Good directory of random albums...Nada Surf, Stills, Bloc Party, Maximo Park, Islands, Hard-Fi, etc.

Maximo Park / "Postcard of a Painting"

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The Top Ten Ways to Show the World You Hate George Bush.

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I gotta put the Penn State Nittany Lion at the top of my mascot rankings because not only is Penn St. my favorite college football team (remember the colonel is an alum) but he's a) got the cheap, old school look and b) he has the best dance moves:

1) Nittany Lion vs. Napoleon Dynamite
2) Nittany Lion vs. Thriller
3) Nittany Lion vs. Evolution of Dance
4) Nittany Lion vs. Men in Black.

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The Hives' "Hate to Say I Told You So" at the Hurricane Festival

Their catalog is hit-and-(mostly)-miss, but The Hives still own arguably the best rock song of the decade. There's so much to love about this clip:

1) Trademark Hives black-and-white outfits.
2) Howlin' Pelle Almqvist's cartoonish speaking voice, made all the more ridiculous by the comedically grandiose things he's usually saying.
3) The freeze that they do at the beginning of the song, which is a nod to the also excellent original video.
4) They all look certifiably awesome as they perform. The lead guitarist (Nicholaus Arson) and drummer (Chris Dangerous) are your typical intense, herky-jerky types, and then you've got the chubbier rhythm guitarist (Vigilante Carlstroem) and bassist (Dr. Matt Destruction, who between his weird facial expressions and sweatiness looks like he could keel over and die of a heart attack at any point.
5) Their names. Dr. Matt Destruction? Vigilante Carlstroem? Are you fucking kiding me? Awesome.

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Last time I posted how Borat got people on camera, now Slate shows us why they can't sue him. And here's the Comedy Central Special on the Borat movie:

Borat Special Part 1
Borat Special Part 2

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Also from Slate, would the US be better off with one time zone?

Rather depressingly, David Letterman outshines the sun in his effect on what people are doing. Push the television schedules an hour later and 5 percent of people will be watching television later—nearly a third of those actually watching the television. But if sunset is an hour later (because the individual is at the western end of a time zone), only half of 1 percent of people will watch later television. The effect also spills over onto sleeping patterns: The television, more than the sunrise, determines when people get up in the morning.

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McSweeney's presents ALTERNATE ENDINGS TO FAMOUS LITERARY WORKS AS WRITTEN BY A 15-YEAR-OLD WITH A GRUDGE and RESPONSIBLE SPAM.

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All the original members of The State are involved in the upcoming Reno 911! Miami and The Ten. David Wain talks about it. Wain is also in the new Steve Buscemi movie Delirious.