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I Was a Teenage Monster Movie. The movie that scandalized America turned out to be the tamest of the genre.

The Dumbest Reviews Of Classic Movies. I wonder if these critics would stand by their words today.

A photographer blogs about a wedding he shot, most notable because of the distinctive undershirts all the men wore. (via The Daily What)

The 5 Most Mind-Blowing Coincidences of All Time. Even if your mind isn’t blown, you’ll still find this rather interesting. (via Gorilla Mask)

Bottle is the story of a sandman and a snowgirl who fall in love. You know what they say about long-distance relationships.

The Mathematically Correct Breakfast. Or, how to slice one bagel into two pieces that are linked like a chain. (via Everlasting Blort)

Yes, I realize that cats who talk while they eat are warning you to stay away. They are still so cute as they go Om Nom Nom Nom.

Michael J. Fox was not the first choice to play Marty McFly in Back to the Future. They filmed for five weeks with Eric Stoltz in the lead role, which you can see in this video.

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Pre-wrecked Autos. A sure bet for bringing insurance prices down.

How to Degauss a Cat. Your cat, being a cat, might never forgive you for helping him/her in this way. (via Metafilter)

The Prime Number-Shitting Bear. Proof that you can find anything on the internet. (via Dave Barry)

A Japanese show measured how long various men stared at a woman's cleavage. The ticking clock made me laugh!

The game Flabby Physics is so simple it will drive you crazy! Just use your space bar to hit the star. That's it. Good luck! (via b3ta)

Did you ever notice how Pink Floyd and the Bee Gees sound alike? They don’t, but a skilled hand can mash their songs together quite artfully.

Allie Brosch of Hyperbole and a Half demonstrates the right way and many wrong ways to put on a coat.

Chad wrote a catchy love song to Vy and presented it disguised as an iPhone ad at a movie theater. It ended with a marriage proposal.

Smell like a Monster! Sesame Street spoofs the Old Spice Guy to teach you about the word “on”.

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The next time someone criticizes you, calls you a failure, or just says “FAIL”, tell them that if you’ve never failed, you’ve never lived.

Imagine that: a website dedicated to the movie TRON has named a sexual position the Neat-o-rama in honor of the website.

Randall Munroe of xkcd updated his 2007 map of online communities. In the new map, you’ll see jokes like Facebook’s privacy controls isolated in a pool of lava, and a meteor crater where Craiglist adult services used to be. (via Metafilter)

Jess Bradley’s Rather Odd Alphabet contains unforgettable alliterations and illustrations. My favorites are the abandoned astronaut and the malodorous mudskippers.

I love this Rube Golberg-inspired installation at the St. Louis City Museum. Now I want to build my own machine that does a lot of nothing in particular!

The Most Beautiful Girl in the Lab. The perfect woman: she’s a scientist, she looks good enough to be a sales rep, and she’s got a pipette!

Simon’s Cat meets a porcupine. As usual, he has his own self-serving agenda.

Rain Dance. If these guys’ moves get any smoother, they’ll be doing ballet.

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The Marvelous Breadfish. (via the Presurfer)

Here’s how time works. Measurable time and perceived time is quite different, as you always suspected. (via Cosmic Variance)

Pavlov’s Dog Game. If you remember your Psych 101 class on classical conditioning, you can make the dog drool on command.

Twin baby bunnies sitting in paper cups. Sweeter than any soda you could have put in them.

Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake perform the history of rap. Take my word for it, this is better than you would expect.

Glenn Beck saw the Donald Duck cartoon made about him and responded. Of course, his response was immediately edited into a Disney cartoon.

A Graphic Guide to Facebook Portraits. Funny, the circumstances of my picture are nowhere to be found on the chart. (via Buzzfeed)

An industrial milling machine plays the MacGyver Theme while it works. Why they selected that particular tune to listen to all day, I have no clue.

How old is too old to trick-or-treat? At a certain point, you’re expected to pay for your own candy.

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9 Things You Missed At The Beverly Hills Tea Party.

With this web toy (also known as a Javascript bookmarklet), you can turn any website into your own game of Asteroids. Drag the script to your toolbar, then activate it to begin shooting stuff on the page. (via Gorilla Mask)

Mark Zuckerberg Did Not Enjoy The Social Network. You can tell because the “like” button suddenly became disabled.

This menu was apparently translated by machine. Or by someone who doesn’t speak both languages, but was in a hurry to get the job done. (via Dark Roasted Blend)

4 Infomercial Superstars (and Where They Came From). But wait! For extra shipping and handling, we’ll throw in videos of each.

