Remembering

For those that do or have served, thanks.

Caption Contest

NEVER let Lindsay Lohan borrow your truck...

Burning Down the House

Was it supposed to be a simple question? Or was it an art project all along? Either way, the photographs are museum quality, but answer the question, What would you take from your burning house?

Caption Contest Winner

This week's winner is John Haydon!

See the original image here.

Activity Corner

• Clever photo frames let you B-Somebody else. They don't seem to have all the ones shown in the pictures, which is a shame.


• 8-bit pixel oven mitts.


• 22 unfortunately placed ads. Some old ones, but still good.


• The Legion of SuperGroomsmen. So frikkin awesome!


• Those crazy Europeans! An inland archipelago.


• Watch Dunder the German Shephard grow up in this 1-year timelapse.


• The perfect cover letter.


• Yes, it's true. iPad games for cats.


• April-May 2011 win compilation.


• The Grillenium Falcon [sic] food truck.


• Extremely mundane places in Minecraft.


• The rise and fall of an internet meme (chart).


• Wingsuit diver uses shoecam to make jumps look more awesome. It's a compilation-edit video, but you can spot his shots.


• Renovated Disney ride (hint: Star Tours) gets a TSA checkpoint.


• Every company Microsoft ever invested in. Infographic designed as an Underground map.


• 20 untranslatable words from around the world.


• Close-up of a mosquito bite.


• Brand wars: choose your allegiance. Great Star Wars versions of corporate logos.


• 11 awesomely incorrect test answers.


• Goldfish's music video for their song We Come Together is an awesome homage to 8-bit videogames.


• An RC blimp that looks like a shark? Yes, it's the Air Swimmers Flying Shark.


• A related flying idea is the RC Superhero.


• Anatomical drawings of mermaids, nymphs, and monsters. Anatomically correct warning.


• Playing with an otter.


• Mao, Marx, Lenin, and Thoreau go outdoors-ing.


• 8 people who are seriously obsessed.


• You'll know what "Fano flow" and "open channel syphon" mean after watching this video about non-Newtonian fluids.


• Girls and bathrooms.


• Florida soft shell turtle is fast!


• 170 Beastie Boys references explained.


• Live webcam of Iceland's Grímsvötnum volcano.


• Hollywood's most interesting blockbuster failures of the past 25 years.


• 16 things I remember about Napster.


• 6 Civil War myths everyone believes.


• 8 brilliant beer apps.


• 10 reasons to bow down before your shark overlords.


• 10 people who are funnier on Twitter than they are on TV.


• Beau Bridges in Bridges on Bridges.


• Corn on the cob can be a mess to eat, unless you have the Corn Kerneler.


• My Little Pony physics presentation.


• Lioness likes video camera.


• Video game movies by the numbers (infographic).


• Crazy "ostrich" pillow for napping at work.


• Make your own homemade absinthe.


• Remains of war.


• Where to live to avoid a natural disaster.


• Chart of which dictator killed the most people based on this data.


• 47% of Facebook users have profanity on their wall.


• Amazing and seemingly endless silhouettes of pop culture icons. There needs to be an answer key...


• If boring cereals had mascots.


• Vampire hunting kit from the 1800s.


• Chefs turn a Big Mac combo into a five-star meal at Happier Meals.


• You vote what you eat: food profiles of self-described liberals and conservatives (infographic).


• Flashing Star Trek t-shirts.


• Who doesn't want to talk on a banana? Now you can with this Bluetooth banana handset for your mobile phone.


• May 2011 fail compilation.


• How to write unmaintainable code.


• How good clothing looks vs. how easy it is to wear.


• 10 people's lives in famous photographs.


• Navy SEAL obstacle course (split-screen with helmet cam).


• The contest for the worst PowerPoint slide.

Friday Game

Here's one of those "how far" games, where you throw a paper airplane for distance and, more importantly, see how much cash you can earn. The cash is used to buy upgrades for your plane. Launch your journey with Flight.

Sad Stuffins

Even though I previously posted a link to WTF? Taxidermy, apparently there's enough of it out there to support a whole internet industry. Feast your eyes on some of the amazing work saved at Crappy Taxidermy.

Caption Contest

Donald Trump has dropped out of the 2012 presidential race but still won't admit he had a love child with Rod Blagojevich.

Pupil Proclamations

The teacher writes the headline, but the post is a straight-out quote. Enjoy the classroom submissions at Shit My Students Write.

Tip: Read the quote first, and =then= the headline. Lots funnier that way.

Caption Contest Winner

No winner this week. Guess I need a better picture!

See the original image here.

Activity Corner

• 400x USB digital microscope.


