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When I chose not to become a marketing major at Tulane, I had to accept that I would now never be able to become Don Draper. I wouldn’t say I’m not dashing enough to be a Don Draper doppelganger, but my creative mind is holding me back from being the real thing. For those who have watched Mad Men as religiously as I have in the past few months, you may be looking for more information on the advertising industry. Enter Art and Copy, a new film that “reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time.” Unfortunately, Don Draper will not be included in the documentary, but I look forward to seeing the interviews with the kinds of people that inspired his character.

Find out more at Artandcopyfilm.org

The hardest thing about working out is obviously being motivated enough to get to the gym. Once your there, fear of looking silly in front of 25 people who could kick your ass without even noticing takes over and you make yourself have a good workout, but when you’re in your room looking at your gym clothes and your bed and deciding which one looks more comfortable, making yourself have a good workout is much harder. For mornings like those, this article by Henry Rollins is a pretty solid source of inspiration.

Check it out on nerdfitness.com

I’ve been through two Mardi Grases now, so I like to think of myself as pretty expert in the field of absolutely out of control city wide parties, but apparently I still have much to learn. Fallas, a month-long festival in Valencia, Spain, comes to an end with a ceremony called “La Crema,” where huge crowds of people stand around massive paper machè structures and watch as they’re burned to the ground. New Orleans could learn a thing or two from these guys.

Check out pictures of the insanity at Holavalencia.com.

We dat. New Orleans has now been ranked as the longest city in the United States, penis-wise. And fuck you, Grant, because New Hampshire just has some godly ability to win at every statistics polling ever. You’re all liars!

Read more about it at Condomania.com.

A little while ago John posted an article about how North Korea is the type of country George Orwell had nightmares about. If you didn’t see the article/were too lazy to read it, here’s a tastefully designed chart of facts explaining just how batshit insane North Korea (and Mr. Jong Il) is.

More from Daytrotter! Frightened Rabbit is one of those bands that I don’t like all that much generally but has come out with a few songs that I adore. Download this version of Good Arms vs. Bad Arms now! Scott’s accent, crooning, and unaccompanied guitar make you want to feel as sorry for him as he is feeling for himself. I think this version is a huge step up from the one on the album.

Check it out on daytrotter.

It’s really hard to keep up with news, because there’s so much of it that just keeping up takes hours a day. Fortunately, The New York Times has started putting up a quick, 5-10 minute video every day around 1pm where they analyze everything that’s going on in the world that day and why it matters. It’s one of those things that’s so good it makes you realize everyone else sucks at their jobs.

Check it out onNYTimes.com

Edgar Wright, the director behind Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, is at it again. Recently, the teaser trailer for his third film, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, hit the internet, and although it lacks a certain lovable British duo, it looks awesome. If you’re not already excited for this movie, you should be. Early reviews have been almost unanimously positive, praising the film’s genuine originality. Hell, Keven Smith even went as far as to call it “spellbinding,” among other things. Hopefully this summer will have plenty of good movies like this to make up for my Transformers 2 lobotomy.

Buddy Rich is an animal, and Animal is a Muppet. In this retro video clip from the classic Muppet Show Animal and Buddy Rich have a little drum battle. It’s excellent puppeteering and percussion.

I’ve had a lot of dreams in life, but seeing these pictures made me realize that all of them are stupid. Who cares about being a famous comedian or president or one of John and Kate’s kids when there’s someone out there with the power to create a situation like the one in these pictures. What good is ruling the free world if you can’t use it to do stuff like that? On a side-note, I’ll be on spring break all this week, so things might be a little quirky, but theoretically I’ve set it up so that posts will keep showing up while I’m away. Maybe I’ll run into a scene like this while I’m gone. Spring Break, WOOOOOO!!!!

Check out the pictures on Egotastic.

A series of tapes with the alleged voice of Osama Bin Laden have arisen recently, according to CNN. For the most part the tapes consist of pretty much what you’d expect from our country’s zany arch-nemesis (death to America, death to Israel, etc.). One thing that stood out however was a tape condemning George W. Bush and other industrialized nations for rejecting the Kyoto Protocol for global warming. Who knew Bin Laden was such an eco-friendly guy? Maybe global warming has been hitting the middle east much harder than the United States. His next tape released will probably translate roughly to, “Seriously guys, it’s fucking hot over here, can you slow down with the greenhouse gasses?”

