Another Cool Niche Blog

I guess this is one of the cool things about blogs; anyone can write about just about anything. I found this site called Office Snapshots that posts pictures of interesting places of work like Apple, Google, Criagslist, Cisco and a lot of other places where people report to "work." To satisfy those who just have to look...

Wow! Color Footage of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse of 1940

You Know People are Getting Worse at Spelling When...

they've created a new website that helps you find stuff on eBay and CraigsList based on bad spelling (lots of it!). TypoBuddy.com Watch for even more ideas like this to emerge.

Get Your Digital Converter Rebate Coupons

Everything you wanted to know about the upcoming digital TV switchover in 2009. Including where to apply for up to two $40 rebate coupons from the government to help you with your converter box purchases.

Tech Support 101

Introducing... the Book! Gutenberg offers 'In your home' support.

Redneck Birth Control

á la Red Green...

How to Impress Girls with Dancing

Can't wait!

OMFG of the Day: Cheeseburger in a Can!

Barf! As posted earlier on GizMODO, we've seen it all now. Cheeseburger in a Can brought to you by the Germans. Cheeseburger in der Dose - yumm! Does anything coming out of a can ever look like the ad pictures?

Inside the Airbus A380 Cockpit

An interactive shot inside the cockpit of an Airbus A380.

Crazy Laws State-by-State

All listed on CrazyLaws.com. In Seattle, if a woman sits on a man's lap on a bus, she has to use a pillow or else face an automatic 6-month jail term! And you need a license to sell condoms in Washington State!

Like a Remote Control for the Web

Link to All My Faves HERE.

Google Maps Gone Bad

Could you pass the US citizenship test?

The Boston Globe posted 14 questions from the list of 100 questions used on the U.S. citizenship test. To pass, you have to answer 7 or 8 questions correctly out of 10.

Years ago, I remember studying for days on end before going in for my Green Card test years ago only to have the immigration guys ask me 3 idiot questions like, " Who would be in line to be President if something should happen to the current President?" After answering the three questions correctly, I asked the immigration officer, " What about the 13 colonies? How about the number of congressmen and senators?" He simply looked at his list and - without even looking up or so much as blinking and eye - answered, "I don't see those questions on the list." When prodded, he did volunteer that the people who tend to fail the test were mostly Canadians and Brits who spoke English and assumed that they would know the answers without studying.

Anyway, surprise yourself. Try the test!

Saturday Distraction

OK all you armchair generals out there. Discovery Channel posted a game simulation of the army's new NLOS (Non-Line-of-Sight) cannon so you can see what kind of spatial sense you need to fire one of these suckers accurately.

WARNING: Highly addictive! (At least to most guys!)

Site is HERE.

Best Cubicle Prank

Teddy Bear Inside Out

Kent Rogowski is an artist with a project that he's managed to develop into an exhibition complete with prints and a book. What's his project? Turning Teddy Bears Inside Out.

Wah Wah! I Want a Snow Day!

I have no idea why this reflected badly on the school administrator instead of the dumbass kid who left him a voicemail asking why it wasn't a snow day. Maybe the school official should post his own YouTube response for this little jerk.

And Just HOW Cold Was It in Newfoundland?

It was SO cold, the waves were freezing as they came in to shore!

Tale of Two Brains from Mark Gungor

Mar and Venus explained in 5 minutes.



And Mark Gungor's thoughts on Men & Women on Sex:

Die Young and Leave a Terrific Corpse

But do you know what that corpse is worth? Find out at The Cadaver Calculator. Answer 20 simple questions to find out if you might be worth more dead or alive!

What to Wear When the Wife has Chores for You

You CAN Read Other Languages!

Great ad for Berlitz Language Schools. Look closely:

Katnip Kollege

Merry Melodies Katnip Kollege from 1938 finally in the pubic domain and recently uploaded to YouTube.

9 Phrases Women Use: The Video

Forget the iPhone!

Want to one-up those iPhone friends of yours? This one does it all.

Being Jackson Pollock

Some nice coding HERE.

Trailer from Al Gore's An Inconvenient Youth

Animated History of the International Space Station

Wow!

Bill Malone - Best Card Trick

Togetherness

Diary of a Snow Shoveler

From my brother back in Nova Scotia, after just shoveling out from under 5 snow storms in the past 2 weeks!

December 2: 6:00 PM

It started to snow. The first snow of the season and the wife and I took our cocktails and sat for hours by the window watching the huge soft flakes drift down from heaven. It looked like a Grandma Moses Print. So romantic we felt like newlyweds again. I love snow!

December 9:

We woke to a beautiful blanket of crystal white snow covering every inch of the landscape. What a fantastic sight! Can there be a more lovely place in the Whole World? Moving here was the best idea I've ever had. Shoveled for the first time in years and felt like a boy again. I did both our driveway and the sidewalks. This afternoon the snowplough came along and covered up the sidewalks and closed in the driveway, so I got to shovel again. What a perfect life.

