Trade cards, simple to fancy, some diecut. Here one may meet Uncle Sam hawking oysters, join a polar bear party, or eye a lassie who likes her malt. Mercantile ingenuity knows no bounds.

Blondestar. Always There. Always On. "The following conversation is real. It took place on Tuesday, June 8, 2004, between a BlondeStar advisor and a subscriber." (click on big blue box to listen to 1 min. 14 sec. MP3 file) more inside

Spider-maaan, Spider-maaan, Does whatever a spider can... Apart from in this instance spin webs. Instead he's got to rely on the Batman Lookalike Trapeze Artist Union to safely guide him through the skies of New York. Or, uh, something. [Flash]

Alien in 30 Seconds. [Flash] Performed by cartoon bunnies. From the makers of Titanic, The Shining, and The Exorcist. Via ABS.

Inexplicable object of the week. I searched, I did. Can it really be no one's posted it here yet? Including a suppos... supplement to this post.

The Collected Image

A quiver of cobras and a charm of hummingbirds.

Curious George: has anyone here had their bank account tapped? [More inside] more inside

Bikes against Bush [Oh no, not another anti-Bush link.] Josh Kinberg, the same guy who brought us the wireless access bike has built another cunning human powered device. During the Republican Convention he will officially roll out the new bike. For know he just loves New York. [2 MB QT] (also available in Real Video.) Can you imagine a whole slew of these bikes driving through NY? Followed by Republican cleaner squads? I hope he doesn't get arrested. Here is an interview with Josh Kinberg, "Profile of a wireless activist".

Ordering pizza in a surveillance society. [Flash, via Crooked Timber.]

Kerrang magazine appoints Satan as the #2 most important person in Rock.
#10 is Avril Lavigne. more inside

Is President Bush a Homo? Betty Bowers seems to think so. more inside