Wow. Just, wow. Courtesy copyranter via Consumerist....
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I enjoy blooper answers from The Newlywed Game because unlike many modern game shows—whereby contestants self-select based on their (sometimes misguided) hope they're cerebral enough to be successful—the Newlywed Game cut across an entire different selection factor (being recently married) which, in my opinion, gave them a much more amusing...
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I got turned on to Dan Savage's work after his appearance in This American Life Live which I watched back in April, and which featured a section by Dan (with a plug by Ira Glass). Particularly, I'm hooked on the Lovecast, Dan's weekly out-loud ~40 minute podcast version of his...
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Despite living less than 20 miles away for nearly a decade, I had no idea that Española was home to the largest community of mixed-race Sikhs in the entire world. This story by NPR describes them and Akal Security, a decently large security company they run. Up until now I...
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This is a great article about a super repo man who lifts jumbo jets and fleets of helicopters from deatbeat fat cats....
Continue reading Jumbo repo.
I don't believe I've ever posted about Colani here before, but he's long been one of my favorite obscure independent industrial designers. Colani's incredible history of work includes a bunch of interesting household stuff and furniture that eccentric industrial designers seem to like to spend an awful lot of time...
Continue reading Luigi Colani: truck industrial designer extraordinaire.
You may have seen this (autostarting video) already from the MTV awards this weekend. Maybe not....
Continue reading Bruno from the skies.
It's about time....
Continue reading Man bites dog.
Welcome to Socorro (beware: audio starts automatically)....
Continue reading For all you techies.
This photo was reportedly taken on "I-5 on Mercer Island," which isn't true since I-5 doesn't go across Mercer Island (I-90 does)...but regardless, this is pretty awesome. Video here....
Continue reading Lambo on the bottom.
I'm looking for a new hip technology. This one didn't last very long....
Continue reading Well, that's over.
This is a great set of shots from outside and inisde a Soviet Typhoon submarine (called Akula by the Soviets—not to be confused with the other Soviet submarine NATO called Akula). Really interesting stuff, including photos of the space between the light hull and the pressure hull—and some of the...
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I was going to make some quick quip about gopher being the best way to get Bolo binaries but when hitting Wikipedia to come up with the links, I acidentally went from Bolo (disambiguation) to Bolo (tank) instead of Bolo (video game). The Bolo (tank) page is like, ten pages...
Continue reading Fictionpedia.
I posted about this last year. April Fool's Day makes the sites I go to regularly even less useful than they normally are. I give up. No more internets for me on 4/1 from now on....
Continue reading The internet is dumb[er than usual] today.
Apparently this model was built in 1988 for whatever civic planning occured in Soviet Moscow. Incredible. See all the photos over at English Russia....
Continue reading Model Moscow.
First Crossfire, and now Jim Cramer's attitude. Nobody is safe from the claws of Stewart! Read all about the most recent event at its own Wikipedia article. Damn we're good at documenting the present. Oh and if you haven't seen it, Hulu has parts one, err, two, and yesterday's one-on-one...
Continue reading The Jon Stewart cavalcade of cable news destruction.
So enjoy a flash video instead—this one has been making the rounds again lately. For those of you haven't seen it, it's an animation of a (typical) question posted to Yahoo! Answers, and an indecipherable response. Enjoy....
Continue reading No post content tonight.
Those look like the Sandias in the background. Courtesy Failblog....
Continue reading Southwest driving fail.
This is a really great set of photographs showing people working. This shot of Kim Jong-Il sticking his mittens into a big pile of gum isn't the most striking among all of the photos (far from it) but it is incredibly amusing....
Continue reading 45 photos of people at work.
I happen to own the actual piece of [redacted] highlighted in this Onion News report (caution: auto-launches noisy video). For the record, it actually works pretty well. P.S. The Onion has a potty mouth....
Continue reading Hey! I own that [expletive deleted] piece of [deleted]!.
This is an amusing story of a forged letter that was identified because someone forgot to change the typeface to something that actually existed when the letter was supposed to have been written. Via gizmodo....
Continue reading Foiled by Calibri.
Found this on the local craigslist while looking for new turn signal sockets for the 914 (no dice). Pictured is an all-wheel-drive automatic transmission out of a 2001 Porsche 911 (specifically, a 996 Turbo). The arrangement of transfer case and differential is really interesting. Contrast this with the layout in...
Continue reading Porsche transmissions by ... Mercedes-Benz?.
I'm still not sure which is the best part. Is it the paint job? The doors? Or is the awesome sideways photo of the interior (complete with "HONEY BROWN WOOD GRAIN")? Courtesy craigslist. P.S. Please remember that the ad says, "NO STUPID OFFERS." Serious offers only. P.P.S. Click on the...
Continue reading Ridiculous Jaguar S-Type.
