The shirt is awesome enough, but now hit it up on Amazon and read the reviews. Apparently since these started going in, sales have rocketed over 2,300%. That's people power for you.

Some samples:

So I'm looking for threads that say, "Hey baby...I'm real boss!" when I stumble upon this epic creation. The wolves spoke to me in a language all their own; it was like German, Mongol, and Bitchin all mixed together. I mean, one wolf howlin at the moon is major...but three???

I ordered next-day air (if only there was same day!), and, of course, a size smaller than usual to ensure the closeness of the wolves to my chest hair. When the package arrived, I tore it open, and I SWEAR angels sang. I think it was Freebird. I immediately removed my "No Fat Chicks" shirt, and replaced it with this finery. Lemme tell you: AW YEAH.

I'll spare the details of my conquests since I started wearing this shrit; suffice to say, I'm swimming in a sea of babes the likes of which are usually found on those K-Tel infomercials. I'm also more confident at work, and expect to be promoted to cashier soon. I owe everything to this shirt (I should say "shirts", since I now own 23 of them).

For you left brain types out there, who are still unsure on whether or not this shirt would make a wise purchase, allow me to break it down for you.

Most shirts like this only contain one wolf. This shirt has three wolves, plus a moon. You are basically getting three wolves and a moon for the price on one wolf. You won't find that deal anywhere else.

Make it happen. Add your review.

From The First Post:

Crumbs of Comfort
Famed for his barely-contained lust for trunk-thighed, large-assed, muscular women, underground cartooning legend Robert Crumb's singular obsession receives a lavish showcase with this hugely expensive tome, signed and strictly limited to 1,000 copies. The result is a prime piece of highly-collectable 'Crumbiana' that will enthral deep-pocketed fans (feminists need not apply) with it's collection of 14 full-length strips and 60-odd sketches from 1980-2006 that lay bare the man's entertainingly tortured sexual psyche. Thanks to an all-new colouring job, Crumb's famously frenetic line-work receives an added lush vibrancy. Even in black-and-white, however, Crumb's etchings have a dynamism that's gleefully filthy.
Danny Graydon

Click the pic to see the slide show on The First Post's site. Well worth it. Though some of it is more than a little cheeky.

The TASCHEN website has further details, including how to buy it.

Adam sent me a link to the Brickstructures website. They make architectural models out of Lego. Nothing special there, perhaps, but their ones are AWESOME, and they have a re-seller agreement with the Danish brick firm, so when it arrives it all looks wicked. I mean, look at the box!

In a similar vein, Dunechaser is still doing his amazing Lego characters and putting the pics up on Flickr. Here are two new ones:

Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday (is that Gregory Peck running beside her?)

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and the inimitable Errol Flynn

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How long does it take a mild-mannered, anti-war, black professor of constitutional law, trained as a community organiser on the South Side of Chicago, to become an enthusiastic sponsor of targeted assassinations, 'decapitation' strategies and remote-control bombing of mud houses at the far end of the globe?

There's nothing surprising here. As far back as President Woodrow Wilson, in the early 20th century, American liberalism has been swift to flex its imperial muscle and whistle up the Marines. High-explosive has always been in the hormone shot.

The nearest parallel to Obama in eager deference to the bloodthirsty counsels of his counter-insurgency advisors is John F. Kennedy. It is not surprising that bright young presidents relish quick-fix, 'outside the box' scenarios for victory.

Obama’s course is set and his presidency is already stained the familiar blood-red

Whether in Vietnam or Afghanistan the counsel of regular Army generals tends to be drear and unappetising: vast, costly deployments of troops by the hundreds of thousands, mounting casualties, uncertain prospects for any long-term success ­ all adding up to dismaying political costs on the home front.

Amid Camelot's dawn in 1961, Kennedy swiftly bent an ear to the advice of men like Ed Lansdale, a special ops man who wore rakishly the halo of victory over the Communist guerillas in the Philippines and who promised results in Vietnam.

By the time he himself had become the victim of Lee Harvey Oswald's 'decapitation' strategy, brought to successful conclusion in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, on November 22, 1963, Kennedy had set in motion the secret counter-insurgency operations, complete with programs of assassination and torture, that turned South-East Asia and Latin America into charnel houses for the next 20 years.

Another Democrat who strode into the White House with the word 'peace' springing from his lips was Jimmy Carter. It was he who first decreed that 'freedom' and the war on terror required a $3.5bn investment in a secret CIA-led war in Afghanistan, plus the deployment of Argentinian... [more here]
From The First Post, by Alexander Cockburn.

From The Guardian's Meg Pickard, a graph that "compares 'people talking about #topic' and 'people talking about talking about #topic'. Outside of Twitter, this applies to pretty much any popular newsworthy topic...the news quickly moves from 'we're telling you about Topic X' to media coverage of the media coverage of Topic X. See: Twitter's own coverage in the media currently." (Pithy description from Kottke)

Twitter trending topics
Via Cory Doctorow on BoingBoing.

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[Image: Youth storm a building; photo by Todd Krainin for the New York Times. The rest of Krainin's slideshow should not be missed].

