Random Crap For Tuesday

Apparently fat girls are smarter than skinny ones. Something to do with Omega fatty acids. However they were discussing size 8-10 being fat. That's crazy. Size 8 is nice, size 16 is maybe fat.

Damien Hurst's exhibit is opening soon. It's called "A Bunch of Dead Animals" or something.

From the ONN, wrestling fans are fake:


Controversial Tell-All Book Reveals Wrestling Fans Are Fake

Temper-Pedic mattress did a pretty good quarter. Unless you bought it from a direct marketing TV ad, who really knows what brand of mattress they sleep on? I have no clue.

Some guy says to ignore as much information as possible. I wish it was that easy.

Yahoo 360?

• Jerry Yang shuts down Yahoo 360 and the world lets out a collective "meh."
• Translation of Yangs latest conference.
  
• Google finally does something about all of those horrible link farm sites that clog up its results. But they lower most blogs in the process. And another blog on the same.
  
• Some ibanker on "nanny arbitrage," which is where a spouse makes more money than they pay the nanny, and on how enforcing labor laws and eliminating the illegal, off-the-books, underpaid majority of nannies would have a negative impact on the legal NY labor market. From Gawker.
• iTunes removes a video starring a nude Natalie Portman. No one is sure why.
  
• Monetize your thirst with Facefuel. Heh.
• NY Times online meta-data.
• MySpace is still the social networking leader, although others are catching up.
• Porn may save Google $1 billion? I'm not sure how but interesting anyway. Apparently has something to do with the 2257 laws.
  
• Anna Nicole Smith tape. A brief exception to my ban of celebrity gossip.
• Mark Cuban finally gets the boot on the dancing show he is on. Video from Valleywag.
• Sounds like Microsoft and Facebook are finally close to closing a deal.
  
• Facebook is going to be rolling out "SocialAds" soon which I assume they are hoping will finally make them some money from all these eyeballs they have.
  
  

Article from NY Magazine

Article on the Gawker site and other, related sites from New York magazine. Pretty dead on, and while it does steal some of Gawkers "snark" for its tone, I have to agree with the author on most points.

Tuesday Round-up

New York Magazine article on blogs such as Gawker.

Brooklyn girl is fined for drawing with chalk on her stoop. Where I live the same thing would happen.

A very bizarre idea for a TV show. It could have been good or it could have been ridiculously bad. Unfortunately it does not seem like we will ever know.

Chad Vader - the newest YouTube thing. It is funny: