Recommended Reading 12/28/10
Recommended Reading 10/21/10 – Election Fever
Recommended Reading 10/7/10
Recommended Reading: Random Articles 9/25/10
The Funniest Thing I Saw All Week 8/14/10
Reddit users have been posting their picks for the funniest things they’ve ever seen on the Web, and if anyone knows what’s funny on the Internet, it’s these people. Huffington Post rounded up their favorites. I urge you to spend hours upon hours of your life going through these links. Because life is just too damn short.
Random Web Findings – Green Day @ Lollapalooza
As expected, last night Green Day stole the show in Chicago, performing well over the park’s curfew and giving every Lollpalooza ticket holder their money’s worth and then some. It’s doubtful Soundgarden will be able to top it tonight. Consequence of Sound has the rave review and more coverage of the day.
Americans’ 15 Favorite Restaurant Chains
No Van Gogh: Fifteen Fantastically Awful Selections From the Museum of Bad Art
Ten August Albums Worth Checking Out
Twenty-Five Songs For Dr. Dre’s Planet Playlist
Our 11 Favorite Oversized Bands
Mobbed Up: Hip-Hop’s Eight Best Posse Cuts
Six Dinosaurs That Might As Well Be Fake
Eighteen Band Names Inspired by Other Bands
23 Disney Characters and the Entertainers Born to Play Them
New York Rappers Talk Their Worst Summer Jobs
Ten Best Party Vacation Destinations
Cities With the Most Millionaires
Restaurant Tipping Around The World: 25 Countries’ Gratuity Protocol
Autobiographies By The Under-25 Set
11 Sci-Fi Movies to Look Forward To
14 Cases of Actors Getting Cut Entirely From Notable Films
8 Videos With Hilarious Offscreen Surprises
Random Web Findings: Mad Men Premieres Tonight!
Paste Presents: The Mad Men Takeover (Everything Here is Golden)
The Worst College Fashion Trends
Caught In The Act! Hilarious Photos Of Politicians Getting Frisky
Palin, Lindsay, NASA, and More: The Top Tweets of The Week
10 Party Schools That Actually PAY OFF
NYT: New Orleans’s Gender-Bending Rap
Losing My Religion: Revealing the Hollow Reality of Lo-Fi
Hollywood and Smoking: A Brief History
Five Predictions For Mad Men’s Fourth Season
The Cities Where Americans Spend The MOST On Travel & Entertainment
The 10 Best Boozy Desserts — Ice Creams, Gelatos, & Sorbets
The BEST Late Night Jokes Of The Week: Palin’s New Word, Lindsay’s Back Door, And Hippie Orgasms
16 Most Outrageously Misleading Hotel Ads
What’s The Worst Movie You’ve Ever Seen?
39 Countries That Take More Vacations Than the US
The Twelve Most Beautiful Islands In the World
The Most Politically INCORRECT Stocks – Including BP, Blackwater & Exxon
The Five Greatest Rap-A-Lot Album Covers Ever
7 Ways Student Loan Reform May (Or May Not) Change Your Life
The Funniest Marketing Fails Of All Time
11 Most Overrated Things In History
Colleges Actually Worth Their Cost
Random Web Findings – NME, Twitter, Deftones, Etc.
NME’s 50 Awesome Music Movies – missing Be Here to Love Me, and a little British, but still a pretty cool list.
The Twitter Pack: 20 Tweeters You Should Be Following – other than @whiteycorngood, of course.
Huffington Post’s Top 10 Hipster Schools
Ten Film Critics You Should Follow On Twitter
The 8 Most Absurd Music Bans of All Time
Five Reasons I’m Still Not Paying For a Music Subscription Service
R.E.M. turned 30 this week. Rolling Stone had the best tribute to the group.
And here’s the video for Deftones’ “Rocket Skates,” the first single from Diamond Eyes, out in May.