Kick ass track from a great Canadian outfit. Check out more on You Say Party! We Say Die!

It’s made by hand, it’s about the works of Michelangelo, it weighs 62 pounds and it costs north of $100,000. “Michelanglo: La Dotta Mano”, is out now.

For the first time since the Irish Potato Famine, there are prohibitions against begging in Ireland.

Wired has a greatly informative piece on the litigious and protective nature of Toho Co. Ltd., the rightsholder to Godzilla, and quick they are to protect their piece of IP.

The 2008 season has been a very bad one for the Detroit Lions. The question is just how bad will it get. This analysis from the Detroit Free Press posits that the team could go the full season without winning a game. No team has gone a full season without winning since the NFL switched to 16 games over 30 years ago.

GM has ended its marketing sponsorship deal with Tiger Woods a year early. Ah, spending cuts.

I stumbled upon this not so clever marketing campaign for the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Earlier today, I saw a full page colour add in the business section of a newspaper pitching what looked like a funky design for a coffee machine. At the bottom of the page was the url pomegranatephone.com.

Having a few extra minutes, I visited the site to see what the connection between a mobile phone, the pomegranate and coffee. What I saw was a site for a device that purports to market a new mobile phone/swiss army tool. It makes coffee (hence my initial thinking the newspaper add was for a coffee machine), it has built in harmonica and electric shaver and other tools (see very cheesy and not funny videos on the site). It’s only when you click on the ‘Release Date’ that this site’s true intentions are revealed.

As shocking as this seems, Joe the Plumber has landed himself a book deal. The magnum opus is titled Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream, and will focus on his take on American values.

Two journalists at the Newark Star-Ledger are now working in the mail room. Find out how that happened.

I hope that this puts a smile on your day.

This article from Reason posits that eating local may sometimes produce more carbon emissions that shipping food from other countries. Here is an excerpt as some food for thought:

via Arts & Letters Daily

We7 is the latest ad support music streaming and “buy this song now” site. The usual features of playlists, charts and big name songs in its catalogue are all present. What makes this site/service interesting for me is that Peter Gabriel - Mr. Solsbury Hill himself, is one of those behind the site.

Meh, a very lovely dichotomous word that is full of expression, while at the same time being apathetic, has made it into Collins English Dictionary.

If the equity and commodities markets are not doing much for your portfolio these days, perhaps designer kicks just might be a worthwhile investment.

Neil Young, yes the singer/songwriter, through the Huffington Post, has offered his wisdom on how Detroit can be saved one car company at a time.

From the Associated Press:

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On a side note, the U.S. presidential election wrapped on the night of November 4th, but it took until November 16, for the major news outlets to report on the rise of hate crimes in the U.S.

A true sign of these tricky economic times, Bloomberg reports on the collapse of the white truffle market.

Glass artist Dale Chihuly provides personal insights into his work.

Chow has put together this handy backgrounder on the various types of cheeses that are out there.