That’s it! I can’t stay quiet anymore. We all know Britney Spears is pregnant. It was so all over the place, I didn’t even bother posting it. We all know Britney and Kevin’s TV show is a total piece of crap that just underlines how retarded, immature, and egomaniacal they both are. I have no […]

Meet Harlan McCraney, the secret “speechalist” behind the President’s “for the people - by the people” speaking patterns, in this unfiltered expose by Comedy Central.
Andy Dick is a genius, that’s all I know, and the scene where he instructs Pres. Bush to keep waiting during the presidential debate is amazingly funny. Enjoy.
[via waxy.]

The largest freshwater fish ever caught, a catfish the size of a grizzly bear, was pulled out of the Mekong River in Thailand this week. The 646 pound fish was cooked and eaten in the fisherman’s village.
“The Mekong River Basin is home to more species of massive fish than any river on Earth…The Mekong giant […]

I thought I wrote about this thing months ago, but I can’t seem to find the post, so I guess maybe I’m imagining it, which wouldn’t be the first time. Chris Cunningham the genius director behind the Bjork “All Is Full of Love” white robots making out video, along with countless other fantastic short films […]

Speaking of chiwawa’s, I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw this photo on youcantmakeitup.blogspot.com. Owner and proprietor, Michelle Collins, is a funny motherf*cker! Out of her mind, I think, but hilarious. Check her out.

This is too good. It’s all in Japanese and I don’t know what they are saying, but it is clear from the video that this guy’s cat HATES tape. Whatever side of the cat he puts tape, the cat goes the opposite way. And I mean opposite. You really have to see this to believe […]

The OUTSTANDING BBC car show, Top Gear, that I wrote about once before, has finally made it to the US. Discovery picked up the show, and the 2nd episode aired tonight. Wednesdays, 10pm. Trust me, do not miss it.

This Polish flash website, pdk.pl appears to be for some type of car I’ve never heard of. I don’t know because I can’t read of a word of what’s there. But, it doesn’t make the Flash any less spectacular. You really need to see this. Witold, what does it say?

[thanks joel t.]

This Spartan Life is the nerdiest idea I have ever heard of, yet somehow, through talent and humor, what I am about to show you is pretty friggin good.
I don’t know who Chris Burke is, but he produces and directs this new, real talk show, that is “filmed” entirely inside the Halo 2 game engine. […]

I don’t normally talk about Information Architecture or User Experience design (it’s what I do for a living for those of you who don’t know) on this website. Separation of church and state I guess, but I’ll probably be posting more stuff like this in the coming days/weeks, so be warned.
This long article is […]

Some bits from Live 8 this past week were pretty fantastic, and others, well, not so much. Quicktime videos of every performance, divided by artist and song, are available for free download here on sonician.com. That’s pretty sweet. The quality is really good too. The author asks only that you go to live8live.com and sign […]

I just got this email containing a short news story, and this picture, of the ugliest fucking dog of all time. Unfortunately I don’t know the original source of the story Thanks to Derek, here’s the link to the original story on Yahoo News. The bottom line is that this friggin dog has won the […]

Kiernan sent over this link after seeing the taped cat post the other day. As you all know, I do hate cats, but putting stuff on them when they’re sleeping sounds like a great idea to me, and the folks over at stuffonmycat.com.

[thanks k.]

Why Do You Work So Hard? Is it maybe time to quit your safe job and follow your path and infuriate the establishment?
This article by Mark Morford in SF Gate this week may have been the kick in the ass I needed to do something drastic. It all makes so much sense. There really […]

We all know and love Flickr. It is the single best system for uploading, storing, and sharing photos I have ever seen. I am now even using Flickr as the engine powering the Photos section of this site, using the brilliant WordPress plugin, Flickr Gallery by Ramon Darrow. Something you might not know is that […]

Here’s a genius idea. Waterproof lined paper bags filled with dirt, fertilizer and seeds for some of your favorite herbs, flowers, and veggies. You neatly cut open a garden-in-a-bag, add water, and put on your windowsill. Instant gardens in very, very clever packaging. I’ll be ordering basil, and parsley, and maybe tomatoes right away. This […]

Photoshop is an amazing tool for touching up photos, among other things. It’s so powerful, in fact, that much of what we see in magazines, drool over, and occasionally masturbate to, is nothing more than a clever illusion. Greg, from Greg’s Digital Archive, gives us a little look into the madness. (This one has been […]

How to Pee is just one of the 232 hilarious signs from all over the world, collected on SwankSigns.com. The best part are the titles that the submitters give to each sign when they upload them. So good.

