Caption Contest

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Strip Blogging

As popular webcomics (such as xkcd) show, if you have good writing, you don't necessarily need artistic talent. So if you've dying to do your own comic, then strip generator is the place for you. The drag-and-drop interface makes it easy to quickly do a three-frame comic. Soon you'll be stripping all kinds of ideas!

Caption Contest Winner

This week's winner is ParticleJam.

See the original image here.

Activity Corner

• A collection of Star Trek bloopers. There is some repeated clips in some of the videos.


• Even if you aren't on Twitter, you should still read shit my dad says.


• A new search site asks the question, What do you think are the best search results if you don't know which engine they come from? Remove search engine bias and you have BlindSearch.


• Do you know what's really inside a Slim Jim?


• I don't know about "stunning", but they are cool rooftop gardens.


• You know you're a geek when you write a program to rock your baby to sleep.


• You know, I could say so much, but just go to the site and find out about the new way to "scoop up" after your dog with Poo Trap.


• Perhaps you've heard of the ATMs in London using Cockney rhyming slang.


• Check out these unique, bizarre, hand-made pizza cutters.


• Frikkin' cool: the cigarette-shaped lighter.


• A look at video game ads gone wrong.


• An interesting look at what's captured by Google's street view.


• Weird and creepy graves.


• 50 photos from air travel's glory years.


• Keyboard cat papercraft.


• Twisted Disney princesses.


• The 10 weirdest laughs ever caught on camera.


• New "artsy" jeans: Winkers.


• The stories behind 21 oddly-named places in the USA.

Friday Game

It's a little bit Boggle, a little bit Scrabble, and a little bit Space Invaders. And you'll be madly typing away until you notice it's suddenly next week. Try your hand at must pop words.

(Thanks Urn!)

Halo Player

Seen hanging outside a gamer's workspace on my floor. The little note says "cubicle".

Effing Funny

The premise is pretty simple: take a sticker of the "F" word, and put it somewhere that changes an existing sign or message, for humorous effect. Not for those that don't care for the "F" word, but for those of us that throw it around like rice at a wedding, you can "F" This Website.

And, yes, I have the book (thanks DK and Ash!).

Landscaping Suggestions

Sticker on the side of one of those big green power company boxes. I want to know why they need that 12-foot pole shown in the picture.

Caption Contest

Is it too late to qualify for "Cash for Clunkers"?

Cardboard Tube Samurais

It all started on the web comic Penny Arcade, where the Cardboard Tube Samurai was born. Seen here in his first appearance, he wields a cardboard tube like those found at the delicious center of a roll of wrapping paper.

Why is that important? Because it obviously spawned the real-world equivalent that has sprung up, the Cardboard Tube Fighting League. For a better idea, check out the gallery of pictures.

Caption Contest Winner

This week's winner is John Haydon.

See the original image here.

Activity Corner

• If there's one thing many young people learn in college, it's not to get drunk at a party and then fall asleep. The 210 most shameful drunken shamings.


• 25 unintentionally inappropriate statues.


• Tricks burglars use revealed: 13 things and 8 more things.


• 24 hours' worth of world air traffic.


• Are you a fan of the TV show Lost? Then you'll probably want to enroll in Lost University.


• Make pictures on your iPhone a Polariod experience (as in, "develops" like and looks like Polaroids) with the 99-cent ShakeItPhoto app.


• A crazy look back at game arcades, and the games created for them. Art of the Arcade.


• Why mess with an inconvenient laptop when you can use the Iropod?


• Off to college? Have a laptop? Have an unknown roommate, or one you don't trust? If you answered "Yes" to all three, you need the DormVault.


• Someone's idea of the stupidest table manners and how to resist them.


• 15 examples of school bus mod art.


• You know synchronized swimming and ice dancing, but bike dancing?


• They obviously work, even if they don't look like they do: bridges you will probably die crossing.


• Take well-known songs, rewrite them with lyrics about zombies, and you have Zombaritaville.


• 100 ways to use a strip of bacon.


• What is your online persona? Use the Personas tool to see how the internet sees you. I was surprised to see a huge chunk of sports in mine, probably because I like to "play (computer) games".


• Apollo 14 goes to the moon with a bunch of tree seeds, which eventually became the moon trees. Since records weren't kept, the fate of many remain unknown.


• How long did Bill Murray's character spend in Groundhog Day? Harold Ramis responds.


• The preamble to the Constitution in license plates.


• Unusual and marvelous maps.


• Gaming arcade machine plus beer equals the Arkeg.


• 7 natural phenomena that science can't explain.


• 7 terrifying giant versions of disgusting critters.


• 61 creative wine label designs.


• Video of two trains colliding head on.


• Glow in the dark toilet paper.


• And if you follow the online series The Guild, or if you play MMO games, you'll like the music video Do you want to date my avatar?

Friday Game

It's not so much the game that's the game here, but rather the process of upgrading the game. Once you upgrade to achievements, you'll keep going to get them all! Have fun with Upgrade Complete.

99 Bottles of Beer on the Curb

Spotted (on my street!) out by the curb with the trash/recycling.

Must have been one hell of a party.

What Are You Smoking?

Dude, I totally get the best ideas when I'm high. Totally awesome ideas. Well, they're pretty cool. Really. Just check 'em out, I wrote 'em down for ya...

I just wanted to get you in the mood for the awesome ideas and concepts at Highdeas.

