Flickr Post Bar is a brilliant little plugin for Wordpress by a guy named Joe Tan (tantannoodles.com). It pulls in recent Flickr photos right into the new post screen of Wordpress to allow for one click photo posting. It is so easy to install and use I can’t even believe it. The Flickr screen name [...]

To all of you who attended the Halloween party and survived, thank you very much for coming… and surviving. My house is ruined, from wine, sangria, tar, and fire, and I thank you for that as well. I’ll have some pictures posted up soon – none of which were taken by me, because I [...]

6000 feet below the surface of some ocean somewhere, a small robot thing is cutting a 1/10th inch slit into a pipeline. The pressure inside the pipe: 0. The pressure outside: 2700 psi.
The crab that wonders by doesn’t have a chance. Have you ever seen a movie where a bad guy gets sucked out of [...]

Best news story of the day. A guy (I’ll assume massive, tough, scab-knuckled guy) fought and killed a five point whitetail deer in his daughter’s home in Arkansas with his bare hands. It doesn’t get much better than that.
For 40 exhausting minutes, Wayne Goldsberry battled a buck with his bare hands in his daughter’s bedroom.
Goldsberry [...]

Dear sexy stranger,
I love my Eddie Bauer backpack. I’ll admit I am a bit of a whore when it comes to bags. I own about 25 of them, mostly because they never quite do the job right, and I experiment with others. Well, this Eddie Bauer bag is pretty great. I got it last year, [...]

Jason Fry of the Wall Street Journal has a great article about his experience as a new blogger. As an experiment, he set up a new blog in February of this year, to see what it was like, to see how easy or difficult it was, and to spread his normal email correspondence about the [...]

Yahoo! is playing catchup with Google as usual, and as usual, nothing is better than competition for the customer. The battle of Web 2.0 between Google and Yahoo! is churning out interesting product after interesting product, and I would run to go work for either of these companies without a second thought. In any case, [...]

So, one thing I did not realize yesterday when I posted about the new Yahoo! Maps Beta was that they also opened up a very public API for geocoding addresses. Normally this is a little more of a process, but now, you can write some very simple PHP code to send Yahoo! an address, and [...]

This is better than David Blaine scary good. A Japanese illusionist passes a coin through a solid glass tabletop, and then a salt shaker. I have NO idea how this is possible. You must watch it now.

[from hedonistica.]

An Eye for Annai, by Jonathan Klassen and Daniel Rodrigues, is one of the greatest animations I have ever seen. That’s not a joke. So simple, and cute, and clever, and funny, I can’t believe it. Please, please, please, watch this video and be in on the joke. More work can be found on Klassen’s [...]

What do you think happens when a tiny baby squirrel is adapted by a kind old lady and her dog and litter of puppies? Oh yes, the cutest fucking thing you’ve ever seen happens. Finnegan the Squirrel is bottle fed by the nice lady, and sleeps with rest of the puppies under the warm belly [...]

No, not me. Some guy, dressed like big, hairy balls, running for malecancer.net. Pretty friggin funny.

[thanks witold.]

Copy Goes Here is an absolutely brilliant short film about a copywriter who joins a small ad agency and makes some interesting new friends and colleagues. I can’t say much more without giving away the story, but trust me, it is well worth the download, especially if you work at an ad agency.
This was put [...]

Chris Cunningham just directed a new PSP ad that is pretty incredible. Enjoy.

[via hicks.]

I know I am a few weeks late, but these animations from David Gagne are fantastic. The Insanely Twisted Shadow Puppets were created for Nickelodeon’s “Halloween Shriekin Weekend”.

[via screenhead.]

Tyson Ibele is not a 3D animation studio. It is not a special effects company. It’s not an it. It’s a he, and he produced a really nice portfolio of 3D animation, including this great spec commercial for Sony Style, this cool frozen helicopter crash, this stunning high speed car thing, and this amazing [...]

Some of you might know how much I hated all of the Star Wars prequels, including the last pile of crap, Revenge of the Sith. Apparently I am not alone, despite all the hate mail I received for that scathing review.
Someone much more clever than I decided to rewrite the script instead of just ranting [...]

Even though we didn’t get many decent photos, I decided to post a bunch of them anyway. Most, if not all, of these were taken by my roommate Jason. Normally he’s a great photographer, but alcohol will often cloud your judgement and blur your vision.
Everything is up on Flickr. I’ll be adding some other pictures [...]

[via horsman.co.nz]

Interesting historical origin of the word “fuck.” I had no idea…
In ancient England a person could not have sex unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got the consent of the King and the King gave them placard that they [...]

This is one of the coolest uses of Flickr I’ve seen.
Someone set up a Flickr set called “eye:hand” where you are invited to submit a photo of yourself as well as a hand drawn picture of that photo.
It’s cooler than I’m making it sound. Check it out.

I LOVE this flash animation. Love. It’s a time lapsed animation of drawing of a woman in progress. I don’t want to spoil it, but that artists arts with skeleton and works his way through the completed drawing. Not only is it fascinating, but it was also kind of drawing-educational for me. I love this [...]

This is so totally fucked up, I don’t even know what to do with myself. The National Motor Vehicle License Bureau let’s you search for any driver’s license by name and city/state! They have almost every license on file. Holy shit. Identity thievery anyone?
[from lisa.]

This amazing video footage attempts to answer the age-old question of who would win in a fight, a tiger or a crocodile? I know the video is a bit blurry, but I think we’d all be a little shaky too if these animals were fighting right 50 feet in front of us.
I wish the [...]

This is pretty cool. The new Intel P4s, the 662 and 672, will allow multiple operating systems to run simultaneously. It uses a little program called Hypervisor that boots up first and then b oots both OSes. It makes each OS think it is in totally control of the system, and allows you to instantly [...]

This 24×30 inch poster is a reproduction of a Scarface pop-art piece created using all the words from the original script. The site has a zoom-in feature where you can clearly make out every single word. It is completely handwritten and really pretty cool. There’s a second one also.

[via del.icio.us.]

Some of you might remember the last series of paper-based Durex condom “Dickerations” ads I raved about. Well, this new Durex TV spot, “Let the Beast Go,” is even better. Condom ads should have always been this entertaining. Of course, it’s not a US ad, our bullshit FCC would never allow such despicable content on [...]

I think I could probably hold my breath for no more than a minute and a half with no movement.
Even less if there are sharks involved.

Stig Avall Severensen broke the world record for Freediving: Dynamic Apnea without Fins – a distance ‘race’ to see how far you can swim underwater without coming up for [...]

These crazy kids use each other as skateboards. God bless creative uses of stop-motion animation, and, as Witold put it when he sent this to me, “god bless the kids for risking their lives for us like this.”

[thanks witold.]

In a feat of absolutely astounding stupidity, Australian rugby fan, Geoffrey Huish (31), CUT HIS OWN BALLS OFF after losing a bet with his friend. Yeah, he cut his own testicles completely off his body using wire cutters in his bathroom. He then went to the bar to show his friends the balls in a [...]

This girl is incredibly flexible.

[via the link collection.]

This enormous Sears Tower was created out of Jenga blocks.

[via the link collection.]

This city made of Jello by Liz Hickok is incredible. I LOVE the way it bends and twists and jiggles, like a Tim Burton movie.

[via the link collection.]

This is a pretty sweet flash rhythm game, like Dance Dance Revolution, where you match keys along with the beat of the music in order to make your player poplock dance. There’s also a mode where you choreograph a poplockin’ sequence, and upload an image for the head, like my example of George W.

[thanks alona.]

This freestyle rap battle, ripped off the S.M.A.C.K. DVD, of MC Jin vs. MC Verse is one of the best I have ever seen. It is absolutely amazing and you have to watch it. I’m not going to say who I think wins dat shit, but it’s pretty close. 13 minutes long, turn up the [...]

This home video, shot on the streets of Amsterdam, features a guy sitting on the street bouncing a soccer ball around. That sounds boring. It isn’t. Watch.

I just ate more than my fill of Thanksgiving turkey and the standard fixin’s including mashed potatoes, stuffing, sweet potatoes, broccoli, and cranberry sauce. I am pretty sure there was dynamite in the stuffing because my stomach feels like rubble.
My turkey was cooked the traditional way, in an oven, but as we all know, some [...]

Neill Blomkamp, the same guy that directed the Citroën Transformer ad, created this unbelievable short film called, Alive in Joburg, about squid-faced aliens that have come to live in segregation in Johannesburg, South Africa. Eerily similar to the Apartheid in the area just a decade ago, the this serious story is not just cool as [...]

I am not a soccer fan, and therefore just recently learned that Ronaldinho is the Tiger Woods of soccer (football) and maybe one of the best players that has ever lived.
Ronaldinho kicking a soccer ball around in this casual ad for nikefootball.com is nearly as impressive as Tiger Woods bouncing the golf ball off the [...]

Team Ryouko kicks, flips, spins, and whirls their way through this incredible demonstration video. It’s not like you haven’t seen these moves before, but I can almost guarantee that you’ve never seen them strung together this quickly by this many dudes. There’s some serious talent at this gym.

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Will Ferrell as George W in this public service announcement on global warming. This is too good to be true. Will Ferrell is the funniest man on earth.

[via onegoodmove via screenhead.]

I hate to shave. My typically messy and disheveled look allows me to get away with scraggly facial hair for most of the week. I shave about 2, maybe 3, times per week. One modern convenience that has allowed the shaving to be a tolerable experience is the “fog free” mirror I have suction cupped [...]