Google's Annual April Fools' Day Prank

Not to be outdone, Google announced their new FREE in-home wireless broadband service! Aptly named TiSP -- short for Toilet iSP -- the service comes complete with a self-installation kit. Instructions for Installation are HERE. And the Press Announcement is HERE.

Hyundai Avante Stunt Driving Team

Now THIS is some fancy driving. My favorite is about 6 minutes in and the guy changes the tire... well, you'll see.

Want to Feel Small?

In the universal scheme of things, we're pretty damn small. You can get some idea of just how small by spending a little time checking out a new Nikon site called Universale HERE. And believe it or not, the entire piece is done in flash.

Why Men Never Get Published in Dear Abby

Dear Abby,

I’ve never written to you before, but I really need your advice on what could be a crucial decision. I’ve suspected for some time now that my wife has been cheating on me.

The usual signs… Phone rings but if I answer, the caller hangs up.

My wife has been going out with the girls a lot recently although when I ask their names she always says, “Just some friends from work, you don’t know them.”

I always stay awake to look out for her taxi coming home, but she always walks down the drive. Although I can hear a car driving off, as if she has gotten out of the car round the corner. Why? Maybe she wasn’t in a taxi?

I once picked her cell phone up just to see what time it was and she went berserk and screamed that I should never touch her phone again and why was I checking up on her.

Anyway, I have never approached the subject with my wife. I think deep down I just didn’t want to know the truth, but last night she went out again and I decided to really check on her.

I decided I was going to park my Harley Davidson motorcycle next to the garage and then hide behind it so I could get a good view of the whole street when she came home. It was at that moment, crouching behind my Harley, that I noticed that the valve covers on my engine seemed to be leaking a little oil.

Is this something I can fix myself or should I take it back to the dealer?

Sincerely,
Jilted

Great Doormat

The message depends on whether you're coming or going. You can get your own from a shop called Suck UK Design.

South Park Theory of Evolution NSFW

Who's the Environmentalist?

Look over the descriptions of the following two houses and see if you can tell which house belongs to an environmentalist:

HOUSE # 1:
















A 20-room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house all heated by gas. In ONE MONTH ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural gas alone (which last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. Oh -- and this house is not in a northern or Midwestern "snow belt," either -- it's in the South.

HOUSE # 2:

















Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university, this house incorporates every "green" feature current home construction can provide. The house contains only 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on a high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in winter and cools it in summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas, and it consumes 25% of the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Flowers and shrubs native to the area blend the property into the surrounding rural landscape.



HOUSE #1 (20 room energy guzzling mansion) is outside of Nashville,Tennessee. It is the abode of that renowned environmentalist (and filmmaker) Al Gore.

HOUSE #2 (model eco-friendly house) is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas,also known as "the Texas White House," it is the private residence of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.

And a piece from the Washington Times HERE.

Don't you just love hypocrisy?

Employee of the Year

No idea who to credit for this picture in my Inbox but here it is...

Jerome Murat

Jerome Murat is a performance artist from France and this is an 8-minute clip from one of his stage shows. (Not your typical mime act, I tell ya!)

jerome murat

Microsoft Tech Support

As originally posted on New York Nerd:

Dress Up Mohammed Page

Well, if those Danish political cartoons didn't piss off the EuroMuslims enough last year, then the Dress Up Mohammed site might! Just go out and kill a whole bunch more people to convince everyone how peaceful you are.

Seattle Times' Annual Peeps Contest

Every year, the Seattle Times sponsors their tacky -- but fun -- Peeps Contest (article and call for entries HERE). Artist Mike Leavitt has submitted his Anna Nicole peep sculpture. I love it!

Greetings... from Hell.

I had heard of underground coal mine fires before but have never seen one up close or in video. Here's a post from some people who went through Centralia, Pennsylvania last year and took a lot of pictures. The entire town was completely evacuated and has been a ghost town since 1962. Spooky!

Original Drunk Squirrel Video

No animals were harmed in the making of this home video. Apparently, these people came home to find this squirrel that had gotten drunk from eating their fermented pumpkins...

Greatest Urinals

An incredible collection of the most amazing urinals as posted HERE.

