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Shoe-throwing, the new burning effigy?

Oct 1st

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Captain Lou (NRBQ cover) - Yo La Tengo Captain Lou Albano who, incidentally, played Mario in the...

Oct 1st

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yaldabaoth: There’s a 100% these guys hated their lives while filming this opening. I had a VHS of...

Oct 1st

People you would like to get absolutely...

(in no particular order, go!) The guys from Stella (or entire cast of Wet Hot American Summer) The...

Oct 1st

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Watch Sam Rockwell practice with his package ray-gun on the set of Gentlemen Broncos.

Oct 1st

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New Fantastic Mr. Fox trailer. Don’t cuss and point at me!

Oct 1st

Trailer for "The Road"

Oct 1st

Extreme Camouflage. You have to check out the others...

Oct 1st

More Australian Dust Storm Photos

Oct 1st

Typhoon Ketsana on The Big Picture

Oct 1st

Stunning new Hubble photos

Oct 1st

Wow… vintage advertising

Oct 1st

Cars Make You Fat (shocking, I know)

Sep 30th

Still Confused? A Refresher on the Basics of...

Sep 30th

“I’ve seen a lot of hard working entrepreneurs fail,...”
— Caterina Fake

Sep 30th

How a Sewing Machine Works

Sep 30th

“Bluetooth laser virtual keyboard encased in elegant...

Sep 30th

Stacey, a very interesting kind of portfolio...

Sep 30th

Phineas P. Gage (1823-1860) and the iron rod that...

Sep 30th

Mark Weaver on the Desktop Wallpaper Project.

Sep 30th

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Vicious - Lou Reed

Sep 30th

Cockney ATM

Sep 30th

Women and Sex: Newsweek tests your knowledge

Sep 30th

This horse is 10 feet tall and 3,000 lbs. My horse can...

Sep 29th

Special Forces flipping simultaneously. (from BBC)

Sep 29th

The Kung Fu Master from Austin Kleon’s Newspaper...

Sep 29th

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A Lumiere Bros. film from 1899, hand-tinted frame by frame to produce the color-shifting effect.

Sep 29th

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The peak of 90s television advertisement: Crossfire.

Sep 29th

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“It’s a sadness… that’s tinged… with arousal.”

Sep 29th

Robotcha - Shirts for kids who like robots

Sep 29th

Untooning

Sep 29th

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“Daddy, what will the future be like?” “The future will be an incredible place,...

Sep 29th

Prepare to get trippy

Sep 28th

Photo from fuh2.com Ars Technica writes of a recent study:...

Sep 28th

Airplanes need a redesign and I approve of this one.

Sep 28th

Subway Yearbook Photos by Improv Everywhere

Sep 28th

Great corner store or greatest corner store?

Sep 28th

First page of the cover letter that got Tim Schafer hired at...

Sep 28th

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence....”
— Calvin Coolidge

Sep 28th

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Diego Stocco built this thing, the “Experibass.” Sounds like an instrument custom-made...

Sep 28th

(via juliasegal) Double Fine

Sep 28th

Found in a military surplus store.

Sep 28th

Found in Chevy Chase, D.C.

Sep 25th

One more book I need: the 826 National product catalog

Sep 25th

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This guy splices together youtube videos to make some damn cool music. 45 seconds in this gets...

Sep 25th

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Wired.com shows you how to moonwalk like MJ.

Sep 25th

Freezer Jam: a Baby Step to Canning

Sep 25th

'Web-bot project' makes prophecy of 2012...

Sep 25th

Makeshift clothesline.

Sep 25th

Kansas farms viewed from space

Sep 25th

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Coffin Factory - The Mumlers This song has a lot going for it that I really, really like.

Sep 25th

Simon Pegg argues for "traditional zombie...

Sep 24th

Terrible movies I have intentionally seen: D-War From Justin to Kelly Glen or Glenda? In the...

Sep 24th

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Last clip I’ll post from The Room. Promise. This movie is just stunning. It’s like...

Sep 24th

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Another gem from Tommy Wiseau’s The Room.

Sep 24th

Bacon Tempura (from Gothamist). It is $10 and available...

Sep 24th

Gallery of photos from the dust storm over Sydney. ...

Sep 24th

KittenWar

Sep 24th

Sep 24th

Times Square in the 90s.

Sep 24th

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You’re about to lose a few minutes of your life. With good reason, of course.

Sep 24th

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yaldabaoth: From the infamous movie The Room. I now officially need to see this. The wikipedia...

