To promote next month's release of war comedy Tropic Thunder, Paramount mailed out sets of bobbleheads bearing the likenesses of the film's actors — at least we think that's who they're supposed to be! After the jump, see if you can match the bobblehead to the actor it's allegedly modeled on.

Jackie Chan reports on his official site that he recently started construction of the Jackie Chan Museum in Shanghai. The museum will allow visitors to study the full Chan-ography and fondle — or at least stare at — his costumes and props. Don't miss the Balsa Wood Ladder Room! Thrill to the Virtual-Reality Drunken Master Adventure! While it's unlikely that a single monument can fully capture a guy's entire career, it's probably going to be a better tribute to him than the inevitable Rush Hour 4. And finally a museum exists in which dodging falling artworks is an attraction, not a glitch!

We hope to see this trend embraced worldwide and eagerly await the opening of the Jennifer Aniston Museum, which will feature a coffee cup, a shoe, and the Hall of Hair, where visitors can view hundreds of framed pictures of "The Rachel." —Linda Holmes

Jackie Chan [Official site]

We've already seen Kanye's spoof commercial for Be Kanye tablets, which, the ad claims, transform you into Kanye West if taken. (We can only assume this means they greatly improve your blogging skills while instilling a fascination with spaceships.) The ads are for Absolut Vodka, and even though the company’s name is only briefly mentioned at the end, it’s probably assumed that when bloggers link to the video, they’ll also mention the brand’s name. (Hey, it worked!)

Last fall, to kick-start the hype for 2008's presumptive Best Picture winner, Wall-E, Pixar launched a pretty incredible fake official Website for Buy n Large, the movie's fictitious global conglomerate responsible for turning Earth's population into chair-dwelling, TV-addicted fatties. The site was so insidiously viral that it took us until Saturday to realize it existed (yes, we know Boing Boing did a post on it in November). Still, even if you already knew about it, it's probably worth revisiting now that you've seen the movie, particularly the fake corporate-news reports ("Wisconsin Mall Granted City Status"), the awesome privacy policy ("By visiting the Buy n Large website you become a registered member of the Buy n Large Database. You may not unsubscribe to this database at any time"), and ads for Xanadou, the revolutionary BnL-created pill that promises to simulate a "euphoric shopping experience." It's smart, funny marketing that reminds us to be skeptical of all big companies, except for Pixar, whom we now trust lovingly and unconditionally.

Buy n Large [Official site]

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Sure, we cringed through the recycled midget jokes in the Love Guru trailer, but it's tough not to be amused by the movie's guerrilla-marketing campaign. These posters were spotted last night in Union Square, taped haphazardly onto phone booths and door frames. To anyone who’s ever waited on line in a New York bodega, these are a familiar sight: that reassuring face that accompanies your morning coffee, a smile gleaming beside sliced meats. Who is he? Dan Smith. What can he do for you? Simple. He Will Teach You Guitar. This is funny enough that it almost makes us want to see the film. Almost. —Jonah Green

Speed Racer's got it all wrong. The trouble's not with the story, the acting, or the seizure-inducing art direction — there's nothing wrong with those (unless you're over 11). The problem lies in the conceit, the very foundation on which this unfortunate movie rests. For the future of competitive racing isn't in driving electric Kool-Aid acid cars around a track at six hundred miles an hour. No, the future is at your very fingertips. The future is TypeRacing.

Spend a few minutes on typeracer.com and you enter a world where tiny race cars are powered by typing as fast as you can, a utopian paradise with no global dependence on fossil fuels. You don't need gas; all you need are ten fingers and a cool head to beat your opponents in this race. Each driver transcribes passages from popular songs, movies, and books, and whoever types the fastest wins. Our office has been TypeRacing all day, everyone shouting out words per minute like high scores, calling each other suckas for any score less than 90. And just as Speed Racer is unbeatable on his chosen field of play — the neon-riddled raceways of Cosmopolis — so is there TypeRacing's user "PotBoiler," whose superhuman WPM score of 219 seems untouchable.

All great sports reflect shared cultural experiences; they mirror some common facet of real-life human existence. Boxing is fighting. Football is warfare. Wrestling is sex. The auto racing of Speed Racer bears no resemblance to any driving you've done in your everyday life; it's more like some nightmarish game of pinball in which you're the ball. But wasting every day of your life at a computer keyboard? That's TypeRacing. —Nick Confalone

TypeRacer [Official site]

The Wackness seems to have everything going for it. It was Sony Pictures Classics' big Sundance acquisition this year, and comes into Tribeca riding a wave of buzz. It co-stars your new indie crush Olivia Thirlby. It's opening this summer in a savvy counter-programming move. So why are we going to go out on a limb and predict a lot of dismissive, negative reviews for the 1994-set coming-of-age movie? Because of its press notes.

Specifically, the "Slang Dictionary" that sits in the middle of the film's press packet, a rich target of mockery that offers straight-faced definitions of such arcane terms as "blunt," "peace out," and "breasteses" ("Noun. Plural form of breast").

The little one-paragraph synopses that accompany online movie trailers are usually little more than two-sentence loglines, as often unread as diner coleslaw is uneaten, but Apple.com's Movie Trailers page offers a bit more info on each film than usual. The summary posted with this trailer for August's Bangkok Dangerous, for example, gives somewhat more plot detail than you're likely to need to decide if you want to sit through another broody Nicolas Cage thriller. But it's got nothing on the unintended hilarity provoked by this instant-classic "synopsis" of the forthcoming romantic comedy Jack and Jill vs. the World, a film by Vanessa Parise, the World's Noblest Filmmaker.

We don't bestow that title lightly. But the summary on Apple.com somehow makes room to note (between sporadically describing Jack and Jill's Love Story–knockoff plot) that Parise always makes sure that her films are "life-affirming, multi-dimensional and cognizant of the world's follies," and that her lead couple (played by Freddie Prinze Jr. and Taryn Manning) "believe in Fair Trade" and "are animal advocates."

With Battlestar Galactica returning in just a week, we're getting plenty excited for some good TV for a change. One excellent way to express that excitement would be to hang these handsome propaganda posters in our cubicle. And by writing this post, we can now expense the online order we placed just seconds ago. Let's hope the ladies in accounting don't read Vulture.

Battlestar Galactica Propaganda Posters [ThinkGeek]

This billboard can be found in a parking lot on the corner of Lafayette and Great Jones streets. Is it not one of the low moments in Western civilization? We think so. And we would like to urge all Vulture readers — all decent people everywhere, really — to text in their “No” votes early and often, building a humiliating consensus that Gene Simmons did not sleep with 4,800 women. In this way, the folks at A&E promoting Gene Simmons’ Family Jewels will be shamed into taking the billboard down, so that it may be replaced by something more tasteful, like a Calvin Klein ad showing an inexplicably moistened young woman riding a pony with no pants on. —Ben Mathis-Lilley