Never Be First or Last in a Real Estate Deal

From ChongQing (formerly known as Chung King) comes this story of a diehard who decided to hold out and be the last man standing in a new real estate development. You never want to be the guy who is approached first when a new project is being assembled. But you sure as hell REALLY don't want to be the last guy out either. Especially when you're asking for an astronomical sum for your little piece of earth. As reported in the local paper Sou Fun.

Don't Forget Daylight Savings Time is THIS Weekend!

As shown on Comedy Central's The Daily Show episode Aclockalypse Now (Viacom is now trying to host their clips on their own sites after yanking 'em all off YouTube).

Apple Commercial Mashup

Remember Apple's 1984 Commercial for the new Macintosh? Here's a political re-make on YouTube:

The Queen Does deNiro

IMHO Craig Ferguson is the funniest late show host (and probably the most consistently stoned). Here's a clip from one of last week's shows that was aired right after the Oscars.

Bob Dylan Dr. Seuss Mashup

Something old Bob Dylan fans will appreciate at Dylan Hears a Who. And I love that scratchy, tiny turntable...

The Amazing Rototron Cornbobber

Get yours today! Watch the infomercial:

Malfunction Junctions

A 19-year old driver went off the Bellevue Way exit on I-90 this past Saturday night. I mean, REALLY went off the exit. Another driver who witnessed the airborne accident had called it in but police and highway patrol looked for the car and couldn't find it. 12 hours later, the car was spotted in the water 50 feet below the ramp and the dead driver was pulled from the wreckage. (Seattle Times article HERE.)

What I didn't know was that there's a name for traffic engineering nightmares: Malfunction Junctions. In fact, Wikipedia actually has a listing of some of the worst in the US complete with Google aerial views. Then I came across another blog posting for some of the wackiest ones from around the world HERE. So here's to traffic engineers everywhere: What were they thinking of?

An Early News Piece from the 80's on "The Internet"

As shown on the CBC in Canada and now posted on YouTube. Very prescient. I love how easily so much of these bits are now available on... The Internet. (No mention of Al Gore...)

Tired of Heroes?

Trailer for the new series:

Monty Python Spamalot Game

From AddictingGames.

Great Typography

Using the audio from a very familiar scene out of Pulp Fiction, the folks at Motionographer produced this short QuickTime movie using some creative typography. A very creative use of type.

Cool Product of the Week

The Roberts Toot Tone:

Damon Wayans Gets a Prostate Exam

And by none other than Lou Rawls as the doctor (no idea why it's dubbed in Spanish at the beginning!)

YouTube Video: A World without America

Speaks for itself:

3D Pictures on Your Computer Screen!

What an original approach to creating a 3D look with photos! More examples HERE. Even though this site is over in Germany, do some of the pics look like they're from Burning Man?

Possibly the Worst Commercial of the Year

Caught a clip of this on Craig Ferguson tonight and HAD to find and share it:

Living Wills

Living Wills: Be careful to say what you mean.

While watching the SuperBowl last weekend, my wife and I got into a conversation about life and death and the need for living wills.

During the course of the conversation I told her that I "...never want to exist in a vegetative state, dependent on electronic machines and taking fluids from a bottle.."

She got up, unplugged the TV and threw out all my beer.

Nora, The Piano-Playing Cat

And the website is HERE.

I'd Hate to See It When They Flush!

Another one of those I-didn't-know-they-had-these concepts. Pictures of the world's biggest drain hole (link HERE).

Real Home Remedies that Work

Are you tired of all those ridiculous lists of home remedies people keep forwarding in their e-mails? Well, here's a collection that really works so you can send something back to all the people who have been so helpful.

Amazingly Simple Home Remedies

1. If you're choking on an ice cube, don't panic. Simply pour a cup of boiling water down your throat and presto - the blockage will be removed almost instantly.

2. Clumsy? Avoid cutting yourself while slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold them while you chop away.

3. You can avoid arguments with the Missus about lifting the toilet seat just by using the sink.

4. For high blood pressure sufferers - simply cut yourself and bleed for a few minutes, thus reducing the pressure in your veins. Always remember to use an egg timer.