Yesterday's Indexed appears to have struck a nerve with the commenters. Typically Indexed gathers ten or twelve comments per post. Unforeseen Difficulties has picked up over one hundred so far. Controversy in the interspheres!...
Continue reading Unforeseen backlash.
Perhaps you're wondering, "what is this?" Well, it's a 1973 Corvette frame with a Cadillac Eldorado body dropped on top, and it's called the Corvarado (get it?) It was one of eight built by Les Dunham—one of which made it into the Live and Let Die Bond film. It's quite...
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Some stuff is originally supposed to be cool. As it becomes pervasive, cool stuff typically becomes lame, and has the potential to be exploited for satire. Stuff White People Like started out being satirical. Now that it's reasonably pervasive, I have to admit that I almost feel like using it...
Continue reading Stuff That Jumped The Shark.
I have to admit that residual microwave time drives me crazy. When someone leaves a few seconds on the clock, I feel obligated to clear the value out. Also, lazy! But, I'm not quite this passionate about it. Photo from passiveaggressivenotes.com....
Continue reading 0:24.
Sortof. Yes, it's that Mouser, but no, that's not him pictured. Mouser's post about this is way more detailed than I'm willing to write, so read that instead. The short short version is that the city of St. Paul has a sizeable population of urban explorers who cause enough of...
Continue reading Mouser makes the front page news.
Here's how part of my evening went last night. I heard a news story about the fly ash spill in Tennessee. Since I had my laptop in front of me, I fired up Wikipedia, and visited these pages in approximately this order:Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill Exxon...
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Evite is down for, reportedly, "planned maintenance." Either this is actually planned (which seems like genuinely awful planning) or is a huge lie. I'm betting on the latter. Nobody will kill their invitation site on such a huge party night. P.S. evite.com itself was temporarily reporting that '/' is 404,...
Continue reading Evite down on New Year's Eve.
I spotted this earlier tonight at the local Petco: it's Dog Whisperer-brand bottled water ... for your dog (screenshot for the day this inevitably goes off the market). I totally understand that some owners would want to keep their pets healthy, but this is a little over the top. And...
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You'd think that any publication (you know, the ones that actually put stuff into print) would double-check their "Chinese poem" before printing it on the cover of their periodical. Why? Because it turns out this is actually some advertising copy for a brothel in Macau. At least it wasn't tattooed...
Continue reading Reverse Engrish hits Max Planck Institute.
For a limited time only, you can snap up the rolling-door Lincoln prototype on eBay. Bidding is already at $6k—how high will it go? ...remember this thing?...
Continue reading Buy a part of prototype history.
Update: Embedded video removed—apparently my antivirus software doesn't like this Youtube link. I'm sure you can find the Macy's Day Parade Rickroll on your own. The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is the ultimate authority on things now officially uncool and out of date. Ohwell—it was fun while it lasted1. 1...
Continue reading Nail in the coffin for the Rickroll.
After all of the state-by-state images we see during the election, it's interesting to get this full county breakdown of the 2008 general presidential election. I'm particularly interested in the belt of blue cascading through the southern states. How weird. Courtesy Wikipedia. Where else?...
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On October 13, 2006, Michael Vick surely had no idea that the check he had just written—the one with the words "chump change" scrawled into the memo—would be a hit story on the web. We all generate pretty impressive paper trails these days, and it's all just one dog-fighting-conviction-induced-bankruptcy away...
Continue reading Exposés in a connected world.
Northrop Grumman have apparently built this comparatively lightweight LASER for weapons use. Besides very helpfully noting that solid state LASERs are "powered by electricity" (thanks) they mention that this particular unit is equipped with ... Ethernet connectivity? Call me old-fashioned, but I actually prefer that this be usable only with...
Continue reading Does this sound like a bad idea to anyone else?.
An often entry over at Engrish sites like EngrishFunny.com is something like this, whose first character is regularly mistranslated. It turns out there's a great explanation of this machine-translation-gone-wrong over at the language log....
Continue reading What the @#$% is this supposed to say?.
The government has been putting it in our water (and oxygen)! Courtesy failblog.org....
Continue reading It's not metallic oxide salts. It's science!.
Not all Engrish is from eastern Asia. Courtesy English Russia....
Continue reading The 'r' in Engrish is for 'Russian'.
This is what happens when rednecks Camaro aficionados get fed up with Craigslist. Pity this didn't make best-of....
Continue reading A mullet by any other name.
This is what happens when you throw $184,000 of upgrades onto a ... Toyota Prius? I can't imagine any other car which is so hip by being so low-bling....
Continue reading I can't tell if they're trying to be ironic.
The folks over at Moletech sell a typically nonsensical mileage enhancing product called MTech which uses the magic of molecules and ions (and science!) to magically increase the fuel efficiency of your vehicumobile. I could write for hours about the product, but I'll skip it because even if it did...