• "Signs" rings from Chao and Eero.


• The truth behind the hype of social location apps.


• You'll have to watch it a couple of times, but girl laughs like a seal.


• 6 classic movies you didn't know were remakes.


• 3-toed sloth crossing the road.


• Hot chocolate cupcakes.


• Gillian made a video for her unborn grandchildren, I am your grandma.


• Disney characters as the 7 deadly sins.


• Snow under a microscope.


• Great National Geographic map of the universe.


• VW "camper van" tent.


• The physics of clown cars.


• Yes, people are still making Inception infographics. But this is the best one I've seen yet.


• Mentos and Coke rocket fail.


• Roof jump stunt gone bad. I bet he broke his coccyx.


• Portal crosswalk sign hack.


• Making a toy phone swear.


• Close encounter with the Tuscaloosa tornado.


• A designer creates a series of minimalist Pokemon.


• Breakfast interrupted.


• In honor of the upcoming end of the world, it's the May 21st Apocamix.


• 21 pop cultural signs of the apocalypse.


• The Battle of F-Stop Ridge.


• 7 animals that are evolving right before our eyes.


• Honest chain restaurant menus.


• The 5 craziest buildings ever proposed with a straight face.


• The periodic table of storytelling.


• The 8 most disgusting animal defenses.


• The 10 best (and most unrealistic) graduation speeches in fictional history.


• You don't argue with a bus pass like this.


• Geek coffee froth art.


• The 7 most riduculous cases of misplace priorities.


• The five stages of Star Wars fandom grief.


• The 10 strangest trees on earth.


• Make your own LEGO Portal turret.


• The kid store.


• Have some Lovecraftian hot dogs with the Cthulhu weenie roaster.


• Dubstep faucet.


• One way to save your house from rising Mississippi floodwaters? Build a levee around your house.


• How to get out when you roll your 4-wheeling vehicle.


• 50 reasons why the world is definitely ending on Saturday.

Friday Game

Here's a fun little game that's half adventure, half platformer. You run your little elephant around defeating enemies and completing quests, all the while leveling up and applying bonuses to gain weapons and stuff. Enjoy exploring in Elephant Quest

A World of Newspapers

This is frikkin cool. This site catalogs, every day, the front page of all major newspapers in the world. All you have to do is scroll around the map, and hover over a dot to see the front page image. A world of news is on display at Newseum.

Caption Contest

Picture Me This

It's pretty simple. Type a noun into the field and see a picture. But they're not any nouns, they're Fuck Yeah, Nouns! (Do "clowns", I dare you!)

Caption Contest Winner

This week's winner is Jeremy!

See the original image here.

Activity Corner

• Pixelated 8-bit fashion.


• Sci-fi Ikea manuals.


• Free step kids.


• The six stages of movie geek evolution.


• Sleepy baby alpaca.


• U.S. releases photographic evidence that bin Laden is dead.


• How to make sure you don't get another babysitting gig. The screensaver.


• Knit yourself some Hello Kitty pants.


• How to launch large ships.


• Osama bin Laden's compound as a playable Counterstrike map. (People still play Counterstrike? Yikes.)


• Triple Double Oreo.


• Tour of Joyland in Wichita, KS.


• Animals with stuffed animals of themselves.


• Ultimate Frisbee graph.


• 12 famous unsolved mysteries easily explained by science. Yeah, science!


• 9 celebrities who actually went from rags to riches.


• Kung Fooled.


• 5 unexpected downsides of high intelligence.


• 10 things you need to know about the Marvel universe before seeing Thor. (Warning: minor spoilers.)


• Ballet of the "Dumbo" octopus.


• A showcase of workstations that'll make you jealous.


• A timelapse of a parking lot blocked exit.


• What is the ideal space career for you?


• Tang Yau Hoong's art of negative space.


• Math food.


• Protect your identity with these paparazzi shades.


• This summer's 10 biggest movie posters in LEGO form.


• Sitting is killing you (infographic).


• 5 shocking ways you overestimate yourself.


• The lost roles of Ghostbusters.


• Pictures of the Mississippi River flooding.


• 51 post-apocalyptic wallpapers.


• Long truck is long.


• Make s'mores in your oven or grill with the STL-600 S'More Maker.


• Moving without an elevator.


• The history and design of the plastic disposable coffee cup lid.


• Stay dry and keep your hands free with the umbrella messenger bag.


• Be seen on your bicycle with this LED-ringed Angel bicycle helmet.


• Facebook statuses.


• How to chop wood without messing around.


• Old man has never been on an escalator before.


• Human bicycle.


• Starbuck and Starbuck drink Starbucks in Starbucks.


