Journalism Warning Labels: it’s a funny idea but I see zero actual utility here.

the land of giants: this would look fantastic in real life.

Oil of L.A.: I was recently in Signal Hill and Beverly Hills and saw this stuff firsthand. Very interesting.

OH CRAP A BRICK: funny little animated GIF.

100 years ago — 1910 U.S. Census lists “Chief Cities of the U.S.”: Los Angeles at #17, beneath New Orleans and Buffalo.

Incredible Miniscule Pencil Tip Carvings by Dalton Ghetti: yowza!

Inside the Offices of Etsy: I think the environment would be a little too busy and distracting for me. {via}

tarp surfing: derivative of this but more professionally done. {via}

Undercover Karaoke with Jewel: just great stuff.

An Actual Resumé: it certainly stands out from the crowd.

Conan O’Brien Cheetos portrait: a portrait of Conan made entirely out of Cheetos.

Looking Into the Past: the “then and now” genre of photography is one of my favorites.

Running from Camera: it’s the new phoon, as far as I’m concerned.

Hardcore Rollerblading: it’s too bad you couldn’t see the reaction of the motorcyclists he’s passing. Also, how does he stop? {via}

Christmas Light Hero: I confess that I’ve never played any of the “Hero” games, but this has got to be a blast.

Fun with Coloring Books: darkly re-imagining some lovable characters.

Admiral Ackbar, Barista: love it!

Oli Lemieux training trampoline wall Dralion Cirque du Soleil: that is some serious trampolining. {via}

Divorce Lift: very creative ad.

My Life is Average #1188975: priceless Halloween costume story.

Ditto: someone got to relax a lot more over the holidays.

I Gotta Feeling: well-orchestrated but I’m still partial to the first lip-dub I saw. {via}

Fly Fun: the only downside to this sort of activity is actually touching flies.

25 Awesome Homeless Guy Signs: “betcha can’t hit me with a quarter” {via}

Google Street View – Disneyland Paris: this is really nifty! I had heard that Disneyland Paris wasn’t as popular as Disneyland, but it looks completely deserted.

“Pizza And Soda? That’ll Be $23 Quadrillion, Please”: this seems like a highly-implausible computer glitch unless you look at it hexadecimally.

There, I Fixed It: some seem a little iffy—fire alarm, really?—but I’ve certainly done my fair share of stopgappery.

Fly-Powered Model Airplane: if anyone says this is cruel to flies, I’m going to go nuts.

Google Maps Car Hits a Deer, Records Entire Ordeal on Google Maps: this is seriously cool. Sadly, it appears Google has taken down the images from the Street View

Disaster in Little-Land: exquisite work and great concept. Love the row of Starbucks. More here.

Hackers Delight: pictures from MIT’s rich history of pranks.

Riccardo Patrese Drives Wife Crazy: I don’t know what words she’s using but I know what she’s saying. {via}

Guy Skis Down Tube Escalator: HOLY CRAP! I CAN BARELY WATCH THIS! {via}

Claremont HD: HOLY CRAP! I CAN BARELY WATCH THIS. {via}

EepyBird’s Sticky Note Experiment: enh, not as cool as the Diet Coke/Mentos work. But that’s not surprising. {via}

Google Maps – Missile Over Utah: I have no idea how people spot these things but I’m glad they do.

“The Best F**cking News Team Ever: that reminds me, I need to watch more of The Daily Show. Hilarious!

2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony: looks like quite a spectacle. You know what else looks like quite a spectacle? This. {via}

Wipeout Wrecking Ball: this is easily the best sequence in the entire show. John Henson is hilarious.

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at Comic-Con: not as good as the Star Wars one, but still hilarious. There’s also his full speech to the conventioneers comic nerds.

FLARE: this would be an amazing look for a building. I’m going to go out on a limb and say this is very expensive—both to install and to maintain.

Anecdotage – Steve Martin: the joys of being a comedian. {via}

Where the Hell is Matt?: so this thing’s been going on since 2006 and this is the first I’ve heard of it? Gosh, this Internet thing is pretty big. Definitely check out the higher-quality version. {via}

Lady Spins on an Escalator: that’s very good to know. {via}

Google Street View Car Getting a Ticket: I wonder what for.

MIDAS: MIT, eh? It and EPB strike me as, um, how to put this delicately, primarily oriented towards sausage parties. {via}

Red Mahogany Luxury Paneled Cubicle with Dark Cherry Hardwood Floors: whoa. {via}

Oklahoma Full Auto Shoot: I just had serious flashbacks to Ghost Squad. {via}

Creative cubicles: I like to live vicariously through other cube dwellers’ creativity. {via}

Car and Driver Live: drive six exotic sports cars at either the track or on the open road for a couple thousand. I’d do this if I had the money, which I don’t.

“George Bush Chest Bumps Soldier”: if you needed any more evidence that Joe Sixpack can become President, here it is. {via}

Snoop Dog: while laughing at someone in public is douche-y, assuming that someone laughing in public is directing it at you is even more so. Good story.

5 dangerous things you should let your kids do: an excellent TED talk. It’s a welcome counterpoint to Free Range Kids.

Slow-Motion Face Punch Videos: I don’t much care what the story is behind these videos; they’re so odd to watch. And not nearly as amusing as SNL’s “People Getting Punched in the Face Right Before Eating.” {via}

Google Maps Street View Scene: boy I hope that’s not a real gun!