Continue reading Don't accidentally buy the wrong snake oil kit!.
Ignoring the choppy English in the header (would "Has a hacker stolen your identity?" have been too difficult?) I'm nevertheless baffled by the choice of stock photography. Who is this guy, employed by a Red Lobster and holding a guitar? Is he supposed to be some sort of surfer-guy-looking hacker...
Continue reading Someone explain this ad.
One of the best parts of this story about two ruthless Washington-based outlaws hell-bent on pillaging and nap time is that the officers who caught the lads snoozing after their latest caper managed to snap a photograph before throwing on the cuffs....
Continue reading Snap.
...on second thought, I'll spare you my sing-along. But check out Dr. Horrible's, until it gets pulled off the web Sunday night. Great stuff....
Continue reading /dev/null sing-along blog.
I have to admit that the Simpsons already did this one. But, nevertheless props to The Superest....
Continue reading I'm the jealous jockey!.
I listened to an interview with Richard Preston last night on KUOW. Preston wrote The Hot Zone over a decade ago, and he's just published a new book, Panic in Level 4, which is based on a bunch of essays he wrote for the New Yorker. I admit that I...
Continue reading Gruesome and fascinating.
Everybody remember the Rockwell Automation Retro Encabulator? Behold the turbo encabulator....
Continue reading The retro encabulator's big brother.
Spotted at an English Russia article on a Lithuanian1 custom car made out of a Mercedes-Benz CL and something called, "PU-foam." 1 The article says "Lithuanian." The photos are named "Latvian." Either way, that coat spells "totally sweet."...
Continue reading Best. Photo. Ever..
Got a hankering for crazy photos of oddly proportioned and amateur-assembled kit cars? Well I'm giving you the link anyway. Price of His Toys is a car blog all about nutty kit cars—the vast majority of which are based on either VW bug or Fiero chassis. Anyway, there are tons...
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Welcome back to 2003 (links to embedded video). Courtesy Kyle....
Continue reading This is full of win.
The world seems to be woven a little cozier when stuff like this turns up. Courtesy Danny....
Continue reading Yellow was his favorite color.
I spotted this 1935 Monaco Trossi over at Jalopnik a while back. Mounting a huge-ass radial engine to the front of a sports car is quite possibly the coolest idea to come out of the 1930s....
Continue reading It's not a rotary. It's a radial..
The best part about perpetual-motion inventor types is that they're often really wordy people. Today's subject is taking April, May, and part of June to build a "Perpetual Motion Generator." He's got loads of ranty (and markedly racist) sideshow stuff all over the rest of his website, but the real...
Continue reading Perpetual Webpage Generator.
Pardon the awful background track. Turn those speakers down. My shampoo bottles did something similar when I moved down to sea level. Good thing I don't need an entire tanker car full of the stuff....
Continue reading Crunch.
Spotted over at Kotaku....
Continue reading When worlds collide.
I find this article on productivity and the night owls to be pretty true—it's 10pm and I'm at work tying up some loose ends, and the last three hours I've been here were more productive than the entire rest of the day. P.S. Clearly I haven't updated my blog's clock...
Continue reading Late night means I get stuff done.
For those of you who don't recall how much ahead of his time Bill Hicks was, here's a little clip of him pinning Rick Astley for exactly the banality that makes the Rickroll all that it is. Caution: Bill Hicks is a huge potty mouth. NSFW. Way ahead of his...
Continue reading Bill Hicks posthumously affirms genius again.
I spotted this at CL earlier1. No wonder the hot chick isn't included. You've cut off her damned head. 1 The posting has already been pulled, so all you get is a cached copy....
Continue reading 80% of hot chick not included..
Last weekend some guy posted his 1990 Honda Prelude (cached) for sale, replete with some spendy rims, totally sweet wing, and absolutely bitchin' chrome sexy lady badges on the trunklid. Interestingly, it seems this guy didn't sell his ride, has stripped off all the goodies, and has reposted the hoopty...
Continue reading Can't sell your rice rocket? Part it out, then sell the shell..
I'm all about pranks and nonsense1 and hearing something unexpected come out of someone's mouth. Being Rickrolled by your boss2 is a good example—but really only if your boss isn't the Rickroll type in the first place. But all those newsy websites3 out there who fill their pages with crap...
Continue reading Who else is sick of April Fool's Day?.
If Black People Love Us! was made in 2008, it would be Stuff White People Like....
Continue reading Stuff white people like.
Seriously. It's called a spell checker. Of course, even that won't save you from every possible embarrassment....
Continue reading Come on, people. Press F7..
Drumroll please... United States of America v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins (PDF). Thanks, DotD. There are more details about this case (and its name) at this second link....
Continue reading Best case name ... ever..
