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The Star Trek A-Team
If the title doesn't get you clicking then nothing I write can. Enjoyable for the nostalgia, if nothing else.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyfhzqhJNbg


Sane or Not?
Some of us have weird little rituals that are borderline OCD; the wife has to sleep on the left hand side of the bed. Rate madness here. Strange and engrossing stuff.
http://www.saneorinsane.com/Default.aspx


Backdroppings
Two dudes messing around behind an unknowing on-air financial reporter slightly undercut the gravitas of the piece.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lnFTpoSalk


Name profiler
Surames, maps and stats -- a good combo. Geo-geneology?
http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/Main.aspx


QuOteD
"It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy." -- Steve Jobs


Animal fights really rock
Rambling commentary on the foibles of YouTube clips that has its cake and eats it. Includes numerous animals attacking and killing each other with glee, just as Mother Nature intended. Warning: animal-on-animal cruelty.
http://current.com/items/88958813_viral_video_film_school


Goon city
Goongle maps?
http://www.gooncity.com/city.htm


Comic relief
http://www.robandelliot.cycomics.com/archive.php?id=225


Jinglerator
And finally, another incredible business service.
http://thejinglegenerator.com/


Famous last words
"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite." -- G. K. Chesterton


Sayonara,
vW

Experi-mental

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Will work with food
Gotta look twice at some of these; difficult to believe they were all made with food. (Thanks Bomser)
http://vinweasel.posterous.com/will-work-with-food


Banana explosions
Art? Performance theatre? Viral marketing for a banana manufacturer? All one can say for certain is that if see this clip, you'll feel stupider for it.
http://williamlamson.com/#/work/video_work/video/1


Sticky note experiment
The crew behind the coke and mentos experiment create impressive technicolor fountains and waterfalls using only Post-It notes. Creative and recyclable.
http://vimeo.com/1700732


Stealth Cat
By the time you notice him, it'll be too late
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdvLEiWzEvQ


QuOteD
"Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will." -- John Kenneth Galbraith


Cockatoo shuffle
According to wikipedia, the Backstreet Boys is still a going concern. So maybe there's a chance they'll sign up this feathery talent for their next world tour.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j_fxs8mUcQ


Not so fine print
Man seeks wife; but she must know her place. About a thousand terms and conditions follow. Ridiculous? Joke? You decide.
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-.qtJYXA8eqhltjrW6Xuq.KvKoh4OE6UF


Friday game: Crunch time
Total fun.
http://www.maxgames.com/play/crunch.html


Nightmare Playgrounds
And finally, these creepy masterpieces of sculpture and landscaping can be found in playgrounds the world over -- anywhere the grass-roots creativity goes bad and the bad taste gets promoted, often unintentionally.
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/02/nightmare-playgrounds.html


Famous last words
"Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor." -- Laurence J. Peter


Enjoy and have a good weekend,
vW

To the point

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TGIM,

Hope you had a good weekend and didn't have to get bailed out by the Federal government.


One Sentence Stories
Exactly what it says: Stories (ostensibly true stories), boiled down to the absolute bare essentials. An enjoyable diversion of pithy reads. Go ahead and submit one...
http://www.onesentence.org/stories/popular/all/


High-Five Montage
Two guys who clearly have too much time on each of their hands--but they sure look cool doing what they do best.
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/d7e5ec2c55


Joke with a five year punchline
Impressive to bury a laminated letter at the bottom of a pond in the hope that you can go "Ha!" at some unspecified time in the future.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thatcanadiangirl/2536237662/


Quick pic: BFB
http://www.burjdubaiskyscraper.com/2008/08August/burj_dubai_1009.jpg


QuOteD
"It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought." -- John Kenneth Galbraith


Invisimobile
What if cars were invisible? Personally, I'd rather not know.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6f08l_peugeot-307-invisible_shortfilms


Just checkinghttp://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/


Game on: Loops of Zen
This puzzle game is about harmony. Solve the entagled loops until perfect harmony is reached.
http://www.kongregate.com/games/ahnt/loops-of-zen


