You know the drill

Appropriate for Independence Day is this performance by the U.S. Navy Presidential Ceremonial Honor Guard Drill Team. It's a few years old but well worth watching if you haven't seen it before. (Thanks Bomser)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWGU3mpfRoM


"Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the
country, it would probably fly around in circles." - Pat Paulsen

Wake up and get ready

Miss anything?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hPm1p0Q3xA

And speaking of paying attention, here's why you shouldn't talk on your cell phone at a baseball game.


"It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem." - Malcolm Forbes

Yes, deer

A couple of domestic pets get the smackdown, Bambi style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADGn1GABF0Q


Also, treat yourself to this "crazy looking time-lapse video" of a humonsterous crab molting. Nature is both bizarre and creepy.


"Courage is fear that has said its prayers." - Dorothy Bernard

Dude vs. Wild - The Desert

Spoof of a show that I thought was already a spoof. (Thanks G)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BAWIhTU5s8

And in a vaguely related vein, check out Raven vs. RC plane featuring a motivated bird and some good comments (ex: "Told you New Zealand had an airforce").


"Patience and fortitude conquer all things." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Immortal Dog

Crisp editing and peppy pacing made this pleasantly bizarre (and somewhat profane, slightly gory) clip enjoyable. Viewer discretion is advised.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-qkNEampEA


"What would I do if I had only six months to live? I'd type faster." - Isaac Asimov

Super Sprayer

Marvel at the creation of a distant world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY1Lr-yGtd8


"A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists." - Don Marquis

A fling at the alley

One shot for glory.
http://www.break.com/index/over-the-barstool-bowling-trick-shot.html


"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." - Elbert Hubbard

Angry Preacher

He's called "Spirit of Truth". Holier than thou? I'm not so sure. The interview on the Howard Stern may be more enlightening. By the way, the good Reverend swears quite a bit. (Thanks Joe)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhy0_jkOXCo


"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." - Albert Schweitzer

Hasty judgment

YA tale of minivans and Things, this time a Volkswagen image commercial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3oEPZ27J90


"One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck." - Carl Zuckmayer

STOP

Site lives up to its domain name with this hilarious photo.
http://iamhilarious.com/stop/


"The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency." - Eugene McCarthy

Sharp light bulbs

Check out You Are Not So Smart, a website that uses research to shoot down classic (mis)conceptions and show that people on the whole are self-deluded.

And Stuff No One Told Me, illustrations of life lessons that would have done this guy some good.


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


Finally, in that same vein...be careful not to get typecast:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1856457/

My Baby Is Black

Hiludicrous 1960s TV spot for what apparently is a real "exploitation film".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy-zVlB4mvA


"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers

Running on Empty

Imagine LA without cars...? Ross Ching can.
http://vimeo.com/11986171


"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus

Which arts and witch crafts

Heartwarming short of a stay-at-home death metal dad's attempt to keep his daughter entertained.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZGa40Hl4zI



"An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it." - James A. Michener

Starchy Night

Japanese apparel maker Onward Kashiyama had staffers arrange 2,700 polo shirts in 24 colors into a portrait of Vincent Van Gogh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TheS1fnpnZ8



"It is better to live rich than to die rich." - Samuel Johnson

X-Ray Pin-up Calendar

Creative promotion from a medical supply company has models (though there's no way to know for sure) baring it all and then some.
http://www.ufunk.net/en/humour/eizo-pin-up-calendar-2010-le-nu-plus-quintegral/


And other alternative attempts not really in the same vein, 20 Homemade Things That Shouldn’t Be Home-Made.


"All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality." - David Allan Coe

The Bushmobile

Is this an example of "green energy"?
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1937229


And check out this Russian truck built Ford tough and then some.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-vyoIQGwnY



"When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile." - Bob Edwards

Death metal "What a Wonderful World"

Louis Armstrong might not be rolling over in his grave.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItUk-5FI0Ek


"Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody." - Benjamin Franklin
"Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content." - Louis L'Amour