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A cute little story about art perception and sibling rivalry.
Hundreds turned out for the 23rd annual Pooh-sticks race World Championship, based on the game Winnie the Pooh used to play with Piglet and Christopher Robin.
There was a huge protest in the streets of Japan demanding the dismissal of a law banning the sale of vintage electronics. These photos show protesters weilding old Casio keyboards and even playing old Nintendo Famicoms (the 8-bit system later released in the US as the NES, or Nintendo Entertainment System, pretty much everybody in my generation's first home video game system)!
Nick Paumgarten reviews Del Posto, Iron Chef Mario Batali(pictured, at left)'s new (and apparently completely absurd) three-star, high-fashion restaurant.
Al-Jazeera is establishing and English-language offshoot. Now, when the world news networks show clips and reports from Al-Jazeera (which they've done a lot of in the past four years) they won't have to use their crappy in-house translators, they can have it done by the people in the know. I would actually watch that channel if we got it here.
AWWWWWWWWWWWWW! I love Chris Ware's "Building Stories".
Be sure to watch tonight's episode of The Simpsons. In addition to being written by the guest-starring Ricky Gervais (British comedian and creator of The Office), the episode will also feature the live-action opening sequence produced by British syndicate Sky as a promo spot for The Simpsons that has become a viral video fave over recent weeks.
Speaking of viral videos, the mainstream media has finally caught on to them and there will soon be four regular shows on major American networks showcasing the clips in a format similar to America's Funniest Home Videos. I've already seen both VH1's Web Junk 20 and Bravo's Outrageous and Contagious: Viral Videos and neither has interested me all that much, the VH1's at least has some personality.