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Jay Pinkerton's website makes me laugh. He's got pieces on there like Why I Probably Shouldn't Do Stand-Up , where Jay quips, "Why is it that the little black box is the only thing that survives a plane crash? Here's an idea: why not use the same stuff you make the black box with, and coat the passengers with it? Also, why crash at all? It just seems silly." I've spent many hours perusing his cache of scripts, articles, plays, and comics, and it's made me wonder: who is Jay Pinkerton?

In the search for the perfect coat that will fit various sundry items (cellphone; keys; Metrocard; lip balm; camera; iPod; Thompson; Sharpie pens; ), we came across the Micro System Version Three.0 coat by Scotte Vest, which has 40 pockets to fill those needs and more. Some of its features:

Slate's Rob Walker looks at the dominance of 50 Cent's songs as cellphone ringtones. He feels that hip-hop, overall, translates better to tinny, even if polyphonic, cellphone medium. While Walker suggests that TV theme songs are so familiar that they are hard to mess up when translating to cellphone ringtone. Well, yes, that and having the specific task to be memorable on top of some sort of narrative.