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Rule 1b: Do not write some stupid slogan on your flag. If you've ever wanted to know how all the world's flags rank in terms of aesthetic appeal, here's a handy guide with an accompanying methodology.
posted on Dec-27-05 at 11:22 PM

There have been a number of urban exploration or modern ruins photography posts here over the years, but I couldn't find any that linked to my new favorite modern ruin site, opacity.us. With 85 galleries of subjects as gorgeous as Bannerman's Arsenal and as haunting as the Verden Psychiatric Hospital, it's a treasure trove of entropy on film.
posted on Dec-26-05 at 10:27 AM

National Geographic Video of 7 lions attempting to kill & eat a full grown elephant. embedded wmv, amusingly hyperbolic narrator
posted on Dec-23-05 at 9:04 PM

Just in time for the holiday two cats show you how to assemble & decorate your artificial christmas tree.
posted on Dec-18-05 at 10:20 PM

This Spanish commercial for Madrid's Metro system uses a cool visual device, making the ground transparent and showing the view from the subway, like a glass bottom boat in reverse. note: link contains embedded wmv
posted on Dec-15-05 at 11:07 AM

Eat Dog Cat Mouse (link goes to embedded QT movie with audio) is a charming, weird 3 minute cg cartoon described as a folk tale about the food chain. More info here.
posted on Dec-12-05 at 5:04 PM

This is why we can't have nice things. The man who edited the John Seigenthaler facts concerning the assassination of JFK & RFK in the Wikipedia has finally come clean. As a consequence of his actions, Seigenthaler wrote an editorial to USA Today, anonymous editors can no longer create pages in the Wikipedia (although they can still make edits), and the credibility of the project as a whole was placed into scrutiny. NY Times bugmenotlink
posted on Dec-11-05 at 9:36 AM

Photobooth (quicktime, direct link) is a short absurdist comedy sketch about a couple who meet, fall in love & celebrate 101 blissful years together in a mall photobooth. via
posted on Dec-9-05 at 3:49 PM

RSVP is a cool puzzle/strategy game, albeit several years old. I ran across it again recently and couldn't find it posted previously, so here it is if you've not played before, or even if you have.
posted on Dec-7-05 at 11:25 AM

Photos of the outcome of a motorcycle merging with a car @ 155 miles per hour.
posted on Dec-6-05 at 10:40 AM

Interesting (if biased) article on the downside of Craigslist's populist appeal in the form of it's contribution to the imminent death of the print newsmedia, especially in the SF Bay Area.
posted on Dec-5-05 at 9:51 AM

Bring down the government! Flickr collection of scans from a CIA published guide for revolutionaries in Nicaragua; many of the suggestions are universally applicable. I myself have been guilty of at least one...
posted on Dec-3-05 at 1:53 PM

Conan O'Brien runs the one Walker, Texas Ranger clip that he never dared run before...
posted on Dec-2-05 at 12:45 PM

The latest music video from legendary metal band Karkis totally rocks my holiday spirit.
posted on Nov-30-05 at 3:45 PM

Rabbit's animated journey through the history of (mostly American) cinema is a wonderful cartoon and, unfortunately, an ad for Motorola. Link goes to embedded quicktime, very slow loading.
posted on Nov-29-05 at 8:25 AM

hypnotizing photo essay from Hungary about a couple's water birth @ home, with narration in English from the wife.
posted on Nov-28-05 at 7:41 AM

"I can absolutely understand why Brazil is devoted to my favorite body part - the ass." Alternately cringe inducing & hilarious clip of California's national shame Arnold Schwarzenegger down in Rio in the late 70s, groping the dancers and making obscene (and obscenely awkward) passes at his co-hosts. link goes to embedded quicktime video
posted on Nov-27-05 at 12:03 AM

Asterix gets political. After over four decades of defending his lone holdout village from Roman attack, French children's book icon Asterix is taking on America in the latest novel. The village is besieged by an alien army whose leader is named Hubs, (a thinly veiled anagram of the U.S. President). The aliens invade seeking non-existent weapons of mass destruction.
posted on Nov-25-05 at 11:53 PM

Happy Thanksgiving. Here is a gallery of photos of monkeys dressed as jockeys, riding other non-monkey animals.
posted on Nov-24-05 at 7:52 PM

Short film of climber Dan Osman scaling Lover's Leap in California without ropes, racing over 400 vertical feet in just under four & a half minutes. Link goes to direct wmv download. Having never heard of Osman before, I was shocked to find out that his daredevil ways led to an early death when a rope snapped while Osman was performing a modfied form of bungie jumping in Yosemite back in 1999.
posted on Nov-23-05 at 7:16 PM

Breath Capture is a patent pending method and apparatus for collecting human breath as a keepsake display. Bonus: if your loved one can't be near you because you are surrounded by Vampires, the BreathCapture pendant can be worn as a crucifix. Before you mock this product, take this simple test.
posted on Nov-22-05 at 6:11 PM

Folder Share is an online service that synchronizes multiple pcs, or just specific folders in multiple pcs, by creating a localized p2p network. You could use it, for example, to keep your work & home mp3 collections identical. Until recently, the service cost $50/year, thanks to corporate largesse (and doubtless, evil intentions on the part of the new owner, Microsoft), it's now free. Unless you place some value on not letting Microsoft catalog what's on your PC.
posted on Nov-21-05 at 2:50 PM

Spectacular gallery of paperworks (sculptures crafted from intricately cut sheets of paper). shamelessly pilfered via.
posted on Nov-17-05 at 8:03 AM

