Fun Links

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6 Creepy Mail Order Bride Sites.

Beer is good.

Your Mom wasn’t your Dad’s first.

How to Speak Hip. (via Everlasting Blort)

The Circle of Life.

The new dance craze in Brazil: Dança do Quadrado.

The Elephant Song by Eric Herman is cute and clever. Makes me want to be five years old again!

Al Jaffee’s Fold-ins for Mad magazine, past and present. He doesn’t use a computer, and he doesn’t even work with foldable materials!

The Geekiest LEGOs & Rubik Cubes. A gallery of toys for those with a lot of time and attention to detail.

Innovative Toilet Paper Dispensers

Even if you enjoyed the previous post on Innovative Toilet Paper, you know a major drawback to using toilet paper as a decorating idea is that it runs out. But you can impress guests with a one-time purchase by installing a very different toilet paper dispenser. And there are a lot of them to choose from!

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I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

From the movie Rattle and Hum. (Thanks, Carl!)

The Lost World

From 1925. From Google video:
Explorer Professor Challenger is taking quite a beating in the London press thanks to his claim that living dinosaurs exist in the far reaches of the Amazon. Malone's paper funds an expedition to rescue Maple White, who has been marooned at the top of a high plateau. Joined by renowned hunter John Roxton, and others, the group goes to South America, where they do indeed find a plateau inhabited by pre-historic creatures, one of which they even manage to bring back to London with them.

Informative Links

The sad story of Nim Chimpsky, the chimp who thought he was human. He was raised with humans only, until the funding ran out.

How dead is dead enough? Modern medical advances have blurred the line between life and death, so the criteria for defining death is somewhat arbitrary.

Ganvie, Benin: The Venice Of Africa. The town on the lake was settled to protect residents from slavery, as local religious tradition forbade attacking anyone on the water.

Why You Shouldn't Invest in Your Company's Stock.

John Mayer gets personal about his blog.

Only 13 people alive have pulled more than 2% in a US presidential election and lost. It’s a crushing defeat, but they say they would do it again.

Dean Kamen designed a new prosthetic arm that’s so awesome they named it after Luke Skywalker. If the DARPA grant is renewed, it will go to clinical trials soon.

Cat Behavior Explained. A seriously interesting page.

Scientists at Newcastle University have created part-human, part-cow hybrid embryos for the first time in the UK. They were made from human skin cells and depleted bovine eggs for the purpose of extracting stem cells.

'They're here': The mechanism of poltergeist activity.

Quincy Theme with Lyrics

At one time, Quincy, M.E. was my favorite TV show. It ran from 1976 to 1983. If you’ve never seen it, the new lyrics will explain what it was all about. (via b3ta)

Innovations in Toilet Paper

Most local stores have a selection of toilet paper ranging from cheap white paper to expensive white paper. That's it. At least at your supermarket. But thanks to the internet, we are freed from the tyranny of plain toilet paper!

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April Fools Day Links

Headlines for April First. You decide which ones are real!

The Top 10 Historical Hoaxers. From a British point of view, that is.

Top Ten Harmless Geek Pranks. Some of these can be pulled off at the last minute, so beware!

On the Origin of April Fools Day.

J-Walk Blog goes Canadian!

Finding a clever error 404 page helps to take some of the sting out of not finding what you wanted in the first place. Pingdom shows us 17 Brilliant Error Pages.

Thanks to her amazingly trained dog, this woman never has to get up from her desk. Now if only she could brew coffee...

Five Crazy Japanese Games Shows. The shows where you surrender your dignity for laughs and maybe even prizes!

The name of the game is Ball Buster.

Menstruation explained in simple animation. (via b3ta)

April Fools Day!

I'm surprised there weren't some "accidents" in this prank. Or maybe there were!

Pot o'Gold

1941 musical starring Jimmy Stewart and Paulette Goddard. From IMDb:
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle, an avid music-hater, all while winning the heart of the beautiful Molly! (via On the Other Foot)

Funny and Enteretaining Links

President Bush threw out the first pitch for the Washington Nationals. The crowd responded to his entrance with a resounding "Boooo".

This little robot scans the area to find a surface it can drum on! Can you say “adorable”?

