Whatever works

Hastily made Cleveland tourism video
Bishopvids says, "The Cleveland Tourism Board gave me 14 million dollars about 8 months ago to make a promotional video to bring people to Cleveland. As usual, I waited till the last minute and I ended up having to shoot and edit it in about an hour yesterday afternoon. I probably should have invested more time." Short, funny, and well worth watching.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysmLA5TqbIY


Hardly Working: Vacation Day
Go ahead...relax, enjoy, and take it easy today. It is, after all, *your* time. Wherever you might be. The end bit is worth sticking around for.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1907812


How To Nail An Interview
Many very amusing ones, though this one is especially good. And this one is pretty good, too.
http://www.howtonailaninterview.com/


QuOteD
"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." -- Lily Tomlin


ONN Double Shift
More American Workers Outsourcing Own Jobs Overseas
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/94592

East Timor's First Female Dictator Hailed As Step Forward For Women
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/93282


Game break: Path to enlightenment
Build a bridge to somewhere (or nowhere).
http://www.kongregate.com/games/Remivision/wooden-path


When Did Your County's Jobs Disappear?
An interactive map of vanishing employment across the country. Pretty/scary.
http://slate.com/id/2216238/


Famous last words
"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body." -- Seneca


Ciao for now,
vW

Manoamano

Iron Man vs. Bruce Lee
Excellent stop-motion with a twist. Worth the sub-minute commitment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywu1DeqXTg4


Cougar vs. Bear
It's not just survival of the fittest -- gotta credit that Bears defense. Fine acting worthy of that Oscar nomination it received. How did they get the animals to do this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjLCJKoot4U


Tug o' War (face edition)
Two guys, each with a pantyhose leg over his face attempt to tear the other's head off. Another fine game show from across the Pacific.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qMt-FaZw3I


Let's make a deal
A young master in the art of negotiation. Amusing-ish Mercedes ad.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6abby_mercedes-deal_fun


QuOteD
"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win." -- Jonathan Kozol


Unhand Thine Prius!
Matt and Froy (badasses?) go after a medieval wizard's noble hybrid. They deserve it.
http://www.trutv.com/video/operation-repo/unhand-thine-prius.html?link=truTVshlk


Above board
Chess is a timeless game. The game of kings. Or...dog figurines? The ten best -- or at least most interesting -- chess sets.
http://www.mychessblog.com/10-amazing-chess-boards/


Game-ish: Collider
Make use of your positive and negative balls.
http://bored.com/games/play/560/Collider.html


World's Weirdest Hotels
Ever wanted to sleep inside a cage, upside down or underwater? Here's a selection of unusual hotels from around the world for when a Motel 6 just won't do.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/4397883/The-worlds-weirdest-hotels.html


Famous last words
"Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm." -- Malayan Proverb


May a good and blessed weekend be upon you...
vW

One or the other

Bailout
Hyundai offers their new "Hyundai Assurance" program, a truly revolutionary concept. If you buy a new Hyundai and lose your income in the next year, you can return it. If you lose your house... (Thanks Little E)
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/0ecc000105/hyundai-assurance-commercial


Good Cop, Naked Cop
The Daily Tube review: "Forget about waterboarding! This is an interrogation technique that will crack even the toughest criminals. The best part is that it's totally legal. (With compliments to the good people at Cheerwine soda pop.)"
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1907805


Dan & naD
Clever, novel vidyo from Dan (and Dan) -- a palindromic comedy sketch about a guy who starts aging backwards. He claimed that it took quite a while to get right. Who would have guessed?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwWI1aHpzy0


QuOteD
"There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't." -- Robert Benchley


Quick trip: Warp Your View
Only takes 10 seconds. Pretty cool.
http://blog.ted.com/2009/04/warp_your_room.php


Dog days
The Japanese kitchen show "Cooking With Dog" is, thankfully, not what one might first think, but rather "Cooking Narrated By Dog," specifically a poodle named Francis.
http://www.youtube.com/user/cookingwithdog


