Caption Contest Winner

This week's winner is ParticleJam. Again!

See the original image here.

Activity Corner

• 16 things your lawyer won't tell you.


• The evolution of hard disk drives.


• Have you heard about the school district laptop spycam scandal? Here's a good nerd read about it.


• Do deaf signers ever get words stuck on the tips of their fingers?


• In this high-tech world, an interesting throwback: the light bulb candle.


• The perpetual dominos machine.


• Don't struggle to hold a flashlight any more, use these gloves with built-in LED lights.


• The piano that hides in a table.


• I've linked to Style Your Garage before, but they now support super-large garage doors.


• At 11 feet tall, I'm not sure how a T-Rex statue qualifies as "garden art".


• The multi-purpose inflatable sleeping coat.


• This camp-style chair has a ""secret compartment"" (yes, I quoted their quote) that doubles as a cooler. Perfect for keeping your ass cool on a hot day.


• The insane Rube-Goldberg-esque contraption that uses the entire interior of a house.


• Perfect for both bathrooms and camping, it's glow-in-the-dark toilet paper.


• Anyone who's watched a DVD (especially Blu-ray) will nod at this piracy versus paying customer chart. (Ok, they edited the top part to show Arrested Development instead of the frame of The Matrix like at the bottom. But at our regular weekly movie night, we bitch about 1) the damn Blu-ray commercial on the Blu-ray we're already watching, and 2) all the damn unskippable stuff when we just want to watch the movie. Oh, and while I'm ranting, what's the deal with showing us parts of the movie on the unskippable menu THAT WE AVEN'T SEEN YET? Please, ruin more of the movie for me!)


• ThinkGeek adds to their periodic table designs with the BaCoN t-shirt.


• 15 things you should know about breasts. WARNING: Infographic boobies.


• If you've used Photoshop, you'll appreciate (even more than a non-user like me) Adobe Photoshop Cook.


• Bacon potato chips. Nuff said.


• Word to all craigslist posters: THIS is how you rent a room.


• New York gets two feet of snow. Literally.


• Kitten falls in love with a cop.


• The do-it-yourself SETI "Arecibo message" scarf.


• We've all seen pictures of animals and toys taken on their world travels. Now, if you have a toy you want to tour Prague in the Czech Republic, but can't go yourself, just send it to Toy Traveling and they'll do it for you!


• Procrastination. No worries; you can get to it later.


• The 10 smallest accredited colleges in the US.


• The redundant clock.


• Edward Gorey, Star Trek, and, in his style, The Trouble with Tribbles.


• Everyone's heard it, but we don't know what it's called or what it means, until now: O Fortuna translated.


• 10 animals with the longest lifespans.


• Awesome hand-carved skateboards.


• The world's 18 strangest airports.

Friday Game

At first I was like, "Aw man, a cycling game?" But then I started playing and got caught up in trying to do stunts and upgrade my bike and unlock all the achievements. You might, too, if you play Cyclomaniacs.

Plates on a Wall

Some of the many license plates lining the walls at Zak's in Ballard.

Tattoo Your Cast

If there's one thing worse than breaking a bone (or four), it's wearing that stupid cast around for six weeks or so. Am I right? And don't even get me started on the itching and having fun trying to keep it dry while you shower. So, aside from decorating it with stupid things your friends write on it, what can you do?

Ok, it's not actually a tattoo, it's a decal that you apply (heat-bond) to your cast. Still, they have a really sweet selection at Casttoo.

Click on "Shop Casttoo" to see the different categories they have. I like the broken bones/x-rays section. Show off your break(s)!

Blindness!

GAH! Why is the sky blue, and WHAT IS THAT THING?

National Pancake Day

Now, this is a holiday I can get behind. Sure, I make some kick-ass pancakes and waffles, but it's always better when someone does it for you. As I posted earlier, IHOP is handing out free short stacks today.

Come get some!

Caption Contest

Newly unemployed women say "We can't compete with Lady Gaga!"

Police Story

The concept is simple, and very interesting. Ethan, a comic book artist, gets the story from his five-year-old brother, and then draws it. The result is Axe Cop.

Caption Contest Winner

This week's winner is ParticleJam.

See the original image here.

Activity Corner

• You might be surprised that a Darth Vader track jacket is actually made by Adidas.


