Beloved Saint Attacked! Michelangelo drew scary monsters, who knew? (via Metafilter)

Lovely Ruins: Abandoned Britain! is a website housing some cool (creepy and oddly majestic) photos of what man creates then leaves behind. I love this stuff.  “Britain is a country dotted with the decaying ruins from its past. The face of the country has seen great changes moving away form its industrial past, towards a new and less certain future. The buildings and institutions that belong to another era have been left to rot, alone and forgotten.” Also check out the Maunsell Sea Forts.

Jules Stills Needs a Hug: Juliana Hatfield  has the voice of an angel, a beautiful tormented angel. Listen to her new Daytrotter Session.

Save Paste! Russ and Todd like Paste Magazine, if you do too, you might be interested in saving it. (I’m still smarting from the demise of Punk Planet.)

Good Design: I love me the Nettuts+! Simply put, it’s “a site aimed at web developers and designers offering tutorials and articles on technologies, skills and techniques to improve how you design and build websites. We cover HTML, CSS, Javascript, CMS’s, PHP and Ruby on Rails.” I now have 63 tutorials I plan on doing once I finish this update, promise.

Enjoy: Iron and Wine posted a full album stream of their new b-sides collection Around the Well.  Quite lovely!

World’s Tallest Man Update: Zhao Liang needs two beds to rest his 8ft, 1inch frame. FYI Ladies, he’s single.

Like an iPod, but Ugly: Hey retro nerds, the Sony Walkman is back! This is totally gonna kick some Zune ass.

“My Fridge is so Cool!” “Well, It should be.” “No, no, I mean cool cool!” “Oh…” Photoshop and Illustrator Magnets

All About The Washingtons: More fun design stuff from Toxel.com:  One Dollar Bill Art by Atypyk

UsedWigs Live! On the evening of Friday, June 12th, UsedWigs Radio will be recording it’s first LIVE show at MilkBoy Mainstage in Ardmore, PA. The stage show will combine elements of our audio show with a fun late night talk show vibe. Please come out, lots and lots of free stuff for you and only you! Save the Date, more details to come.

Kult Kurt Classics: Geekadelphia deservedly gives props to:  Big Trouble in Little China Extended! Comes to Blu-Ray. It’s a blast. Need more Kurt Russell goodness? 1980′s  “Used Cars” is another winner. I remember watching this movie with my Dad on HBO back in the day and both of us laughing up a storm.  My Pop bought his share of previously-owned vehicles. I think that’s where I got the “I could give a crap about cars” mentality I still proudly possess.

“Whatever Works” Doesn’t Work: When I check out Apple Trailers and see a film description that starts with “An eccentric New Yorker,” I usually stop right there, gag a bit and then move on to the next film. Unfortunately, I watched the trailer for “Whatever Works” – which stars Larry David playing the “Woody Allen” character almost as badly as Ed Norton did a few years back — and it was a bit worse than I expected. It’s basically David’s “Curb Your Enthusiam” character with and a lot more forced energy and heaps of cringey “How did I get in this mess!” gesticulation.  Don’t worry pervs fans, Woody has kepthis requisite inappropriately young love interest for the whiny old man.  Sexy!

I know the “Airbrushers of America” Union have been complaining about being overworked since they all put in serious OT trying to make Sarah Jessica Parker look presentable the past few weeks. Listen guys, it was just as hard on us having to look at her overly blurred and brushed Photoshopped mug everywhere we went. Grueling!

But, wow! The AOA sure did have some energy left over to do a real number on Dana Carvey. She, I’m sorry, He has absolutely no facial features left. Click the above photo to enlarge, if you dare, to suck in his sweet, baby-bottom-smooth face and soccer mom on the go hair do. Garth, you’re downright sexy! Here’s a pretty good representation of what the 53-year-old Actor really looks like:

Who is HBO trying to fool? Did their focus group reports center on:

“I love Dana, but if he has the wrinkles and lines an average middle-aged man and DARES to go onstage with them, well, there is NO WAY I am sitting through that horror show. Yuck! I demand Miley Cyrus looking entertainers 24/7! Got it!”

This is some major digital nonsense. I think this one promo photo of poor Dana has officially moved this out-of-control artless activity from the “Did she have some work done?” category into the “Holy Christ, that is hysterical!” realm.

Here’s a good New Yorker piece on one of the jokers who makes his living making celebs look like featureless aliens.

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Photo by: Doug Seymour

Guests: Langhorne Slim and a Man Who Admits to Going on a John Mayer Cruise. Topics: Great Websites for Wasting Time (see list below), Competitive Eating, Golf is Not a Sport, Willard Scott Rules, Stupid Hipster Parents, LARPing. Playlist: Canadians, Tapes ‘n Tapes (Daytrotter Session), The Annuals, Langhorne Slim, The Quarter After.

Preview: Langhorne Slim to Todd: “You’re complimenting me, yet, I’m offended.”

Play Now: http://www.usedwigs.com/pod/podcast47.mp3

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Related Links:

• Langhorne Slim
• VideoGum.com
• Talk Soup
• Daytrotter
• The Consumerist
• The Superest
• we make money not art
• You Suck at Photoshop
• Monster Camp
• LifeHacker
• John Mayer Cruise
• REM’s “Accelerate”
• Peel Software
• Neatorama
• Boing Boing
• Philly Girl About Town
• EpochShot Concert Photography
• Russell Gellman (with MATTOWAX)

Green Before Green was Hot: Those thrifty and stylish recyclists and reusers at ReadyMade are now offering a digital edition of an entire printed issue. Make sure you take a look-see at the cool, recycled sheds near the back. It would make for a nice weekend project, if a weekend consisted of 250 days. While the digi-edition is a cute idea, I still prefer the good old paper version (I like to read on the toilet in bed). In keeping with their green ethos, when I’m through with an issue I eat the entire thing.

Re: Party Photos: “Thanks for all those high-resolution, non-Zipped photos you sent me from the party. Waiting for the 3GB email to download was not a problem at all. I enjoy reaching my email quota for the year in one day. I guess you could have went through and took out a couple bad ones or maybe 30 of the blurry ones, or just for kicks, maybe got rid of some of the 80-odd pairs of red eye? But again, no problem. Keep ‘em coming, Stieglitz.”

Tired of sending that email? Adobe now offers Photoshop Express: a free, dumbed-down version of their software which will allow peeps to edit, polish and store their mess of digital photos. PSX (as I like to call it because I’m an ass) also offers slideshow capability so your clueless friends can relax with sending the giant email attachments.

FYI, for managing and posting photos to view, I am a big fan of Kodak Gallery.

Make Room in Your Wallet: Here’s an ingenious way to remember that delicious bottle of wine you just polished off.

Rage Against The Clerk: hipster bashing = always funny.

Open a Beer Bottle with a Dollar Bill! And learn a few other nifty bar tricks you can amaze your friends with, or most likely, just annoy them as usual.

Imploding America: Not happy with what those plastic-haired dolts on the network news are spoon feeding you? Either is Humphrey Hall. Check out his site if you want the latest in conspiracy theories and less-than-savory government activity.