Game break: Me and the key
To find it.
http://www.bartbonte.com/meandthekey


Talent
And finally, food for thought from Goodiebag mulling over the "myth" of "talent". Interesting
subject, these days.
http://www.goodiebag.tv/episodes/15_talent.htm


Famous last words
"There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on." -- Robert Byrne


War in,
vW

Something's wrong here

America's dogs got talent
Quick look-and-listen of a singing dog accompanying himself on the piano. Pretty much a guaranteed laugh for ages 3 to 103.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-UE1kN38wo


Mittens: The Crime Solving Cat
From the people who brought you "Charlie The Unicorn" comes another amusing animal animation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVx2uCcDXX0


Top 60 Ghetto Black Names
Racist? Probably. Wrong? Mostly. Funny? Mo'definitely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCdmiZyyGjQ


Manbabies
The Daily Tube review: "Just a couple infants, talking about the subprime crisis, postmodernism in the Rugrats movie, and peepee girth. Nothing to see here. Move along." My opinion: it's a tossup between Funny and Die on this one.
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/b366eb5ebe/manbabies


QuOteD
"Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal." -- Cory Doctorow


Shatner Eats Pudding
Reason #1,701 to eat pudding. What the hell is wrong with people sometimes?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr6efnY9Ebw


Spring Cleaning of the Mind: Surreal Art Update
When you need to make an existential omelet, ask these guys for a recipe.
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/04/spring-cleaning-of-mind-surreal-art.html


Game time: Effing Hail
What the...hail?
http://jiggmin.com/play_game.php?title=Effing+Hail


Talk to strangers
And finally, if you insist on ignoring Mom's advice, Omegle is a brand-new service that throws you into a random conversation with an anonymous stranger.
http://omegle.com/


Famous last words
"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock." -- Will Rogers


Ciao for now,
vW

Too close for comfort

More than life itself
The Life Alert service has apparently expanded its services from burglary and houses afire to some that are a little too personal and creepy. But they'd never steer you wrong, right?
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1907007


Flutter: The New Twitter
As Twitter-mania reaches new levels, Slate V presents a mockumentary about a company that wants to take microblogging to the next (lower) level.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeLZCy-_m3s


ONN: Hot New Video Game Consists Solely Of Shooting People Point-Blank In The Face
The Daily Tube review: "With video games holding on as one of the few industries still turning a profit, it's hard to argue against the success of Close Range. Critics argue that it's the well-developed characters and sophisticated gameplay that make it the smash hit that it is, but we have a feeling there's something more primal at work here."
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/hot_new_video_game_consists


QuOteD
"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow." -- Woodrow Wilson


Turn, turn, turn
Take a spin at TornadoVideos.net, live tracking and streaming video of storm chasers. At least of the ones who lived...
http://tornadovideos.net/video-gallery


Solve your tax problems
Did you hear the one about the author who bought a boat to "research writing a book about boats", sailed around for a year or so and then declared the market too crowded for another boat book. And it was all tax deductible. This isn't nearly so ambitious, but it might help. (Note: I'm not in any way responsible for this site.)
http://www.customreceipt.com/index.php


Game time: Civiballs
Lose the old ball and chain.
http://www.physicsgames.net/game/Civiballs.html


Playing dead
If you want to see people pretending they're corpses, then check this out. Tomorrow may be too late.
http://www.playdeadpics.com/


Famous last words
"There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval." -- George Santayana


Shalom,
vW

The Easter Bunny Hates You

One from the vault...



