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Monty Python toys.

How do you explain this to your insurance company?

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's kid's name is Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt. I'm not even making it up.

Among others:

• Nicholas Cage's son's name is Kal-el (Superman's name)
• Gwyneth Paltrow's kids are named Apple and Moses
• David Arquette has a girl named Coco (perfume, anyone?)
• David Bowie has a son named Zowie (oh, for fuck's sake)
• Michael J. Fox has a daughter named Aquinnah and another named Schuyler
• Bob Geldof's daughters: Fifi-Trixibelle, Peaches, and Pixie (Is he breeding a strip club's cast?)
• Tommy Lee Jones: a daughter named Kafka
• Frank Zappa beat everyone with kids named Dweezil, Ahmet, Diva, and Moon Unit

How Vinyl Records are Made: part 1, part 2.

Neat demo of rice on a plate being vibrated by different frequencies.

Human Locator. This is really neat: you've got a table with stuff projected onto it, and when you move your hand around, it controls the projection. You can't tell from the picture, but the hand waving is leaving waves as if it were moving through water.

Numark has a hybrid turntable that plays records, CDs, and MP3s (from CDs), all with the ability to use the turntable itself to control playback. Their website is a douche, however, and as such I can't link directly to the X2 product page. You'll have to click on it from their home page.

Hey, Numark: if you're listening, it's a bad idea not to let people get to a product page. I realize the article here talks about something else, but I feel it is relevant enough.

I will buy the DVD of Blade Runner: the Final Cut when it comes out. No question.

Jim Gaffigan is funny:

Pie can't compete with cake. Put candles in a cake, it's a birthday cake. Put candles in a pie, and somebody's drunk in the kitchen.

Why there are no indie games.

To quote LaTour, "People are still having sex!"

Uh oh, it looks like you've got a nasty case of the Humans! Thanks Nick.

Smells Like Teen Spirit by a ukulele group.

Personality defect test. I am the Hand-Raiser: 85% Rational, 71% Extroverted, 14% Brutal, and 42% Arrogant. Some of the description is exactly me. Have fun!

Pessimism about space elevators.

Which came first? The chicken or the egg? It's the egg, now get on with your lives.

The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time. It's a very apt list.

Worth 1000 contest: making people look like clowns. Some of these people didn't need any help, really. I did, however, like the Christopher Walken clown.

Awesome bit of graffiti. They are, of course, referencing The Prisoner.

This video features the slickest RC plane flying I've ever seen.

Check out this short film: Android 207. It's good.

Neo vs. Robocop. It's pretty awesome, but the awesomeness potential was higher. It ends up being a tad tedious and has a definitely disappointing denouement.

Another t-shirt store. This one's pretty damn offensive. Some of them are pretty rad, though.

11 of Video Gaming's Strangest Moments. Ah, that picture of chaingun robot Hitler really takes me back.

A sort of heart-warming pictorial tale of a snail crossing slats on a bench. Go, man!

These glasses let you find golf balls more easily.

From what I can gather, Special is a movie about a guy who is taking drugs that make him think he is getting superpowers. The trouble is, he tries to use them to fight crime...

Know what looks awesome? The trailer for Ghost Rider.

Something Awful: accuracy in game titles.

Blazin Hazin's back. Let's hear it for the Average Homeboy! This time he brought... his wife? Or something? At any rate, she's better than he is.

Another awesome beatboxing dude.

Toy commercials from the 1970s. I want that Bing Bang Boing game. Those first few toys look awesome. They just don't make them like they used to... Let's be frank, though: "water wiggle" is basically just a hose in a bucket. And who the Hell was "Masterpiece" marketed to?

Fantazy Land. Abandoned theme park in Egypt.

Yoga laughing exercise. But what does it do to your mental health?

Remember the video about Otaku in Japan? Here's the subtitled version.

Oh snap! I know you didn't just try to shoot Superman in the eye! From the Superman Returns trailer.

Wow. If you missed Theatresports last night, you missed Kevin Gillese getting his dreadlocks shaved off for basically no reason. The ladies were pretty devastated.

Japanese game show where people pick a card, and the loser has to endure some sort of punishment. Also, they're in a library, so they can't make noise... Thanks, James.

Check out this awesome commercial featuring a bunch of movie villains getting into the Christmas spirit.

Frank R. Paul did a whole lot of art for Amazing Stories. Here's a gallery of his work.

Picture caption: "Look out! It's Jetpack Homo!"

The subject of mothers crops up in rap all the time, but not like this. Never like this.

What I don't understand is who wouldn't want a giant Alien sculpture made out engine parts? In all seriousness, the guy did a great job.

