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Cliché! English Version

The French are no strangers to the typical stereotype clichés adorned to them. From their clothes to wine and baguettes. Vive la différence.

The Fate Of Ken and Barbie Depends On Facebook

The fate of of Ken and Barbie’s relationship depends on 500 million Facebook users. Will they reunite after a seven year split? It will all come down to a Facebook vote. Their plastic lives depend on you. Since Valentine’s Day 2004, the couple were officially separated. You can bring back the super-couple together, or perhaps […]

Google Celebrates Jules Verne’s 183rd Birthday

Hollywood owes Jules Vernes a big chunk of money. They have dipped early into his books and made a ton of money based on his books. Google’s interactive Nautilus logo is their way of celebrating Jules Verne’s 183rd birthday. Too bad he is not around to blow his own candles and collect a royalty check […]

168 Mind-Boggling Mutatoes

And now from left field or maybe a radioactive field. Mutatoes. 168 mind-boggling mutatoes from Uli Westphal the photographer of this insane veggie mutation poster. Nothing like vegetable mutants to spruce up a salad.

Retro Pepsi Throwback

Pepsi is going retro with their Pepsi Throwback line of classic Pepsi. Look they even brought back sugar. REAL SUGAR. None of that high fructose corn syrup. Most likely you will not taste the difference, but you brain might scream the opposite if it is conditioned to believe the hype.

Cirque du Soleil Students Pay Homage to Calvin and Hobbes

Cirque du Soleil students were frolicking this weekend after an unsuspecting mild winter snowfall. The wet snow was ideal to build snowmen this Sunday. The Cirque du Soleil students who have a residency in front of the headquarters took to making Calvin and Hobbes snowmen. Unfortunately some snowmen got a boot to the head and […]

Facebook is Seven Years Old

If you have not seen Social Network or are not on Facebook than you must be living in a cave. With over 500 million people on and most of them with over five profiles. Fess up. Let’s say 100 million, let’s not forget those who never went back on Facebook again because they can’t figure […]

$#*! My Dad Sings: William Shatner Making a Space Themed Metal Album

William Shatner is at it again. When most actors his age are in Florida in a buffet line, he is acting and recording music. His lounge act will now extend to a heavy metal album with such acts as Brian May, Bootsy Collins, Peter Frampton, Zakk Wylde, Steve Howe, and Ian Paice from Deep Purple. […]

Prince William and Catherine Middleton Comic Book

Prince William and Catherine Middleton are getting the royal treatment. Well, maybe not. The not so faltering comic book adaption of their love story is making the rounds on the Internet. Now there are many in the Commonwealth who take the Royal Family seriously. The tabloid family are a constant buzz of daily boredom churned […]

Joker’s Revenge: Batman Wedding Cake

And where is the Batman? These two jokers got married and commissioned a Dark Knight inspired cake called Joker’s Revenge created by City Cakes NY. Let’s hope there is not a Two-Face cake for the divorce cake, they will have to divide everything in half. via-brides

The Daily: The End of the Newspaper

Do you hear the death knell? The newspaper is dead. The Daily is the first true direct to the iPad newspaper. The Rosebud era is over. Go gentle into that night. Will Generation Y embrace the new found newspaper? Do they really care about the news? (LOL) “New times demand new journalism,” said Mr. Murdoch. […]