[via the link collection.]

The Gettysburg Address is a 1000% better as a speech than a Powerpoint presentation. If Honest Abe had had Powerpoint, this history of this country and legacy of his presidency would have been entirely different I think. In any case, this PPT of the Address is hilarious, and is one more reason why I need […]

Some pictures of very complex structures built using pennies and no adhesives whatsoever. Interesting lesson in physics.

[so much great stuff at the link collection.]

Pretty clever little bulldog skateboards wayyy better than me.

[must stop reading the link collection.]

Man, I fucked up the sidebar of this site, in Firefox only (mac and PC), on the right side. I don’t know how it happened. I’ve been messing with so many parts of this thing, trying to make it look OK, which right now it does not. Anybody know why this thing is pushed off […]

I can’t tell you how much the broken templates from this site was ruining my experience with this site. I was having so much trouble between browsers, especially with the decidedly shitty Internet Explorer, I did not want to move ahead with any additional changes. But, today, thanks to my minor illness keeping me home […]

I don’t think I’m the only person out there looking forward to Luke Wilson and Vince Vaughn’s new, soon to be classic, movie Wedding Crashers. If you want to have some hilarious fun before it opens on July 15th, you should try their Flash trailer editor, the Trailer Crashers. Basically, you add yourself (or anyone […]

I don’t have to go see The Fantastic Four to know: A. It is a piece of shit, and B. Jay Pinkerton is a genius.
I link to Jay’s website in the sidebar, but have never talked about how funny he really is. I guess he’s a professional at this “comedy writing” thing, because everything he […]

God bless horny, nerd programmers with time on their hands who’d rather hack sex scenes out of video games than program viruses. This may be old news to some of you, but one of those guys found some unused code in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, reverse engineered it or something, and created a patch […]

If you’ve got a dangerous breed dog that experiences attack dog prejudice at the dogrun or park, you might consider one of these disguise kits from AttackChi. Too funny.
attachchi will be making disguises for all the so called ‘dangerous breeds’. Now you can go to the park with your kids and your dog (like you […]

Tom Cruise is Nuts is a brilliant new website compiling all the fucked up things Tom Cruise says to the media. I don’t want to get into the whole Scientology thing here right now, but one day soon, Witold and I are going to collaborate on a piece exposing it’s true nature. (hint: it’s fucked.)

[from […]

My good friend and blog poster/commenter on this site, Rob, owns a company with a handful of other music enthusiasts called Pump Audio. Rob can do a better job of explaining it so feel free to ask him, but basically they are a promotional music label - they sign bands to non-exclusive marketing deals, with […]

Last week during a development conference in Brazil, David Heinemeier Hansson (Loud Thinking), one of the lead developers of Ruby on Rails and partner at 37signals (Basecamp, Backpack, Ta-Da), gave a live presentation where he built a rudimentary weblog content management system using Ruby on Rails in 15 minutes. You read that right. He built […]

Amazon.com is using AJAX to create a clever little app for choosing diamonds of all things. (unfortunately, it’s not working in Safari) First of all, I had no idea Amazon sold diamonds. Who the fuck would buy a $20k diamond engagement ring from Amazon.com?? More importantly, this is a natural and clever (though admittedly specialized) […]

Randall Glass (a nerd) used the Halflife 2 animation engine to recreate the finale scene of A Few Good Men. This technique, of using in-game graphics to “act out” scenes is known as Machinima, and it is becoming very, very popular since many of these gaming graphics engines have been rendering in such amazing detail. […]

In response to the horrifying London terror attacks last week, some designer reworked the London Tube logo with a bunch of terror-defying slogans. This is why I like Londoners. They should do one that just says, “Fuck You.” In any case, these are surprisingly impactful. I wish there were t-shirts.

