• Yo La Tengo, Hobo­ken insti­tu­tion, says I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass.
• The endear­ing cat sites just keep com­ing; now we have My Fat Kat (I take it myfatcat.com was taken). I take back every­thing I ever said to Buck­min­ster about his weight. I mean, look at Andy crush­ing his poor owner (her­self not exactly svelt), for cry­ing out loud. (guest sub­mis­sion from Andrea)
• Arrrr, I be for­get­tin’ Talk Like a Pirate Day yes­ter­day! Bah! ‘Til next year, maties! Undead mon­key! (guest sub­mis­sion from Lady Cut­throat Andrea)
• Beck’s two-turntables-and-a-microphone D.I.Y. aes­thetic man­i­fests on his next album The Infor­ma­tion’s blank cover and four sheets of stickers.
• I have a Rubik’s Cube on top of my TV, but I’m too much of an idiot to solve more than the top layer. Is it cheat­ing to read a solu­tion? My feel­ing is that any­thing that involves learn­ing algo­rithms can’t count as cheating.
• MyDreamApp posts mock­ups of some of its con­tenders, which goes a long way towards clar­i­fy­ing what they’re sup­posed to do.
• Another detailed iTunes 7 inter­face cri­tique. (spot­ted on Dsandler.org)
• While every­one (or should I say, every­dork) is gang­ing up on Apple for chang­ing a sin­gle pixel on iTunes, one should remem­ber that the other giant com­puter mega­cor­po­ra­tion is far worse when it comes to inex­plic­a­ble inter­face design. (guest sub­mis­sion from Dave)
• The MPAA’s Great­est Hits, com­piled on the offi­cial site for the doc­u­men­tary This Film is Not Yet Rated. The very first two items speak vol­umes. Also, I had never heard about Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fic­tion gambit:
  • “1994 — Quentin Taran­tino, fear­ing an NC-17 rat­ing for his cult hit “Pulp Fic­tion,” includes an effects sequence of a head explod­ing when he sub­mits his film to the MPAA as a diver­sion­ary tac­tic. As expected, the MPAA sug­gests that he remove the image of the head explod­ing (which he had never actu­ally planned to include) but allows him to hang onto the image of brains in Samuel L. Jackson’s hair (which he was wor­ried they would reject).”
• Rhino’s boxed set pack­ag­ing design just gets bet­ter: A Life Less Lived: The Goth Box is bound in black leather and lace, and Tori Amos’ A Piano is, well, guess.
• Weird Al wants to bowl with the gangstas in “White and Nerdy.” Mul­ti­plat­inum Weird Al nails it again. How can one man cram 800 jokes into 3 minutes?
• AppleIn­sider reports Apple is scram­bling to slap together iTunes 7.0.1, which read­ers of pre­vi­ous reports will know this Dork Reporter eagerly awaits.

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