Four for Friday, October 19

  • Mythology busters: 101 shirtless men at Abercrombie & Fitch
    It’s no secret that Abercrombie & Fitch sells clothes by plastering their stores, website and catalog with male models who are conspicuously missing their clothes. Improv Everywhere decided to see what would happen if they had 111 men take off their shirts in the chain’s flagship 5th Avenue store. The results are revealing–in more than one way.
  • Calories on fast food menu boards
    Though boosters of legislation who want calorie counts posted on fast food menu boards have recently been dealt a few setbacks, the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s mockups of what these menus might look like are still interesting.
  • The Daily Show: Huge video archive
    It isn’t entirely comprehensive (just yet), but The Daily Show has blown the doors off its archives and has video clips from all the way back to 1999. Let’s hope that they eventually add Jon’s interview with Kermit the Frog.
  • Sex and money
    Variety reinforces that old dead horse: sex sells, and that’s one of the many reasons why the new Fox Business Network seems to be doing so well.