[via waxy.]

The sweetest crop circle of all time, in Telegraph Hill, Hampshire (UK). It’s cool to know the aliens have a sense of humor.

[via plasticbag.]

Today I got forwarded an email by a guy who saw Star Wars Episode 3, Revenge of the Sith on a bootlegged Chinatown DVD. It was in English, but it had English subtitles, hilariously derived from the initial Chinese translation. “Revenge of the Sith” - “The Backstroke of the West”. The guy took screencaps of […]

I have a splitting headache, and I’m going to bed. I spent a good deal of time working on some subtle changes on the site. The top navigation, though not complete, now properly highlights the section you’re in. I like that. I added the quicklinks style you see below. I will continue to refine the […]

This is the world’s biggest sandwich, as recorded by Guinness Book, that weighs 6,991lbs (3,178kgs). The ham and gross cheese look like they’re about 2 inches thick. They did this in Zocalo Square, Mexico City, because, you know, everyone in Mexico has plenty to eat. Food wasters!

[via the link collection.]

Google launched Google Moon today, a version of Google Maps that explores all the sites of the lunar landings. Zoom in all the way to see some AMAZING details of the surface.

[via slashdot.]

Dr. Ed Catmull, president and co-founder of Pixar, had the pool in his home custom made by Robert Vogland with mosaics of all the characters from Finding Nemo. It is absolutely stunning. So good.

[via drawn.]

You MUST see this parrot talking. It’s quite amazing.

But not even nearly as great as this dog that does math. Seriously, he does math. It’s sick.

[thanks jay.]

This could be the greatest photo of all time. I’m not kidding this time either. The NY Times is running this photo of Bolivian women, dressing their traditional clothes, warming up for wrestling in a very popular WWF-style wrestling federation. Can you smeeeelllllllll what The Rock is cookin’?

I love the leaping lady’s shoes.
[via gawker.]

Attention! I am in the NY Times! Again! How sweet is that?! I am so fucking famous I don’t know what to do with myself.
Oh no, wait, it’s Stephanie Klein that’s famous. It’s HER 2 page article online, on the front page of the NY Times Fashion & Style section. Those are HER curly, red […]

I don’t know how to feel about this. NYPD started randomly searching the bags of commuters on their way into the subways today. I trust their intentions, and I understand what they’re trying to do. Any commuter not comfortable with search is free to leave the subway station with no additional hassle. There will be […]

This is a test of a new and clever plugin for Wordpress. It’s a from a guy named “Chroder.” His “Collapsible More Link Beta” adds the functionality or “more” links in posts that open up right on the same page.

Russia’s biggest spammer was found murdered in his Moscow apartment yesterday. Vardan Kushnir was the head of a bunch of companies with different names that all apparently taught English to Russians. All of the companies had “aggressive internet advetising policies” and sent “millions of emails per day.”
I am so happy he was killed. That […]

Yesterday morning I went to a doctor for the first time in almost 4 years, just for a checkup and bloodtest and stuff. It went well, in case you were wondering. On my way ou of his office on 66th and Central Park West, I had the misfortune of witnessing the immediate aftermath of a […]

IGN has the teaser trailer for Doom online. This will most likely be The Rocks biggest box office bomb. In my opinion, this material was “doomed” from the beginning because there is nothing there to work with. Great game, terrible story, and that’s just not a good start for a movie. Plus, even though The […]

DQ Issue 3 is out and available. DQ is a “collaborative sketchbook” where artists submit work drawn only with a ballpoint pen. It is stunningly good. Really, it’s a little scary. I think Witold should submit something.

[via drawn.]

A few months back I saw these incredible photos of a type of cloud that many of you may never have seen before. Mammatus clouds look unbelievably scary, like the world is about to end, but apparently are relatively harmless, and do not mean that a tornado is on it’s way. Luckily, Witold also found […]

A little company called Lussumo took the time to rethink the way web-based forums should work. They wrote a new one from scratch. Vanilla is standards compliant, made with PHP, CSS, and XHTML, and it turned out spectacularly well. I’ll be installing it here soon, really only as a test, but we’ll see how it […]