Roundabout Time

Most of the older neighborhoods in Seattle have roundabouts in their intersections, which residents maintain with all manner of plantings. This one has a tree with a number of clocks hanging in it. I wonder who keeps them on time?

Caption Contest

Shittens.

Ad Industry Insider

What's it like to work in the high-powered world of advertising? Is it all creative refinement like we saw with Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt in what Women Want? Or something entirely different? See for yourself at the satire-and-bitter-truth (and tangentially named) Business Guys on Business Trips.

Caption Contest Winner

No winner this week. Apparently the picture left everyone speechless.

See the original image here.

Activity Corner

• Overheard at the airport.


• Someone has stitched together what they consider the 10 cutest cat moments.


• 10 ways that your GPS can save your life.


• Asteroid impact craters seen from space.


• Where are computer technology inventors now?


• Obama is Literally Hitler. (Yes, it's satire.)


• Summer's almost over, but you could still get some use out of this solar-powered shower.


• Speaking of summertime outdoor pursuits, check out the Coleman air mattress with integrated pump and speakers. (And the "4D pump" doesn't mean it's a time machine, it means you use 4 D cell batteries.)


• When it comes to camping, long day hikes, or even your fallout shelter, you don't need to start a fire or a stove with HotCans.


• If you're a serious photographer and want to make sure your camera is truly level, you need the Level Camera Cube.


• Build your own Companion Cube (cake not included).


• Another great video mapping projection on a building for the Kimberly 2009 festival.


• You know hybrids have arrived when even Lamborghini is making one.


• If you love Civilization on the PC, and don't spend enough time with your iPhone, then you want Civilization Revolution for the iPhone.


• Unusual paintings of Obama naked with unicorns.


• 10 of the most racist toys ever made.


• Hannah Montana Linux.


• Prison inventions.


• 50 amazing ramen noodle recipes.


• Pit bull viciously attacks news anchor with love and slobber.


• Get eaten by the Shark! bean bag chair.


• 20 geeky/nerdy papercraft projects.


• Monkeys in a swimming pool.


• You may know the modern or Disney versions, but check out 10 gruesome fairy tale origins.


• An infographic that compares caffeine to calories: The Buzz vs The Bulge.


• The 10 most fanatically hardcore furniture pieces inspired by video games.

Friday Game

If you thought the marathon game was bad, wait until you try this washing machine emulator.

Something Flashy

Part of the "Van on the Street" series.

Electronic Insanity

There's really no need to explain this site, because the name says it all. Just be prepared to spend some time reading emails from crazy people.

Something Fishy

Part of the "Van on the Street" series.

Caption Contest

Lousy Literature

The library has a lot of books, and you can find a wide range of titles there. But not all of them are new, and some can make you wonder what the author was thinking, much less the library for stocking them. They're Awful Library Books.

Caption Contest Winner

This week's winner is ParticleJam.

See the original image here.

Activity Corner

• A site that encourages Photoshopping pictures has a fun one from radiology intern.


• From the Too Much Time On Your Hands department: Temporal Anomalies in Time Travel Movies.


• Insect flight patterns around street lights.


• 15 Da Vinci war machines.


• Weird Al Yankovic's new song/video: C.N.R.


• If you're trying to estimate a software project, perhaps you could use the help from How long is it going to take?


• A waterproof iPhone bag that lets you use the touchscreen and the camera!


• Giant slip-n-slide jump.


• Train to be an astronaut with the Spaceball trampoline.


• Want a lava lamp but don't want to use all that precious electricity? Then you need a Fireflow.


• Tired of uneven slices on your pizza? Fret no longer when the multi-blade pizza cutter is in the house! Kinda spendy, though.


• In these tough economic times, you can't just save electricity by using candles. Oh no, you have recycle those mostly-burned candles with the Candle Quick.


• If you like pancakes, and a lot of them (say 200 per hour), then you'll want the ChefStack automatic pancake machine.


• Building demolition doesn't go as planned.


• Woman drags kid through Verizon store.


• Houses made of strange materials.


• A time-lapse movie of New York's Manhattan Bridge shows how it flexes with traffic.


• Laughing at other people is fun, as you can see at Don't Judge My Hair.


• The Texas Library Association has a tattooed librarians calendar.


• Seriously kooky theme weddings.


• 15 billboards that don't belong next to each other.


• Deep-fried delicacies. The pickle chips look really good.

Friday Game

Here's another fun puzzle-solving physics game called Magic Pen 2.

Sidewalk Trilogy

Spotted on the sidewalk, a bizarre trilogy of objects: a cherry pit, a bottle cap, and a 6-sided die.

Check This Out

This old library building is a few blocks from my house. It's crazy to think that, when Carnegie was building these around the country, that books weren't commonly available to the general public, and that checking out a book to read, for free, was a novel idea.

Minimal Qualifications

While the title and URL of the site may be NSFW, you can't help but agree when you see the charming parenting on display at Why The F*** Do You Have A Kid?

Caption Contest

"Let me get this straight – you say the guy that grabbed you was a big purple dinosaur and was saying that he loved you over and over?"

Sidewalk is Hot Enough to Fry...

...rhymes with "eggs".

Thank Buddha the heatwave is over.

Taking Revenge on Their Junk

Revenge is as old as humankind, and something we can all relate to. Being wronged can come in many forms, but probably the most common involves relationships. And where there is a relationship, there is sex.

While most people wish they could do something to get back at people fooling around behind their backs, some go the extra mile (too far?) and get even with Revenge Crabs.

Caption Contest Winner

This week's winner is Anonymous.

See the original image here.