Typography humor
For example: A font walks into a bar. The bartender says "Hey, we don't serve your type here." and he called the Serif. Bahahahaha.
http://type.salsen.com/


Famous last words
"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for." -- Will Rogers


War in,
vW

back to back

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Hola on a Friday,


The Front Fell Off
Leave it to the experts to give you a good explanation. (Thanks Kory)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcU4t6zRAKg


Hybrid images
Two for one for sure. These are cool.
http://cvcl.mit.edu/hybridimage.htm


Magic/Bar Tricks
Educational and entertaining. Try 'em out this weekend.
http://easybartricks.com/


Lady and the tramp[oline]
Gotta admire dogs and their simple and constant zest for life. Sure, this one seems to actually want to eat the trampoline, but funny visual nonetheless.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhpAvGvkpec


QuOteD
"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will." -- Jawaharlal Nehru


Brilliant Text Generator
What can your purpose be morphed into? If you can tell me the point of this "system to verify the danger of the brilliant text," I'll...
http://en.genzu.net/hanabi/


D-formed
How a divorced woman instantly transforms her apartment with a little help from IKEA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-FFXc3M1vw


Friday game: Make A Word
Actually, make lots of them.
http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_maw.php


Your best news source?
And finally, with all the bad news these days, you can't be too careful. Craigslist Index, monitors trends in the listings. For what it's worth.
http://craigslistindex.org/


Famous last words
"Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship." -- Harry S. Truman


Enjoy/your weekend,
vW

brutal policy

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Hola amigos,

Honest Products
Renaming products to match their qualities...some good work in here. Reminds me of the Wacky Packs they had when I was a kid back in the 1800s.
http://www.worth1000.com/cache/gallery/contestcache.asp?contest_id=20484


New Airline Rates
Sadly, not as far from the truth as some would like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_yvpeonJCg


Great shirt, better reviews
Real men wear Wolf Shirts. Don't believe me? Read the comments.
http://www.birkoph.com/Wolf_tshirt.htm


Stop-motion The Thing
Shot-for-shot remakes with kids' toys are always a winner for the cybernerdish. It hollers passion, dedication, and most of all "please click me, I'm on the internet."
http://www.bamkapow.com/g-i-joe-stop-motion-re-enacting-carpenter-s-the-thing--1644-p.html


QuOteD
"As scarce as the truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand." -- Josh Billings


Inappropriate jumpy
Inflatable playground slide with questionable shape and exit port. Is this making some sort of statement that I don't get?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tCu0JkN9nc


Are you a beliefer?
Make Beliefs Comix -- roll your own.
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/


Game break: gravity hook
Climb higher. Don't blow it.
http://adamatomic.com/gravity/


Sidetaker
Fighting with your significant other? Who's right and who's wrong? Air it out anonymously while letting people of the world give you advice and make the decision on who should apologize.
http://www.sidetaker.com/


Famous last words
"Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves." -- Walter Anderson


Ciao for now,
vW

off takes

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Top o' the week to you, hope you had a good weekend.

The Simpsons opening in Lego
YouTube user bulc96 won $40 in a movie making contest for this phenomenal Lego version.
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/09/the-simpsons-opening.html


Triumph Takes on the RNC
A little late, but Triumph is always worth spreading. Certainly better than never.
http://www.thedailytube.com/video/12566/


Quick pic: Irritating Statements
Always good to see English Majors get theirs.
http://www.zoitz.com/archives/38


Large Hadron Collider-cam
"I helped set up these live webcams at the LHC," claims an agitated Mutated Monty. "Well worth keeping an eye on..."
http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html


QuOteD
"I'm in no condition to drive...Wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk!" -- Homer J. Simpson


GraphJam
Pop culture for people in cubicles. Good stuff in here, amazing sincce it's all user-submitted.
http://graphjam.com/


Jesus is my friend, mon
Ska in the name of the Lord. This is catchy, weird and even oddly endearing after a while.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-NOZU2iPA8


Fair game: Word fragments
You have to reassemble a themed list of words that have been split in half. A lot harder than it sounds and could be the death knell for a couple of hours.
http://www.boomj.com/?page=games/default&brainGame=87


The Butt Station
A handsome gift for your boss, your co-workers, or anyone who hides a weird obsession with toilets. Crap-producing genius at work.
http://www.stupid.com/fun/BUTT.html


Famous last words
"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate." -- George Burns


Away and have a good weekend,
vW

thematic

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Happy Fri,

Saved by intelligent nightlife
A girl goes on a blind date. Unfortunately, he is not quite the man of her dreams...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRPyvS1TPKQ


Cat Zleeping Pozitionz
The web is rife with themed cat photo collections but here's a new take on it (if you can take it).
http://www.zuzafun.com/cats-sleeping-positions


Quick stop: Not so itsy-bitsy spider
http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/


+Cowbell+
Coolish service lets you upload any song and add...more cowbell.
http://www.morecowbell.dj/


QuOteD
"The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal." -- H. L. Mencken


Moose Ball
Moose discovers a minor talent for basketball...or maybe football. Or, our next VP.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa_0-O8WSOU


Film classics + then some
Your favorite films, now with more gremlins. Raiders of the Lost Ark is particularly improved.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REGCV6z3VkM


Friday game: Wolfenflickr
Recreation of venerable shooter Castle Wolfenstein but with your own photos adorning the walls. More dead nazis = more fun.
http://www.nihilogic.dk/labs/wolfenflickr/


Ape Letterman
And finally, it's hard to imagine a TV concept more ripe for disaster than one with a simian host. Well that's what you get when you employ monkeys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8p72wmR5H4


Famous last words
"If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito." -- Betty Reese


Away and have a good weekend,
vW

Bale out

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Hola amigo,

Kermit Bale
What do Christian Bale and Kermit the Frog have in common? Both feature in this classically creative post, causing commenters to laud people with too much time on their hands.
http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/27350111.html


Parachute fail-cam
Good fear factor in this handheld camera footage from a basejumper whose parachute didn't open as he plummeted several hundred feet. His shouts and grunts no doubt belie his terror.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7596528.stm


Umbrella Today?
Speaking of deploying nylon...check out this minimalist weather service.
http://umbrellatoday.com/


Quizmo: Who's Younger?
Where-o-where has the fleeting boid o' yute gone...???
http://www.whosyounger.com/


QuOteD
"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble." -- Samuel Johnson


The art of the (non-) apology
"Politicians, baseball stars, and other celebrities don't need this training. Nor do regular readers of Language Log." Apart from them, you and I might be amused.
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=553


Cakes wrecks
Well it tastes just as good, right?
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/


WebToSnailMail
And finally, are you tired of the rapid pace of the internet? Well here's your solution.
http://www.gfilter.net/webtosnailmail/


Famous last words
"Men have become the tools of their tools." -- Henry David Thoreau


Sayonara,
vW

Easy is it

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Happy Monday,

Effortless Competence
Wouldn't it be nice if we could accomplish everything in life like such...???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOYTQKoJ1N8


5 Guys in a Limo
"In a world where a select group of men use their unique voiceover talents comes the short film that brought a nation to its feet." Tribute to the late, great god of trailers, Don LaFontaine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQRtuxdfQHw


Domain Name Dollar Store
The Daily Tube review: "We're thinking of paying a visit to this guy and registering ZeeDailyToob.com. We lose a lot of traffic to people who enter that in their browsers by mistake."
http://www.thedailytube.com/video/12525/
http://revver.com/video/1136689/domain-name-dollar-store/


QuOteD
"The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced." -- Vic Gold


Quick pix: "A Celebration of The Perfect Portrait"
http://renz-o.blogspot.com/


YouTubeSnob
Sick of inane comments on YouTube? Idjits-be-gone with this handy Firefox extension which hides everything with bad spelling and poor grammar. Just imagine what would happen if you applied this filter to the entire web?
http://www.chrisfinke.com/addons/youtube-comment-snob/


