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1/24/2012

10 Worlds Most Dangerous Airports: sweet sassy molassey! Worth watching to the end.

1/19/2012

Ask Cool Tools: the blog is outstanding and this looks to be just as helpful.

1/18/2012

cluedb: this is the Internet at its user-generated finest. {via}

1/10/2012

Angry Birds: something about this just cracks me up.

1/7/2012

Comic Sans Project: who doesn’t love a little Comic Sans? {via}

12/16/2011

Share a secret – One Time: nice little idea.

Peter Schiff at Occupy Wall Street – Full Version, Almost 2 Hours Long!: he is a very patient person.

12/13/2011

Whole Foods Parking Lot – Music Video [HD]: possibly the only rap video where you’ll ever see quinoa.

A Never Before Seen Optical Trick Creates Ultra-Secure Cash: a watermark that can’t even be seen? Microscopic holes that only let certain wavelengths through? Yowza!

12/7/2011

The Right (and Wrong) Way to Die When You Fall Into Lava: whoa, makes total sense when you think about it.

12/6/2011

Google Search for “sin(x)+0.5*sin(2*x)+0.333333*sin(3*x)”: now with graphing.

12/2/2011

Worlds biggest ever insect found called the Weta Bug: there go my plans to visit New Zealand ever.

11/29/2011

Google Maps: that is nuts—wait until Google Street View goes indoors as well. Oh, never mind.

11/26/2011

Mieders Alpine Coaster (with no brakes!!): whoa. Just whoa. {via}

11/11/2011

The Man Who Pressed His Luck … and Won: memorizing five patterns under the circumstances is still amazing.

11/8/2011

Not an animated GIF: nice. If you want to prove to yourself that it’s not animated, look at it at a high angle. {via}

10/26/2011

I see what you did there Pixar: that is so awesome! {via}

10/20/2011

Chuck Lorre Productions – Vanity Cards: the full archive of all those messages that Chuck Lorre appends at the end of his shows.

LaunchRock: this is bubblicious.

10/18/2011

Teenage Mutant Ninja Noses: I hope this never turns into the arrow in the FedEx logo for me—meaning I can’t not see it when I look. {via}

10/14/2011

10 Stubborn Food Myths That Just Won’t Die, Debunked by Science: excellent list, I held a few of them that I clearly need to research more.

The Light Cycle: whoa. {via}

10/13/2011

Shit That Siri Says: this reminds me so much of the old Apple—the one that produced Clarus the Dogcow and had Easter eggs all over its software.

10/11/2011

WeatherSpark: man, that is a rich interface to put it mildly.

10/10/2011

Ladies and Gentlemen, the best pet Halloween costume of all time: agree wholeheartedly. My dog, however, would be the fastest damn AT-AT you ever saw.

Better Than Plumbing: come to think of it, why was Mario a plumber? There must be some backstory that I never got.

Ask Jon Skeet: for when you don’t care what anyone else has to say on StackOverflow.

10/6/2011

This Is Why I’m Broke: this is some sweet stuff!

10/5/2011

Wine Cellar: I hate wine but I love trap doors.

I think he nailed it: hah!

Storage on the Ceiling – Kiss Garage Clutter Goodbye: this is an awesome idea.

10/4/2011

Division of Labor: funny work signs.

Sea Captain Date: my that’s niche-y.

9/25/2011

This is What Happens When Your Dad’s a Graphic Designer: haha. My wife and I once co-opted George and Lorraine McFly’s backstory to explain how we met.

9/22/2011

Climbing Red Gates in Moscow: chilling and nauseating.

9/21/2011

Wolf Urine Lure: read the one entitled “One for the cellar.” Also, enjoy the reviews for fresh whole rabbit and the Luke Skywalker Ceremonial Jacket.

9/14/2011

Berkshire triple murder suspect arrested: once you’ve done that to your face, you have to go “entrpreneurial” as no one is going to hire you.

9/13/2011

Nerdy Day Trips: nothing in Arizona?! Well, I guess that’s probably true.

9/3/2011

When Bieber Fans Read The Onion: heaven help us.

8/29/2011

Gold Coins – The Mystery of the Double Eagle: utterly fascinating.

8/25/2011

New Apple CEO Tim Cook: I’m Thinking Printers: too soon.

8/24/2011

Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes: his impact on computing cannot be overstated. Also, watch his Stanford commencement speech for more inspiration.

The Mindset List: 2015 List: man, I feel old. {via}

Urban Dictionary – get an inbox: very useful term.

Blisteringly sexy, she killed Nazis with her bare hands and had a 5 million-franc bounty on her head. As she dies at 98, the extraordinary story of the real Charlotte Gray: quite the headline. The film adaptation is available on Netflix streaming.

8/23/2011

Scientists undo evolution to create a chicken with a maniraptora ‘snout’: not allowed “for ethical reasons” to hatch the animal?! Come on, maybe it’s delicious! {via}

Hangman’s Rope: read the reviews. Also, if you search for “noose” on Amazon, you get another way to kill yourself.

