Good costume idea, though has a few holes

Maybe the best, geekiest Halloween costume to-date. It's not rocket science, though he is a NASA engineer. [Gizmodo]
 

Magic jack

Master magician puts an iPad to good use with some unique Halloween magic that blends good ol' manual prestidigitation with well orchestrated digital wizardry.


This remote-controlled flamethrower jack-o'-lantern is one of the Halloween better ideas that might not get past your homeowners association.

And fitting in this season of costumery, hardly seems possible that these Polyester Disasters were ever in fashion. "Vintage" is such a kind word.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke

 

Rubik's cubed

Check out the serious multitasking skills on this guy as he juggles two Rubik’s Cubes while solving a third.


And not really solving anything, Microwhat catalogs animated GIFs that flash pics of foodstuffs in before and after microwaving.

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you
really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I
have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Trick or geek

If shotgun beer races are your idea of party cleverness, you still might enjoy this rapid-fire medley of quirky science-based tricks that are sure to astound your friends at parties.


And also in the partying spirit, Hipster or Halloween Costume -- it's your guess -- in this new blog showcasing the rich tapestry that is humanity. Sometimes it's hard to tell, indeed.

And a semi-related bonus: the Hipster’s Dictionary.

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel J. Boorstin

 

"What time is it, Siri?"

"Beer-thirty."

Geek rigs his iPhone so he can get Siri to pour him a beverage, though there's slightly more to it than that. [Techcrunch]


And if you're in the occupying mood but not quite up to actually doing it, go with a cyber-occupation of, say, Goldman Sachs.

"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers." - Orison Swett Marden

 

Whole Lotta Motormouth

Michael Winslow, AKA Motormouth Jones the mouth-noise guy from Police Academy, has a go at Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" to surprisingly impressive effect.


And speaking of unexpected remakes, The Best Muppet Show Beatles Covers.

"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them." - Benjamin Jowett

 

Shatner in the Sky with Rhapsody

William Shatner just had to do a rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody, which I take sort of as required viewing if you've ever sat through his infamous "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".


And also forgotten but not gone, If We Don't, Remember Me, a gallery of living movie stills.

"Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself." - Lois McMaster Bujold

 

On the Rox

Steve Ballmer. Bill Gates. Night at the Roxbury. Apparently old Microsoft conferences were streamed from an alternate dimension. [kottke.org]


And a little more unrelated business history, How 50 Big Companies Got Their Names.

"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield." - Warren Buffett

 

Snap-together retorts

Little sunglasses for the David Caruso character in CSI: Legoland provide the essential element for a successful plastic caricature. (Mature themes; mild lego violence.)


Can you dig it? Simple, but effective, smart-ass signage from the b3ta funny name corner.

"Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay." - François de La Rochefoucauld

 

Funslinger

A fairly ambitious backyard project, the Human Slingshot, but looks like a pretty good time.
[Gizmodo]


And while slingshot isn't, guillotine is. A little article and music-vid ditty about how to live forever by becoming an objectified noun.

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." - Mae West

 

Recharge of the light brigade

Viral ad from Qualcomm called "The Bug Circus Generator" that gives creepy critters a workout powering a smartphone. Bugs are the new hamsters, and presumably not coming to a pocket near you anytime soon. [Mashable]


And Less than 100g, a blog dedicated to tiny and beautiful (inanimate) stuff.

"All phone calls are obscene." - Karen Elizabeth Gordon

 

Duet to it

Geek musical interlude featuring an iPhone 4s entitled, A Duet With Siri. This guy is a little too connected, perhaps.


Money talks, but not loud enough for the 99%, so Occupy George stamps dollar bills to turn them into wealth-disparity infographics. Because money knowledge is power he says.

"Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it." - Rebecca Johnson

 

Burning reel

This time-lapse video packs five weeks of Burning Man 2011 -- from setup to dissolution -- into five ant-like minutes (that's three hours a second), leaving you to mentally fill in the sordid details. [Gizmodo]


And a meme for "Family Tech Support Guy": 21 Reasons Why Technology Isn’t So Great Sometimes.

"Experts agree that the best type of computer for your individual needs is one that comes on the market about two days after you actually purchase some other computer." - Dave Barry

 

'Round the horn

Seeming ancestor of the crazy trick shot basketball videos that graced the Tube in recent memory is Pitch Back Juggler, a hard to fathom display of hand-eye-bat coordination found just in time to kick off this year's Fall Classic. (Thanks Mr. G)


If you’re in the mood for games, Kern Type will test your spatial skills at slightly slower speed. And the surprising challenge that is Cheese or Font? (reprised).

"Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions." - Evan Esar

 

It's a Musical Thing

I hadn't previously envisioned John Carpenter's cult classic remake "The Thing" being turned into a three-minute micro-musical, but it almost certainly beats the lame prequel retreading that just was released.


And another couple of intriguing combos, pop culture meets philosophy: The Nietzsche Family Circus and Beatles Philosophy.

"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds." - Wayne Dyer

 

The S stands for sub

Not to be outdone by Apple's recent announcement, Subway unleashes its own revolutionary new product, the Meatball Sub 4S, that similarly is more different on the inside. [Gizmodo]


Also in related mockery, Sh*t That Siri Says, is a Tumblr where you can submit screenshots of inane "conversations" with your new sentient iPhone.

"Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant." - Victor Hugo

 

On your left

Novel tip for unobstructed walking on crowded streets... ring a bicycle bell and people will get out of the way, even if you don't have a bike.


And in other strange thinking, Highdeas is a website conceived of and for stoner logic. (For example: "Midget Village: Buy a forest. Adopt 8 midget babies every year (mixed race). Be the only non-midget around and raise them to think you're their god." Or, "Anybody notice that the word bed looks like a bed?")

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

 

Say it ain't so

When is a lyric not a lyric? Check out this video medley for a bit of musical history.


And from Letters of Note, "Seven Little Men Help a Girl" is a fake memo from a displeased animator at Disney over the "blanding" change to the title of their animated feature from 'Basil of Baker Street' to the more straightforward 'The Great Mouse Detective'. As you might imagine, much biting satire ensues.

"A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one." - Lord Jeffery

 

Insufferable Coffee Snobs

Snobs ruin coffee worse than adding milk, illustrated in Insufferable Coffee Snobs is like the hipster barista, come to life. (Funnier and less pathetic than the social nitwits in Insufferable Yelpers.)


And Surviving the World, a webcomic featuring potentially helpful and possibly humorous daily lessons covering "all shades of life".

"After a heated argument on some trivial matter, Nancy [Astor] shouted, 'If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee!' Whereupon Winston [Churchill] answered, 'And if I were your husband I would drink it.'" - John Fellows Akers

 

Tearin' it out

Tearing out the main character, digital paperesque, in the music video Loose Fit makes for a creative effect. Tune could be worse, too.


The New York Times' T Magazine posted Model-Morphosis, an interactive photo gallery where you can use a slider control to see how fashion models are transformed via makeup and styling.

And on the flip side, Men-ups! is a Flickr set featuring males posing in stereotypically female style.

"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

Do as I say

Nothing worse than a copy cat.


I never knew Einstein was INTP, but if you're familiar with Myers-Briggs types, you might be interested in this list of famous people by personality type.

"Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike." - Theodore Roosevelt

 

Every story tells a picture

Why not film a sketch, let YouTube translate, then re-act the translated script and call it Caption Fail 2...?


And in other caption-based entertainment developments, Sad Guys On Trading Floors.

"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor on the business known as gambling. - Ambrose Bierce

 

My what big teeth you have

Normal dog deathly afraid of Julia Roberts' unusually large mouth makes for a few seconds of amusement.


And if you feel like harkening back to the internet's early days, gander Find My Goddess for a few good laughs.

"Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself." - Swami Sivananda

 

Shredding speed

Russian garage metal band takes it on the road and splits eardrums on a mobile stage at freeway speed.


And a list or two of words with no English equivalent.

"All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together." - Jack Kerouac

 

Real-life Angry Soccer Birds

Watch some players from the UNC-Asheville soccer team recreate Angry Birds with some trick shot magic. [BI]


For more warped refactoring, check out this psychotropic golf physics game called Wonder Putt.

"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are." - Malcolm Forbes

 

Demolition, man

No big bang as this Bridge Too Far is demolished by a crew of humants in a mere 18 hours over night, brought to you in a neat little two-minute time-lapse package. [Gizmodo]


And who needs the full story when you can have information through ignorance at F%#&! Yeah Headlines? News story headlines conjure up some strange images, it would seem. (Safe for work, in case you were wondering.)

"It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper." - Jerry Seinfeld

 

1000 sticks -- dynamite

Quick-clip of a 1,000-piece "stick bomb" wreaking extremely minor household havoc. A nice change of pace from the traditional line of dominoes, though. [bOING bOING]


In other faux domestic destruction... want to see your home destroyed? Just type in your address and Chaos in Your Town will do the rest (with a little help from Google Maps).

"Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and eventual extinction." - Jean Dubuffet

 

Equal time

New Bad Lip Reading video designed to entertain and amuse, featuring (targeting?) Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann. "You know me -- if you're in danger and odd-sized, count on me." Also in the running, the recent Rick Perry soundbite, which is nearly as enjoyable. [bOING bOING]


And from the other end of the politico front, Barack and Gary, BFFs with pictures from the official White House Flickr feed digitally enhanced with Gary Busey.

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Pryor art

Difficult to believe this classic skit featuring Richard Pryor as the first black President is 32 years old. Brilliant and on target given today's perspective. (Thanks Bomser)


And exactly what it sounds like, Sh-t No One Has Ever Said.

"A fool and his money are soon elected." - Will Rogers

 

Specific gravity

Time-lapse covering 30 hours of brush-less, bottle-squeezing, canvas-spinning masterpiece painting crunched down to a couple minutes. [Gizmodo]


Also, company logos from past to present to possible future.

"It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth." - Francois Rabelais

 

Instant Bad Karma

Frightening mashup of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" X "Instant Karma" from John Lennon. Is it art or just gratuitously, disturbing violence? Exercise discretion -- NSFW (and maybe more).


How will you die...? This grim (reaper) infographic enlightens on causes of death broken down by gender, age and race/ethnicity. And regardless of those, looks like it's eventually heart disease for everyone who hangs around long enough.

"Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life." - Kitty O'Neill Collins

 

Musical drive duet

Bored hacker on break from school programs two floppy drives to play the "Imperial March" (from Star Wars).


And along the same lines, The Museum of Obsolete Objects, a YouTube channel.

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt