Daily View, 5/10

• Black toilet paper for $15 a roll. Couldn't make this up if I tried.


• Apologies to my vegetarian reader, but I can't decide if I think these Food for Thought plates, which feature illustrations of the various ways animals are butchered for meat, are brilliant, disgusting, or brilliantly disgusting. They're interesting as info graphics and would certainly be a conversation piece... though I think I'd only use them to serve vegetarian cuisine. I dunno. Maybe I'm just warped.


• The David Blaine slideshow basically sums it all up. The idiocy, the anti-climax, the gross, etc. I love that NYU's graduation happened at Lincoln Center while Blaine was still in the bubble—someone ranted online how Blaine ruined their special day but I think it's hilarious. Suck it up, it's NYC.


• Even though my second adolescence is over and I don't really go out clubbing much anymore, I still think this local cab number club stamp is a great idea.


• Hahaha, go Vatican! A Vatican astronomer has denounced creationism. But what's a hoopy frood?


• Timbuk2 has a store... but not anywhere near me. Probably best, considering I'm addicted to their bags and would certainly overspend. Yes, yes, Timbuk2 is my new Patagonia.


• The Four Day Week is a great idea. Must attempt this. Hmm....


• And speaking of work, apparently these are all common annoying buzzwords (well, from 2002, though Signal vs. Noise featured it today). Thankfully I'm only occasionally guilty of saying COB. And they forgot "bootstrapping". Sigh. My boss throws that out all the time.


• Dig the concept of the Moriyama House, but I think I'd get pissed if I had to get up and go outside to walk to the bathroom in the wee small hours. Though hell, I used to do it at summer camp, and that involved sand dunes and biting insects, so maybe a few hurried steps down a nicely groomed Japanese garden path wouldn't be an issue.


• Come on, we all knew this would happen: Lucas to release the original Star Wars on DVD. Personally, I'm thrilled, and will totally be plunking down my duggets for these in the fall. I thought all the crap he added in was blasphemy, but I'm enough of a film geek to want to compare versions, so these are tailor-made for my nerd purposes.


• The incredibly annoying Brittany Murphy has somehow gotten her claws into Oakenfold and released Faster Kill Pussycat (note, will likely be a dead link soon, so download while you can). Murphy has been bleating about her musical talent for years, but has never stepped up and proven herself... unless you count some singing in the bathroom scene in the travesty of a film that was Little Black Book (one of the most painfully bad movies I've ever seen)... or wait, was it the less-of-a-travesty-but-only-because-Dakota-Fanning-was-acting-circles-around-Murphy Uptown Girls (I see that A Price Above Rubies was a fluke, Boaz)? Sigh. Yes, yes, we all know she really wanted to be Janis Joplin. Too bad she sucks. What is really pissing me off is that this Oakenfold single is starting to grow on me. I can only hope she decides to stop acting altogether and concentrate on her music.