Monday, January 09, 2012
Sunday, January 08, 2012
Saturday, January 07, 2012
Friday, January 06, 2012
Links for Fun and Entertainment
The Battlestar Galactica Video Game. If you haven't seen the entire 2044-2009 series, be aware that this contains spoilers, but its totally worth it.Awwwright, Dude! Watch turtles give each other a high-five underwater.
A glitch in the new game Star Wars: The Old Republic has characters becoming invulnerable if they keep dancing. Add a little music, and you can prevent a war!
British footballer and actor Vinnie Jones shows you how to do "hard and fast" hands-only CPR. Or he might jump-start your heart just out of sheer fright.
The 6 Most Ridiculous Abuses of Diplomatic Immunity.
Literally Unbelievable is a website dedicated to documenting those moments on Facebook when people react to Onion articles as they were real news stories.
‘Huge Group Of Girls’ Is The Most Ridiculous Comedy Music Video You’ll See Today. All the better because it's sung my men. (NSFW lyrics)
Here's an ad that didn't make the cut in Dorito's annual fan-ad competition. I can't imagine anyone else making the chips look better.
General Zoi's Pony Creator lets you design your own My Little Pony. Five-year-olds and Bronies will stay busy all weekend!
Return of the Farting Jedi. Oh, it's simple and mindless and juvenile, but you'll laugh before it's over.
The Internet’s Famousest Felines. Enjoy the cats, but be aware this was written before Maru and Shiro became well-known.
The Artists
A game of one-upmanship gets out of hand in a rivalry between two painters. You can see the end coming, but that doesn't detract from the charm of this animation by Giant Creative. (via Tastefully Offensive)
Thursday, January 05, 2012
8 Heroic U.S. Military Chaplains
While researching the post 10 Heroic Battlefield Medics, I came across a couple of fascinating stories about military chaplains and their wartime exploits. Those stories were filed away for later, and they grew into a list of stories that deserve to be told and remembered. They are presented here in more or less chronological order in an article I wrote for mental_floss.
Informative Links
Tipper vs. Music. The story of Tipper Gore and her 1985 campaign to label music with explicit lyrics.The Highest-Grossing Films of 2011. What does it say about our tastes that eight of the top ten are sequels?
Gigantic Glowing Forms Hovering Over The World's Cities. You may think of UFOs, but they are enormous featherweight art installations from Janet Echelman.
There's a shortage of ADHD drugs. Is it the DEA's fault for cracking down on abuse, or the manufacturer's fault for trying to maximize profits?
Money for (Practically) Nothing: 4 Very Big Paychecks for Very Little Work. The problem is that these schemes are pretty much un-reproducable.
Police are investigating the discovery of an unidentified murder victim on the grounds of Queen Elizabeth's country estate Sandringham. It sounds suspiciously like a plot from a popular British TV show.
Five opinions on why the Iowa caucuses are so important. And number 6 is that it gives us something to talk about.
In 2011, Kein Lam took 19 planes, 18 boats, and 58 buses to visit 17 countries. He recorded plenty of video and packed the entire adventure into one frenetic video.
Three guys took up crochet as a hobby because they wanted cool accessories. years later, they turned that hobby into an industry that employs impoverished women in Uganda and Peru.
Harry Burkhart is accused of serial arson in more than 50 Los Angeles area fires. The plot thickens as we find his mother was arrested on behalf of the german government for mysterious undisclosed charges.
Second-Cheapest Syndrome. You don't want to get the very cheapest, but you want to save money -yet marketers have already figured you out.
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Funny Links
How to Write a Ph.D. Dissertation.13 Simpsons Jokes That Actually Came True.
The 1980s Film Alphabet. I guessed all of them -can you?
In a series of text messages and photos, a drunk octopus steals a diver's camera and then relates his adventures to other cephalopods. There's really nothing I can add to that.
Gravitas is a simple physics game in which you release a little red block by rotating the fence holding it. Or multiple fences. And please avoid the force field!
The dancing inmates at the Cebu Detention Center in the Pilippines have inspired a web-only musical production. Part one of Prison Dancer will drop in March, but the teaser should hold you until then.
If you are going to graduate this year, don't do this, especially in high heels. Hundreds of parents are videotaping the event, and your name will be enshrined for posterity.
A Supercut of Gene Shalit’s Most Delicious Puns. Each is like a very small bonus for listening to the movie reviews.
This is what happens when you give kids thousands of stickers. They take your boring monochrome decor and make it all happy and colorful.
This guy hooked together a Nao robot, a Kinect sensor bar, two Wii remotes, a head-mounted display, and a treadmill for the purpose of brushing his cat. All this technology only worked because the cat is extremely tolerant.
Is this a cheap foreign knockoff of Star Trek, or a parody that attempts to look like a cheap foreign knockoff? Does it honestly matter?
Fishing Under Ice is about ice fishing from a completely different perspective. That perspective is the fishermen standing upside down on the underside of the ice!
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
Not Your Parents’ Action Figures
Action figures began with Habro’s introduction of G.I. Joe in 1964. Since then, they’ve become associated with the marketing of TV, film, and comic book characters. But those are just the ones you see all the time. If you look, you’ll find just about anyone available as an action figure, which can spur imaginative play, fill out your collection, or give you bragging rights when your friends see them. See quite a few of these in a list I posted at mental_floss.
Interesting Reads
A Salute to the Weird World Records Set in 2011. The biggest Afro, the most piercings, the longest tongue, the longest kiss ...wait, those last two are not related.The top 8 parenting controversies of 2011. Everyone makes mistakes, but throwing common sense out the window will get you on the news.
I only learned today that Alfred Hitchcock's 1961 film The Birds was inspired by a real incident. And they've only now figured out what caused it.
The 7 Creepiest Abandoned Brothels on Earth. Urban exploration takes a turn for the world's oldest profession in this photo gallery.
The Year in Weird: The 10 Most Insane News Stories of 2011. Including the prurient and tragic stories not found in our roundup.
The worst political gaffes of 2011. Everyone makes mistakes; it's how you own up to it that reveals a lot more.
Celebrity Gossip Is Making Us Stupid. While the news outlets cover Charlie Sheen and the Kardashians, news that affects our lives gets swept to the side.
One of the few things that separate humans from apes is the habit of cooking our food. But Kanzi the bonobo learned to cook his own food, from lighting the match to toasting marshmallows on a stick.
So far, orangutans don't cook, but they love their iPads. The Milwaukee Zoo is trying to get them wifi so they can network with each other.
An Interview with George Musser, author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory. You can finally find out what the Large Hadron Collider is supposed to do.
Buff Your Brain! A few shortcuts to increasing your IQ make it simpler than you thought.
Bob Anderson, who choreographed all the major movie sword fights of the past few decades, passed away at age 89. In a video interview, Anderson and Viggo Mortensen talk about the art of film swordplay.
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