I spotted this article today (again at the Freakonomics blog) that describes something I've thought about traffic jams for a long time: jams that aren't caused by fixed events (like an accident) travel backwards in waves. The article is a little thin, but the video is neat. The only problem...
Continue reading Shockwave traffic jams.
Last week's This American Life featured an odd appendage of the New York public school system: the rubber room. In response to the increasing size of the public school system and the increased frequency of complaints from students and parents of teacher misconduct, New York's Department of Education instituted a...
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The timing for this is, personally, a little remarkable: merely days after Layla and I finish watching F**k (which is in part a story about our rights to be as vulgar as we'd like), this story comes flying across the wires. The idea is that some kid got the South...
Continue reading !#@$.
"Our Worst Critics Prefer to Stay" is the top-rated motto from the Freakonomics blog's poll to find a new six-word motto for the U.S. I agree a lot with this. Interestingly, Layla and I had a long discussion last night about how many great alternatives there are out there to...
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Skip to the last page of this opinion (specifically, this page is the dissenting opinion by Judge Randall Rader) and you'll notice this paragraph: ... The record also shows that Ms. Baird had notice that she could be subject to random drug tests. Removal thus seems a highly appropriate remedy....
Continue reading Exhibit A: Towelie.
I feel sorry for the box art designers who work for motherboard and video card vendors. They've got tons of variations on each product, can't really reuse graphics (the RT-XG3500 has to be distinguishable from the RT-XS3500), can't really picture the object in question (it's boring), and typically have no...
Continue reading Horrible motherboard box art.
"Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music" at Microsoft support....
Continue reading Best KB article ever.
I'm sure that, at some point, most kids' mothers tell them both of the following:Always save for a rainy day, and don't do drugs. So I suppose I can't fault this young lady for following the first bit of advice, even if she didn't really follow the second. P.S. Maybe...
Continue reading Following half of mom's advice is better than following none.
I like Indexed....
Continue reading Indexed is great.
Those of you who watched the Super Bowl last week may remember two ads by salesgenie.com1. The first features Ramesh, an Indian salesman with 7 kids; the second features a family of pandas with Chinese accents. Both have ludicrous plotlines2. Both of these ads clearly have racial (although not necessarily...
Continue reading Apologies for the racist racial superbowl ads.
Don't ever get into an ass-kicking contest with the Isle of Man....
Continue reading Note to self.
There's a level of finesse, creativity, and cleverness to these Japanese Rube Goldberg devices that I've simply never seen in their western counterparts. The attention to detail makes this one a real treat. It's just so ... delicate and witty....
Continue reading Nippon no Rube Goldberg.
Here's a prediction on which kids will be caught racing their hovercars next to the Intergalactic Police station. P.S. Does this remind anyone else of a particular Family Guy clip?...
Continue reading Tomorrow's drift kid, today.
Here's a hint to all of you aspiring young ignoramuses out there: if you're planning on drifting a car you've just "borrowed" from the dealership where you work, it may not be best to do so at the parking lot marked 1 in the map at right. Why is that?...
Continue reading Where not to drift.
Since my wordy post about Wikipedia and archival of ongoing events went over so well, here's the peanut butter jelly time song....
Continue reading No comments, eh?.
I saw this picture in a post over at English Russia (agh, the ads!) and although the post was titled Bad Parking 5, I have to admit that "bad parking" wasn't the first thing through my mind. It was closer to, "I think I know what kind of truck I...
Continue reading Totally awesome parking job.
I [heart] QVC antics. Excellenté....
Continue reading This is a big horse.
I was listening to All Things Considered on my way home from snowboarding earlier when I heard something that nearly made me pee my pants. Reading this story on Bush's visit to the United Arab Emirates, the commentator noted that: On arrival, Bush was given a large necklace encrusted with...
Continue reading A gift befitting a knight. Like Sir Mix-A-Lot..
I read Raymond Chen's blog from time to time, somewhat because he's a really conversational writer, and somewhat because he's got lots of interesting things to say about the history of Windows. I was amused by this post about MS-DOS and Windows 95, in particular by the shenanigans Microsoft engineers...
Continue reading Sucking the brains out of DOS.
It's been a while since I've posted any tragic, tragic television appearances. I thought it couldn't get any worse, and then Jeff Foxworthy sticks his foot in his mouth around 1:05. Really though, the blonde is the star in this clip. P.S. I don't think France is a country, either....
Continue reading This might be a stupid question....
Car parts coming unstuck—always good times. P.S. The video is loud. Turn your speakers down....
Continue reading Who did your welds?.
Following in the path of Powergen Italia (think about it) is the Chinese communication software vendor Incesoft, who could keep their name even if they changed their mission to delivering the finest software promoting cousin love. Their tagline says that INCE stands for, "Infinity Nature Communication Experience," which does absolutely...
Continue reading Another tragic company name.
Craigslist find of the day (cached). Too bad the delivery is so hammed up. This would be comic gold if only delivered from the straight man....
