Reasons to be cheerful
List of positive things that happened in the 2000′s. I’m glad that most of the gains went to those who sorely needed them.
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Don’t miss: The Presidents, The Beatles, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Indiana Jones.
John Martz’s “Trexels” is pretty great, too.
Loading ...Ducks getting blown off their feet
Poor little ducks!
Loading ...Supercuts
Huge list of obsessive video montages.
Loading ...Doodling in math class
Math + time-lapse doodles = Win.
Loading ...Who else does this?
Glad I’m not the only one who does that.
Loading ...How to get a job at American Apparel
“I dislike anything that most people like.”
Loading ...History through Google Books Ngrams
Each of the graphs plots over time the fraction that one word constitutes of all words in books mined from the Google Books project.
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Incredible fan-made kinetic typography animation video of the Jonathan Coulton song “Shop Vac”.
Loading ...Internet ghosts of the world unite!
A little too late, IE.
Loading ...Google Earth skydiving
Those crazy Japanese.
Loading ...Cat vs. Internet
I thought my cat was the only one to use a trebuchet.
Loading ...Some golden girls discover photo booth
I want to be like that when I get older.
Loading ...Simple liquid simulation
Drag the fluid around with your mouse.
Loading ...Angry Birds – Strategy
Hrumph.
Loading ...Dr. Seuss does Star Wars
“This body is old,
But it’s all that I’ve got.
When 900 you reach,
Look so good you will not!”
Loading ...Metropolis
Somebody has a lot of time and Hot Wheels on their hands.
Loading ...I have everything. My life is empty.
Great reminder article about finding meaning outside of the lifestyle of consumption.
Loading ...1980s Frosted Flakes commercial
I remember every word of this commercial.
Loading ...Buzz Kill meme
I guess this is a thing now.
Loading ...The Lying Down game
Parkour for lazy people.
Loading ...Bing
Someone had a lot of time on their hands to make this Groundhog Day mashup.
Loading ...FPS map design: then and now
Someone got lazy.
Loading ...The number to heaven
I think the lack of any context is what makes this clip unbelievable.
Loading ...MapCrunch
Google Street View shows what the world really looks like.
Loading ...People are awesome
I have to admit, I kept expecting it to be a fail video, but they landed everything :)
Loading ...iPhone vs. Android vs. BlackBerry
Get the phone you like.
Loading ...God of War style PB&J
Even the angles are true to form.
Loading ...Boba Fett’s invoice to Jabba
I’m glad Boba went the whole hog and prettied Han up in the carbonite aesthetic display, though I’m not sure Jabba will pay the extra for it.
Loading ...StS’ Beatles
Ringo, do the face.
Loading ...English lesson
Normal vs. pirate vs. Jamaican.
Loading ...Actor Gordon Pinsent reads from the memoirs of Justin Bieber
Verily, he makes Bieber seem like a man of great stature.
Loading ...Dungeons & Dragons site has impossible-to-answer security question
Now that’s just mean.
Loading ...How ink is made
It’s like a more artistic version of “How It’s Made”.
Loading ...US map showing the movies that represent each state
Yup.
Loading ...Diminished reality
Real-time object removal from live video. It’s crazy that this kind of thing can be done.
Loading ...Star Wars rear window sticker
That car is cruising!
Loading ...Space video footage from camera attached to weather balloon
Man, what a great Dad.
Loading ...Please don’t do these in an email
Or I will pluck my eyeballs out.
Loading ...“Hey, ladies…” smile
Every time he does it I say to myself that I won’t laugh, but then it turns out I’m a liar.
The remix here.
Loading ...A classic IE6 effect in HTML5
Ah, the memories.
Loading ...Super Mario Bros. glitches
I knew about most of these, but not all.
Loading ...Woman chronicles her life from ages 16-88 in shooting gallery photos
I love that she’s still doing this.
Loading ...Piracy
Jesus did it.
Loading ...“Take Me Out” by Atomic Tom
Sounds pretty good for a train performance entirely played on iPhones.
Loading ...Reddit users list the most expensive mistake they’ve ever made
It’d be hard to beat the Google one.
