January 2008
43 posts
HulkOutList →
Detailed list of the ways Dr. David Banner has gotten so angry that he has turned into the Hulk. Random selections include: being placed in a car compactor, being handcuffed to a woman who is falling over a cliff, and dealing with a pesky operator in a phone booth — “I don’t have 25 cents!”
Play Game | Off-Road Velociraptor Safari →
It is even better than it sounds. Fulfill your dreams of running down velociraptors in your jeep and watching them fly through the air. (On a side note, who funded this? I would have loved to have been at that pitch meeting)
ATHF LEDs all over Boston today →
Over at MAKE, Phil Torrone blogs:
This is interesting - it seems that a group of artists have celebrated 1-31-07 in their own way and have created a series of political themed LED art sculptures and (you guessed it) placed them all over Boston. Pictured here, Bush & Bin Laden… Click on through to see more images and if you’re in Boston the locations are listed to go on an art...
Playing Burnout Paradise — it’s much better than the demo led me to believe. I still really miss crash mode, though.
Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door →
Man, I love Rick Steves. His show is always informative and beautiful, and he’s just such a cool guy himself. He’s a eloquent freethinker and it’s refreshing to hear his thoughts on America and the world. Check his website out, won’t you?
“I used to have a crush on Rick Moranis. I will rap battle anyone who tries to...”
– Comment by Courtney - Best Week Ever » Blog Archive » How Had I Never Seen The “Ghostbusters” Music Video Until Last Night???
Couple Paints "FU FAA" On Roof To Protest Jet... →
Fed up with a change in flight patterns that made them sleep in bed at night with earplugs, one Philly couple decided to paint “FUCK YOU FAA. NO FLY ZONE” and a symbol for “no planes” on the top of their roof. Note: in real life, it says “fuck” but the newspaper photoshopped it to just say “FU.” Homeowner Michael Hall said they had tried to lodge...
Giants: 'We Almost Beat The Patriots Once, We Can... →
NEW YORK—As they come closer to their Super Bowl clash with the formidable Patriots—the team they nearly defeated in late December—the Giants are confident that they can come close to beating the undefeated AFC champions on…
WatchStephen Colbert’s (actually quite moving) rendition of Let My People Go in honor of his missing writers (via The No Fact Zone)
MST3K: The Movie - The DVD re-release →
You-know-what may have finally frozen over. TVGuide.com is reporting that Universal will be re-releasing Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie on DVD on May 8th. While we haven’t received confirmation of this ourselves, this news comes from our old friend David Lambert, TVGuide.com Content Contributor and News Director of TVShowsOnDVD.com, so we’re pretty confident of its accuracy.
The new DVD...
DigYourOwnGrave Online Games: Flight of the... →
The Master Chief vacuum totally sucks →
Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters
Everybody knows that vacuum designers can draw inspiration from pretty much anywhere. How many times have you passed an odd man or woman staring at some feature of the landscape, lost in their own world and thought “I bet that’s a vacuum designer.” All the time, right? Well, finally, vacuum designers are turning their keen...
There are 55 Xbox 360 games on Gamefly released in the last 4 months. Only FIVE of the 55 are available now. This is why I’m canceling.
3.2 Million Unemployed Americans Apply For Opening... →
FINDLAY, OH—”I would kill for this opportunity,” said laid-off autoworker Chris Thaney, who has been unemployed since 2006 and previously earned $75,000 a year.
WatchDolphin Play Bubble Rings (via Metacafe)
Surreal link of the day →
Lasagna Cat is one man’s attempt to recreate every Garfield comic strip using real people. And if that isn’t odd enough, he then turns each one into a music video. Makes perfect sense.
Scrabble for Cheaters →
I like this idea for a fundraiser. In a Scrabble tournament, you can buy cheats with the money you have raised for charity. With $500, you can invent a word (must include definition). And with John Hodgman and John Oliver on a team together, those are going to be some funny words.
Huckabee is a raving lunatic →
Here’s his latest suggestion: that we we amend the Constitution to be more biblical. “I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution,” Huckabee told a Michigan audience on Monday. “But I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that’s what we need to do — to...