Genki Sudo and his band World Order have a new song called Mind Shift. You might not even notice the song while you’re watching the baffling video.

Right Wing Radio Duck. Jonathan McIntosh combined dozens of Donald Duck cartoons with some clips from Glenn Beck radio shows to make an astonishingly seamless cartoon.

Stand-up Comedy: Funny Urinals of the World. Laugh all you want, as long as I don’t have to clean them.

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In one particular high school football game, the losing team’s only touchdown will be remembered way more than the winning team’s score. Of course, it took both teams to make this happen.

Anatomy of a telephone conversation. It’s more complicated than you ever imagined!

The original Star Trek theme... with lyrics!

How Should I Dress? About the time you get comfortable with your own style, it goes out of style. Go figure.

The Incredibly Depressing Mega Millions Lottery Simulator! See what it's like to play and play and play and never win!

Check out these authentic 1966 Batmobile® Replicas. Yours for only $149,000.

One of my favorite distractions from way back: Desktop Blues.

The weirdest phobias that were ever named. If you suffer from hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, you won’t want to read this list. (via Dark Roasted Blend)

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The Limburger Cheese War. Stinky or not, it was a matter of pride and honor between postmasters who wouldn’t back down.

Can there be anything in the world cuter than Sand Cat kittens? These two, born at Sweden’s Parken Zoo, are just old enough to start exploring. (via b3ta)

A brother and sister get their wisdom teeth removed on the same day. Luckily, mom has a camera handy as they ride home.

How well can you catch and throw paper wads in the office? The game Sticky will drive you crazy.

Choir boys perform a lovely rendition of Duetto buffo di due gatti. In English, that’s The Cat’s Duet.

Jackie Chan vs. the Eye of Sauron. If you’ve ever seen any Jackie Chan movie, you know how this animated short turns out.

Tower repair in the big city. Warning: looking at this picture might make you feel just a little woozy.

The Real Life Inspirations For 14 Simpsons Characters.

The TV series The Flintstones premiered 50 years ago today. The groundbreaking animated series left some heavy fossils on our pop culture landscape.

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Hostage Drama Played Out By Fingers. A classic story, with no dialog, no text, no acting, and props that cost about a dollar total.

Never say no to a panda. These ads feature baffling music and an adorably cute panda inexplicably going off the deep end.

The pain of watching non-geeks use the computer. I live with five non-geeks. Pity me.

This long exposure of the aurora borealis will make you want to move to Norway. Except for the …uh, I really can’t think of any downside to going to Norway.

George Lucas Stole Chewbacca, But It’s Okay. The external origins of all the other Star Wars characters have been explored thoroughly; now it’s Chewie’s turn. (via Boing Boing)

Dictaphone Parcel. A running tape recorder is sent through the mail, and the journey is recreated in animation by using the sounds gathered along the way.

The 100 Worst Songs Ever (with audio). The fun part of lists like this is 1) recalling the songs you wanted to forget and 2) suggesting the songs the listmaker “forgot”. (via Gorilla Mask)

For your daily dose of cute, watch a hungry kitten eat and a turtle bully several house cats. Sometimes being small has its own power.

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The Best of Redneck Engineering. What you lack in funds for spare parts, you can always make up for in resourcefulness. (via Gorilla Mask)

Whatever happened to Elvira, Mistress of the Dark? She never really went away, and she’ll be back on TV starting this weekend. (via Boing Boing)

George Lucas in Love. A fantasy about the origins of Star Wars.

Pinocchio has gender issues. As if the story of a man carving his own son wasn’t hard enough to explain in the first place.

The Odd Tales of 5 People Named After Brands or Products. The rediscovery of Marijuana Pepsi Sawyer reminds us of a few other poor souls whose parents were at a loss when filling in the birth certificate.

My daughter and I star in a little comic.

Everything’s Better With Muppets is a catchy song, but also a real philosophy. Does seeing Miss Piggy and Kermit ever fail to brighten your day?

My daughters are playing Bloxorz constantly. Maybe they’ll learn a bit of logic or strategy or something.

The Big Kat: 45,888 calories of chocolatey goodness. Thanks to the pictorial, you can make one yourself!

Firefox wants your cookies! Too many cookies makes me crash, too.

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A lizard riding on a wind turbine. On purpose.

Nine Lives. A fine motor skills game. Guide the mouse through each level, but be careful not to hit anything!

