Show me the movie...

...that can't be improved by the addition of Tom Selleck's moustache.


Also a blast into the past, Back to the Future Photos, reenactments of childhood pics.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana

 

No means 'Nooo!'

Even classic movies aren't safe from George Lucas with Darth Vader's "Nooo!" edited into scenes from bygone masterpieces. You'll be shouting it, too, after watching both minutes of this.


And Comically Vintage, a blog of context-free single panels from vintage strips might elicit a nyuck or two.

"Any idiot can face a crisis -- it's day to day living that wears you out." - Anton Chekhov

 

Change of face

Very interesting demo of some real-time facial de-recognition software. I hope to look like Brad Pitt in the very near future.


And bring your drawings to life with Draw a Stickman.

"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward." - Ellen Glasgow

 

Waterwhirl

Summer may be over, but you can still enjoy some shots with this well-orchestrated Las Vegas-style water gun ballet. [Gizmodo]


And is there such a thing as insanity... among penguins? Photos of TV.

"It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, that they are good servants but bad masters." - Aesop

 

Dry clean beats

Experimentalist orchestrates music from a dry cleaner using just the equipment available. Beats start about a minute in it.


Also making music of a sort, Nokia is running a competition to find the next great version of its famous ringtone. Once you listen, it'll be clear why the most liked entry ("The Great Marvelous") holds the top spot.

"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator." - Francis Bacon

 

Cat fight

Not much of a battle when Bert the Cat throws down with the evil Cat Balloon.


And if you like animated GIFs of animals being less than nice to people or other animalkind, this Tumblr is for you.

"Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory." -Miguel de Cervantes

 

The Alphabet 2 developmental spelling video

Fairly creative, this so-called developmental spelling video entitled, The Alphabet 2, where each character visually represents the meaning of the word itself. Or a drawn version with a Japanese bent, the Illustrated A to Z of Japan.


Also somewhat wordly, iPhuckups features a collection of amusing iPhone auto-incorrect mishaps.

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know." - Daniel J. Boorstin

 

Trippin' Tokyo

Avoid the potential side-effects of psychotropics and just watch the mind-bending Tokyo Slo-Mode. A great effort at capturing one Hunter S. Thompson-esque version of the big city experience.


Also in the party hearty category, Hungover Owls, which seems to aptly capture the morning after a rough night out of the barn.

"There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves." - Richard Rorty

 

Spanning the globe

Beautiful time-lapse (1 min.) shot from the International Space Station as it orbits the Earth at night, from Antarctica to Zaire. [bOING bOING]


Also getting it all covered, WhatWasThere, a project that lets people upload photographs to create a photographic history of the world (or at least any place covered by Google Maps) to let you see what a location looked like in the past.

And some bonus questions... show what you know all over the place with geography quizzes galore.

"What is history but a fable agreed upon?" - Napoleon Bonaparte

 

Hello, again (and again)

Semi-mesmerizing short video of compiled clips wherein a differently attired Shelley Duvall says, "Hello, I’m Shelley Duvall" until you're almost beyond believing it. Strange to say, this vid has something, though I can't quite pin it down.


And somewhat less sledgehammer in technique, Subtly Simpsons, a list of particularly witty lines from the best TV show ever. Also, a classic penned exchange... Marge Simpson-Barbara Bush correspondence.

"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it." - George Santayana

 

Wreckless abandon

A PSA and mini-short rolled into one, Drive Recklessly offers a wistful caution against driving fast and furious.


And an impressive set of so-awful-they're-awesome movie posters, said to be created by artists in Ghana to sell tickets to screenings of bootleg shows. Make your way down to Cujo for for the win.

"Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories." - Arthur C. Clarke

 

Undeadpan

Chuck Testa makes his mark as purveyor of the stuffed animal kingdom in the Official Ojai Valley Taxidermy TV Commercial. Look for him in the dictionary under "deadpan".


And a well-crafted blog of IM chats between a man and his cat. Just a coincidence that chat = cat in French...?

"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend." - Plautus

 

Might as well jump

Watch and be amused by 13 dogs jumping rope. Good luck finding a video of even a single cat doing same. (In fact, it looks like this.)


Think you might have OCD-ish tendencies? Don't worry; just check out this guy.

"We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation." - Edmund Burke

 

Bridge under troubled climbers

Deeply disturbed kids thoroughly enjoying themselves climbing the Moscow Bridge in Kiev, Russia. A little too spine tingling for me... more like a good reason to stay in school. [Gizmodo]


Speaking of dizzying, the folks at Mozilla created this hypnotic spiral generator, a.k.a., "the eye effer-upper". Cool enough for a few-second look.

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." - Helen Keller

 

Geer boggles

Cleverly put-together anti-boozing commercial. Watch it once, then watch it again while hovering your mouse over it. Look familiar? (Split-screen version also available here.)