Read more on CNN.com

Sometimes, it’s just so damn clear that we don’t understand nearly as much about the universe as we think we do. Watching this video, which shows how certain mathematical patterns and models show up so precisely in nature, makes it clear that there must be something fundamental about the way stuff works that we haven’t figured out yet. Why else would people like Dane Cook? Check out the video after the jump (click “read more”), it’ll blow your mind.

Let’s say you’re the first (sane) human being to make contact with an intelligent alien race. What do you do once aboard that shiny metal ship? Try to communicate? Show them that thing you can do with your elbows? Kill them all and triumphantly return to earth in a state-of-the-art floating death machine? Fortunately for you, you’ll have memorized these step-by-step instructions for exactly what to do in this scenario (unless they’ve already shoved their cold metal instruments up your colon and dropped you off in Montana).

My god is this website creepy. The user written stories are best described as adventure-horror. Each one leads you into a crazy situation with one of the “holders” who possess certain “objects”, which could seriously fuck things up if they come together. I know at this point it sounds kinda ridiculous, so I’ll just post the introductory story and let you decide if you want to spend the next three hours of your life reading through every other story on the site. Check it out after the jump (click “read more”). Also, I’ve found this particularly helpful in that it has given me a list of lines that I will never in my life say in any situation, the most important being, “I seek the one who calls himself the Holder of the End.”

Check it out at TheHolders.org

Remember back in the day when old people got offended by the way Elvis gyrated his hips? Of course you don’t, but you’ve probably seen Forest Gump, so that’s good enough. All those old people were outraged by the collapse of a decent moral society that was soon to follow Elvis’ sweet, provocative gyrations. Well it’s now about 60 years later, and decency has finally decided to say, “fuck it, I’m out of here,” ushering in the prophesied era of biblical depravity. After sixty years, dancing has devolved to the glorified dry-humping known as “grinding.” Grindface.com has decided to start documenting this phenomenon through pictures (and funny captions!) capturing the hilarious stupidity unavoidable by anyone who’s ever stepped on a dance floor looking for some dick to ass-crack action. For those who want to learn more about grinding, I would suggest doing a google search on the topic for hours of entertainment.

Check it out at Grindface.com

In the world of Atheism there are weak Atheists, who don’t believe in God, strong Atheists, who believe there is no God, and Sam Harris, who believes even if there were a God but he’d be retarded and not worth worshiping. Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens make some pretty strong arguments for why Atheism is the only reasonable theism, but only Sam Harris has the balls to flat out call religious people wrong and stupid. In this TED talk, he argues that not only can science answer moral questions, it’s the only thing that should. Maybe I’m biased, but I think he’s dead-on. Check it out for yourself after the jump (click “read more”).

It seems like every year we get at least three new movies about the real story behind some famous band or musician. But what about the eclectic and infamously… well… weird, Weird Al Yankovic? Surely there’s an interesting story behind his pop-culture and polka fueled madness. Fortunately, Funny or Die has put together a trailer for the unfortunately fake Weird Al biopic, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. Look for a cameo from Al himself as a (short-haired) record exec.

Free your mind, explore the spaces of your soul. No? It’s all very zen. Anyways, here are some short animated movies of Allan Watts quotes animated by the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. The movies aren’t dirty or crude, but rather insightful and pleasant. They are funny, just not in same way South Park is.

Check them out at Freshminds.com

Thursday night, Jon Stewart spent almost 15 minutes doing a spot on impersonation of Glen Beck. It was wild, scary, and hilarious. Fan’s of the Daily Show are use to Jon’s characters, but this was a whole new level. He really showed his command of acting this time. If only he could have given as good a performance in the Faculty.

Check it out at Thedailyshow.com

This Oscar-nominated short film has all of the best parts of those three to five minute sequences that precede every Disney/Pixar movie: really good animations, humor, an original storyline crammed into a very short amount of time, and a warm and fuzzy aftertaste at the end.