Continue reading Redneck fixer-upper condo.
I find that most legalese is difficult to read. In the best cases, it's impenetrable up-front, and in the worst, it's meandering and strings you along you thinking you can barely read it until you get to the end and realize you have no clue what you just read. And...
Continue reading Legal mumbo jumbo.
The first local craigslist post of note is this gem (cached) from someone fed up with his new truck payments. Yet more evidence why people just can't have nice things. The seller is clearly an intelligent fellow, since he blew some (probably big) bucks on stupid-huge chrome wheels and matching...
Continue reading Two killer craigslist finds.
I ran across this (marginally dated) article about a toy tie-in for the film Fantastic Four. I'm not particularly surprised I didn't catch this the first time around, since I assume that Fantastic Four is a really dumb movie. But the article goes a step further and illustrates just how...
Continue reading (with Light-up Headlights!).
Hah....
Continue reading Glamorous Wal-Mart.
BWOOON!! Courtesy of this page, which I found when looking up the new version of the USB humping dogs. Update: Um, it appears this is either "BWOOOn!!" or "BWooon!!" or something in between. It's difficult to tell....
Continue reading BWOOON!!.
This is making its way into my next presentation. Somehow....
Continue reading Best pie chart, ever.
Sometimes it's just time for a picture post....
Continue reading Here's lookin' at you.
The Superest is awesome stuff. Two professional cartoonists square off in a battle of My Team, Your Team inspired by fellow webgoers. The stakes are high, and the aftermath is hilarious. Start at the bottom. Each successive superhero is designed solely to vanquish the prior...and to amuse!...
Continue reading The Superest.
This sort of thing used to happen all of the time, but I haven't seen it in quite a while. It appears that someone on a quasi-major website has borked their web-app configuration badly enough that Apache is spitting out directory listings. In specific, the site is Gizmodo, the Gawker...
Continue reading Web oops.
Ever since, oh, a month after I originally found it, I've been lamenting the state of The Onion. It's a clever format, but it's definitely run its course for renewable entertainment, instead relegating itself to links I get emailed from family members who have just stumbled across the site. It's...
Continue reading Internet satire newspaper redeems self.
I don't understand cup or dice stacking ... but damn is it cool....
Continue reading I don't understand dice stacking.
Without getting into a huge discussion about it, I've found that traditionally, the loudest members of the clergy typically have more rhetoric and condemnation to spew than actual wisdom. I don't disagree that most of our leaders (religious and not) act this way, but I've always expected more from the...
Continue reading Fire and brimstone.
When I first saw the headline Inmates go on sausage 'temper tantrum', I should have guessed it took place in New Mexico. P.S. Fighting over sausages? You guys aren't helping your case much....
Continue reading The New Mexican inmate sausage temper tantrum.
Once again, recycled bits. I ran across the Keepon once again in gadget news recently, and it's much too cute not to post....
Continue reading Keepon.
Mouser's post about license plates reminded me about a wordy but nevertheless intensely interesting article about how the half-century-old Federal Highway Administration fonts (also known as Highway Gothic) and how they're finally being phased out in favor of something actually designed for highway signs. The only downside here is that...
Continue reading Clearview over Highway Gothic.
...so enjoy some regurgitated YouTube video of a Japanese robotic cat. I hear this is what Web 2.0 is all about. This post, not the cat....
Continue reading Wow I really can't think of anything to post tonight.
Today's video inspiration comes courtesy of Rob Williams. It's an oldie, but a goodie....
Continue reading Another embarrassingly bad TV performance.
I feel sorry for this girl. ...but not sorry enough....
Continue reading My family couldn't afford maps.
Luke Skywalker: This R2 unit has a bad motivator. Look! Link (no cache—there's not much there)...
Continue reading R2Beer2.
Has anyone not yet seen this? The picture at right is not fake....
Continue reading Boat overboard.
Maybe he had just passed his nemesis!...
Continue reading Wow, is this what they mean by karma?.
And by explain, I don't mean pointing out that I'm too busy to post something substantial....
Continue reading Somebody please explain this..
This just in: U.S. justice system delivers de-pantsing to member of justice system. I'm pleased....
Continue reading This just in.
This came across English Russia recently: a recruiting advertisement for the Russian border guard service features a picture of Mt. Rainier in the background. Yes, the same Mt. Rainier parked just south of Seattle....
Continue reading Join the Russian border guards, see Mt. Rainier!.
Layla threw together mytwocats.org the other day, ostensibly to play around with Office Live. Hrm. I think she put together this page purely to annoy me....
Continue reading My two cats dot org (...it's dot com!).
The best part is right at the beginning....
Continue reading What fell off?.
I ran across the Freakonomics blog earlier today. Lots of amusing stuff there. And holy crap, this guys posts more often than I do. Awesome!...