5. A mousetrap placed on top of your alarm clock will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

6. If you have a bad cough, take a large dose of laxatives. Then you'll be afraid to cough.

7. Have a bad toothache? Smash your thumb with a hammer and you'll forget all about the toothache.

8. Sometimes, we just need to remember what the rules of life really are. In life, you only need two tools: WD-40 and Duct Tape. If it doesn't move but should, use the WD-40. If it shouldn't move but does, use the duct tape.

9. Remember: Everyone seems normal until you get to know them.

10. Never pass up an opportunity to go to the bathroom.

11. Some people are like Slinkies: They're not really good for anything but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.

A Collection of Strange Statues from Around the World

Seattle's Fremont Bridge Troll is No. 9 in this fantastic collection HERE.

What the F*ck IS that Thing?

Weirdest bug I've ever seen. (A wood asp, according to the post.)

One Weird Ass Bug - Click Here to Watch

Speaking Foreign Tongues

Just for fun at OddCast. And her eyes follow your cursor around too.

Some Serious Kung-Fu

As posted on Yahoo! videos.

More Photoshop Animals

These are some of the best Photoshopped animal pics I've seen. The collection is HERE.

Commercial of the Week from Britain

This is a very thought-provoking commercial from the UK. Not a funny one this time.

Performance Art at its best

Something Amazing - video powered by Metacafe

Never-Seen-Before Pictures of Hiroshima

WARNING: Some of these pictures will make you sick to your stomach. As posted on Fogonazos.com.

This is Steve Ballmer's Office?

If this recent picture from the New York Times is real, then I take back a lot of what I've said about him (but not everything)!

Commercial of the Week: What Hands Can Do

From Volkswagen. Just a nice and simple-looking commercial.

SHHH -- Society for Hand Held Hushing

A nice collection of printable cards to hand out to your favorite cell phone offenders. Downloadable as a PDF file HERE.

Columbian Public Service Anti-Drug Commercial

Speaks for itself, no English subtitles needed:

MythBusters Fan?

Every MythBusters Myth all on one web page HERE Are they confirmed, plausible or busted?

Best Condom Ad

Great Hand Jobs!

Get your mind out of the gutter! Hand painting at its best HERE.

"Commercial" of the Week

Cheating Wife - video powered by Metacafe

The Cowboy Boots

(Anyone who has ever dressed a child will love this one!)


Did you hear about the Texas teacher who was helping one of her kindergarten students put on his cowboy boots?

He asked for help and she could see why. Even with her pulling and him pushing, the little boots still didn't want to go on. By the time they got the second boot on, she had worked up a sweat.

She almost cried when the little boy said, "Teacher, they're on the wrong feet."

She looked, and sure enough, they were. It wasn't any easier pulling the boots off than it was putting them on. She managed to keep her cool as together they worked to get the boots back on, this time on the right feet.

He then announced, "These aren't my boots."

She bit her tongue rather than get right in his face and scream, "Why didn't you say so?" like she wanted to. Once again, she struggled to help him pull the ill-fitting boots off his little feet.

No sooner had they gotten the boots off when he said, "They're my brother's boots. My Mom made me wear 'em."

Now she didn't know if she should laugh or cry. But she managed to muster up what grace and courage she had left to wrestle the boots back on his feet again.

Helping him into his coat, she asked, "Now, where are your mittens?"

He said, "I stuffed 'em in the toes of my boots."

She will be eligible for parole in three years.

Worth1000 Contest: Newest Apple Products from CES

Another fun Worth1000 Photoshop contest to see what might be the next cool Apple products to come.

C/net Covers the New Boeing 747-8 Tour

Boeing recently unveiled the new interior of the 747-8 Dreamliner and C/net was there to cover it in their slideshow :

For my Pregnant Friends

Hey what's up with this? I have two friends named Laura, both expecting babies in February. This one's for them!

Dumbass of the Week

The video speaks for itself.

Let Virgin America Fly

Sir Richard Branson owns the global Virgin brand. From music to publishing to airlines, he brings quality products at common man prices. His most recent attempt to bring his value business model to America is Virgin America, a luxury-filled plane at regular prices. But the FAA won't give him a license to operate in the domestic markets. So to get their message across to the US air traveler, they've produced their own viral video clip to show you what you're missing. If watching the video pisses you off, you can then follow up and go to letVAfly.com and send a message telling the regulators to let 'em fly! (Besides, I love the name!)

