Furry Snails to Love

Hands up, who likes snails?

I saw you out there, Sophy!

This one's for you! Do snails need sweaters? Maybe when it's chilly outside a snail might need a sweater. Imagine how cozy this one feels.

All it takes is one person who cares.

And a fuzzy peep to be your friend.

Cute Overload alerted us to this. It was created by Resurrection Fern, on a post called "Small, but Not Insignificant."

Merry Christmas Everybody

This is my best present to you. How much do I love this? Very much.

It made me smile until I teared up. I loved it so.

I hope you love it too. Merry Christmas.

NBCs "Life" as DC Comic's "Question: The Series"

The Question is certainly not the best-known hero in the DC universe, but he is possibly the most intriguing. Now NBC has a series, "Life," which is the closest possible thing to a Question TV show.

First of all, Damian Lewis. If they ever create a series based on the Question, they must use HIM. He is perfect. His face doesn't move! Not only that, but his accent, his mannerisms. Perfect.

And wait, who's that with him? Is it Detective Renee Montoya? NO WAY! This is too cool. Sarah Shahi plays the part of Dani Reese. Did you think we wouldn't notice? Of course, she has been studying Montoya's mannerisms. One tough cookie. But pretty.

Wow, now if we could only get someone to play Harvey Bullock. Someone like, oh, say, Donal Logue, for instance? WHAT? We did that as well? Okay, the stars have aligned. I can't stand it.















Stop pretending. We know that "Charlie Crews" is really Victor Sage, aka., "The Question."

Fess up.

Cute Things Falling Asleep

Oboy oboy oboy oboy oboy!

I love finding things like this. It just doesn't get any better than Cute Things Falling Asleep! They are cute. They fall asleep!

Awwwww!

Start with this sloth, and then mosey over to the website and enjoy the full cuteness!

Dalek Christmas Tree

Okay, it's a dangerous world out there, and the Doctor doesn't really exist. That's a shame, because DALEKs do!

Wait, that's just a tree? Man, you had me totally fooled. I guess the fact that it was pink should've tipped me off too. Anyway, it's pretty cool.

Not as cool as the spinning killer Christmas tree from the show, but cool.

Tesla Coil Guitar Fail

Okay, what if I told you there was a guy who had two Tesla Coils that throw out sparks three-feet long?

What if I told you he hooked his guitar up to it, so that the sparks were thrown whenever he played?

What if I told you he played Thunderstruck, by AC/DC?

Sounds like a winner, right?

Nope. EPIC FAIL!

Great idea, guitar guy, but, um, LEARN TO PLAY! Or get your friend who can play to do it for you.

If this were my video, I would take it down. It sucks so bad.

When you have an idea this great, it's hard to screw it up. He managed.

Volcano Lightning

This is real.

Volcanic ash sometimes generates enough electricity to begin shooting out lightning bolts. Then what?

What else do you want? It's a volcano-generated mother-of-all-thunderstorms!

Man, you people are hard to please.

From Cracked, the funniest website in the world. It is edgy, and don't go if you're easily offended, but man!, is it a funny site. I could spend days on it.

10 guys, 12 days

Okay, the title sounded bad, but it's just an a capella group.

A friend told me about these guys - an absolutely unique take on the twelve days of Christmas. Very talented, pretty funny, and a lot of work put into the act. Apparently the other stuff by them is good too, but I didn't browse it all. Sorry about two videos in a row, but it's Christmas, you know. You have to expect a lot of Christmas stuff.

Unless I was Jewish, or Muslim. Or a profound atheist. But I'm not.

Well, enjoy the video.

Merry Christmas, Everybody!

Cute animals! Singing! Snow!

What else could you ask for? Lips? We got 'em! Saxophones? Got those too! British accents? Yup.

Well, just give this a gander. You will probably like it. I know I did.

P.S. I tagged a lot of animals I wasn't sure were in the video, but who looks at those anyway?

Huge Mini Stuff #1 - Sedna

In a never-ending quest to provide you with startlingly good content, I um, used a search engine. 

Okay, I was bored, and wanted to find out if I existed on google. I do, but there were other "huge mini"s before me. This is for them. 