Igloo Building Guide: that’s very handy. But does snow really get that hard that you can cut blocks out of it? I mean, outside of Scandinavia and the Arctic? {via}

Marker Bored: two roommates collaborate in a call-and-response fashion on a shared whiteboard. I’ve seen people do that at work too. {via}

Food Court Musical: this is definitely one of their best scenes, but I think that was because it was staged with the mall’s complicity.

Eighty-Five Ways to Decorate Your House for Christmas: oh boy, that’s rich!

How to Pull Off a Rickroll in Real Life: wow. Just wow.

Shaq Rode in my ‘Lude: the pictures of Shaquille O’Neal scrunched in the front seat of a Honda Prelude are excellent.

Ferrari vs. Smart Car: wow, that is incredible. But it seems like it’d be unstable since it wasn’t designed to do that kind of speed. {via}

The Pink and Blue Project: neat photos. My girls like pink, green, and yellow. {via}

Undie 500: sorry, but that is not right.

8300 Crazy Celebrity Photos: I wonder why Will Smith was trying to balance a tack hammer on his head when there were cameras around. But I love the photo of Scarlett Johannson prancing around the Riviera in such a revealing bikini.

Best Wedding Dance… Ever?: I could agree with that. The groom’s got some funky ape-arms though. That creeped me out.

de-noted: showcasing currency defiling around the world. I myself used to cross out “God” in our country’s motto and write “MAN” in its place. What a dork past me was!

D.B. Cooper Redux: this story enthralled me when I watched a segment of Unsolved Mysteries as a kid. Here’s all the FBI files relating to the case, requested through FOIA. I guess $200,000 was a lot of money in 1971.

Bathroom Graffiti Project: I wonder if this could also be called the Men’s Bathroom Graffiti Project. I haven’t been in many women’s bathrooms (I worked at several McDonald’s as a youth and bathroom cleaning was just one exciting facet of my job) but in my experience they’re not rife with expressions of machismo.

Tom Mabe Funny Phone Call: this one’s a priceless prank call. Excellent composure the entire time. {via}

Bacon Cheese Baconburger: this guy’s clearly a bacon addict. {via}

I hung out at Liz Brooks’s apartment: I never get tired of these pranks.

My Early Muir Owl: a very creative marriage proposal. {via}

Cluster Ballooning Intro: I’ve linked to this before, but I hadn’t seen this pictorial. It looks like an absolute blast but I think the lack of control means that I won’t ever be doing this.

Ruin Romo: make a Jessica Simpson mask and bug some football player named Romo. (Sorry, I can’t be bothered to find out who that is for you or to feign interest in the matter.) For my money, the Little Orphan Annie look on Jessica Simpson suits her.

Superstars of San Francisco: uhh, I guess I won’t ever be living in San Francisco.

Trash the Dress: celebrating wedding photography that involves dress ruination. {via}

The Gratitude Dance: what does this remind me of? {via}

Smart Car Crash Test: I was surprised that it could even do 70 MPH. Also, I wonder what a Lamborghini hitting a wall at 219 MPH would look like? {via}

Cal Band – Video Game Show 2007: now that’s what I call marching! {via}

219 on the 202: Lamborghini driver gets up to 219 MPH on a freeway in Phoenix. Luckily, the speed limit on that stretch is 210 MPH and police generally don’t hassle you until you’re 11 MPH over. Phew! He’s got me beat: my personal record was 125 MPH on the 17. {via}

Crash Bonsai: a welcome addition to any bonsai cultivation. No MINI Coopers though.

OMG! Awesome Party Guy Vid!: this YouTube costume has to be the most creative one I’ve seen. It really fires on all levels.

Happy Halloween from the Mythbusters: love it!

No Shirts: latest Improv Everywhere stunt featuring 111 shirtless men visiting an NYC Abercrombie & Fitch store. High-larious!

Sony Bravia – “Pyramid”: damn that had to be a lot of work. Just like this “Bunnies” ad in New York. But they sure don’t think small for these ads.

Jesus on Tour: bobble-head Jesus is going places. Personally, I prefer this Jesus on tour but I think it’s because He’s posable there.

Pretend to Be a Time Traveler Day: December 8th. I won’t do it, but it’s a hilarious idea.

Drop Kick Big: this decade’s goatse, mayhap?

The MP3 Experiment Four: especially check out the time-lapse shot. Not as good as Slow-Mo Home Depot, but still quite funny.

Monkey Suicide: go there to watch the sock monkey get it. Boy does that sound dirty. I can easily see how this got started.

Chris Thrash Videos: the man owns a full set of Rockafire Explosion animatronic characters from Showbiz Pizza and has reprogrammed them to sing contemporary songs! {via}

Jeep Waterfall: holy crap is that some cool effects!

Faceball: sounds like a fun enough game. {via}

Redheads: Improv Everywhere’s latest prank sent redheads to protest the Wendy’s logo! Clever.

Amazing Car Stunts in a MINI Cooper S: I knew I should have held out for the S.

Real-Life xkcd “Chess Coaster”: this is unbelievably cool. I love the checkers game with the pensive onlookers.

iPhone – Will It Blend?: oh, boy howdy, does it ever! {via}

Chicago Kwik-E-Mart – Five reasons to visit the Midwest’s only Simpsons-themed 7-Eleven: come on, like you needed five reasons.

House in the Wood: looks like a pretty swell place to live.