Friday, May 31, 2013

Gutsy moves



Running roughshod over your screen, "An Alien Claymation" wraps a ton of action into a neat little package and covers it in technicolor gore.

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other." - Abraham Lincoln

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Spare a square?



Even when shooting the breeze, always leave a paper trail, my dad always said. Well not to worry — this DIY TP gun's got you covered.

"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." - Groucho Marx

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Rip it good



Check out Tina, 14, covering Eddie Van Halen's "Eruption" and pretty much shredding it start to finish.

"Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect." - Vince Lombardi

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Grey natter



An apparently impossible challenge between a couple of buddies — read aloud from "50 Shades of Grey" while keeping a straight face. Not surprisingly they fail, though in fairly entertaining fashion.

"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time." - John Ruskin

Monday, May 27, 2013

Say what?



A rapid-fire segment of 50 Common Misquotations is interesting and informative, but might just overwhelm a tired old brain.

"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations." - Benjamin Disraeli

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Nuggets

Strange and bizarre hotel reviews that save you the trouble of digging through the usual text for that gem of humor.

And some of these vaguely rude place-names of the world should maybe be on your list of places to visit.

"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell." - George Bernard Shaw

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Sale-ient

The Wrongulator, a Goatee Saver, Vulva perfume, and other Worst Things for Sale, a Tumblr.

Plus some great perspective on your very brief appearance in the timeline of the universe.

"A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life." - Charles Darwin

Friday, May 24, 2013

Cogito ergo sad



Thinking is the enemy of the happy, as illustrated in Sad Cat Diary.

"Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." - Bernard M. Baruch

Thursday, May 23, 2013

It's a jungle down there



It’s a fish-eat-fish world beneath the waves near Indonesia in The Sea's Strangest Square Mile.

"My favorite animal is steak." - Fran Lebowitz

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Rave review



Older outdoor enthusiast gentleman playing the spoons to "Insomnia" by Faithless. The club scene just isn't what it used to be.

"Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five." - Benjamin Franklin

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Egg him on



Dad clearly in the running for parent of the week award, which in this case comes in the form of an egg.

"Having a two-year-old is like having a blender that you don't have the top for." - Jerry Seinfeld

Monday, May 20, 2013

Rimshot



Enthusiastic drummer gets his wedding gig revenge by stealing the show from the lead vocalist. It's obviously their bit, but provides a moment nonetheless.

"A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it." - Don Herold

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Like you meme it


Proclaimed one of the best "Ryan" memes out there, Ryan Gosling won't eat his cereal is fairly amusing. (Thanks Raygun)

And in what could be a sequel to the minor meme "there, I fixed it" comes You had one job..., a pictorial compendium of inept work. Worth a few clicks for the occasional grin.

"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction." - Oscar Wilde

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Cold war of words

For a humorous redistribution of words, check out the latest issue of Cosmarxpolitan to get you some "fun fearless freedom from the oppression of capitalism."

And the dangers of posting public ads revealed as these handymen get text trolled. Some perhaps undeserved but nonetheless amusing exchanges.

"The only disability in life is a bad attitude." - Scott Hamilton

Friday, May 17, 2013

Beer:30



Of course, you don't need a bottle opener to open a beer — there are much more creative ways to do it.

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." - Dale Carnegie

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Syn-tillating



Strange acid-trippy video "Synesthetic Locked" is your best guess at what people with synesthesia experience every now and again, and hopefully not while driving. Bird is the word.

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." - Ernest Hemingway

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Really?



Quirky array of rapid-fire bits camping on pop tunes shows what would happen if song lyrics were real, courtesy of an Irish comedy troupe.

"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people." - Lucille S. Harper

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Uncredible



A slew (63, to be precise) of newly made-up un-words that you may find incredibly useless in a wide variety of situations. Funny, though. And to think this all might have started years ago with 7-Up's Marketing department.

"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite." - C. S. Lewis

Monday, May 13, 2013

Drive angry



A country mile of micro-size mayhem in this action-packed minute of stop-motion-y goodness.

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Scales predictably



We all know cats like boxes, but do big cats like big boxes? The question continued to linger until some enterprising zoologists proved that cats of all sizes are ridiculous bits of fur.

And speaking of boxes, The Worst Room is a Tumblr of exquisitely depressing New York rental realty realities.

"An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded." - Pope John Paul I

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Fools rush in



Somewhat surprising maybe, these acts of selfless kindness caught on Russian dashboard cams might restore a little of your faith in humanity.

And GeoGuessr, a "where the hell am I" guessing game built on Google Maps.

"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else." - Umberto Eco

Friday, May 10, 2013

Care bear?



If you have youngins, set 'em down to watch Teddy's operation. Or on second thought, don't. A unique educational experience that will leave you wondering what the heck just happened.

"A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone." - Henry David Thoreau

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

You complete me



A unique view of the questions and travails of life through its various ages and stages, using the magic of Google autocomplete. Seems that most of it is about "intimacy", work, and acne — up until age 85.

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without." - Buddha

Monday, May 6, 2013

"Non" event



Nonagenarian does a double back flip to prove the enduring novelty of old people doing surprising things.

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Plot smoker



True to the spirit of the sci-fi classic, "The Matrix", explained by Mom has as many tangents as I'd expect.

"The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour." - Japanese proverb

Saturday, May 4, 2013

All together now


Taking iPhone-truncated headlines and auto-completing them with a creative ending proves interesting.

And merge the first bunch of pages of Google Image search results into a fuzzy composite to get... artformation?

"A friend to all is a friend to none." -- Aristotle

Friday, May 3, 2013

Matter of factory



Old footage of post-War Americana plus a slightly clangy ambient soundtrack yield a mind-meltingly enjoyable experience.

"Our intention creates our reality." - Wayne Dyer

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Handywork



Impressive that none of the visuals in "Screengrab", an excellent exposition of recursive hand illusions, are computer generated. All the trickery done the old fashioned way under the camera's watchful eye.

"Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless." - Milton Friedman

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Monkey brawl



Crazed chimps at the LA Zoo go bonkers and beat the crap out of each other (using a stick, at one point). But it's LA, so I assume they're just acting.

"Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits." - Hannah More