Eating off The People's Princess

Shots of half-eaten meals on Princess Diana memorial plates. Fairly novel, sorta funny, slightly nauseating.
http://eatingoffthepeoplesprincess.tumblr.com/

"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them." - Leo Tolstoy

Ninja cats

No mission is impossible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtziWN7K2dc

"It's hard to take over the world when you sleep 20 hours a day." - Darby Conley

Cleaning a vintage Ferrari

Beautiful car, quick video with a surprising ending. Worth the 10 seconds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivlVfChBkzg

"I am certain there is too much certainty in the world." - Michael Crichton

Zoomable Sistine Chapel

I wonder how much of this he photoshop'd?
http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html


"Whether you think you can or think you can't -- you are right." - Henry Ford

Head to head

Get your 2010 "Name of the Year" ballot.
http://nameoftheyear.blogspot.com/2010/03/your-2010-name-of-year-ballot.html

(And if the sight of a bracket stirs a craving to shoot hoops: http://www.onlinegames.com/basketball/)

Or compare what rocks in two different places.
http://rockitbaby.de/projects/mycityvsyourcity/


"I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages." - William H. Mauldin

Burying My Goldfish

A quick video joke. (Thanks Ted)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfluMF-_X8E


"If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it." - James A. Garfield

Pop Culture Translator

A public service from the Canadian College of English Language (?).
http://www.poptranslator.com/


"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H.G. Wells

Chatroulette Piano Man

Some guy named Merton performing improvised Ben Folds-style piano songs during Chatroulette sessions. Good, real stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32vpgNiAH60


"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. - John Adams

iPhone foosball

Apparently, the little speaker on the iPhone is powerful enough to blow air and move small objects. Just enough for a ridiculous waste of time and life, not to mention battery power. But I guess cool enough nonetheless. (Thanks Joe)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48IcH95YFb8

"An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions." - Robert A. Humphrey

Procrastination

Get some stuff done. Maybe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P785j15Tzk

"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience." - W.B. Prescott

The Daily Dish

A catablog of a year's worth of beautifully painted petri dishes.
http://klarireis.blogspot.com/


"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for." -Oscar Wilde

The New Dork

Get in an entrepreneur state of mind with this nerd-rap parody.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exmwSxv7XJI


"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others have thrown at him." - David Brinkley

Water Ceiling Prank

You can lead your wife to water, but then what?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltagfe6c7vo

And in the bonus, a little game in the spirit of the season...
http://www.onlinegames.com/basketball/


"Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses". - Confucious

Horrifying New Startup of the Day

Meet DirtyPhoneBook.com, a new site that allows you to anonymously post comments about phone numbers. Full of nastiness, apparently, according to this story in Silicon Alley Insider. They're hiring, by the way, and make an interesting pitch...


"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."
- Mark Twain

Top 20 5 Second Films

Very short attention span theater. Rated 'M' for mature audiences.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saqO_ZqX6uY


"I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes, you ought to go away and write a book about it." - Lord Brabazon

Getting ready

Strange blip in the space-time continuum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sYVLHwf7JQ

"I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."

- Jack Kerouac

Supreme Court fantasy league

It's officially March Madness. And apropos of something else, now you can play like the Tenth Justice.
http://www.fantasyscotus.net/

"It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull."

- H.L. Mencken

No stopping 'em

Either the dumbest or ballsiest thing I've seen in a while. Fueled by vodka, no doubt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qi0yJezc50

And check out the Toyota Simulator, which you probably already have guessed. (Thanks Gordo)

"Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic."

-Dan Rather

Tattoo who

A photo compendium of ambitious ink. Ours is not to question why, but maybe instead ask, what the hell...?
http://www.ktla.com/community/photos/ktla-bad-tattoos-gallery,0,3161175.photogallery?index=ktla-bad-tattoos-gallery-008

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." 

- Albert Einstein

With a whimper

Check this clip from the (apparently) #1 rated TV sitcom 'Big Bang Theory', minus the canned laughs. The emperor has no jokes.
http://www.thrfeed.com/2010/02/big-bang-theory-minus-laugh-track-video.html

(Also, they've also got an OBG clip of "The Wire" from '06 with added laugh track.)


"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll
kill you."
- Oscar Wilde

Tokyo/Glow

Ethereal nighttime love story.
http://www.tokyoglow.com/

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."

- Chinese proverb

Tokyo/Glow from Nathan Johnston

YouTube end of programming day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgsixMZ1hqw


"Nature abhors a vacuum, but not as much as cats do."
-Lee Entrekin

How trololololololololololo can you go?

B3TA's opinion could not be improved upon: "A grinning robot lip-syncs babble at you, in an impossibly cheesy lounge version of hell. Welcome to 1970 Soviet light entertainment and the musical stylings of Edward Hill. The new Rick Roll?"
http://trololololololololololo.com/



"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."
- John Wayne

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass

Incredible Rube Goldberg contraption built for the new OK Go video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

(And some background info , in case you want to read up on how it was built.)



"I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this."
- Emo Phillips

Celebrimorphing

A little something in honor of the Academy Awards. Not sure why, but these have some eerie appeal...

http://www.freakingnews.com/Celebrities-with-Short-Legs-Pictures--1844.asp

http://www.freakingnews.com/Celebrities-Upside-Down-Pictures--2433-0.asp


"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."
- Benjamin Disraeli

Excelart

Major league drawing prowess in Microsoft Excel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YG_WWZYqUs


"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."
- Warren Buffet

A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything

A flipbook highlight reel of the whole shebang. This is magic with pencil and paper...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNYZH9kuaYM


"There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know."
- Ambrose Bierce

Avatard

This is a joke, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk2vR8w2sjc


"The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools."
- Doug Larson

Root Beer Mozart

Music with a little fizzazz.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhiP4cNgHxs


"Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble."
- Frank Tyger

20th Century Fox intro as never before

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4RjhW0SnA0


"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
- William James


Also, four and 20 blackbirds playing a Gibson Les Paul. Jimmy Page, eat your heart out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Kz8Nxb-Bg

Billie Jean: Literal

I know this literal video stuff is old hat, but still worth a view.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFYdNuHoG0c


"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."
- Vernon Howard