Continue reading Freakonomics blog.
This may be a little out there for some of you, but anyone who's ever driven on a racetrack (heck, even in traffic?) can probably appreciate what's going through this guy's head. What comes out of his mouth, on the other hand, is something else entirely. Don't despair if it...
Continue reading The Mustang Nemesis.
This came over the wire today. Click the image if you can't see the badging. Nerds!...
Continue reading Mazda 22/7.
I noticed an article earlier that noted that in 2006, revenues from online sales of apparel and footwear surpassed revenues from online sales of computer and electronic equipment. This is certainly understandable (clothes are awfully popular, even if they are inconvenient to purchase online) but nevertheless, many of my friends...
Continue reading Apparel surpasses electronics in online revenues.
I see your crock pot and lamp, and raise you a J. J. Yeley checkbook cover. Not crazy enough to make the list of nutty NASCAR stuff, you say? Well then you must not have noticed the $23.99 pricetag on this little item. Booya....
Continue reading NASCARism.
Everybody remember the Kursk, which sank in 2000 after it was damaged by an experimental torpedo? Well, English Russia has a salvage-boat load of pictures of the Kursk out of the water, and the damage is amazing (cached). It's really rare to see the interior of a sub like this,...
Continue reading Remember the Kursk?.
What's cooler than a chainsaw, you ask? How about a freakin' chainsaw on a 12' pole. Hot damn....
Continue reading Chainsaws that are even better than totally awesome.
I mean seriously, RuTube? Do remember to turn down your volume first. There's nothing better than poorly sampled day-old thrash rock....
Continue reading What's funnier: drifting tanks, or RuTube?.
Legal opinion isn't always dry stuff—the opening two paragraphs from this Seventh Circuit opinion describes two flatulent toys, and how one's intellectual property was infringed with the other. If you continue to read the copy, you'll find that Tekky Toys was awarded nearly a million dollars in compensatory damages, punitive...
Continue reading Pull-My-Finger Fred.
I've got some newfound boredom now that I'm in the "waiting" phase of the imminent home purchase, and so tonight I wandered through a bunch of ancient posts and ran across this paleolithic example from nearly two years ago. So, Spiderman ... how long is going to be until you're...
Continue reading Two down, one more to go.
Justin posted this description of his office earlier and it's so damned funny I just had to share. I'm reminded most of the scene in Office Space where Peter rips down the big banner hanging in the middle of the cube farm....
Continue reading All he needs is a stapler.
Those of you who haven't seen the redneck rollercoaster should watch that video before you start the one below. Redneck-licious!...
Continue reading Redneck rollercoaster howto.
I just can't get enough of these things. Bahahahahahaha!...
Continue reading Take that, USB hub!.
I've seen these photographs about a half-dozen times over the last few years, but they're absolutely fascinating and worthy of yet another mention. They're color photographs taken all over the Russian empire in the first few years of the nineteen hundreds—the photographer reportedly took three black and white frames with...
Continue reading Really old color photographs.
This is, without a doubt, the best thing to ever happen. Click through for the flash video....
Continue reading The Best. USB. Flash. Drive. Ever..
This just in: the KGB has permanently moved its headquarters into the Batcave....
Continue reading KGB now headquartered in the Batcave.
Mouser posted a while back about two Beechcraft Bonanzas landing on top of one another out at Los Alamos airport. Today, I ran across the most fantastic "oops" list, which has three more pictures of small aircraft in compromising positions. Now, the landing in Los Alamos was somewhat unique in...
Continue reading They've docked!.
I ran across English Russia earlier today and I'm absolutely captivated. This is a phenomenal photo blog of all things Russian—but captioned and explained in English. Plus, the blogger (who appears to be only one person, judging by the uniformity of language) seems to be a real car nut. Fantastic!...
Continue reading English Russia.
Go ahead. See what this guy has to say about his RX-7. (cached)...
Continue reading A discount on the $100,000 RX-7.
Bahahahaha Thanks, Rob!...
Continue reading Rapist search!.
I caught wind of this video about a Ford GT whose owner didn't seem to think a blown 5.4L V8 wasn't quite enough....
Continue reading Ford GT TT TG AGH.
Seriously, how much cooler can you get than driving an eight-wheeled Soviet-era-looking truck through bigass puddles and over jumps?...
Continue reading Kamaz trucks are almost as sweet as Tatras.
I admit that I was a part of the 1980s, but I was most certainly not around when they were making this schlock....
Continue reading Nissan presents: Black Gold!.
Any commercial featuring SUPER POTENTIAL is automatically good enough to be featured here. Enjoy a hilariously Japanese commercial for the hilariously Japanese Mitsubishi Starion. I'm still trying to figure out what's going on in the first five seconds of this commercial. What the hell are those, giant floating space buttocks?...
Continue reading It's just so Japanese! It's the Starion!.
