Hackers Delight: pictures from MIT’s rich history of pranks.
10/18/2008
9/18/2008
Riccardo Patrese Drives Wife Crazy: I don’t know what words she’s using but I know what she’s saying. {via}
9/12/2008
Guy Skis Down Tube Escalator: HOLY CRAP! I CAN BARELY WATCH THIS! {via}
9/11/2008
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}
9/2/2008
Google Maps - Missile Over Utah: I have no idea how people spot these things but I’m glad they do.
9/1/2008
“The Best F**cking News Team Ever: that reminds me, I need to watch more of The Daily Show. Hilarious!
8/8/2008
2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony: looks like quite a spectacle. You know what else looks like quite a spectacle? This. {via}
8/5/2008
Wipeout Wrecking Ball: this is easily the best sequence in the entire show. John Henson is hilarious.
8/3/2008
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.
7/25/2008
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.
7/24/2008
Anecdotage - Steve Martin: the joys of being a comedian. {via}
6/27/2008
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}
6/24/2008
Lady Spins on an Escalator: that’s very good to know. {via}
6/17/2008
Google Street View Car Getting a Ticket: I wonder what for.
6/13/2008
6/12/2008
Oklahoma Full Auto Shoot: I just had serious flashbacks to Ghost Squad. {via}
6/11/2008
Creative cubicles: I like to live vicariously through other cube dwellers’ creativity. {via}
6/8/2008
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.
5/29/2008
“George Bush Chest Bumps Soldier”: if you needed any more evidence that Joe Sixpack can become President, here it is. {via}
5/28/2008
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.
5/24/2008
5 dangerous things you should let your kids do: an excellent TED talk. It’s a welcome counterpoint to Free Range Kids.
5/21/2008
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!
5/1/2008
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}
4/5/2008
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}
3/30/2008
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.
3/27/2008
Eighty-Five Ways to Decorate Your House for Christmas: oh boy, that’s rich!
3/18/2008
How to Pull Off a Rickroll in Real Life: wow. Just wow.
3/12/2008
Shaq Rode in my ‘Lude: the pictures of Shaquille O’Neal scrunched in the front seat of a Honda Prelude are excellent.
3/7/2008
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}
3/4/2008
The Pink and Blue Project: neat photos. My girls like pink, green, and yellow. {via}
Undie 500: sorry, but that is not right.
2/29/2008
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.
2/14/2008
Best Wedding Dance… Ever?: I could agree with that. The groom’s got some funky ape-arms though. That creeped me out.
2/8/2008
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!
1/15/2008
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.
1/14/2008
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.
1/5/2008
Tom Mabe Funny Phone Call: this one’s a priceless prank call. Excellent composure the entire time. {via}
12/31/2007
Bacon Cheese Baconburger: this guy’s clearly a bacon addict. {via}
12/27/2007
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}
12/26/2007
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.
12/24/2007
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.
12/14/2007
Superstars of San Francisco: uhh, I guess I won’t ever be living in San Francisco.
12/9/2007
Trash the Dress: celebrating wedding photography that involves dress ruination. {via}
12/7/2007
The Gratitude Dance: what does this remind me of? {via}
11/29/2007
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}
11/28/2007
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}
11/23/2007
Crash Bonsai: a welcome addition to any bonsai cultivation. No MINI Coopers though.
11/7/2007
OMG! Awesome Party Guy Vid!: this YouTube costume has to be the most creative one I’ve seen. It really fires on all levels.
11/1/2007
Happy Halloween from the Mythbusters: love it!
10/21/2007
No Shirts: latest Improv Everywhere stunt featuring 111 shirtless men visiting an NYC Abercrombie & Fitch store. High-larious!
10/16/2007
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.
9/23/2007
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.
9/14/2007
Pretend to Be a Time Traveler Day: December 8th. I won’t do it, but it’s a hilarious idea.
8/24/2007
Drop Kick Big: this decade’s goatse, mayhap?
8/22/2007
The MP3 Experiment Four: especially check out the time-lapse shot. Not as good as Slow-Mo Home Depot, but still quite funny.
8/20/2007
Monkey Suicide: go there to watch the sock monkey get it. Boy does that sound dirty. I can easily see how this got started.
8/5/2007
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}
7/25/2007
7/24/2007
Redheads: Improv Everywhere’s latest prank sent redheads to protest the Wendy’s logo! Clever.
7/20/2007
Amazing Car Stunts in a MINI Cooper S: I knew I should have held out for the S.
7/18/2007
Real-Life xkcd “Chess Coaster”: this is unbelievably cool. I love the checkers game with the pensive onlookers.
7/10/2007
iPhone - Will It Blend?: oh, boy howdy, does it ever! {via}
7/7/2007
Chicago Kwik-E-Mart - Five reasons to visit the Midwest’s only Simpsons-themed 7-Eleven: come on, like you needed five reasons.
6/28/2007
House in the Wood: looks like a pretty swell place to live.
6/5/2007
Yo Google: real-life equivalent of the noindex meta tag.
6/1/2007
Street Viewr: wow, this are some great finds on Google’s Street View! I love this picture of the Google Van speeding.
[UPDATE (6/4/2007): Ooo, more.]
5/26/2007
Waymarking: neat places chronicled and categorized. Like unusual speed limit signs, disguised cell towers, or outdoor warning sirens. {via}
5/22/2007
I Pity the Fool!: a photoset about a travelling Mr. T dollaction figure.
5/7/2007
The Monster Union - A Tour of 826Michigan’s Ann Arbor Writing Center: good writeup of the newest 826 store.
5/1/2007
Do I Even Need to Explain This?: classic shot featuring the new R2-D2-styled mailbox.
4/23/2007
Google Maps - Classic Mini: looks to be an art installation near Rotterdam, The Netherlands. {via}
4/7/2007
The Treehouse at Alnwick Garden: 6,000 square feet of tree-based luxury living. {via}
4/4/2007
Drinkin’ Time: awesome prank by The Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern Humor Society, purveyors of fine pranks. {via}
4/3/2007
Most exciting roller coaster: I’m getting sick just looking at it. Why would anyone do that to himself?
3/29/2007
OMG WTF: now that is a great set of costumes.
3/28/2007
Free Comic Book Day: I know what I won’t be doing May 5th.
Why You Shouldn’t Follow Directions Too Closely?: this is a special kind of stupid. I don’t care if it was staged because it’s just as funny if someone specifically wanted it done that way.
3/12/2007
MINI Cooper S Truck: hot on the heels of this entry, this one is a modern MINI redone as a pickup. I like it! {via}
3/6/2007
Stitch ‘N’ Bitch: knitting groups around the world. Snarkiness is probably a requirement.