• There are only four photos, but it's cool how the artist shows their components in a study he calls Exploded. (Although the frog, #2, is kinda gross.)


• Everybody knows that TV commercials are louder than the shows. If you're mad enough to do something about it, then you want the MyVolume commercial-dampening sound equalizer.


• A beginner's guide to smartphone OSes.


• How deep is the Marianas Trench? This graphic is to scale.


• Insanely deep fractal zoom.


• Nerds and statistics meet the birds and the bees: sex@MIT.


• Everything I need to know about winter I learned from sci-fi movies.


• Lady Gaga cookies.


• How to make pancakes like a crackhead.


• OkCupid, the dating site that shares their data analysis, looks into gender-based age preferences.


• You may know about those URL-shortening sites like snipurl. Now ShadyURL takes a different tack: making URLs that look like they're dangerous. For example, my URL changes to:
  http://5z8.info/freeanimalporn.com-start-download_n6j4c__init_download
  Ha ha ha, suckers, my animal porn isn't free!


• As if the stories aren't enough, the pictures are amazing at Pictory's The One Who Got Away.


• Ok, I LOLed at dogman eats dinner.


• The amazing hexacopter.


• Dirty dancers go to the principal's office.


• Some kind of contest for the most anime crap in your room.


• 43 ways to simplify your life.


• Mr. Okra.


• In this case, LARP means Live Avatar Role Playing.


• Raptor devours cheerleader.


• It's not about the guitar playin', it's about the cat scratchin'.


• The mathematics of the Hollywood blockbuster.


• Everybody's a-twitter over Please Rob Me.


• What happened in your birth year?


• Interesting animated short called Pivot.


• 20 dishes so awful we had to make them. Each one has a "read more" link with the details.


• 20 weirdest apartment buildings of the world.


• 100 extraordinary examples of paper art.


• The films of the 2000s.

Friday Game

It's unusual in that you use your mouse wheel, and only your mouse wheel, to play Record Tripping.

Oh For Sure

You know, the OFFICIAL stuff.

Be Fabulous! Be Fabio!

Remember Fabio, whose claim to fame was being the model for so many romance novel covers? Now anyone can do the same thing, thanks to this amazing website. Just upload a picture of your face from your computer or webcam, insert it into one of the covers, and voila, instant pulp fame. Sure, it's a few days late for Valentine's Day, but what the hey, you can still have fun with the Romance Novel Yourself site.

Free Pancakes!

Mark your calendars now, people!

Caption Contest

Mad Hatter meets Orange County Choppers

Small Town Photos

Michael Paul Smith is not only an amazing miniature modeler, but he's a great photographer too.

So, first, he's created an entire 1/24-scale town, with incredible detail. The models are simply fantastic. He calls the town Elgin Park.

Then, he takes the models outside and places them in front of trees or what have you. With the real background, and clever camera placement, the detailed models are almost indistinguishable from the real thing.

This link is not a site, but "only" his Flickr photostream. Take some time to go through it and marvel at the manufactured reality of Elgin Park.

Caption Contest Winner

This week's winner is seayjay.

See the original image here.

Activity Corner

• 15 fantastic firsts on the internet.


• The state of the internet.


• The 20 richest Americans in tech. The last sentence for #17? Daaaamn.


• Cat versus robot.


• 10 weirdest portable stuff.


• The amazing stop-motion video t-shirt war used 222 shirts!


• Read SD memory cards on your iPhone with zoomIt.


• The solar-powered "mobile entertaining lounge".


• Some are better than others in this Photoshop contest of celebrities with short legs.


• The misbehaving paint program known as fugpaint.


• Live webcast fail.


• Bodybuilding gone wrong. Warning: grotesquely muscled humans.


• How to store and organize cats.


• Yes, it's 10 minutes long, but holy crap. A clip from the 1977 Donnie and Marie show give us their musical Star Wars tribute.


• 20th Century Fox plus a recorder equals 20th Century Flute.


• 50 impressions in 50 seconds.


• A brief history of pretty much everything.


• Praying mantis tries to catch mouse cursor.


• Jumping off a 5-story building into a snow drift.
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• Oarfish ("sea serpent") caught on camera.


• Compilation of mirror scenes.


• 11 things that should be Winter Olympic sports.


• 10 fake Simpsons words that belong in the dictionary.


• Pajama jeans. Apparently it's not an oxymoron.


