Approximately 3 million dollars worth of shiny gold was melted to created Siren, the memorial statue to Kate Moss that was unveiled today in Nereid Gallery of the British Museum. The product of Mark Quinn, the statue is his second tribute to Moss, and probably weighs 100x more than the waifish model herself.

As though flying in the face of economic meltdown, the statue is reportedly the largest of its kind since the ancient Egyptians. Although Siren will be the biggest and most expensive, there are a number of weirder golden calves popping up recently:

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Kung Fu movies have a natural slapstick comedy element which makes it so, so, so easy to parody them. See: Kung Fu Hustle (or any film in the Stephen Chow oeuvre), Rush Hour, or any movie Quentin Tarantino has "lovingly" ripped off in the last decade.

So if Bruce Lee wasn't already doing a spin-kick in his grave, Sarah Schaefer's montage of Kung Fu actors looking like they need to take a giant poo might push the dragon master over the edge. Video after the jump, young grasshopper:

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"Bruce Lee was more than a martial artist," said Ioane, 20. "He also had an amazing philosophy of life. He's a cultural icon recognized all over the world — except on this campus," where Lee studied for three years in the early 1960s.

Ioane and 20 other University of Washington students have collected more than 1,000 signatures — including from nearly all members of the men's and women's basketball teams — as part of the effort to build a monument to Lee.

-Tomas Alex Tizon, "They're Hoping Bruce Lee Can Bust On Through," L.A. Times, on a student movement at the University of Washington for a monument honoring martial artist and former student, Bruce Lee.