Also gearing you up for the weekend, Crap Dates sublimely summed in the 140 characters of a tweet.

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." - George Bernard Shaw

 

Herding cats

Amazing feat of French feline filming, this advert, which appears to illustrate a scenario where cats are in charge of a telecom company. No subtitles really needed.


Also apparently cooked up by some sort of animal, guns made of meat. (This artiste also makes skulls out of produce.) [bOING bOING]

"I had been told the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days." - Bill Dana

 

Qwerty you watching

The latest asdf movie (#4) in the series of minimalist five-second sketches that calls up something of a micro version of Robot Chicken.


And if you're looking for hours of useless distraction, check out Google Correlate. Draw a line and it finds trends that match it. Randomly interesting; be creative.

"One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time." - Robert F. Kennedy

 

Air of mobility

1 Rascal mobility scooter + 2 wood planks + 3 washing machines = The Great Canadian Appliance Jump. Ah, those magnificent men in their flying machines.


And a fertile imagination might lead you to Photoshop up some drunk trees.

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C.S. Lewis

 

Remedies for dirt, etc.

A suggestion I hope you'll never have to consider: putting out a fire with a vacuum cleaner. Yeah, seems unlikely, but apparently works, at least on floors.


Mona Lisa on a windshield will either fill you with joy or make you think about a bucket of soapy water... the dirty car art gallery. (Spoiler: Not that kind of dirty.)

"The ability to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while." - Albert Einstein

 

Mothers of invention

Coke bottle is the real thing for a mariachi street-band trumpet player, possibly named MacGuyver"


And brightening the urban landscape just a bit... Street Art Utopia.

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." - Max Lucado

 

Father knows best

I don't normally go in for the kid vid thing, but "Don't Jump, Edward" offers a bit of a surprise ending to a toddler melodrama.


And the Cartoon Color Wheel lays out the cartoon character spectrum.

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash." - Gen. George S. Patton

 

500 + 1500 / 110

Mucho excellente stop-motion video within a stop-motion video using 500 people and 1500 photographs in 110 seconds. (Caution: Do not operate while under the influence.)


And hopefully "carry daddies" and "yummy mummies" are terms you don't recognize, but regardless, Exactitudes has some interesting photo exhibits of unwritten dress codes some people adopt.

"Magic is believing in yourself; if you can do that, you can make anything happen." - Wolfgang Von Goethe

 

Sir Crapsalot

Crazed lovebird kicks axe on small plastic toys, set to a melodious soundtrack.


And in case you hadn't heard... stocking -- posing like a contrived stock photo -- is the new planking. Now what's the art of creating lame internet content with intent to commit virulence?

"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again." - Charles Dickens

 

Half-ass: Jackass, Kiwi style

Cutting-edgy New Zealanders fire something of a salvo at Empty Vee and show us something every bit as exciting as the U.S. version of "Jackass". Refreshing and 100% SFW.


Also in the parody section, Heello is an oddly torqued take on Twitter built for laughs on a solid foundation of WTF.

"There is nothing new except what has been forgotten." - Marie Antoinette

 

Bot vs. Bot

Two AI machines called "Cleverbot" hooked up and left to their own conversation results in humorously surrealist small talk.


Highly self-conscious, impersonal, charmless... how do you close out your emails?

"The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible." - Alexander Chase

 

Fair game

French filmmaker Mathieu Weschler spent two years making The Trashmaster, a full-length 88-minute epic composed entirely from scenes in Grand Theft Auto IV, including all the debauchery you'd expect.

And here's a quick look at GTA4 with the friction turned off. City driving, a little more challenging.


Also, a bit of tech industry humor... the org charts of major tech companies.

"Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them." - Dion Boucicault

 

Heavenly meeting

Nearly a year of editing what was originally 30 hours of footage shot in Victoria, Australia turned it into Ocean Sky, one heck of a beautiful, majestic time-lapse creation.


Also painstaking (made using just a toothpick), some of the nano-est origami you'll ever see.

"A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves." - Marcel Proust

 

Concrete Circus

Footage from a new film called "Industrial Revolutions" showcasing street trials riding star Danny Macaskill's skills at an industrial train yard in the beautiful Scottish countryside.


And it's almost but not quite too late for Oatmeal to explain The State of the Web this summer. All you need to know to get a good laugh at its expense.

"A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life." - James Allen

 

Sling 'n Slide

Gigantor-sized slip-n-slide + mega-slingshot + human = one giant fling for a man, one small amusing video for mankind.


Also in motion, peoplemovin is an interesting tool for visualizing migration flows across the world.

"It is better to travel well than to arrive." - Buddha

 

Divine intervention

As bad as TV advertising can be, this indescribably amateurish spot sets a new standard for utter crapification. Opulence, you has it indeed.


And give the GIF of vintage TV -- random animated images, presented in a simulated idiot-box ca. 1970.

"There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set." - Harriet Van Horne