• Getting to the point of YouTube commenting, the Muppets weigh in with Dust in the Wind.


• The 10 unluckiest people.
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• What do you do after your tattoo outlasts your love? You get a clever cover-up tattoo.


• Guess that road sign.


• Billie Jean dancing senior citizens.


• Sure, it's in Russian, but have you tried reporting a claim to your insurance company? Office camouflage.


• How to not right an overturned truck.


• Weird things found in books.

Friday Game

Sometimes a stupid game can be so fun, and this one is no exception (for me, anyway). You control a flying saucer trying to abduct people and cows from Earth for your flying Man In A Can processing business. It just cracks me up, especially the graphic grinder on the side. Do you have what it takes to master Abduction?

Dump-fiti

A strange message with punctuation on a dumpster in Wallingford.

LOL Literacy

This is a very interesting site. The blogger starts with a picture from TV or a movie (which, unfortunately, isn't identified) and then captions it with a quote from a book by a usually-famous author; the quote is relevant to the picture. Enjoy the unlikely pairings at Slaughterhouse 90210.

Storefrontery

Store front in Ballard. Why'd they spell it wrong? And why is the "m" blue?

Caption Contest

Suzy learned the hard way not to go around swatting flies in the teleportation machine when your mad scientist boyfriend is mad at you.

Coffee-speriments

Someone after my own heart, who loves both coffee and experimenting, is the brains behind the interesting (and possibly scary) site that I don't even need to explain, since the title says it all: Putting Weird Things in Coffee.

Caption Contest Winner

This week's winner is House of Mayhem.

See the original image here.

Activity Corner

• How to fall 35,000 feet and survive.


• A Canadian homemaker talks about making a popular new Italian dish called "pizza pie" in this 1957 video clip.


• Comparing the new iPad to a rock.


• PeeWee gets an iPad.


• Yes, I know running in sneakers is bad for you. Will these be my next running shoes?


• Amateur video of the space shuttle Challenger disaster surfaces after 24 years. Ah, Betamax.


• Cool infographic of Earth's artificial satellites by country.


• Star Wars versus Star Trek.


• Retro (1978) Japanese Star Wars commercial.


• The totally awesome periodic table of smellements.


• The stop-motion music video made from individual printed graphic files. And not even good ones; they're .BMPs!


• Artistic renditions: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles drawn in the style of classical Renaissance artists.


• Sex, explained graphically by pens.


• When in doubt, poke it with a stick.


• Minimalist Star Wars posters.


• 31 awesome benches.


• Vans and the places they were.


• Wow, talk about a flashback to the web in 1997. It's hard to believe that someone worked so hard to make this look so bad: the web site for Yvette's Formal Shop in Panama City, Florida. You owe it to yourself to check out a few of the other pages (if you can find the links to them).


• Jet with labels.


• Nikki Graziano is a photographer and a mathematician. Those interests collide in Found Functions.


• If you know anime, then you know Akira. Here's an interesting artistic look at why Akira matters.


• The top 100 1970s singles.


• As a non-Canadian, I, too, was surprised to learn that Canadians drink milk out of bags.


• Rainbow pancakes.


• The 10 best car chases of the 70s.


• 7 of the most expensive flops in TV history.


• This niche blog is exactly what the name says: Selleck waterfalls sandwich.


• Seagull + Flashdance = wormdance! (He does it to attract worms to the surface.)


• Absurdist protest signs.


• 10 music award show disasters.


• 10 weird beer facts.

Friday Game

Here's an interesting take on the build/physics type of game. You have to build bridges that are strong enough to support your little guys and the crates they retrieve. Test your civil engineering acumen in Cargo Bridge.

Snarky

I'm an honorary member of Team Snark. Snarky, me? Really? Huh.
Also, it glows in the dark. That is so me.

Decaword Descriptions

We've all heard of wikipedia, but sometimes it can get a bit wordy. Luckily, the internet is here for us. By setting up a new wiki with the requirement that all entries have a limit for today's attention-deficit world, it's fast and fun to learn at ten word wiki.

Road Warrior

Takin' it on the road. I wonder how effective this technique is, especially since I can't even remember the business this minivan represented.

Caption Contest

"You missed a spot!"

100% Certified Pure

There's really not much to say, other than now you can "prove" your purity with paperwork. Head on over to Certified Virgin for your frameable (or wallet-sized!) proof.