High Class (and high price) Toilets. Thrones for those for which an ordinary outhouse will not do.

It Never Hurts To Ask For Extra Credit On A Test. Do you think she received any?

The Echo Park Time Travel Mart has all your time travel supplies, from clones to mammoth chunks. But you should go there yesterday.

You don't have to speak the language to enjoy this Norwegian cooking show.

At a 1983 urologist’s symposium, a new therapy for erectile dysfunction was presented in a totally new way that no one present would ever forget. Text is NSFW, but as there are no pictures, you’ll be laughing at the mental images. (via Metafilter)

A compilation of people a few scant inches away from death. Watching it may make your heart skip a beat every now and then.

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Both Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart are holding rallys in Washington DC on October 30th. Which side are you on?

The 20 Worst Politician Names Of All Time.

Misspelled food. I'll have a binano splat, thank you.

What do you do when your dogs won't come out of an elk carcass? A classic case of asking for advice and getting nothing but laughs. (via Solstice Dawn)

Did I ever tell you I was the subject of a Chinese film?

Allie Brosch tells about the time she had oral surgery the same day as a friend’s birthday party. Anesthesia and a burning desire to communicate do battle in a Jack in the Box restaurant.

Completely ridiculous business combinations.

All my friends are dead.

Vagina Bubbles from Hell.

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Serious Baby Talk. A cute toddler discusses Billy Idol, global warming, everyday stress, and cats.

Geek and Gamer Girls. Team Unicorn got together to make a song parody and a geektastic video to go with it.

How to get that asshole driver out of your blind spot.

Cartoon bears are still bears. Makes you wonder if we are doing the right thing by presenting them as cuddly teddies as much as we do.

The Little Red Monkey.

The Solo Adventures. An award-winning Star Wars fan film that explains why Han Solo “Dropped his cargo at the first sign of an Imperial Cruiser”.

Never celebrate your success until the play is completely finished. Hubris will turn on you in a heartbeat, and it will all be recorded for YouTube.

Jamalong. Senseless fun with your mouse. (via Gorilla Mask)

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Evan Roth compiled classic internet gifs into a 9.5-minute video.

The Great Escape. A panda cub wins his freedom for a moment and melts our hearts along the way.

Women’s pants sizes are labeled in arbitrary ways that are designed to protect our dignity. Men’s pants are measured in inches, but it turns out that some of those inches are bigger than others.

Advice for Young Girls from Cartoon Princesses.

What can you do with old, unwanted electronics? Send them to Toronto!

Human Pac-man. One hundred eleven people moved around the seats for four hours to get this two-minute video clip. (via Neatorama)

A conversation with a dog about a sweet potato. (via Solstice Dawn)

Everyone's looking for "the Holy Grail of..." medicine, physics, chemistry, even archaeology. It's time for A Crusade Against the Quest for the Holy Grail.

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30+ Weird, Geeky and Cool Wedding Cakes. If you want your wedding day to be memorable, give them a cake they’ll talk about for years to come!

Cat Parkour. Of course they’re good -after all, cats invented this sport!

Now, these are what you call soap bubbles! And everyone went home from the beach cleaner than they arrived that day.

That x-ray calendar we heard so much about a few months back? Totally 'shopped.

Neo Lebowski. Morpheus at first thought "the Dude" was "the One".

The 35 Dirtiest Vanity Plates Of All Time.

Google Instant brings up results for your search terms as you type. That is weird enough in itself, but use it to type the lyrics to Tom Lehrer’s “Elements Song” and it quickly turns to entertainment.

Disney princesses as superheroes. It’s not as far-fetched as you’d think -in fact, they look right at home Spandex! (via Buzzfeed)

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The Clavin. A literary gem from the place where everybody knows your name.

A dog and a dolphin are best friends and swimming buddies. Seeing them together will start your day out on the right foot.

Hardcore sitter Aaron “Wheelz” Fotheringham became the first person to successfully execute a double backflip in a wheelchair. Seeing just a part of what he went through to perfect the stunt will make you cringe, but it paid off.

Last week's b3ta image challenge was won by a picture of Mary Bale, the woman who put the cat in a garbage bin. The theme was "making things worse".

The Four Levels of Social Entrapment. You've been there. I certainly have.

If you need help, call 911. If you need help with your math problems, they might not have all the answers.

The Ultimate Mandelbrot Zoom took six months to render. The result is ten minutes of groovy yet soothing wonder.

