If I had the option to be immortalized in art forever, I’d have to decide either between being somehow inserted in Michelangelo’s mural in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel (with a peace sign and everything! Hey. I’m Asian. I have to.) OR maybe have my likeness crafted into a solid gold statue to be showcased in the British Museum.

Well, I mean I WOULD have but Kate Moss just went and stole my idea. For reals. Unbelievable. I know, right?

Artist Marc Quinn has created a sculpture of supermodel and fashion icon Kate Moss, which will be the “largest gold statue to be produced since the time of Ancient Egypt.” Take that, Ramses…or whoever was alive back then!

Why Kate Moss?

Quinn states, “I thought the next thing to do would be to make a sculpture of the person who’s the ideal beauty of the moment. But even Kate Moss doesn’t live up to the image.”

Ouch…That’s way harsh, Tai.

But that’s the irony of art, right? Or something? I hate art. Let’s never talk about art again.

I read this alarming article the other day about a new book titled “Women and Religion in the West,” written by a British sociologist named Kristin Aune.

According to Aune, the popularity of shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer have resulted in over 50,000 women a year to abandon their church due to the traditional, male-dominated values of their religion.

In turn, these women are “attracted by Wicca, popularised by the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”

Right. Let me tell you something.

Actually, two things.

One: it’s spelled “popularized.”

Two: We here at The WB would like to remind our loyal viewers that we do not encourage any sort of abandonment (unless you’re talking about Crocs. You should really abandon those ASAP.) of any sort of organized religion. You’re free to do what you want.

We do, however, encourage you to sit at your computer and watch all the full episodes that we have to offer. Sure, you may have work to do, or data entry to log, or children to supervise, or telephones to answer—but The WB believes in having a fun time while you’re at it.

So, please. Do not believe articles and books that blame our beloved shows on social change. We just want to have fun. Online.

Don’t you?

Do you have a suspicious pet? Sure, Rex looks innocent just sitting there, gnawing on a chicken wing and occasionally clearing his nethers, but what are they up to when one your back it turned? Breaking things? Stealing food? Passing along nuclear secrets to the North Koreans?

Now there’s a way to find out: The Pet’s Eye View Camera. You just put it on your pet’s collar, and it takes pictures of their adventures. You can set the camera to take photos at intervals of 1, 5, or 15 minutes. They recommend the camera for ages 8 and up, but I bet it works on younger dogs too.

As always, remember to spay or neuter your pet. Especially before you clip this thing on them and let them into their neighborhood.

Can someone out there modify this thing to be a hat? I’m curious what my unemployed roommate is up to while I’m at work and where my Doritios are going.

[Pet's Eye View Camera] via [Oh Gizmo]

I never was into the Mary-Kate and Ashley thing growing up, mostly because I was a dude. I know they are really really rich, and they made a bunch of movies and videos aimed at young girls. But nothing I know about the Olsen twins prepared me for this video.

It appears to be a much younger Ashley Olson disco dancing what looks like an Olsen twin version of the “Electric Slide.” But why? Who would want to see this? Was there a demand for tween dance videos in the late 90’s I was unaware of?

The main thing that concerns me is: why is this video so weirdly hypnotic? Is it the Super Mario 3 title-screen-inspired dance floor? Shiny purple pants that not even Prince would wear? The inexplicably high heels? The song that sounds like the kind of disco music you’d hear at the dentist office? Whatever it is, there’s no way to look away.

Oh, and why does the wall in the background have the Death Star on it?

[Ashley Olsen Disco Dance]

Surprise, surprise! Girls can play videogames, too, and the video game industry is finally paying attention to this silent but strong population.

Performance Designed Products (PDP) has announced that they will be launching girl-oriented guitar controllers designed by pop-singing-and-acting-sister-duo Aly and AJ that fans can use with their Guitar Hero and Rock Band (and Guitar Hero 2, 3 and the soon to come Guitar Hero 4 and Rock Band 2) games.

According to PDP,

The sisters, who are gamers themselves, worked with PDP to come up with several designs. PDP then tested the designs with several hundred girls between the ages of 8 and 17. The girls rated the body shape of the guitar, the graphics, color and fret inlay and headstock. The results supported PDP’s desire to launch two guitars – one aimed at tweens ages 8 to 12 and the other for teens and older.