December 12:

The sun has melted all our lovely snow. Such a disappointment. My neighbor tells me not to worry, we'll definitely have a white Christmas. No snow on Christmas would be awful! Bob says we'll have so much snow by the end of winter, that I'll never want to see snow again. I don't think that's possible. Bob is such a nice man, I'm glad he's our neighbor.

December 14:

Snow, lovely snow! 8 inches last night. The temperature dropped to -20. The cold makes everything sparkle so. The wind took my breath away, but I warmed up by shoveling the driveway and sidewalks. This is the life! The snowplough came back this afternoon and buried everything again. I didn't realize I would have to do quite this much shovelling, but I'll certainly get back in shape this way. I wish I wouldn't huff and puff so.

December 15:

20 inches forecast. Sold my van and bought a 4x4 Blazer. Bought snow tires for the wife's car and two extra shovels. Stocked the freezer. The wife wants a wood stove in case the electricity goes out. I think that's silly. We aren't in Alaska, after all.

December 16:

Ice storm this morning. Fell on my butt on the ice in the driveway putting down salt. Hurt like hell. The wife laughed for an hour which I think was very cruel.

December 17:

Still way below freezing. Roads are too icy to go anywhere. Electricity was off for five hours. I had to pile the blankets on to stay warm. Nothing to do but stare at the wife and try not to irritate her. Guess I should have bought a wood stove, but won't admit it to her. God I hate it when she's right. I can't believe I'm freezing to death in my own living room!

December 20:

Electricity's back on, but had another 14 inches of the damn stuff last night. More shoveling. Took all day. damn snowplough came by twice. Tried to find a neighbor kid to shovel, but they said they're too busy playing hockey. I think they're lying. Called the only hardware store around to see about buying a snow blower and they're out. Might have another shipment in March. I think they're lying. Bob says I have to shovel or the city will have it done and bill me. I think he's lying.

December 22:

Bob was right about a white Christmas, because 13 more inches of the white shit fell today, and it's so cold it probably won't melt 'til August. Took me 45 minutes to get all dressed up to go out to shovel, and then I had to piss. By the time I got undressed, pissed and dressed again, I was too tired to shovel! Tried to hire Bob - who has a plow on his truck - for the rest of the winter; but he says he's too busy. I think the asshole is lying.

December 23:

Only 2 inches of snow today and it finally warmed up to zero. The wife wanted me to decorate the front of the house this morning. What, is she nuts? Why didn't she tell me to do that a month ago? She says she did, but I think she's lying.

December 24:

Six inches! Snow packed so hard by snowplough, I broke the shovel. Thought I was having a heart attack. If I ever catch the son-of-a-bitch who drives that snowplough, I'll drag him through the snow by his balls and beat him to death with my broken shovel. I know he hides around the corner and waits for me to finish shoveling and then he comes down the street at a 100 mph and throws snow all over everywhere I've just been! Tonight the wife wanted me to sing Christmas carols with her and open our presents, but I was too busy watching for the damn snowplough.

December 25:

Merry F****** Christmas. 20 more inches of the @&^%)*% slop tonight. Snowed in. The idea of shoveling makes my blood boil. God, I hate the snow! Then the snowplough driver came by asking for a donation and I hit him over the head with my shovel. The wife says I have a bad attitude. I think she's a fricking idiot. If I have to watch "It's a Wonderful Life" one more time, I'm going to stuff her into the microwave.

December 26:

Still snowed in. Why the hell did I ever move here? It was all HER idea. She's really getting on my nerves.

December 27:

Temperature dropped to -30, and the pipes froze. Plumber came after 14 hours of waiting for him; he only charged me $1,400 to replace all my pipes.

December 28:

Warmed up to above -25. Still snowed in. The BITCH is driving me crazy!!!!!

December 29:

10 more inches. Bob says I have to shovel the roof or it could cave in. That's the silliest thing I ever heard. How dumb does he think I am?

December 30:

Roof caved in. I beat up the snowplough driver. He is now suing me for a million dollars; not only for the beating I gave him but also for trying to shove the broken snow shovel up his ass. The wife went home to her mother. 9 more inches predicted.

December 31:

I set fire to what's left of the house. No more shoveling.

January 8:

Feel so good. I just love those little white pills they keep giving me. Why am I tied to the bed?

Tackiest Car Dealers Anywhere

Ah yes - Kissimmee. A cowboy town on the way to Orlando (DisneyWorld) in Cenral Florida. And home of the Family Auto Mart. These brothers make the cheesiest local commercials and have an equally tacky website HERE. They have such a big following, they now even sell their own merchandise!

