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• HEY LOOK - Shouts and Murmurs brilliantly captures the white-hot spotlight of teenage angst.
• PRECIOUS CONDOM ART - When Japan takes over the world, everything will be cute.
• MAY I TAKE YOUR ORDER? - the absolute drop-dead funniest translation job ever. How could anyone resist the cowboy leg beautiful pole?
• INCREDIBLE FLOATING APPLE - I am so going to try this.
• PHONE CALLS FROM LONELY HOUSEPLANTS - Between kids, clients, pets and telemarketers, I’ve got enough sources of nagging in my life. I don’t need to be receiving phone calls from my plants, thank you very much.
• LOLCAT BIBLE - Someone had to do it.
• PEANUTS ANIME - Weirdly cool.

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1. Isn’t it ironic. The parents of a woman accused of murdering her father and sister apparently declined psychiatric treatment for her last year because of their Scientology beliefs.

2. Light tagging. Lights. Camera. Action.

3. The strangest sights in Google Earth.

4. Tampon Crafts! For any time of the month. Are you ready for Ode to Joy on tampon panpipes?

5. Not my kids and not my kids either. Thank god! I can’t believe any parent would have the presence of mind to grab the camera first and freak out after.

6. Parting shot: Some seriously heavy lifting:

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This is an entirely fictional account of a supposedly true story from Portland, Oregon. Even if it didn’t happen, it should have. If you know the actual facts, please let me know. I may write a song.

A group of renegade knitters started hanging out at a local dive bar and turned it into something of a clubhouse for yarnaholics. Fuzzy coasters and beer cozies started cropping up all over the place. A pattern was emerging. The old regulars found themselves blocked by the “angora gauntlet.” Finally a group of bikers gauged the situation and decided to rip out these needle addicts before the woolly infestation completely took over. What followed was an epic Battle of the Bikers vs. the Knitters. Skeins and needles flew. Who would win? When the tangled strands finally settled, the answer was clear: The bikers had whipped the knitters asses but good.

What? Did you think this was going to have some sappy Hollywood ending?

Here are a few favorite extreme knitting projects:

Knitted ferrari - Art graduate Lauren Porter knitted a Ferrari sportscar for her honours degree at Bath Spa University.

Knitted iPhone - Step-by-step instructions included!

Knitted digestive system (Also from the same site: knitted penis cozy)

Knitted murder victims (This site has some problems but it’s worth it just to see all the adorable pink knitted bondage gear)

Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art - There’s a much larger version on the site - see every anatomically correct detail!

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1. Ah Japan um, Korea! How much did they spend on this?

2. I know it’s low to make fun of people’s names, but I’m short of time today and these people seem to have made easy targets of themselves: Gallery of unfortunate match-ups.

3. Man robs bank disguised as tree. Didn’t we see this one on Monty Python’s Flying Circus? (Bonus detail: The bank was on Elm Street)

4. I love this commercial. I don’t want to give it away by saying what it’s for.

5. PSA: A dire warning of the side effects of Reversa Skin Care products (Watch them all… ladies)

6 Barney sings Tupac. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

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Most people I know hate spoilers. They get really bent out of shape if you let it slip that, say, Bruce Willis was a dead guy. But illusions are immune. They go right to the total denial lobe of the brain, like a stubborn child who insists he wasn’t sneaking a cookie no matter how many times you point out that he is standing right there with a hand in the cookie jar and crumbs on his face.

I’m sure you’ve seen all the usual Optical Illusions, but I thought these were unusual enough to warrant a post:

1. What are you looking at? Are you SURE? Look closely. Now, back up about eight paces and look again. Told ya.

2. Your eyes will keep on lying. I swear, it doesn’t make any difference how many times I test this image in Photoshop, my brain will not concede that squares A and B are the same color:

3. Name that tune. Listen to this. What’s the song? Now listen to this. Now go back to the first one and listen again. Here’s another one (you need stereo headphones for this one: Listen. Which tone is higher? How about this one? You’ll probably clearly hear one tone higher or lower, but your friend may hear the opposite. You’re both wrong.

4. Is it moving? This site has a very interesting collection of motion illusions along with explanations. Don’t miss the “Two-Stroke Motion” illusion at the bottom of the list.

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CATEGORY: NOSTALGIC

An odd combination of youthful memories and early Woody Allen

CATEGORY: CLASSIC

Perhaps the best commercial. Ever.
Silver: Priceless!

CATEGORY: AHHAHAHOW!!! OH GOD!!!

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One night about twenty years ago, I awoke from a doze on the sofa to catch the last half of an odd film on TV. It was a long Rube-Goldbergesque chain reaction: fire, gravity, chemistry and assorted debris interacting in precarious procession. No sound track, no special effects, no character development - no characters. It was riveting. But alas, it ended and I never found out what it was called. Never saw it again. I described it for friends, but none of them had seen it. Years later, I searched the internet for it but without enough to go on, came up blank.

Then serendipity struck when Honda released its now-famous ad chain reaction ad. Lo and behold! The description of the ad mentioned the older film as the inspiration. At last! From there it was just a few clicks to possession of my very own copy of “The Way Things Go” which has captivated friends and family as much today as it did me two decades ago.

Here is the Honda ad:

And a clip from The Way Things Go:

And now, since it IS the Internet after all, the spoof (from 118 118 - that’s directory assistance in the UK):

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Photos collected from around the internet.

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It was sometime in the 80’s. We were living in Echo Park at the time and I’d consumed something on a tiny square of paper. Soon, the walls were melting… melting…

But in this case, it’s a real building in Paris, painted - not Photoshopped.

This building mural, a trompe-l’oeil, is located in Georges V Ave. in Paris, France. Trompe-l’oeil is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects really exist, instead of being just two-dimensional paintings. The name is derived from French for “trick the eye.”

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I guess I’m on a mini-roll of odd comparisons. This map of the U.S. is one of the most interesting things I’ve come across recently. It replaces the names of the states with countries that have similar GNPs. It’s a graphic depiction of just how huge the U.S. economy is. California alone is the economic equal of France. Tiny Delaware compares to Romania and Texas weighs in at the level of Canada.

On the whole, given a choice between a vacation in Hawaii or Lagos, I think I’ll be packin’ my ukulele. On the other hand, my trip to my neice’s bat mitvah in Atlanta last month could have gotten me all the way to Switzerland and all that lovely chocolate.

UPDATE: You KNOW you’re an American when you look at a map and see THIS.

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