Tyra Banks' sexy, sexy mustache. A word of caution: the website I'm linking to has a huge background image of some woman in a bra. Until the image I'm linking to loads, you will appear to be looking at naughty pictures at work! (Sorry, Nick: I never noticed before).

Not just one but two videos of Ricky Gervais' band from the 80s.

Yes! That white rapper guy again. Apparently, he goes by Blazin' Hazen.

I love this picture of launching a car off an aircraft carrier. Also, plenty more where that came from.

I'm crushing your head! Crush! Crush!

Kickass East Indian music video: Tunak Tunak Tun. I love the Am I tweaking my nipples? Psyche! I'm not tweaking my nipples! dance move.

Go ahead and create an account if you don't have one. In the future, it will matter more. Right now, having an account and signing in basically means:

1. The last viewed post is remembered as part of your account.
2. Your name, email address, and website are automatically filled in when you post. Remember that email addresses are obfuscated, so you won't get spammed if you post with an email address.
3. Your site style preference is remembered as part of your account.
4. When future features are added, the comments you make now when you are signed in will be flagged as really having been made by you.

In the future, it will mean that:

1. You can edit your posts.
2. If you want, you can have a profile picture show up next to your comments.
3. You can bring up a history of your comments, and so can other people.
4. Your oscars will be tracked.
5. Other people can view your profile.

Right now I just want to ask if there are any tweaks you'd like me to make. I remember Gregmita mentioning awkwardness in the BBCode controls. What else?

News anchor slip-up... I didn't know that was an obstacle for mountain climbers.

Awesomeness in the form of retooled Spider-Man Comics from Mike.

I couldn't stomach more than about 15 seconds of this, so I don't know what else is in this video, but at the very least it starts off with a guy to whom somebody should say, Newsflash, buddy: you're white.

Don't you put it in your mouth!

10 Things I Hate About Commandments.

In this clip, the BBC interviews the cab driver of the guy they were actually going to interview. Great work...

Something Awful: Comic Book Covers.

I know what you like... More dancing moves! Man, can this bald white guy dance!

A gallery of pictures of Katie Kate Holmes with her batshit insane beau, Tom Cruise.

Check out this awesome dungeon questy game from Homestar Runner. Thanks, Shawn.

Here's a captcha I saw recently...

Hey: you know what's cool?

Stuff.

Spore (35 minute video). A video game about everything. Check it out: it's pretty fan-tucking-fastic. Here's more info on the game. Thanks, Gregmita!

It is beyond me how someone could wear these shirts without irony.

I want this game!

Jan Hammer: Theme from Miami Vice. Now that, my friends, is how you rock out on a keytar.

Apparently, being a Scientologist takes away any ability to dance you may have had. I mean, Tom couldn't even pull out the white guy dance?

Apparently, a pizza place in New Zealand called Hell Pizza provides a box that folds into a small coffin, for your remains.

Something Awful mixes up movie posters.

It's about time someone made this movie.

Otaku is a Japanese word meaning, loser North American who thinks they'd be cool in Japan. Here's a video making fun of such people. I love how you can tell just from the question marks in the subtitles (where they turn the mangled Japanese-sounding noises that these Anime fans make into comprehensible Japanese characters) that the subjects are being mocked.

Here's a good article on DRM if you need to explain to non-technical people what DRM is all about.

A recreation of Orange County in China.

George said he'd never do it. I guess George Lucas is a filthy, stinking liar. A liar who eats money for food.

He has released the original versions of Star Wars episodes 4-6 on DVD. George Lucas was quoted as saying, Blaaargh! MMMblaaarg! Mmmgblblblthraaaarg! Money!

I predict the next re-release of the original Star Wars trilogy will be the just because I released it version. It will contain no new material except Lucas himself grinning at you and chuckling. Ten minutes in, the camera will pan down to reveal he is sitting at a dinner table, with a delicious $100 bill salad waiting to be devoured. Lucas will then give the camera the double guns and say, You make this possible.

Christina Aguilera basically looks like a blow-up doll.

Hey! You keep your watermelons to yourself!

I just love the picture... Link to article.

Car runs red light. No damage.

Here's Stephen Colbert making fun of GWB to his face.

So I'm filling up at the gas station, and despite the fact that it's largely empty, this Smart car backs into pump #8, right behind a big truck... This lady gets out and starts opening her trunk.

Tinny voice from speaker: Excuse me, #7: we have a strict traffic direction policy. I can't give you any gas until you turn around. There's diesel on either side of that pump.
Smart car driver: <looks around> Are you talking to #8?
Tinny voice from speaker: ...
Me: I think so: you're the only one in backwards.

I said it in a helpful way, though. It looks worse written down.