Daily View, 12/21-12/28

Lots of links today... been wandering around in a holidaze for the last week.

• Smellable websites. As with the scentable ringtones, the porn industry must be over the moon.


• Hey, I'd walk through the Financial District with Sigourney Weaver anytime, as weird as that is. Love her.


• Thanks to Ginna for this article on Turkish Delight—I had a similar experience of rose-scented disillusionment with the Lion, the Witch, and the Really Foul Candy.


• Choose your own Samsung-ad flavored adventure with anyfilms.net, which allows you to configure pieces of a film to make your own story... the future of entertainment? I dunno, but there is underwear involved so I guess it was supposed to be fun and sexy. Sigh.


• Doane Paper presents the legal-graph pad hybrid. I really think this has to have been done before, but these guys have a downloadable pdf, so... score.


• Here's an odd dilemma. About a week ago I ordered something from an artist's website. Two days ago I found out she's been fatally hit by a bus. Terrible tragedy, of course, but my credit card has been charged... am I a total asshole if I inquire about my order?


• The Top Ten Lists are upon us. My current fave, just because it's got a lot of "so damn odd" things on it: Coolhunting: 2005 In Review: Most Popular Posts. Their list of Josh's favorites has some good stuff on it too if you like stuff (they need to come up with a term like 'bling' that applies only to geeks already. Ok fuck it, I'm making one up now: KEEGE.. E-Geek backwards. Applies to obsessive online product hunting/hunters and their finds... as in, "Have you seen the new Maloo laptop cases? So keege..." Purr it out... keeeeejjjjhhh. I'm going to drop it and see if it breaks. Hahaha)


• Bunnies are cute (don't miss the second photo down), but SIXTEEN BABY PANDAS are a sign of the apocalypse of cute.


• Enya is the bane of my existence. This article pretty much sums up why.


• What sort of crazy lazy bastard needs these chopsticks???


• I can't decide if I'm OCD enough to actually be a candidate for the germaphobe toothbrush thingy... hmmm....


• The Ricky Gervais Show continues to improve every week (and is now available as a podcast subscription from iTunes, not just the Guardian website)—show #4 is worth a listen just to hear Karl make a case against the Heifer Project, and Monkey News was good this week too (I was actually weeping with laughter after Ricky barked out "Look at that slovenly ape!!")


• RIP: Vincent Schiavelli and Anne Bancroft (who died in June... I just found out about it).


• In wierd gadget news, some asshole gives his kid an empty Xbox box for Christmas and an iPod package contains nothing but meat.


• If you've made it this far, I'm impressed. Last one: a crazy man was overheard proclaiming "Liza Minnelli is incapable of love!" repeatedly on the corner of 33rd & 7th. Had I overheard this in person, I would have had to stop for a laugh. Poor crazy Liza.