An amusing t-shirt that will put your typeface-geek friends on tilt. (It features the word "Helvetica" but printed in Comic Sans. Reminds me of the Stroop effect.)

How have I gone this long without hearing about booze cats? It's pictures of people with all signs of alcohol bottles, etc. photoshopped with cats in their place.

The pyramids weren ( Read more... )

A promo for one of MST3K's Turkey Day marathons on Comedy Central:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsWKTcZ6fWA

Click to view

via boingboing, where the submitter notes "Other people share a fondness for this Comedy Central 'Turkey Day Marathon' commercial and have tried to post it to ( Read more... )

Kangaroo tries to drown dog, attacks owner: "The Australian, Chris Rickard, was in stable condition Monday after the attack, which ended when the 49-year-old elbowed the kangaroo in the throat. He said he was walking his blue heeler, Rocky, on Sunday morning when they surprised a sleeping kangaroo in Arthur's Creek northeast of Melbourne. The dog ( Read more... )

Today's xkcd re-theme is awesomely bad, or badly awesome, or something like that.

rmd's post about Wombat Day reminded me of my first job out of college. It was a pretty cool place, and whether it's just the edited dreamy way that we always think the past was better, or because it actually was, I fondly remember it as being the best job I ever had (I'm not the only one who feels this way, so ( Read more... )

Links/snippets I'd been saving up and never got around to posting:

Beaver flash on SYTYCD. NSFW. Also via omgblog, a fashion accessory for anyone who's ever felt emasculated. Also NSFW, probably ( Read more... )

http://pushbuttonlabs.com/2009/10/welcome-home-the-incredible-machine/

Today, PushButton Labs, L.L.C. announced that it has acquired the rights to The Incredible Machine intellectual property in its entirety. The classic physics & puzzle game ( Read more... )

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090824/ap_on_bi_ge/us_reader_s_digest_bankruptcy_11

Kinda sad. My parents subscribed when I was kid (maybe still do), so RD comprised a lot of my childhood reading.

But I can't help imagining an Onion ( Read more... )

via slashdot, "BBC Magazine convinced 13-year-old Scott Campbell to trade in his iPod for a Walkman for a week and see what he thought." Here's his writeup:

My friends couldn't imagine their parents using this monstrous box, but there was interest in what the thing was and how it worked ( Read more... )

Wow, I had a Speak & Spell as a wee lad, and via omgblog, there's an online version! The power-on sound took me back 30 years.