Here’s a tip for anybody who uses Faber-Castell PITT pens: After the tip gets all worn and frayed, you can pluck it out with tweezers, spin it around, and put it back in backwards. There’s a second tip on the other end! Make sure not to spill the ink out of the marker’s body while you’re doing this. Here’s a YouTube video of the process, from Adam ( Read more... )

“The name of the game is Ball Buster!”

Great Star Trek music video: White Rabbit (via nihilistic_kid)

Home video footage, from out some guy’s window, of cars slip-sliding away on Portland’s icy streets. (via holyoutlaw)

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  Turkish Star Trek knock-off, about ten minute’s worth. Review of the full-length thing here. Has footage of the salt monster turning into a chubby Samuel L Jackson. Also many very short-skirted women. (Via kip_w)
  
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  In Japan, they apparently teach people how to get mugged in English with aerobics. (Via some guy at work)
  

Bonnie Tyler’s 1983 video for “Total Eclipse of the Heart” was the world’s first shojou manga music video. Seriously, you could probably redo 98% of it with footage out of Revolutionary Girl Utena.

(From a discussion on Making Light.)

• C for Cookie: Parody of the V for Vendetta trailer. (via bugsybanana)
• Incredible Machines: 13-minute collection of bumpers for a Japanese TV show, consisting of elaborate Rube Goldberg devices made from household materials. The video wasn’t available just now when I looked, but maybe it’ll come back up. Oh wait, here it is on YouTube!
• Itaccora suicci: 2- ( Read more... )