Attention get

The slogan "Keep [My City] Weird" might have originated in Austin, but those folks in Texas got nothing on Portland, as witnessed by this bizarre bagpiping ball balancer.

And some good gifs as Mad Men meets modern age digital advertising in this well-done Tumblr.

"Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of." -- John Stuart Mill

Writeous

Seb Lester knocks out some freehand corporate logos that bear uncanny resemblance to the originals. (More at his Instagram.)

And use that power wisely... self-publishing mishaps yield horrendous ebook cover designs (and in some cases, plots).

"I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art." -- Willem de Kooning

Ledge end

Video of an insane lunatic doing some parkour jumps across building ledges is 15 seconds of spine tingling. Featured comment: "He's very brave. I wouldn't be caught dead in cutoff jean shorts."

And what must be a popular Japanese game show features two women, a cockroach, and a clear plastic tube. Up to you to make your stomach turn with just one click.

"Always do what you are afraid to do." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Nam flashback

You will not laugh. You will not cry. Two popular alterations to a Full Metal Jacket scene combined in a liquidy form.

And a quick quiz... can you name the presidents for every applicable letter in the alphabet in under a minute?

"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story." -- Orson Welles

Firewater

This "epic" battle between firehose vs. flamethrower reminds of comic book characters facing off with power streams or whatever. Just a few silly string cans away from real-life rochambeaux.

"Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that." -- George Carlin

Eleventh plague

Hilarious-ish and true short animation mocks humanity's near universal addiction to smartphones.

Or just embrace it and send (presumably) unwanted goat messages to other people's phones.

"I invented the cordless extension cord." -- Steven Wright

Dog gets beat

Passive pooch plays percussion to White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army". (And does a fine job of it.)

"Where words fail, music speaks." -- Hans Christian Andersen

Gravi-tea

Is this man pouring tea, pulling taffy, or just testing the boundaries of street vendor physics?

"If it wasn't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever." -- David Letterman

Nailed it

Intramedullary nails are quite the workout to work out, and the removal is more than a little off-putting. These doctors should spend more time at the batting cages than the golf course.

And a Tumblr of not just facts, but ultrafacts.

"I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places." -- Henny Youngman

Do unto others

Short-fused monkey takes no guff from his antagonist and delivers swift and merciless jumpkick-to-the-face justice. Almost seemed like they had a long-running beef...

Type in your age and find out what David Bowie was doing at the same time.

"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance." -- Thomas Huxley

Musical tubes

Bach's Prelude No. 1, boomwhacker-style, doesn't quite have the orchestra's typical fluid precision. Maybe a tubular version of the William Tell Overture is more your speed.

"A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again." -- W. E. B. Du Bois

The stuff of dreams

What does schadenfreude sound like? Poor, poor zillionaire pop-star backers... all the high hopes, yet Tidal is getting its proverbial @ss kicked by Spotify and other streaming services. But you can help for just pennies a day.

"Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal." – Don Shula

Jockey shorts

It's not the Super Bowl halftime show, but rider Blake Shinn had a small wardrobe malfunction in the first race.

And this guy asked the Internet to photoshop the Eiffel Tower under his finger. The Internet responded just as you would expect.

"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." -- Thomas Jefferson

GoProne

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These guys put a GoPro on a sparrow and captured some incredible video.

And some impressive zoom profferred on this (relatively) cheap camera with no special equipment.

"The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That's why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, 'Bye!'" -- Jerry Seinfeld

Sabotage

Two guys infiltrate an Apple Store and pretend to work there, recommending that customers buy Microsoft products instead, as they strive to become Apple's "number two" employees. (But really, a $10K digital watch...?)

"Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion." -- Thornton Wilder

Paddle battle

It's not football but Polish Dragon Boat Rowing: Tug of Oar edition is a clever idea for a competition.

"Sports is the toy department of human life." -- Howard Cosell

Good fences

If you've ever had upstairs neighbors and wondered, this is what they're really up to.

And what the tech...? 25 pictures that perfectly sum up the state of the Bay Area.

"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress." -- Mahatma Gandhi

Stay off the furniture

Strange catch of the day: a silent video of three dogs tearing a wooden chair to shreds. Why, you ask? Beats me, but a fascinating oddity indeed.

And "Alien vs. Pooh" a literary mashup that'll probably end up published by Penguin.

"Every dogma has its day." -- Anthony Burgess