I'm hooked on goofy old car ads. Doubly so with 1980s goofy car ads. Come on in take the wheel light it up !!!1! get the feelin' Time to escape, indeed....
Continue reading Light it up! with the 1984 Chevrolet Camaro Berlinetta.
For those of you who haven't yet seen this, it's required. In 1976, Claude Lelouch made C'était un rendez-vous, a short film of a car driving through Paris at breakneck speeds. The film was shot entirely on one roll of film and is presented below completely uncut. The sounds are,...
Continue reading Homework assignment: C'etait un rendez-vous.
What could be better than a commercial that starts out with a kid skeet shooting?...
Continue reading YouTube manhandles the Dodge Dart.
I spotted this earlier this month on Craigslist but forgot to post about it until now. Wowee, wowee. It's a MkIII Toyota Supra—odds are good it's a non-turbo, but it's impossible to tell with the, err, modifications. Which involve...the front fascia from a 6th generation Honda Accord. My apologies for...
Continue reading Spotted on craigslist: the Toyota Supra ... Accord?.
Haha! Layla found this earlier on Craigslist. Amused, I am. Who makes this stuff, anyway?...
Continue reading A bear coffee table.
This is a total copout post because I've been working entirely too much lately and, as it turns out, a friend from NMT was in town. Things have been busy and I'm absolutely beat. But nevertheless, here's some hot eBay action. Behold....
Continue reading Ebay: the Samurabbit.
Heh....
Continue reading Amusing directions courtesy of local.live.com.
I saw this yesterday when reading news or something. It's an ad for a job posting company (like monster.com, only not) that specializes in tech jobs. This has got to be some of the worst computing style I've seen in a long time. Robustness aside, just look at the casing!...
Continue reading How not to make a development ad.
What you're looking at is a US Army scrapbook at the local crafts store, with a huge sticker reading, "Made in China." Fantastic!...
Continue reading US Army, Made in China.
I file things. Things like bills, receipts, and such. I need to put these files in something, and since I ran out of something to put files in, I bought some new file folders. They were $3.99. Glancing over at the box earlier tonight, I noticed that the Esselte Corporation...
Continue reading ihatefiling.com.
Oh yes. These are some hellishly good lines. Original link from Craigslist (cached copy)....
Continue reading 1973 Plymouth 'Cuda.
I'm at home right now waiting for the fixit guy to finish with the dishwasher. So, I'm poking around on craigslist. I just noticed this ad for a "monster" vehicle (cached copy). Wowee....
Continue reading It's the MONSTER!.
This is much too good not to post....
Continue reading Your moment of zen.
I'd like to thank Phil for this particularly hilarious nugget of joy. Oh, that's brilliant. I'm nearly peeing myself with laughter....
Continue reading Fuel-efficient Cadillac Escalade.
Will pointed me to this music video sometime ... either yesterday or the day before. I don't really remember which. It really doesn't matter. Honestly, I thought it was damned awesome when I first started watching it because I didn't really realize (at all) that it was actually anything other...
Continue reading Retro-themed pi music video? Hot..
Say I, There are certain acts of abject stupidity which, in my opinion, instantly qualify a person for execution. These points are largely nonnegotiable and include things like, "flying an airplane while drunk," "putting a source of compressed air up your ass," and, "NASCAR." It's indisputable that any one of...
Continue reading Exhibit A.
Honestly, duct tape doesn't really fix anything. It's sortof a kludge and leaves a giant mess behind if you ever need to peel it away. Gaffer tape works infinitely better on most everything except ducts, where oddly, aluminium tape is my favorite. But duct tape is always around, even in...
Continue reading It fixes, well, most anything.
I contend that some things really are too shiny to be photographed. Nice ... head. Edit: +5 points to whoever comes up with the best caption for this photo....
Continue reading Some things really are too shiny.
Ahem. Info after the jump....
Continue reading I didn't post this..
There are certain acts of abject stupidity which, in my opinion, instantly qualify a person for execution. These points are largely nonnegotiable and include things like, "flying an airplane while drunk," "putting a source of compressed air up your ass," and, "NASCAR." It's indisputable that any one of these things...
Continue reading My name is Aleph, and I love my owner very much.
Presuming the site isn't completely clobbered (which, most of the time, it is), you should hit swanksigns.org. In the event that the site is damned slow, here's a picture I stole from there. Oh yeah. That's pleasant....
Continue reading Slowswank.
To everyone out there: please don't let a bull stick its horns into your asshole. Thanks....
Continue reading Gory.
This is the best thing ever. When I originally downloaded the file called, "Double Guitar.wmv," this wasn't what I was expecting. Deedleeedleedleedeldeee!...
Continue reading Double your mullet, double your fun.
