tool that can be worn around the neck. It can filter up to 700 liters of water, effectively removing most of the micro organisms responsible for causing waterborne diseases. At $2 a pop (individually), this could be the biggest idea of 2008. Maybe ever....nice work Lifestraw.
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12:18 PM
Labels: change the world, Dope Sh#t, inventions, Lifestraw, water
File this look under so bad, its almost good......loving it!!
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11:58 AM
Labels: Amanda Overmyer, American Idol, Dope Sh#t, Fashion, hair, Simian Drugs
Didn't see this one coming a mile away......add to the laundry list of indictable charges this admin keeps racking up (which is genius in some perverse way), President Bush strongly urged the House (by furling his forehead and banging his fist on a podium) to pass a bill that would RETROACTIVELY protect and telecom firms complicit in aiding government eavesdropping.
Sounds like more new fun coming from the administration that keeps the hits coming.....if only we could retroactive protection for all the drunk dialing we do, huh?
Anyway, check the story from BBC here.......
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11:47 AM
Labels: BBC News, government, House of Representatives, politics, President Bush, wiretapping, WTF
Would have thought this was a joke if it wasn't in such a reputable paper (WSJ), but apparently chief exec of Victoria Secret's Sharen Turney believes the brand has gotten "too sexy." She went on to add, "We gotten so much off our heritage. We use the word 'sexy' a lot and have gotten off 'ultra-feminine.'"
So does this mean we can expect long frocks and grandma coats to make a comeback? I'm sure that will go over HUGE during the next Viki Secret's Holiday show......
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11:31 AM
Labels: sexy, Sharen Turney, Victoria's Secret, WTF
That won't be rife with porn, hackers, cybercriminals and social networking opportunities!! Former FBI Agent and Chief Information Security Officer for Janney Montgomery Scott, Patrick J. Dempsey, writes "The unfortunate and ugly truth is that the Web is providing a brand new 'world' where international cyber criminals can thrive, and the world's numerous criminal justice systems just aren't ready to address these crimes in their entirety."
His solution - create a second, more secure Internet! Wow, big idea Demps, wasn't that the intent of the original Internet. Oh, oh, I know, let's make a dedicated Internet police force to.....oh wait......f#ck......anway, check it......
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11:03 AM
Labels: ideas, idiots, Internet, Internet security, Patrick Dempsey, WTF
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2:54 PM
Labels: Dana Shafman, Simian Drugs, taser parties, tasers, WTF
I guess I could say something witty and ironic about this new product, but what's the point. Just watch the videos.....
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2:38 PM
Labels: Call Me Panty, Dope Sh#t, panties, Simian Drugs, tech, video, WTF
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2:22 PM
Labels: Citizen Astrodea collection, Dope Sh#t, Japan Trend Shop, TokyoFlash, watches
Gummy Bears + Molten Potassium Chlorate = 20 seconds of pure bliss......
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2:19 PM
Labels: Dope Sh#t, gummy bears, potassium chlorate, science experiments, Simian Drugs
So what else was I shown? Well, I was shown a trailer for a game not due out till 2009 but was sworn to absolute secrecy. Apparently, Sony just wanted to give a glimpse of what the console will be capable of.
In fact, the game is such a secret that when I mentioned the game to Phil Harrison last week he was unsure at first whether even to admit the title existed. When I explained I had been shown it under strict Non Disclosure Agreement terms he looked relieved.
I don't mean to be a tease - all I can say is that I was left speechless. If the footage I was shown truly is "in game", as told to me by the Sony PR people, then we could be on the brink of a step change in what games consoles are capable of in terms of story-telling and immersion.
Yeah, we're excited.....check the entire blog post here.
Other news - Sony Europe released PlayTV PVR for PS3, a personal video recorder add-on for the PS#. Unfortunately, its only available in European/PAL territories, but we are holding our collective breathe for the U.S. launch. PlayTV will have the ability to store shows on your PS#, watch via remote play on the PSP, as well as auto-choosing between HD and SD depending on your hook-up. Sick......