Loading ...Historical illusion
Fooled me.
Loading ...Goth public access
It’s like a real life version of Goth Talk with Azriel Abyss, the Prince of Sorrow.
Loading ...Radical Islam
X-tremeism!
Loading ...Thunder Busters
AC/DC vs Ghostbusters mashup.
Loading ...Seaquence
Musical petri dish.
Loading ...Hidden “McBain” movie in multiple Simpsons episodes
I’d seen all of these before, but not as a continuous piece. Genius!
Loading ...Mario Kart in real life
Bananas!
Loading ...I heart you
Happy Valentine’s Day from the scary dude in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Loading ...“Lost” Valentine’s Day cards
Ben Linus is creepy.
Loading ...A History of Rap: Jimmy Fallon, Justin Timberlake & The Roots
Fantastic.
Loading ...Tilt-shift Van Gogh
For hipster painters.
Loading ...Jason Schwartzman introduces the New Yorker iPad app
He’s the new Billy Mays.
Loading ...Mega Millions lottery simulator
Playing twice a week for 10 years netted me -$823. The lottery is so worth it.
Loading ...A thing called the Internet
I couldn’t agree more.
Related: My FailBlog post for the Yellow Pages we received yesterday.
*Update: There’s now a website through which you can opt out of receiving any more Yellow Pages. Let’s see if they honor my request now.
Loading ...Star Trek pizza cutter
This would make an excellent gift for me.
Loading ...Asteroids bookmarklet
Destroy any webpage.
Loading ...Never say no to Panda
He can be kind of a jerk.
Loading ...Ring found
Did you think we were that gullible?
Loading ...Free climbing a tower higher than the Empire State Building
I kept getting shivers watching this.
Loading ...The bed of a hardcore gamer
Radical! Too bad Sarah wouldn’t go for something like this.
Loading ...Friday classic: “Love Train” on Soul Train
My favorite is the slow motion couple.
Thanks Justin!
Loading ...Assembly instructions from hell
You’re never going to put that thing together.
Loading ...Middle Earth Hockey Association logos
I think I’d be a Rangers fan.
Loading ...Common southern mispronunciations
I’m pretty sure I’ve heard all but “Jun Stuurt” in real life.
Loading ...Interrupting a parade
So wrong yet so so right.
Loading ...WASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSUP!
I feel like I’m crossing a very fine line by linking to this… but I like it :)
Loading ...“My Heart Will Go On” – recorder version
Get ready to have your heartstrings pulled.
Loading ...Business cards for fictional companies
Sure, like I’m going to give a Bluth business card to someone who’s not wearing a $4,000 pair of pants. Come on!
Loading ...Japanese precision walking
Those crazy Japanese.
Loading ...This is how I feel about buying apps
But I have to buy popcorn at the movies.
Loading ...Soccer players celebrate goal with “human toilet”
That was kind of out of nowhere.
Loading ...Unhear It
Website that will replace the song currently in your head with another annoying one.
Loading ...Dog dancing the Merengue
Completely impressive and a bit creepy.
Loading ...Putin on a Ritz
Yep.
Loading ...Acrobatic awesomeness
Insane!
Loading ...Mario is so screwed
You know what’s going to happen.
Loading ...How to turn yourself into a bale of hay
Though I don’t know why he had to take his clothes off.
Loading ...imagesoak.com
Infinitely scrollable feed reader with images and categories. Love it!
Loading ...English Bulldog casually watching TV
Funnier than it sounds.
Loading ...You will never look at a duck the same way
Warning: this cannot be unseen.
Loading ...Chinese Omnipotent China red army sings Beat It
Inspirational.
Loading ...Inception explained with a Mac
You have to use list view for this.
Loading ...Thru Religion
Very clever.
Loading ...Ahead Stop
I couldn’t agree more.
Loading ...Getting an ice cream cone in Istanbul is an ordeal
But patience pays off.
Loading ...Color Theory
Super simple yet addictive flash game.
Loading ...Inception ending, extended
This is a spoiler; don’t watch if you haven’t seen the movie!
Loading ...Song lyrics as Google Maps directions
Still takes a lot of walking to get to Your Door.
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