First up, Sedna. What, you may ask, is a Sedna? Well, Sedna is an object which orbits our sun, Sol, at 10,000 years per orbit. Which means you have to wait 9,999+ years for Christmas on Sedna. Which is why there are no kids there. They got bummed out and left long ago.

And the "huge mini" connection? Well, Sedna is almost as big as Pluto, which makes it a "huge mini-planet," according to Space.com. It might even have it's own moon.

Why haven't you heard about it? Because it isn't a planet, it is a "Kuiper Belt Object," which is what scientist guy calls anything beyond Pluto. Frankly, scientist guy wants Pluto re-classified as a Kuiper Belt Object and downgraded from planet status.

Scientist guy, find a way to cure cancer or something. Leave my planets alone.

Anyway, there you are. Sedna. A huge-mini something twice as far away as Pluto. Don't say I never gave you anything.

Weezer, Pork and Beans

This is Weezer's video, "Pork and Beans."

I'm not allowed to embed it, so the links are here, above here, and on the picture to the right.

It has many familiar internet stars in it.

It is fun.

Watch it.

Of course, the Barenaked Ladies did it first.

And they let me embed themselves.

So I bet they get more views.

Whatever.

More Earthquakes please...

Anybody tired of my earthquake hype? Well too bad.

Look, it's simple. If there is a major shake-up, and you saw it here, I'm gonna look like a genius!

And if it doesn't happen, I'll look like a nutcase, which can only help my popularity on the interweb. So I win, or I win!

Today I link to the U.S. Geological Survey site for tracking Earthquakes. If one happens, and you're not sitting on top of it, you'll find out about it here first.

They even have an animated version of it, which shows them popping off throughout the day. I had NO IDEA how many earthquakes hit California, and other places. You can track the world through this site. It's pretty cool. I think we're looking for a 6+ on the scale to qualify for a fulfilled prediction. A pretty tall order.

USGS Earthquake Hazards Program

EARTHQUAKES!

Okay, starting today, and for the next week or so, the webbots have predicted a California earthquake of significant proportions (see my prior post).

This is it! If we see this happen, I'm going to begin paying real attention to these webbot predictions. We can Hari Seldon the rest of history (I think that unlikely).

And if not, well, then we can chalk up another false prophet to the long list. But what I think is most likely is some event which will be interpreted as fulfilling the prediction. Then they have the benefit of always being right.

The only problem with that kind of prophesy is that you only know you were right after the thing has happened, and what good is it if you have to wait until after the event to find out what you were predicting?

Anyway, I really want to see how this one turns out.

Pictures from your Brain

Now, is this a good thing?

Scientists in Japan claim to have a technology that will display on a computer monitor what you are thinking about.

Yeah. Um, guys?

Thought police?

Thought guilt?

Yikes.

But hey, they say, we're scientists, we tinker - damn the implications. Potential harm, that's for, um, someone else to figure out. We have someone doing that, don't we? Potential harm analysis?

We don't?

It must be nice to be untroubled by moral dilemmas. The rest of us have to think about the consequences of our actions.

Thanks, scientist guy, for providing the next Hitler, or the antichrist, or whatever, a peek inside our brains. I'm sure they'll appreciate it, and reward you with a quick death.

Am I a cynic? No, I like lots of things. This is bad.

Dream Recorder: via Gizmodo

Disaster Girl

Meet Zoe, AKA Disaster Girl. It started with this picture her father snapped of her, when she seemed a little, um, involved in the house fire behind her.

There's a Mona Lisa-like intrigue to her smile, a mysterious, what-is-she-up-to feeling. And so, Disaster Girl.

Over at BuzzFeed you will find hundreds of pictures, disasters of all kinds, with her photoshopped in, looking responsible.

WARNING: Many of these pictures are graphic (war and death), tasteless, objectionable, blasphemous (yes, that's a real thing), and completely out of line. They let ANYBODY on the internet these days.

You have been warned. That being said, you will keep clicking to see what disaster she is creating next. It's the latest thing.


BuzzFeed for Disaster Girl

Contact Juggling

People have all kinds of talents and skills. This is a strange one.