Sep 24th

Find NYC food trucks

Sep 24th

New Light on the Plight of Winter Babies - WSJ.com

Sep 23rd

“Greater Poop: Is Eris true? Malaclypse the Younger:...”
— Principia Discordia

Sep 23rd

1st draft of Disease Intensity Scale

0. Healthy: you have no problems. Life goes on as normal. 1. Ignorable: a tickle in the throat or...

Sep 23rd

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Short vid from Mortar (cool people I have met). Note the excellent use of low-budget effects and...

Sep 23rd

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claytoncubitt: Original music video for ‘Blue Monday’, New Order, 1983 See also: one of the tone...

Sep 23rd

yaldabaoth: Wow, Amigos. You’ve gotten more disgusting...

Sep 23rd

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yaldabaoth: This was my Saturday night. This is 100% fucking real. If you can see this, see this. ...

Sep 23rd

“Republicans are trying to kill the [healthcare] bill....”
— Howard Dean from Gothamist

Sep 23rd

from Gigposters.com

Sep 22nd

Science behind US coercive interrogations...

Sep 22nd

Monty Burns enters the race against Bloomberg in NYC. Rumor...

Sep 22nd

The Kanye West shirt from bustedtees.com Spurzem’s...

Sep 22nd

Cool looking water bottles? Yeah. Still a useless luxury...

Sep 22nd

Sep 22nd

From OkCupid’s statistical analysis of what to say in...

Sep 22nd

Gourmet's 8 great NYC street food vendors

Sep 22nd

Bernie Fuchs, Illustrator for Magazines and Advertisements,...

Sep 22nd

Swayze in 1989’s Road House.

Sep 21st

Found Footage Festival

Sep 21st

“It’s old news that the teen birth rate is much higher...”
— Weird Science on Ars Technica

Sep 21st

I have no photo to go with this statement, as the object in question was devoured hastily on...

Sep 21st

The distant future of crazy technological farming eeks ever...

Sep 21st

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CG + Architecture. Beautiful.

Sep 21st

best of craigslist > pittsburgh > Woman to...

Sep 18th

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I’m a man!

Sep 18th

JUSTICE Act would roll back telecom wiretap...

Sep 18th

waxandmilk: Petunia Proud to say I have season 1 of this...

Sep 18th

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TEMPTATION.

Sep 18th

Monty Hall Problem

Sep 18th

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Genesis 3:23 - The Mountain Goats

Sep 18th

Thanks to yaldabaoth, I now know I’m a dweeb. What...

Sep 17th

Fox News gets one right. Related: apparently Bill...

Sep 17th

“…[I]n recent years struggling cities and counties have...”
— Tax Bills Put Pressure on...

Sep 17th

Errol Morris and Ricky Jay discuss the difference between...

Sep 17th

My friend Alex took some Monolith Festival photos for Paste...

Sep 17th

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“Keep fuckin’ that chicken!”

Sep 17th

waxandmilk: Coppola and Lucas 1986 George: Sorry I can’t...

Sep 17th

Kanye that site!

Sep 17th

The Autodidact Course Catalog

Sep 17th

Tungsten, a new typeface from the wizards over at Hoefler...

Sep 16th

Take Polaroid photos? This site wants your...

Sep 16th

The Evolution of Apple Ads

Sep 16th

Executive Pay Survey @ guardian.co.uk

Sep 16th

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Health Care for America Now’s new ad.

Sep 16th

“According to Steven Gortmaker, professor of society,...

Sep 16th

“In early America, calling someone a liar wasn’t a...”
— Kathleen Parker for WaPo

Sep 16th

Climate Change ruins EVERYTHING.

Sep 16th

Christoph Niemann has trouble sleeping. I feel his pain.

Sep 15th

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I hope this is real.

Sep 15th

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Scribblenauts: I am buying it.

Sep 15th

“Most Americans took on significant amounts of debt not just...”
— Umair Haque, overall smart guy

Sep 15th

This sculpture is AWESOME.

Sep 15th

from ffffound

Sep 15th

waxandmilk: “You came here because we do this better than...

Sep 15th

yaldabaoth: nickrad: #Kanye West Gets Added To...

Sep 14th

Animals with Lightsabers

Sep 14th

“Have you ever gone to a restaurant and found some...”
— Menu Engineers

Sep 14th

Sep 14th

Photoshop disasters

Sep 14th

Alec Guinness and Audrey Hepburn perform a scene in...

Sep 14th

Refugee Kids Gaze at the Statue of Liberty (Life) Anyone...

Sep 14th

Stories of Health

Sep 14th

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Julia Child makes an omelette.

Sep 14th

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I’m not much of a sports guy (let alone a tennis guy) but Federer is pretty incredible.

