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Liz Lomax Speed Sculpts Noel Gallagher from Oasis

Swiped @ Drawn

The Making of Noel Gallagher from Liz Lomax on Vimeo.

Kirk Cameron's Fireproof Now Available on DVD – Fuck Yeah!

Kirk Cameron’s Fireproof is about God and saving your marriage and finding religion and not saying "bitch" apparently (?) It was an enormous success ($34 million gross on a $500k budget.) Where'd rednecks get that kind of money?!

This is a highlight reel from the recently released DVD ... let me repeat, this is NOT a gag reel. These are actual scenes that were included in the film. Based on these clips I'd say the plot also focuses on a profound hatred of computers, recycling and naturalistic dialog. I've watched it three times already. It's really THAT good. Swiped over at FilmDrunk.

Reprise – Cool Norwegian Film by Joachim Trier

Crazy Pow Pow Run Footage From The Provo Bros

Powder Mountain Perspective from Ian Provo on Vimeo.

Britain and France Crash 25% of Their Nuclear Submarines Into One Another

They only have four nuclear submarines each. So how the F do they manage to crash them into each other? Who's the Admiral over there, Benny Hill?

From the NY Times.

LONDON — Two nuclear submarines, one French and the other British, collided in mid-Atlantic earlier this month, reports in the British and French news media said on Monday, quoting sources in the two defense ministries.

Britain and France each have four missile-carrying nuclear submarines, constituting the core of their nuclear arsenals. According to military journals, Le Triomphant carries 16 ballistic missiles with a range of 5,000 miles, each with six warheads. H.M.S. Vanguard is a Trident-class submarine, 492 feet long and weighing 16,000 tons. It, too, carries 16 missiles, each with three nuclear warheads.

Pit Bull Versus Porcupine

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Terrifying Words – Hyena versus Baboon

Secret Art Project – Deadboy Character

Cure For the Common Cold Possible, But Too Expensive

Swiped over at the NY Times

Researchers said Thursday that they had decoded the genomes of the 99 strains of common cold virus and developed a catalog of its vulnerabilities.

“We are now quite certain that we see the Achilles’ heel, and that a very effective treatment for the common cold is at hand,” said Stephen B. Liggett, an asthma expert at the University of Maryland and co-author of the finding.

Even so, it might be difficult to kindle the interest of pharmaceutical companies. While the new findings are “an interesting piece of science,” said Dr. Glenn Tillotson, an expert on antiviral drugs at Viropharma in Exton, Pa., he noted that the typical cost of developing a new drug was now $700 million, “with interminable fights with financiers and regulators.”

Because colds are mostly a minor nuisance, drug developers say, people would not be likely to pay for expensive drugs. And it would be hard to get the Food and Drug Administration to approve a drug with any serious downside

What Does $200 Million in Brand Consulting Buy You? — Pepsi Edition

27 pages of bluster & bullshit apparently. We've written about the horrible new Pepsi branding in the past. Some have said it's a rip-off of the Obama "O", some have said it's a silhouette of a stomach (wow, gross!), but all can agree, that for upwards of $200 million ...  it's pretty frickin' lame.

So what does several hundred million in "brand strategy" really get you? A 27-page document, titled "Breathtaking Design Strategy," drawing on everything from magnetic fields to the "Golden Ratio." Verdict: (makes wanking motion)

Did someone at Pepsi get fired for okaying this? This graphic looks like something you'd see on "Lost". I find it difficult to believe that no one at the conference room table was like, "Magnetic dynamics? Seriously?"