The Easter Bunny Hates You

Well contstructed

Creme That Egg!
Easter is on its way, so in that theme you might check out this bit of nostalgia from an entry Cadbury's "Unleash The Goo" competition -- a Rube Goldberg machine built to squish a Creme Egg.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrCb_fNmSTA


8-BIT Waterslide in REAL LIFE
Wild ride, well done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkYVazguJCY


Construction Mistakes
Stairs that lead to ceilings, CCTV cameras that point nowhere, and an ATM halfway up the side of a building...I'd call it old world charm.
http://www.crookedbrains.net/2009/03/construction.html


Lighthouses vs. waves...
...during VERY stormy weather. Obviously built to last.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNpH5tx4Pu8


QuOteD
"The shortest distance between two points is ... under construction." -- Noelie Altito


"Best of Elevator"
You never know what you will see when the elevator door opens.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRefZf3gj74


The worst Star Trek costumes in history
Double losers in lame-o regalia. Or as someone said, "It's like Paris fashion week for the blind."
http://www.holytaco.com/worst-homemade-star-wars-costumes


Friday game: Super Stacker
Your objective in this fun physics puzzle game is to carefully stack the shapes and do not let them fall off the screen.
http://bored.com/games/play/378/Super-Stacker.html


In case of attack, pull strings
And finally, some 1960s PSAs from the U.S. Civil Defense office using marionettes to inform farmers what to do in case of nuclear attack.
http://www.archive.org/details/rural_civil_defense_tv_spots_1965


Famous last words
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will." -- Mahatma Gandhi


Enjoy this and your Easter weekend,
vW

Inventionary

Chorusfish
In the first of what will hopefully be a series of great videos on crazy inventions and crazy inventors, we take a look at the "Sashimi Tabernacle Choir."
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/01/13/fish-on-a-volvo-a-look-at-the-sashimi-tabernacle-choir/


Star Wars / Dallas opening
What would Star Wars look like if it was the Dallas TV-series?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAHYftmwY0U


Fashion Robot to Hit Japan Catwalk
Is this what fashion models are like in Japan? A bit of a disappointment is right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E97nHbwcVE


Science corner: Cannonball in mercury
What happens when you drop a cannon ball in a bath of mercury?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm5D47nG9k4


QuOteD
"He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination and taxes." -- H. E. Martz


Wrong Tomorrow
See how pundits' predictions fare over time. (For example: "There is no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant [> 3%] market share." - Steve Ballmer 2007-05-01)
http://wrongtomorrow.com/


Train in vain
World's largest model train railway, which seems far better run than the actual countries represented therein. This thing is so involved, the trains seem almost superfluous.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e98_1237657552


Game time: Paper Console
Play the most tedious version of Pong ever devised.
http://paperconsole.com/#


Show God you are Serious
And finally, religion jumps into the Information Age with "a subscription service utilizing a computer with text-to-speech capability to incant your prayers each day. It gives you the satisfaction of knowing that your prayers will always be said even if you wake up late, or forget." I believe God is rolling over in his grave.
http://www.informationageprayer.com/


Famous last words
"Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk." -- J.C. Penney


Mahalo,
vW

It's showtime

Greetings on a Friday,

By popular demand, Cap'n and crew have followed up their epic 60-second Forrest Gump with a slightly abridged version of not one but both Kill Bills. Seems even more to the point (no pun intended) than the Gump version, as it's really about all I remember from them.

Kill Bill Parts 1 and 2, in one minute, in one take
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex0ANhZ1Y6o


The Dirty Garage: The Indiest Movie Ever Made
Says the Daily Tube review: "A story of going home again, populated with overeducated-yet-inarticulate white people, featuring twee indie music and a manic pixie dream girl? That sounds like a future gold-medal winner at the San Antonio Mumblefest to us."
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/ec2dc47000/the-dirty-garage


der Monsters
Purile, yet German. (Usage note: embedded videos show up below the selection links.)
http://www.demonsters.be/bankje-duif/


QuOteD
"There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses." -- Alan Moore


One Letter Off
Small typos lead to interesting theatrical results in this Worth1000 contest. Not quite the movies you know.
http://www.worth1000.com/contest.asp?contest_id=22703#entries


Sequels that don't exist
Sorta like one of those image challenges, but this time as a full-on blog with some full-throttle creative writing.
http://everybodylovesacane.blogspot.com/


