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Finve links to start your day off right: Part of complete, balanced breakfast.

Last night's challenge on "Project Runway" was to create a wearable look out of newspaper.
In our opinion, that idea was sooo three years ago, but we were still pretty stocked to see the designers take a page out of our own Project Newspaper Contest. (especially with this dress)
There's still plenty of time to enter this year's contest, just go here and click on the "Project Newspaper" album.

I was perusing the Associated Press wires today for Michael Jackson art and I found this:

My first thought was that Dover-native Jeff Koons was back in the news, contributing more fanciful and interprative works of art that commented on the life and death of pop star Michael Jackson.

But lo and behold, the name in the cutline was not Jeff Koons, but artist Paul McCarthy providing his own gold-flaked take on Michael and Bubbles the chimp.

You can understand my confusion. Here is "Michael Jackson and Bubbles" by Jeff Koons:

The late Heath Ledger's music video for Modest Mouse song "King Rat" debuted on MySpace this week. (watch it here)
Visually, the video is really interesting. The design reminds me of Thom Yorke's "Eraser" album and Monty Python's "Holy Grail" animation.
Word of warning though, the images are pretty disturbing: Slovenly whales manning a fishing boat that's out to catch humans.
The pairing of scurvy knaves hooking terrified sea people and lead singer Isaac Brock's snarl makes for one creepy video. The message is effective though: I'm crossing fish off my menu plans for a while.

John Hughes, who brought us the fun-loving Ferris Bueller, the snarky crew of "The Breakfast Club" and the hopelessly unhip Griswold family, died of a heart attack at 59 on Thursday.
While I'm not an out-and-out Hughes fanatic, as a kid my family loved to watch and re-watch "American Lampoons Vacation" on a Friday night.
Read more about Hughes here

Have no fear. There is nary a smudge of guy liner or tight pant to be found on the the Avett Brothers , despite the title of their 2007 album, "Emotionalism."
After having this song stuck in my head for a week, I stopped by the North Carolina band's Web site in search of more tasty tunage.
While I didn't find "I and Love and You" anywhere (this song is on an album by the same name, scheduled to drop in August), I did find a ton of other songs that showed the band isn't just a one random lovely song wonder.

Thank goodness for XPN.

Not only do they play music that transcends the noisy din of commercial radio, but they post their playlists on the Web so you can track down the various tunes that inevitabaly get stuck in your head.

Like this one by the Avett Brothers:

So my mom sends me links throughout the day of very momlike things - inspirational quotes, tips for cleaning my stove, recipes for apple cake. These are things she used to mail to me with a stamp and all, but she's all technologically saavy now, so I get them in my inbox at work.
Today, she passed on a link to a video of a 47-year-old wannabe British singer from the show "Britain's Got Talent."
Susan Boyle walks out on stage in a cute dress and dowdy hair, confessing she's wanted to be a singer since she was a little girl, and that she's never been kissed.
Simon Cowell sits there with a smirk, ready to be disappointed.

As if we needed any more proof that reality show producers have no soul, this moved across the wire from the Associated Press:

The Fox network is making a reality show out of the troubled economy.

An upcoming series titled, "Someone's Gotta Go," lets employees of a small business decide which one of their colleagues will be laid off.

Fox says it has no air date yet for the series, which is being developed by the company behind "Big Brother" and "Deal or No Deal." Each week, a different company lays off an employee.

Fox also wouldn't reveal the show's host, which it says is a business consultant who will offer advice to participating companies.