Best Print Ads

Most print ads in the past few years have gone back to being visual with little copy at all. Witty, provocative, eye-catching. Anything to get your attention quickly and to get the point across in a fast-moving world. Great collection is HERE.

Original Graffiti

Some first-class stuff HERE. (Site may be currently overloaded but keep trying - it's all worth checking out!)

Bill Gates' Last Day at Microsoft

I always hand the guy a lot of credit for being able to have some fun at his own expense. He opened his keynote speech at the 2008 Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas with this video about his final days at Microsoft.

No Way We Could Handle Driving Like This

In North America, drivers could never manage to drive cooperatively like they do in other parts of the world. Here's a clip from a busy - but normal - intersection taken by a traffic cam somewhere in India.

Think YOU Worked Hard When You Were a Kid?

They Did WHAT with That?

Yikes! A 19th Century Neurological Surgery tool kit HERE. Old Egyptian tools looked incredibly primitive but I suppose most of the tools we have today will look pretty damn crude in another 50 years or so too!

Wish I'd Found These Gift Boxes BEFORE Christmas!

On My Next Visit to Paris...

I gotta check out this building:

Living in Three Centuries

Photographer Mark Story took on a project to photograph portraits of people who have lived in three centuries. An incredible portfolio. His website is HERE.

Some Consequences of Globalization

This short clip is an eye-opener.

2007 Darwin Awards

Happy New Year! The votes are in and the 2007 List of Dawrin Award Winners is now final HERE.

Best Note Ever Left on a Windshield

White Trash Christmas

Now that all the Christmas niceties have been exchanged, let's have a look at how some of America REALLY celebrated Christmas...

A Very Cute Baby Clip

and the Evil Eye...


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Google 1960

30 Minutes on CNN Headline News

This is what goes down in a 30-minute cycle on CNN Headline "News."

Are You Smart or Stoopid?

Car Thief Warning

Simpsons House in Real Life

Cool reconstruction of what the Simpsons' House would look like in real life HERE.

If the Beatles Sang Stairway to Heaven

A fun cover of the Led Zepellin classic Stairway to Heaven done Beatles-style by an Australian tribute band from the 90's called the Beatnix.

Jack LaLanne on The Man Show

Adam Carolla visits with Jack LaLanne on a recent episode of The Man Show.

Homer Simpson takes a photo of himself every day for 39 years

With all those other photo sites up online, it had to finally happen!

Does Empty REALLY Mean Empty?

From an episode on 20/20 tonight:

Human Calendar

Best Online Photo Site of the Year

Photographer Jonathan Harris went along on a 7-day whale hunt in Alaska earlier this year. In the process, he took a photograph every 5 minutes to document the entire story and then published his portfolio online HERE. It's nothing short of a new approach in photojournalism.

One Cool Invention

An innovative ground-breaking idea for car doors. The inventors are trying to market this on their own site at Disappearing-Car-Door.com.

How Many Five Year Old Kids Could You Take in a Fight?

22

Canada Attacks!

The Executive Coloring Book

Every kid should have one. From 1961, comes The Executive Coloring Book poster HERE.

Patience

From the Vancouver Film School:

Best Puns

The ability to Make and Understand Puns Is the Highest Level of Language Development.

Here are the ten first place winners in the International Pun Contest:

1. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, 'I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.'

2. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says 'Dam!'

3. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.

4. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, 'I've lost my Electron.' The other says 'Are you sure?' The first replies, 'Yes, I'm positive.'

5. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication.

6. A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. 'But why?', they asked, as they moved off. 'Because,' he said,' I can't stand chess-nuts boasting in an open foyer.'

7. A woman has twins and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to Spain , they name him 'Juan'; the other went to a family in Egypt and is named 'Ahmal.' Years later, Juan sends a picture of himself to his birth mother. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she wishes she also had a picture of Ahmal. Her husband responds, 'They're twins! If you've seen Juan, you've seen Ahmal.'

8. A group of friars were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened up a small florist shop to raise funds Since everyone liked to buy flowers from the men of God, a rival florist across town thought the competition was unfair. He asked the good fathers to close down, but they would not. He went back and begged the friars to close. They ignored him. So, the rival florist hired Hugh MacTaggart, the roughest and most vicious thug in town to 'persuade' them to close. Hugh beat up the friars and trashed their store, saying he'd be back if they didn't close up shop. Terrified, they did so, thereby proving that only Hugh can prevent florist friars.

9. Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and, with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him (Oh, man, this is so bad, it's good) a super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.

10. And finally, there was the person who sent ten different puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.

Robin Williams on Viagra

Why Your Vanity Plates are Being Recalled

As most people know, there are certain vanity plates that your state DMV won't issue. Apparently, the rules had to be spelled out for this guy who ordered a plate with OPECFY stamped on it. In case, you have no idea why OPECFY is being recalled, here's a shot of the state's legal brief:

Best Toilet Signs

I've seen a few good ones over the years of travel but some of these are the best (Link HERE).