Friday game: Bunny Invasion 2
Every bunny dies, but not every bunny truly lives.
http://www.kongregate.com/games/GPStudios/bunny-invasion-2


Japanese black-face
And finally, one benefit of broadening your cultural horizons is the exposure to how other cultures get their bizarro racist laughs on. E for effort maybe, I guess (?).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4QB7cHdVfs


Famous last words
"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together." -- Bette Davis


Enjoy and have a bueno weekend,
vW

Bad news

White People Problems
Difficult crossword puzzles, in-grown hairs, and declining stock portfolios -- it's hard out here for a caucasian.
http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/white_problems/


The Hope Chest
Downer news stories from the past.
http://mrparallel.wordpress.com/


ONN: Prison Economy Spirals As Price Of Pack Of Cigarettes Surpasses Two Hand Jobs
The Daily Tube review: "Even underground prison economies are feeling the burn of the global financial meltdown. In prisons, cigarettes are regarded as the staple of the economy, and are almost universally used as currency. If a pack of cigarettes costs as much as two handjobs, you're going to see a lot of cigarettes not making it to the market."
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/prison_economy_spirals_as_price


Uncomfortable Plot Summaries
Pithy and non-PC.
http://www.postmodernbarney.com/2009/04/uncomfortable-plot-summaries/


QuOteD
"The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity." -- Harlan Ellison


My First Dictionary
This should most probably not be anyone's first dictionary, especially impressionable young minds.
http://myfirstdictionary.blogspot.com/


Is this your luggage?
I'm guessing the good stuff doesn't make it onto the site.
http://www.isthisyourluggage.com/Site/Luggage_home.html


Friday game: Unfair Traps
Watch out for that message box.
http://www.bored.com/games/play/244/Unfair-Traps.html


Wolf n' pig
And finally, an interesting (to say the least) stop motion film starring lots of photos, a guy in wolf headdress, and a paper mache pig that looks like a giant mouse. Enjoy it on technical merit if nothing else.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmkLlVzUBn4


Famous last words
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continuously fearing you will make one." -- Elbert Hubbard


Enjoy your two days,
vW

Customer relations

Alohamigo,

With the havoc that downloads have caused on some musicians' traditional revenue, you've got to be impressed by former Nine Inch Nails drummer Josh Freese's selling tactics. Sure, you can simply download his album for $7, but the more you spend the more additional goodies he throws in. For $50 he'll call you up and thank you personally. For $1000, he'll come to your house and do your laundry among other things. And it only gets better from there.

Masterminded music marketing
http://mashable.com/2009/02/20/josh-freese-album-promotion/


How to torment telemarketers with one word
This devious clown enjoys winding up the caller by answering all of his questions with "yes". Stick with it to the bitter end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh4EPcOpSy8


"Car Ad" with Andy Richter
The Daily Tube review: "Do you drive a Hyundai? Are you tired of Prius-driving dicks? Stay calm or you'll end up like Andy Richter."
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/2defe22fe0/andy-richter-car-commercial


QuOteD
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." -- Sir Winston Churchill


Tool of the day: Bullshit detector
http://ruletheweb.co.uk/b3ta/bullshit/


Game break: The Fast and The Funniest
Think you're funny? Then write a worthy caption for a random photo in under a minute, and beat the other players in the round.
http://captionx.com/


Letter man
And finally, this dude wrote a ton of idiotic letters to companies, claiming, for instance, that an IKEA sofa teleported him to Paris. His creative rantings have generated some surprisingly nice replies from bored CSRs. Here's one of the better examples.
http://www.rollzero.com/chads-letters/157-a-letter-to-brylcreem


Famous last words
"Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive." -- William F. Buckley, Jr.


Ciao for now,
vW

The devil, you say

Happy Friday,

Although I don't watch the show "Hell's Kitchen", I am aware that it features a Satan-possessed chef yelling at a bunch of battling kitchenaries. I can only imagine it would probably harken me back to the family kitchen during the holidays. Perhaps this imaginary reenactment of celeb chef Gordon Ramsay's devilish start will make more sense to the better initiated.