Ha -- English Translations from Chinese Subtitles

This guy bought a Chinese bootleg DVD of Star Wars III Revenge of the Sith. It looks like whoever made these copies took it upon themselves to re-translate the Chinese subtitles back into a very poor English interpretation. I mean VER-RY poor. I love it! Check out all the sample screens here.

Bizarre Video

As shown on YouTube.

What Does Color Blindness Look Like?

I was surprised when I first learned that color blindness doesn't actually mean you can't see certain colors. Color blind people might see the colors very differently or very similarly depending on their condition. Vischeck is a website that has some interesting information as well as clear examples on the variations of color blindness. They also have a special page that applies an algorithm to images to help people with color blindness to "see" the colors they're missing.

All of this reminds me of the first time I'd encountered someone with color blindness. I was in my early 20's and had gone into business with a friend of mine. One part of our shop was devoted to t-shirts with customized artwork and slogans that could be ironed on to order. Greg was the tall, funny kid who lived across the street from my house and we'd hired him to be our delivery driver. But after days of pestering us to work the front counter, we finally relented and let him work up front one morning when he didn't have any deliveries. About five minutes later, Greg comes running back to my desk in the back, whispering, "Hey Robert -- Could you help me out up front with a customer?"

As we headed up to the counter, I asked him, "What's the problem? This guy giving you a hard time, Greg?" To which he muttered back, "I'm colorblind. I can't tell which t-shirts are red!" After helping him take care of the customer, I think we all ended up spending an hour or two asking him all sorts of questions about his condition; when did he first find out, what's it like, what does he see... Being artists, my partner and I were completely fascinated. Oh -- and we ended up tagging the shelves of t-shirts so that the colors were marked on labels so Greg could help out at the front counter.

In the end, do we really know who actually sees normally and who sees differently?

Do You Really Want to Know How Long You're Going to Live?

Then answer these questions honestly in this Longevity Calculator developed by a couple of Harvard Medical School researchers. It says I'm supposed to live to 96 (!??). Not sure if that's good or bad.

Love Poem Generator

For all you budding romantics out there! Hit up CraigsList and send them all a Love Poem using the Love Poem Generator.

Infectious Laugh

A friend sent me a link to this YouTube video entitled, Dad at Comedy Barn. You'll know what I mean when you get around 1:30 into the clip.

IMPORTANT: PMS Survival Guide for Men

A must-see!

When It Comes Time to Say Hasta la Vista, Baby!

One of the editors at PC World took it upon himself to join a whole bunch of different online services and groups just to see what it would take to cancel them later. Sadly, most of the results aren't all too surprising. The worst offenders were the ones which made it next-to-impossible for the average user to find out how to cancel their service or subscription.

I'm personally surprised to see that EarthLink (my ISP for many years) is only listed as SOME Hassle rather than BIG Hassle but I guess some of the others might be even worse (if you can imagine that!). One of the main reasons I'm still with EarthLink is that they owe me so much money right now that the only way to get it all back is to continue with their service at a ridiculously low monthly fee so they can pay me back over time (they claim they can't refund more than 60 days to any account -- what's up with THAT?!!!).

Anyway, link to the article is HERE. Check out the complete list.

The Simpsons Done Anime Style

Once in a while, something is so incredibly well done, you just have to kick back and appreciate it. Spacecoyote in DeviantArt.com does her unique anime takes on other famous cartoon characters. Herewith, her Simpsonzu. And check out her Futurama interpretation while you're on her site.

George Carlin: The Planet is Fine

Certainly one of my favorite George Carlin monologues: The Planet is Fine. In his typical approach, Carlin lays out the reasons why the Earth is doing just fine, thank you very much. In two parts as shown on YouTube HERE and HERE.

From WiseGeek: What Does 200 Calories Look Like?

OK -- for all you New Year's Resolution freaks hell-bent on losing weight this year (again!), this visual page from WiseGeek shows 200 calories of just about everything you might eat. Some of it is really surprising! It takes just half of a Jack in the Box cheeseburger to make 200 calories.

The Good Dog!

Type in something on this site for this good doggie to do. (great Flash code.) Try stuff like Sit, Roll Over, Jump, Fetch, Run... then check out Kiss if you're brave!

