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trololololololololololo.com

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:29:00 -0800

trololololololololololo.com: Among the more accurately named websites out there.

(And look! There’s a sneaky imitator at trolololololololololo.com: note one fewer “lo”.)

Cake Wrecks: Holy Smokes! Who knew that cakes shaped as...

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:17:00 -0800

Cake Wrecks: Holy Smokes!

Who knew that cakes shaped as ashtrays or tins of chaw were so popular these days? Click through for more.

The Soft Boys: “Insanely Jealous” (1980). Happy...

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:18:00 -0800

The Soft Boys: “Insanely Jealous” (1980).

Happy birthday, Robyn Hitchcock!

via sixbucks

OK Go: “This Too Shall Pass” (2010). An incredibly...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:39:00 -0800

OK Go: “This Too Shall Pass” (2010).

An incredibly elaborate video of Rube Goldberg-esque semi-controlled chaos, full of rolling balls and paint splatters and total awesomeness.

(Now with embeddability, after OK Go noted that video views dropped 90% when their record company disabled embedding — though in this case you should click through to the large version!)

Friz Freleng (dir.): “Three Little Bops” (1957). A...

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:57:00 -0800

Friz Freleng (dir.): “Three Little Bops” (1957).

A classic Warner Bros. retelling of “The Three Little Pigs,” in which the pigs are actually cool jazz cats and the Big Bad Wolf is a stage-crashing bad trumpeter and total square.

Old Spice - “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like”...

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:43:00 -0800

Old Spice - “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” commercial

“I’m on a horse!” should be the catchphrase of Spring ‘10.

(More similar clips at Old Spice’s YouTube channel.)

Via Douglas.

My son and I were just reading an issue of Ranger Rick about...

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:13:00 -0800

My son and I were just reading an issue of Ranger Rick about seahorses, including teeny-tiny, bumpy pygmy seahorses that blend so beautifully into their watery abodes of gorgonian corals. Then I came back to my computer, where Roger Ebert had linked this pygmy-seahorse video on his Twitter. Aww.

Covered In Folk: Talking Heads (featuring 6 covers of Naive Melody and 10 more!)

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:24:31 -0800

Covered In Folk: Talking Heads (featuring 6 covers of Naive Melody and 10 more!) :

sixbucks:

@ Cover Lay Down

Hercules: Master of cuisine, slave of Washington

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:07:00 -0800

Hercules: Master of cuisine, slave of Washington:

He was one of the first great chefs of Philadelphia - in fact, of the young nation. The chief cook in President George Washington’s home here in 1790 had only one name: Hercules. In the mansion’s open-hearth kitchen, where elaborate banquets were prepared, where spitted meats sizzled and “fricaseys” simmered in cast-iron pans over hickory fires, underlings scurried to execute the orders of Hercules, “the great master-spirit,” according to one account, who seemed to be everywhere at once. To Washington, however, Hercules was what he called that “species of property” - a slave. And though his talents would earn Hercules extraordinary privileges, including an income, fine clothes, and freedom to roam the city, Washington also went to great lengths to maintain the bondage of his prized cook - with deception, slave catchers, and, eventually, an attempt to stash him at Mount Vernon.

William Shatner in Shit My Dad Says

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:33:00 -0800

William Shatner in Shit My Dad Says:

Twitter sensation Shit My Dad Says is becoming a TV pilot with William Shatner set to play the larger-than-life dad at the center of it.

Of course. Is this the first Twitter account to become a TV pilot?

Philippe, Entrepreneur.

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:35:28 -0800

Philippe, Entrepreneur.:

You just thought you didn’t need the “Need to Tinkle” King Tutankhamun Meerkat Bathroom Statue.

"Roger Ebert can’t remember the last thing he ate. He can’t remember the last thing he drank,..."

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:49:00 -0800

“Roger Ebert can’t remember the last thing he ate. He can’t remember the last thing he drank, either, or the last thing he said. Of course, those things existed; those lasts happened. They just didn’t happen with enough warning for him to have bothered committing them to memory — it wasn’t as though he sat down, knowingly, to his last supper or last cup of coffee or to whisper a last word into Chaz’s ear. The doctors told him they were going to give him back his ability to eat, drink, and talk. But the doctors were wrong, weren’t they? On some morning or afternoon or evening, sometime in 2006, Ebert took his last bite and sip, and he spoke his last word.”

- Esquire | Roger Ebert: The Essential Man

The Daily Swarm - Watch (While You Can): Prince Rehearsal Videos from 1984...

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:21:54 -0800

The Daily Swarm - Watch (While You Can): Prince Rehearsal Videos from 1984...

(via mudwerks: trixietreats: nevver)

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:44:00 -0800

(via mudwerks: trixietreats: nevver)

How many oranges do you need to power an iPhone?

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:11:40 -0800

How many oranges do you need to power an iPhone?

Jesse Reklaw, from a dream by John Martin Marks:...

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:00:00 -0800

Jesse Reklaw, from a dream by John Martin Marks: “Cinematic Conflict.”

Click through for a larger version. From Reklaw’s dream strip, Slow Wave.

David Bowie seems like the ideal celebrity to have show up in your dream. You know he’d say something perfectly witty and surreal and push the action along.

An Entirely Other Day: The Days of Miracles and Wonder

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:30:00 -0800

An Entirely Other Day: The Days of Miracles and Wonder :

“AAAAAaaaaaagh!”
“Please calm down. Breathe deeply. Anxiety is a normal part of the temporal displacement field. It will pass quickly. OK. OK? OK. Now: Hello. I am you, from the year 2010, two decades in the future.”

How to levitate … … by standing next to a wet...

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:27:00 -0800

How to levitate …

… by standing next to a wet spot on the sidewalk!

Nice. (Just be sure to do it on an overcast day, around noon, for minimal real shadowage.) (Via Boing Boing.)

‘Playing With Pictures’ - The New York Times > Arts >...

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:05:00 -0800

‘Playing With Pictures’ - The New York Times > Arts > Slide Show > Slide 1 of 13

Above: an untitled page from the “Madame B” album (1870s), by Marie-Blanche-Hennelle Fournier, as part of the “Playing With Pictures” Victorian collage show at the Met.

How To Put The Spark Back Into Your Relationship With Your Cat | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:45:41 -0800

How To Put The Spark Back Into Your Relationship With Your Cat | The Onion - America's Finest News Source