via the awesome [BookOfJoe]

• The Nation just posted its new National Entertainment State documenting the 6 companies that run most of the entertainment world.
• Ricky Gervais interviews Larry David
• YouTube has a pilot by one of the writers of Scrubs about a reality show about the making of a sitcom. It’s much funnier than it sounds… The WB decided to run with “Twins” instead.
• RIP Aaron Spelling

• Check out the new FREE EP from Top-10-of-2005 entry DangerDoom at AdultSwim.com
  [link now sadly expired]
• Apple’s not the only one who makes cool computer commercials anymore, check out HP’s new Pavillion commercial featuring Shaun White (whoever he is)
• Thing I learned from Wikipedia today: The pain in extreme cases of frostbite is due to the water in your skin freezing into crystals and puncturing through cell membranes. Ouch.
• I just posted a bunch more pics to my new blog Cute Girls in Stupid Sunglasses, and with summer comin, I’d expect that to continue. If you have pics you’d like to contribute, send them to softlord at gmail and I’ll credit you.

Whist digging in the NPRchives (if you wanna use it, you gotta pay me, Hansen.), I came across this Brian Unger (ex-Daily Show with Craig Kilborn) interview with Frank Tavares, the voice of NPR underwriting each our since 1982.

Marvel as the voice that told you it was time to get a move on to get to work every morning recites passages from Mommy Dearest, and that old favorite ‘Welcome to the Jungle’.

Call ME uncultured, I DARE ya.