Cover Your Jaguar in Post-It Notes!

This one's for my friend, Sally! Entire slideshow is posted (pun intended!) on Flickr HERE.

Telling Your Gender from How You Write

Wow! A couple of researchers from the Bar-Ilan University of Israel and Illinois Institute of Technology collaborated on the development of an algorithm that can figure out your gender by reading a sample of your writing style. Here's the LINK to a site where you can paste a sample of your writing to see how well it actually works. (P.S. -- My sample worked.)

Just How Bad WAS Last Week's Storm?

A really great example of Flash coding on this site, ROXIK. Drag-and-drop to your heart's content. I'm sure this is how some people actually felt!

A Gift for The Person of the Year

So... now that you've made TIME Magazine's Person of the Year, what do you get yourself as a pat-on-the-back? How about some art? In fact, how about your DNA or your fingerprint enlarged and colorized for your living room wall? dna11 will print and mount a customized one-of-a-kind piece of art from... YOU!

SNL Video Viewed 2 Million Times

Justin Timberlake was guest host AND musical guest on Saturday Night Live last weekend. One of his skits was a parody of his boy band days featuring a special Christmas gift for your girlfriend. As uploaded on YouTube.

Gawker Stalker

The Gawker site has been using a GoogleMaps mashup to post celebrity sitings around New York. Kinda spooky but fun. Check out GawkerStalker.

Hee-eeere's Johnny!

Over the years, I've collected a lot of Dirty Little Johnny jokes. At long last, someone finally sent me a picture of Johnny with his classmates. Can you guess which one's Johnny?

Merry Christmas from the Chin!

Seasons Greetings from my friend, Elicia (as shown on YouTube):

Bill Clinton Kills Santa!

As posted on YouTube. (Lighten up -- it's just a joke!)

How Drunk Can You Get?

From the BBC as shown on YouTube.

Never Underestimate the Value of a College Education

Three aspiring psychiatrists from various colleges were attending their first class on emotional extremes.

"Just to establish some parameters," said the professor to the student from the University of North Carolina, "What is the opposite of joy?"

"Sadness." said the student.

"And the opposite of depression?" he asked of the young lady from the University of South Carolina.

"Elation."

"And you sir," he said to the young man from Clemson University, "how about the opposite of woe?"

The Clemson Tiger replied, "Sir, I believe that would be giddy-up."

Seinfeld Oz Mashup

If any of you have followed Seinfeld over the years and perhaps caught a few episodes of the prison show Oz, you'll probably get a chuckle out of this SNL mashup of the two shows (as shown on YouTube).

People Who Can't See Faces

I remember seeing a short feature during a TV news show on this interesting condition: the inability of a very rare segment of our population to distinguish faces. Face Blindness. I can't imagine not being able to recognize or remember anyone's face. Not even your own in some cases. Studies were scarce since mental health professionals seldom ran across sufficient numbers to conduct a study. But among the many paradigm shifts that happened when the Internet came along, people with this condition finally found a forum to communicate with each other and the rest of the world. So much more has been learned about what the experience is like from reading all the recent posts and blogs about Face Blindness. A good place to start is Bill Choisser's Face Blindness (Prosopagnosia) Pages HERE.

How Italians Tell Time

I think this clip's from Il Postino?

What a Chat Room Might Look Like in Real Life

An excellent skit. As seen on YouTube.

Commercial of the Week: Nissan Independent Suspension

Nissan in Germany wanted to find a way to show how independent suspension actually works. So they found a nice visual way to get men's attention. Of course, they won't be showing this any time soon in North America... (as shown on YouTube.)

Coolest Periodic Table of the Elements I've Ever Seen

Wish we had interactive posters when I was learning chemistry in school. Check it out at Popular Science's website HERE.

Shape & Color Personality Test

Only takes a few minutes and truly insightful -- Shape Test HERE.

Fun with Stop Animation

Tony vs. Paul from CollegeHumor. And the simple sound track ain't too bad either!

PC Geeks Gone Wild -- Part 10

Some of the craziest PC mods I've seen in a while as collected at Media-Post.

Classic Robin Williams Atomic Bong

Robin Williams on weed, Jamaica and NASA as shown on YouTube. Completely stoned...