Something Shiny

Christopher Moore is brilliant, so far Fool may not be his best, but not his best is better than most of what you’ll find in your local bookstore or library.

Check out this book club he hosts at a Borders at the link below.

Christopher Moore | Borders Media.

Ladytron (woo hoo!) and The Faint (meh) are coming to First Ave on 4/2 (that’s a Thursday if you care).

	Ladytron – Ghosts
	Found at skreemr.com

	The Faint – The Geeks Were Right
	Found at skreemr.com

Via Pitchfork

• Basic Instructions by Scott Meyer: Your all-inclusive guide to a life well-lived.
• White Stripes to Play Conan’s Last “Late Night”
• Santogold Is Now Santigold | Pitchfork – Santogold was Santi White, the Brooklyn-based pop singer who made one of last year’s best albums and who is just now starting to pop up on A-list rap songs. Santo Gold, on the other hand, is Santo Rigatuso, the Baltimore-based jeweler/filmmaker/huckster who made this infomercial and the no-budget 1985 aliens-fighting-wrestlers movie Blood Circus. You can see how just about anyone would get these two confused, right? I mean, they’re basically the same person.

I wish I had the time, patience and Lego collection around to have done this myself, but alas, I have none of any of those things. All I have are these pretty pictures.

Click the pic for more pictures over at Gizmodo.

Or click here.

• China’s Death Buses Deliver Executions, Organ Harvesting On the Go [Morbid]

Fantastic! For $5000, the “CRAZY DELUXE & PERSONAL” package includes a CD, DVD, immediate download of the CD content, and a personal concert. Shipping and handling is even waved on the CD/DVD/t-shirt (although you may have to pay shipping and handling on John Wesley Harding if you live too far away from him).

Musician sells CD for $15.98, CD + live concert for $5000 – Boing Boing.

• Merge Gmail Contacts – When the Palm Pre comes out and I fall prey to it’s shinyness, it’s going to be more dependant on storing data to the cloud. I looked at my Google contacts yesterday and they’re a total mess thanks to the “automatically add anyone I’ve exchanged an email with to my contacts” model Gmail used up until about a year ago.

  This will help.

• God convinces woman to withdraw her voodoo-related lawsuit

Ah, The Onion speaks the truth yet again. Although Sony isn’t the worst offender in my opinion.

Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work

• Google Sync Beta for iPhone, WinMo and SyncML Phones

Although obviously awesome, don’t the heads on Lego mini-figs come off awfully easily for this not to be at least a little wrong? I mean, really isn’t it easy enough for one’s head to pop off without daring fate to amuse itself?

Yesterday at Boing Boing Gadgets – Boing Boing.

• Google Redesigned Updates, Adds GReader Redesigned [Downloads]
• Roku Puts Amazon VOD Into Beta, YouTube Coming Next? [Roku]
• LG LBA-C300: Bluetooth Keyboard with Credit Card Style [FCC Leaks]
• Pac-Man Oven Mitt: The Precursor to Any Good Chomping [Kitchentech]

Having lived in a trailer park for a year during my college years, and attended nine years of Catholic school prior to that, this is the perfect combination of funny for me. Check out the link below the picture for the full story. Short story even shorter: some believe the stalactite on the side of a mobile home looks like the Virgin Mary. Were the rosary also made out of ice, I would have been impressed.

South Bend Tribune: ‘Miracle’ in ice? Virgin Mary seen in Plymouth ice formation.

TIME Magazine shows how sharing on Facebook can be creepy…

Below are 25 facts I wish people hadn’t told me about themselves. They come from friends, friends-of-friends, friends-of-friends-of-friends and coworkers. They are all real, though I wish some of them were not.

1. I eat tacos with a fork.
2. I was fat in middle school. The wake of that horror has yet to subside.
3. I keep forgetting that Barack Obama is our President. (See pictures of Obama behind the scenes on Inauguration Day.)
4. I have been pooped on by a monkey.

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Facebook: 25 Things I Didn’t Want to Know About You – TIME.

So… who wants a Palm Pre? Me, I do. Give it to me now.

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