12 Presidential Candidates to Keep Your Eye On →
Most political junkies can name all 16 major presidential candidates, but there were 42 candidates on the ballots in the New Hampshire primary! And that’s only the candidates running for the republican and democratic party nominations. Who are all these people? Last March, I posted Those Crazy Candidates. Now that the primary season has started, I look back and see that the article centered on...
Ford: Car owners are pirates if they distribute... →
Josh sez, “The folks at BMC (Black Mustang Club) automotive forum wanted to put together a calendar featuring members’ cars, and print it through CafePress. Photos were submitted, the layout was set, and… CafePress notifies the site admin that pictures of Ford cars cannot be printed. Not just Ford logos, not just Mustang logos, the car -as a whole- is a Ford trademark and its...
Cat Costumes →
This Japanese site sells happy little cat costumes that are guaranteed to make your kitty sad. Link -via Cynical-C
"We gladly feast on those who would subdue us." →
Not just pretty words. It’s the Addams Family motto.
If you don't immediately buy a domain you ...... →
If you don’t immediately buy a domain you lookup through Network Solutions, they will hold it hostage for four days at a price $25 more than what you normally would have paid. [DomainToolsBlog]
CES 2008: Retro Console Clones Take Actual... →
Yes. Gimme.
HOWTO Make pixel-art cookies with a Play-Doh... →
Eva sez, “My husband and I figured out a way to make 8-bit style cookies with a Play-Doh extruder. We’ve uploaded a how-to, along with pictures of our Tetris cookies, question blocks,and so forth.” Link (Thanks, Eva!)
“Up next was the Joust, which is pretty much unchanged, except for the fact that...”
– My Brain Says Rage: Contenders Ready? Gladiators Ready? Trunk Ready to Cry?
THE BEST THING EVER: Bride Gets a Wedding Cake... →
Ladies and gentlemen, meet my inspiration for living and breathing: Chidi Ogbuta, a bride in Texas who commissioned a wedding cake to be SHAPED EXACTLY LIKE HER, right down to the tears — er, tiers — of her wedding gown. I dont know, if my husband started stabbing away at my cake likeness on our wedding day — as the groom is up top — I’d be “kinda, sorta”...
Drug Companies Spend Almost $60 Billion On... →
It’s okay for drug companies to spend oodles on advertising because they spend even more making sure their drugs are safe and effective, right? Not so much, according to a study in PLOS Medicine.
The study shatters the accepted myth that pharmaceutical companies spend more on research than on marketing. In reality, drug companies pour $57.5 billion into marketing, dwarfing the comparably...
Awwww...The LEGO Indiana Jones Set comes ...... →
Awwww…The LEGO Indiana Jones Set comes with an adorable array of little poseable Nazis, and its own tiny, precious Ark of the Covenant. Don’t open it though—it’ll instantly melt their molded-plastic faces right off! [Gizmodo]
Unemployed to sterilize monkeys in India - Yahoo!... →
See what you can come up with when you really put your mind to solving the problem of unemployment?
Love Mattress Prototype by Mehdi Mojtabvi →
Although I shudder to think what sort of crusty bits my dog would find a way to insinuate into the slats, I think this “Love Mattress” concept by Mehdi Mojtabvi may have something to it. The middle section of the mattress is broken into slats, making it possible to wrap your arms around someone without cutting off your circulation, or sleep on your belly while sticking your feet...
Topless woman in park used as bait in police sting →
ABC news has a story and video about a police sting operation in Columbus, Ohio. The cops put a topless women in the park (topless sunbathing is allowed) and waited. A 42-year old man approached the woman. She smiled at him, and at one point playfully put her foot on his shoulder. She asked him to show his penis. A few seconds after he complied with her request, the cops rolled up on the grass in...
TSA to punish fliers for facecrime →
TSA screeners are learning to recognize set of secret, forbidden facial expressions. If your face slips into one of these during a TSA inspection, you will be taken off and given a thorough, secondary screening:
TSA officials will not reveal specific behaviors identified by the program — called SPOT (Screening Passengers by Observation Technique) — that are considered indicators of...