Hell hath no fury like a lunchbox scorned
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL0zxK_aXWM


Let sleeping dogs lie
Gangway -- possessed sleeping dog with a first-rate comedy ending.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2BgjH_CtIA


What is...Presidential Jeopardy
Amusing clip from the last days of Leno's Tonight Show a few weeks back. (Thanks Bomser)
http://www.nbc.com/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/video/clips/presidential-jeopardy-0212/1017401/


Creepy kid shows
Cable access shows aside, the strangest stuff on TV has to be children's programming. See if you don't agree. Are your children watching this stuff?
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/16069


QuOteD
"People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty." -- Peter F. Drucker


Paint it your way
If something can be used to make a mark on paper, then it can be used to make a drawing. Marvel at this greasy-fingered artist who uses burger fat as his application of choice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orjALWsyaR4


Cash4Cash.com
Someone tell Ed McMahon -- his spare change could actually be worth something.
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/fea6b1fdd4/cash-4-cash


Friday game: Ultimate Crab Battle
This one skips right to the ultimate battle. Heck, you're riding a shark with a frickin' laser beam.
http://www.kongregate.com/games/wiesi/ultimate-crab-battle


Dead At Your Age
And finally, some congratulations are in order -- you've outlived some interesting people. Tell 'em your date of birth, and they'll tell you who they were.
http://dead.atyourage.com/


Famous last words
"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk." -- Joaquin Setanti


Hasta luego,
vW

Strange new worlds

Rome wasn't built in a day, although in fairness it wasn't computer-generated. By contrast, in this award winning short, a strange man builds a world using holographic tools for the woman he loves. Visually stunning, it was created by filmmaker Bruce Branit (apparently known as the co-creator of '405'), and was shot in a single day followed by about two years of post production.

World Builder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzFpg271sm8


Twouble with Twitters
The problem with Twitter is that it's difficult to "get", though that doesn't seem to stop a few million people from doing it. If you're one who finds it difficult to see the point of it all, then you'll find a certain satisfaction in this slickly produced cartoon in which a young man struggles against the pressure to Twitter his life away.
http://current.com/items/89891774/supernews_twouble_with_ twitters.htm


Experts Agree Giant, Razor-Clawed Bioengineered Crabs Pose No Threat
The Daily Tube review: Though the crabs have only been engineered to help in construction, just make sure you don't catch any of these during Spring Break this year.
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/experts_agree_giant_razor_clawed


QuOteD
"The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing." -- Lady Nancy Astor


Buggy mechanism
If genetically mutated crabs don't bother you, then neither will these fairly creepy photos of dead insects that have been "case-modded" with antique watch parts. As B3TA said, "Could be the early work of a particularly meticulous steam-punk serial killer. They start with animals, you know."
http://www.insectlabstudio.com/?item/311


The Uninvisible Art of Amazing Urban Camouflage
Camouflage isn't just for hunters and the army anymore -- it's being used to make artistic statements, beautify urban environments, make ugly cars look nicer and for shock value. These examples of unusual use of camouflage show how versatile the concept is, from making homes blend into forest environments to creating eerie optical illusion effects in photography.
http://weburbanist.com/2009/02/09/the-uninvisible-art-of-amazing-urban-camouflage/


What's the angle?
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes this ain't exactly right. Distance overlapping, positions, and timing can sometimes create a brand new perspective of a photo. This weekend, we want to show you 100+ Funny Photos Taken At Unusual Angle, a compilation of photos taken at the exact right timing and angle, thus creating a humor side of the story; intentionally or unintentionally.
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/100-funny-photos-taken-at-unusual-angle-humor/


Having Fun, Wish You Were Here
And finally, it was news to me hearing that Chernobyl's tourism industry is growing. Check a few chilling photos from this fellow's travelogue -- it would be an excellent location to shoot a low-budget zombie flick (medical insurance for the crew not included).
http://www.grcade.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2217


Famous last words
"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt


Hasta luego,
vW

Tech the good with the bad

Happy Friday,

Technology makes our lives easier in so many ways, but there's no gratis lunch. These benefits come with a certain penalty in frustration, especially as you come to rely on them. To wit, this clip from Conan O'Brien's show featuring comedian Louis CK with a rant on the "spoiled generation". Good stuff, even if you are a member.

Everything's amazing, nobody is happy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoGYx35ypus


Extreme Sheep LED Art
We took to the hills of Wales armed to the teeth with sheep, LEDs and a camera, to create a huge amazing LED display. Of sorts. (Thanks Professor)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw


5-Second Films
Useless yet amusing video diversions, "Wasting your time, but not very much."
http://5secondfilms.com/


QuOteD
"Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation." -- William H. Sheldon


Use Twitter to make sentences
This site uses Twitter to finish off sentences that you start, with the goal of hilarious, unexpected or nonsensical results.
http://www.meandr.net/


A/V Geeks
And for that matter, check this collection of classic not-a-parody-but-seems-like-it-is educational films.
http://www.avgeeks.com/our-films-online/


Friday Game: Manifold
Work with it.
http://www.bored.com/games/play/132/Manifold.html


The Roads Less Traveled
And finally, cool time lapse footage that makes all the scenes look like beautiful scale models. And by the way, the film maker (aspiring cinematographer) is looking for a job, too.
http://rossching.com/movies/eclectic30/480p/


Famous last words
"All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income." -- Samuel Butler


Enjoy and have a good weekend,
vW

Alternative presentation

Forrest Gump, one minute, one take
The Tom Hanks neo-classic reduced to its basic elements, which mostly appear to have been made of cardboard. Watch this "light" version and save several hours of your life for something worthwhile.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOvgJ0TxdfI


Octomom Birth Video
A little clip of "Octomom" Nadya Suleman giving birth, courtesy of "Jimmy Kimmel Live". (Thanks Kory)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxtgLzi-aK0


PuppetPlay
I wouldn't normally have much of anything to do with Coldplay but the video is visually cool, with the band represented as marionettes performing at a village fair.
http://www.coldplay.com/videolitii.php


QuOteD
"Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died." -- Steven Wright


Swapping villains
A little switch-up -- this Worth1K contest has villains from one film transposed into a completely different film.
http://www.worth1000.com/contest.asp?contest_id=23005#entries


1x10^12
And something worth a few extra zeroes -- here's what a trillion dollars looks like.
http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html


Game break: I'm a Celebrity, Don't Run Me Over
Think you could resist running these privileged swine over...?
http://r8urm8.com/fun


WWW, now with bacon
And finally, add a delicious-looking strip of bacon to the website of your choosing, as in this example. Everything's better with bacon, right?
http://bacolicio.us


Famous last words
"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." -- Ovid


War in,
vW

Taking the good with the bad

Aloha and happy Friday the 13th again,

Good stuff and bad stuff...we all have our share of each. This video -- a mix tape of the best NFL Fantasy Player Files with each video containing a different NFL player doing a cool move -- is definitely good stuff (with other varieties of stuff follow). And wishing a happy birthday to CJK (a.k.a., Boop)....

Pick me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHH-6ZQktRQ


How Not To Avoid Tough Questions
Frightening witch lady uses blatant dumbass tactics in a TV interview. Nice try.
http://www.break.com/index/chick-owned-during-interview.html


Awesome motorcycle stunt
Changing the front tire while riding a motorcycle. (Or if you want to see it tried with a car, go to 3:30 in this video.)
http://www.snotr.com/video/2391

Holy scheisse
Not-so-awesome boating experience.
http://www.chilloutzone.to/video/schiffaufprall.html


QuOteD
"Life's not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well." -- Jack London


Twits
Such is the allure of Twitter these days that when a software developer posts an audio guide to pronouncing his name, within minutes someone else will have taken a swipe with a dance remix. But here's the real proof that this thing has really gone too far.

