http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/26/69843.aspxDid you see that Hearst is looking to launch a "reader"? The biggest idea in the press release is the idea of downloading the whole newspaper. It's like a podcast, but text, so you can read it when you're not connected to the internet. Instead of "synchen-USCommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60608.1)http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/26/69843.aspx#69848Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:20:35 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:69848Eduardo Villacis, Quito, EcuadorHi Will! I love your blog. Keep it up! I read a lot of e-texts and I think there is a growing need to have devices that make it easier to read. I've being trying to get an electronic reader with the e-ink technology ever since I read about e-ink a couple of years ago. E-ink screens look almost like paper. Fortunately they are already here (Sony Reader, I-Rex Illiad, etc). I think it is going to get even more interesting when soft screens are released like the ones from Plastic Logic. http://www.plasticlogic.com/products.php (that is as close to reading a newspaper/magazine as it gets) I wonder if future laptops will have a rollable screen and the whole computer would be like a pen in your pocket. Keep the great work! Eduardohttp://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/26/69843.aspx#69876Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:23:32 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:69876Summer, Seattle, WAThat Blake Lewis guy was on the tryouts for American Idol in Seattle...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ2dZkZkKAwhttp://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/26/69843.aspx#69880Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:37:44 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:69880JE, Detroit, MichiganThose truck ornaments made to look like testicles are indeed very sexual, and since they make it look like the truck (usually the hitch on the back) has big testicles hanging from it, many pople would call them perveted. Personally, I don't like driving down the road looking at stupid testicles on the truck in front of me. However, if they weren't testicles, but little ankles with feet dangling from them, or ears, no one would be offended, I suppose. And since I'm disgusted that people (in America, at least), are ridiculously prudish and uncomfortable with the human body, I would find it hippocritical to be bothered by those ornaments. So,I'm determined to get over my discomfort. Testicles are body parts, after all, and if anyone is bothered by them, they really need to get over it. Now, as for what those ornaments say about the insecurities of the men driving the trucks, that's another subject..... http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/26/69843.aspx#69994Tue, 27 Feb 2007 04:43:54 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:69994ACC, Cd'A, Idahonot only was Blake Lewis on the tryouts, he's on the show - top 20! http://www.americanidol.com/contestants/season6/blake_lewis/http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/26/69843.aspx#70110Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:12:50 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:70110Gary, Brentwood, TNPer the Angry Kid video: I quoted Rodney Dangerfield on this one: "Now I know why tigers eat their young."http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/26/69843.aspx#70130Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:51:37 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:70130Sarah H, Kansas City, Mo.Not only was that Blake Lewis guy on the tryouts, he's in the top 24 (now 20). :-)http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/26/69843.aspx#70199Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:26:05 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:70199Sean N.Y.I am waiting for some enterprising person to hire "Angry Kid" for a series of parody videos where he goes on to make more unhinged and furious pronouncements about increasingly mundane things until he turns into a miniature Travis Bickle...http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/26/69843.aspx#70208Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:35:26 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:70208MM, Tampa, FloridaWhat? No link for the 3-D chalk drawings? How disappointing! :(http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/26/69843.aspx#70262Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:10:32 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:70262NH, California"Angry kid" was a little annoying. And why did they have to make him look like he could be on video from "the Ring"?! I think a pleasant looking and nicer child would have got the point across a lot better!http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/26/69843.aspx#70275Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:18:48 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:70275Jay, Pontiac, MIIs it just me or were one or two of those lookalikes actually photoshop jobs? (Here's a picture of Will Smith with my eyes pasted on it, don't we look similar?)http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/26/69843.aspx#70320Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:04:50 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:70320Bill, Shelby, NCHanging a giant set of testicles from the back of your truck is as offensive as wearing them around your neck. Why do trucks need testicles anyway? Are there trucks with ovaries?http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/26/69843.aspx#70324Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:08:45 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:70324Paul, Alamo, CAWill, you may be interested to know that CC Rider was originally "See See Rider Blues" by Ma Rainey. I think that was 1924 or 1925. Chuck Willis adapted it in the late 50s (and renamed it "CC rider") and it has been covered by a lot of people since, including Elvis. But, I agree Mississippi John does it really well - he never gets enough credit.http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/26/69843.aspx#70372Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:49:10 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:70372Will FemiaMM, the sidewalk drawings are from Julian Beever. http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm I had another link I'd planned to use in there with what I thought were new ones but I think they're all on this site. People send me links of his stuff so often I wish he'd make a better site and actually put some dates on there.http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/26/69843.aspx#70376Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:53:43 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:70376Will FemiaJay, it wasn't just you, I think they've taken a few of them out. Bill, how funny/outrageous would it be if women drove around with fake female animal genitalia on thier cars? Paul, I ended up doing a bunch of research on the song because I wasn't sure what to do with the headline. John Hurt uses periods between the Cs but Creative Commons doesn't. I'd seen it as See See but neither that nor CC actually means anything to me. I had half an idea that it was cc Rider, like cubic centimeters, so it would be about a metric motorcycle, but the timeline is way off on that.http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/26/69843.aspx#70378Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:54:15 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:70378Rob, Long Island, NYin re the Britney rehab remix--that is a real song by the very fierce Amy Winehouse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD5sahXoj0Uhttp://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/26/69843.aspx#70408Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:19:48 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:70408Paul LongTo Bill in Shelby, NC: Yes, all the trucks without testicles are female and therefore have ovaries. You just can't see 'em.http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/26/69843.aspx#70427Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:35:09 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:70427MM, Tampa, FloridaWill, thanks for the 3-D link. I had not seen those before. Very neat. One thing that always strikes me about the trucks is that the proportion of the testicles to the truck is so small that I wonder what these guys think they are bragging about. I think it makes the truck look emasculated and I almost feel sorry for them!http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/26/69843.aspx#70571Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:07:50 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:70571Paul, Alamo, CAThe "See See" (Willis changed to "CC", but it was published as "C.C.") was a play on words using a common slang term. Ma Rainey had a lot of sexualized lyrics that used metaphors and plays on words to avoid getting in trouble. Willis supposedly changed it to CC because CC was the name of a favored bar in Atlanta (or bordello, depending on who you believe). I happen to know all this absurd trivia because I wrote a paper on Ma Rainey when I was in College (a long time ago).http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/26/69843.aspx#70652Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:54:19 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:70652NH, CaliforniaI clicked the link to see the beat boxer and while browsing that site, I found the topless flip flops. I guess these are to avoid tan lines flip flops can leave behind. These are so weird. People come up with the weirdest stuff! http://tripcart.typepad.com/tripcart_the_blog/2006/10/say_goodbye_to_.html