Sunday, November 04, 2012

An Honest Trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man



Screen Junkies continues its series of Honest Movie Trailers by working on the movies that are most requested. This one for The Amazing Spider-Man is a hoot. (via Laughing Squid)

The Dog's Joke

(Thanks, Duke!)

Saturday, November 03, 2012

Hound Dog



Performed by Little Richard. The lyrics are the original Big Mama Thornton lyrics.



Anti-Suffrage Campaign Postcards

Look! Women who want to vote are ugly! Or, at least have teeth that stick out prominently. This is just one of about 4500 designs on postcards that circulated in the decades before women finally got the right to vote in 1920. See more at Collector's Weekly.

Triumph The Insult Comic Dog Hits The Final Presidential Debate



Triumph runs through the spin room, photobombing TV feeds and sprinkling one liners everywhere. 




November

A mall started playing Christmas music on November first. A baker at the cookie store decided to express her opinion on the mall's music selection by baking a cookie. A big cookie with a big message. Redditor MundaneHymn, who also works at the mall, thought it was worth sharing.

Poor Abby



Four-year-old Abby is tired of "Bronco Bama" and Mitt Romney. We're all tired, Abby. But the election will be over soon. Abby was reacting to hearing yet another election story on NPR. So NPR has issued an apology to Abby.


Obama vs Romney




Cassetteboy once again proves you can get anyone to say anything if you have the right editing skills. (via b3ta)



Friday, November 02, 2012

Space Zoo



(via reddit)

Karma for a Thief



The cat would not rest until he got a dog treat out of the canister. Then he found there is no honor among thieves. (via The Awesomer)


NMA Explains the Lucasfilm Buyout



Next Media Animation shows us their version of the Disney buyout of Lucasfilm. This is the dialog-free animation, which can be edited to fit your news copy, should you be a subscriber. What that means for us is that it's longer than the finished news clips we are sued to seeing from NMA. At YouTube, it's described as "Star Wars Episode 7 Official Trailer." (via Blame It On The Voices)

Miss Cellania's Links

10 Beautiful Tattoos Inspired by Watership Down. Literary ink, indeed!

There Once was a Man Who was a Dwarf and Later a Giant.

Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel are headlining a concert tonight to benefit hurricane victims. Here are some suggestions for their set list.

Amidst the carnage left by the hurricane, people stepped up to help each other. Here are 26 Truly Inspiring Images From Hurricane Sandy.

If you're not crawling out from under the rubble of hurricane Sandy, things are looking up. The economy is doing better now than it has in years.

The suckiest day in presidential history was that day when president-elect Franklin Pierce and his wife saw their young son die in a train crash. The family's grief and belief in omens showered sadness over his entire term in office.

Mondegreens are misheard lyrics, which tend to stick with you for a lifetime. Here are some misheard lyrics that will infect your brain once you see them in subtitles.

Angels of Death: 8 Medical Murderers. Caregivers are rarely suspected, so they can get away with multiple crimes.

How 'MST3K' Picked Movies to Mock.

A Message from The Greatest Generation. Use headphones if you are at work. (via Everlasting Blort

Introduction

Luke Skywalker's Adoption



Obi-Wan Kenobi and Owen Lars discuss the biggest holes in the plot of the Star Wars saga. It just goes to show that George Lucas never had an overarching story to tell; he just made it up as he went along. And besides, Owen and Anakin weren't even half-brothers, they were step-brothers. (via Geeks Are Sexy)


Thursday, November 01, 2012

MIT Style



Geeks love "Gangnam Style!" The MIT Korean Students Association dances all over campus, along with just about every other student organization, with special appearances by professors Donald Sadoway, Eric Lander, and Noam Chomsky. Oppam Chomsky Style! (via Metafilter)


10 Legendary Monsters of North America: Part Two

Legendary monsters live wherever there are people to tell the tales to -including North America, where there are many more than will fit into one post. This is part two of a list that began last week. And there are plenty more scary tales to tell! Read ten more of those in my feature article today at mental_floss.


Photobombing Cow

(via reddit)

Top 10 Ways To Smash A Pumpkin



One of the benefits of having pumpkins is the fun you can have getting rid of them. However, I would not recommend that you try the methods shown in this slow-motion video. Especially #3. Do not attempt that ever, anytime, anywhere. (via The Daily What)



Miss Cellania's Links

7 Abandoned Amusement Parks.

I just don't see why we throw bricks at college students' heads for entertainment.

In Manhattan, a bucket brigade of dozen people carried diesel fuel up 17 flights of stairs to keep a data center generator going. That's what it took to keep thousands of websites online after hurricane Sandy.

The human brain has a hard time being both logical and nice at the same time. Luckily, most of us can switch back and forth as needed.

Now That’s Rocket Science: An Interview with JPL’s Erisa Hines.

How To Make Better Mac 'n' Cheese. Now that you're all grown up, you can make it a gourmet feast!

Four Recently Discovered Planets Are Ideal Horror Movie Settings. And they make the most ridiculous sci-fi planets seem almost believable.

What’s the difference between running amok and going berserk? And where did those phrases come from, anyway?

Dracula’s Pellagra and Lois Lane’s Lungs: Further Gleanings From the Medical Literature. What was wrong with all those fictional characters, anyway?

Nintendo Rhapsody



Yes, it's a song about Nintendo video games set to the tune of Bohemian Rhapsody. It get exceedingly silly in parts. By Pat The NES Punk and Brentalfloss. (via Daily of the Day)