Here's an interesting series of scale/perspective images showing what all the water on Earth (1.4087 billion cubic kilometres of it), including sea water, ice, lakes, rivers, ground water, clouds, etc. would look like in comparison to the total spherical area of the Earth, and then again showing All the air in the atmosphere (5140 trillion tonnes of it) gathered into a ball at sea-level density. Both illustrations shown on the same scale as the Earth. via
posted on Nov-13-05 at 10:30 PM

Not a particularly interesting person? Perhaps you'd be more interesting if you had been attacked by pygmies, or survived a fall from a 19 story building. But who has the time to actually HAVE crazy life threatening accidents. Now, you no longer need to.
posted on Nov-11-05 at 11:01 PM

Live in Denver? Single? Between 40 & 60? Male? Spiritual? Have enough money to buy a 600,000 dollar house? Then you might be in luck, provided you like blondes.
posted on Nov-10-05 at 10:52 PM

Being Press Secretary is a difficult job. Link to a hilariously uncomfortable transcript of Scott McClellan dancing his way through a White House press briefing doing his best to clarify whether or not the American government sanctions terror.
posted on Nov-9-05 at 9:55 AM

Thanksgiving: The Movie Starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as Flint Miller, and Dakota Fanning as Chastity Muffinhead.
posted on Nov-4-05 at 11:13 AM

How do you make a pug more adorable? It's a trick question, you can't. But if you DO enjoy the odd bit of miscegenation in your puppy's bloodline, apparently pugs & beagles make a nice mix.
posted on Nov-3-05 at 10:41 AM

Armagetron Advanced is a free network enabled Tron lightcycle racer for windows, OSX & linux. Attractive graphics and interesting camera controls make up for a fairly difficult opponent skill level. Screenshots here, download link here.
posted on Oct-31-05 at 1:25 PM

Gallery of funeral art. On this halloween weekend, a brief collection of photographs of tombstone carvings & other cemetary decorations.
posted on Oct-29-05 at 10:21 PM

Rusty's family tried to accept his kinkier interests. "Father, will you buy me that leash for my birthday?" "But Patches already has a leash," said Father. "I didn't want it for Patches," said Rusty. Father chuckled uncomfortably.
posted on Oct-28-05 at 8:55 PM

The Yoda hip hop dance easter egg from the latest Star Wars DVD is posted at Google Video. 1 min long, flash video.
posted on Oct-27-05 at 8:35 PM

Congratulations, you have just volunteered yourself to be part of this game. The aim is simple: get to the end !
posted on Oct-25-05 at 11:48 PM

Photo gallery of European storm drains. Giant, intimidating & beautiful, 148 photos in all.
posted on Oct-23-05 at 3:10 PM

I'm the 24,519,565 richest person on earth! According to the Global Rich List, which says I make more than 99.506% of the people alive today. Only 24.5 million people between Bill Gates & myself...
posted on Oct-21-05 at 2:18 PM

a few thousand science fiction covers is a flash presentation of thousands of SF magazine covers from the fifties through today, arranged chronologically from left to right, and grouped by color from top to bottom.
posted on Oct-18-05 at 4:00 PM

Peter Feigenbaum is a model train enthusiast and Yale architecture student who designed & built a more realistic urban world for his train to go through. Full photo gallery here.
posted on Oct-17-05 at 3:31 PM

Never store your honey in a birdfeeder for safe keeping. That's the FIRST place they look!
posted on Oct-15-05 at 1:09 AM

Of all the humorous stuffed rodents in the "novelties" section of customcreaturetaxidermy.com, I can't decide whether my favorite is the squirrel full o'whiskey (with the removable head for decanting) or the "mouse trap gag" (see, the gag is, it looks like a disgusting dead mouse in a trap, when in reality... oh, wait...).
posted on Oct-13-05 at 10:49 PM

Pre-announcing Google Wallet. A Pay-Pal competitor from the little search engine that could...
posted on Oct-12-05 at 12:50 AM

CribCandy.com is a thumbnail blog of cool stuff for your house, like Uncrate, but just for house related purchases.
posted on Oct-10-05 at 4:12 PM

What life would look like if you lived inside a plastic water bottle. Details on this interesting panoramic QTVR here.
posted on Oct-8-05 at 11:12 PM

So, the US Army is having trouble meeting it's recruitment goals, and is lowering the bar for admission to try and make up the shortfall. Another tactic they are apparently trying is sweetening the deal with 3 free (FREE!!!) iTunes downloads if you agree to talk to a recruiter. It'd be foolish NOT to sign up, frankly!
posted on Oct-6-05 at 12:37 PM

HDTV broadcasts contain an extra couple of inches of screen real estate on either side of the picture that are cropped out of the standard defintion broadcast of the same show. Most shows don't do anything special with that space, since the vast majority of viewers don't receive it, but NBC's My Name Is Earl did last night.
posted on Oct-5-05 at 11:42 AM

So, there will be a movie made from the video game Halo , which is bad. But it's being Exec. Produced by Peter Jackson, which is good.
posted on Oct-4-05 at 11:37 AM

National Geek Day. Neil "Sandman" Gaiman & Joss "Buffy" Whedon both have movies coming out this weekend; in honor of the nerd confluence of events, Time magazine conducted a joint interview with the two.
posted on Sep-28-05 at 11:44 PM

If you've ever wanted to know what portion of the US a specific zip code covers, this Google Maps hack is for you.
posted on Sep-27-05 at 2:58 PM

Amusing, stylized violent cgi cartoon of a series of assassins trying to take on the lone biker of the apocalypse. Embedded windows media video.
posted on Sep-23-05 at 4:59 PM

Hi-res satellite photos of Earth Four pages worth, desktop wallpaper sized.
posted on Sep-22-05 at 4:55 PM