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As expected, Carl Icahn presented an alternate slate of directors for the upcoming Yahoo shareholder meeting. The letter to Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock says it all:

Read on via Techcrunch

As JRO sums up the entire soap opera with quick, witty phrases:

MS: Hey Yahoo, how about you guys join forces with us?
Yahoo: Never!

Google: Hey Yahoo, what if we greased your wheels a little? Just enough to get those pesky shareholders off your back?
Yahoo: Great idea!

MS: Ok, we’ll kick in a little more. How about now?
Yahoo: No way!
MS: Ok, thanks for nothing.

Yahoo: OK Google, about that ad deal…..
Google: Ummm, yeahh, we’ll get back to you on that.

Icahn: Hey Yahoo, big shareholder here and I AM PISSED. We need to fix this deal with MS, and fast. And I’m not ASKING. As Jack said in A Few Good Men, “You f****d with the wrong marine!”

Now that’s a perfect sum up.

If you’re well connected, you would’ve received an invite to RSVP for a private preview on Friday for Dalek’s only exhibit this year, Overweight, at Washington D.C.’s Irvine Contemporary. It’s gotta be one of the biggest tickets in town. The solo show sees the pop artist presenting new paintings that are as meticulous and psychedelic as ever. By occasion, Irvine Contemporary’s releasing a signed print produced in small quantity. The exhibit officially opens on Saturday, May 17, with a party open to everyone, but be nice when swarming your idol there.

Francis Bacon’s 1976 triptych became the most expensive work of contemporary art ever sold at auction for $86.3 million. Experts feared that the art market would falter seriously this season because of broad economic anxieties. But the success went well beyond even the auction house’s expectations, bringing in $362 million, above the sale’s high $356 million estimate. The evening’s golden moment was when Francis Bacon’s triptych a vast (each of the three panels measures about 6 ½ feet by 5 feet) and densely painted allegorical painting came up for sale.

Only 10 of the 83 works failed to sell, and 18 artist records were set for names ranging from Yves Klein and Piero Manzoni to Tom Wesselmann and Takashi Murakami.

Take the DJ in the pool with this all new waterproof Radioraft that pumps your tunes a full 360 degrees with its five speakers and also docks your ipod. The completely submersible radioraft features 400 watts of power, with 8 continuous hours of play time, 6 stainless steel cupholders, watertight glove box for your iPod with controls on the top. You can even opt for subwoofer, sirius satellite radio and rugged roll bar for even more fun in the pool.

Pablo - this one is for you.

“Assume Vivid Astro Focus” was the latest exhibition to attract attention from the mass’s at the Deitch studios in Long Island City by the East River. The creativity of the installations, the exhibition and the performances look out of this world with the entire gallery transformed into a disco. The events which took place were caped off with the perfomance of Desi Santiago. The exhibition runs thru August 16, 2008 so make an effort to check it out the massive space full off epic artwork and to boast an impressive view of Manhattan.

There’s certainly no shortage of waterproof gadgets out there for you to take along on your next swimming or diving adventure, but if you still haven’t found an MP3 player that meets your needs, you may want to consider Ubanana’s new uCan device, which is at least a tad better looking than some of the other wearable options currently available. You’ll have to make do with a mere 1GB of memory, however, but you will get a decent 15 hours of battery life, and you can rest assured that it’ll float to the surface for easy retrieval if it slips off while you’re plundering the ocean’s depths (up to ten feet deep, at least).

GAP announces their recent collaboration with thirteen artist made famous for their work in the contemporary art genre. Hailed as the most influential contemporary artist in recent times and with iconic names like Chuck Close, Jeff Koons, Marilyn Minter, Kiki Smith, and Cai Guo-Qiang ; the thirteen distinguished collaborators were given full creative license to create Tees that probably belong to the preserve of museum masterpieces but will for a time grace thee shelf of a local clothing retailer. The news comes in conjunction with GAP’s recent work with Whitney Museum of American Art and Art Production Fund to promote and sustain the arts. The limited edition Tees will be available at Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and at Colette. In addition to selected U.S, Canada, and UK GAP stores as well as on line at gap.com.

Two marker s from Krink have made their way to availablility with the first being the K-63 markers a dye based Krink. These inks are translucent and work well on most surfaces and are available in a handful of colors green, blue, red, and purple. The second it the K-66 markers use opaque, pigmented, permanent Krink a durable steel ball point tip. Ideal for making your own mark known Krink markers are very much a saught after commodity with the highest quality product, get them now online at Krink’s website.

Check out this cool hand-made racing simulator, individually-configured, and probably mindblowingly-expensive Motion Pro II by CXC Simulations , with three 46-inch 1080p LCD displays, 505-watt 5.1 surround sound system—1,010 watts peak power—synchronized with four vibration transducers, and full motion simulation using electro-mechanical actuators to move your seat. And the tech-porn spec list doesn’t stop there.

The combination of the actuators and the sound system vibration transducers are supposed to get you really close to actual racing simulation—minus the G-forces and the spinal cord injuries—but you can add even more details as an option, like a six-speed gated shifter and progressive clutch upgrade—just like the real thing, or a sequential shifter, handbrake, a full carbon fiber external, with high-gloss finish custom paint. The thing even supports networking playing with optional radio kits to taunt opponents from all over the world.

Via: CXC Simulations

The Israeli Museum of Caricatures and Comics in Holon is launching a new exhibit on Thursday, May 15, the first in a two-part series that will be displayed in honor of Israel’s 60th anniversary. Hebrew Comics Chapter I will trace the development of the children’s comics genre in Israel from the mid-1930s until 1975 - from heroic rescue stories to agricultural pioneers to interplanetary hijinks.

The exhibit offers insight into a generally underestimated field. The comics, aside from entertaining, provide reflections of the changing history in the country, politically, socially and militarily.

At the second part of this exhibition, Ido Shemi, one of Raw Art Gallery artists, will participate amongst other Israeli artists.