The Ten Most Historically Inaccurate Movies. Hollywood never lets the facts get in the way of a good yarn.

A cat is delighted to find he can walk on water! But the ice makes it hard to reach the fish.

The 5 Most Ridiculously Over-Hyped Health Scares of All Time.

25 Phrases Men Can’t Stand to Hear Women Say.

Life’s Little Mysteries, like why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets? And why do (some) women wear high heels?

Everything in this world tends to even out. Explained in the way only Jack Handey could.

10 Things They Didn’t Teach You at School. If they did, school would have been a lot more fun!

GraphJam is a blog for strage flowcharts, Venn diagrams, and graphs of all kinds. They invite you to submit your own.

Design Coding

The Poetic Prophet, aka The SEO Rapper has a nerdcore rap about properly coding your html to optimize your website.

YouTube Doubler

I can't believe this wonderful toy has been around for nine months! Play two YouTube videos side-by-side to compare them, or in this case, use the music for one to enhance the other.

Since these videos are on autoplay, which is necessary in this case to start the two videos simultaneously, I have moved them to another page.

Tower of Pisa

Possibly a set up, but still funny.

Information Links

Before radio was widely used, planes used “road signs” painted on roofs to find airports! Some of these signs may still exist; some survive only in pictures.

The signs of spring are coming earlier in the American west. Scientist say global warming is to blame.

Ten Ways to Raise a Green Baby. And hope he or she turns a more natural color before first grade.

Too Much Information? Study Shows How Ignorance Can Be Influential. The good Lord knows we have enough of it!

London’s Top 10 Hidden Teasures.

The political costs of primping. A woman running for president will spend an extra two weeks over the course of a campaign just getting ready in the morning, just because she can’t afford not to.

25 ways to simplify your life with kids. Great tips for new parents, although a few are impossible for a single parent.

The credit crisis is moving beyond subprime mortgages. Next on the agenda: home equity loans.

Seven Mysterious Disappearances. Read what happened plus the wild speculations of what might have happened to these people who were never seen again.

A look at some of the problems with a national service program. It may be a way to pay for college, but there should be a better way.

The Job

The Job takes your expectations and turns them upside down. A award-winning short by Screaming Frog Productions. (via Everlasting Blort)

Gulliver’s Travels

From Wikipedia:

Gulliver's Travels is a 1939 cel-animated Technicolor feature film, directed by Dave Fleischer and produced by Max Fleischer for Fleischer Studios. The film was released during the holiday season of 1939 by Paramount Pictures, who had the feature produced as an answer to the success of Walt Disney's box-office hit Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Gulliver was the tenth animated feature film ever released, and the first produced by an American studio other than Walt Disney Productions. The story is based upon the Lilliputian adventures of Gulliver depicted in Jonathan Swift's 18th century novel Gulliver's Travels.

A Slow Slap in the Face

I’m awful. I had to laugh at this poor guy getting slapped just because he looked so funny. The video was taken at 4000 frames per second and slowed down for our pleasure. The things folks do to entertain you! (via Cynical-C)

6 March Madness Tournaments (without basketballs)

The NCAA basketball tournament is exciting, but it’s not the only game in town. There are March Madness elimination tournaments of all kinds going on now at a website near you!

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Fun Links

Put down your coffee cup before you watch BigDog Beta.

Proposal in Zero Gravity. David asked Sarah to marry him as they were riding the vomit comet! (via Boing Boing)

10 TV Shows that Changed the World.

8 (More) Disturbing Delicacies.

Advertising Vs Reality - A Product Comparison Project. You know the food you get is not going to look like the picture on the package, but it’s disturbing to see so many comparisons together.

You know someone just like this guy. Like the Guy Manual says, don't ever admit guilt, even in the face of overwheling evidence.

Hello, I am Mr. Google.

50 Words Women Really Hate. Yes, we do. “Clitorectomy” is right there at the top of my list.

Magic sea anemone in the Philippines. Now you see it, now you don’t!

You may be tired of Linerider videos by now, but you haven’t seen anything until you’ve seen Transcendental. With 126,000 lines, it runs as smoothly as silk.