The return of links bitches, links - Trishelle on eBay, Vibe channels Source, The Sports Guy

- It ain't whoring if you do it on eBay
Thanks again to Glasper on this find.

- The Vibe Awards tries to become more like The Source Awards
Horrors! Stabbing at a hip hop awards show? What is this world coming to?

- The Sports Guy: Questioning The NBA
I always enjoy Bill Simmons' writing, but he does his best stuff on the NBA. I would post an excerpt but I can't pick just one. Read it, you'll enjoy it.

- Virtual Bartender (via Adrants)
I don't think I'm allowed to look at this at work, but I understand it's a mammal version of Burger King's Subservient Chicken.

- Kids taking bedroom cues from adults, pop culture (NY Times)
Kids these days, they grow up so fast.

- Finally, the Village Voice pays its last respects to Ol'Dirty Bastard
By most accounts, the ODB who made it out of prison was a sober one. Predictable became the last unpredictable thing he could become.

Most people wouldn't have it, though, and he sadly remained an object of public spectacle. His continued existence as a shambolic cipher, it seemed, was a comfort to others who'd prefer to keep the dark side at a comfortable distance, for whom danger is a concept best kept abstract. And so Rusty, as his mother called him, has said good night to these foul-weather friends: You won't have Ol' Dirty Bastard to kick around anymore.