"If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job."
-- Malcolm Forbes
-- Malcolm Forbes
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Ambiguous Film Endings Resolved
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1923484
"Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms." -- Alan Corenk
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Show-offs
Pole-y moley
This guy can work it.
Acrovating
Highlights from the Sports Acrobatics World Championship. (Didn't even know there was such a thing.)
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." -- Theodore Roosevelt
Future governor of California?
"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong." -- Leo Rosten
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Terrifood
Terrifying Food
If you believe Cracked, "Humans are like goats. We'll eat any damned thing. Just ask the people who make PowerBars." This stuff can't be real.
"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Scary food
...but amusingly so.
"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory." -- Albert Schweitzer
Fancy Fast Food
Extreme makeovers on the old greasy bag o' gag.
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." -- Winston Churchill
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Local focus
El local loco
More entertaining than most of the shows on the tube...
"Dig where the gold is ...unless you just need some exercise." -- John M. Capozzi
Angry people in local newspapers
Celebrating excellence in the field of local newspaper photography
"When anger rises, think of the consequences." -- Confucius
Friday, November 6, 2009
Animal foolery
Dead fly art
Magnus Muhr is a strange fellow with a strange gallery. Let's hope one doesn't start this sort of thing with bugs and move up the food chain.
"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself."
-- Soren Kierkegaard
-- Soren Kierkegaard
Kitty glitter
"...a very long time ago, a calendar came into my possession, a kitten calendar. it was placed on my wall as it was so offensively sickly i found it funny. but then, the graffiti started. and one by one the kittens had things added... creating... kitti graffiti!"
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Duly noted
Black and WTF
These are worth two thousand.
"If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it." -- Albert Einstein
Dude
Is it the most important word in the English language?
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy." -- Goethe
Mightier pen
"Bank Notes", an interesting collection of bank robbery demand notes.
http://www.banknotes365.com/Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Only on odd numbered days
Epic Parking Fail
Didn't even leave a note...
"Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except technology." -- John Tudor
Game: Cover me
World's Fastest Office
What's the opposite of Catch-22?
"A day's impact is better than a month of dead pull." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Sleepless nights
That'll teach you to fall asleep
Cheap trix -- dude scares crap out of girlfriend.
"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones." -- Seneca
That'll teach you to hit snooze
Alarm clock mod that might well lead to permanent deaf-ication.
"I must govern the clock, not be governed by it." -- Golda Meir
Young guns
Everything Rambo Jr. needs.
"The best armor is to keep out of range." -- Italian proverb
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
How to fail a test with dignity
Humorous test excerpts, supposedly, from students apparently better suited to a creative writing class than math and science.
(Thanks Robo)
(Thanks Robo)
Monday, October 26, 2009
Just faking
The Ad Generator
Generate random, meaningless taglines and runs them with Flickr images. Result: potato chip compelling medley of subprime pseudo-ads.
"If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur." -- Doug Larson
Everybody Loves Raymond. Except Raymond.
Supporting the claim that fame makes people miserable, this series of DVD covers for the seven seasons illustrates the increasingly sullen visage of Ray Romano. To quote b3ta, "by season 7 he really looks like he wants to kill himself. Then you."
"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said." -- Peter Drucker
"I've Discovered Something Amazing!"
Fresh-faced expert demonstrates his latest incredible discovery.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Addition by subtraction
The Simpsons minus the Simpsons
Another example of the zenihilist "removing stuff" movement. Next up -- Mr. Ed with no Wilbur?
"I see no virtues where I smell no sweat." -- Francis Quarles
There is no "I" in photography
Liu Bolin, The Invisible Man, paints himself... no trick photography ... no Photoshop ...he just paints himself...in. Or out. Some other striking images at Onexposure.
How to Dial a Rotary Telephone
Ah, the good old days.
"Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water." -- Swedish proverb
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Fun for all and all for fun
The Fun Theory
Take note -- changing behavior *can* be fun. (Thanks Lyd)
There, I Fixed It.
Handy site for handymen and their handiwork.
"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people."
-- W. C. Fields
-- W. C. Fields
Can't You See I'm Busy
Not that anyone needs to encourage more shenanigans at work...
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Over-share overdrive
Over-sharers
Do people not get that their social web mutterings might actually be read by others? Really, really more than you want to know...
"It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."
-- Robert Southey
Take A Weird Break blog
A collection of bizarre and humorous clippings from the UK magazine, "Take A Break ". Not the purpose they intended for their material, I'd venture.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Trailing foresight
Flashforward
What the trailers for "Ghostbusters," "Forrest Gump" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" might have looked like if the films were made in the middle of the last century.
Txt Island
Chris Gavin's short animation made using only letters and a pegboard.
Pre-soiled underwear
Skidmark prevention smokescreen.
"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." -- Ayn Rand
"A Glorious Dawn"
Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking sing about the universe in an oddly intriguing redubmix.
StarTrek Parody - In Living Color
Jim Carey and crew do excellent work. He's also good in this Fire Marshall Bill sketch. Thanks K-man.)
The Book of Gene
Gay scientists have worked tirelessly to isolate the gene that causes Christianity. As you suspected -- it's not a lifestyle choice.
"If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement." -- Jimmy Carter
Bad Hair Day
An overdue return to mugshotdujour; check the array of head lettuce on this crew.
Face-masher
Upload a photo and this site will create a fully-animated version of your face. The mustache fun is up to you...
Best Pool Shot by a Naked White Chick
Don't let the title scare you.
"Speak the truth, but leave immediately after." -- Slovenian Proverb
Unauthorized Far Side Tribute
Far Side cartoons made real-esque. (Note: This contest is not endorsed or approved by Gary Larson.)
Hasta,
vW
Sunday, October 11, 2009
The People of Wal-Mart Vol. 2
Amazing what one might find cruising the aisles. Check it out at...
(Thanks Kate)
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
Scarred 4 life
Sarka: Complicated Horror
Now decide whether you were scared.
What's in the box?
"Due to recent developments, the box must remain closed for a not yet disclosed period of time." Very well done short, sayeth I.
Movie Body Counts
tallies the actual, visible "on screen kills/deaths/bodies" of your favorite action, sci/fi, and war films.
"Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I might not always like being taught." -- Sir Winston Churchill
Upside down celebrity faces
These folks are even weirder from this perspective.
30 Rock is a Muppet Show rip-off
Batting Average
In what presumably is a sequel to f-my-life comes this collection of messages on...you guessed it. Truth is more average than fiction.
"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation." -- Saki (aka, Hector Hugh Munro)
Create-ive parking
That's the way to do it.
Game-ish: Little Wheel
There was once a world of living robots. But one day a bad accident occured in the main power generator. The world fell into a deep sleep. Bring life back to the world!
8-Bit Lego Trip
Dig the classic vidiot games 3D-rendered with lego. Nerd-pr0N.
"Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day." -- Anonymous
War in,
vW
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