Who said lame duck presidents couldn’t get anything done? And who knew Dick Cheney loved Broadway. See more from The Monkey Box at www.themonkeybox.com.

Honesty is probably overvalued; if people were honest all the time shit would hit the fan. Here’s proof from Michael Somerville.

The media/entertainment world lost two important figures in the last couple weeks with Tim Russert and George Carlin both dying unexpectedly. I’m not sure what Tim’s thoughts on death were, but it seemed like George was pretty OK with it: “Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.”

More from illdoc here.

Another subtle branding ad, another unbelievable and physically impossible stunt that’s fun to watch. Does it make you want to buy a pair of Levis? Whatevs, but props to them for situating this ruse along the lovely Los Angeles River, one of our fine city’s most bizarre and tragic and inspiring and interesting landmarks.

Now that we’re smack dab in the middle of wedding season, it’s time to start thinking about gifts. If that Henckels knife off the Macy’s registry just seems too impersonal, why not spend about 15 hours making a stop motion video about how the bride and groom met?

Enlarge your…….knowledge of the penis with this, the latest from Midwest Teen Sex Show.

It’s another installment of websites-as-people-at-a-social-gathering from Those Aren’t Muskets. Last time we checked in with this world, spirits were high (and drunk) at a raging party. This time it’s all hangovers and regrets at an intervention. Will MySpace be able to admit he has a problem?

Totally unrelated but not deserving of a separate post, we hope you like the blog redesign. We paid big bucks to a German graphic designer for the new header. He says it’s Futurism meets Minimalism meets Dadaism. We swear it doesn’t have anything to do with the recent server moves and the fact that our talented in-house designer is gone until Friday. That would be way too Post-postmodernist.

If you missed Illeana Douglas’s Illeanarama last year you can now catch it on Revver. It’s kinda like Paris Hilton’s The Simple Life but for smart people with nuanced senses of humor. See the other episodes here.

Phase III of our three-step hardware migration/upgrade is complete. Sorry for the bumps (outages, delays etc.) along the way, but it should be smooth and speedy sailing from here. Thanks for your patience everyone, and please let us know if there are any lingering issues that need to be addressed.

You may not have fourteen and a half minutes to watch a video reviewing a video game that was released in 1988, but you at least have one minute to watch from the five minute mark to the six minute mark. There’s something about someone with a British sports announcer accent saying the word “vagina” that really gets me. Other highlights include the Dan Akroyd referee reference, the Jack Black’s sister joke, the Canadian canoe law joke…fine, maybe you should just watch the whole thing.

Playitbogart’s other videos don’t disappoint either.