Sucky ad

Quite fairly amusing ad parody making excellent use of "The Exorcist" theme.


And "Literally Unbelievable" is a collection of comically ignorant comments in response to stories from The Onion.

"Every true genius is bound to be naïve." - Friedrich Schiller

 

Hitting the Wal

First there was the People of Walmart Rap video to amuse and disgust you...




Now the Tribute to People of Walmart video hopes for similar effect with those preferring a softer edge. [Mashable]



(Caution: both videos contains real images of real Walmart shoppers from the People of Walmart website.)


And for some other strange get-ups, check out Conan O'Brien posing as great innovators, like Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Socrates, and Madonna. [Fast Company]

"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary." - Blaise Pascal

 

Musical pants

Jeans are truly an all-purpose garment, as evidenced by this guy using a thousand of them to make beautiful(?) music. [Gizmodo]


And also from the world of so-called fashion, the geekiest watch of all time. (pun intended)

"An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs." - Edgard Varese

 

Dog de light

Nice piece of intricate artistic stop-motion work featuring a pint-size glowing dog who wanders the late-night streets doing dog stuff.


And everything's coming up bacon, a great gift for any occasion.

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson

 

Complicated cheese

Making the simple photo snap as circuitous as possible... a Rube Goldberg Photobooth that starts and ends with a pic. [BoingBoing]


And some Russian wedding pictures that have been Photoshop'd beyond the pale of absurdity.

"A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark." - Woody Allen, "Annie Hall"

 

Assault the battery

Excellent fake commercial mercilessly denigrating the Toyota Prius and its corps of eco-snob enthusiasts. [Jalopnik]


And a Museum of Silly Charts from Ben Greenman, who claims his interest in charts springs primarily from his disinterest in charts.

"Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts." - Arnold Bennett

 

Boeing, Boeing, gone

An hour and ten minutes of airplanes taking off at Logan Airport -- 51 in all, supposedly -- compressed to just a couple of minutes or so is oddly watchable, though not unlike watching cars line up at the on-ramp metering lights to get on the freeway. [Gizmodo]


And also not in real time, When the What?, timelines of miscellanea.

"Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach." - Greg Iles

 

Brave new sport

A new strange and violent sport(?), not likely slated for the Olympics anytime soon. Takes a minute to get going, but strange enough that it just might be worth the wait.


A full-size, paper-made Audi replica and some background on how it was constructed. Zero horsepower, but at least it's recyclable.


"When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins." - Neal Stephenson
 

Good hands

Puppy shows off his opposable paws catching a ball.


Also handy, a little slice of life in these intricately carved banana sculptures.

"It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling." - Mark Twain

 

Cat Rap Fever

Felines pounding out some rap as only they know how. [Mashable]


And the site MacRecipes compiled every jury-rigged macgadget ever used on MacGyver. [Gizmodo]

"I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts." - Orson Welles

 

F&%#&! Price

Creative vulgarity in coercing profanity out of a toy phone. Amazing what annoying kids will drive people to do...


And vaguely on topic, Go the F**k to Sleep, a storybook for fed-up exhausted parents, has to be a Newbury medal front-runner when finally released. Either that or useful as a blunt force tool useful for inducing sleep. Some amusing excerpts at Boing Boing.


And finally, apparently what's in a name is your age.

"Adopt the pace of Nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Riding a bicycle in an airport

Visual gag of wacky travelers riding a human bicycle in an airport.


And check out 8-Bit Cities featuring lo-fi maps of world cities. Drop by, zoom in, space out.


Finally, a visual route map constructed from real data of where major U.S. airlines fly.

"We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do." - Olin Miller

 

Turnabout is fair play

Some guy made this ultra-short, Sneezing Baby Human, for the BBC-Three competition "Funny in 15 Seconds" that answers the age-old question about what pandas watch on Youtube.


Fifty amusing examples of movie title (mis-)translation that prove it's not as easy a task as it may seem.


And the Smithsonian wants you to vote on who had the best Civil War facial hair.

"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

ETc.

Good spoofing job with this ET sequel trailer spoof called "ET-X".


And an illustrated map with hints to 91 movies set in New York jammed into the 12 square miles that is Manhattan. How many can you name?


