Web Designer Wall One of the best-looking websites I’ve seen in a while. It’s truly a work of art. I love the illustration work — reminds me of the album cover for Mika’s Life in Cartoon Motion, which I also admire greatly.

Mandy Moore covers Rihanna’s “Umbrella” The slower tempo and the sincerity of Mandy’s performance really brings the lyrics to the forefront, reminding me how arbitrary the music video is in relation to the song’s message.

Miss Teen South Carolina chokes At the Miss Teen USA pageant that took place a couple days ago, Miss Teen South Carolina made a disaster of the question/answer portion. My favorite line: “I believe that our education like such as South Africa and, uh, the Iraq everywhere like, such as.”

Apple is headed to outer space Great post by Phill Ryu regarding where Apple is headed with their OS interface. The answer? Outer space. The proof? The new menubar and dock in Leopard, Time Machine, the new default wallpaper in Leopard, and the new welcome video for Leopard.

YouTube has finally added comment ratings Thumbs up for a good comment, thumbs down for a bad one. Anyone that browses YouTube once in a while knows just how many asinine comments clutter its video pages. Hopefully the new system helps.

Ang Lee gets NC-17 rating Ang Lee’s latest film, Lust, Caution, which is scheduled to premiere in September at the Toronto International Film Festival, has received the feared NC-17 rating from the MPAA. Focus Features is not going to re-cut the film — something that many studios do in order to get the less severe R rating — and has instead decided to accept the rating. I say good for them. The vision of a director like Ang Lee should never be censored.

New iMovie icon is fugly Just installed iLife ‘08 and, damn, the new iMovie icon is a big downgrade from the previous version. I understand that the app is completely rebuilt, but couldn’t they have kept the icon rather than moving to a fugly rendition of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?

“Salad” Awesome 3D rendering of the horrifying monster that gave the 1979 film Alien its name. Created in 3D Studio Max and formed entirely of vegetables, it is unmistakably based on the work of the 16th century Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, whose portraits were far ahead of their time in form and style. I want this to hang in my apartment.