Since we are primarily a non-profit entity, we had to really scale down our Oscar coverage this year, so we choose with care. Here's Church of Cool correspondent Courtney Love blogging about her experience:
swank looked great, i bet that was Versace, she looke dgirly for the fiorst time in forever- im sad for PTA i love teh Coens but PTA well tehy shouldve let him release all 6 hours of There Will Be Blood cos thats what i bet there is of it, Kidman as anyone knows and me are not bffs by any stretch, and i though te edgy thing was cool but for some reason not onher- and her forehead is way too shiny it flips me out- iwas REALLY isnpired Diablo Cody won - that was fucking AWESOME in fact i think i just may have peed all over her My Space- i was supposed to be at Eltons Party at i think noon or something and if we dont hiurry it will suck- i really dont want to get there ina crush of shit and stuff- wait my pr is outside im calling her hold on- okay i hope the disaster has been averted but m,y expirience with that party is that i do NOT want to see Paris dancing ona table i really really DONT and i dont want to stuff a stale slamon canape in my mouth and i really need to get laid so i m off to do so. i love dthat tattoo on her ( Dibalo) and her cute thigh and the wietzman shoes were actually pretty unnatractuve really,. neat, i like the minnesota thing too, i wont be getting a bl;ack bob although i think abou tit contstantly , but it was inspiring rarely does anyone win when theyre an "outisder" particul;alrly chicks who talk about sex working- desp[ite the fact that EVERYONE i know in this town who wasnt upper middle class or didnt come from a hollywood family DID IT and even then i know of some exceptions. so i was really proud a little Nirvana moment if you will. "we won" my friend Daphne Guiness is here and i cant wait to see her. okay signiong off ,. im moving bu June really why? cos between a blood red Fortuny and a pink Fortuny id get all sorts of crazy shit by people who dont even know whata Fortuny is ! borrrring, ill be back but for now im so over L:A
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1:48 PM
Labels: Courtney Love, Dope Sh#t, Oscars, Simian Drugs, SNL
This pure genius was created by Sevcan Yardim, a recent graduate of the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. She developed the "Bamboo Light" in conjunction with companies Arlight and Artful as a sustainable lighting concept. Yardim stressed the importance of resource efficiency and powers this low-impact material with LED lighting for low energy use. Amazing.....
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1:27 PM
Labels: Bamboo Light, Dope Sh#t, green, METU, Sevcan Yardim
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1:25 PM
Labels: explosions, Simian Drugs, windmill turbines, WTF
Ok, one thing you knew, the other maybe not:
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1:10 PM
Labels: David Bowie, music, Scarlett Johansson, sketchy, Tom Waits, WTF
Ok craziness here. Nokia is unveiling a new nanotech concept phone during the MoMA's "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibition called "The Morph." Created by Nokia and the University of Cambridge, the phone is made of flexible materials that let you bend and stretch this baby to your heart's content. It also has a self-cleaning surface which eliminates all the nasty crud and fingerprints you'll put on this OCD's wet dream! Check the video below:
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12:53 PM
Labels: Brave New World, Dope Sh#t, MoMA, nanotech, Nokia, Simian Drugs, the Morph
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12:38 PM
Labels: Barclay's, Brooklyn Nets, Bruce Ratner, Clive Campbell, drama, Jay-Z, slave trade, WTF
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12:31 PM
Labels: Ben Affleck, Dope Sh#t, Jimmy Kimmel, Matt Damon, Simian Drugs
From the kids over at Kotaku, Wii is offering an update that improves performance of your favorite play box. The official Nintendo site says, "this update does not affect any prominently-used features or menus; however it does provide some behind the scenes updates that will improve system performance."
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12:16 PM
Labels: Dope Sh#t, Kotaku, Nintendo Wii
Some genius with way too much time on their hands figured out how to use the most annoying widget on the planet (Twitter - don't worry we love you!) for things other than letting us know what sandwich your eating or how badly your latest toilet adventure is going.
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11:55 AM
Labels: botanicalls, closet farmer, Dope Sh#t, growing, plants, Twitter