Saturday, April 16, 2011

Best Week Ever

Best Week Ever

Judge Rules In Favor Of “I Heart Boobies” Bracelet

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 02:37 PM PDT

A Federal judge in Philadelphia has ruled in favor of a group of middle school kids who criticized their school for banning Breast Cancer Awareness bracelets featuring the slogan “I (Heart) Boobies!”:

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Mary McLaughlin was a victory for Easton Area Middle School students Brianna Hawk, 13, and Kayla Martinez, 12, who were suspended for flouting the school’s ban on the bracelets — reading “I (heart) Boobies! (Keep A Breast)” — Oct. 28, which was Breast Cancer Awareness Day, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Wednesday.

“The bracelets are intended to be and they can reasonably be viewed as speech designed to raise awareness of breast cancer and to reduce the stigma associated with openly discussing breast health,” McLaughlin wrote in her ruling.

Awesome! That’s an extra-huge victory, considering that schools ban everything ever. My Middle School instantly banned anything that became the slightest bit popular, no matter how inoffensive or non-dangerous it was; they literally banned YO-YOs when too many kids brought them to school one day, in addition to Magic Cards, Paper Footballs, Absolut Vodka ads, and yes, Tamagotchis.

This isn’t just a victory for Breast Cancer Awareness, it’s a victory for snickering kids with a CAUSE everywhere. I want an “I Heart ‘I Heart Boobs Bracelets’” Bracelet.

(UPI, via BuzzFeed)

Jesus Will Return On May 21st, Says Weirdly Casual Billboard

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 02:57 PM PDT

I can’t tell which part of this billboard in downtown L.A. is more disturbing: The blatant, cliched attention-grabbing “Return Of Christ” on a specific really-soon date, or the super-casual “Save The Date!” slogan:

The Son of Man will walk the Earth and usher in the Day of Reckoning next month, so don’t forget to jot that down in your planner! Awww shootberries, I have a mani-pedi at the Korean place at 3 that afternoon. I can try to make both but it’s gonna be tight…does Sunday work for anyone? Cause I’m pretty free that day ’til like 8ish.

I’m not gonna get baited into clicking on that website, though, so I’ll just assume this billboard is actually viral marketing for the next Zune. Nice try, Zune! I’m not saving the date for sh*t.

(Image via Splash)

Parody Comes True: Akira Remake Casting All-White Actors

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 03:03 PM PDT

The long-rumored live-action Hollywood remake of the 1988 Japanese Anime film Akira is beginning to take shape, and the actors on the short list for the two lead roles — Robert Pattinson, Andrew Garfield, James McAvoy, Garrett Hedlund, Michael Fassbender, Chris Pine, Justin Timberlake, and Joaquin Phoenix — all have onnnne tiny thing in common: They’re all somewhat not Japanese:

The film would take place in “Neo-New York” instead of Neo Tokyo, but the main characters would retain their original names, Shotaro Kaneda and Tetsuo Shima. This wouldn’t be the first time Hollywood has de-Asianized a project, and frankly, it was kind of predictable.

How predictable? Three years ago, a 90-second animated parody called The American Akira hit the ‘netwebz and got over 1 million views, and it turns out, this parody pretty much exactly predicted the direction this film was headed (video after the jump):

One one hand, Hollywood probably is correct that grabbing one of those big names over a lesser-known actor of Japanese descent will greatly help Akira at the box office, but on the other hand, is the long-overdue casting an Asian actor in a blockbuster (Japanese) movie really a bigger roll of the dice than relying on Joaquin Phoenix?? They just better not mess up the big prom scene from the video.

World’s Biggest Pac-Man Board Is World’s Biggest Waste Of Time

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 11:24 AM PDT

Remember that one day when Google’s logo was a playable Pac-Man board and U.S. work productivity for that day instantly dropped 8 billion percent, prolonging the current recession by an additional 15 years (statistical fact)? That was fun!

Now we can prolong that financial devastation with The World’s Biggest Pac-Man Board, a massive playable conglomeration of hundreds of unique, user-generated Pac-Man boards all connected to form one giant neverending level. If you’re looking to start your weekend early, or to enter a yellow and blue trance world for an indefinite amount of time, click the pic below to play:

You can select “Play For Fun” to play without signing in, or sign in with your Facebook account to play for, I don’t know, the pros? Either way, Pac-Man forever and whatnot.

Byeeee, people who clicked on that! Next time we see you, you’ll have a long white beard and be confused by society’s flying holo-cars.

(via Gorillamask)

Yup, It’s The Official Royal Wedding Pizza

Posted: 15 Apr 2011 09:56 AM PDT

Papa John’s UK is hopping on the “Turn Every Object Into Royal Wedding Object” bandwagonne (British spelling for that), by releasing the official Prince William and Kate Middleton Royal Wedding Pizza:

I would make fun of how ridiculous these are getting, but there’s already a frickin’ Royal Wedding toilet seat, so that shark has long been jumped. Plus the pizza actually looks really impressive, so I will “Tip my derby to those clever roustabouts,” as everyone in England constantly says at all times.

The pizza sells for £500, so it’s basically not a real menu item, just an excuse to have blogs link to photos of it for free publicity. MAN are blogs stupid like that.

Also, just a thought: Is the Royal Wedding actually happening? Or is it some thing that just gets widely promoted for a year then everyone kind of forgets about it and isn’t sure it was an actual event, like the movie Gulliver’s Travels?

(pic via Splash News)
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