The Dieline examines 50 such bottles that would get my business whether or not the product is any good.  Despite the overabundance of Absolut Vodka bottles, it’s nice to see three Portland spirits make the list. 

That both 12 Bridges Gin and Lovejoy Vodka (both are crafted by Integrity Spirits, whose Trillium Absinthe also made the list but I haven’t partaken yet) are excellent tasting spirits in their own right is an added bonus.

If you’re wondering that’s the Hawthorne Bridge on the bottle.

When The New York Times showed Elmhurst spokesman Dario Centorcelli a photo of what two missing letters added up to, he seemed perplexed. “Oh, God, are we going to get this fixed?” he wondered.

Turns out this wasn’t a prank on the Queens, N.Y. hospital but just a rather curious coincidence.  Just as bad for the hospital would have been if the bulbs burned out to spell “Elm St.” No one wants to get fixed up by Freddy Kreuger. [via]

Why?  I don’t know why the Heroes actress would do such a thing but this is a good way to get the blood pumping early this morning.  She goes from wet to dry in this reverse video portrait of her taken by photographer Tyler Shields. [via]

You can download the free virtual appliance of Chrome OS here. The tarball is containing vmdk and vmx files, so you’ll need a free VMware Player or VirtualBox in order to run this appliance. 

Not sure if this is on the up and up but Google did hold a press conference today with details of their much bally-whooed OS and it sounds impressive. 

It won’t be officially launched until first or second quarter 2010 and it really will be a browser-based interface.

Whilst on vacation I saw a commercial for a new Super Mario Bros. game for the Wii and it featured four players playing simultaneously.  Holy moly, I almost ran out and bought the game and a Wii on the spot.  The game is only $47 on Amazon.com.

Paul Nicklen, a contributing photographer for National Geographic, talks about his wild sea adventure with a giant leopard seal. His photographs tell a frightening story, but his memory of the events is quite different. Leopard Seals are amongst the animal kingdom’s most vicious predators. [via here/here]

Travis Pitts‘ incredibly awesome picture of a post-zombie-apocalypse Scooby Gang, well an incredibly hot Velma getting her Buffy on and ready-to-kick-ass Scooby as the only survivors of the zombie attack, is now a t-shirt from Threadless for $18.  Geeks and horny stoners rejoice!

I can promise you this one thing: during my trip to Maui this never happened.  But holy shit would I have loved to have seen a military plane crash into the ocean.  [via]

Listen up, this is real talent here.  Real, real talent.  He even nails the solo.  By the way, we’ll be back into the full swing of things on Wednesday. Honestly, Maui is too amazing to even think about getting on the internet, but the vacation is winding down so I figured I’d share this little treat with you. So, everyone else on this planet but Gerry Phillips just won the life contest. [via]

Pac-Man recreated in real life using hacked Roombas linked wirelessly to homebrewed guidance software. And the story makes it seem waaay more complicated than that. [via]

Water droplets interacting with water at 2,000 frames per second.  They can bounce!  Incredible. [via]

Ricardo Autobahn has constructed a coherent mix-video song from all sorts of movie and TV clips. It’s just flat-out awesome. It’s like Girl Talk but for the movies. [via]

This has been making the rounds, but I first saw it over at Topless Robot.  A Russian actor’s group called “Big Difference” (Bolshaya Raznitsa / Большая Разница) remade The Matrix as a Charlie Chaplin silent film.

Whew, that was close. Unless you were rooting for the Lions, in which case the results were not too dissimiliar from the Detroit football team.

The Big Picture is featuring beautiful photos of Martian Landscapes shot from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

The most recent SNL Digital Short was an excellent Twilight parody.  Along with their FOX News skit, Penelope returned! and Taylor Swift’s security-aided (to keep Kanye out) musical (lalala) monologue, it was actually a decent SNL last night.

Recent photographs taken at an event in Las Vegas reveal a surprisingly light pigmentation on the former Chicago Cubs slugger.  Jesus, tell that dude to get on the roids again or something.