• How valid is the implied legal advice in Jay-Z's 99 Problems?


• Game of Thrones infographics (characters, relationships, and locations).


• The Hipster States of America.


• 11 reasons why 1989 was the best year in TV history.


• Mt EverClimb, the continuous rope climbing system.


• 10 common faults in human thought.


• Ben Greenman’s Museum of Silly Charts.


• Miniature golf course for phobias. Pictures at the bottom.

Friday Game

You're the spike hazard in a game. Guys run by. You love 'em. It's Spike, A Love Story. See if you can complete the "Story" mode to unlock more levels.

See 'em Rollin', Be Hatin'

Many would say a big problem in America is an overdeveloped sense of entitlement. It's important to start combatting this problem early, before kids become teenagers. And one way to start is to not coddle them when they're Too Big for Strollers.

Caption Contest

Try as they might, the Witness Relocation Program had difficulty
disguising Michael Myers' true identity.

Satirzing Satire

The idea is simple: take existing New Yorker cartoons (known for being highbrow in the first place), and give them literal captions. They're all at The Monkeys You Ordered.

Caption Contest Winner

This week's winner is Seayjay!

See the original image here.

Activity Corner

• It's OK to not like things.


• 40 vintage ads that would be banned today.


• 54 years of book covers for Lolita: Covering Lolita.


• 17 most extreme scarification tattoos. Not for the squeamish.


• The 6 most terrifying historical car races.


• Wifi access for my technologically-challenged mother.


• Beer bandit foiled by his own lowrider pants. "Lookin' like fool with your pants on the ground!"


• What helmet cam combat footage looks like.


• Testing a bark collar on humans.


• Fighting galactic invasion.


• Evolution of Nintendo characters.


• GPS overload?


• A guide to visual design for everyone.


• 7 simple questions that science recently answered.


• Another abandoned Beijing amusement park.


• Man, struck by lightning, walks it off.


• Math geeks, rejoice! It's The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences!


• The origin of "mudflap girl".


• The danger of the "Polaroid effect".


• Make your own pop rocks.


• 6 myths about famous places you believe thanks to movies.


• Osama death lulz: the memeification of history.


• If you're on Facebook, you most like saw the Martin Luther King "quote" after bin Laden's death. Anatomy of a fake quotation.


• Calvin and Hobbes revisited. (Click the picture to embiggen.)


• Pictures of art on a wall in Sydney, Australia, before and after.


• Superhero movies by the numbers (infographic).


• 5 common medical errors in movies.


• 2010 gaming year in review.


• Cast your vote for who had the best Civil War facial hair.


• The new Nerf Super Soaker Thunderstorm has replaceable water clips, a fact which I can't believe isn't in the video.


• Rejected vacation postcards.


• A game of HORSE.


• Why does asparagus make your urine smell?


• 12 societies that mysteriously vanished.


• Most wasted driver ever.


• 9 ridiculous cartoons based on celebrities.


• The Slo Mo Guys and the giant 6-foot water balloon.


• Collection of Star Wars propaganda posters. Some old, some new.


• Raver kid reacts to bin Laden's death. (It's a meme... here he is finding out about Rebecca Black's Friday.)


• A tribute to Stanley Kubrick's filmography.


• 9 absurd movie premises that actually happened.


• Hand-feeding a pet wasp.


• Thermochromic urinal.


• 12 strangest lasagna recipes on earth.


• World's largest model airport.


• Timelapse - The City Limits.


• EPIC snowmobile fail. It's awesome all the way through.


• The Ctrl+O bottle opener.


• Some people, when they travel, like to play Hide the Bible.


• A trippy display by a special Newton's cradle.


• This is the most inspired Total Eclipse of the Heart music video ever (and perhaps the greatest of all time).


• This dog really, really, REALLY wants the stranger to throw the stick.


• When some important internetty stuff was launched/founded.


• I need a new Facebook profile picture, based on this Facebook cleavage chart.


• Which scifi series should you watch on Netflix?

Friday Game

Here's a simple little puzzle game. You solve the levels by inflating the little "people". You can cycle through their three states: small, medium, and large. Can you get three crowns on every level? Pump it up with Inflate Us.

When Dads Were Cool

It's cool to be a hipster these days, but it's also cool on the internet to vilify them. This site manages to both praise and bash hipsters at the same time. In the same manner, the language is both foul and hysterical at Dads are the Original Hipsters.

Caption Contest

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Secrets in the Center

You might be surprised what can be put into batter. Here's a website devoted to all the wonderful delights you can create by combining them. Go ahead, Bake It in a Cake.

Caption Contest Winner

This week's winner is John Haydon!

See the original image here.