The Huffington Post was launched today. They note that they, as our motto says, has been delivering news and opinion since, well, a few hours ago. Within the first few hours, they've got columns by Walter Cronkite, Sen. Corzine, Elaine from Seinfeld, a Cusack, Ellen "she's gay!" DeGeneres, and—of course—Arianna...
Continue reading Huffoblog.
I appreciate honesty in advertising. Spammers tend to be terrible in this regard: subject lines on spam are generally "cleverly" designed to look like "hi" messages from friends. My favorites are the ones which read like Re: hello how r u or something equally ridiculous. I'm pretty goddamned anal about...
Continue reading Honesty.
I commented earlier that Al Jazeera is the best place to get nutty shots of western politicians. Just to highlight, here are the pictures from BBC, CBC (via news.google), and the Jaz. BBC CBC Al Jazeera Moo....
Continue reading See what I mean?.
Mouser sent this to me a minute ago. And then he had to explain it, because I'm a total idiot sometimes. Ahh yes. "the logo speaks the international language of... ass sex."...
Continue reading It's sortof like FedEx or Powergen, Italia..
American news outlets (especially ridiculously biased ones—pretty much anything that ends in Post, Times, or Chieftain) are fantastic for getting goofy pictures of American politicians. Sometimes the editor has a bone to pick with the Democrats, so printed are goofy pictures of Ted Kennedy. Maybe the owner of the paper...
Continue reading The Blair Picture Project.
It turns out that Microsoft has a new column dedicated to Office productivity tips and tricks. It's called Office Space. Wow. That's tragic. I just hope they remembered to put the covers on their TPS reports, because they're doing that now. Yeah....
Continue reading Mmm, yeah..
My experience has been that running a paper—even a small paper like Socorro's El Defensor Chieftain—is a difficult thing to do. Hell, even NMT's Paydirt takes a ton of effort from people who are genuinely interested in informing the public. I guess their website takes even more, because it appears...
Will pointed me to a BBC article about some goofball judge in Florida ordering that a girl not be allowed to have an abortion on the grounds that she's too young. Why do I call him a goofball judge? If you follow the article link at the top, you'll notice...
Continue reading Pull up, Wedge! Abort!.
Burrito Lockdown! Oh man. The jokes practically write themselves! ...which is why I'm not going to go through the effort of writing them down. Felicitations....
Continue reading Students smuggling sausages.
ALL RIGHT!...
Continue reading Team Awesome: World Constables.
******. I make it a point to get sent to the principal's office weekly....
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Wow. This is way cooler than anything I've ever managed to do. Yellow stripe on black, my ass....
Continue reading d00m3d.
I recently ran across this article at Slate. If the link is dead (or for those of you who are too lazy to operate that left mouse button), the article is titled Americans Pay Off Credit Card Debt! and is subtitled This is not science fiction. It's really happening. Of...
Continue reading Science Journal Post.
This is probably the highest comment-to-post length ratio I've ever pulled off. We're talking around 100:1 here. P.S. The title of this post came from a letter by Bob Jones, III (president of Bob Jones University) to the Right Honorable Mr. President George W. (W is for "white") Bush, just...
Continue reading You owe the liberals nothing!.
If you stare long enough at this picture, you see a picture of Syrian President Bashar al-Asad....
Continue reading It's a sailboat.
I've started reading Lifehacker because it seems like they have a lot of surprisingly useful notes on ... well, pretty much everything. They featured Microsoft's Windows XP Powertoys page, which includes lots of cool utilities. Specifically, the Alt-Tab replacement absolutely rules. No more reading window titles to figure out what...
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This is one of the most moving things I've read in a while....
Continue reading Happenstance.
Chicken chicken chicken chicken, chicken chicken chicken. I'd also like to point out that this paper comes to us from a recently graduated PhD student at the University of Washington. Rock on....
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I ran across this from MeFi earlier. It's not really all that interesting (unless you're into that sort of thing, I suppose), but hit the "Products" link. Ironic....
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I immediately notice two things about this page:Flaming poo! Hilarious! And, The rendering on the headline text is absolutely fantastic. I was certain it was an image before looking to see if they used an autogenerator or if it was hand-built for the story. Surprise, it's just CSS!...
Continue reading Great piles of poop.
This is the funniest thing I've seen all day. Sorry de snorry betsy!...
Continue reading Joepieee!.
I just ran across the trailer for the upcoming Hitchhiker's Guide film. I'm struck by two things: 1) Isn't the Heart of Gold supposed to be shaped like a sleek running shoe, and not a Union-class dropship from BattleTech? 2) Douglas Adams would be proud that the trailer for his...
Continue reading HGttG.
I was digging through Alexa for my next post and ran across their "featured category" for the day: Sciences. The top site in the category is eHarmony. I'm nearly certain these sites are hand-sorted (there are just too few of them to justify developing the algorithm for automatic grouping, and...
Continue reading Dating is an art, not a science.