I Read Some Marx (and I Liked it) is a song parody that would probably fly right over Katy Perry’s head. Guaranteed to inspire heated debate.

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Are these squeaky toys on springs, or is at a chorus line of excited otters? Get your insulin out and be prepared for a cute overdose.

If Websites Were Pets, we could select those that have personality traits which mesh with our own. Or we could just laugh at the similarities to our furry friends.

Piano Accompanist Needed. Proof of diplomatic immunity is a plus. (via Nag on the Lake)

This dog earns her kibble many times over. After all, how well do you dance the merengue?

Dancing in the Movies. There are about 40 movies represented in this video; how many do you recognize?

We thought we had all the animals on treadmills covered in Friday's Late Movies, but alas there were no dinosaurs. But dinosaurs walk treadmills in the game Treadmillasaurus Rex. (via Look at This)

If you enjoy Hyperbole and a Half, you'll want to see this interview with creator Allie Brosch. She says what she does is "draw pictures" but her real talent is storytelling.

Really strange things can happen when you shoot something with a cell phone camera. If the image scanning process is moving slower than the object being recorded, you may get the eerie rolling shutter effect.

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Watch me do the Ugly Dance! Click around at the bottom to make it look even sillier. (via the Presurfer)

Twitter meme: fake Star Wars figures.

The Tragic Death of Practically Everything. In case you didn’t know already, the technology you use every day has been dead for a long time… or maybe you didn’t care to know. (via Metafilter)

Crazy Things I Have Done While Partying With One-Year-Olds.

Pics from Star Wars Celebration V.

The most NSFW handbag ever designed.

The Evolution of the Bat Suit. (via Gorilla Mask)

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival has unveiled the ten funniest jokes told this year -and some of the worst jokes as well. You have to be British to understand some of them. (via Metafilter)

What a duck’s bill really looks like. You’ll never look at them the same way after this revelation.

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My new kitten's first LOLcat!

How to write a scientific paper. This guide goes beyond the scientific method and tells you what you really need to know.

Play the drums in an apartment complex and people will complain. It’s what they don’t complain about that will make you stop and think.

Pee-Wee Herman attended the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Deadwood, South Dakota. He got a tattoo, rode his bike, and swapped stories with veteran bikers.

The 5 Most Ridiculous Martial Arts Movies Ever. No that we go see martial arts movies for their literary plots, but these are tragic. NSFW text.

The two rules of being cool.

Great day: catching a foul ball at a baseball game. Greater day: casually catching a foul ball while carrying a tray of food and seeing it all caught on tape.

Michael Jackson and the Chinese Red Army perform “Beat It”. This editing masterpiece will make you scratch your head and then laugh. (via Neatorama)

Brian from Buzzfeed watched the new Insane Clown Posse video "Big Money Rustlas" so we don't have to. I'm pretty sure this recap is more enjoyable.

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Looking Beyond the SUV – Literally.

There's one thing you don't want to do in front of a studio audience, much less on tape for posterity. But at least she can laugh about it.

The life cycle of the majestic plastic bag is shown in its natural habitat. There's no danger of extinction in this species!

Simon Tofield's delightful animations make you laugh yourself silly over the most common normal occurrances. Especially when Simon's cat finds a box to play with.

The Best Duck Songs in the History of the Universe.

Three years later, The Infinite Oz promotion for a SyFy movie is still available to watch. You may become mesmerized or possibly bored.

A Text in the Night. An animated film noir for the Facebook generation.

The line to eat at McDonalds in Moscow was 30,000 people long -in 1990, when the first outlet in the city was opened. See the video.

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The contestants of the 2010 Miss Universe pageant show off their national costumes in a two-part post. With fabulous NSFW commentary critiquing their choices. (via Metafilter)

Jamoya announced on Facebook she had given up her baby for adoption. She got lots of response, but left out one little detail.

New York illustrator Christoph Niemann took a flight from New York to Berlin and documented the absurdities of airline travel in pictures in his blog at The New York Times. I honestly love the idea of a "delete neighbor" button.

We Were There: Cat Fashion Show at the Algonquin Hotel.

The annual Beloit College Mindset List is out and ready to make us all feel old. Meet the authors. I could contribute many anecdotes to their collection of Mindset Moments. (via Metafilter)

Baby Got Back (Gilbert and Sullivan style).

17 Cats Eating Pizza.

An intensely psychedelic "fractal" architecture animation. Zooming into a Mandelbox makes you lose track of how big the whole must be by the time you get down to the small parts.