Daily View, 7/11

• Heyyy, it's restaurant week again. Good motivation to leave the house!


• I dig eggs and birds, but I just can't find a good reason to buy what would total up to over 100 magnets.


• Chimp plays Ms. Pac-Man


• Hey, free Skype calls to the UK, Mexico and Japan during designated July weekends.


• Yeah, you know, I never understood the cult of Princess Leia's metal bikini. Guess I'll never truly be a member of the Star Wars nerd club (just a fringe lurker, and not ashamed to admit it).


• Nice. Witch pardoned 300 years too late.


• Got 15 minutes to get creeped out by this old movie about bicycle safety featuring children in ape masks? Oh come on, you know you do.


• I agree with Charlie. Blockbuster sanitizes videos as well and it's nothing but annoying. It's worse, actually, because it's Blockbuster, not some overtly conservative outfit, and they don't tell you when things have been edited. Bastards.


• Haha, I was given one of these cell phone phones (in black, though, not emergency red) and it's true... only really funny the first time.


• In twenty years, this sort of cracked out illustrative stuff will be retro and old hat. Threadless will get some credit, and grumpy aging hipsters everywhere will feel usurped as the teens of tomorrow borrow heavily from the trends of their lost youth (which, of course, are borrowed heavily from all the cracked out illustrative crap from the 70s). Sigh. I'm tired of this shit. Bring on something new already, eh?


• Lantern water bottles rock my world.


• I defend the Midwest, Josh Spear tells me to "chill". What an ass.


• Gothamist was hawking Metafilter yesterday, and this was the post they linked to (probably somebody's friend). Honestly, this scares me.


• Poor Hugh Jackman. I know, I know, I'm the only one who truly believes he is heterosexual but I just wished we lived in a world where a real old-school style star isn't mocked for doing something that breaks the mold of his initial Hollwyood breakthrough. Sigh. Points for using the King Arthur soundtrack, though: Last Standing Ovation