"For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear." -- Marilyn C. Barrick

 

Put a little English on it

Baba Brinkman & Professor Elemental - What's Your English?
A video rap battle of the professorial kind... U.K. English and Canadian English go mano-a-mano.


And some amusing examples of poor word craftsmanship and lame excuses at Sh-t My Students Write, a blog that offers (in someone's words) "evidence of the true cost of educational funding cuts".


"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity." - Christopher Morley

 

Best or worst music video ever

With shades of The Matrix, Escape from New York, Kill Bill, and Night of the Living Dead, a random assortment of imagery interwoven into the storyline of this bizarre music video, which is either the best or worst ever made.


Things were simple in the 60s. There were hippies, and a hippie was a hippie. But in this age of choice, the movement has blossomed, giving us The Hippie Continuum.


"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson

 

Dream Rangers

A nice video tug at the heartstrings, apparently created by a bank if you can believe it. (Thanks Grandma B.)


And Too Big for Stroller is a photo blog that humorously documents the growing (pun intended) trend in modern parenting. (You can read an interview with the creator at Salon.)


Finally, some bonus bizarreness... a piece (including disturbing video) about a 29-year-old "adult baby" who sleeps in a crib, wears a diaper, plays with Legos and more.

"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain." - Robert Frost

 

Show me a sine

A visual lesson in harmonic motion demoed on one of those one of those retro "executive toys" with silver spheres swinging from strands of wire.


And beautiful photographs transformed into cinemagraphs, a hybrid creation that lives somewhere between photography and video.

"Electricity is really just organized lightning." - George Carlin

 

Maybe something in a size 4D

No plausible reason at all for forcing this poor mutt to run while wearing shoes. PETA has most likely already pounced on this.


And the only rational explanation for blogging about "What I found at work today" is being employed at a thrift store.

"All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking." - Friedrich Nietzsche

 

Look before you leap

Amazing highlight reel proving that at least some (5' 11") white men can jump. (Thanks Jeff)


A little Jesus vs. Batman back-and-forth on Facebook that's more amusing than it probably sounds.

"We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released." - Jean Houston

 

City at night

"The City Limits" is a breathtaking timelapse of a few well-known North American metroscapes at night. [Gizmodo]


Exposing the less beautiful parts of modern city life, Posing With Potholes, a blog for people who take photos with potholes. (Yeah, I don't get it either.)


And filling potholes with crocheted goodness. Joyful sidewalks, joyful cities.

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine." - Anthony J. D'Angelo

 

Customer disservice

This well-executed animated short called "Eleven" might be reminiscent of a call to your favorite phone carrier.


And what do you want to do before you die? An urban project to inspire hope...?


Finally, photos of crazy-looking Yugoslav war memorials from WWII, which B3TA says look like 90s Pink Floyd CD covers. I can't disagree.

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." - Lewis B. Smedes

 

Dog smack

A talking dog is subjected to canine psy-ops by his cruel owner. [Mashable]


And slightly more linguistically cryptic... an easy-reading graphic illustrating the languages easiest and most difficult to learn.

"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific." - Lily Tomlin

 

Comment commentary

In a novel performance made possible only thanks to the interwebs, British comedian Adam Buxton reads comments for a YouTube video aloud to a live audience. Takes just a little while to get going, but very well worth it.


Also telling it like it is, classic fairy tales recast to tell the truth.

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured." - Mark Twain

 

Paint Exploding in Slow Motion Is Cooler Than You Think

Take a minute (literally) for this short film in which maker Ross Ching "conducts" paint being woofered off loud speakers to the sounds of music to produce a cool and novel effect. [Gizmodo]


And a graphical solar system calendar to help you pass the time, astronomical style.

"Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us." - Jane Roberts

 

An Italian President

Good quick stand-up (sit-down, actually) comedy bit about an alternative solution to our now-past problem. God bless America. (Thanks Bomser)


What do you want to do before you die? An urban project to inspire hope...?

"One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency." - Arnold H. Glasow

 

Unsafe at any speed

Babies can be hell at full tilt, and apparently, the voice of the Dark Prince at half speed. With your eyes shut, you'd be expecting a 360-degree head-swivel.


If that worked for you, maybe you can name the languages spoken in these sound clips.

"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company." - Mark Twain