Roadtripper, Yeah.

Planning a road trip this summer? It's no longer paper maps and lost highways. Now you can plan everything - from routes to activities to gas mileage - on Roadtrippers.com. Check it.

Mad Guide

Ever want to eat (or drink?) like Don Draper? Check out this nifty map of all the eateries on Mad Men.

Can You Tell Me How To Get To Iceland?

It's no Sesame Street, but Grover is roving in Iceland. Glaciologists have released an earth rover named Grover to explore Iceland's ice sheets.

On The Outside

Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby has gotten a lot of flack for its glitz and glam, flash and bang. It is filled with Luhrmann's lurid style and the wild glamor of fresh music, fresh silks, gold chains, and golden baubles. But these choices, along with loyalty to the story, actually makes it a quite perceptive adaptation of this American novel. It is quintessentially an American story: about the desire to be something you're not, to work and strive and make yourself anew, to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and become a strapping figure of success.

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Undercover Reporter

As Barbara Walters calls it quits after an epic career, old film strips are being unearthed to honor her work. And the internet is atwitter with one seemingly juicy story. Back in 1963, it seems Walters went undercover as a Playboy Bunny for a day for a NBC news segment. She proceeded Gloria Steinem's similar mission by a year, but Walters' report was a little less hard-hitting, treating it as more of a happy-go-lucky fluff piece.

Hipster or Athlete

Now that the NBA Playoffs are in full swing, another competition is going on after the games: fashion face-offs. Players like LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, & Carmelo Anthony arrive at their press conferences looking dapper, dashing, and sometimes downright bizarre as they sport the latest trends. Take a look at this fabulous slide show from The Bleacher Report.

Vixen to Hero

One-time wild child Angelina Jolie is now being praised - not for her acting nor her humanitarian work, not for her attractive partner nor for her child-rearing - but for her courage in speaking out about a very private medical procedure. In an Op-Ed piece for The New York Times, Jolie explained that she has a gene which gives her an 87% chance of eventually getting breast cancer. She had watched her mother die of the disease, and, not wanting her children to go through that same pain, decided to undergo a preventative procedure: a double mastectomy, which now reduces her risk of breast cancer to less than 5%. She explained that she wanted to make others aware of this difficult but hopeful option for their future.

Progressive Development

The Bluth gang is back, or will be on May 26 - the day Netflix flies (and/or crashes) as millions log-on to watch the fourth season of Arrested Development. Watch the new trailer here.

The App of Perception

The intersection where Santa Monica Boulevard strikes La Cienega Boulevard looks a little different these days. Forty years ago, Jim Morrison swaggered and staggered along these streets, from his home at the Alta Cienega Hotel to his favorite liquor store, Monaco, to his nearby recording studio. Much that once was, is lost, but there are those who can remember and revive it.

Jac Holzman is now eighty-one years old, but he still is, as he ever was, a brilliant, vibrant music industry innovator. He was just a teenager when he founded Elektra Records, an independent label that discovered artists like The Stooges, Queen, and, of course, The Doors.

Holzman has just introduced a brand-new iPad app about The Doors — a complex, interactive journey into the band's music and history that more resembles a coffee table book or a collector's boxed set than most of the digital tools these days.

In a time when old-school music men are lamenting the digital age and relinquishing their industry to the youth, Holzman is still working, happily and successfully. And he plans to keep innovating, embracing technology and moving forward - even while, on occasion, looking back at those Strange Days of the late sixties.

The Greatness

In order to celebrate the upcoming spectacle of an adaptation of that great American novel, Flavorwire is dedicated to all Gatsby all the time this week. Spend hours perusing articles and looking at tattoos dedicated to the novel & movie.