Ukulele Virtuoso

Meet Jake Shimabukuro. Check out his weeping ukulele in Central Park.

Thank You, Maskman

a funny animation by Lenny Bruce

Larry David Interview

Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Fair Credit Reporting Act

How to get your free credit report

Wolverine: The Batman of the X-Men

The new X-Men movie is pretty good. Way better than MI3. I'm surprised so many central characters were killed off in the end.

Al Gore: The Movie

An Inconvenient Truth, the new documentary about Al Gore and global climate change, is playing soon in Maryland and DC. Ebert says it's good.

Learning Spanish

I'm setting my alarm for early in the morning so I can drive to Montgomery College to sign up for a month long Spanish class. If I don't commit myself to something like this I'll probably never learn Spanish. The class meets 4 times a week for 2 hours and I've already missed the first one.

Update: because of Memorial day I didn't miss the first class. It's going to be hard waking up in the mornings though.

The Big One

The trailer for the Fast Food Nation movie is out. The movie recently made its premiere at the Cannes film festival. The story is described by director Richard Linklater as "all over the map" and features Avril Lavigne as a college activist.

Video Games

In front of his computer screen, Kim played hours upon hours of interactive role-playing games with other anonymous online gamers. When he slew zombies and ghouls with particular dexterity, he recalled, the flashing words "Excellent!" or "Masterstroke!" fired him up. Kim played from 8 a.m. until well after midnight -- and in the process, over four months, gained 10 pounds while surviving largely on one meal a day of instant noodles.

"I guess I knew I was becoming addicted, but I couldn't stop myself," Kim recalled from a clinic where he was undergoing counseling. "I stopped changing my clothes. I didn't go out. And I began to see myself as the character in my games."

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Your Mom's A Chimp

"Human Ancestors May Have Interbred With Chimpanzees"

Lactic Acid Myth

Another reason to question everything. It turns out, despite years of what cross country coaches have been telling us, lactic acid is not the cause of muscle soreness and is actually fuel for your muscle mitochondria.

Practice Makes Perfect

follow your dreams

Nowhere Man

weird