Conclusion: I WANT ONE.

Sure, I’m a bit out of the Aly and AJ demographic but I’m young at heart. Sure, I don’t really know any of their songs or really can’t tell them apart, but I once saw one of them at the airport baggage claim. And anything that’s pink with some sort of cute heart logo is A-MAZING. I mean, amazing in the way that I will totally rock out with this controller alone in my room and will hide it discreetly (with my Hilary Duff album collection) when my friends come over.

These two controllers will be available in October and are compatible with either the Nintendo Wii and the PS2. I guess there’s no love for the XBox.

The Jonas Brothers: Tim, Nick, and Joe.  Some people call them the Jo Bros, some people call them the JB’s. I like to refer to them with an unpronounceable sound. They have a hit album, a popular cable movie, and millions of adoring fans. So of course the question on everybody’s mind is: can the Jonas Brothers do fruit-based viral internet comedy videos?

The JB Bros finally but that question to rest this week, with a video called “Scratch and Sniff Jonas.”

At first, I was put off by the title, since scratching a Jonas Brother might lead to assault charges, and sniffing one would be creepy. Luckily, the video isn’t what I feared.

The JB’s put together the video to hype the upcoming album of their friend Demi Lovato, and although I’m sure they have millions of dollars, the brothers decided to do most of the work themselves.

My take? The Jonas Brothers might know about guitars and microphones and teenage girls hearts, but their sound design and cinematography skills are still developing.  What do you guys think of the video? Jon-YES, or Jon-NO?

Muppet fans, rejoice! Jason Segel, writer/star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, also star of  sitcom How I Met Your Mother and also like the awesome boyfriend ever in Undeclared, is penning a feature script for a new Muppets movie, where our marionette cast reunites for a final variety show.

Yay for Jason Segel! Who can forget that momentous scene in his character’s puppet play where Dracula morosely sings “Die! Die! [pause] I can’t.” Hmmm…I guess you had to be there.

Yay for Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy! Seriously, if there’s one thing missing in our superficial, Twitter and iPhone-inundated world where a photograph of Miley Cyrus can cause an uproar….it’s PUPPETS.

Rumor has it that if Segel’s feature film does well, executives hope to bring the classic Muppet Show back to television screens.

My only question is…What? No love for The Muppet Babies? (I can still sing the theme song by heart. And break glass while doing so.) That cartoon molded my childhood, and to this day, I wonder what Nanny really looked like above her green striped stockings.

Usually he’d keep his engagement to her afloat, right? Not with Michael Bolton. People Magazine announced yesterday that he and Nicollette Sheridan, have broken off their marriage plans.

According to a rep for the actress, after over 2 years of being back together, “Nicollette Sheridan and Michael Bolton have amicably ended their engagement.” I guess he wasn’t looking forward to having a Desperate Housewife of his own—or perhaps being one? Michael’s last hit song was back in 1997 while Nicollette has managed to resurrect her acting career with the hit TV show on ABC.

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Are you at work now? School perhaps? Wherever you are, your boss/teacher probably looks down on you playing video games. But a new book might change all that.

The book is called “Changing the Game,” and the authors argue that gaming skills (or, as I call them, skillz) translate into business skills.

It makes sense. Gamers will spend hours doing boring tasks (we sometimes call it grinding) just because it takes place in an environment of fun competition. If people are willing to spend 6 hours pretending to be an Orc and hitting giant crabs with axe, businesses should be able to translate that dedication into something useful like working on spreadsheets or writing TPS reports.

You can read more about the book in The Economist, or you can just take my word for it, and start playing games now.

So do your company/school a favor, and start up a game of Solitaire or OC memory match.

Don’t brag to me about how well you can play Guitar Hero on expert level. For one thing, I could probably beat you (not really) and secondly, have you ever wondered the consequences of obsessively playing a single video game on the afterlife?

Don’t worry, because Digital Praise, an online company that “glorifies God through interactive media” is launching Guitar Praise, a Guitar Hero-esque video game that allows players to rock out to Christian music. And no, we’re not talking about pressing the green-blue-green-orange buttons along to church hymns. We’re talking Christian ROCK.

You can pre-order them here. Or just come over to my house to play the regular version. Only one can save you. The choice is yours.

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