The Chicago Tribune spoke with Rebecca Polihronis, an acquaintance of Sosa, who claims that that “he is going through a rejuvenation process for his skin.”

Riiiiight.  Whatever’s going on, it’s clear he’s got the same disease as Michael Jackson.  And I don’t mean the touching little children one.

There’s nothing I don’t love about this PSA for getting more sleep.  [via]

UNM junior defender Elizabeth Lambert was suspended indefinitely from soccer following the most some mean gamesladyship.  Anyway, safe to say that if I were to meet her in an ally I would run like hell in the other direction. [via]

If we’re being honest, the only thing Internet Explorer is good for is downloading another browser.

Jesus, I can’t believe I’ve never thought of this.  [via]

I find Jon Stewart’s impression of Glen Beck pretty great, unnerving for sure, but still great. Gotta love those inane FOX news chalkboard moments.

She goes on to say on a scale of 1 to 10, the pain is about an eight or nine for a full 24-hours after intercourse.  I don’t know if she’s using my pain scale (10 being decapitation, one being napping in a field of daisies), but this allergy sounds pretty awful to have.

I’m sure there’s a Christian Bale joke here somewhere, but honestly the premise here is so simple: a man dresses like a bat and then scares the beejesus out of people.  Sometimes it’s the bizarre-o little things in life.  [via]

What’s better than one Slave Leia?  How about two catching some rays.  Kottke came across this photo of Carrie Fisher and her stunt double napping during the Tatooine shoot in Return of the Jedi. Enjoy!  But just know that I’m going to need a moment or two to catch my breath.  [via]

David D’Angelo flies from Denver to Singapore and back with stopovers in Chicago, Los Angeles and Tokyo. I could watch these types of moving photographic summaries all day. [via]

Above is our Sun, “photographed using a special filter which matches the specific shade of red light emitted by hydrogen gas. The image was then inverted to enhance the visibility of the Sun’s chromosphere, giving it the ominus blue glow seen above.”

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Google celebrates the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street and the 20th anniversary of Wallace and Gromit on both their American and British sites.  I much prefer the Wallace and Gromit omage.  But then again, I just love claymation and stinky cheese. 

Thanks internets! From last week’s “Top Chef” where Padma Lakshmi and guest judge Natalie Portman drop their fair share of fellatio double entendres in 40-seconds. [via]

Excess and Lamborghini go hand and hand.  Though I still prefer the classic and sophisticated lines of the Ferrari, the other Italian automaker still creates an intimidating beast of a car.  There is something primal about a Lamborghini — it is a swirling mess of super-ego and id raging on two axels. 

The V-12 supercar looks like an attack vehicle from the future. ”The 6.5 liter, 12-cylinder mill puts out 662 horsepower. The car does 0 to 62 mph in 3.4 seconds. It tops out at 205 mph,” according to Wired Magazine.  “But the most important number is 20. As in that’s precisely how many Lamborghini will build.”   

Which means you probably have to know a few people and have $1.6 million dollars to shell out for it.

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When was the last time you saw a monkey riding a goat as the goat walks along a tightrope?

Which is to say, the dude is broke.

“In a lawsuit filed Oct. 16 in Los Angeles, the National Treasure star, 45, claims that his longtime business manager, Samuel J. Levin, ‘lined his [own] pockets with several million dollars in business management fees while sending Cage down a path toward financial ruin.’”

Hold onto your seats because I have a feeling we’re going to experience a Nic Cage shit show the likes the world has never seen before.

Jesse Thorn of Put This On, a sophisticated online style guide, posted a video (hopefully one of many more) showcasing fine clothing designers and tips on how to dress well. The above episode see him visiting California’s Rising Sun & Co to talk about jeans and the unique character they develop as you wear them more and more.

He also has an excellent follow-up article regarding denim.

About 70% of tickets have been sold (preview night is already sold out) and at this rate, the event will sell out six-months ahead of time. 

That’s insane.

Some enterprising It’s Always Sunny fan took every Charlie Kelly dance sequence from Seasons 1-5 and made this highly enjoyable supercut.