This Toilet Is Awesome
Likely the most impressive video of toilet flushing prowess you've ever seen.
http://www.break.com/usercontent/2009/3/This-Toilet-Is-Awesome-680472.html


Friday game: Tiny trials
A series of small challenges, like much of life in general.
http://tinymania.com/play/TinyTrials


Top 10 funniest news reporter bloopers
And finally, you think your local TV news guy, Mr. Perfect Hair, is always on top of things? Not so much. And when local and national news reporters mess up, chances are the cameras are rolling. That makes for great YouTube fodder. Here are the top 10 funniest news reporter bloopers on YouTube.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10190584-2.html?tag=nl.e703


Famous last words
"You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are." -- Jeph Jacques


Enjoy and have a good weekend,
vW

Purchasing power

Buenos dias amigo,

The Daily Tube review: "We're not sure how this fake commercial for the future nationalized Citibank portrays anything different from the norm; the line at certain banks is already like the DMV. We're looking at you, Shmank of Shmamerica." Or as Rebecca Johnson once said, "Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it."

Introducing The New Nationalized Citibank
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c130f64d6f/the-new-f-ing-citibank


Tip Jar
A collection of money saving tips submitted and ranked by the web community.
http://moderator.appspot.com/#16/e=3cfc


Old ads
Amazing what and how they used to advertise in the good old days.
http://www.weirdomatic.com/creepy-ads.html


Quick pic: Coolest business card ever
(Note: this is the opinion of the poster.)
http://positivesharing.com/2009/02/coolest-business-card-ever/


QuOteD
"I love to go to Washington -- if only to be near my money." -- Bob Hope


Who's Buying What?
A look at where people around the world are directing some of their purchasing power.
http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/transparency/014/014-buying-whos-buying-what.html


Quick pic: The Funniest Picture You'll See Today
Mind the hazards of using images from Google News on air. (Thanks RayGun)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/03/the-funniest-picture-youl_n_171530.html


Game on: Pi guess so
Can you fill in (i.e., guess) the digits of pi?
http://www.sporcle.com/games/pi.php


Slide out of work early
And finally, proving that credit cards work better in the UK, an office worker commutes via waterslide and swipes his way through subways and grocery stores with his RFID card in this ambitiously silly bit of marketing from Barclaycard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ1PeXPNCrM


Famous last words
"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." -- J. Paul Getty


Hasta,
vW

Such is life

Happy Fri,

Sometimes things go the way they go, whether or not you want them to. For instance, this hapless QVC host as he tries to hawk a telly while Charlie Brooker's "TBCiA" (the video that this is in response to, which itself is humorous) repeatedly pops up on the screen.

Infomercial SNAFU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPKRs3LF88M


"30"
Check out this epic battle as a small band of hornets takes on a sh**swarm of bees. Sort of like the insect version of the movie "300", but more of an ass-whooping believe it or not. Nature is proved cruel once again. And once again, nice guys finish last.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDSf3Kshq1M


Quick pic: Tattoos are for life
http://vinweasel.posterous.com/tattoos-are-for-life


Comin' 'round the mountain
Amazing downhill mountain biking footage filmed with a helmet-cam in the French Alps. Crazy frickin' bastards -- lucky the wheels didn't come off.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2m62b_mondial-du-vtt-descente-de-venosc-c


QuOteD
"We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower


Smugopedia
Pretend you know better.
http://www.smugopedia.com/


Poladroid
It's not really dead.
http://www.poladroid.net/


Gamesm: Chasm
Your platypus needs help escaping the canyon. (Whose doesn't?)
http://www.tubegame.com/chasm.html


Shake a Tail Feather
And finally, you've got to admire this parrot's gung-ho appreciation for classic R&B. You've got to imagine he's done this act a thousand times by now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bt9xBuGWgw


Famous last words
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." -- Walter Bagehot


Have a bueno weekend,
vW