Lady Gaga is a polarizing force. Both because you either love her or hate her and also because she is possibly made out of metal or some kind of magnetic space item. Due to the popularity of her tricked-out, crazy lady videos, it was inevitable that a million and one parodies would pop up on the internet. Well, pop up they have, taking every imaginable angle and ranging from extremely low-budget to whatever passes for high quality on YouTube these days. We think her videos already verge on the parodic and referential, if not on purpose then definitely in practice, but there's always one more step to take into the depths of the absurd. And remember, imitation is the highest form of flattery...

A woman walks into a restaurant. She's alone, but she requests a table for two. She sits down, pulls a giant piece of cardboard out of her oversized bag, and unrolls a three-foot cutout of a human being. It has what looks like a computer-generated cartoon man etched on one side. She places the cardboard man gently on the seat across from her, making sure his body folds neatly at the hip crease and that his legs dangle comfortably below him. Then she opens up her menu. Joel Massey happened to be her waiter that night. "She was just a real normal-looking woman in her mid-40s," he says. Everything else was normal, too — it was just a typical Tuesday night at the popular San Francisco...

Incident (Art et Technologies), Netart Online Platform (Paris), Trias Culture (Cultural Company, Dakar), doual'art (Contemporary Art Center, Douala) and MCD (Musiques & Cultures Digitales - Paris) magazine initiate together a Paper and a Web-based Publication Project called « Digitale...

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Good news for me: According to a Harvard Medical School study, "men who drank the most coffee had a 60 percent lower risk of aggressive prostate cancer than men who did not drink any coffee." Kathryn M. Wilson, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at the Channing Laboratory, says the caffeine in coffee doesn't pay a role in reducing the risk of prostate cancer. Instead, coffee's "many biologically active compounds, like antioxidants and minerals," could be responsible. Using the Health Professionals' Follow-Up Study, the researchers documented the regular and decaffeinated coffee intake of nearly 50,000 men every four years from 1986 to 2006; 4,975 of these men developed prostate cancer over that...

Rogier van Bakel reports that a Missouri farm family "was put under surveillance, then prosecuted, for selling raw milk from its own cow, Misty." From Naturalnews.com: ...the bovine mother's milk, unpasteurized, unprocessed, non-homogenized and wholly pure, natural and innocent. The stuff America was raised on. The stuff your parents fed you when you were a kid, if your family was lucky enough to have a cow. In Missouri today, selling such a natural product is now apparently a criminal act. What's next? A ban on farm-fresh eggs because the Dept. of Health doesn't control their quality? Farm family put under surveillance for selling raw milk Technorati Tags: food...

Christine C. Quinn, the New York City Council speaker, said the newly constructed Irish Arts Center will most likely reside at the institution's current location at 553 West 51st Street in Clinton.

A judge has ordered the state of Florida to hire a makeup artist to cover the tattoos of a white supremacist on trial for stabbing a teenager to death. His lawyer argued in a pretrial motion that the tattoos, which Ditullio acquired after his arrest, could prejudice a jury. The judge agreed but...

Guys! He did it! Michael Bay's new Victoria Secret commericial aired last week during the fashion show, and as the most explosive 90 seconds on television, it seems like a sure win in the director's war against all things subtle. This isn't Bay's first commercial (you can thank him for those Got Milk ads, for one), nor is it his first go around with Vicky's. It is, however, probably the most concise take on his inner thoughts we have seen yet. Related posts:

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