Sep 14th

Nerd bling

Sep 13th

I want to see this movie, dammit.

Sep 13th

Batman and Spiderman would be good roommates

Sep 13th

from the brilliant mind of john campbell

Sep 12th

fuckyeahkurtvonnegut: duckandpenguin: (via...

Sep 11th

What a volcano eruption looks like from space. This photo...

Sep 11th

Sacramento man furthers the cause of Prop 8,...

Sep 11th

Close-up of part of a window installation by David Lynch....

Sep 11th

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How to Kiss a Woman by Captain James T. Kirk

Sep 11th

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Crazy noodle making. I’m a big dork for things like this.

Sep 11th

Billboard in Texas.

Sep 11th

Steel Velcro.

Sep 10th

from GQ

Sep 10th

Jedi Census Phenomenon

Sep 10th

Chuck Norris destroyed the periodic table because he only...

Sep 10th

Google to Green Energy sector: "You suck,...

Sep 10th

California is on fire (from The Big Picture)

Sep 10th

Black and white photography: still awesome.

Sep 10th

yaldabaoth: ragdoll: (via bauldoff): The Hubble Space...

Sep 9th

Greatest long takes in cinema

Sep 9th

Woah… monster floppy. Or, more exactly, a recordable...

Sep 9th

The next time you see/hear someone want to...

Sep 9th

Desk organization.

Sep 9th

R. Beef Kazenzakis Poses With His First CPU 18” x...

Sep 9th

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Electric Car by They Might Be Giants

Sep 9th

Another visual from Information is Beautiful, the Walled...

Sep 9th

The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions

Sep 9th

It's Official: Men and Women Can't Be 'Just...

Sep 9th

Bimbo, noun, a young woman indulged by rich and powerful...

Sep 8th

The office fridge sign for “this smells”

Sep 8th

"Anonymized" data really isn't—and here's why...

Sep 8th

This really happened. Looks like something from The Dark...

Sep 8th

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yaldabaoth: Al Franken effectively explains health care pitfalls.

Sep 8th

waxandmilk: Epic Beards: Toshirō Mifune

Sep 8th

Soapbox Derby car made from three wine barrels and bike...

Sep 8th

New style of TOMS shoes. Giving never looked so good.

Sep 8th

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Senator Al Franken draws the US map from memory.

Sep 8th

nevver: Life’s Little Worries, Tatzu Nishi

Sep 4th

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Fire Ant Lifeboat (via kottke)

Sep 4th

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Bulldog puppy trying to roll over. Go ahead, try not to love him. I dare you.

Sep 4th

From Wired: a DIY all-electric El Camino. Total cost was...

Sep 4th

Make your own here.

Sep 4th

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Heavenly Peach Banquet, from Journey to the West, a stage musical with the score by Damon Albarn (of...

Sep 4th

Hack-a-Day on making your own television...

Sep 4th

“Roosevelt relished the opposition of vested interests. He...”
— President Obama could stand to...

Sep 3rd

Sep 3rd

The Millenials, the generation I'm on the...

Sep 3rd

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Another entry in the “cooler than Segway, no matter how impractical” category. Sucks...

Sep 3rd

“Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a...”
— James Thurber, in a 1959 memo...

Sep 3rd

Learn your US copyright law - 11 copyright...

Sep 3rd

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Sep 3rd

Sep 3rd

Hunch.com - community decision-making

Sep 3rd

Want: Ice cream gyoza made with eggless cookie dough...

Sep 3rd

Bringing 'Where the Wild Things Are' to the...

Sep 3rd

Sep 3rd

How the Venetian Doge was elected in...

1. Choose 30 of the Great Council members (of whom there were 1000-to-1500, typically; all male) by...

Sep 2nd

waxandmilk: Just Married by Max Papeschi

Sep 2nd

The artwork of Ross Racine, “drawn freehand directly...

Sep 2nd

“The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a children’s...

Sep 2nd

100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About

Sep 2nd

“I’m tired of the moral high ground. We’ve...”
— Joey Comeau

Sep 2nd

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yaldabaoth: robhuebel: Beavis and Butt-head promote ‘Extract’.  Totally makes me want to see...

Sep 2nd

A Trip to the Moon, “Le Voyage dans la lune,”...

Sep 2nd

"I'm going to be an old man who really likes...

Sep 1st

“Something bad happened in the past 10 years to young workers...”
— AFL-CIO blog

Sep 1st

The Tennis Court Oath

Sep 1st

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From the creator of that trippy Alice in Wonderland remix, a must watch/listen for Hook fans.

Sep 1st