Four Seasons in One Picture

Now that we're getting slammed with our first heavy-duty storm of the winter: A really cool collection of blended pictures, each produced from four shots of the same scene at Spring, summer, Fall and Winter. Entire collection is HERE.

Even Better Than Fake Steve Jobs' Blog!

Hung Over on a Monday Morning?

Try Vodka in a Stapler!

Terrible Book Cover

Inside Notre Dame Cathedral

A fantastic 360-degree interactive shot(s) inside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris HERE.

NOTE: Wow! Now I'm even more impressed! See the comment below from Laurent Sicard in Canada - this is his shot of the cathedral in Montréal Quebec! Thanks for the correction - beautiful shot! Check out his other work at http://www.teltip.com

The End of Car Chases

Coming soon to a police department near you. From StarChase.

Disneyland Sign Generator

Make up your own Disneyland sign announcement HERE.

Grandma's Money

Uncle Jay Explains How Congress Works...

...or not!

What's Your Real Age?

No, not your chronological age - your REAL age! Girlfriend or wife call you infantile? Now know for sure. Take the quiz HERE.

UPDATE: Since so many of you have sent me your results, I've changed the screenshot to show my final results.

Trip To Wal-Mart -- by Age

You're in the middle of a project around the house... mowing the lawn, putting a new fence in, painting the living room, whatever. You are hot and sweaty. Covered in dirt or paint. You have your old work clothes on. You know the outfit: shorts with a hole in the crotch, old t-shirt with a stain from who knows what, and an old pair of tennis shoes. Right in the middle of this great home improvement project, you realize you need to run to Wal-Mart to get something to complete the job. Depending on your age, you might do the following:

In your 20's:

Stop what you are doing. Shave, take a shower, blow-dry your hair, brush your teeth, floss, and put on clean clothes. Check yourself in the mirror and flex. Add a dab of your favorite cologne because you never know, you just might meet some hot chick while standing in the checkout lane. You went to school with the pretty girl running the register.

In your 30's:

Stop what you are doing, put on clean shorts and shirt. Change shoes. You married the hot chick, so no need for much else. Wash your hands and comb your hair. Check yourself in the mirror. Still got it. Add a shot of your favorite cologne to cover the smell. The cute girl running the register is the kid sister to someone you went to school with.

In your 40's:

Stop what you are doing. Put on a sweatshirt that is long enough to cover the hole in the crotch of your shorts. Put on different shoes and a hat. Wash your hands. Your bottle of Brute Cologne is almost empty so you don't want to waste any of it on a trip to Wal-Mart. Check yourself in the mirror and do more sucking in than flexing. The spicy young thing running the register is your daughter's age and you feel weird thinking she is spicy.

In your 50's:

Stop what you are doing. Put a hat on, wipe the dirt off your hands onto your shirt. Change shoes because you don't want to get dirt in your new sports car. Check yourself in the mirror and swear not to wear that shirt anymore because it makes you look fat. The cutie running the register smiles when she sees you coming and you think you still have it. Then you remember the hat you have on is from your buddy's bait shop and it says, "I Got Worms."

In your 60's:

Stop what you are doing. No need for a hat anymore. Hose the dog crap off your shoes. The mirror was shattered when you were in your 50's. You hope you have underwear on so nothing hangs out the hole in your pants. The girl running the register may be cute, but you don't have your glasses on so you are not sure.

In your 70's:

Stop what you are doing. Wait to go to Wal-Mart until they have your prescriptions ready too. Don't even notice the dog crap on your shoes. The young thing at the register smiles at you because you remind her of her grandfather.

In your 80's:

Stop what you are doing. Start again. Then stop again. Now you remember that you needed to go to Wal-Mart. Go to Wal-Mart and wonder around trying to think what it is you are looking for. Fart out loud and you think someone called out your name. The old lady that greeted you at the front door went to school with you.

Existentialism in a Cartoon

ROTFLMAO!

Don't bother watching this video if you have no appreciation for childish, side-splitting humor. Really.

Master of Balls Video

The title pretty much says it all. This guy's amazing!

The Answer to the Ultimate Question... at last!

Yes, he does!

All I Can Say is Great Animation

Turkey Trivia

How much do you really know about that bird you're likely going to cook on Thanksgiving Day? Take the 20-question Turkey Trivia Test.

P.S. - I flunked!

Strange American Laws

Best Panhandler Sign

Like most major cities, Seattle has its share of panhandlers. Occasionally, you'll run across one who's totally original and definitely merits some money just for creativity. This recent post on Flickr is now tops on my list for originality - this guy would have gotten five bucks from me!

2007 National Yo-Yo Championships

Halifax Video on Funny or Die

A nasty little Halifax video: