Every once in awhile I like to provide a little summary of the brilliant, terrifying, hysterical and/or fascinating things I’ve recently found across the world wide web. In editorial speak this is what’s called a “listicle” – as in an article in the format of a list. Yes, I agree that the combination of those two words is ridiculous. Unfortunately, that doesn’t stop me from loving it.

The picture is for you, Mike.

Brilliant/Necessary/Not going to happenJimmy Kimmel declared this past Wednesday (11/17) National Un-friend Day saying, “friendship is a sacred thing, and Facebook is cheapening it.” As such he solicited the help of people like Danny McBride and Dr. Oz (which sounds like the start of a joke) to urge all Facebook users (so, all humans) to take a nice, long look at their “friends” and de-friend those who don’t belong. In theory, this is an amazing and necessary idea for so very many reasons (who will go un-named). In reality it’s never going to happen because of the gripping fear we experience at the thought of people we haven’t seen in 5+ years finding out we’ve de-friended them and being pissed.

Fun/Funny/I’m probably going to buy someBe-speckled, 90’s songstress Lisa Loeb just launched her own eye wear line – 10+ years too late.

I can’t decide if she just realized the only way people know who she is is by her glasses , just realized that celebrities launch things like eye wear/perfume/clothing lines three times a day or just got a new agent. Regardless of which, I’ll be ordering this pair tomorrow.

Sad/Illogical
Willow Palin (whose number in Palin offspring order escapes me, on purpose) made homophobic comments on the Facebook, specifically ones that involved her using the F word (rhymes with maggot). Bristol Palin (who is the one who just won Dancing with the Stars, also on purpose) apologized for her sister’s words. Then GOProud, a group that, “represents gay conservatives and their allies” released a statement saying calm down, you hear that word on the streets of Chelsea and West Hollywood every day. To which I went, yes, true, but remember how in grammar school two wrongs didn’t make a right? They still don’t. Actually, more so now because we’re adults.

Really, really excitingEar cuffs are coming back! Christmas gifts: check.

Sheer geniusJane Pratt – the pioneer behind devastatingly defunct SASSY and JANE magazines is teaming up with 13-year-old fashion-blogging sensation Tavi Gevinson to launch a new version of the beloved glossy for today’s teens. This. Is. Huge.

Gross/Funny/Swing and a missThere is now a dating site called CanDoBetter.com in which you post a picture of yourself and the person you’re dating and ask the audience to determine whether or not you can do better. It’s like “Hot or Not” except weirder and meaner. The way it should really work is that it secretly sends the link of you participating in this website directly to the person you’re evaluating.

Subject line: You can do better.
Body of text: Than a person who would use this website, even for fun.

Can someone over there get on that tweak?

A preview of what we’ll be hearing about for the next 12 months
Prince William and Kate Middleton get engaged, world stops for 24 hours to judge every element of it. In the spirit of if-you-can’t-beat-’em, join-’em – here’s my take:

• It’s fine that he wanted to give her Di’s ring, but he should have re-set it to make it special for them and less reminiscent of his parent’s disastrous marriage.
• I want to find it creepy and antiquated that the Brits go mad for things like commemorative plates announcing the engagement and porcelain thimbles with Kate’s face on them, but I have a Barak and Michelle bobble head set in my bedroom, so I can’t judge
• Everyone has got to stop talking about whether or not “Waity Katie” as the U.K. tabloid viciously nick-named her, should have held out so long for Willy Nilly (I came up with that one myself!) to lock it down. If your indecisive and generally lame American boyfriend can’t make up his mind after 8 years (or way less), you walk. If you’re dating the crowned Prince of England (who seems like a total sweetheart), you wait. There’s no debate here. The guy is going to be the king of England. Want to know what his response to “shit or get off the pot” is going to be? “Sorry sweetums, I own the bloody pot.”

Happy Weekend everyone!