Game time: Sorter interesting
http://www.bored.com/games/puzzle/1/sorter_bob/


Worthless Facts
And finally, did you know that a cricket's ears are located just below its knees? Or that March 14 is "save a spider" day? You can find these and other useless-yet-interesting tidbits here. Who knows, one day you might need to know the name of the part of a pencil that holds the eraser in place. (ferrule, for those who care)
http://www.worthlessfacts.com


Famous last words
"An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it." -- Lawrence J. Peter


Away,
vW

imagery|yregami

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Happy Friday,

Mirror image generator
A little project that grabs photos from Flickr -- you pick the subject -- and then presents them as pairs of mirrored halves. Get symmetrical.
http://symmetry.sytes.org/


Photo Tampering Throughout History
Photography lost its innocence many years ago. Interesting stuff here. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/research/digitaltampering/


BTMYD
"Ever read a book (required or otherwise) and upon finishing it thought to yourself, "Wow. That was terrible. I totally feel dumber after reading that."? I know I have. Well, like any good scientist, I decided to see how well my personal experience matches reality. How might one do this?" Imagine the world when everything is correlated this way. (Thanks Raygun)
http://booksthatmakeyoudumb.virgil.gr/


Quick pic: What's really inside that iPod?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23252423@N08/2811645618/sizes/o/


QuOteD
"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good." -- Thomas Sowell


Lego album covers
Always good for a few clicks -- famous stuff recreated in other stuff. Album art is to modern pop as the classics are to their eras, no?
http://www.thetoyzone.com/20-album-covers-recreated-in-lego/


50 Incredible Film Posters from Poland
Are they, "conceptual masterpieces [that] put the original American posters to shame every time...truly beautiful works of art," or just bizzare?
http://wellmedicated.com/inspiration/50-incredible-film-posters-from-poland/


Friday game: Flies time
Aim. Swat. Kill.
http://majman.net/fly_loader.html


It's not just a good idea
And with the weekend here, some words of wisdom, just in case. In the first half of a two-part lecture , professor James Duane of the Regent University School of Law makes the case that, given the myriad things that can go badly, you should never talk to the police, and in the second half, Officer George Bruch of the Virginia Beach Police Department ... agrees.
http://www.tuccille.com/blog/2008/07/eight-reasons-even-innocent-shouldnt.html


Famous last words
"Vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking." -- Earl Wilson


Enjoy and have a good short weekend,
vW

Alternativity

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How goes it?

Agent Sagan
Ever wondered if scientist Carl Sagan and Agent Smith from The Matrix might be the same person somehow? This guy redubbed a scene from the Matrix to prove the point.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlpyGhABXRA


Baconhenge
Let Baconhenge be the site of your seasonal celebration. Let bacon stand in for the sacrificed Year King, French toast for the Grain Goddess, the eggs in the frittata for the Cosmic Egg, and the vegetables for the bountiful Earth on which we live.
http://www.theanticraft.com/archive/beltane08/baconhenge.htm


Anthropomorphic Cannibalism
Food so good that it actually eats itself.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/agmilmoe/sets/72157594356771968/


Quiz me: Untouched?
Real or (Photo)shop'd? A simple but not easy test.
http://overheadproductions.net/RealorShopped/


QuOteD
"Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby." - Unknown


Craigslist classic: Henchmen needed
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/ldn/783766933.html


Game break: Perspectacular
Rotate the object to the correct viewing angle and reveal the 2D shape.
http://www.bobblebrook.com/games/coign-of-vantage


Like Guitar Hero, but for thumpers
Think Guitar Hero but less AC/DC and more Stryper. If you're not in heaven already at that thought, then I'll be damned.
http://store.digitalpraise.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=72


Robots rock the house
Amazing that some bands can make it by moving their index finger up and down the neck of an open tuned electric guitar. I can do that and I suck. Or you can check out this robot band that appears to have been built from a glorified erector set. I guess it's music (?) but they've got a ways to go before they'll be selling out Madison Square Garden.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2JChnwv2Ws


Famous last words
"No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other." -- Jascha Heifetz


Ciao for now,
vW