Now, I can juggle. You know, throwing three balls up and catching them as I throw up the next one. Juggling.

This ain't juggling. This is witchcraft. It is evil, poisonous, witchy witchcraft. Or something.

Okay, it's just skill. No wires. No helium. No spinning. Just some guy fooling with your mind.

I so love it when people fool with my mind.

Enjoy.

Origami

Here is an interesting site, both for what I'm showing you, and for just poking around. It's, um, slideshows.

You know, like powerpoints? What, that doesn't sound interesting? Just you wait, o skeptical one.

The picture to the right isn't even the most impressive folded paper in this particular slideshow. I started looking at these by looking for the folded paper frog that hopped on "The Mentalist." I didn't find the hopping kind, but these are pretty cool.

PS. SlideShare is a great site. PowerPoints? PowerPoints? If you make powerpoints then you HAVE to use this site for ideas. You will have the rockin'est PowerPoints ever! Trust me, I work for the Government.

Fail, 2008

They call it the Top Ten Everything of 2008.

I call it crap.

Another reason why corporate media in America is sooooo out of touch. I started by looking at their top 50 websites of 2008. Of them all (which I intended to steal sequentially) I thought two were decent. But top? You really couldn't find 50 better than that? Those politically correct, yet boring, crappy websites?

Ugh.

It makes me wonder about their top ten lists, but at the least you will have something to help if you run out of ipecac.

Way to go, Time. Not.

TelevisionTunes

I found this site recently. It is a very exhaustive resource for themes (opening and closing) for shows from way back to today. I first looked up "New Zoo Review," a song that inexplicably darts around my head from time to time. Then "The Electric Company" (We're gonna turn it on...we're gonna bring you the power...), and "Zoom" (the old one).

Then, Doctor Who, the old one, with Tom Baker. Excellent! Well, I didn't even mention "Hong Kong Phooey," or "George of the Jungle" or any of the other great tunes I remember. You can really have fun with this site.

TelevisionTunes

ANTS!

Ants farms. You had one, I know you did. Or at least you burned ants with a magnifying glass. Or tossed them into an ant lion cone and watched them be slowly dragged under.

Um, you didn't? Heh, heh, neither did I! But I wish I did - have an ant farm. And this one's a doozy!

The ants live in gel, so you can see them easy. The gel can be lit from the bottom, making a sick nightlight, and keeping your little pets up all night! Heh, heh.

After they, um, go to that great vaporizing magnifying glass in the sky, you can pour junk down their abandoned tunnels and preserve their ruins! Just like the Incas!

Antworks

How to Do Everything

What are internet videos good for? A yuk, sure, and also, carving turkeys, teaching your baby sign language, hacking coke machines, um, and other stuff.

Howcast is the big boy on the block, but 5min is a contender. Both use videos to instruct you on lots of useful and not-quite-so-useful stuff. From picking a lock to opening a champagne bottle with a sword, you'll find it all.

Howcast

5min

PS. If you want to know how to do stuff and can't find it at those two, you could try WonderHowTo, ExpertVillage, or eHow. All very helpful sites. I personally use 5min the most.

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Counterstrike: Haunted Mansion

I like the Haunted Mansion, it's one of my favorites at Disney. But this, this is insane love.

I'm not familiar with Counterstrike (I know, a blogger who doesn't know EVERYTHING???), but apparently it has a level editor. So someone constructed the Haunted Mansion. With a pretty high level of detail.

Personally I would have put a Goofy with dripping fangs, or Chip and Dale running across the floor at your feet, but then again, I wouldn't have attempted this.

And I thought I spent a lot of time on worthless pursuits! Well done, fellow time-waster!

Tristan da Cunha

Dark Roasted Blend does it again! Billed as "The Most Remote Place on Earth," I had noticed this island on my own, because it is a lonely dot out in the middle of the otherwise featureless Atlantic Ocean, and because my son's name is Tristan. In vain I looked for information and pictures. DRB came through.

Finally, a photographic visit to the remote island. Take a vacation without leaving your chair.

Oscar

Oscar has a unique vision. Something beautiful, followed by something strange and crazed.

I don't think like he does. Not many do.

Art rocks.

Oscar Socarras Photography