The Boy Scouts of America apparently have a youth anti-terrorism training program here in California, partially dedicated to simulated border patrol exercises.
"The Explorers program," as it's called, "a coeducational affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America that began 60 years ago, is training thousands of young people in skills used to confront terrorism, illegal immigration and escalating border violence – an intense ratcheting up of one of the group’s longtime missions to prepare youths for more traditional jobs as police officers and firefighters."
This training, we read courtesy of The New York Times, "can involve chasing down illegal border crossers as well as more dangerous situations that include facing down terrorists and taking out 'active shooters,' like those who bring gunfire and death to college campuses." The kids, toting compressed air guns styled to look like heavy weaponry, even once "raided" a simulated marijuana-growing operation. “I like shooting them,” a 16-year old Scout named Cathy Noriega said, referring to said guns. “I like the sound they make. It gets me excited.”
These and other replicant crime scenes spill out across private backyards temporarily donated for the purpose of youth-officer training. This deliberately militarized new spatial order of well-run simulations – including "building[s] rigged with tripwire, alarms and 'poison' gas" – seems to fall somewhere between immersive game, after-school program, sports training, and indoctrination exercise.
The slideshow is worth a view.

From BLDGBLOG.

Picasso, at home in Vallauris (France) drawing with light. Rocking. From the Google LIFE photo archive, which you can find here.

And here's another pic of him, doing the same but looking a little like a demented Gollum:

Not to be confused with glowsticking.

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“Fairy tales and legends” is the theme of this year’s World Sand Sculpture Festival now underway at the Tottori Sand Dunes in Tottori prefecture. On display (until May 31) are 19 massive works crafted by world-class sculptors from ten nations. The artists used around 2,700 tons of sand and took about two weeks to complete their works. Can you identify the fairy tales and legends depicted in these sand sculptures?

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Illustrator Yoriko Yoshida has dreamed up dozens of colorful face mask designs that are sure to keep you looking cool and feeling safe as fears of swine flu spread across the globe.

The mask of Octopus beard

The mask of Rising sun

The mask of Skull

The mask of Wild boar

The mask of Mt. FUJI

The mask of Beauty

[Link: Yoriko Yoshida's surgical masks]

(from PinkTentacle)

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From Photobomb. Awesome. Check the site for more classics.

Bizarre magazine in the UK conducted a rather odd interview with 1980s icon, Mr. T.

Your current Snickers campaign sees you come out with a new trademark line, telling weedy men to “get some nuts”. Who’s the weakest guy you’ve ever encountered? Pee-wee Herman. Sadly, I’ve never had the chance to train him – to get him to beef up and man up! I don’t think there’d be enough time if I had eternity. And that little wimpy suit he wears doesn’t help matters.

But you’ve worn some pretty full-on outfits – dungarees, gold lamé waistcoats, all those necklaces...
When you’re a real man, you can dress up in whatever – spangly fabrics, women’s stuff or whatnot – because you’re secure enough in your masculinity to pull it off. But you’ve gotta be a real man inside the clothes.

Have you ever seen a ghost?
I’m not sure whether it was just my imagination, and the memory might have become blurred in my mind, but again, as a child, one night I peeked out from my bed covers and I saw a court jester wearing curly-toed shoes and a spiked hat with bells on sharp points. Perhaps I was dreaming – influenced by the sound of the wind whipping around outside the house, the building creaking and the rain tapping on the windows, but it seemed very real.

"How Bizarre is... Mr. T"

Bizarre magazine in the UK conducted a rather odd interview with 1980s icon, Mr. T.

Your current Snickers campaign sees you come out with a new trademark line, telling weedy men to “get some nuts”. Who’s the weakest guy you’ve ever encountered? Pee-wee Herman. Sadly, I’ve never had the chance to train him – to get him to beef up and man up! I don’t think there’d be enough time if I had eternity. And that little wimpy suit he wears doesn’t help matters.

But you’ve worn some pretty full-on outfits – dungarees, gold lamé waistcoats, all those necklaces...
When you’re a real man, you can dress up in whatever – spangly fabrics, women’s stuff or whatnot – because you’re secure enough in your masculinity to pull it off. But you’ve gotta be a real man inside the clothes.

Have you ever seen a ghost?
I’m not sure whether it was just my imagination, and the memory might have become blurred in my mind, but again, as a child, one night I peeked out from my bed covers and I saw a court jester wearing curly-toed shoes and a spiked hat with bells on sharp points. Perhaps I was dreaming – influenced by the sound of the wind whipping around outside the house, the building creaking and the rain tapping on the windows, but it seemed very real.

"How Bizarre is... Mr. T"

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Too cute. Check a check a check it ouuuuut. Draw pictures, make noises, it's virtually impossible to make a bad song.

"Vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us." From The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters.

"I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul."
Jean-Paul Sartre

"Hold me like a baby!" James Warner

"We must remain fools at all cost." Norman Mailer.

"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind." Aristotle.

"I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work."
Thomas Edison.

"Information is not knowledge." Albert Einstein.

"Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you." Aldous Huxley.

“What makes me depressed? Seeing stupid people happy." Slavoj Zizek.

"There's only three things
That's for sure
Taxes, death and trouble." Marvin Gaye

"All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold."
Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice)

"So much to do, so little point." Adam Buxton

"A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost."
Jean-Paul Sartre

"There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck."
Jean-Paul Sartre

"There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk."
Jean-Paul Sartre