How to get $12 billion of gold to Venezuela: the proper response to a dictator trying to get his inflation hedge as he simultaneously tries to wreck his economy? “The gold stays put.”

8/14/2011

Fuck You Yelper: amen!

8/5/2011

Things That Look Like Other Things: neat stuff. {via}

6/30/2011

Goodbye to Chuquisaca: look at the hamburger joint sign a little more than halfway down the set of photos.

6/24/2011

8 Facts You Didnt Know About The Ice Cream Man: I did not know that.

6/23/2011

Should I Change My Password?: check your email address against recently-hacked databases.

6/21/2011

Cat Cake: nice!

6/17/2011

Dear Photograph: these are so touching. I wish I had more childhood photos so I could make these juxtapositions.

6/10/2011

BMW Powered Twin-Rotor Hoverbike: one step closer to the speeder bikes from Return of the Jedi.

6/9/2011

Roswell Martians Might Have Been Nazi Kids From Mengele’s Lab: that crazy Stalin.

6/5/2011

AirDisaster.Com: whoa. Just whoa.

5/31/2011

Birthing Dolls: this is why I have a category called WTF on this blog.

5/30/2011

Police Brutality at the Silent Flashmob at the Jefferson Memorial: this is really hard to watch, especially given that it transpires in a shrine to our most liberty-loving Founding Father.

5/27/2011

“Literally Unbelievable”: this is great stuff.

5/26/2011

xkcd wikipedia steps to philosophy: furthest I got (aside from the loops) was 22 steps.

5/20/2011

An Inland Archipelago: freaking Europeans.

The Legion of Super-Groomsmen: and I thought our Toyota jump photo was cool. Damn!

5/16/2011

Go the F**k to Sleep: a children’s book that captures the frustration of the parent.

5/11/2011

How The Martha Graham Google Logo is Animated (Short Explanation): wowsers, impressive technique.

Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Dead, Vader Says: excellent satire. {via]

5/5/2011

Timelapse – The City Limits: could be subtitled “The Metaphysical versus the Man-Made.”

Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg: awesomeness just got awesomer.

Incredible Star Wars Propaganda Posters: incredible sums it up.

5/3/2011

Thanks Apple for Killing Osama: clever.

[UPDATE: More humor. And you've got to love the reviews of the compound where he was living. Terrorists, you ain't winning.]

5/1/2011

Rejected Vacation Postcards: funny!

4/27/2011

New Steve Jobs In Carbonite Case Arrives For iPhone: dang, already cease and desisted.

4/14/2011

Wonderfully Creepy Sculptures Carved From Bananas: quite the unusual medium.

Chris Needs Your Help Doing Something Banal: love this sort of project.

4/10/2011

Tune for Two: decidedly different take.

3/28/2011

How Google Works: it’s an amazing piece of work.

3/17/2011

She Dont Like Firefly: “she didn’t even cry when Wash died.”

3/16/2011

Dear news media:: perspective doesn’t sell papers or page views.

3/15/2011

Maine Town Declares Food Sovereignty: awesome stand, but it’s premised on the notion that the federal government can be restrained. We’ll see how that pans out. (It also neglects the tremendous benefits of trade, but I can forgive them that in the service of acting as a check for liberty.)

Word Puzzle Universal Wrapping Paper: this is wrapping paper I would buy and use.

Facebook Makes Us Miserable: I only go their for work purposes.

Someone Is Setting Hipster Traps in New York: waste of time—some do-gooder will probably just let them go.

3/8/2011

A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates: check out the reviews. Hilarious!

De-Motivational Posters for Freelancers: most of these would apply to just about anyone.

Real Life Version of the UP House Attached to 300 Balloons Takes Flight: those balloon pilots would have to be awfully experienced before I’d set foot in that thing.

12/29/2010

Explore Thomas Cole: I’ve always loved his paintings. This is a great showcase of them.

12/17/2010

Books Ngram Viewer: see the evolution of language.

12/16/2010

Mapping America — Census Bureau 2005-9 American Community Survey: this is a fun little tool.

11/11/2010

Reddit User Stylesheet: now it looks like you’re not being unproductive. {via}

11/9/2010

Truths for Mature Humans: funny.

The Hitler: enabling unit conversion of a different sort.

10/8/2010

Hitler Hops: calculate the articles between anything and Hitler.

8/30/2010

CarLashes: oh no, they didn’t. {via}

8/24/2010

caffeinating…: clever coffee holder.

8/22/2010

Michael Moschen performs THE TRIANGLE: astounding juggling performance. {via}

8/20/2010

6 Things From History Everyone Pictures Incorrectly: the painted Greek statue thing kills me every time.

Future Man – The Bearer of Bad News: I guess that’s one way of looking at it.

Ninjabread Men Cookie Cutters: these are my kind of cookies. {via}

Valentin Beinroth, Florian Jenett: gun-shaped licorice makes for great photos. {via}