1. He just turned sixty and is finally looking human.
2. He saved Iggy Pop’s flagging career, only to destroy him in cartoon form some thirty years later on the Venture Brothers.
3. At various times in his career, he’s claimed to be gay, bisexual, or straight, and all the while your mom would probably still […]

All times Eastern.
• 6PM, Discovery Channel - How It’s Made: Included: amphibious vehicles; putters; model ships; wax crayons.
• 6PM, History Channel - Modern Marvels: More Bond Gadgets. A look at “Bond gadgets” includes footage taken on the set of “Thunderball.”
• 6PM, National Geographic - Hunter and Hunted: Mangrove Man-Eater. Documenting Bengal-tiger attacks on people in […]

Nothing looks or feels as fresh as white cotton, but too few dare to dress head to toe in it. Why, because icons such as Mister Roarke and Boss Hogg have ruined it for the masses? Perhaps. Maybe it’s the notion that it’s impossible to keep that stuff clean and unstained in this filthy dirty […]

Clothes
• Men’s Organic Cotton Tees, $9.88 at Wal-Mart. Not the best looking tee I’ve ever seen, but not awful, either. [See Jack Shop]
• Rude Gallery Spring/Summer 07. Who said metal, skulls, and darkly serifed fonts were over. (We did, but these guys weren’t reading.) [High Snobiety]
• Digital Gravel Update. Why is today all stuff that […]

I don’t know about anyone else, though I’d suspect that many chins are now, like mine, sopping wet with drool over the Carroll Shelby’s return to the pony car in 2008. The “Super Snake,” as it’s being called, will have a limited run, only 1000 will be built, which means that it’s time to […]

Jet Airways has decked out its Boeing 777-300ERs with eight luxury suites in what it’s dubbed the “Orient Express of the Skies.” Surprisingly, they’re claiming that a ticket in the suite is cheaper than a first-class seat on British Airways—just £4,421, or almost $9k US.
The exclusive mini-suites boast a wall-mounted 23 inch flat TV screen […]

I could have sworn we’d linked “Tumbleweed Tiny Houses” before—I’ve certainly spent plenty of time on their site—but I can’t find a link. SFGate.com has profiled the company, which specializes in building homes with floor plans less than 500 square feet. Its founder, Jay Shafer, lives in one of his own tiny houses.
He bought an […]

Have you ever wondered if you’d happier doing a different job? “Vocation Vacations,” offers one- to three-day “immersion experiences” with a person in your prospective career of choice, the better to let you have some hands-on time with an expert before you decide to trade in your lucrative programming gig for a career as a […]

“Thrust vectoring,” the ability to duct thrust from the rear engines out of other ports on an aircraft, allows this Russian-built SU-30 fighter jet to perform all sorts of crazy, if somewhat useless-in-avoiding-missiles maneuvers.
[via Warren Ellis]